A Honduran woman, who was picked up by police in relation to a stabbing incident during which her husband was stabbed in Belize City over the weekend, may have escaped criminal charges for that matter but ended up having to answer to immigration offenses. Twenty-four-year-old Wendy Xiomara Membrano Ardon, a domestic of a Gibnut Street […]
The expedited hearing of an application for an injunction against US Capital Energy was scheduled for this morning. SATIIM and leaders of Mayan communities bordering the Sarstoon Temash National Park had utilized every legal resource at their disposal to get the matter heard at this early date. They claim that US Capital Energy is pursuing […]
Attorney for SATIIM Eamon Courtenay is basing his argument on straightforward grounds. But, government attorney Denys Barrow says it won’t be all that straightforward, and he sees the claims in the substantive case taking this matter in all different directions. Denys Barrow, Attorney for Government Defendants “There are some things which are emerging in […]
On Sunday, seventy-four year old Onofre Sabido, better known as “El Primer Tacero or Senor Waco”, was brutally attacked inside his home in San Jose Palmar in the outskirts of Orange Walk Town; two men were charged for the offense. Twenty-seven-year-old Najirie Quiroja and eighteen-year-old Edwin Cruz pleaded not guilty to Aggravated Assault and Robbery […]
Fifty-one year old Brenda Mejia, a school warden of Belize City, has been charged with drug trafficking after being busted at her home on Pelican Street Extension. On Tuesday evening, police executed a search warrant for illegal firearms and ammunition at her residence. While guns and bullets were not found, the raid yielded a bag […]
Thirty-six year old Shirley Lambey-Arnold, the wife of Michael ‘Crazy’ Arnold, who is currently serving time for rape, has been charged with wounding. The arraignment follows an incident during which she allegedly threw a stone at an ex-boyfriend, accidentally hitting another woman. It is reported that at about nine-thirty on Tuesday night, Lambey-Arnold was engaged […]
A housekeeper and her common-law husband are in trouble with the Police after the woman allegedly suffered a severe case of sticky-fingers syndrome. Reports are that thirty-one year old Sylvia Augustine attempted to walk out of her boss’ home on Monday with items concealed in her purse. The owner of the home noticed and escorted […]
A Belize City electrician is out on bail after being charged for the theft of a car battery from inside a vehicle belonging to Errol Garbutt. The grey Chevy Tracker was reportedly parked overnight in front of a home on North Creek last Wednesday. At about four-ten a.m., early the following morning, Garbutt was informed […]
Orange Walk businessman, fifty year old David Carrillo, was sentenced to one year behind bars for the aggravated assault with his vehicle of a cop. The Trial Farm resident today pleaded guilty to running into Police Constable Yann Chin with his vehicle whilst at checkpoint. And tonight, Carrillo is serving his first night of the […]
The owner of a bar in Belize City is out on bail after he was charged for assaulting a special constable. Twenty-nine year old Lennox Stevens appeared before Magistrate Leslie Hamilton today and was read two charges – one for assaulting a police officer and another for using threatening words. It is alleged that on […]
The court was also the setting of an emotional farewell. A Belize City woman today made the public outcry after she was remanded on firearm charges. Thirty-nine year old Carolee Jean Rhaburn appeared today before Magistrate Leslie Hamilton and was charged for one count of drug trafficking, one count of keeping an unlicensed firearm and […]
Thirty-one year old Jerome Crawford, of Hattieville, is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison, following an incident in the village on Wednesday during which he allegedly pulled a firearm on a fellow resident. The confrontation reportedly took place at the home of Edward Arnold, whom the truck driver visited to inquire about payment […]
A nineteen year old student of Maud Williams High School is on pretrial detention at the Belize Central Prison after being charged with burglary and handling stolen goods. Salvadoran national Carlos David Beltran, of a Buttonwood Bay address, is accused of entering the home of Eric Pott on Eve Street where he proceeded to steal […]
The protracted case of Mark Seawell, wanted by U.S. authorities on a slew of drug-related offenses, resumed today in the Supreme Court chamber of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. Seawell, who has been languishing inside a holding cell at the Belize Central Prison since his arrest in 2007, is fighting extradition. Attorney Arthur Saldivar has filed […]
Twenty-four year old Albert Wade junior, a construction worker of a Belize City address, pleaded guilty to a charge of common assault today, following an altercation during which he allegedly punched his ex-girlfriend in the mouth. Wade, who was being escorted to the Belize Family Court on a child support matter, was involved in a […]
Former P.U.P. standard bearer, fifty-six year old Gilbert Usher Senior, has been in police custody since Monday, following a domestic dispute with his wife during which he allegedly hit her. It is reported that the couple was embroiled in a heated argument sometime around nine o’clock that morning which resulted in fifty-one-year-old Magdalena Usher being […]
Twenty-two year old Gilberto Welcome was acquitted of ammunition charges on Tuesday evening when he appeared before Magistrate Dale Cayetano. Following the discovery of two live rounds of nine millimeter ammo inside his bedroom late last month, Welcome was charged with Kept Ammunition Without a Gun License and subsequently remanded to the Belize Central Prison. […]
A man hid marijuana inside his boxers, but that didn’t stop Police from finding the stash. Belize City resident Jermaine Alex Grant was searched by Police on East Collet Canal on Monday and fifteen point six grams of marijuana was found on him. Grant was arrested and charged for possession of controlled drugs and appeared […]
A woman who is engaged to a B.D.F. soldier is having second thoughts about marriage after he allegedly punched her, pulled a machete on her and threatened to kill her and her family. According to Melissa Jenkins, she and her fiancé Michael Zuniga were at a family function at her mother’s home when Zuniga got […]
Twenty-two year old Michael Usher, an employee of Asset Guard Manufacture Insurance Ltd., was today charged on eight indictable offenses, including two counts of forgery, two counts of obtaining property by deception, two counts of uttering a false document and two counts of claiming upon a forged document. It is alleged that on Wednesday and […]
Two Belize City men are tonight on lockdown following an armed robbery a few weeks ago. Twenty-four-year-old Harry Joseph appeared unrepresented before Magistrate Clive Lino today where he was read two charges – harm and robbery with a firearm. It is alleged that on July eighth, Joseph and an accomplice relieved thirty-four year old Rupert […]
Mark Seawell has been fighting an extradition request from the United States since 2007. The US claims that Seawell and his brothers Gary and Dwayne were responsible for cocaine being transported into the US through Mexico between 1994 and 1997. Mark Seawell’s extradition has been approved at both the Magistrate Court and Supreme Court level. […]
An Isabella self-professed psychiatric clinic caregiver was busted with over five pounds of weed scattered under his home and thirty cannabis plants at his farm in the Belize River Valley area. Owen Baptist was arraigned this morning before Magistrate Leslie Hamilton for Drug Trafficking and Cultivation of a Controlled Drug. Baptist agreed with the statement […]
A man who pleaded guilty to theft and possession of a pipe was spared jail time for those offences, but tonight he is still behind bars because of an old unpaid fine. Fifty-eight year old Alden Trapp appeared before Magistrate Clive Lino today. He was charged for stealing a keg from Louis Herrera, and additionally […]
Fifty-three year old Stephen Slusher is tonight serving his first night of a five-year jail term after pleading guilty to burglary. The resident of Jane Usher Boulevard was accused of entering the home of Maria Manzanero on Central American Boulevard on Wednesday and stealing a twenty-five pound gas tank valued at a hundred and fifteen […]
