On Wednesday evening, a gun possession charge which was levied against nineteen year-old Delroy Moss in March 2010 was struck out. It was ruled that there was insufficient evidence to substantiate the charge. Moss was subsequently acquitted. Today another man walked away from gun possession and ammunition charges brought against him earlier this year. Forty-two […]
Ending the Rosewood extraction seems as tough as trying to reform criminals from returning to the courts. Earlier today, Anthony Mortis, a career criminal, was back in court today to answer a charge of attempted burglary. The fifty-two year old appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer this morning after being accused of trying to break […]
Christmas came a few days late for another man who made an appearance at the courthouse. Nineteen-year-old Delroy Moss, who has been the subject of a firearm and ammunition case, narrowly escaped a five year sentence today when he appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer. It is alleged that on March 13th, 2011 Moss was […]
Chinese grocer Xin Ye Zheng, proprietor of Lips Bar on Newtown Barracks, was the victim of an armed robbery on Monday when a pair of gunmen ambushed him at the close of his business. This morning thirty-one year old Brassel Gordon, a resident of Saint Thomas Street and twenty-five year old Keith Williams, a security […]
We lead our newscast tonight with three unprecedented decisions handed down today in respect of bail applications by Justice Denis Hanomansingh. In the first, the judge ruled that a thirty six year old man on a carnal knowledge charge would be granted bail if he marries the fourteen year victim. Hipolito Itza is a resident […]
In another bail application, an Orange Walk man who brutally stabbed his wife during a domestic dispute is out on bail and his wife is in fear of her life. There were statements from witnesses, but in the view of Justice Hanomansingh, the prosecution did not demonstrate that the Crown had a case against thirty-six […]
The third bail application was is in respect of forty-four year old Kent McKenzie, who is accused of stabbing Police Constable, Delia Hyde on November twenty-first at the police station. McKenzie also appeared before Justice Denis Hanomansingh and was granted bail of five thousand dollars. He was ordered to surrender his travel documents and not […]
There was a fourth person that was granted bail. He is the notorious acupuncturist Kevin Lee, who has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison since November fourteenth on one count of Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature. The complainant is a twenty year old woman, who was allegedly a client at his Freetown Road, […]
In the Magistrate Court this morning in Belmopan, extortion charges were dropped against an Immigration officer. Hermaine Tzib was charged in May of this year after a Lebanese businessman made a complaint that he had extorted over six hundred dollars from him. A preliminary inquiry was held in November and today, the court found that […]
A Bowen & Bowen employee was the victim of a brutal beat down on Freetown Road last Friday. Twenty-six year old Kenrick August is still hospitalized at the KHMH and tonight his alleged attacker is behind bars. Late Monday evening, in the courtroom of Magistrate Roberto Ordonez, thirty year old boat captain, Andy Hernandez was […]
Thieves are becoming craftier at finding ways to get their loot, but a robbery that occurred on November tenth takes the prize for creativity. Fifty year old Eric Barrow allegedly robbed Honey’s Shop on Raccoon Street without even entering the building. How did he do it? Well, according to storeowner, Andy Chen, he caught Barrow […]
Two men, who were convicted of Attempted Murder on December twelfth, were back in the Northern Session of the Supreme Court today for sentencing. But only one of them is in prison tonight after a decision by Justice Denis Hanomansingh. Darwin Diaz was sentenced to twelve years in prison, while Wilbert Cuellar was discharged by […]
A Belmopan resident will spend Christmas in prison for allegedly breaking into the home of Josephine Sanchez in Belize City and attacking her fifteen year old daughter. Today, the accused man, twenty year old Marin Alvarenga, appeared before Magistrate Roberto Ordonez and pleaded not guilty to a charge of Aggravated Burglary. The minor alleges that […]
In the courts, Kareem Hamilton, Steven Armstrong and Carlos Matura, were committed to stand trial in the Supreme Court on April sixteenth of 2012 for three separate sex offenses. In the first case, twenty-four year old Hamilton was arraigned on the fourteenth of June of this year for Committing an Unnatural Crime. It is alleged […]
He spent fifteen days behind bars at the Belize Central Prison, but today, B.T.L. employee, forty-five year old Bernard Bent was spared from doing more jail time. Bent was remanded on December first when he pleaded guilty to a charge of grievous harm after he physically abused his girlfriend, twenty-six year old Kendra Henkis on […]
In the courts, a brawl among several women on Hibiscus Street almost increased the murder statistics when Judean Brown was stabbed multiple times to the back, neck and behind the left ear. Judean still bears the scars of that fight and struggled to speak as she testified in court today against twenty-four year old Kaycia […]
While Kaycia Fuller has been convicted, the trial against eighteen year old Ibrahim Smith is set to begin. Smith allegedly shot sixteen year old Shenelle Reyes while playing with a sixteen gauge shotgun on November sixteenth 2010. Due to the circumstances surrounding the tragic fatality, he was charged with Manslaughter and not murder. At the […]
In the past couple years, there have been an unusually high number of international fugitives being caught in Belize. News Five reported on many of those captures, but one wanted man whose arrest went under the radar was sixty-five year old Robert Widdowson, a resident of Texas who was on the run for over twenty […]
On Tuesday, Justice Denis Hanomansingh dismissed a case of incest brought against a resident of Corozal after the alleged victim, the man’s daughter, failed to appear in court to testify against him. The young girl was sixteen years old at the time when she was allegedly molested. She was reportedly prepared to take the stand […]
A teenager who is accused of having sex with a fifteen year old minor will have to stand trial in the Supreme Court for the crime of Carnal Knowledge. The preliminary inquiry in the case against eighteen year old Orlin Arias concluded with a paper committal this morning in the courtroom of Chief Magistrate Ann […]
A Fisherman of the Conch Shell Bay area is facing criminal charges after he reportedly lost his temper during an argument with a seventeen year old girl on Sunday. Twenty-one year old Luke Cox was charged with Harm when he appeared before Magistrate Sharon Frazer today. The teenager alleges that she was at a Chinese […]
Last Friday, an unidentified man was found with multiple stab wounds; in fact, police say that as many as fifteen were inflicted on the body. Up to Friday evening police were unable to determine the time of the murder or the motive, but he has now been identified as forty year old Abayomi Olatunji, a […]
A horrific accident occurred in Double Head Cabbage on December ninth; two young siblings were hit and one died shortly after at the KHMH. Two-year-old Rushina McFadzean and her five year old brother, TeJohn McFadzean were both knocked down as they were heading to a baby sister. The tragic accident occurred in the vicinity of […]
A group of seven, including two women, appeared before Magistrate Sharon Frazer today for the possession of a loaded nine millimeter Luger brand pistol. The weapon and ammunition were found inside a vehicle they were traveling in on the Northern Highway on Saturday morning. Earl Gill and Jamie Young, both residents of Sand Hill Village, […]
Thirty-one year old Lyndon Flores, an officer of the Belize Defense Force, is remanded at the Belize Central Prison tonight following an appearance in the courtroom of Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith. Flores is accused of assaulting his common-law wife Shayla Morena with a gun and destroying several household items during a domestic dispute one […]
