A teacher from the Belmopan Comprehensive School was killed and six others were injured in a traffic accident on the Western Highway last March. One man was charged with Manslaughter and when a preliminary inquiry concluded late Tuesday evening, it was decided that Gordon Brooks will stand trial at the Supreme Court. On March, fifth […]
On Friday the Gang Suppression Unit carried out a predawn raid at Miguel Menjivar’s residence in the Las Flores community in Belmopan. Menjivar is the owner of La Cabana Bar and lives under heavy security. Commander of the G.S.U., Marco Vidal told us that before five o’clock that morning, the unit carried out a search, […]
Also in court, twenty-seven year old Bert Vasquez was arraigned on three counts; Aggravated Assault, Abduction and Harm upon a sixteen year old minor. Late in the hearing, Vasquez requested that the media be barred out of the session, saying that he cannot allow any further damage to his reputation, claiming he is being framed. […]
The accused gunman in a double murder was freed today due to inadmissible evidence. A Valentine’s Day ambush on Gill Street in 2008 left two men dead and one injured. Days later, police charged a sixteen year old minor for the murders of nineteen year old Eugene Flores and eighteen year old Roberto as well […]
The case against the Attorney General’s Office which is being brought by Caleb Orozco and the United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM) challenging Section Fifty-Three of the Criminal Code is a little over two months away from being argued in the Supreme Court. Lawyers on both sides of the gay rights argument appeared before Justice Michelle […]
A high ranking police officer was busted with alleged counterfeit notes on Wednesday while at a bank making a deposit. It’s a major bust because Sergeant Sherwood Wade is the head of the Police Special Branch. This afternoon, dressed in a guaberra, he was escorted to court and was formally arraigned for Possession of Counterfeit […]
But those sixteen notes were just the tip of the iceberg and the cops are now on high alert, following an even bigger bust on Thursday afternoon. Thirty-five year old David Sedacey, who was busted with fifteen thousand US dollars in fake bills, was arraigned this morning for Possession of Counterfeit Notes. Police searched his […]
The recently released statistics showed that at the end of April, the number of carnal knowledge cases was down by two when compared to same period in 2010. Well, it appears the culprits are playing catch up because there were two carnal knowledge reports in today’s police blotter. A fourteen year old student told the […]
An accident on the Hummingbird Highway this past Sunday night resulted in the death of nineteen year old Suzette Mossiah and according to police, the driver of the vehicle is facing four charges. Mossiah was travelling from Armenia Village to Belmopan along with Balmore Hernandez. But Hernandez lost control of the Toyota Tacoma pickup and […]
A maroon Mitsubishi car with Guatemalan license plate appeared suspicious to Cayo cops. The car was intercepted on the Benque Viejo Road in San Ignacio Town. It was driven by thirty year old Joseph Budna, a freelance reporter of the DFC area of San Pedro, who you may recall facilitated the release of Belizean, Dennis […]
Today three members of the top level management of the Maya Belize Recycling Company were before to the courts to answer to criminal and immigration charges. Manager of the company, thirty five year old Juan Carlos Cuellar, along with director, thirty four year old Wilfredo Cocom and Supervisor Lina Lino were jointly charged with four […]
A woman was stabbed numerous times on September twelfth, 2009. During that incident her two children were also injured during this dispute with their neighbors. Their wounds have healed, but the family did not get the news they were hoping for when the accused man, Alexis Rojas, walked free today. Thirty-five year old Luisa Bardalez […]
You’ve seen Emerson Guild on this station numerous times, speaking as the local coordinator of the Venezuelan Mission Miracle initiative. But tonight, fifty-seven year old Guild is behind bars on charges of Aggravated Assault with a Firearm. Guild was arraigned in the courtroom of Magistrate Dorothy Flowers and he pleaded not guilty to the charge. […]
Also in court, a Lebanese businessman is claiming that he was swindled out of hundreds of dollars by twenty-nine year old Herman Tzib. The alleged incident occurred on April fourteenth, but police didn’t detain Tzib until this morning and he was arraigned for Extortion in the Belmopan Magistrate Court before Adolph Lucas Junior. According to […]
Kenroy Young was once the UN Youth Ambassador, but he is also distinguishing himself as a career criminal. Since 2008, he has been in court on several theft related charges and currently has a case of forgery pending in the Supreme Court. Today, the twenty-two year old added one more offense to his growing rap […]
In other news, Heritage Bank Manager, Samantha Carlos, was today granted bail of twenty-five thousand dollars by Justice Adolph Lucas in the Belize City Supreme Court. Carlos, a twenty-eight year old Orange Walk resident, was charged with Conspiracy to Commit Robbery, following a heist at the northern branch of the bank where she is employed. […]
A jealous forty year old Glenford “Bucket” Bermudez executed his wife on November twenty-second, 2007 and for taking her life, he will now spend the rest of his life behind bars. Glenford, an ex-B.D.F. soldier, was convicted on April twenty-seventh for the murder of Raquel Requeña Bermudez; the life sentence was handed down today by […]
A second lawyer has withdrawn legal representation from Mark Seawell this week and his case has been postponed until he is able to secure a new defense team. Since his arrest in February 2007 the infamous Seawell, who is wanted in the United States for drug trafficking and money laundering offences, has made numerous court […]
Karl Heusner was in court today; no, it’s not the hospital, it’s a twenty-five year Belize City resident. Heusner faces seven charges, but he claims that he was badly beaten by a cop without reason and that he was arrested for a bullet he knew nothing about. Heusner showed Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie his bruised […]
The notorious figure Darien Banks has been before the courts too many times to mention, but most recently he was charged along with his wife Desiree Barrow Banks. Trial began today against the couple on charges of Drug Trafficking, Kept Prohibited Firearm and Kept Prohibited Ammunition. They were both arrested following a search at their […]
An argument over a basketball game almost turned fatal for twenty-one year old Donovan P. Carter on April thirtieth in the Japan area of Ladyville and today a sixteen year old minor was charged with Attempted Murder. The teen was arraigned in the Belize Family Court and has been remanded to the Youth Hostel until […]
Turning to the courts, another case fell apart today due to an absent witness. On February eighth, 2009 eighteen year old Jermaine Elijio was stabbed when he refused to buy his attacker a cigarette. The knife missed his heart by a mere two inches and while he lived to tell the tale, Elijio chose not […]
From the classroom to the courts, where a cop got off for Abetment to Murder. PC Manuel Hill, was stationed in Belmopan and has been off the job since March of 2009, when he was charged following the murder of thirty-eight year old Hui Li Chen. The Taiwanese National is believed to have been killed […]
After a weeklong battle for his life, forty-one year old Elvis Rhamdas, succumbed to stab wounds on May first. Today, twenty-eight year old Kareem Barona, a well known criminal figure, was charged for his murder. Barona appeared in court unrepresented and after the arraignment he was remanded to the Central Prison, until June twenty-second. On […]
Also in court, a Belize City woman, her common-law-husband and son were all charged for Theft and Handling Stolen Goods. They were accused of stealing seven sacks of beans from a truck belonging to wholesale vendor, Manuel Angel. Nineteen year old Christian Alexander Landaverde took the rap and pleaded guilty, which meant that the charges […]
