A security guard who showed up late for work and appeared under the influence of alcohol is behind bars tonight after he allegedly pulled his point twenty-two service pistol and fired it at a co-worker. The incident allegedly happened during an argument on Saturday night at the Northern Fisherman Cooperative on North Front Street after […]
A coronary inquiry into the death of Mark “T-Dog” Stuart, concluded today and after two hours of deliberation the jury could find no one responsible for the killing. The stunning decision comes seven years after Stuart was shot twenty-seven times at close range by prison officers on August twentieth, 2003. The inquiry didn’t start until […]
Also in court, five men who were busted on September seventeenth had a brief taste of freedom today. A charge against them for the possession of a nine millimeter pistol loaded with the ammunition was dismissed, but they were detained again as they exited the court. Jeffrey Flowers, Steven Flowers, Tylon Tillett, Charles Young Jr. […]
An extra-ordinary special meeting called by the Citrus Growers Association is still on track for Friday following a ruling by Justice Minnet Hafiz Bertram. The meeting intends to terminate Dr. Henry Canton as CEO for Citrus Products of Belize Limited. The majority shareholder, CGA, wants him out but a minority shareholder, Banks Holdings, filed an […]
In the many twists and turns, Eamon Courtenay also brought out the fact that Canton put the cart before the horse because he is already suing CPBL for damages for breaching his contract but he is still trying to keep his post. And according Courtenay, if the injunction was granted it would lead to a […]
Peter King Contreras confessed to strangling his mother-in-law to death. Earlier today, the chef from Ladyville was escorted to court and arraigned for murdering Argentina Arevalo Garcia. Contreras was intercepted as he drove a blue SUV in which he carried the body of his mother-in-law. It is believed that the victim was killed on Monday […]
A Corozal Freezone watchman survived a brutal attack back in February 2008 and almost three years later, he is finally getting justice. Roberto Carlos left work at about three a.m. and was walking on Eleventh Avenue when he was ambushed by two men and a woman, wearing masks. Carlos says he was chopped three times […]
While a son-in-law is accused for the murder of his mother-in-law, Lavern “Anti-Christ” Longsworth is behind bars tonight for the murder of her common-law-husband. Longsworth is the court personality who set her common-law-husband, David White on fire during a domestic dispute back on July fifteenth. Longsworth was initially charged with attempted murder and was released […]
Ten months after security guard, Kaluru Oloungududu was brutally murdered on the job, a third person has been charged. Police today arrested twenty-two year old Talbert Mena of Placencia Village and charged him with Murder. Mena has been remanded to the Central Prison, where he joins Jamaal Jackson and Darrel Myvette who are charged for […]
A Ministry of Works employee has been arrested and criminally charged after he could not account for building materials that were removed from the ministry’s warehouse at mile three on the Western Highway. Works Administrator and the brother of the Minister of Works, forty-six year old Edward Martinez, reported to police this past Thursday that […]
It somehow didn’t make it to the police report or the news, but last Tuesday a man allegedly started a fire in the room where his wife and daughter were sleeping at their house in La Democracia Village. And today, thirty-seven year old Gary Clark was arraigned on three charges; two counts of Attempted Murder […]
We reported last Thursday that eighteen year old Daniel Pineda was stabbed in Belize City during an altercation with Justin Wade, Denroy McFoy and two other youths. Eighteen year old McFoy was accused of inflicting the injuries and today he was arraigned along with two minors, ages sixteen and seventeen, in the court of the […]
It’s payback time for a graphics designer, who made his rounds swindling individuals and primary schools out of cash. He’s beaten numerous charges in the past but today, thirty-three year old Artemio Acosta was found guilty in abscencia of seven counts of Obtaining Property by Deception. The conviction is for scamming money from Lucky Strike […]
Six officers, including a Customs boatman, who were charged in connection with the landing of a drug plane on the Southern Highway on November thirteenth, were offered bail today. They were charged on Thursday with Abetment of a Crime for the Importation of a Controlled Drug by facilitating the landing of an aircraft with two […]
Twice today, downtown Belize City came to a standstill. The immediate area around the courthouse was cordoned off as five officers were whisked into court for arraignment on drug related charges. The media was kept at bay when the five were taken to court in handcuffs and shackles under heavy police escort. The five have […]
It was not a good day for cops today; in the same court of Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb McKenzie, another was arraigned on criminal charges. He is twenty-four year old Police Constable Rodney Williams, of the Patrol Branch. But his crime is not drug related. Williams was charged with a single count of Unlawful Carnal […]
It’s cop versus cop. A police officer was charged criminally this morning in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court after a Special Constable claimed that he beat her up and left her unconscious at her home. Briceño Shal, who is attached to the Patrol Branch, is facing a single count for wounding his ex-common-law-wife, Nakisha Usher, […]
He was handed over to Belize after he was shot in Honduras a few weeks ago along with Alexander Edwards and Benjamin Peters. Edwards and Peters were killed and today a bail application was heard for Gabriel Salazar Villafranco, the man who police believe was linked to this year’s Spanish Lookout armed robbery and murder. […]
Two deadly firearms and a Guatemalan national were taken into police custody on Saturday. The first weapon was found during a search at a property on Jane Usher Boulevard at around nine a.m. Cops found a point three-fifty-seven revolver, but no one was in the area so the gun was taken in and labeled as […]
Two women were arraigned today for Theft. A sanitation worker, Shirley Arnold, was also charged with aggravated assault upon Walter Campos, the proprietor of Nutri Natura. Campos reported to the police that last Saturday, two women entered his business, one took a yellow blouse and a blue jacket from a hanger, put it in her […]
Ervin Alexander Reneau, the son of an upstanding Belize City family, was arraigned today for the double homicide in Tuesday night’s mayhem at the Belize Diesel Service Center on the Northern Highway. The forty year old appeared this afternoon before Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie. He entered court under escort from CIB officers and was jovial, […]
Twenty-seven year old Marlon Contreras was ambushed in 2008 by an assailant who cut his throat. Contreras was lucky to survive, but when he didn’t show up in the Belmopan Supreme Court to testify on Wednesday, the alleged culprit also got lucky. Without the victim’s testimony, thirty-four year old Elvin Vanegas was found not guilty […]
A police officer, who beat serious criminal charges in 2008, won a countersuit for damages against the Attorney General today. Police Constable Gilbert Hyde was charged with Conspiracy to Commit Murder in a double homicide on February fourteenth, 2008. Hyde was riding on Central American Boulevard with well-known criminal figure, Ryan Felix when they heard […]
This morning, the last of a number of rape cases before the Supreme Court against the man police dubbed as the serial rapist, fell apart when the main suspect said she did not want to testify in fear of her life. The trial judge, Justice Adolph Lucas directed the jury of nine to return a […]
Former immigration officer Maria Guerra who was suspended indefinitely from her post at the Philip Goldson International Airport in the wake of a customs duties evasion scandal in mid-July, 2008, has now been rewarded full restitution by the Supreme Court. Guerra, along with Jose Aldana, a businessman of San Ignacio Town, were jointly charged for […]
