Thirty year old Chadrick Tingling, also known as Pinta, was today arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for the Attempted Murder of thirty-six year old Anthony Major. Major was shot on Friday night while at the corner of Card’s Alley and Fredrick Street not too far from his home. One of the bullets penetrated […]
A resident of Mayflower Street, thirty-one year old Shemika Trapp, is fast becoming one of the few well known female crooks. Today she was in court charged with Robbery, her third offense this year. Allegations against Trapp are that on November fourteenth, she forced Taletha Cruickshank to hand over an eight hundred and seventy-five dollar […]
Two adults and two minors were charged with Burglary today after police allegedly caught them in the act. But the Ladyville residents, twenty-five year old Lionel Brigal and twenty-four year old Ernel Caliz, along with the fifteen and sixteen year old minors are now claiming police brutality. Brigal had a bruised right eye and a […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice has reserved ruling in a case that could determine whether the government can take action against two ministers for financial losses suffered by the state. In the first appeal from Belize, submissions were made by attorneys Lois Young on behalf of the government and Elson Kaseke and Magali Marin-Young on […]
In the courts, an employee of Old Belize, thirty year old Michael Usher, was arraigned this morning on a single count of Theft for allegedly stealing a four hundred dollar Apple iPhone on November fifteenth. He appeared unrepresented before Magistrate Kayla Teck where he pleaded not guilty to the charge which came about after a […]
On Wednesday night, we reported that the former Officer in Charge of Burrell Boom police, Corporal Emelio Patt was charged with Aggravated Assault with a Dangerous Weapon for allegedly drawing his gun at villager, Omar Kerr. Patt claimed he was provoked, but today Kerr told his side of the story and says that’s not so. […]
Three siblings and a minor were arraigned this afternoon in Magistrate’s Court for possession of a homemade shotgun and unlicensed ammunition. Twenty-two year old Charles Neal, eighteen year old Shane Young and their younger brother, a sixteen year old student of Excelsior High School, were jointly charged along with a primary school student following a […]
A thirty-five year old Guatemalan National was caught trying to hide almost a pound of weed on March seventh. But it wasn’t until Tuesday that Dixie Wagner was convicted of Drug Trafficking when his case concluded before Magistrate Aretha Ford. While the drugs were not found on his person, Police Corporal Ivan Galvez testified that […]
The Officer in Charge of the Burrell Boom police was today criminally charged for drawing his service weapon on a village resident. Corporal Emilio Patt, who has ten years on the force, appeared before Magistrate Kayla Teck today to be arraigned for Aggravated Assault with a Dangerous Weapon. The alleged assault went down outside a […]
Last September, a fourteen year old girl accused three minors of rape but today she confessed in the Orange Walk Supreme Court that her very serious allegations were all lies. A seventeen year old was charged with Rape while his sixteen year old brother and seventeen year old cousin were charged with Abetment to Rape […]
Earlier this month, a Special Constable was reportedly scammed out of his service weapon by a minor. Forty-one year old Carlos Thompson reported the stolen gun when the nine millimeter pistol was not returned and a seventeen year old minor was charged with Theft and Possession of an Unlicensed Firearm in the Family Court. Thompson […]
Remember Aaron Wilson? He was the man charged with impersonating a police officer. Wilson, no longer has the dishonor of being the only person to be called a fake cop. This afternoon forty-five year old Emmanuel Lopez, a resident of Flamboyant Street Belize City pleaded guilty to Impersonating a Police Officer. In addition to the […]
The man who was charged with shooting and killing a minor last week was back in court today. Eighteen year old Ibrahim Smith was formally arraigned for the November sixteenth Manslaughter of a Sadie Vernon High School Student, seventeen year old Shenelle Reyes in the court of Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer. The eighteen year old, […]
Thirty-seven year old Sandra Ruiz met a horrific death two years ago; today, twenty-four year old Darrel Grant, the man that committed the cold blooded murder, was sentenced to life in prison. Justice Adolph Lucas, in handing down the sentence, underlined the level of cruelty in the crime and highlighted the vivid testimony of Dr. […]
A nineteen year old police officer, who was on trial for snatching a chain from Eberto Castellanos, was today found guilty of Theft. On July third, PC Michael Diaz grabbed Castellanos’ six hundred dollar gold chain from around his neck and sped off on bicycle. But he didn’t get far because Castellanos caught him and […]
A murder trial against Roger Wagner Junior ended with an acquittal in the Supreme Court today. Wagner was accused of shooting Griffith Green Junior on December twenty-eighth, 2008 and back then the main witness, Trevor Flowers, claimed he saw it all. But today Flowers told the court he didn’t see anything and alleged that he […]
A notorious figure, who has been out of the news for months, resurfaced at court today. He is thirty-two year old Darien Banks and he was arraigned along with his wife, thirty-six year old Desiree Barrow Banks after being busted with twenty-six point five pounds of weed along with a Colt AR-fifteen Rifle and eighty-four […]
A thirty-four year old private tutor will now pay the price for getting too close to a ten year old student in April of this year. Andrew Lord was found guilty late Friday evening of Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature but he was spared jail time today when Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb McKenzie fined […]
When Ricky Valencia was granted bail on October twenty-ninth, it took him four days to come up with the eight thousand dollars. But today the twenty-seven year old Belize City resident, who is accused in the June first shooting of Attorney Rodwell Williams, was sent back to Hattieville. One of the bail conditions was that […]
It was a huge bust back in August when four men were intercepted in a Crown Victoria vehicle belonging to taxi driver, Floyd Davis of Mile Eight Western Highway. When the vehicle was checked at the Ladyville gas station where it was intercepted, police found firearm and ammunition, military uniforms, masks and other accessories. It […]
The Seawell brothers were back in court today where a preliminary inquiry was expected to proceed prior to their extradition hearing. But attorney Elston Kaseke, representing Mark and Gary Seawell, sought an adjournment to December fourteenth. According to Kaseke, three witnesses who were named when the evidence from the United States Department of Justice was […]
Late this evening, a jury of eight women and four men who had deliberated for four hours seventeen minutes emerged with a unanimous verdict of guilty against twenty-four year old Darrel Thomas Grant who was accused of the murder of Sandra Ruiz. On the night of Sunday, August tenth, 2008 at about ten-thirty p.m., Ruiz’s […]
Trial started today for a Police Constable who allegedly doubles as a chain snatcher. Twenty-two year old Eberto Castellanos is accusing PC Michael Diaz of grabbing a six hundred and seventy-five dollars gold chain from around his neck in broad daylight. Castellanos testified that he was walking on West Collet Canal at around twelve-thirty in […]
A thirteen year old minor has accused a man almost twice her age of sexual abuse. What’s even more disturbing that the accused is a police officer attached to the Punta Gorda Police Formation. The child is alleging that Thomas Gamboa had sex with her on September fifth, but the matter wasn’t reported until October […]
Today the case of the two sparring medical doctors was thrown out of court when they appeared before Corozal Magistrate, Leslie Hamilton. While things got steamy between the two in the hot summer month of August and the incident made interesting news, when the case was called, it turned out to be much ado about […]
