In the courts, Rutelio Villanueva, an officer employed by Harpy’s Security Company, is tonight behind bars after disobeying an order handed down by the Belize Family Court. The father of two who has been delinquent in making payments toward a twenty-seven thousand dollar debt owed for child support was remanded to the Hattieville Prison where […]
Twenty-four year old Darrel Grant a Belize City resident who stands accused of killing Sandra Ruiz in August of 2008 today testified before the Supreme Court. During his testimony Grant claimed he was pressured by Sergeant Nicholas Palomo into confessing that he took part in the murder, but he is now claiming he was at […]
The political career of Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers has been on a rollercoaster since she was first elected as the city’s first female mayor. Today it was on a high point; she walked free of the last two of a total of twenty-four charges brought against her. The charges of Failure to Comply with City […]
We reported on Tuesday night that Denroy Tillett, the principal of the Belmopan Comprehensive School, was arrested for sexually assaulting a female employee of the school. This morning Tillett was arraigned in the courtroom of Magistrate Adolph Lucas Jr. in the capital city. He was represented by, Legal Aid Attorney Philip Palacio and pleaded not […]
Steven Polonio just turned nineteen and already he is a known face at the courthouse. His most recent charges are for Keeping an Unlicensed Firearm and Keeping Unlicensed Ammunition. Police caught Polonio on Tuesday morning as he was allegedly fleeing from a robbery scene carrying a point thirty-eight special revolver. The cops say that a […]
The charges brought by Leanora Rhaburn against her nineteen year old estranged common-law, Dennis Carr, landed him an interdiction and a court appearance. But today before newly appointed Magistrate Kayla Teck, Rhaburn confessed to making a false report and fabricating the story that Carr stole from her and the police department. In an emotional testimony […]
Two days after a vicious stabbing in San Pedro ended the life of twenty-three year old Lionel Pinelo, police have a suspect in custody. Today, twenty-one year old Jason Reyes, a resident of the Boca Del Rio area, was arraigned for Murder in the San Pedro Magistrate Court. No plea was taken on the indictable […]
The courtroom drama today was pale in comparison to the political theater that played out when she was first charged on October first, 2009 days after she had given birth to her first child. At the time Mayor Zenaida Moya became the first sitting mayor to be criminally charged. She angrily fought back at her […]
While Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers was discharged of criminal charges today, three other women charged in another sensational case were committed to stand trial. Back in July 2009, twenty-four year old Monica Escarpeta, a treasury clerk, was charged with the Theft of two hundred and ninety-one thousand dollars from the Treasury Department. Her mother, fifty-three […]
A resident of Burrell Boom, twenty-six year old Selvin Seguro was charged today after running wild in his village in the last weekend of September. Seguro was charged in relation to three incidents: a burglary at Royal Palm Estate, another at the home of Fiona Usher and the theft of a canoe; all in Burrell […]
Jamar Gentle’s day started with an early morning walk with his dog and ended with him being sent to prison for two years. Police busted the twenty-five year old with a point thirty-eight revolver and five live rounds. Gentle was walking his dog on Princess Margaret Drive at about six-forty a.m. when he was spotted […]
On October twenty-first, four persons were injured in a shooting incident when a car pulled up on Antelope Street Extension and opened fire on Michael “Ham” Young, whose life has been threatened on numerous occasions. A hail of bullets were released at the intended target but three minors, all students of the Muslin Community Primary […]
A Guatemalan national was sentenced to twelve years today in the Belmopan Supreme Court by Judge Troadio John Gonzalez while another who was found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter got thirteen years behind bars. Fifty-six year old Wayne Gabb, a resident of Ontario Village, Cayo District was convicted of the stabbing death […]
On Monday a group of six was arrested and charged for kept ammunition and other related firearm offences following a raid conducted at the home of forty-four year old Gloria Humes on Lawrence Avenue in Belize City. The four adults and two minors were initially taken into police custody where two adults pleaded guilty to […]
Alleged Guatemalan drug lord, Otoniel Turcios Marroquin was captured in Belize last Monday. He was escorted to the Philip Goldson International Airport by the Commander of the Anti Drug Unit, and was promptly handed over to U.S. authorities and whisked away in a waiting small white plane on October twenty-seventh. The flight was bound for […]
Shocking details were revealed in court today about the brutal murder of Sandra Ruiz, who was bludgeoned to death at her King’s Park home on August tenth, 2008. Darrel Grant is accused in the homicide and when Pathologist, Doctor Mario Estradabran, testified in the Supreme Court this morning, he revealed that Ruiz’ was being beaten […]
Also in the courts, the two men accused of the attempted murder of attorney, Rodwell Williams, were set free after spending ninety days in jail. Ricky Valencia met bail of eight thousand dollars this morning and late this afternoon, Akeem Thurton, came up with a property bail to secure his release. Their next court date […]
Alleged Guatemalan drug lord, Otoniel Turcios Marroquin, was busted in Belize last week by the police. As we reported on Friday, Otto, as he is commonly known, was wanted in the United States for allegedly importing about one thousand two hundred pounds of cocaine. And from the look of things, there more than meets the […]
In the courts, six Ladyville residents were today charged with a number of offences including burglary, drug trafficking and possession of unlicensed ammunition. While Hurricane Richard made landfall in central Belize on Sunday October twenty-fourth the home of American national Udgen Brick on Falcon Street in Ladyville was burglarized. Among the items stolen were two […]
Eighteen year old Francisco Rodriguez, a laborer of Belize City, today began serving a one year prison sentence for the theft of a cell phone last Thursday. Rodriguez, who appeared before Magistrate Emerson Banner this morning, pled guilty to snatching a black Motorola cellular phone belonging to Shakira Young while she was walking along Central […]
It is not uncommon to hear of multimillion dollar lawsuits in court, but those cases normally involve large companies. A lawsuit, however, that has been ten years in the making, is providing millions of dollars in relief for the mother of a disabled girl. In 2000 Georgia Matute became pregnant and she received a c-section […]
The Corozal ex-beauty queen, who allegedly instigated the killing of her friend because she wanted her baby, had two additional charges levied against her today. Nineteen year old Aracely Cahueque was initially arraigned for Child Stealing and now she is facing Murder and Abetment to Murder charges. Allegations are that Cahueque was the mastermind behind […]
Attorney Rodwell Williams, the law partner of the Prime Minister, was shot on June first as he left his law firm on Albert Street. He was badly wounded and had to be flown to the US for emergency treatment for the life threatening injuries. Williams is now back in Belize and is making a full […]
A sixteen year old was shot on Wednesday morning by the police in the St. Martin’s de Pores Area. The minor and his stepfather were on their way back home and had stopped at an unoccupied house when the officer opened fire. The bullet hit the minor on the knee and a video shows the […]
Thirty-three year old Marcus Moh, a resident of Sarteneja Village, appeared before Justice Adolph Lucas in court today for sentencing following the 2008 murder of Kirk Smith. On October eleventh, 2008 both men got into an altercation on Turneffe Island over the stealing of lobsters. Moh subsequently drew an AK47 assault rifle and shot Smith […]
