Another name well known in the courts and to police is Leon Walford. He was charged today for allegedly robbing twenty-four year old Michael Caceres at gunpoint on September twenty-eighth. According to Caceres, he was riding his beach cruiser bicycle on Glen Street at about seven-forty-five when he was approached by Walford who pointed a […]
Damages in the amount of ninety-thousand dollars have been awarded to the estate of the late Dr. Abigail Brinkman, a US national, who drowned off the coast of Placencia five years ago. The judgment was handed down by Justice Oswald Legall last week after finding the defendant, Vance Cabral, liable of the negligent demise of […]
Five persons were detained following a broad daylight home invasion on Monday at the residence of sixty-nine year old Rosaline Munnings. Today only two of those men, Michael Matute Junior and Jerome Wade, were escorted to the Magistrates’ Court to be arraigned for Conspiracy to Commit Aggravated Burglary and Handling Stolen Goods. Wade was caught […]
With the high cost of living, we could all use a little extra on the paycheck. While most hope for it, a twenty-three year old Honduran National went ahead and took it. Businessman, Nigel Matus paid Victor Sanchez Guzman, a cheque for one hundred and ninety-three dollars on March twentieth. It was severance pay for […]
It was a sensational case when it was first reported back in May because the cops claimed they found nine pounds of cocaine and detained a well known businessman loaded with cash. The bust by the anti-drug unit, involved a high speed police chase of two cars through Belize City that came to a crashing […]
The infamous Arthur Young is back on the streets of Belize City after he was granted bail in Magistrate’s Court today. Young was caught at the Mexican airport trying to catch an early morning flight to Mexico City using a fake passport with the alias Edward Roberts. After three months on the run, Young was […]
Luis Fernando Reyes Rodriguez, a fifty-seven year old Honduran National, navigated his catamaran into Belizean waters on September fifteenth. But Luis’ visit has been cut short and he was in court today to face four Immigration offences. The first two counts are for Allowing Crew Members to Disembark a Catamaran without the Consent of an […]
In the courts, four of six police officers who were arraigned in May for wounding Elvin Torres we relieved of the charges today. The Department of Public Prosecutions directed the court to withdraw the charges against the four but didn’t give any reasons why. It all relates to an incident on May ninth when the […]
Mark Medina walked from a murder charge in early 2009, but since then he has been a fixture at the Central Prison with three convictions following that acquittal. The third was today, when he was found guilty of Keeping an Unlicensed Firearm and Ammunition. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers imposed concurrent sentences of two years each for […]
There was another conviction for Keeping Firearm and Ammunition today. This time, twenty-six year old Luis Savery was sent to jail. Savery was walking on Sunflower Street on the night of August twenty-second but when he noticed police on patrol, he accelerated his walk. That drew the attention of the cops, who pursued and searched […]
They’re already behind bars, but tonight three inmates have more trouble coming their way. First is twenty-six year old Knox Cumberbatch who is in jail awaiting trial for charges including murder and will now be charged with Attempted Murder, Grievous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm against Elton Bradley. The new charges go […]
Leroy Gomez was dubbed the serial rapist when he was accused in a number of rapes and attempted rapes that go back to September 2008. The twenty-four year old has been tried for three of the offences and in two cases the charges were withdrawn. Gomez’ only conviction was on August eighth for Rape, Robbery […]
A Construction worker of Mahogany Heights was charged today with Burglary for allegedly breaking into the home of Cairin Reid. Twenty-five year old Darwin Usher was caught in the act and instead of trying to escape, he asked Reid for a hug. She refused and Usher begged her again to give him a hug, but […]
Shortly after the murder on Wednesday of Be-john Martinez which took place off a feeder road near Haulover Bridge, police searched a house at the corner of Amara and Dean Streets where they detained four persons for a small amount of marijuana. The four: Kareem Smith, his siblings Patrick and Ashanti Flowers, along with a […]
Twenty-seven year old Eric Cadogan and his ex-common-law wife, Rosita Flowers, got into a dispute when she went to his house on Wednesday to pick up her belongings. Things got out of hand and Cadogan ended up in court today charged with Aggravated Assault with a Machete. Cadogan initially pleaded guilty but explained that he […]
An entire family perished inside their home in Buena Vista Village when it was burnt down on October second, 2006. But it was not the usual house fire, caused by faulty electricity or something left on the stove; it was a malicious crime that claimed the life of Elias Mayen Ayala, his common-law-wife Maria Suchite, […]
A group of four heavily armed men who were intercepted by police in Ladyville on August second remain at the Central Prison following the rejection of their bail applications today. They are nineteen year old Tevin Abraham, nineteen year old Jareth Usher, twenty-six year old Jamal Tablada and forty-six year old Floyd Davis. A search […]
Most partygoers know the saying “after the party there’s the after party”. But in the wee hours of September twenty-sixth, after the party there was a robbery at Palm Island night club. Today Carlo Gutierrez and Derrick Munnings were charged with Handling Stolen Goods in connection with that armed holdup. Police don’t have enough evidence […]
A thirty-one year old Belize City woman has been charged with arson. Marsha Bood is accusing of attempting to set on fire, the house of her ex, Godfrey Dougal. On August seventeenth, Bood allegedly had an altercation with Dougal at his apartment located on Bootsville. He claims that after her threats, a fire broke at […]
A former inmate who served five years inside the Hattieville Prison for armed robbery is tonight once again in lockdown after being for drug trafficking. Freddy Fuller who was released in July was employed by the Kolbe Foundation as a sports coordinator. Fuller, who is a resident of Orange Walk, was allowed to stay in […]
A joint operation conducted between the Crimes Intelligence Unit, Special Branch and Gang Unit netted close to thirty thousand dollars for the cops. On September twentieth at five-thirty pm a search was conducted at Marcello Reina’s residence on Curl Thompson Street, in the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City. The search of Reina’s house […]
A ruling was handed down this morning in the Supreme Court in the case of two minors convicted for murder and sentenced to life. Anthony ‘Zambo’ Bowen and David Jones challenged the constitutionality of their prison sentences before Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh, whose ruling today was among the last of his judgments before he demits […]
Jason Flores was gunned down on the morning of December ninth, 2009. Four months after the murder, in April of this year, Ryan Alvarez was charged and remanded for the killing. And now, ten months later, eighteen year old Akeem Humes of the George Street Area, is joining Alvarez behind bars. Humes appeared unrepresented in […]
One of two men who robbed a security guard last week at the Belize Medical Associates was today escorted to face the music in court. Twenty-six year old Bryant Gentle was arraigned on four charges: Robbery, Possession of an Unlicensed Firearm, Possession of Unlicensed Ammunition, and Wounding. According to the security guard, Paul Valerio, he […]
Twenty year old Sherman Rodney, a resident of Gentle Lane in the Port Loyola area remains on remand at the Central Prison after being charged for the attempted murder of Rafael Usher on September twenty-third. Usher reported to police that at about eleven-forty-five p.m. last Thursday he was visiting a female friend on Arlington Drive […]
