Police were tipped off on Thursday afternoon about drugs being moved in public transportation. The cops intercepted a Shaw’s Bus at mile three on the Western Highway around two-forty-five in the afternoon. They found a red travelling bag containing almost a pound of suspected marijuana, but none of the passengers would own up to it. […]
Two families say they were terrorized by an early morning intruder, identified as the infamous Michael “Crazy” Arnold, of Ladyville. In the wee hours of Sunday morning, Arnold entered a house in the La Milpa area of Ladyville where he allegedly attempted to rape a twelve year old girl. He threatened to suffocate her if […]
Twenty-five year old Leroy Arnold was charged in 2009 after a twenty gauge shotgun disappeared from Fresh Catch Fish Farm at mile thirty-one on the Western Highway. Arnold initially denied the allegations, but when he appeared before Magistrate Aretha Ford today he changed his plea to guilty on the charges of Keeping Unlicensed Firearm and […]
Five Belize City men appeared before Magistrate Albert Hoare today to face gun possession and ammunition charges after a bust on Friday night. Twenty-two year old Steven Flowers, twenty-eight year old Tylon Tillett, twenty year old Charles Young Jr. and thirty-four year old Robert Gilharry were arrested following the discovery of a black nine millimeter […]
Eighteen year old Andrew Talbert was escorted to Magistrate’s Court today to answer charges for a robbery attempt at the Queen Square Market on Thursday morning. He was scheduled to be charged with Attempted Robbery, Aggravated Assault, Kept Prohibited Firearm and Kept Unlicensed Ammunition, but his arraignment was postponed because he may be additionally charged […]
Twenty-four year old Andre Cadle, accused of robbing twenty-four year old Chedrack Slusher, is on remand at the Central Prison tonight after an unusual day in court. Cadle was expected to be freed when Slusher told the court that he no longer wanted to pursue the matter. But Magistrate Emmerson Banner instead offered him bail […]
A group of four would-be assassins who were charged on August fifth for the crime of preparing to execute a murder reappeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer today, after a month in detention. On Monday, August second, nineteen year old Tevin Abraham, along with nineteen year old Jareth Usher, twenty-six year old Jamaal Tablada and […]
Leroy Gomez, dubbed the serial rapist, has beaten another charge. Only a week ago he was freed of Attempted Rape and Robbery because the alleged victim claimed she did not remember the details of the incident. Well, today a charge of Rape was dismissed against Gomez because the victim passed away earlier this year. Before […]
Belize City police today foiled a robbery attempt at the Queen’s Square Market. The incident happened at around seven-thirty this morning when a youth approached Concepcion Guardado, a vendor, and demanded money from him. Guardado only speaks Spanish and did not understand Andrew Talbert. Talbert pulled out a sawed off shotgun and fired at close […]
He was the second of five escaped prisoners to be recaptured after busting out on April twelfth. Twenty-nine year old Terry Bainton, who was serving time for Unlawfully Obtaining an Unlicensed Firearm and Ammunition, was caught three days later in Belize City and today he faced a single charge of Escape. He put himself at […]
Eighteen year old Shemira Patnett was attacked and robbed on Douglas Jones Street on September fourth. But don’t be too quick to assume that the culprits were the usual suspects, those repeat offenders who traffic the courthouse on charge after charge. This time the victim was ambushed by a group of females, armed with knives. […]
Police say they have the sixth suspected person who broke into the law offices of Godfrey Smith in the wee hours of last Thursday. Today twenty-one year old Kareem Gladden, was charged with Burglary. Gladden now joins five others who appeared in the Magistrate’s Court on Monday to face the same charge. He pleaded not […]
The office of attorney Godfrey Smith was burglarized on the eve of the tenth. Today, five men who were captured on surveillance camera were arraigned on charges of burglary. They are Fredrick Waight, Mark Alamilla, Jose Caliz, Charles Neal, and Michael Fairweather, all from Belize City. The accused appeared before Magistrate Emmerson Banner for allegedly […]
Earlier we told you about the murder of Marlon Zelaya, which may be linked to the shooting of Police Constable Abel Mendez last Tuesday. Today a second person was charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm of the police constable. The suspect, a seventeen year old minor, is charged […]
Belmopan police have charged four persons with the murder of twenty-two year old Jesse Jones of Ontario Village, Cayo. Jones was shot dead as he tried to bring two rival groups together to make amends. Three of the four are well known notorious figures: twenty-four year old Lionel Sampson, twenty-five year old Cecil Castillo and […]
In the courts, a nineteen year old was charged with the Attempted Murder of two police officers after a shooting around eight o’clock on Tuesday night. The officers, Abel Mendez and Abelio Itza, both of the Mahogany Street sub-station, were responding to a report of a robbery in progress on Partridge Street. On their way […]
The home of Hattieville resident Wendy Castillo was burglarized on Monday by culprits, believed to be her neighbours. Castillo’s husband got news of the break-in at around three o’clock that afternoon and they later found that sixteenth thousand, six hundred and ninety-five dollars in items were stolen. The thieves got their hands on everything that […]
Earlier this year, Doctor John Gough and his neighbour, Egbert Nicholson, were both charged for wounding sixteen year old Carlos Zelaya who was dating doctor’s daughter. It was a sensational incident because pictures of the badly beaten minor were widely circulated and it involved a prominent doctor. The trial of the two men concluded in […]
Marlon Contreras was found guilty of Manslaughter for stabbing to death forty year old Jose Howe, a taxi driver of Benque Viejo Town. He received the bad news on August nineteenth, his birthday. Today Contreras learnt that for his crime, he will spend fifteen years in prison in addition to the three he has already […]
The previous time Leroy Gomez was in court on August eighth, he was sentenced to twenty-two years in prison for Rape. But there were other charges of Attempted Rape and Robbery against Gomez, who has been dubbed the serial rapist so he was back in the Supreme Court today. The twenty-three year old got lucky […]
Floyd Robateau appeared in court today sporting a bandaged left hand. He was injured during an alleged burglary at Williamsons Industries Limited at mile eight on the Northern Highway late Monday afternoon. According to Eduardo Miranda, a security guard, he arrived for work at about four-thirty and noticed that the garage door was pried open. […]
A teenager barely escaped going to prison when he pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary this morning. Eighteen year old Justin Faber broke into the home of Odessa Reneau in Sandhill early Monday morning and stole a speaker, cell phone and sixty dollars in cash. Faber begged Magistrate Emmerson Banner for leniency, saying that […]
The owner of the Elite Security Company in Belize, who is also a veteran officer at the Los Angeles Police Department, has been freed in the US courts. Johnny Augustus Baltazar was charged in November 2009 for illegally shipping guns to Belize for his business. But a federal court jury acquitted him of the offense […]
Shamir Henry of the Belize Defence Force was stabbed to death by his estranged common-law-wife, Leshawn Lino, last Thursday. It is believed to have been a fatal end to one of their many domestic disputes. Lino appeared in court today to be charged for Henry’s death and the question in everyone’s mind was “murder or […]
The family that has been charged with laundering one point five million dollars briefly returned to court today. Melonie Coye, her husband James Gerou; parents Michael and Marlene; brother, Jude and two employees were accused by the Financial Intelligence Unit after officers found the cash in suitcases at the Coye family home over a year […]
