In the Orange Walk Supreme Court, it took a jury of twelve less than three hours to unanimously agree on a guilty verdict for a murder charge against Daniel Ku. He was convicted late Thursday evening for the shockingly brutal murder of his estranged common-law-wife on December sixteenth, 2006. Nurse Anna Basto was stabbed thirty-two […]
While Daniel Ku was found guilty of murder up north, two men did not waste the court’s time and pleaded guilty to separate charges in Belize City. The first is a well known recycler from Vernon Street who was caught shoplifting at Save-U Supermarket on Thursday. Fifty year old Mervin Swift was charged with Theft […]
Linsbert Bahadur was charged after the April 2006 murder of his brother-in-law, Albert Wade, who was killed by a single bullet to the face in the Cayo District. His trial started on August twenty-third and concluded today at the Belmopan Supreme Court with a nolle prosequi. The main witness, who drove Bahadur to the scene, […]
Special Constable John Myvette was interdicted in February when he was criminally charged for doing business with an accused sex offender. Myvette was back in court today for Obtaining Services by Deception and Extortion but his case was simply adjourned until October seventeenth because the prosecutor did not have the case file. But what happens […]
Another young student has become the victim of sexual abuse; this time it’s a nine year old boy. Forty-two year old Lee Henkis was charged this morning for the heinous crime. Henkis appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer to be arraigned on two charges; Committing an Unnatural Crime and Grievous Harm. No plea was taken […]
Four new magistrates were sworn in on August twentieth, leading up to the opening of an eighth Magistrates Court. The court is located on the second floor of the Center Point Building on North Front Street and the man in charge is Magistrate Emerson Banner. Sergeant Clinton Magdaleno, a police prosecutor with the department for […]
He came to Belize from San Francisco aboard a cruise liner to spend a few happy hours, but an American tourist will have more of Belize than he bargained for if he cannot come up with twelve hundred dollars fast enough to avoid life at the Hattieville Ramada. Today twenty five year old Steven Capepanakis […]
The cops and the courts are looking for Levaughan Morgan, who was convicted of Theft in abscencia since she has been missing in action from the start of her trial. The victim, twenty-six year old Loretta Gillett, who was once close friends with Morgan, told the court today that between June thirtieth and July first, […]
A Belize City father was today freed of a charge of Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature which brought his reputation in disrepute. As it turned out, the malicious ploy was perpetrated by a friend of the alleged victim’s mother. Forty-two year old Dalesmon Lewis was accused in April of molesting a seven year old […]
There are several measures in place at the Central Prison to deter visitors from introducing illegal items into the prison. But that did not stop twenty-four year old Elisa Chan who was busted with almost three ounces of cannabis when she was searched in the waiting area. Chan was charged late this evening and pleaded […]
Diamond Motel on the Northern Highway was robbed on February fifteenth, 2009. The first person to be charged was Kareem Flowers, but he was acquitted earlier this month because it came to light that Flowers gave the police information after the investigating officer, Sergeant Tyrone Bradley, promised his freedom in exchange for his testimony. Flowers […]
There was also a case of aggravated assault in court today. Patricia Sanchez reported that in the wee hours of Saturday morning she heard a knock at her front door. Before she could check who it was, Sanchez says her ex-boyfriend Kendale Ottley forced the door open and entered the house. According to Sanchez, Ottley […]
She stole over fifty dollars in goods but will have to pay twelve times the value. Fifty-eight year old Martha Parchue, who was caught in the act, pleaded guilty to Theft today and admitted to stealing fifty-two dollars in groceries from Discount Supermarket on Mahogany Street. Parchue walked into the supermarket on Wednesday, put several […]
Also in court, a Salvadoran national who was once employed as a domestic worker was today remanded to the Hattieville Prison after she was denied bail for a charge of Theft. This afternoon, twenty-five year old Marleni del Carmen Morales was accused of stealing an assortment of jewellery worth over ten thousand dollars from Irma […]
It’s been almost a month and a half since Lavern Longsworth, the court personality known as Antichrist, set her common-law-husband David White on fire at their home on Castle Street. Longsworth was charged with attempted murder of White, but he passed away on August second while receiving treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. There […]
Four persons were in court today to face charges in connection with the shooting death of fourteen year old Hellen Yu, but only two of them were charged with murder. The four are Emmanuel Lemott, Wilward Anderson, his nephew Egbert Miller and girlfriend Carmen Jones. Miller and Lemott were read a host of charges: Murder […]
They were busted in separate incidents but today both Ron Myvett and Eugene Tillett heard their fates after being convicted of Keeping Unlicensed Firearm and Ammunition. Myvett was caught by police on February thirteenth 2009 with a nine millimetre pistol which contained fifteen live rounds of ammunition. He was riding a bicycle near the Belcan […]
Former cop, Jermaine Manager, also appeared in court this morning. Back in April, Mangar was fingered as one of the rogue cops who were allegedly the cause of the corruption in the department. He was initially charged for robbery but that was withdrawn; he still faces charges for conspiracy to commit robbery. He appeared along […]
In other news, twenty-three year old Andrew Hutchinson, the son of Minister Michael Hutchinson, has had previous problems with the law. Today he was back in court where he pleaded guilty to a charge of Harm for beating up an eleven year old boy. But after he was escorted back to the police station, Hutchinson […]
Three men and a woman are expected to be arraigned on Thursday for the senseless murder of fourteen year old Hellen Yu, who was fatally shot during a robbery at her parent’s place of business. But first the accused were in court today, charged with Possession of Unlicensed Firearm and Ammunition. Elbert Miller, Emmanuel Lemoth, […]
It is akin to a slap on the wrist for American national, forty-six year old Kirk Leslie Daughtry who will only pay what can be considered as a pittance of just over five thousand dollars for damages to the priceless reef. Late this evening, Prosecutor of Port of Belize, Mario Vernon, told the court that […]
Three persons were today charged in the Magistrate’s Court for theft in connection with separate incidents, and the charges range from stealing meat to stealing a horse. The first to be arraigned was thirty-two year-old Harrison Banner Duhaney, accused of stealing sixty pounds of Pork Chops and fourteen pounds of Beef Roast valued at over […]
Thirty-five year old Eyan Arnold was laid to rest today. While his family and friends said their final farewells, eighteen year old Kirk Smith Jr. was escorted to Magistrate’s Court to be charged for his murder. Smith appeared unrepresented and no plea was taken because murder is an indictable offense. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers explained to […]
Two of five men—accused of the October second, 2009 murder of 20-year-old Randy Coye—walked free when Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb McKenzie upheld a submission made by the men’s defense attorney. Twenty-three year old Brandon Smith, twenty year old Kenroy Humes, twenty one year old Leon Gray, twenty three year old Deshawn Mena, and twenty seven […]
He scored a gold chain worth a hundred and twenty-five dollars when he robbed Virginia Mendez on January twenty-seventh. But thirty-six year old Fernando Elijio now has to pay for his crime and the price is eight years in prison. His conviction came after three witnesses, including Mendez, testified against him today. Mendez told the […]
