Rasheed Woods Two men were charged with Murder after eighteen year old Stephen Grant was killed in a drive-by shooting in 2009. But on Wednesday, one of the accused men was acquitted of the charge. Rasheed Woods and Shain Lauriano appeared before Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb McKenzie and the prosecutor presented a memo from the […]
A dispute between two tenants renting rooms in the same yard led to one man being charged for allegedly attacking his neighbor. This morning, Gabriel Tzac, of Alexander Street was arraigned for one count of Harm upon Magdaleno Castellanos. Tzac, who was unrepresented, pleaded not guilty and was released on three thousand five hundred dollars […]
Today Marlon Contreras is celebrating his twenty-first birthday but when he appeared in the Supreme Court, his gift was a guilty verdict for Manslaughter. Contreras was charged along with Abraham Guerra for the stabbing death of forty year old taxi driver, Jose Howe which occurred on September twenty-eighth, 2007 in Benque Viejo Town. Both men […]
The term frenemy has recently been added to the dictionary to describe a person who pretends to be a friend but is actually an enemy. Why bring that up you might ask…well an incident on the Hattieville/Boom Road just might exemplify the nature of such a relationship. Jarrett Tablada—a twenty-eight year-old BDF soldier—was charged today […]
For more than four months he has remained at large after he broke out of the Hattieville Correctional Facility. And since then he was thought to be back in the United States, but now it is reported that thirty five year old Dennis Quilter was hiding out on Belizean soil all along. The notorious figure, […]
There’s a bad case of sticky fingers going around and crimes of dishonesty keep popping up in court. Today Devon Neal and Darren Jones both appeared in Magistrate Court, charged with theft and burglary respectively. Neal was accused of snatching a gold chain from around the neck of thirty-five year old Shelly Moss as she […]
A mechanic who was supposedly in hiding after being accused of carnal knowledge is in custody tonight. Police caught the suspect on Monday and detained him. This morning, twenty year old Joseph Adolphus was charged with one count of carnal knowledge for allegedly having sex with an underage girl on July third of this year. […]
A modern day story of Cane and Abel almost came to a deadly end when one brother pulled out a weapon on his older brother. A family dispute last Sunday between brothers has ended with the younger brother facing criminal charges and the possibility of spending time behind bars for aggravated assault with a machete. […]
Two cases before Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb McKenzie ended with charges being withdrawn today. The first individual who got a ruling in his favor is eighteen year old Leon Ebanks, who was accused of stabbing Owen Jimenez in Mahogany Heights back on September twenty-first, 2009. Ebanks was initially charged with Attempted Murder and Wounding, but […]
The case of the two fighting doctors marked the end of another chapter today as Doctors John Gough and Irvin Gabourel were finally charged in Belize City Magistrates’ Court. The two physicians—who fought publicly at the Santa Elena Border last week Tuesday, August eleventh—were each charged with one count of disorderly conduct. Yesterday, the men […]
Michael “Popeye” Foreman is a familiar face at the Magistrates’ Court and a common name in the news because of his criminal record. The twenty-eight year old Belize City resident, who already had two robbery charges pending before the court, had a third added to his list today. This time, Foreman’s charges stem from the […]
There were two separate gun and firearm busts in Belize City over the weekend that resulted in the arrests of two persons. The two accused men are behind bars for the offenses of Keeping Unlicensed Firearm and Ammunition. This morning, twenty one year old Jaimie Chavarria of Ladyville and thirty year old Guatemalan national, Oscar […]
Twenty-two year old Beresford Jones, an employee of Belize Recycling Company, was today freed of firearm related offences when he appeared in court before Magistrate Edd. P. Usher. On February twenty-seventh, 2009 Jones was found in possession of five live rounds of ammunition and subsequently charged for the crime. In court today, arresting officer Fernando […]
Belize City’s Mayor, Zenaida Moya Flowers, made another in a series of court appearances today. This particular case goes back to an audit of City Hall’s finances after which she was charged with Uttering false documents. As she exited the courtroom on October first, the Mayor used rather unconventional language directed at the Prime Minister. […]
He’s been in the news this week for an altercation at the northern border with a colleague. The brawl was spurred by emails of the beating of sixteen year old Carlos Zelaya for which Dr. John Gough is charged with Wounding. This morning Gough and the teen’s family addressed the court regarding the evidence against […]
Leroy Gomez turns twenty-four on Saturday, but his birthday will be spent at the Central Prison in Hattieville. He was convicted of Rape, Robbery and Aggravated Assault on Monday and this morning, on the eve of his birthday, Gomez was sentenced to eleven years for robbery, nine for rape and two for aggravated assault. Gomez, […]
For the past two months, twenty-one year old Dekel Bennett had been missing his court appearances for an Attempted Murder Charge. A bench warrant was issued for his arrest and Bennett was finally brought before the court today. But when Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer told him that she would adjourn the matter for a later […]
Valerie Sheran, who lost her unborn child in a stabbing incident, relived the vicious attack to News Five when she was released from the hospital on August sixth. According to Sheran, it was not the first time her ex-boyfriend, Henry Patnett had stabbed her and since the incident she was living in fear that he […]
Earlier we told you that a brave shop owner used acid on robbers who targeted her business. Well, a case of ‘he said, she said’ between co-workers at the Bowen and Bowen Compound in Ladyville ended much in the same way when one employee was doused with acid. Today, Kimberly Ferguson was charged with Harm […]
Forty-six year old Kirk Daughtry, an American national and his crewman twenty-six year old Enrique Alvarez of Mexico were both arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court today for immigration and maritime offenses. Both men lawfully entered the country by sea on June twenty-second through San Pedro Town and claimed that they would depart the […]
We reported on Tuesday that News Five’s Isani Cayetano was robbed as walked home from our studios on Coney Drive this past Monday night. Cops were quick to connect the dots and Cayetano’s laptop computer was recovered by the following day. This morning, twenty-one year old Kevin Faber was charged with Handling Stolen Goods because […]
The incident goes back to June nineteenth, 2009, when a nine mm pistol and forty live rounds of ammo were found in a Rodeo SUV in which two Guatemalans were traveling on the Western Highway. The men claimed they were returning to Peten, Guatemala when police detected the vehicle as it pulled off the highway […]
Twenty year old Randine Flowers, a housekeeper of St. Thomas Street, is tonight accused of stealing jewelry from her former employer. Ruth Jaramillo reported to the police that a five hundred dollar, fourteen carat gold ring with a diamond and a three thousand dollar fourteen carat gold bracelet with diamonds had gone missing from her […]
In the courts, a jury unanimously found Leroy Gomez guilty of Rape, Robbery and Aggravated Assault just before three-thirty this afternoon. The conviction on all three charges means Gomez could spend a minimum of ten years in prison, but he will not be sentenced until August thirteenth. While he was accused in several sex crimes […]
The Maya Leaders Alliance which won a landmark legal victory in the Supreme Court in June says it is not surprised that the Government of Belize is appealing a decision to have majority of the Maya communities in Stann Creek and Toledo Districts establish lawful indigenous rights over communal lands. The United Democratic Party during […]
