Two weeks ago, Jason Ryan Wade was shot to chest and left shoulder. Tonight police say they have the shooter; twenty-seven year-old Anthony Sabido was escorted to court and charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm. Wade was on Lawrence Avenue in the Lake Independence area of Belize City […]
In court, forty-three year old Bernard Pratt learned his fate today after being found guilty of four counts of Carnal Knowledge of an eleven year old girl. He was sentenced to seventeen years each for three counts on which the jury was split seven to two. But for one count, on which jury unanimously agreed […]
An entrepreneur and a taxi driver were charged with Theft in Magistrate’s Court this morning. Forty-four year old Francisco Conorquie’s case came up first and he was accused of stealing a bicycle and fifty dollars from Leonard Gordon. Gordon said he lent Conorquie his bike and gave him the cash to do an errand on […]
A former police officer was charged with theft today, also in Magistrate’s Court. The charge is nothing new; but the objects might make you blush. Twenty-one year old lieutenant Clement Bol appeared unrepresented before Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie. According to court records, Bol, now a taxi driver from the Buttonwood Bay, is charged with committing […]
The murder trial of twenty-seven year old Robert Taylor concluded today before Justice Adolph Lucas. A jury of twelve deliberated for over four hours before they emerged with a reduced verdict. Taylor admitted in trial that he stabbed Leslie Gentle Junior on July thirtieth, 2008 but claims it was in self defense. According to Taylor’s […]
The horrendous murder of nineteen year old Myrna Figueroa on September thirteenth 2007 made national headlines when her three year old son was found wandering the highway in South Stann Creek in the middle of the night. At the time of his discovery the little boy could not be identified. The nude body of his […]
Meanwhile, twenty-eight year old Carlos Juan Castro Vasquez spent three weeks in jail before he could meet bail for a charge of Burglary in June. That case is still pending, but Castro is already back in the hot seat; this time he is charged with Robbery. Thirty-five year old Omar Heredia identified Castro as the […]
It has been seven years since the murder of Arthur Ellis who was severely beaten and left for dead while entering his vehicle on Kraal Road. The fatal attack on Ellis on the night of November seventeenth, 2003 was sensational because he was allegedly killed by a close friend during an altercation over a parking […]
Twenty six year old Elizabeth Godoy who was dismissed of a drug trafficking charge on Monday was today back before Magistrate Albert Hoare to answer to the charge of committing a mischievous act. Godoy, under oath, lied to the court about her identity. She told Magistrate Dorothy Flowers two days ago that her name was […]
She has a history of breaching the law, but that hasn’t deterred twenty eight year old Gina Conorquie. She is now facing additional charges for Obtaining Property by Deception. In the most recent case, the Ready Call employee is accused of receiving monies in exchange for a CARICOM passport and US visa. Windell Lemott Sr. […]
Also in court, the charge of attempted murder brought against Austin Rowland in August of 2008 was today withdrawn in the courtroom of Justice Herbert Lord. Rowland, who was accused of the shooting of twenty-nine year-old Richard Russell, was dismissed of the charge when Russell told the court that he could not identify his attacker. […]
When relationships go bad, one musical artist’s popular lyrics is to just “Let it Burn.” Unfortunately, that literally happened within the tumultuous relationship of a well known court personnel, Lavern Longsworth and her common-law-husband, thirty-two year old David White. Longsworth’s arrest came last week Thursday night after a domestic dispute ended when Longsworth doused White […]
He was nineteen and she was fourteen years old and they claimed they were dating but according to the law it is an offence to engage in sexual intercourse with a minor. William Torres was accused of sexually abusing twice in October of 2008, the young girl at the home of a cousin that she […]
A family of Belize City women including a seventy-year old grandmother today appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers to answer charges of drug trafficking. Seventy-year old Gene Cadle, her daughter, forty-seven year old Francisca Flores, and Flores’ daughter twenty-four year old Carol Lopez; all residents of Peter Ashtown Street in the Belama Phase Two area, along […]
Brothers Mark and Gary Seawell have met another legal hurdle as a judgment handed down by Supreme Court Justice John Muria today paved the way for an extradition hearing to begin as early as August thirtieth. The siblings, who are on remand at the Hattieville Prison for drug trafficking and other offences, are fighting to […]
Tonight, Lavern Longsworth, the well-known court figure, who runs errands for employees of the Belize City Magistrate’s Court is in lock down pending a charge of Attempted Murder while her common-law-husband, David White is hospitalized. So what happened? Longsworth allegedly threw kerosene on White and then set him on fire during a dispute at their […]
There’s another court personality in trouble with the law. After an overnight in police custody, fifty-six year Roy Davis, a freelance court reporter and photographer, is out on a thousand dollars bail. Davis was arraigned in Magistrate’s Court for assaulting and harming Special Constable Wellington Welch. Davis was arrested at around two-thirty p.m. on Thursday […]
At two-thirty this afternoon, a jury of eight women and one man emerged from the deliberating room and announced that Bernard Pratt was guilty of four counts of carnal knowledge of an eleven year old girl. In trial Pratt denied that he had sexually abused the student, but the child’s sister testified that she had […]
A jury of four women and eight men deliberated late into Wednesday night on the murder trial of brothers, Jody and Lynton Gentle. At a few minutes after nine, the jurors emerged, but no decision had been reached. While it’s not a guilty verdict, a hung jury is still bad news for twenty-four year old […]
There were two drug trafficking cases before Magistrate Aretha Ford on Wednesday which resulted in one acquittal and one conviction. The first to appear was thirty-nine year old taxi driver, Moises Williams, who was accused of peddling heroin. On March nineteenth police were tipped off about firearms and drugs inside a taxi. Cops intercepted the […]
Rogues cops in the police department, that was the alarm sounded at the April First press conference by the Commissioner of Police, Crispin Jefferies flanked by Prime Minister Dean Barrow. That was as official as it could get but the common man on the street often said there were officers who also did double duty […]
PC Jermaine Mangar was not the only cop in court this morning. Interdicted Police Cpl. Mark August was in the news in late 2009 when Fernando Searle, a Mechanic and his common-law-wife, Tanya Pitts accused him of assault, using threatening words and damage to property. But this morning, August’s case was adjourned for the fourth […]
On June seventeenth of this year, twenty-two year old Arturo Eck was found guilty of the November 2007 murder of Eugenio Tzul. This morning in Orange Walk’s magistrate court, Justice Michelle Arana sentenced Eck to life imprisonment. No character witnesses were called but on behalf of Tzul, his attorney Hubert Elrington begged for leniency on […]
The defense and prosecution in the murder trial of two brothers closed their case today before Supreme Court Justice Adolph Lucas. The brothers, Jody and Lynton Gentle, are accused of the June sixteenth 2007 murder of Alpheus Smith who was gunned down in broad daylight on Curassow Street. Smith was shot multiple times to the […]
In the courts, forty-five year old Clinton Martin, who was caught red handed stealing cement blocks at the Caye Caulker Water Taxi Association, was today spared from going to jail after he pleaded guilty to the charge of theft. The Security Guard, Andy Martinez, reported that this past Sunday, at about two-thirty p.m., he saw […]
