Inspector Dennis Lopez, the police officer accused of shooting construction worker, Stephen Buckley on the night of April twenty eighth was today granted bail in the sum of five thousand dollars. Lopez was denied bail last week on charges of Attempted Murder and Dangerous Harm, but the Magistrate’s Court cannot grant bail any longer for […]
Last Friday we reported on the death of a student from Sandhill. Today, twenty-one year old Dion Skeen, a resident of Ladyville, was charged with manslaughter following the death of ten year old Zion Belisle. The student, who had just left Pancotto Primary School in Sand Hill Village, was crossing the Northern Highway near mile […]
A jury of nine men and women today acquitted Lenny Benguche of two counts of attempted murder. But the jury was deadlock on a charge of maim and a retrial was ordered. The not guilty verdict was handed down late this evening following two and a half hours of deliberation. Benguche appeared unrepresented before Justice […]
Jeffery Flowers, the inmate accused of stabbing another inmate Kevin “Cowboy” Alvarez, was taken to court late this past Thursday and charged for wounding and using threatening words. Earlier in the day, Cowboy made an appearance at the office of the Ombudsman and complained to Ombudsman Cynthia Pitts that he was being treated inhumanely at […]
A tourist is claiming he was robbed and beaten and today police say a Belize City resident of Central American Boulevard is the man who committed the crime. Sixty year old Alain Jean Charles Isambert, of France, was ambushed by two men and robbed of his camera as he and his wife were on Southern Foreshore […]
Steven Buckley, the Belize City man who was brutally shot back in April will finally have his day in court. His near fatal shooting made headlines amidst public outcry over what is widely believed to be a case of police brutality. On the night of Wednesday April twenty-eighth Buckley, along with three other companions, was […]
Freedom for nineteen year old Emerson Eaghan, was short lived for a murder that happened last year. He was on remand accused in the shooting death of Dennis Nembhard in June 2009. Eagan twice made appearances in court this week and tonight he is behind bars. When he first appeared on Tuesday in the courtroom […]
One of four persons that were jointly charged with Drug Trafficking and possession of two smoking pipes was today freed of the offense. She is Nancy Gomez, a Belizean student studying in the United States. On January third Nancy was along with her boyfriend, twenty-one year old Matthew Stock, eighteen year old Adrian Balderamos, and […]
The case against Kimara Card and Vanessa Williams, both accused of grievous harm upon a police sergeant, continued today before Magistrate Aretha Ford. The women allegedly assaulted Sergeant Araceli Petillo during an altercation at the Princess Hotel & Casino. On May nineteenth attorney Arthur Saldivar, who represented Card, entered a no case submission to the […]
In the local courts, a Ghanaian national was today freed of immigration charges for a lack of evidence. Thirty-six year old Lester Wugah, was allegedly found in possession of an Ethiopian Passport, which belonged to Alavar Demissie Dibaba. Since having another person’s passport without justifiable reason is a criminal offense, Wugah was charged on February […]
Meanwhile at the Chief Magistrate’s courtroom, a family of five was charged for an unlicensed nine millimeter pistol that was hidden in a speaker box at their home. The weapon was found during a police search at around midday on Tuesday and Alice Bailey; her two sons, Devon and Rondale; her two daughters, Jeneka and […]
Clarence Hemmans was found guilty of the murder of Kevin Arnold last week. Sentencing was reserved for today to give time to the court to ascertain his age at the time of the crime. When the proceedings opened, his attorney Phillip Palacio, informed the court that Hemmans was only seventeen years and nine months old […]
Three persons were busted inside an SUV with just under twenty pounds of cocaine on April twenty-third. They were all charged with Drug Trafficking and while the two passengers were granted bail, the driver, Franz Hamilton, was remanded to the Hattieville Prison until his next court date. But Hamilton applied to the Supreme Court on […]
Two Dangriga men were accused in the 2008 murder of Shannon “Shaggy” Henderson, who was shot after an altercation in Placencia. They were Brian Vernon and Gregory Casildo of Dangriga, but Casildo was later murdered in a shootout as he attempted to elude police. Vernon, however, still had to face the music and his trial […]
A taxi driver, Hugh Meighan of Levi Slusher Street, was robbed and assaulted by his fare, but he fought back and even though his attacker fled, he did not get far. Last Friday, while on Crewman Road, Lionel Baizar, asked Meighan to take him to the area of the Complex Building via a back street […]
Several persons were in court today on drug trafficking charges. Devon Neal, the son of a retired policeman, was riding his bicycle on Arlington Drive when he was intercepted by police officers. The officers searched Neal and found weed in one of his pockets. He pleaded guilty to possession; but that plea was not accepted […]
After spending a night in the Queen Street lock up, Chadrick Tingling aka Pinta was escorted this morning to Magistrate Court and arraigned for one count of drug trafficking. Tingling was busted while at the station with the alleged two point six grams of the drug in his pocket. He pleaded not guilty to drug […]
A female security guard, formerly employed at the Radisson Fort George Hotel lost her job after allegations arose that she was stealing power tools. Yliana Rocio Baizer was today arraigned for the Theft of a sander, power drill and a grinder; a total value of one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Manager of the […]
He holds an expired passport and no visitors permit, but fifty-five year old American National, James Arthur Kszynski, arrived in Belize on a cruise ship and decided that he would stay for two years. Kszynski, a retiree, sailed into the country on the Carnival Valor on May twentieth, but when the ship left that day […]
Two cases involving the nationalization of Telemedia were heard today in court. In the first, there was positive news for the Ashcroft Group when the Court of Appeal lifted an injunction previously granted to the government of Belize. Seven appellants successfully appealed the injunction granted by Justice Samuel Awich because it would bar them from […]
Meanwhile in the Supreme Court, Justice Oswell Legall heard submissions regarding another case involving the nationalization of Belize Telemedia. The British Caribbean Bank and former B.T.L. CEO, Dean Boyce are challenging government’s take over and compulsory acquisition of Telemedia. The arguments were based on several grounds, chief among which was the issue of proportionality. Attorneys […]
Sixteen years, that’s the sentence that Albert Middleton aka Cracker got today before Acting Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer for stealing four hundred dollars in cash, a ring and a cell phone. His victim was a cashier at the Miami Grocery Shop on Euphrates Avenue. While Middleton was charged with stealing the cash from eighteen year […]
Meanwhile, an elderly man had better luck as he was acquitted of three criminal offences. Sixty-three year old Gerald Westby Senior was charged with Attempted Murder, Use of Deadly Means of Harm and Dangerous Harm for allegedly stabbing seventeen year old Conrad Montes Guzman in 2009. But all charges were struck out today after the […]
At only seventeen years old, Kareem Francis was charged in 2007 for the murder of fifteen year old Jomo Lamb. Today, three years later, Francis walked free of the charge because of a 2009 change in the Indictable Procedure Act which now allows for testimonies to be read in court if the witness is afraid […]
And in the Magistrates’ Court, after four days in police custody, thirty year old Alwyn Gonzalez and twenty-six year old Tiffara Bradley were finally arraigned in on drug and ammunition charges. Gonzalez was being sought to face charges along with his common-law-wife Tasha Herrera for over two kilos of cocaine. He was found at an apartment […]
