But a mother of a four-month old baby will spend at least two days behind bars until police can get a better prognosis on the health of her common-law-husband. Twenty-three year old Marsha Gabourel was remanded after she allegedly stabbed twenty-six year old Elvis Hope twice on Sunday during a domestic dispute on Johnston Street. […]
It is not a charge that makes it too often before the courts, but a police officer appeared in Magistrates’ Court on a charge of Bigamy for the second time. PC Jaime Pena was initially charged on December twenty-third, 2008 after he married Olga Guzman while Rubia Camara Pena was still his wife. Rubia was […]
And a young step-father learned in court today that there is a thin line between discipline and abuse of children. Twenty-one year old Cornel Gomez was charged for badly beating his four year old step son with a belt because he refused to stop biting his lip. After the abuse last Thursday, Shamar Smith had […]
On Thursday, a salesman found out exactly why they call it a checkpoint at mile four on the Western Highway when police there checked the trunk of his rental car and discovered four one-pound parcels of marijuana. According to police, at around one-thirty on Thursday afternoon they stopped and searched a green Ford Escort occupied […]
A man will spend nine months behind bars after he pleaded guilty to beating his mother. Twenty year-old Ryan Lester Nolberto pleaded guilty to one count of Damage to Property and one count of Common Assault after beating his mother then damaging her household belongings worth more than four thousand dollars. Nolberto told the court […]
Forty six year old Floyd Budd, who says he is homeless and cannot feed himself, was sentenced to six years in prison for burglarizing the Valumed Phamacy. When he appeared in front of Magistrate Sharon Frazer this morning, Budd also said he thinks jail is the best place for him because he will have three […]
The long arms of the law finally caught up with thirty-one year old Marlon Moya after almost a month on the lam. Police detained Moya because he allegedly broke into a house in Hattieville on December twelfth 2009. Moya allegedly abused an eleven year old girl while in the house and stole a DVD player […]
Thirty-eight year old Garrison Nicholson is known in Burrell Boom as a horse trainer. And it might sound like “rake” for Boledo, but the father of two children is going to jail for two years for stealing two doors. In his hearing this morning, Nicholson pleaded guilty to Theft and claimed that the hard times […]
On Wednesday leaders of rival Belize City gangs are expected to congregate for a make or break deal that could end the violence in the streets. The mood is very tense tonight as one inmate has confessed to murdering another convict affiliated with a rival gang behind the prison walls of the Hattieville Prison. Twenty-one […]
Three customs officers have been committed to stand trial in the Supreme Court for Forgery. Aruny Perez, Carl Augustine and Michael McKenzie are charged in connection with a container of pseudo-ephedrine which arrived in Belize in September of 2008 and then disappeared into thin air. The officers were accused of forgery after the container went […]
A police corporal has been charged with seven criminal offences for allegedly beating up a couple. Thirty-two year old Mark August of the Queen Street Patrol branch is charged Wounding Fernando Searle in Christmas week. He is also accused of Threatening Searle at his garage on the Northern highway and for damaging a metal gate. […]
The Supreme Court is still in recess, but at the Magistrates’ Court Mark Medina was charged for unlicensed firearm and ammunition. Medina was freed of several offences in 2009 including Murder and Burglary, but at the start of 2010 he is behind bars. Police say that on December twenty-eighth they searched Medina’s house on Berkeley […]
The Supreme Court is in recess for the end of year holidays but in the Magistrates’ Court, a construction worker of Burrell Boom Village was charged for a burglary at Black Orchid Lodge that occurred on October twentieth. Twenty-eight year old Alvin Flowers was arraigned for Burglary and Handling Stolen Goods offences after police investigations […]
Calvin Palma was charged along with a minor last Friday for Keeping Unlicensed Firearm and Ammunition. But his arraignment was put on hold until Wednesday because Palma claimed that he was suffering from food poisoning. According to Palma, someone brought him fried chicken while he was in a holding cell at the Queen Street Police […]
A verdict that was handed down in a murder trial in Orange Walk is being questioned by attorneys. A jury of twelve deliberated for over four hours today to determine whether thirty-two year old Kenrick Williams is guilty of murder. When they emerged from their chambers, the decision was eleven to one, with the majority […]
Also in court, it is a charge that is not normally levied against a person, but today, a Rancho Dolores resident was charged with Burglary with Intent to Rape a seventeen year old minor. Forty-three year old contractor, Dean Perez Senior, was additionally slapped with the offence of Aggravated Assault. The charges came after allegations […]
A fifty-two year old man was convicted of Aggravated Assault of a young girl in Magistrates’ Court today. The victim, a ten year old girl, testified in camera and told the court that she was heading to a shop on December ninth when she was lured into the home of Lionel Scott. According to the […]
A British freelance writer and his eight-month pregnant girlfriend begged for leniency after they were busted with a small amount of marijuana inside their room at a local guest house. Twenty-eight year old Stuart Hall and twenty-one year old Sheyla Velez, a Guatemalan Secretary, were escorted to court where they both pleaded guilty to Possession […]
A fifty-one year old grandmother found herself in the courtroom of Magistrate Aretha Ford today. Gloria Murillo, a domestic of St. Martin De Porres in Belize City, was charged for Possession of Marijuana. Police on patrol visited the Marina section of the Princess Hotel and searched Murillo. When they frisked her and searched her purse, […]
A seventeen year old minor will spend his Christmas in the company of juvenile offenders. That’s because he has been remanded to the Wagner’s Youth Facility in Hattieville. He is accused of Attempted Robbery and Possession of Unlicensed Firearm and Ammunition. For the illegal firearm offence, he was charged jointly with twenty-two year old Calvin […]
In a dramatic decision handed down by the Court this morning, Justice Minette Hafiz granted two of three injunctions requested by Mayor Zenaida Moya-Flowers in her legal challenges against her own party. In the first, the Court is prohibiting the U.D.P. from continuing to exclude her from meetings of the National Party Council. On October […]
There was another remarkable decision in the court today and it has to do with the government controlled Telemedia and Speednet. Last Thursday executives of the country’s two telecommunications providers faced each other in the courtroom of Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh. The CJ ruled then that the injunction that Speednet sought against Telemedia, the dominant […]
Speednet is not the only organization that has had to return to the court to get compliance. Almost like a case of déjà vu, a grass roots association from Cayo also had to make another trip to the chambers of Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh to have a judgment enforced. As in the case with Speednet, […]
A con-artist, who goes by the names Gina Conorquie and Gina Jordan, ran into more trouble with the law on Wednesday despite five previous convictions under her belt. Well, Gina will now be spending Christmas at the Hattieville Prison. She has been found guilty of Theft and sentenced to six months for her latest offense. […]
Police say they made a bust at a Belama home on Tuesday, which turned up a black plastic bag with cannabis and fifty live rounds of point thirty-two caliber bullets. According to police, they also found an identification card belonging to Los Lagos resident, Hosni Thurston. The female tenant of the Belama home and three […]
