A man, who has been under police guard at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital for eighteen days, finally appeared before a Magistrate this evening. Twenty-four year old Zane Godoy of Independence Village is charged with the Attempted Murder of Constable Pedro Pech, one count of Dangerous Harm and one count of Use of Deadly Means […]
In Magistrates’ Court, a cop who was convicted in July of this year for a string of robberies in Orange Walk, was convicted for other charges relating to a traffic accident on Monday. Magistrate Aretha Ford, found Selwyn Griffith guilty of Causing Hindrance to the Free Flow of Traffic and Grievous Harm upon fifty-three year […]
While Griffith is going back behind bars, a young mother walked away from Keeping Unlicensed Ammunition charges and a possible jail term today. Twenty-three year old Lattiana Choc was detained in August 2008 after police found a nine millimeter pistol loaded with ten rounds of ammunition at her boyfriend’s apartment. While it’s not her home, […]
They say justice is blind, but in the opinion of a San Pedro family, justice was nowhere near the courthouse this evening. Two years ago, a mother claimed that she saw an intruder in her home rape her eleven year old child. Both the minor and her mother testified against the accused during the trial. […]
A delivery man may spend Christmas behind bars after he was busted with a point thirty-eight pistol loaded with five live rounds. Nineteen year-old Ramon August was charged with Kept Unlicensed Firearm and Kept Unlicensed Ammunitions. August pleaded not guilty to both charges before Senior Magistrate, Dorothy Flowers. His arrest came as a result of […]
Lindsdale Franklin and Ryan Herrera spent the last week in the Hattieville Prison waiting to hear their fate after they were convicted of Murder on December fourth. Justice Michelle Arana handed down her decision today and the men can look forward to spending a lot more time in their cells because they were sentenced to […]
And an ex-convict who was just released last month after serving his prison sentence is again behind bars for Christmas – this time for allegedly climbing into a teen’s bedroom window and raping her. When police visited the scene, they observed that the culprit had gained entry by removing the board louvers to the room […]
An aviation technician who was previously convicted of trafficking crack cocaine appeared in court today for assaulting a woman. The American national, forty two year old John Gibson, a guest at Gulf Hotel, was charged with assaulting businesswoman, fifty four year old Cheng Hsui Chu. In court she said that the incident occurred around nine […]
The courts were chockfull of cases today. We start with the case of Speednet against Telemedia. Attorneys Andrew Marshalleck and Eamon Courtenay, on behalf of Smart, filed for and received an interim injunction on Monday that restrained Telemedia from taking any further actions that would damage its services to its customers. That injunction held in […]
Another hearing before the Supreme Court is one of the cases of Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers, in which she is challenging the constitutionality of the meeting of the National Party Council of the United Democratic Party on October third, which expelled her. This was after she was criminally charged with twenty-two counts of Uttering a […]
But while today’s case was on the legality of the meeting of the National Party Council (N.P.C.), her statement came under direct focus. One of Moya’s attorneys, Elson Kaseke, argued that the statement was not directed at the prime minister. Kaseke explained what he meant later to reporters, after which his counterpart, Michael Young, offered […]
Also in the Supreme Court today, Judge Oswald Legall determined that the Trustees of the B.T.L. Employees Trust had no standing or right to bring the constitutional challenge to the recent nationalization of Sunshine Holdings Limited and its shares in B.T.L. News Five caught up with Dean Boyce, one of the trustees, who said that […]
In court today, a sixteen year old was slapped with five charges in connection with a broad daylight robbery and shooting that occurred on Monday. One man, Osmin Garrido, remains hospitalized after surgery for gunshot wounds to the chest. Garrido was among a group of men gambling at the corner of Iguana Street at about […]
It is unusual to hear of senior citizens on the receiving end of a beating. But that’s what happened to sixty-nine year old Sonia Garnett, who claims she was at home on Monday when at about four-thirty in the evening, her neighbor attempted to enter her yard. Garnett says she stood at the entrance to […]
Also in court, three persons were charged with Drug Trafficking of two and a half pounds of marijuana after they were busted by police with the weed in a vehicle on May twelfth, 2008. Today thirty-year old Eric Williams, who was behind the wheel of the vehicle at the time of the police search, was […]
And before the courts, the Honduran taxi driver who knocked down a couple on the Burrell Boom Road at around seven o’clock on Saturday night was arraigned today. Fifty-six year old Manuel Dubon and his common-law-wife fifty-four year old Eva Gomez were riding bicycles heading to church when they were hit from behind by a […]
Also in the court, a Belize City man was charged in connection with one of the latest shooting incidents in the old capital. Twenty-eight year old Michael Henry, also known as Yellow, was arraigned for the Attempted Murder of Jermaine Belgrave, who was shot on the left shoulder on Saturday morning. Belgrave was reportedly standing […]
And in the courts today, thirty-three year old Jason Bruce Lawrence was charged for the murder of his girlfriend. Lawrence, a driver and resident of Japan Area in Ladyville was charged for the fatal stabbing of forty year old Mercedes Carrillo. Lawrence pleaded guilty to the charge and said that he had already given police […]
And the owners of MoneyGram and two employees, accused of Money Laundering, were committed to stand trial in the Supreme Court. Melanie Coye, her father, Michael, mother Merlene, brother Jude and husband James Gerou, Athlee Matute and Deitrich Kingston are charged under the revised Money Laundering and Terrorism Act. This morning, Magistrate Kathleen Lewis bounded […]
There was a peculiar case today when the Public Health Department took a woman from Gales Point Manatee Village to court for allowing two horses to roam and attack people. Ursula Andrewin is not the owner of the horses, but was found guilty and was fined fifty dollars. If she does not pay, she will […]
While two men have been freed of a conviction in Mexico, two men are facing life time imprisonment for the murder of Punta Gorda resident, Cruz Sho, who was raped and brutally murdered at her common-law husband’s home in Lords Bank over two years ago. Late this evening, Lindsdale Franklin and Ryan Herrera were convicted […]
In another murder case, the accused man is free tonight from the double murder that occurred on May twenty ninth, 2008. Twenty one year old Nelson Henry, who was on remand for over a year, walked out of court a free man because the evidence against him was insufficient. In 2008, police charged two men […]
A man with a number of robbery charges before the court was shot at and pursued by a gunman on Arlington Drive on Tuesday. Twenty-five year old Kaylon Matura, was allegedly shot at in broad daylight by eighteen year old Glen Burgess, of Faber’s Road. Today, Burgess was taken to the Belize City Magistrate’s Court […]
Also in court, a gas attendant lost his job and his freedom for stealing from the A&R Gas Station. Twenty-one year old Shannon Vernon was remanded to the Hattieville Prison today after he failed to meet bail on charges of Forgery and Theft. Allegations are that on November twenty-sixth, Vernon forged the signature of Jeyner […]
Also in court, eleven fishermen from Northern Belize were this morning charged for possession of undersized conch after Fisheries officials made a random check at the Northern Fisherman Cooperative delivery area last Thursday which led to the discovery of over nine hundred and ninety undersized conch. The bust was made on board the vessel Rosa. […]
