In court news, the murder trial of two Belize City men continued today in the Supreme Court with submissions on their behalf. Lindsdale Franklin and Ryan Herrera are accused of the gruesome murder of Punta Gorda woman, Cruz Sho. Herrera, who is represented by Attorney Ellis Arnold, chose to give an unsworn statement from the […]
Also in court, a twenty-seven year old Belize City man who was released from prison on bail only two weeks ago was sent back to the Hattieville Prison. Michael Foreman, also known as “Popeye”, allegedly grabbed forty-four year old Ann Pou by the neck and snatched her gold chain valued at seven hundred dollars. Pou […]
Two African nationals have been charged with Unlawful Possession of Passports after they were nabbed with documents belonging to persons who are not in Belize. Nigerian national, Prince Azutory and Cameroon national, Francis Njimgoy, were charged after police searched a house last Friday which the men occupied and found the six passports. Senior Immigration Officer, […]
In political news, Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers has generally kept away from the public eye since she was criminally charged with twenty-two counts of Uttering a False document for twenty-two receipts valued at seventy dollars each that supposedly came from the Esso Gas Station at mile two on the Northern Highway. In addition […]
While the mayor’s trial is pending before the courts, Justin McClaren, who was accused in a robbery at National Transport Services Limited was freed today. Earlier this year in January, the bus company, was jacked of twenty thousand dollars after armed men stormed into the compound, bypassed the security guard and headed toward two employees […]
And a Guatemalan woman and a Belizean man who were busted in a grey Pontiac vehicle at a checkpoint on the Northern Highway met bail at the Belize City Magistrate’s Court today. Reina Marroguin and Carlos Gonzales, were arraigned before Magistrate Sharon Frazer for the drug trafficking of ten pounds of cannabis. Both were released […]
An eighteen year old teen who allegedly had sexual intercourse with a twelve year old girl finds himself in all kinds of trouble tonight. The teen, Robert Sinclair, a mechanic of Jane Usher Boulevard, is charged with Carnal Knowledge after the girl’s mother made the startling discovery. The woman told police that she found out […]
Last week Thursday night, a police officer was stabbed in the abdomen following an altercation at a local bar. A painter was apprehended and has been in custody since then. Today, Eusebio Cal was charged with a slew of offenses including attempted murder, dangerous harm, use of deadly means of harm and damage to property. […]
In the courts today, a thirty-four year old construction worker was ordered to pay up thousands of dollars because he was caught in possession of something other than his tools; that is over a pound of marijuana. At about nine-fifteen this morning police were alerted to a high-speed chase between two men on motorcycles. The […]
In crime news before the courts, the trial of three men accused for the rape and murder of Cruz Sho in Lord’s Bank over two years ago, began on Monday. The main suspect was nineteen year old Ervin Franklin, who was charged along with his uncle Lindsdale Franklin and his cousin Ryan Herrera. When the […]
Guatemalan national, twenty-two year old Glenda Montero of Succotz Village was on trial for the murder of her husband Cornelio; a crime police say she admitted to committing. But tonight Glenda is free because the caution statement with her confession, which the case depended upon, was not allowed into evidence and police had no other […]
There have been many unusual developments in the judiciary lately, including a public war of words between the Attorney General and the Chief Justice. Today, News Five has learnt of an application being made by the Belize Electricity Limited seeking leave to rehear an oral ruling by the Court of Appeal given on October twenty-seventh […]
It was either a streak of bad luck or she was framed by a friend. On December nineteenth of 2008, twenty-eight year old mother of six, Kristine Rehanna Bood, a resident of Lakeview Street in Belize City was busted at the Security check point of the Kolbe Foundation as she allegedly tried to smuggle cannabis […]
The operator of Money Exchange International Limited, the Coye Family, is committed to stand trial at the Supreme Court. That’s the decision of Magistrate Kathleen Lewis at the conclusion of a preliminary inquiry today. They Coyes have been charged with Money Laundering of more than a million dollars in cold cash found in suitcases at […]
In other news from the courts, Hirian Good is moving ahead without her husband Charlie who passed away three weeks ago. The Goods protested for weeks at the steps of the Supreme Court after Hirian was fired from her job as a school warden at Trinity Methodist School. Now the fight has moved from outside […]
Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh also dealt with the case by Belize Bus Owners Cooperative (B.B.O.C.), who sought an injunction by the Supreme Court against the Transport Department. The Cooperative made claims that the Department’s new bus schedules for the western route had taken away three of its peak runs, significantly cutting into its revenues. Today […]
Still on the courts, Corporal Samuel Bonilla was arraigned in the San Ignacio Magistrates Court for Attempted Rape, Harm and Aggravated Assault. Bonilla pleaded not guilty to the charge and was released on a bail of five thousand dollars and two sureties of the same amount. According to investigations, Bonilla and several other officers visited […]
Two men stormed and robbed Tang’s Store on Vasquez Avenue while others waited in a getaway vehicle last Friday evening. The thieves took off with four hundred dollars from the cash register but were intercepted by police shortly after the incident. According to owner of the store, Zan Chu Chen, the men were armed with […]
And in the Family Court, a minor also faced robbery charges for another incident late last week. The Belize Photo Lab outlets downtown are going out of business and on Friday afternoon two thieves sped up the process by robbing the Bishop Street store at gunpoint. A sixteen year old minor was charged with Robbery […]
The Government of Belize issued a press release on Wednesday claiming that the recently nationalized Belize Telemedia Limited is not in default of its loan obligations. The release was sent as a response to an article in The Reporter on Wednesday claiming that BTL was default on a loan for forty-five million dollars from Belize […]
After spending more than two years behind bars awaiting his trial, a man is with his family tonight after a jury found him not guilty of Murder. Eric Castillo was acquitted less than two hours after a jury of twelve retired to deliberate his fate late Wednesday evening. The incident occurred in June of 2007 […]
After almost a week of investigation, police today charged thirty-five year old Anthony Ferguson with attempted murder. Reports indicated that Ferguson stabbed his common-law wife, Pamela Cadle, in front of her children last weekend following a domestic dispute. According to Cadle, shortly after eleven last Saturday night, she was at home when she and Ferguson […]
The long arms of the law also caught up today with a Belize City man, who lied to the court about his name and court record. Fifty-eight year old Frank Neal appeared before Magistrate Sharon Frazer this morning where he was charged with Attempted Theft. Allegations are that shortly after midnight on Tuesday, November seventeenth […]
He faces a string of charges for Obtaining Property by Deception but he has never been convicted. Thirty-four year old graphic designer, Artemio Acosta, of Neal Pen Road was this morning arraigned on five different counts of the charge. At around ten a.m. Acosta appeared before Magistrate Aretha Ford and heard the first charge against […]
The long arms of the law also caught up today with a Belize City man, who lied to the court about his name and court record. Fifty-eight year old Frank Neal appeared before Magistrate Sharon Frazer this morning where he was charged with Attempted Theft. Allegations are that shortly after midnight on Tuesday, November seventeenth […]
