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 […]
Turning to news from the courts, it is a crime that is not often reported but a twelve year old girl of Burrell Boom claims she was raped twice by her father. Fearful after the first incident in March 2008, the girl did not report it until eleven months after the second assault. Her thirty-two […]
While the two cops are in trouble, this past Monday afternoon, a Prison Officer was busted at the Kolbe Foundation with close to five hundred grams of weed hidden in a Ramen noodles package. The thirty year old officer, Miguel Coc, of Corozal Town, was charged today with drug trafficking. Coc appeared in front of […]
But a prison inmate serving a five year jail term for escape will spend an additional three years behind bars. In court today, Odilio Ortiz, today changed his not guilty plea to guilty for drug trafficking at the Hattieville Prison. Magistrate Aretha Ford after hearing a mitigation plea from Ortiz imposed the minimum jail term […]
But now that Davis has passed away, what does this mean for the prosecution’s case against Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers, Kiran Bhudrani and Kiran Vanjani who were also criminally charged? According to Davis’ former attorney, Richard ‘Dickie’ Bradley, the case will probably fall apart. Richard Dickie Bradley, Former Attorney for Dwain Davis “In terms of […]
This afternoon a jury of five men and four women deliberated for little less than three hours and then acquitted twenty-eight year old Michael Quan of Arson. The decision was unanimous and Quan walked out of the court of Justice Michelle Arana a free man. One year ago, a van belonging to Kingsley Estelle was […]
A third legal challenge against the Transport Department was filed in the Supreme Court today. Two days ago, the Transport Department announced that it had approved new bus schedules for the western routes that it said would solve the constant feud between bus operators serving the area. But it doesn’t appear that they got it […]
But one case against the government was settled earlier this week. Conrad Lewis was appointed clerk of the National Assembly in 2003 under the People’s United Party. His appointment had no time limit, until January first, 2008 when he signed a five year contract. Ten months later, on October sixteenth, Lewis was handed his marching […]
And in the court of Justice Minett Hafiz, this morning, attorneys appeared on behalf of the Belize Electricity Limited and the Public Utilities Commission. The matter was merely to settle preliminary directions that needed to be determined before the actual trial takes place. B.E.L. filed an affidavit and questions dealing with the PUC’s independent expert […]
But forty-one year old Edwin Davis, a city resident, presently serving a one year jail term for theft, will extend his time behind bars by an additional six years. That’s because Davis changed his plea to guilty today before the Chief Magistrate, Margaret Gabb-McKenzie. Davis was convicted for entering the home of Dorla Humes on […]
Stackle Monsanto has a long list of court appearances on his charge sheet. And he isn’t a stranger to the police or to jail. Police say Monsanto was wanted since October nineteenth for a robbery. Today, the thirty-two year old unemployed resident of ten Unity Street in the Port Loyola Area was arraigned on three […]
On Wednesday, the trial of a city man accused of setting his neighbor’s van on fire started in the Supreme Court before Justice Michelle Arana. Both sides closed their arguments today and will address the jury on Friday. The accused arsonist is Michael Quan, a resident of Bachelor’s Avenue who allegedly set Kingsley Estelle’s 1995 […]
Late this evening, thirty-one year old Kevin Sutherland, a Stevedore of Caesar Ridge Road in Belize City was slapped with Aggravated Assault and Damage to Property charges. Sutherland is alleged to have shot at a 2009 Nissan Maxima belonging to Minister Anthony “Boots” Martinez, who was not in the vehicle and returned later in the […]
The case of the Westerhaven continued in Supreme Court today. The ship ran aground on the reef near Caye Glory on January thirteenth. The defense team is invoking a 1976 charter which would limit the claim to four million Belize dollars. The environmental impact, however, was estimated to be in the range of thirty two […]
Also in the Supreme Court, the case of the breakaway cane farming group, United Cane Farmers Association (U.C.F.A) came up before Justice Oswald Legall. That association is still seeking to find a way to legally move forward in an industry that has been dominated by the Belize Cane Farmers Association (B.C.F.A.). The solicitor general and […]
Nineteen year old Alrick Carcamo was shot at last Friday morning on Caesar Ridge Road. On Monday, Patrick Bevans was charged with Aggravated Assault for the shooting. Today, six days after his near death ordeal, the tables turned and Carcamo is being accused of retaliating against one of the two men who he claimed shot […]
In an early morning search on the Southside of Belize City, police netted eighteen pounds of marijuana stashed away in three bags in a couple’s yard on Faber’s Road. Shortly after six a.m., police went to the residence of forty-one year old George Abraham, a former cyclist who now works as a collector at Dooney’s […]
It’s been ten months since the Westerhaven crashed into the reef, causing substantive damages. Since then two other ships, the CaribeMariner and the Azteca also ran into the reef. Azteca settled out of court, but today lawyers for the government and for the Westerhaven argued before Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh. Deanne Barrow is representing the […]
On Pan American Day, October twelfth, a brutal home invasion occurred at Freetown Sibun, in Hattieville Village. An elderly Canadian couple that migrated to Belize were held up at gunpoint and robbed. But while inside the secluded home, the burglar attacked the sixty two year old woman and raped her. Police say that when three […]
In another criminal matter before the court, a Corozal man who was accused in 2008 by an eleven year old girl of carnal knowledge walked free on Monday when the child could not remember the exact date when the incident supposedly happened. Twenty-one year old Alex Garcia was freed by a jury of nine in […]
And a Jamaican national who absconded in December of 2008 after he was busted with a stash of marijuana was today convicted and sentenced in absencia. Even though he is not in Belize, fifty-three year old Eric Mills received a three year jail term plus a fine of ten thousand dollars, in default, an additional […]
The preliminary investigation into the money laundering charge against the Coye family continued in magistrate court number three this morning. Defense Attorney Anthony Sylvester appeared before Magistrate Kathleen Lewis on behalf of his clients Dietrich Kingston and Athlee Matute. Kingston and Matute are clerks at Money Exchange International Limited (M.E.I.L.). M.E.I.L., the Coye Family (Melanie, […]
Frank Conorquie has been in and out of court and on his latest appearance today, he was found guilty of theft of a cell phone. Magistrate Sharon Frazer imposed a fine of one thousand five hundred dollars to be paid by December fifteen and he was also ordered to pay the victim three hundred and […]
An Aero Dispatcher, employed at the Philip Goldson International Airport in Ladyville won’t be at work for the rest of the year. But it’s not a long vacation; he will be spending that time behind bars. Twenty year old Kyle Nobert Domingo was busted with a point thirty-eight revolver and one live round of ammunition […]
And a couple who concealed the body of their child was spared jail time today. More than five years ago, Therese Watlow, and her common-law husband, Michael Tesecum were arguing and Tesecum reportedly hit the child against a wall. At the time of his arrest, in a caution statement, he confessed that he hit the […]
