The preliminary inquiry into the Money Laundering case of Money Gram Director, Melonie Coye, started today in the Magistrate’s Court. Prosecutor for the Financial Intelligence Unit, Antoinette Moore, submitted eighty five statements against the Coye family to Magistrate Kathleen Lewis. A total of five members of the Coye family are charged with Money Laundering. By […]
A school warden and a minor from Belize City are tonight behind bars after they were charged with firearm offences. After a police bust over the weekend, twenty-two year old Rosemarie Reyes and her fourteen year old brother who is a student, appeared in court today and were charged with keeping an unlicensed firearm and […]
A former People’s United Party City Councillor and radio talk-show host had to spend a night in prison for failure to pay an outstanding fine owing to the Belize Social Security Board. Owner and proprietor of Carter’s Custom Upholstery, Darrel Carter, was arrested and charged late Thursday evening after police visited his business at the […]
A Honduran national finds himself behind bars after he was accused of raping a woman on Sunday morning. Forty-eight year old laborer, Hector Figueroa a resident of Police Street Extension in Belize City, appeared before Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb McKenzie today and was arraigned for the indictable offence. He is to reappear in court on […]
An Anchor Security Guard Supervisor is in jail tonight after he attacked a colleague almost three weeks ago. Twenty-nine year old Richard Arnold had to answer to charges of Aggravated Assault and Wounding in court today because he allegedly choked and pistol whipped another security guard, Frank Garcon. The incident occurred on October fifth and […]
In the court blotter, on Wednesday two men were acquitted of the murder of Faron Felix and today, his older brother was committed to stand trial in the Supreme Court for another homicide. Twenty-two year old Roy Felix Bennett is accused in the shooting death of seventeen year old Michelle Cattouse, which occurred on February […]
There was an early morning bust conducted by police on the Southside of Belize City that led to the discovery of ammunition and the five persons present at home were arrested and charged by police for unlicensed ammunition. In the raid, police found the ammunition hidden in a blue bag hidden in the fence of […]
Heroin is not a drug commonly known in Belize, but police say, a security guard was busted with that highly potent drug along with a stash of crack cocaine and marijuana. The early morning bust today on Lizarraga Avenue, King’s Park area, is the residence of security guard, twenty nine year old Edison Stamp. Stamp […]
Turning to the trial of the 2007 murder of sixteen year old Faron Leslie Felix. This afternoon, one of the two murder suspects walked free and is back on Belize City streets after he was acquitted of the murder charges. Felix was brutally gunned down when he was shot eight times on November thirtieth, 2007 […]
The caregiver of a fourteen year old girl will spend the next two years in jail for sexually assaulting her at the institution he was employed. Thirty nine year old Herbert Stuart was found guilty this morning in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court of aggravated assault of an indecent nature. The child, who testified during […]
In court, the murder trial of sixteen year old Faron Leslie Felix got underway today. Felix is the son of Therese Felix, who in life became the poster girl against crime after the young man, was violently and gruesomely killed near his home when he was ambushed by gunmen who waited for him behind a […]
And a Belize City based businessman is a victim of deception and according to police, the culprit who managed to swindle over two thousand dollars in goods from him, is Vinoda Kannan Sigamani, a resident of Dangriga. The goods: hundreds of pairs of shoes. This morning, Sigamani appeared in front of Senior Magistrate, Dorothy Flowers […]
Turning to the courts, thirty-nine year old Ernest Vasquez took the short road to prison and pleaded guilty to Theft when he was brought before Magistrate Aretha Ford today. This comes on heels of a report by his neighbor Lisa Green that items valuing one thousand two hundred dollars were stolen from inside her car […]
And twenty-five year old Nathaniel Conorquie, the man accused of pulling a major heist, walked off a Robbery charge today. The hold-up occurred on February twentieth 2006 at the Princess Casino in Belize City in which over thirty-five thousand five hundred dollars were stolen. Conorquie, a former chef at the establishment, was only charged with […]
The grieving mother of Eddie Neal, a.k.a. “EddieMac,” who was gunned down on Monday night in Port Loyola was in court this morning for the arraignment of her son’s accused killer. Michael Foreman was promptly charged with Neal’s murder before Chief Magistrate Margaret Mckenzie. Neal was shot on the left upper chest area and on […]
An old beef is said to be the motive behind Wednesday night’s shooting of seventeen year old Kenrick Longsworth of Castle Street. His mother, Lavern Longsworth, alleges her son’s life was endangered twice on Wednesday and police told the court today that they have the gunman who tried to kill Longsworth while he was at […]
The Court of Appeal has ordered two retrials in its October session. At the end of this session today, convicted murderer, twenty-one year old Tiffara Smith was granted a retrial. Smith was convicted in July of stabbing her brother, Dale Lino, to death in April of 2007. At the trial Smith claimed that on the […]
And in the courts, the prosecution was unable to prove a prima facie case of theft against a cashier from the Income Tax Department. The case concluded today and Natasha Kingston was free to go when five witnesses called to the stand were unable to provide substantiating evidence to prove the charges of theft. Kingston […]
Twenty-two year old Brandon Taylor was today convicted for aggravated assault and damage to property. The incident occurred on October fourth, 2007 on King Street. Taylor was accused of shooting five times at three police officers on duty. In his defense in court, Taylor testified under oath that at the time, he was at home […]
In the court blotter, Police Constable Juan Pop was convicted on March third of the Carnal Knowledge of a thirteen year old girl. Pop was facing a twelve year sentence for the crime, but tonight he is a free man after he successfully appealed the judgment. His attorney, Lionel Welch, convincingly argued that Pop was […]
While that officer was happy his ordeal was over, another officer and two Belize Defence Soldiers had a close call at the barrel of an assailant’s gun. The alleged gunman, twenty-five year old Jason Joseph, opened fire on the officers when they tried to conduct a search on him for firearms. They escaped uninjured, but […]
The remaining murder suspect for the 2007 murder of Curlin Felix in 2007 was freed today. Three were initially charged and two Mark Vernon and Cassian Bennett, beat the murder rap in 2008. Today, the court freed Wababa Noralez, the final suspect for the murder. Wababa’s case began last week Tuesday, but today Senior Crown […]
Twenty year old Randy Coye was brutally beaten and murdered in the Lord Ridge Cemetery last Friday night. Five men were arraigned today and are facing charges for the homicide. Brandon Smith, Kenroy Humes, Leon Gray, Deshawn Mena and Edwin Flowers filed into the court of Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie and all of them except […]
And police have made a break in the shooting of Jason Caine, a taxi driver of Belize City, who remains hospitalized. They have in custody a minor who they believe is the gunman who fired at Caine last Tuesday night. Because he is a minor, his name cannot be revealed, but the student, was charged […]
Police say they have the man who early on Wednesday morning entered the home of a woman in the Lake Independence Area, beat her then attempted to rape her. This afternoon, Robert Montejo, a Construction Worker, appeared before Magistrate Albert Hoare and was charged aggravated burglary, attempted rape and grievous harm. Montejo was unrepresented in […]
