Also in court, four men have been charged with Handling Stolen Goods after police recovered what was left of a stolen Mitsubishi L-200 pickup. The vehicle, which belonged to the owner of GS COM George Sosa, was stolen from the King’s Park area on July twenty-sixth of this year. And over the weekend the pan […]
And a woman finds herself in all kinds of trouble with the law after her best friend reported to police that she had robbed her of cash over a period of time. Loretta Gillett alleges that twenty-two year old Levaun Morgan of Antelope Street Extension stole almost eighteen hundred dollars. Gillett alleges that the crime […]
Turning to the courts, he was on the run for two years after his daring escape from the cops. Thirty-four year old Dennis Quilter became a fugitive on April sixteenth 2007 and was living it up in the United States. But over two years later Quilter’s new life came crashing down around him when he […]
While Quilter was on the run for over two years, the six men accused of plotting to murder the Shoman family have been in and out of court for the past eight months trying to get bail. Today their attorneys, Dickie Bradley and Arthur Saldivar, were successful in convincing Magistrate Edd Usher to grant bail […]
A twenty-six year old mother of two claimed she was victim of police brutality but soon the tables turned on her and she was charged with Assaulting a Policeman whilst in his Uniform. Victoria Wade, a domestic of Sand Hill Village, alleges that she was beaten up by a police officer of the Sand Hill […]
In a stunning development, two notorious figures will be retried for the cold blooded murder of the Brannon brothers. In late 2008 the two accused businessmen of north side Belize City walked free from the double murder of twenty eight year old Phillip, and thirty-two year old Kevin Brannon. Both men were shot and killed […]
And the infamous Darien Banks was on familiar territory when he was taken to court this morning. This time around, the thirty-one year old was facing charges of Wounding against his common-law-wife, Nicolette Foreman. Banks was granted bail of eight hundred dollars despite objections from the prosecution because the victim and her two children would […]
We’ve heard people fighting over strange things, but we’ve haven’t heard of two men fighting over a sip of wine. And the Belize City security guard who was charged with committing the crime was spared incarceration even though he allegedly used a knife to attack his victim. According to police, on Thursday at six-thirty-five p.m., […]
Plues Street is not known for flourishing gardens, but one resident has shown his skills for growing weed rather than pulling them out of his garden. Unfortunately for forty-one year old Andrew Murillo, the five plants which measured from four to a massive ten feet in height are of the Cannabis Sativa variety. And though […]
Two men were charged in connection with Tuesday’s robbery of a business located a short distance from the Queen Street Police Station. At eleven-twenty a.m. on Tuesday two men armed with a handgun held up four employees of Global Consultant Services at the corner of New Road and Hydes Lane and robbed them of cash […]
It’s usually one or the other, but when a vegetable farmer from the Corozalito Village appeared in Magistrates’ Court, he was slapped with a fine and jail time. At around eleven-thirty on Wednesday night, thirty-five year old Ellis Rudon was busted by police on Central American Boulevard with two and a quarter pounds of marijuana. […]
It was an emotional day in court in respect of the ongoing money laundering case against the Coye family. Michael Coye, his wife, Marleni Coye, their daughter, Melonie Coye and son, Jude Coye along with Melonie’s husband, James Gerou were charged with money laundering on January second. Though their business account was frozen, it turns […]
A Canadian who was acting disorderly at the Battlefield Park earlier this year is behind bars tonight after he was found guilty of the offense. Forty-seven year old David Allen McFarlen was convicted for Insulting a Police Officer and was fined a hundred dollars. But he opted to spend the alternative one month jail sentence. […]
A man who says he is a tacos vendor is out on bail for robbing a fellow tacos vendor. Twenty-two year old Allen Guzman of Pelican Street pleaded not guilty this afternoon in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court. The charge follows a report by twenty-five year old Lorenzo Perez that at about seven this morning […]
Also in court today, Magistrate Tracy Sosa heard a case of Obtaining Property by Deception and the woman in the hot seat was thirty year old Gina Kelly Conorquie. It appears Conorquie got overly busy on August third and she is accused of deceiving three women out of cash in separate incidents, all on the […]
A Junior College student will not make orientation this school year as he finds himself behind bars tonight on charges of Aggravated Assault upon a police constable. Twenty year old Akeem Tyrone Lord was arrested on Friday after he allegedly pulled a gun on Police Constable Harold Grinage. According to Grinage, he reacted by pulling […]
Turning to the courts, an eighteen year old, who was expected to start school at ITVET to take up a trade, is behind bars tonight after he stole an elderly man’s cash. Michael Orlando Malic of Taylor’s Alley was charged with Robbery and Wounding in Magistrates’ Court today because he allegedly attacked seventy-six year old […]
Remember George Betson? He is the man who was displaced from his home and land when he refused to comply with a court order. Well today, the sixty-six year old part-time taxi-driver and supervisor in the sanitation department of the Belize City Council was spared from going to jail. He was charged for the aggravated […]
This past Monday, the Government of Belize trumpeted the news that the London Court of International Arbitration had ruled that a settlement agreement between the Belize Bank and the Government was void in respect of a UHS debt involving ten million dollars from Venezuela. That was big news but it is pales in comparison to […]
They say blood is thicker than water, but that did not hold today for one father who took his son to court for theft. Robert Wagner, who is better known as “Small Change,” and the owner of an auto rental, is accusing his twenty-six year old son, Thomas Young Jr., of stealing two car engines […]
While it was father versus son in Belize City, in the Belmopan Magistrate Court a thirty-nine year old man was sentenced for the crime of Incest on his eleven year old daughter. The father was convicted on August sixth of three counts each of Incest and an unnatural crime and one count of Threat of […]
In court today, two female professional shoplifters were sentenced to an additional two years in jail for stealing a thirteen dollar bottle of Nescafe and a twenty dollar bottle of Infant Tylenol. The two, who already have previous convictions for Theft, are Nioka Smith, a hair braider of Iguana Street and her partner in crime, […]
And Roberto Galvez told the court today: “I want to plea guilty to possession simplicita because I never had weed to sell to any one it was for my personal use.” With that the fifty-seven year-old father of Castle Street, was fined three thousand dollars for the Drug Trafficking of ninety-one point three grams of […]
Two men were taken to court this morning for the homicide of Alberto Braddick Allen. The City’s latest murder victim was stabbed multiple times and had a gunshot to the back when he was found at mile three and a half on the Western Highway around midday on Tuesday. The two men charged actually led […]
And in court news, he was stabbed thirteen times to the body and lived to tell the tale, but twenty-eight year old Erlin Neal, a driver and resident of Magazine Road, does not want to relive his near death ordeal. Neal has given police a statement indicating he did not wish to proceed in court […]
