In other court news, twenty-four year old Jaret Jerry Jones will be on remand until March thirty-first. That is because Jones, an unemployed of a Mahogany Street address, was charged with Attempted Murder of Marvin Underwood along with charges of Wounding and Use of Deadly Means of Harm. In court this morning, Magistrate Sharon Fraser […]
A man who was charged with assaulting his ex, is back in court for a new assault charge committed on the same woman. Thirty year old Emery Lino allegedly committed the first aggravated assault on his twenty-five year old ex-common law wife Ursula Reid on November thirteenth, 2008. And today he was slapped with an […]
And in news on domestic abuse, a carpenter of the Toledo District has been remanded into custody after he failed to meet bail for physically abusing his two year old stepson and common-law wife. Twenty-six year old Pedro Chen reportedly violently pushed the toddler who hit his head on a piece of wood, injuring his […]
The case of a man who was charged for a home invasion and decapitation in Lords Bank ended today. The trial of twenty year old Robert Gillett, charged with manslaughter and burglary for the decapitation of twenty year old Mara Naomi Garcia on June tenth, 2005 ended today. The jury of seven women and two […]
Roger Wagner had been on bail for the attempted murder of Griffith Green Junior, but tonight he is behind bars because Green has died. Wagner’s charge was upgraded to Murder today in Magistrates’ Court and he has been remanded into custody until April thirtieth. Green, a truck driver, was shot in his back on December […]
Aside from the budget, the PM today covered ground on a number of other issues. When pressed about the committal of his predecessor Said Musa to the Supreme Court for trial, the PM said he would have been disappointed if it had gone the other way. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “My reaction is that the […]
Back in November, an SUV driven by twenty-eight year old Luke Cox collided into a van filled with tourists. Fifteen persons were injured and one fatality was an infant girl, who happened to be Cox’s daughter. After spending months in the hospital, today Cox was well enough to be arraigned on charges in connection with […]
An inmate already serving three months found out today that he will spend an additional six years in prison. Twenty-five year old Anthony Crawford got the bad news this morning when he was found guilty of Robbery in Magistrate’s Court. Magistrate Aretha Ford stipulated that the sentence will run consecutive to the one Crawford was […]
The defense team for Said Musa did not get good news in the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court. Having heard submissions from Musa’s defense team in the preliminary investigation, Magistrate Earl Jones today committed the former Prime Minister to stand trial in the Supreme Court. It is the first time that any Prime Minister of this country […]
But Musa was not reserved in sharing his views of why Magistrate Jones made such a ruling, but did express faith in getting a fair trial by a jury. Said Musa “In this business some people just insist on passing the buck. And I can understand that, the pressures must be tremendous. This is what […]
In court news, they pleaded guilty on Friday and today two young mothers accused of Handling Stolen Goods and Theft received their judgment. Twenty-two year old Nioka Smith and twenty year old Sasha Bowen cried when Magistrate Sharon Fraser sentenced them to two years in prison for Handling Stolen Goods and three months for Using […]
An accused robber also had justice meted out to him today. Nineteen year old Burley Card, one of two men charged with two counts of Robbery and one count of Handling Stolen Goods was found guilty in Magistrates’ Court. Card was sentenced to six years for each count, to run concurrently. The other accused man, […]
In other news, two Guatemalan nationals were caught in the possession of unlicensed guns and ammunition on Friday. On February sixth, at seven-fifty a.m. in Benque, police officers detained twenty-four year old Julio David Abrego Rojas, a driver of San Benito in the Petén District of Guatemala. During a body search conducted at the Benque […]
Weeks after a fourteen year old girl was raped at knifepoint in Seine Bight Village, police have charged her alleged attacker. The accused, forty-one year old Wallace Cayetano of Lakeland area in Dangriga, has been charged with Rape, Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, Aggravated Assault, Harm, and Threatening Words. The charges follow the alleged incident on December […]
Five prisoners are facing charges for attacking a fellow inmate at the Queen Street Police Station last Friday. Twenty-one year old Robert Gillett, eighteen year old Trevor Lamb, along with two minors, appeared in Magistrates’ Court today, while the third minor was arraigned on Thursday; all face charges of Wounding. While in their holding cell, […]
Nokia Smith and Sasha Bowen, two veteran shoplifters with at least three convictions, pleaded guilty to charges of Handling Stolen Goods and Using Indecent Words when they appeared today in Magistrates’ Court. Smith and Bowen were also charged with Theft for the incident that occurred on Thursday. Magistrate Sharon Frazer gave the duo a suspended […]
Twenty year old Jerome Wade, the second of three persons who the police believe robbed six employees of Discovery Expeditions last Friday, was charged with six counts of Robbery when he appeared today in Magistrates’ Court. Wade pleaded not guilty to the charges. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers explained to him that the court cannot offer him […]
It was a full day in court for former P.U.P. Housing Minister, Ralph Fonseca over the ten million dollars from Venezuela gifted to Belize. Fonseca’s defense team and the Director of Public Prosecutions battled it out with legal arguments before Belmopan Magistrate Earl Jones. By the end of the day there were a number of […]
One more person has been charged with Money Laundering in respect of the bust of one and a half million dollars on New Year’s Eve at MoneyGram. Thirty-three year old Ernest Raymond Jr., has joined five others already charged for the offence. Raymond was offered and met bail of fifty thousand dollars. He is to […]
A Belize City resident was caught with a substantial sum of cannabis in his home. Twenty-four year old Micah Lee Williams, a resident of Raccoon Street Extension, who police reportedly busted with twenty-two pounds of cannabis on Wednesday, was charged with Drug Trafficking when he appeared today in Magistrates’ court. Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie offered […]
People say “Step into another person’s shoe, look at things from another point of view and the world as you know it will never be the same again.” Well, that’s one proverb a prison guard wishes he didn’t know and that’s because twenty-eight year old Yourmoul Mcnab was caught with drugs at the Kolbe Facility. […]
A Salvadoran national, employed as a meat vendor at the Queen’s Square Market, has been charged with the crime of Carnal Knowledge. He is thirty-one year old Jesus Echeverria, who appeared in court on Monday accused of sexually abusing a thirteen year old minor. No plea was taken because the offence is indictable and Chief […]
Former Prime Minister Said Musa appeared in court this morning accompanied by a battery of nine lawyers for the preliminary inquiry in the case of Theft against him last year. But the outcome will not be delivered until February tenth. That’s when Magistrate Earl Jones will decide whether or not the prosecution has presented enough […]
But while the matter may take some time for Magistrate Earl Jones to review, as far as the Director of Public Prosecutions, Cheryl-Lynn Branker-Taitt, is concerned, the series of events to transfer the Venezuelan money from that country to where it ended up in Belize late 2007 is a clear cut case for a Supreme […]
A businessman today received for the second time a sentence of seven years behind bars after a jury last week found him guilty of Manslaughter. Thirty-eight year old Edward Reyes, also known as “Mandito” who owns Prime Cut Meats on Central American Boulevard, listened as Justice Adolph Lucas handed down the sentence this morning. His […]
