He’s spent the past decade on death-row but this week lawyers representing convicted killer Adolph Harris are asking the court to reduce his sentence. Harris is claiming that his constitutional rights have been violated by the delay of execution. This morning, the inmate appeared in Belize City’s Supreme Court flanked by human rights attorneys Antoinette […]
It’s a common practice but this morning a Belize City woman appeared, charged with stealing electricity. Forty-one year old Lottie Lanza Jex was brought before Magistrate Harry Hulett to answer to the seldom prosecuted crime of abstracting electricity. Lanza-Jex, a resident of “I” Street in King’s Park pled not guilty to the charge and was […]
The turnover rate for officers at the Hattieville Prison is going up as another warden was busted trying to sneak weed into the penal facility. According to court reports, around seven Sunday night, thirty-three year old Denrick Bull reported for duty and a customary personal search was conducted. In his boots, fellow prison guards found […]
He pled guilty to causing death by careless conduct on Wednesday for the shooting of Irene Gibson in 2004 … And today punishment was meted out to Lloyd Brakeman … in the form of fines: eight thousand dollars to be paid by September thirteenth, 2007 or in default one year in prison and a further […]
Another report of sexual abuse against a minor has been reported to the authorities. According to the fourteen year old victim, on August twenty-sixth, forty-five year old security guard Owen Smith had sex with her against her will. Following police investigations, Smith was arrested and charged with rape and unlawful carnal knowledge. In court today, […]
In the Supreme Court today, a Belize City man who shot his pregnant wife in the chest two years ago has pleaded guilty to causing death by careless conduct. With his attorney at his side, this morning thirty-one year old Lloyd Brakeman appeared before Justice Adolph Lucas and formally entered a guilty plea. According to […]
Today a former police officer accused of sexually assaulting a minor left the courtroom a free man. In January, a fourteen year old girl alleged that twenty-five year old Gilroy Ramirez had sex with her in Caye Caulker Village. Subsequent investigations led to the arrest of the ex-cop who was later charged with carnal knowledge. […]
A Belize City messenger missing from work for the past three months has been arrested and charged with theft. According to court reports, up until June eighth, twenty year old Shane Gillett was a part time employee at Maya Travel Services. On that day, the staff supervisor says she gave Gillett instructions to pick up […]
Twenty-two year old Sheldon Baptist, who is presently serving time at Hattieville Prison, was informed today that he will not be released anytime soon. This morning, the convicted burglar was also sentenced for unlawful carnal knowledge and threats of death following an incident that occurred in Burrell Boom Village in early January of 2005. Baptist, […]
A Belize district man accused of rape has been convicted of carnal knowledge in the Belize City Supreme Court. At approximately two this afternoon, a jury returned from their deliberations with a guilty verdict against twenty-two year old Sheldon Baptist. He will be sentenced by Justice Troadio Gonzales on Wednesday for the crimes of Carnal […]
Tonight a twenty-nine year old career criminal is accused of yet another crime: stealing from little girls. Today, Aaron Logan appeared before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord to answer to two charges of robbery following an incident that occurred on August twenty-fourth. According to the victims, aged thirteen and fourteen years old, just before noon that […]
Sessions in the new Belize City Magistrate Court opened without fanfare this morning and for Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord, it was business as usual. One of the first cases on his docket today was that of messenger Luis Rodriguez, accused of stealing almost two thousand dollars from his bosses at the Reporter Press. Manager Lizbeth […]
A police officer has been accused of bringing dishonour to his badge. Thirty-two year old Constable Richard Arnold of Hattieville was today charged with Theft in connection with the taking of personal items from a criminal suspect he had detained. According to court reports, on July twenty-eighth Arnold took into custody one Kendale Oshon at […]
The murder trial of Chadrick DeBride, the man accused of killing an off duty police officer, has been aborted and moved to the Supreme Court’s October session. As previously reported, one of the jurors in the case was injured in a traffic accident and his ability to hear the case was in doubt. Today those […]
Three men have been arrested and charged in connection with the theft of fuel from a Belize City gas station as well as armed robbery … and the charges may be just the beginning for Erwin Castillo, Paul Ferguson and Maxwell Anderson. For now Castillo bears the brunt of the prosecution including the Attempted Robbery […]
He was charged with murder in the shooting of Police Constable Nedy Reymundo almost two years ago, but Chadrick Debride will have to wait a little longer for the administration of justice as his trial has been pushed back. According to court reports, Justice Troadio Gonzales adjourned the trial until Wednesday, August twenty third, after […]
A Belize City Police officer stands accused of being a criminal. Thirty-five year old P.C. Osborne Arzu was today brought before Magistrate Roberto Ordonez, where he was charged with the crime of Handling Stolen Goods. On July second of this year, Walter Westby reported to the Criminal Investigations Branch that his 1985 Honda motorcycle had […]
One man has been charged in connection with the armed jacking of Chinese grocer, Ming Xian Wu. Nineteen year old, Delroy Matura today appeared before Magistrate Kathleen Lewis and has been charged with Robbery. On Monday, Ming, owner of Zheng Shop on Jane Usher Boulevard, reported to police that while she was at her store, […]
A man has been charged with the rape of a seven year old girl. According to court reports, Elias Gonzalez was arrested following a police investigation after the little girl’s mother filed a report which claimed that the minor was sexually violated. Gonzalez, a resident of the Belize district, today appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers […]
Charges were dropped today against one of the men accused of the Christmas Eve 2004 killing of Police Constable Nedy Reymundo. Chadrick Debride and Winston Jones, who were to be tried jointly for the crimes of murder and conspiracy to commit murder, today appeared before Justice Troadio Gonzalez where the charges against Jones were withdrawn […]
Meanwhile, Caye Caulker police continue their investigations into a weapons seizure that left five people in police custody. According to court reports, around seven thirty on Friday morning, caye cops and officials from the Fisheries Department conducted a search operation on Long Caye, located about nine miles south of Caye Caulker. We understand that near […]
A little extra flab around the midsection may have cost a burglar five years in jail. According to court reports, fifty-six year old Santiago Swasey of mile twenty-three on the Northern Highway was found by police at one thirty Wednesday morning stuck fast between some burglar bars. He had apparently entered the Riverside Patio Restaurant […]
When we last saw Brian “Yellowman” Audinett the political activist and onetime U.D.P. television spokesman was busy jousting with the riot squad on the steps of Independence Hill. And while the fleet footed messenger managed to evade his captors in the nation’s capital, today he was tripped up in Belize City Magistrate’s Court following an […]
Life in Belize’s many picturesque villages is often viewed by harassed urban dwellers as a peaceful and carefree existence untouched by the perils of crime and violence associated with city life. Tell that to seventy-five year old Wallace Rivas of St. Paul’s Bank. According to court reports, on May eighteenth Rivas was happily taking an […]
In justice that was slow in coming, fifty-six year old Belize City traffic officer, Glenn Rivero, appeared this afternoon before Magistrate Roberto Ordonez and has been charged with Causing Death by Careless Conduct for a traffic mishap that occurred about almost two years ago. On Thursday, August nineteenth, 2004, Rivero was driving an Isuzu Trooper […]
