Police have arrested and charged six teens accused of stealing over twenty thousand dollars worth of items from a house in Ladyville. This morning sixteen year olds Eldon Thompson and Dwayne Young, fifteen year old Tyler Garbutt, nineteen year old Ernett Broaster, and eighteen year olds Albert Perez and Horace Adolphus all appeared before Magistrate […]
He was accused of defrauding over two hundred thousand dollars from the K.H.M.H. in 2002, but today Robertino Oprescu was acquitted of all charges. This afternoon a jury found Oprescu not guilty of nine counts of Forgery and nine charges of Claiming Upon a False Document. While that should have made Oprescu a free man, […]
Arguments concluded today in the court of Justice Samuel Awich on the matter of recent elections to the board of the Corozal Free Zone. The question of whether to allow an application for judicial review was presented by Fred Lumor, attorney for plaintiffs Winston Smiling and Gulab Sharma. Lumor argued that the question at hand […]
Two years ago, it was a crime that left one Belize District family badly shaken, but today, like in many recent criminal cases, the alleged perpetrators have been set free. On June nineteenth 2003, Sumaiya Morris was at her home in Hattieville village when she was ambushed and held at gunpoint by four men. As […]
Round one of the legal battle between businessman Winston Smiling and the Corozal Free Zone ended earlier today with Smiling smiling. On Thursday, Smiling and another Corozal businessman, Gulab Sharma, asked the Supreme Court for permission to apply for judicial review following the results of the election of private sector representatives to the Zone’s Board […]
A man wanted in connection with a shooting incident last weekend has been arrested and charged. This morning, twenty-one year old Errol Haynes was formally arraigned in Belize City’s Magistrate Court on charges of Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm. According to police, Haynes was apprehended on Thursday in the […]
After taking his case to the court of public opinion, this morning Winston Smiling took his beef over elections in the Corozal Free Zone to the country’s Supreme Court. Smiling is applying for leave for judicial review after being denied the use of proxy forms during elections in the zone earlier this month. Before Justice […]
Following a drive-by shooting over the weekend, police have arrested and charged a Belize City resident of the crime. This morning twenty-two year old Robert Jones appeared before Magistrate Margaret Gabb were he was arraigned on the charges of Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm, and Use of Deadly Means of Harm against Leon Garcia. According to […]
A case of carnal knowledge has ended in the Belize City Supreme Court with a hung jury. Around eleven-thirty this morning a jury of five women and four men began their deliberation in the case of thirty-five year old Michael Woods. But when they returned from the jury room some three hours later, it was […]
We’re not sure if it’s because of a commonly perceived “man shortage” or a result of more equality between the sexes … but it seems that we are seeing an increase in woman on woman violence. The latest case involves an incident that occurred shortly after midnight on July twenty-first. According to court reports, Woman […]
One down and two to go as one of the suspects believed to be responsible for the hold-up of M and M’s Boutique on Euphrates Avenue has been arrested. Twenty year old Brandon Taylor appeared yesterday before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord, where he was charged for attempted robbery, damage to property and two counts of […]
A Belize City businessman has been charged with manslaughter as the result of a shooting that occurred almost a year ago. Thirty-nine year old Ben Bou-Nahra was arraigned this afternoon before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers and released on ten thousand dollars bail. Bou-Nahra fatally shot Shawn Copius on September seventeenth, 2005, after Copius had allegedly burglarised […]
Seven months ago, the brutal murder of a Belize City businessman in front of his young son rocked the old capital, but tonight, one of the two men charged with the crime is walking the streets. Four days after the shooting death of fifty-one year old Michael Burns, seventeen year old Kareem Gladden and eighteen […]
Rather than do hard time, tonight two women arrested for beating each other over a man have agreed to keep the peace. Sixty-four year old Ampero Burgos and fifty-seven year old Rose Lino appeared before Magistrate Robert Ordonez today and promised to stop assaulting each other. In default, both will be taken into custody. The […]
The case of a fatal fight over a parking space more than two years ago has ended with a verdict of life behind bars. According to court reports, around five this evening, Kirk Gordon was convicted by a jury of ten women and two men of the murder of Arthur Ellis. Justice Troadio Gonzales immediately […]
An accused murderer is tonight a free man for lack of evidence against him. According to court reports, this morning, following instructions from the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Magistrate Margaret Gabb ordered that twenty-one year old Errol Haynes be released from custody. Haynes was charged with the murder of Delrick Sankey. In […]
Magistrate Gabb also heard the case of a man accused of stealing almost twenty-five thousand dollars worth of household items. Thirty-one year old Dennis Quilter is charged with burglary, attempted burglary, damage to property and handling stolen goods, all in connection with a break in at the home of Veronica Amoa in Ladyville in June. […]
A Belize City burglar picked the wrong house to teef … and now he’s got five years to think about it. Twenty-three year old Sheldon Lewis was this afternoon found guilty of burglary by Magistrate Dorothy Flowers. Shortly after midnight on the morning of May twentieth, W.P.C. Joan Grinage was awakened by the barking of […]
A retrial has been ordered in the case of well known Belize City businessman Eduardo “Mando” Reyes. Reyes, the owner of Prime Cut Meats on Central American Boulevard, was convicted in March in connection with the death of Norman “Butta” Ferguson. A jury unanimously found him guilty of manslaughter after he shot Ferguson in January […]
The Court of Appeal has declined to increase the sentence of a man convicted of beating his girlfriend senseless. In June of 2004 Elston Young repeatedly punched Lorna Wade with his fists and then whopped her in the head with a stick, sending her to the hospital with serious head injuries. In January of this […]
The case of the Crown versus Jason Flores ended today in the Court of Appeal, where a sentence of fifteen years behind bars was upheld. Flores was arrested and charged for the January 1999 child rape and beating of a ten year old girl in Dangriga. He managed to escape from a holding cell and […]
Detained for public drinking, tonight a Belize City resident is charged with drug trafficking after cops found crack in his pocket. According to court reports, officers on patrol picked up twenty-five year old Alton Roches from Jane Usher Boulevard for drinking in public. But when authorities searched his pockets at the police station, they found […]
He was accused of the January 2004 murder of Kareem “Butchy” Broaster, but today a jury of seven women and five men could not agree on the question of Darrington Lauriano’s guilt. After five hours of deliberation the dozen jurors told Justice Troadio Gonzales that they were deadlocked. The hung jury means that Lauriano will […]
Two guys already doing hard time in Hattieville will now look forward to an additional seven years behind bars. This morning eighteen year olds Tyrone Lopez and Tyrone Godoy were found guilty of burglary by Magistrate Sharon Fraser. The court found that in February of 2005 the pair had broken into the snack shop at […]
A year ago, the story created a hundred and eighty thousand reasons for suspicion but tonight the Court of Appeal has ruled that the small fortune in cash found in a car must be returned to its owners. Last June a police patrol on Mahogany Street searched a black Mercedes Benz, ostensibly looking for guns […]
