It may be common practice in most places but here in Belize, police prosecutors are patting themselves on the back, having convicted an accused burglar by using fingerprint evidence. Court reports are that nineteen year old Shane Atis was charged with burglary after police found him in possession of more than three thousand dollars worth […]
Meanwhile, a Belize City resident was also found guilty today of attacking a woman and trying to steal her purse. In February, Rebecca Emmanuel told police that while walking on Dolphin Street, she was pushed to the ground by a man and her purse forcibly taken from her hands. But Emmanuel wasn’t about to admit […]
A man accused of breaking into a Belize City home and stealing almost nine thousand dollars worth of jewellery has been remanded to Hattieville prison. On May twenty-eighth, Arlet Gomez reported to police that her house had been burglarized. Police soon detained forty-four year old Sidney Collins when he attempted to pawn the jewellery at […]
In September of last year, four minors on remand for murder, escaped from Hattieville prison. They survived on the lam for two days before they were captured by police. In the course of their breakout they beat up and critically injured prison guard Maxwell Torres. Today, those convicts: Robert Gillett, Alfonso Juarez, Carlos Coronado–all seventeen […]
Belize City businessman Gabby Affif is a free man tonight following a not guilty verdict handed down in the passport scandal. The jury of six women and three men began their deliberations at a quarter to one this afternoon and in less than four hours, had made their decision. Outside the courtroom, News Five spoke […]
An accused killer walked out of court a free man today, but that freedom turned out to be short-lived because authorities immediately rearrested him for the attempted murder of another victim. In February 2005, twenty-one year old Evan Neal was charged with the murder of twenty-seven year old Sherwin Requeña. However, during the preliminary inquiry […]
Summations in the case against Jabor “Gabby” Affif continued today in the Belize City Supreme Court. Presenting the defence team’s review of the case was Senior Counsel Ellis Arnold. The defence attorney told the jury, “We are not saying that those forms are not forged. There is also no dispute of who forged them. The […]
In the courtroom of Justice Adolph Lucas this afternoon, Director of Public Prosecutions Kirk Anderson presented his final summation of the case against Belize City businessman Gabby Affif. In recanting testimony of the prosecution’s witnesses, Anderson asked the jury of six women and three men to use what he called the circumstantial and direct evidence […]
Testimony has concluded in the case of Gabby Affif. The prosecution had called twenty-four witnesses and today the defence presented its evidence, which consisted of a single unsworn statement from the dock by the defendant. Affif, charged with numerous counts of forgery and possession of forged official documents, claimed that he didn’t know anything irregular […]
A Belize City woman has been charged for verbally and physically assaulting a law enforcement officer. Twenty-five year old Shawn Godoy of Fern Lane in Belize City was today arraigned for aggravated assault, threatening words, communicating with a prisoner and resisting arrest. According to P.C. Edward Castillo, the ruction started on Monday afternoon when Godoy […]
Eighteen year old Jermaine Gomez, a resident of Pinks Alley and no stranger to the police, is the person identified as the young man who pointed a handgun and tried to shoot twenty-six year old Anthony Johnson. Luckily for the victim, the weapon did not go off. Johnson told police that around eight on Saturday […]
A Belize City youth is tonight facing charges of theft after riding straight into the outstretched arms of the law. Around eleven-thirty Saturday night, twenty-three year old Sandra Chi was walking down North Front Street when she was approached from behind by a man on a bicycle. According to Chi, that man–later identified as Leon […]
In February, he was accused of stealing two bicycles and tonight, twenty year old Tyron Lopez is serving the first day of a ten year sentence for the crime. According to court reports, this morning Magistrate Sharon Fraser handed down two consecutive five year sentences to Lopez at the conclusion of a robbery case against […]
It’s often said that the wheels of justice turn slowly in Belize but tonight one woman found out just how swiftly a sentence can be handed down. According to reports, Lorraine Gladden was this morning charged with the seldom heard of offence of disturbing the court. Apparently Gladden was at Belize City’s Magistrate Court to […]
A man convicted of killing another person because of a mango seed has been sentenced to six years in jail. In the Supreme Court this morning, Justice Adolph Lucas told eighteen year old Travis Arnold, “Manslaughter is a serious offence. A person can get up to life imprisonment … you are a young man, a […]
A police officer has been sentenced to five years in jail for beating a prisoner. Today Cyril Wade appeared before Justice Troadio Gonzalez after being convicted of aggravated assault. In announcing the sentence Justice Gonzalez pointed out that because of a 2003 conviction for wounding, for which Wade received only a five hundred dollar fine, […]
Justice Troadio Gonzalez has upheld the controversial verdict of convicted police officer Cyril Wade. This afternoon after submissions were made by defence attorney Hubert Elrington and prosecutor Cheryl Lyn Branker-Taitt, Justice Gonzalez returned from his chambers and told the court that while he is troubled by the matter, his hands are tied and the guilty […]
A combination of luck and good police work has resulted in the arrest of two suspects who audaciously robbed a couple and also raped the woman. Nineteen year old Michael Trapp and twenty-two year old Derrick Sampson, both of Belize City, have been jointly charged with two counts of robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery […]
A police officer convicted of the violent beating of a prisoner is now in legal limbo following the discovery that the jury was hung in its decision. Twenty three year old Cyril Wade was found guilty by a jury of his peers in the Belize City Supreme Court on Thursday following an announcement by the […]
The investigation into the case of baby Kimora Leslie continues tonight because the team charged with determining the factors surrounding her death failed to interview the little girl’s family. That’s the word tonight out the Ministry of Health. Apparently the five person panel of government, medical and legal officials submitted their final report to Minister […]
A mother and daughter were arraigned in Magistrate’s Court today, charged with trying to convince a witness not to testify. Eighteen year old Sasha Vasquez and thirty five year old Irma Figueroa appeared before Magistrate Margaret McKenzie this morning and pled not guilty to attempted suppression of evidence. The women were granted bail of seven […]
In court today, a Belize City man was convicted of burglary and sentenced to eight years behind bars. According to court reports, thirty-eight year old Harrison Myvett was found guilty by Magistrate Sharon Fraser in connection with the burglary of Gregg Brackett’s home on Mex Avenue. Fraser then sentenced Myvett to eight years in jail. […]
An employee of Channel Broadcasting Company was today arraigned in Magistrate Court, accused of stealing ten thousand dollars from his employer. Thirty nine year old Joseph Garcia pled not guilty to theft and was granted bail in the sum of four thousand dollars. Garcia was arrested after C.B.C. manager Marie Munoz reported to police that […]
Following a shooting incident late last month, police have arrested and charged a taxi driver with attempted murder. According to authorities, thirty-three year old Harold Gilbert Mahler stands accused of attempted murder, grievous harm and use of deadly means of harm. The charges stem from an incident on April thirtieth on Antelope Street extension. On […]
A Belize City mother has been found guilty of committing a mischievous act during the prosecution of an indecent assault case against her common law husband. Court reports are that following the woman’s admission that she had lied to police, this morning Magistrate Margaret Gabb McKenzie found her guilty of committing a mischievous act and […]
