Forty-six-year-old Owen Pollard Senior has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison after being arraigned on a single charge of abetment to murder. His son, Owen Pollard Junior, is on the run and is wanted in connection with the attempted murder of twenty-seven-year-old Zane Pott, a resident of mile two on the George Price Highway. […]
This morning, in the courtroom Justice Nigel Pilgrim a decision was rendered in respect of a voir dire in the ongoing trial of attorney Oscar Selgado. The well-known criminal lawyer is before the High Court to answer charges related to a plot to have Marilyn Barnes killed in July 2019. Selgado has been charged with […]
Life in prison, that’s the sentence that was handed down by Justice Antoinette Moore earlier this week in the murder trial of fifty-two-year-old Enrique DePaz. The Silk Grass resident was found guilty of the stabbing death of fifty-two-year-old Harrison Bowers back in February 2016. Bowers was viciously attacked inside his home and stabbed multiple times, […]
A man who had stabbed his former stepfather more than twenty times was found guilty of dangerous harm today. It took a jury of six women and three men a little more than three hours to find twenty-seven-year-old Michael Baptist Junior, also known as “Chucky”, guilty of the charge. Baptist was accused of stabbing fifty-seven-year-old […]
Forty-eight-year-old Osmar Correo, a businessman from Belmopan, had been living in the United States until 1998 when he reportedly fled from Texas while out on bail for a charge of intoxication manslaughter. The incident occurred over twenty years ago and Correo is accused of killing two persons and injuring four others. Tonight, he is being […]
A witness in one of the most sensational murder trials of 2023 has been charged again with the November, 2020 murder of Shawn Menzies Senior. The uncooperative witness who was given immunity and who blatantly lied on the stand, was arraigned today in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court, charged for a second time with Menzies’ […]
The legal proceedings against attorney Oscar Selgado continued today before High Court Justice Nigel Pilgrim. Selgado is charged with aiding and abetting the commission of murder against Marilyn Barnes. Oral submissions with respect to the voir dire continued today. The voir dire aims to ascertain the court’s reliance on Giovanni Ramirez’s statement. Ramirez is the […]
Six months after being placed on pretrial detention for the murder of his wife and his brother, Miguel Encalada appeared before a senior magistrate in the lower court where he was provided with partial disclosure ahead of his trial. The thirty-nine-year-old barber is accused of killing Desiree Gonzalez and his sibling, twenty-five-year-old George Rochester at […]
In October, the government lost a legal claim brought by Caribbean International Brewery Limited regarding the confiscation of three point two million dollars by the Financial Intelligence Unit over a year ago. The High Court ruled that proper procedures were not followed and that the money should have been returned within seventy-two hours. The case […]
San Pedro resident David Gonzales has been found guilty of murdering his wife, Marisela Gonzales. Marisela’s semi-nude body was discovered at a dumpsite in San Pedro Town in October 2020, with evidence pointing to Gonzales as the perpetrator. The court ruled that Gonzales fatally shot his wife, disposed of her body, and fabricated a false […]
Twenty-four-year-old Coast Guard Officer Shakeem Richards was unable to meet bail this afternoon after he was arraigned in Belize City on two counts of assaulting a police officer and one count of threatening words. Bail was set at two thousand dollars, plus one surety of the same amount. Richards was unable to meet bail due […]
The preliminary inquiry in the case of accused murderer, former police corporal, Elmer Nah, was deferred to December fifteenth. While the media was not allowed to enter the courtroom of Magistrate Juliet Johnson-Clarke, a relative of the three deceased persons briefed the reporters who were present on the reason for the deferral. Dion Pascascio told […]
The trial against attorney Oscar Selgado continued today in the courtroom of High Court Justice Nigel Pilgrim. Selgado stands accused of abetment to commit murder against Marilyn Barnes. The voir dire is to determine whether Giovanni Ramirez’s statement can be relied upon by the court. Ramirez, who refuses to testify out of fear, reportedly handed […]
Police have laid charges against a man in connection with a murder that occurred in April 2022, more than eighteen months ago. You might recall when Jose Cedillos was shot multiple times on Good Friday, 2022 in Guinea Grass Village, Orange Walk. Reports are that Cedillos had threatened to assault a relative for monies that […]
Nineteen-year-old Keon Straughan appeared unrepresented before the lower court this morning where he was arraigned on a single charge of kept ammunition without being granted a gun license by the Commissioner of Police. It is alleged that on Monday, Straughan, a resident of Allan Pitts Crescent, was busted while on Caesar Ridge Road with nine […]
In early August, news broke that a Belizean worship leader was being accused by a few young women of indecent sexual assault. The number of accusations has grown to several since then. The National Evangelical Association of Belize, NEAB, issued a press release two days later, expressing shock at the news, but commending and offering […]
Guilty of murder, that’s the verdict handed down in the High Court earlier today in a matter involving thirty-three-year-old Marlon Everett. In the courtroom of the newly appointed Justice Candace Nanton, it was explained that the case against Everett was based on identification by the Crown’s main witnesses, one of whom was only fourteen years […]
Asian businessman Jian Kun Huang pleaded guilty to a mischievous act when he appeared before the lower court today. The thirty-one-year-old resident of Blue Marlin Drive reported to police that his 2015 Nissan Murano had been stolen on September twenty-ninth, 2023. He informed officers that the vehicle, valued at eleven thousand dollars, was parked in […]
Epifania Caliz is back in court after she and her common-law husband Elmer Nah, along with her brother Manuel Caliz, were acquitted of ammunition charges earlier this month. Today, she appeared inside the Belize City Magistrates Court to answer to a different charge, common assault. On October sixteenth, court reporter, Anita Nembhard was on duty […]
Two men who were on trial for murder were found guilty of the crime today, despite the fact that one of the Crown’s main witnesses strangely disappeared just after he had given testimony in the trial. His body was later discovered in a shallow grave in Belize District. The trial of Eric Miranda and Jeffery […]
Brothers Tyrone and Ellis Meighan have beaten yet another case in court. In October when we reported that the brothers were found not guilty of being members of a gang, we also told you that they had a pending case of aggravated assault to answer to. Well, today the brothers received more good news. The […]
The two men who are accused of the gruesome Sunday night triple murder in San Pedro were arraigned today in Belize City, due to the absence of a magistrate on the island. At 9:55 this morning, police escorted Christian Espat and Michael Brown inside Magistrate’s Court number three, where they were read nine indictable criminal […]
Twenty-six-year-old Michael Llewellyn Flowers, accused of raping a seventeen-year-old female minor inside Eruption Nightclub in October 2022, will stand trial in the January session of the High Court. That’s the decision handed down by a senior magistrate earlier today when Flowers appeared in Courtroom Number Three. This morning, Corporal Edgar Poot submitted twenty-eight witness statements […]
Eighteen-year-old Dorian Anthony recently walked away from a murder charge while he was still legally considered a minor. That was a few months ago, back in July. Tonight, he is once again behind bars for murder, after he was arraigned earlier today for the shooting death of forty-two-year-old Trenton Webster, last Thursday night here in […]
Marlon Everett, accused of the murder of Albert Johnson in April 2018, appeared in the High Court today where the trial against him concluded before Justice Nanto. Earlier today, Senior Crown Counsel Sheneiza Smith closed her case after calling on thirteen witnesses, including a main witness who was only fourteen years old at the time […]
