The preliminary inquiry for B.D.F. soldier, Albert Moreira, accused of the murder of his estranged common-law-wife, Felicia James kicked off on Monday before Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitts Anderson. Prosecutor in the case, Corporal Christopher Smith submitted thirty-six statements from police including notes of interview with Moreira and information on a motor vehicle owned by James. […]
An elderly woman is the latest victim of an alleged sexual assault. She was purportedly inappropriately touched and grabbed on her private parts and her breast by a man known to her. On Monday afternoon, forty-eight-year-old Marcus Vasquez, of Card’s Alley in Belize City was charged with two counts of sexual assault and harm upon […]
There are two more arrests in connection with a drug bust that yielded police over one thousand three hundred kilos of cocaine. Thirty-six-year-old Terencio Mejia Cruz and fifty-three-year-old Jacobo Yovany Mejia Garcia were charged today with conspiracy to abet to import a controlled drug. It is suspected that both Honduran nationals are tied to the […]
A thirty-year-old man is free tonight after a serious charge of unlawful sexual intercourse was dismissed against him in the Supreme Court this morning. Daniel Rios was accused by a child, only nine years at the time. He appeared in the courtroom of Justice Colin Williams where the crown counsel of the D.P.P. office, entered […]
William “Danny” Mason had his day in court today. Mason chose to give testimony from the dock on the murder of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas who was beheaded in July 2016. Mason and four other men are facing murder charges, following the discovery of the pastor’s head in a bucket at the back of his pickup […]
The murder trial of William ‘Danny’ Mason and his alleged accomplices resumed this morning in the Belmopan Supreme Court before Justice Antoinette Moore. The defense case against brothers Keron and Terrence Fernandez, Ashton Vanegas and Ernest Castillo was closed today and Mason’s is set to commence on September eleventh. All five men were read their […]
Even as the law allows for a person to be in possession of up to ten grams of weed, a group of nine persons, including a theologist, were before the court on a drug trafficking charge for eighty-nine grams of cannabis. Victor Lara and his wife Brea Stanke, along with Alex Salazar, Sebastian Young, Marcus […]
An alleged arsonist was before the court to answer charges in respect of a fire at a woman’s house in Lord’s Bank Village. Jose Manuel Portillo was arraigned for an act of arson on August eighteenth, 2019 in which a wooden house along with household items went up in flames. It was the property of […]
After serving five of thirteen years for burglary, criminal figure Eugene Lloyd Ramirez of Taylor’s Alley is back in jail where he will serve an additional six months for violating the conditions of his parole. This morning, Ramirez who has two convictions for pipe possession, appeared before the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for possession of […]
A man is serving two years behind bars after he was found guilty of sexually molesting an eight-year-old girl. Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford convicted Moises Flores, a Belize City resident, of the crime this morning. The assault upon the minor is reported to have occurred sometime in May or June of 2017, when the child […]
A home invasion at the property of a well-known businessman fell apart this morning in court. As many as nineteen persons were charged initially for the home invasion at the house of Sarkis Abou-Nehra in Burrell Boom after a group of men from the city stormed into his premises, stole a number of items including […]
Belize City resident Sherwin Santos, accused jointly with a fifteen-year-old minor of robbing New Fortune Restaurant in July of last year, is tonight serving a three-year jail sentence. The term was imposed on him when he changed his not guilty plea to guilty before the Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser. The duo was charged with the […]
A retreat outing for an officer almost ended fatally when he was attacked and stabbed in the face and injured on the hand by another co-worker. There is no motive known for the latest attack for which a local boat captain is charged with wounding a law enforcement officer of the Belize Port Authority. As […]
A Scotland Half-moon resident is behind bars following his arraignment for a huge amount of marijuana. He is forty-two-year-old Joel Sutherland, a construction worker from rural Belize District. Sutherland, who was represented in court by attorney Kathleen Lewis, appeared before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford. He was read a single charge of possession of a […]
Police Constable, Herman Millian is out on Supreme Court bail. Millian met bail of ten thousand dollars and is scheduled to reappear at the San Ignacio Magistrate’s Court on October sixteenth, later this year. After being granted bail, Millian managed to escape the cameras with the help of his fellow police officers who snuck him […]
Nineteen-year-old Everald Sambula will stand trial at the Supreme Court for a robbery that happened at Premium Wines and Spirit last September. In 2018, Sambula was arraigned on four counts of robbery. The Preliminary Inquiry was held today before Magistrate Emmerson Banner where he ruled that Sambula must stand trial in October. The teenager, who […]
Devin “DJ Perf” Peyrefitte and Denzel Usher have both been charged for the crime of rape. The men stand accused of allegedly raping a woman in the wee hours of Monday morning, while at a social gathering at a residence in Belmopan. The allegation is that the men had sexual intercourse with the woman against […]
Thirty-two-year-old Raymond Lightfoot Dyer, a fisherman from Ladyville, pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply, after being busted with five hundred and thirty-one grams of marijuana. He was also charged with keeping a firearm without a gun license and keeping ammunition without being granted a gun license by the Commissioner […]
A pair of teenagers is on remand at the Belize Central Prison tonight after allegedly beating up a sixty-three-year-old resident of Belize City. On Tuesday, Liz Flowers was reportedly attacked by eighteen-year-old Tyrique Smith and nineteen-year-old Prince Copious as he was walking along Lacroix Boulevard. Earlier today, the duo appeared unrepresented before Magistrate Stephanie Gillett […]
Attorney Hurl Hamilton believes that the action taken by the police department against Jorge Luis Reyes Villeda is an abuse of the process of the court and that his client is unlawfully detained. Hurl Hamilton, Attorney “Well it is very unfortunate and I am very surprised if indeed the police department would go through […]
Police constables Leonard Nunez and Hallet King were released from custody today after being held on remand for the manslaughter of Caye Caulker resident Hilbert Sotz. The pair was initially arraigned on a count of murder but that charge was subsequently reduced to manslaughter. Sotz died while in detention at the police station in Caye […]
A trio of Mexicans caught stealing money from an ATM in Orange Walk and Corozal in January of last year has been acquitted of the charges of theft after spending seventeen months at the Belize Central Prison. Joscan Jafet Uriostequi, Belen Isai Uriostequi and her common-law husband Leonel Peralta Rodriguez appeared in court this morning […]
There is a murder conviction to report tonight. Twenty-seven-year-old Ibrahim Smith remains behind bars awaiting sentencing for the November 2012 murder of twenty-two-year-old William Francis. Francis was gunned down inside his home and perished in the living room. He was shot as many as six times to the upper left side of the body. In trial, […]
In 2018, a toddler was raped and murdered while she was in the care of her stepfather at their Maskall home. The mother of the child, Denika Flowers, was not there when the horrific incident occurred. Her boyfriend, twenty-one-year-old Everal Martinez was eventually charged with the heinous crimes and has been on remand since then. […]
A Belize City tour guide picked up a drug conviction after he admitted to possession of one hundred and fifty grams of weed found at his home. The amount is fifteen times more than allowed by law since the decriminalization of marijuana. Fifty-two-year-old Cecil Gill pleaded guilty to the drug offense when he appeared in […]
