The boyfriend of a Belize City woman is out on bail tonight. Both Jayelle Young and her sister, Yasmeen, claim that Trevor Brown physically abused them. Jayelle alleges that he beat and dragged her into a vehicle, sped off, and when her sister intervened to help, she too was injured on her left hand. Brown […]
A shocking new disclosure was made today during the murder trial of William ‘Danny’ Mason, who stands accused, along with four others, of beheading Pastor Llewellyn Lucas in July 2016. This morning, a forensic analyst employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation took the stand via a Skype call from the United States and later […]
While D.N.A. evidence lifted from the clothing of three of the five accused men does not, as yet, implicate his client, attorney Norman Rodriguez is studying today’s testimony carefully since the F.B.I. witness will continue from the stand on Wednesday morning where she will be cross-examined. He began by giving his take on what unfolded […]
When we last reported on the murder trial of William “Danny” Mason and his co-accomplices, it was from the Belmopan courts. Today, the trial was transferred to Belize City with Justice Antoinette Moore presiding. The trial of started with a Scenes of Crime technician taking the stand to provide testimony under oath. The hearing commenced […]
On Friday, Justice Antoinette Moore ruled that a caution statement given by Mason’s co-accused, Ernest Castillo, in which he confesses to lapping off Lucas’ head, was inadmissible. As a result, all five men are jointly facing a charge of murder. Defense attorney Norman Rodriguez also shared a few words with the media after today’s session […]
This morning before Justice Shona Griffith, a hearing for judicial review in a case filed by Corporal Eldon Arzu against Commissioner of Police Chester Williams stalled yet again. Arzu is challenging a directive from the ComPol in which he cannot serve as the president of the Belize Police Association after having served in that capacity […]
Donald Heredia, an alleged murder suspect, was able to secure bail through the Supreme Court after sitting behind bars for more than three years awaiting trial. Heredia is said to be a mental patient, who was fit to re-enter society and would not have posed a threat. On Friday, attorney Darrell Bradley was successful in […]
A would-be-thief went to burglarize a closed business establishment, but was caught on the same surveillance camera he tried to steal. Cris Anthony Reyes of Marigold Lane, Belize City, was caught red-handed burglarizing the business place of U.S. national, Allen Jackson, on Caye Caulker and trying to steal surveillance camera footage. Late Friday evening, Reyes, […]
The son of former U.D.P. Deputy Prime Minister, Andre Vega, has been ordered by the court to return some four hundred thousand dollars to the Government of Belize. The government took Vega to court after he was compensated for a prime piece of land located along mile four of the Philip Goldson Highway, near the […]
Central to the case was the Minister’s Fiat grant, which was issued during the land transaction. The minister responsible for lands at the time was Gaspar Vega, father of Andre Vega. While Andre would not answer questions from the media, his attorney Estevan Perera was pressed on several issues relating to the case. Estevan […]
In the Belmopan Supreme Court, Justice Antoinette Moore handed down a major decision in the murder case of Danny Mason and his co-accused. At the conclusion of a voir dire this afternoon, a caution statement by accused murderer Ernest Castillo in which he takes the wrap for the beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas three years […]
A two-year-old toddler was injured when a GSU vehicle ran over him about seven months on Iguana Street Extension, Belize City. Fortunately, he survived his near death ordeal. And even after the Belize Police Department had served one of their own officers with a Notice of Intended Prosecution, it took them seven months to charge […]
Final submissions were made today by both the prosecution and the defense attorneys in the voir dire in the murder trial of Williams “Danny” Mason et al. D.P.P. herself, Cheryl-Lynn Vidal represented the crown while legal aide, Baja Shoman appeared on behalf of Ernest Castillo. The trial within the trial before Justice Antoinette Moore looked […]
The case of the five accused murderers, including Terrence and Keiron Fernandez, Ashton Vanegas as well as William “Danny” Mason and Ernest Castillo, had been on hold for many reasons. Among the delays were changes in legal representation, and non-appearances of both witnesses and attorneys. Mason was finally able to secure legal representation from Dexter […]
A teenager has been arrested and charged for Tuesday’s murder of Nixon Pinto. Nineteen-year-old Jovi Hernandez, a Honduran national living in the village of Hattieville, was arraigned this evening in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court on a single charge of murder. Hernandez is accused of fatally stabbing eighteen-year-old Pinto during what police say was a […]
Charges of extortion have been dropped against a Special Constable and a police officer attached to the San Pedro Police Formation. An American visitor accused them of shaking him down for three hundred U.S. dollars. Timothy Braun was on the island when he was busted by the officers on the night of June fifteenth, 2017. […]
There is breaking news tonight. News Five has been able to confirm that attorney Oscar Selgado will be needing an attorney for himself. While the details are brief at this time, we have learnt that the police have in their hands critical information in terms of a recording in which Selgado is heard talking to […]
After months awaiting a fixed sentence, today Patrick Reyes, who is in his late fifties, learnt that he will have to spend forty years of a life sentence with the possibility of parole only after serving his entire jail term. Reyes was handed down the sentence this morning before the Chief Justice. The Teakettle man was […]
Five additional persons have been charged and arraigned for their alleged involvement in a case of human smuggling that was intercepted by police on Tuesday afternoon. It is being categorized as human smuggling and not human trafficking because it is believed that four Honduran nationals—two minors and two adults, who illegally entered the country—were being […]
Following a lengthy adjournment, the murder trial of William ‘Danny’ Mason and his accomplices resumed before Justice Antoinette Moore in the Belmopan Supreme Court on Wednesday. Onboard are attorneys Bryan Neal and Norman Rodriguez, representing co-accused suspects Keiron Fernandez and Ashton Vanegas, respectively. Mason retains the counsel of Guyanese attorney Dexter Todd. Having apprised the […]
Tonight a former Buca Shell employee is in trouble with the law. He is twenty-five-year-old Victor Ayuso, a resident of Orange Walk, who appeared this morning before Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitts-Anderson to answer to a charge of theft to which he pleaded not guilty. Allegations are that between January fourteenth, 2019 and June twenty-eighth, […]
As you heard just now, the two men charged in connection with an alleged smuggling operation, are social worker Sergio Adrian Guerra and Edwin Naj. Both men were in vehicles transporting two adults and two minors who are undocumented Honduran nationals. Naj and Guerra appeared before the courts today where they were charged and released […]
From death row to life sentence to possibility of parole, after he completes twenty-five years behind bars. That’s how the murder case concluded today for convicted prisoner, Erlin White, when he was given a fixed sentence for killing a well-known Belize City businessman. The sentence was handed down this morning by Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. […]
After two years on remand for a 2017 murder, tonight, twenty-year-old Eldon Flowers is a free man. His murder trial by judge without jury ended today before Justice Colin Williams of the Supreme Court who concluded that Flowers had no case to answer for the murder of nineteen-year-old Randolph Johnson, who was shot multiple times […]
The criminal trial against accused murderer William “Danny” Mason and his associates, Terrence Fernandez, Ashton Vanegas, Keiron Fernandez, and Ernest Castillo, finally resumed today in the Belmopan Supreme Court after several adjournments. The trial is continuing at a point that is very crucial to the prosecution. A vior dire commenced today to determine if the […]
