Well-known businessman, Manuel Pacheco of Pacheco’s Jewelry, will have to stand trial at the April session of the Supreme Court for murder. That was the outcome of his Preliminary Inquiry which ended this morning before Senior Magistrate, Tricia Pitts-Anderson and his attorney, Senior Counsel Ellis Arnold. Arnold chose not to challenge any of the evidence […]
George Matthews, who has had troubles with the law, was back in court today on a charge of aggravated assault with a knife upon his sister, Michelle Matthew. The George Street resident appeared before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford for arraignment. He indicated to the court that he wanted to speak before taking a plea. He […]
Four persons have been charged and arraigned for the brazen robbery of money changers at the northern border on Thursday morning. The four men, Eugene Myers, Zander Myers, Randolph Crawford and Joshua Hall, were all charged with robbery, unlicensed firearm and ammunition in the Corozal Magistrate’s Court. Myers, Crawford and Hall were slapped with additional […]
The anticipated expert opinion on the Guatemala claim to Belize is now available. The Bar Association commissioned and is now in receipt of the opinion from a Caribbean expert on international law. The highly respected attorney and professor, Stephen Vasciannie was scheduled to present his opinion publicly, but since he will not be available in […]
An eighteen-year-old teenager is accused of sexually assaulting a fourteen-year old minor. Tonight, he is on remand at the Belize Central Prison awaiting a possible Supreme Court bail following his arraignment on two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse. Kevon Palmerston is charged for the offenses that are allegedly to have occurred on August thirty-first, and […]
Fifty-two-year-old Richard Ellis reported to police that he was stabbed multiple times in the face on Thursday morning just before nine. He reported that a woman and two men attacked him when he visited a house he shared with the woman. The woman, thirty-seven-year-old Tanesia Payne, appeared unrepresented before the court today to answer to […]
A preliminary inquiry ended today in the murder case against Orlando Salazar, who was charged jointly with Joel Choco for the killing of Windell Neal. The court withdrew the charge against Salazar and he was free to go. The evidence of the prosecution was challenged back in October of 2018 when the P.I. started before […]
Two city youth were arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court on six criminal and indictable offenses. Twenty-one year-old Mark August and eighteen-year-old Avery Bain were read the criminal and indictable offenses including abetment to murder, conspiracy to murder and attempted murder. Allegations are that on February twenty-third, 2019, gunmen opened fire at two brothers: […]
Two alleged fake cops were today convicted in the lower court for a charge of false pretence of an officer. Forty-one-year-old Barrington Slusher was charged along with thirty-four-year-old Dorian Blair; the duo appeared before Magistrate Tricia Pitts Anderson for the start of their case, but the two took a guilty plea and will be spending […]
Months ago, eighteen-year old Jordan Akeem Burns, was charged for the murder of thirty-four-year old Carlton Jarrett Moreira which occurred on May twenty-third 2018, through a back street in the Mayflower area also known as Ghost Town. Moreira’s death was allegedly triggered by boledo winnings when the number twenty-one played. A lone gunman sneaked […]
Nineteen-year-old Keenan Young, a music producer, appeared before Magistrate Khadeen Palmer and was arraigned for use of deadly means of harm. Since the offense was allegedly committed with the use of a firearm, Magistrate Palmer asked him to provide special reasons why he should be granted bail. Young told the court that he is innocent […]
Kenrick Longsworth, the son of Lavern “Antichrist” Longsworth, was today committed to stand trial at Supreme Court for the attempted murder of Kadeem Myers, who was shot on the eve of the 2018 elections. His preliminary inquiry before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford ended with the committal after prosecutor, Sergeant Macedonio Sanchez presented as many as […]
Two cops have also been committed to stand trial for extortion of five thousand dollars from a mother and son duo. Corporal Marvin Salam and Constable Anthony Blair are accused of shaking down a student and his mom for money almost two years ago in July 2017. Allegations are that on July fifteenth, 2017, the […]
Two men have been charged for the robbery at Kum Hua Store in Belize City. Kerun Miguel and Jamar Neal appeared in court before Magistrate Khadeen Palmer today where they were read a single charge of robbery with a firearm. Both men pleaded not guilty to the charge. Magistrate Palmer asked the duo to provide […]
Seventy-six-year-old Primrose Gabourel and her son forty-three-year-old Dion Zabaneh were back in court today after the Department of Environment brought charges once again for failure to adhere to stop orders and continue to develop on a seashore property that has been a question of concern. Six charges were to be read to the mother and […]
On Tuesday, two Belizeans and a Guatemalan national were arraigned and remanded to the Belize Central Prison after being charged jointly for possession of prohibited firearms and ammunition. The indictments followed a bust in Benque Viejo on the morning of February tenth, when thirty-four-year-old Edgar De La O, twenty-six-year-old Jorge Luis Reyes Villeda and a […]
Despite strong objections from the court prosecutor, bail was granted to the De La O brothers on the presumption of innocence. According to Hamilton, ownership of the vehicle has not been established. Isani Cayetano “These clients of yours were purportedly in possession of at least two high caliber weapons and several rounds of ammunition. […]
Twenty-one-year-old Randy Chambers made headlines in December 2015, when he was walloped by a trio of officers as he was walking through his family yard on Police Street Extension. The physical abuse of the young carpenter was captured by a security camera at his parents’ home in an adjacent property. Tonight, he is once again […]
Two men were jointly charged today and arraigned for drug related offenses after they were caught on February eleventh with over seven pounds of weed. Sixty-one-year-old Ralston McDonald and fifty-three-year-old Aston Richards were dragged to court and appeared before Magistrate Michelle Trapp for possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply. While there were […]
A pair of feuding Ladyville residents appeared in court today for their alleged involvement in a chopping incident that left both men suffering from injuries to the body. The ‘chop fi chop’ incident occurred last Thursday, February seventh, between Enrique Pandy and Orlando Reyes on Serosi Street in Lord’s Bank. Forty-one-year-old Pandy was first to […]
The sensational drug trafficking case involving embattled policeman Darrell “Tutsi” Usher fell apart in the lower court today, ending with an acquittal. In March 2017, the elder son of Gilroy Usher, P.U.P. Standard Bearer for Port Loyola, was charged with possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply after he was reportedly connected to […]
Peruvian national, Luis Miguel Marroquin, one of three visitors accused of preparation for a crime of theft at a Dangriga ATM, was denied bail in the Supreme Court of Justice Herbert Lord today. Crown Counsel, Riis Raymond Cattouse objected on many grounds including the prevalence of the crime and that the accused is a flight […]
A pair of cousins is behind bars tonight for a wild shootout on the heavily trafficked Coney Drive in Belize City. On Wednesday afternoon, twenty-one-year-old Ulide Allen beat a hasty retreat amid a shower of bullets during the brazen exchange of gunfire with Belize City police. During the mid-afternoon shootout, a responding officer was grazed […]
The head of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas was found inside a bucket in the pan of the truck of the notorious William “Danny” Mason in the parking lot of Barrio Fino in Belmopan. The shocking discovery was met with disgust and anger in 2016. Mason and four other men are facing charges for the pastor’s murder […]
Private developer Dion Zabaneh is free to proceed with filling lot number 4670, after charges against him for infractions that were purportedly committed in defiance of the Environmental Protection Act were withdrawn by the Department of the Environment. In early January, both parties became embroiled in a heated dispute over Zabaneh’s intent to build on […]
