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A man who, as a youth several years ago, sodomized his little brother, has been sentenced to two years probation with conditions. The man, who was sixteen at the time, admitted that he sodomized his younger brother, who was ten years old when the incident happened. Justice Antoinette Moore, who presided over the matter, placed […]
Written on May 25, 2023 | Posted in
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A father has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison for incest. On May tenth, the man was convicted of six counts of incest after being found guilty of having sexual intercourse with his daughter during a five-year period. The act upon the minor first occurred in 2014 when she was thirteen years old and […]
Written on May 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Earlier today, Justice Antoinette Moore sentenced Kareem Martinez, a former police corporal to eighteen years in prison. On April twenty-first, the twenty-nine-year-old was found guilty of manslaughter for the shooting death of fourteen-year-old Laddie Gillett that occurred almost two years ago in Placencia. After hearing the statements of two character witnesses and a sworn statement […]
Written on May 24, 2023 | Posted in
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A chef who claims that he was the victim of a traffic accident on Monday, near the Pound Yard Bridge, says he is being victimized because he was charged for how he reacted after being knocked down. The incident was partially recorded and thereafter went viral on social media. Thirty-five-year-old Raymond Dyer was summoned to […]
Written on May 24, 2023 | Posted in
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Thirty-one-year-old Wilmer Javier Rivera appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court earlier today where he was arraigned on two indictable offenses of attempted murder and use of deadly means of harm. The charges follow an incident on May nineteenth, where Rivera inflicted multiple stab wounds on Jasmine Aguilar. The woman was standing on Linda Vista […]
Written on May 23, 2023 | Posted in
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Thirty-seven-year-old Basilio Ack is out on bail after pleading guilty to a single charge of sexual assault. The police officer is accused of squeezing his colleague’s breast during an incident that was reported on March twentieth. Earlier today, the resident of Mahogany Heights appeared unrepresented before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford where he pleaded not guilty […]
Written on May 23, 2023 | Posted in
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On Friday morning in Belize City, Jasmine Aguilar was viciously stabbed as she waited for a cab to pick her up near Linda Vista Street. It was later discovered that the cruel attack which left Aguilar hospitalized at the K.H.M.H., was carried out by her ex-boyfriend. It’s another case of gender-based violence being committed against […]
Written on May 22, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-six-year-old Armando Medina, accused of stealing a vehicle valued at forty-five thousand dollars from businessman Yhony Rosado, was acquitted of the charge earlier today, following a no case submission from his attorney. Medina appeared before Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitts-Anderson in the presence of attorney Orson Elrington. During the trial, footage of the incident that occurred […]
Written on May 19, 2023 | Posted in
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The murder trial of thirty-two-year-old David Gonzalez, accused of the shooting death of his wife in San Pedro in October 2020, continued today in the courtroom of Justice Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft. On Tuesday evening, the Crown’s primary witness took the stand and provided the court with critical evidence of what transpired that fateful night on […]
Written on May 17, 2023 | Posted in
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The infamous Elmer Nah returned to the Belmopan Magistrate Court this morning. He stands accused of murdering Vivian, Jon and David Ramnarace on the night of New Year’s Eve 2022. Unlike his previous court appearance, there wasn’t a visible presence of heavily armed police officers. We are told that Nah’s appearance today was procedural, as […]
Written on May 17, 2023 | Posted in
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Tonight, Raheem Reid, a deliveryman of Belize City is on remand at the Belize Central Prison after he was denied bail on arraignment on a charge of use of deadly means of harm upon Kenroy Elijio with the use of a firearm and for aggravated assault with a firearm upon Raheem Neal, a police officer. […]
Written on May 16, 2023 | Posted in
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Eighteen Brazilians who were charged with immigration offences appeared in the Magistrate’s Court late Monday. They pleaded guilty and were fined, before being ordered to leave the country upon settling their fines. In the meantime, four of their children have been placed in the custody of the Human Services Department until all of their removal […]
Written on May 16, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-seven-year-old Howard Reyes, a car dealer of Burrell Boom, was arraigned for attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm, aggravated assault with a firearm and wounding following a shooting incident in Saint Paul’s Bankon Tuesday. This morning, Reyes appeared before Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitts in the company of his attorney where he was arraigned […]
Written on May 12, 2023 | Posted in
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The family of Derrick Uh, the twenty-year-old man who died while police detained him in a hot prisoner van, says efforts to get the government to meet with their attorney have fallen on deaf ears and they have grown tired. Today, Shanelly Uh, Derrick’s older sister, told News Five via phone that their attorney, Senior […]
Written on May 12, 2023 | Posted in
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The suspect who shot and killed Adrian Pook is on remand for murder at the Belize Central Prison. Eighteen-year-old Kriston Francis, a sanitation worker of Aloe Vera Street, was unrepresented when he appeared before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford, where he was read a single charge of murder. The incident occurred on April thirtieth on Ordonez […]
Written on May 10, 2023 | Posted in
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Patrick Canelo and two other men were charged for disorderly conduct earlier today, following an altercation in Ladyville on Thursday night that resulted in the murder of twenty-year-old James Bainton. The deadly incident occurred at a football field in Ladyville where several persons had gathered to watch a game being played. Twenty-year-old Canelo, a resident […]
Written on May 8, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-four-year-old Tehje Vaughan was granted bail in the sum of ten thousand dollars by Justice Nigel Pilgrim for the charge of manslaughter by negligence in the shooting death of her friend and co-worker, thirty-year-old Charles Canton. Canton was accidentally shot by Vaughan last Friday. Vaughan, the daughter of Belize City Councilor Albert Vaughan, was arraigned […]
Written on May 4, 2023 | Posted in
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As many as three prisoners escaped while being escorted to the Belize Central Prison over the last four to five months. The most recent escapee, twenty-eight-year-old Ryan Foster, did so on Tuesday, April eighteenth. Thirteen days later, on May first, Foster was arraigned on a single charge of escape from lawful custody. He is accused […]
Written on May 3, 2023 | Posted in
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This morning in the lower courts, the daughter of a well-known city councilor was denied bail when she was brought up on a charge of manslaughter by negligence. Tehje Vaughn has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison until July third, when she is scheduled to go before the Chief Magistrate Jayani Wegodapola. Vaughn, who […]
Written on May 2, 2023 | Posted in
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Today in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court, Anthony Carballo Junior, was arraigned on a charge of murder for the killing last week Thursday of thirty-year-old Silvian Swift on Antelope Street. Due to the nature of the offence, bail was denied and Carballo was remanded to the Belize Central Prison until June 2023. Swift was standing […]
Written on May 2, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-two-year-old Everald Martinez, who was charged with rape and murder of his seventeen-month-old stepdaughter, walked out of the courtroom a free man today. Martinez had spent five years behind bars for the incident after baby Allyssa Nunez was sexually molested, raped and beaten with a blunt object in March of 2018. Supreme Court Justice Ricardo […]
Written on May 2, 2023 | Posted in
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Jasmine Hartin, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter by negligence on Tuesday, for the shooting death of senior police officer Henry Jemmott, says her decision was made in haste. In a press release issued today, Hartin said that the day of her case was fraught with emotion and uncertainty that resulted in her decision to plead […]
Written on April 26, 2023 | Posted in
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The trial of Jasmine Hartin has ended almost as quickly as it began today before Supreme Court Judge, Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft. The case ended this evening with Hartin pleading guilty to manslaughter by negligence for the shooting death of Superintendent of Police Henry Jemmott, who was forty-two when he was killed on a pier in […]
Written on April 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Miguel Encalada, the Ladyville resident who is accused of the murder of his common-law-wife, fifty-year-old Desiree Gonzalez Rowland and his own brother, twenty-five-year-old George Encalada Rochester, appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court today to face the charges. The thirty-nine-year-old barber is charged with two counts of murder. While speculation is still rife that the […]
Written on April 24, 2023 | Posted in
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Thirty-eight-year-old Leon Walford has been sentenced to forty-eight years in prison for the execution-style murder of American national Lamont Edward Lipka in May 2018. The deadly incident took place in San Pedro when Walford and Tracey Betancourt entered Tropicana Restaurant and Bar and shot Lipka multiple times inside his place of business. While Betancourt has […]
Written on April 24, 2023 | Posted in
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