She was murdered on March twenty second and today the man who was a suspect from the day she disappeared was charged with her death. Michael Williams was formally charged this afternoon with the murder of twelve year old Jackie Fern Malic. At a press conference at the Raccoon Street Police Station, Commissioner Ornel Brooks […]
Of course the case cannot rest on circumstantial evidence alone and Commissioner Brooks indicated that tests on Jackie’s body indicate she was immobilized at the time of her torture and murdered by a combination of alcohol and drugs. Ornel Brooks, Commissioner of Police “From our forensic laboratory findings the laboratory scientist has established that the […]
Hours before the police press conference rumors were flying that the attorney for Mike Williams, Kirk Anderson, might himself be arrested. According to Assistant Inspector Eli Salazar, who went to Anderson’s office this morning, William’s common-law wife Julie Staine claims that Anderson told her to get rid of clothing Williams was wearing when first detained […]
While today’s press conference was called primarily to announce the break in the Jackie Malic murder case, Commissioner Brooks was also grilled by the press on other subjects. One was an allegation that two of Brooks’ most aggressive investigators, Simeon Alvarez and Eli Salazar, on Thursday afternoon detained a naturalized Belizean, Dr. William Willitts and […]
When confronted with Lumor’s allegation at the press conference Commissioner Brooks defended the actions of his men and the process left many in the audience wondering how far the credibility of the police force could be stretched. Dr. Willitts, he said, never bothered to mention that he was a Belizean. Ornel Brooks, Commissioner of Police […]
Yesterday morning while everyone was returning home from a long Easter vacation a twenty-two year old mother of two boys Sheryl Barrow was almost killed by her former common-law husband Louie Gentle. According to a family member and an eyewitness Gentle had previously threatened Barrow and was ordering her to go home with him that […]
Seven men have been arrested and charged with the murder of Chinese businessman Lee Yun Chong which occurred last Monday night on Jasmin Street. This morning David Sutherland, Carlos Escalante, Alex Goff, Elvis Rosado, Ashton Belgrave, Jerry Usher and Francis Pollard Jr. were formally charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, grevious harm, […]
A young woman drowned over the weekend off Sarteneja in the Corozal District. Police say twenty four year old Ana Patt of San Narciso was in a Mexican skiff which capsized about five hundred yards from shore Easter Sunday evening. Ten others in the boat were rescued but Patt failed to resurface. Her body was […]
Two young men are dead after a holiday traffic accident in Orange Walk on Saturday. Twenty four year old Javier Castellanos and 3 passengers Delroy Cecil Caliz, twenty-two; Ricardo Alamilla seventeen and eighteen year old Ryan Casimiro were travelling on the San Estevan Road after five p.m. when something apparently went wrong with their Mazda […]
A man met bail today after being charged with the indecent assault of a twelve year old. The girl reported to police that around seven o’clock Good Friday she was at her aunt’s house when Roberto Cardinez Lozano who lives in Conch Shell Bay touched her on her leg close to her vaginal area. The […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to another serving of Sports Monday. We take you immediately into the early morning of Holy Saturday for the start of the 71st edition of the annual Cross Country Cycling Classic and it’s always a spectacle to see over a hundred riding off in search of fame and […]
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