A car washer, who works at the parking lot located behind the Belize City Magistrate’s Court, was today in front of the court to answer to a single charge of theft. He is twenty-one year old Kenrick Longsworth, a resident of Belize City, who appeared this morning before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer for arraignment. Allegations are that Longsworth, by use of force, stole from Mariani Westby, a tablet and fifty dollars in cash. Longsworth pleaded not guilty to the charge and obtained bail in the sum of one thousand dollars. According to police, on January first, Westby was walking on Douglas Jones Street heading towards New Road, when she was robbed. Police soon picked up Longsworth as the person who robbed her.
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