Champagne Paris Granted Bail for Burglary
Perfilio Rodriguez Nineteen year old Porfilio Rodriguez also known as Vanessa Champagne is home tonight with relatives after spending the Christmas behind bars. Champagne spent plenty time last year...
View ArticleBelize City Man Fined for Domestic Dispute
Alvin Jones Following the opening of the Supreme Court, a number of cases were dealt with. Forty-five year old Alvin Jones, who had been in police custody since last week Thursday, the day after his...
View ArticleBelize City Woman Fined for Marijuana Cultivation and Possession of Pipe
Olympia King In December 2014, forty-four year old mother, Olympia King, of Saint Joseph Street, Belize City, was found guilty of cultivation of marijuana and possession of a pipe used for marijuana...
View ArticleAngel Dorado’s Third Conviction in Less Than Six Months
Angel Dorado Angel Dorado today picked up a third conviction in less than six months in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for drug trafficking. At eleven this morning, Dorado was found guilty of...
View ArticleProfessor Bain Takes UWI to Court in Jamaica
Brendan Bain A week-long session in the Supreme Court of Jamaica commenced earlier today, following a lawsuit filed in 2014 by Professor Brendan Bain. The litigation involving the University of the...
View ArticleHattieville Resident Remanded for Unpaid Court Bill
Gian Stiane Twenty-three year old Hattieville resident, Gian Stiane, is behind bars tonight on the first day of a three year conviction. Staine appeared before Magistrate Herbert Panton on a charge of...
View ArticleCop Remanded for Carnal Knowledge
Patrick O’Brien But in the south, there’s a complicated story in Independence village which we’ve been following for the past week – one which involves a Policeman, a minor, and to some extent, a...
View ArticleSmith Charged for Murdering Inmate
Lorenzo Smith Jr. While no one has been charged for the murder of “Pete” Ayuso, a prison inmate was this afternoon arraigned for a murder that happened five years ago. Twenty-nine year old Lorenzo...
View ArticleFour Charged for Heroin Bust
Four men were arraigned this morning in the Orange Walk Magistrate Court for drug possession and trafficking of forty pounds of heroin, worth ten million dollars. It follows a huge bust by the...
View ArticleProsecutions Rests in Case Against Bahamians
Rohn Knowles & Kelvin Leach Now to the courts…the case by the Financial Intelligence Unit against two Bahamians, Kelvin Leach and Rohn Knowles, for failure to declare in excess of ten thousand...
View ArticleCop Accused of Unlawful Sex Gets Bail
Patrick O’Brien A cop from Independence who has been charged for having sexual intercourse with a minor appeared before the Supreme Court today. Patrick O’Brien was charged this week and while it takes...
View ArticleMark Vega Acquitted of 2002 Murder
On Friday night in the Orange Walk Supreme Court, the murder re-trial of well known street figure, Mark Vega ended in his acquittal. A jury of twelve found thirty-one year old Vega not guilty of the...
View ArticleFormer EP Yorke teacher Acquitted of Carnal Knowledge Charges
Cordel Gonzalez In late 2009, the then E. P. Yorke Teacher, Cordel Gonzalez, was charged with two counts of Carnal Knowledge upon a fourteen year old student. He lost his job after a video tape...
View ArticleStaine Sibling Arraigned for Murder of B.D.F. Volunteer
Orlando & Phil Tyrone Staine Two brothers have been arraigned for Saturday’s murder of B.D.F. volunteer, Denver Villafranco. The siblings, Orlando and Phil Tyrone Staine from the Saint Martin De...
View ArticleMother and Daughter Arraigned for Possession of Controlled Drug
Rosita Polanco Also in court this morning, a forty-eight year old mother and her thirty year old daughter, both employed as school wardens in Belize City, were arraigned on a charge of drug trafficking...
View ArticleFormer UB Student Convicted of Forgery
Kenroy Young Kenroy Young, a former UB student, was convicted of Forgery. Young was accused of cashing over ten thousand dollars in cheques from Regent Insurance Co. Ltd., where he worked. He was...
View ArticleAccused Robber Walks Free
Delroy Allen In May 2014, a Bowen and Bowen employee was robbed of one thousand five hundred dollars. Today, he requested no further court action against the man he had positively identify as his...
View ArticleJury Deliberates in Murder Trial
Warren Lewis & Cordel Flores The trial of Warren Lewis of Lord’s Bank, Ladyville and Cordel Flores of Belize City, who are jointly charged for the August 2009 murder of Albert Allen was summed up...
View ArticlePopular Tattooist Charged for Carnal Knowledge
Esteban ‘Steve’ Mossiah In the magistrate’s court today, popular Tattoo Artist Esteban ‘Steve’ Mossiah, proprietor of Stinging Scorpio’s Tattoo, was remanded to Belize Central Prison after he arrested...
View ArticleBail Granted for Men Busted With Heroin
Justice Troadio Gonzalez also presided at a bail hearing this morning. After eight days on remand at the Belize Central Prison for a bust of forty pounds of heroin, four men were granted Supreme Court...
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