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Former Post Office Employee Convicted for Theft
Sergio Patt A former employee at the Post Office in Belize is spending his first night behind bars. Thirty-two-year old Sergio Alonso Patt, of San Jose Village, Orange Walk Town was arraigned today on...
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Santorino Sotz Says Police Are Corrupt
Santorino Sotz Police Constables Hallet King and Leonard Nunez were the two officers charged for the vicious killing of eighteen year old Baptist High School student Hilberto Sotz inside the police...
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Punishment May Not Fit the Crime
Leroy Banner The next step will be mitigation pleas followed by sentencing. But here’s the thing. Under the NICH Act, Grijalva could face fines of up to ten thousand dollars. Banner says is really...
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Denny Grijalva Guilty of Razing Ancient Mayan Site
Denny Grijalva After three years of constant adjournments and delays, U.D.P. Orange Walk Central political caretaker Denny Grijalva was found guilty, along with his wife Emelda Grijalva and Project...
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Felix Brothers Will Stand Trial for Murder
Emory Felix The Felix brothers, Maurice and Emory, will have to stand trial for the murder of Mark Gentle and attempted murder of Pamela Cumberbatch at the June session of the Supreme Court. Gentle,...
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Austin Gabourel Charged for Caye Caulker Murder
Austin Gabourel Twenty-year-old Austin Gabourel is tonight behind bars accused of murdering a Caye Caulker resident over the weekend. Late this afternoon, Gabourel was read a single charge of murder...
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The Accused in Bou-Nehra Home Invasion Back in Court
As many as nineteen persons have been charged in connection with the home invasion of Lebanese Honorary Consul Sarkis Bou Nehra in early December 2015. In the robbery in Burrell Boom, Belize District,...
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Grijalva Sentenced for Destroying Noh Mul
Three years ago, Denny Grijalva, the U.D.P. Orange Walk standard bearer, his wife Emelda and their foreman, Javier Nunez were found to be excavating limestone from the Mayan site Noh Mul to be used in...
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Kim Brannon is Sentenced for Manslaughter of Common Law Husband
Kim Brannon A case of domestic dispute ended today before Justice Troadio Gonzalez. After pleading guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter, Kim Royaline Brannon, who is now forty-five years, learnt...
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Nicholas Swazo Charged for Murder of George Street Boss
Nicholas Swazo Nicholas Swazo, the man accused of killing Gerald ‘Shiny’ Tillett last Saturday in Dangriga, has been arraigned on a number of charges related to the deadly weekend shooting. As we...
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Tyrone Myers is Arraigned for Belize City Burglary
A Belize City man was linked to a burglary after CIB personnel lifted a finger print from the home of the victim whose house was burglarized. The alleged burglar, Tyrone Myers, was arraigned in court,...
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Sabido Gets Life in Prison for the Murder of Girlfriend
Oscar Selgado In cases we’ve covered, sentencing would usually be reserved pending mitigation pleas on behalf of the convicted. But in this case sentencing was immediate, as requested by Selgado after...
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Osmar Sabido is Guilty of Killing Christie Carrasco
Osmar Sabido More than five years after he stabbed Christie Carrasco to death, Osmar Sabido was today sentenced to life in prison for the crime. The lengthy judgment was read into record by Justice...
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A Belize City Butcher is Accused of Stealing from Meat Shop
Fernando Guerra This morning, twenty-year-old Fernando Guerra, was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for a charge of burglary. The butcher is accused of stealing four knives, a fan, a...
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Former Pension Clerk Monica Escarpeta Freed of Embezzlement Charges
Monica Escarpeta A theft that occurred at the Treasury Department in a two year period between 2007 and 2009 landed three women before the court. The case against pension clerk, Monica Escarpeta, along...
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Trial of Accused Murderer Ervin Reneau Continues in Supreme Court
Ervin Reneau The murder trial of Ervin Reneau, accused of the November, 2010 murder of two Belize City men, Security Guard Edgar Ayala and David Longsworth is nearing an end. Both were fatally shot and...
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Akeem Trapp to Stand Trial for Murder
Akeem Trapp Nineteen-year old Akeem Kirklin Trapp Junior will stand trial at the June session of the Supreme Court for the murder of eighteen year old Ian Adolphus which occurred on February...
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Ryan Alvarez to Stand Trial for Murder
Ryan Alvarez Almost a month ago, Devon Sankey was freed of the murder of Edward Albert Robinson and the attempted murder of notorious street figure Jamil Betancourt which occurred in October 2015 in...
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Teenager Charged for Murder of Troy Cole
Ryan Thompson Late this afternoon, a teenager of Antelope Street Extension was arraigned in the Belize City Family Court for Wednesday’s broad daylight murder of Troy Cole. Cole was riding his bicycle...
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Guatemalan Tour Guide Arraigned for Theft of Vehicle in Benque Viejo
A brazen thief stole a 2014 Mazda pick-up truck from Police Superintendent Selvin Tillett who heads the Orange Walk formation. The incident happened back on February fourteenth; Tillett was robbed at...
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