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Bail Granted as Trio’s Charges Dropped to Manslaughter
Richard “Dickie” Bradley In April of 2015, San Ignacio police charged Saul Ortiz, Windell Obando and a fifteen year old minor, now seventeen, for the murder of Orelio Montero. They were arraigned and...
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4 Accused in Dangriga Home Invasion Beating See Charges Dropped
Back in early August, an amateur video went viral on social media of a Dangriga woman under attacked inside her home and in front of her children. The attackers were a then eight-month-old pregnant...
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Rural Eastern Division Still Confident in Sarkis Abou-Nehra Case
Of eighteen persons initially charged in connection with the December home invasion at the house of Sarkis Abou-Nehra, twelve have been freed of charges. In an update, police said that all twenty-one...
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Accused Arsonist of Deputy P.M.’s Government Vehicle is Charged
Allen Martinez The man believed to have set fire to DPM Patrick Faber’s government issued Mazda SUV appeared in court this morning. Allen Martinez was picked up by Ladyville Police on Thursday morning...
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Marlon Castillo Pleads Guilty in Ariel Rosado Accident Death
Twenty-nine year old Marlon Castillo, a prominent cycling champion and butcher by trade, today pleaded guilty to a charge of causing death by careless conduct in the death of childhood friend and...
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Accused Cops in Hilberto Sotz Death to be Tried for Manslaughter
Hallett King Two police officers, who were initially charged with the murder of Hilberto Sotz while he was in a holding cell in San Pedro, will stand trial for manslaughter in the January 2017 session...
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Police Charge Cayo Men for Beating Up a Cop
Sanjay Casey & Belhem Guzman Sanjay Casey and Belhem Guzman, both of Camalote village, Cayo District, were today read charges of attempted murder, dangerous harm, use of deadly means of harm, and...
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Marlon Castillo Fined and Ordered to Compensate Ariel Rosado Family
Marlon Castillo Marlon Castillo is the twenty-nine year old former cyclist who admitted earlier this week to causing the death of his long-time cycling buddy Ariel Rosado. It happened during a traffic...
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Woman Stole Security Guard’s Wallet After Proposing Oral Sex
Sarita Ash Thirty-two-year old Sarita Ash, an unemployed single mother of three children, now has a conviction on her record for theft. But the circumstances are somewhat unusual. According to security...
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Kevin “Cowboy” Alvarez Walks from Attempted Murder of Cops
Kevin “Cowboy” Alvarez Remember Kevin Alvarez, aka “Cowboy”? He is the former police officer who was accused of the murder of a Chinese businessman in Orange Walk back in 2008, but was exonerated. Well...
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Cop Acquitted Of Extortion
Richard “Dickie” Bradley Thirty-one year old Constable Amir Moh of San Jose Palmar, Orange Walk District, was caught up in allegations of extortion of a medical technician, forty-eight-year-old...
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Government Celebrates “Vindication” on Takeover
Joseph Waight Financial Secretary Joseph Waight welcomes the Supreme Court ruling, despite being uncertain whether an appeal will be filed in the days ahead. Joseph Waight, Financial Secretary “I’ll...
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Contract Extension Should Have Been Put Out to Tender; Appeal Expected
Denys Barrow The foundation on which government presented its argument and the subsequent decision taken by the court is that a binding agreement of that magnitude ought to have been put to tender....
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B.I.S.L. Defeated in Claim for Compensation for Registry Takeover
Denys Barrow The Government of Belize secured a significant legal victory this morning in the Supreme Court, where Justice Michelle Arana dismissed an application brought by Belize International...
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Father’s Sentence on Rape Charges Significantly Reduced on Appeal
On Friday, the Court of Appeal drastically reduced the prison sentence given to a Dangriga father in his forties who was convicted of raping his own daughter no less than six times at a tender age....
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Espat Calls on Judiciary to “Referee” Quarrel with Speaker
Julius Espat Since the incident, Espat confirmed that his four-thousand-dollar monthly salary has been withdrawn. There has not been any House meeting since August, but Espat believes the ugly incident...
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Julius Sues Mike Over Ugly Ending to House Meeting of August 26th
But shortly that case, Peyrefitte was back in court for a case brought against him by Cayo South area representative, Julius Espat. In late August, Espat was removed by force from the House of...
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Matter May Be Resolved Outside Court; Speaker Says Suit Will Not Affect...
Michael Peyrefitte The civil suit coincides with the launch of a senate inquiry into the Immigration and Nationality Department for the period 2011 to 2013. There is a general belief however, that the...
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House Speaker Michael Peyrefitte Maintains Lawsuit Against Attorney and...
The Speaker of the House appeared in court today—both as a claimant and a defendant. In the first case, Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin is presiding over a matter before the Supreme Court by Michael...
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Nightmare Ends for Dr. Marco Tulio Mendez; He Sees All 7 Sex Charges Dropped
Marco Tulio Mendez He was charged with six counts of aggravated assault of an indecent nature in February of 2015, a few months after deciding not to seek re-election in his Orange Walk East...
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