Elisa Chan, 26, tries to smuggle weed into Belize Central Prison Posted: 02/09/2010 - 11:01 PM Today, Elisa Chan, 26, an unemployed of Alan Pitts Crescent, appeared before Magistrate Albert Hoare for allegedly trying to smuggle eighty grams of cannabis into Belize Central Prison in two “fry jacks” today. She was charged with drug trafficking. Man’s body found floating in the Mopan River Posted: 02/09/2010 - 10:59 PM On Monday, August 30, 2010, at around 6:30 p.m., an anonymous call was made to the Benque Viejo police station, informing that a body hooked on a branch was seen floating in the Mopan River in Succotz Village, Cayo District. Ivan Cruz attempts suicide by hanging Posted: 24/08/2010 - 10:42 AM Reported to have been distraught at daughter’s death from dengue fever... Ivan Cruz of Belize City, an employee of the Reporter Press, is reported to have attempted to hang himself on Friday, reportedly distraught over the recent passing of his daughter Melissa from dengue fever a month ago. Gilroy”Gilly” Barrow, 19, shot to death Posted: 03/08/2010 - 03:31 PM Family says he was in the process of moving from his mother’s house to his father’s house... At the stroke of midnight, a young man’s fate was sealed: he would not live to see the dawn. On Thursday, July 29, at 12:00 midnight, Gilroy Barrow, 18, was mortally wounded when four men accosted him while he was on M-M Street and one began shooting at him. Charles McKoy, 24, charged for shooting the Murray brothers Posted: 29/07/2010 - 09:25 PM Today in the Magistrate’s Court, before Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie, Charles McKoy, 24, a mechanic of Mile 1½ Western Highway, appeared to answer charges in connection with an early morning shooting that took place on Freetown Road on Saturday, July 24, 2010. 18 years for child molester Posted: 27/07/2010 - 09:59 AM Bernard Pratt was sentenced to total of 69 years for having sex with a female child, 11... Pratt, who was not represented by legal counsel, called four witnesses to make mitigating pleas on his behalf: Lourdes Blease; sister Arlette Woods; Kashmir Bernard Clare, a retired welfare officer and former Police Department counselor; and daughter Armajene Pratt. San Ignacio Town Board member shot to death outside nightclub Posted: 27/07/2010 - 09:58 AM Efrain Cruz, 39, a resident of San Ignacio Town, Cayo District, and also an active member of the Town Board, was reportedly inside the Legends Night Club, located on Bullet Tree Road, when he allegedly got into an argument with another man, the details of which are unknown. Ryo charged for attacking policeman Posted: 20/07/2010 - 04:38 PM Free lance reporter, Roy “Ryo” Davis 56, was back in court again, but it had nothing to do with the men who had attacked and robbed him back in March of this year. Knox Cumberbatch to stand trial for murder Posted: 09/07/2010 - 10:22 AM An auto mechanic accused of murder will no longer be appearing in Magistrate’s Court, since he was today committed in Magistrate’s Court #2 to stand trial in the Supreme Court in the October session, which is scheduled to commence on October 5, 2010. Man charged for punching common-law wife in the face Posted: 28/06/2010 - 09:03 PM A man is charged with the wounding of his common-law wife, the victim claiming that a misunderstanding between herself and the accused ended in her being attacked.