Sunday, May 30, 2010
The Belize Times
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COURT NEWS American Businessman Charged for Car Dealer and Secretary Charged With Unlicensed Ammo and Drug Trafficking Ammo without Gun License
Bradford Keith Bryant
BELIZE CITY, Wed. May 26, 2010 American businessman Bradford Keith Bryant, 39, who was remanded to prison last Friday after he
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was charged with keeping ammunition without a gun license, was released on a bail of $5,000 yesterday. His attorney, Ellis Arnold, applied to the Supreme Court for bail and it was successful. Bryant is to return to Court on June 14. Around 10:30 a.m. on May 20, the Police acting on information received went to the Phillip Goldson International Airport. At the Delta Airline Office they searched Bryant’s luggage and reported that they found 5 rounds of Winchester Magnum a m mu n i t i o n i n s i d e t h e b o t t o m compartment. The ammunition was in a black and blue ammunition box, the Police reported. When asked if he had a license for the ammunition, Bryant said he has one in the United States, but none in Belize. As a result, Bryant was detained and charged. The ammunition was labeled as exhibit. Bryant is in the air condition business and he is from Georgia. He was vacationing in Belize and he was getting ready to board a Delta Airline flight to Atlanta, Georgia when the incident occurred.
BY ORDER OF MORTGAGEE NOTICE OF INTENTION TO SELL HOLY REDEEMER CREDIT UNION LIMITED a statutory body formed and registered under the Credit Union Act, Chapter 314 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2000, and whose registered office is situated at No. 1 Hyde’s Lane, Belize City, Belize District hereby gives notice of its intention to exercise its power of sale as Mortgagee under and by virtue of a Deed of Mortgage registered at the Land Titles Register between Glenford Villanueva and HRCU. HRCU will at the expiration of two months from the date of the first publication of this notice sell the property described in the Schedule below. ALL offers to purchase the said property must be made in writing to HOLY REDEEMER CREDIT UNION LIMITED from whom full particulars and conditions of sale my be obtained.
SCHEDULE ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Lot No. 3451, containing 416.497 Square Yards situate along Allan Pitts Crescent, Loyolaville, Belize City, Belize District, being a portion of land comprised in MINISTER’S FIAT GRANT No. 273 of 1991 dated the 31st day of July, 1991 and more particularly shown and delineated on a Plan of Survey No. 273 of 1991 dated the 31st day of July, 1991 by David Aguilar, Licensed Land Surveyor, recorded at the office of the Commissioner of Lands and Surveys, Belmopan City, Cayo District in Register Plan No. 1703 TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon, the freehold property of Glenford Villanueva
Tiffara Bradley
Alwyn Gonzalez
BELIZE CITY, Wed. May 26, 2010 Two persons, Alwyn Gonzalez, 30 and Tiffara Bradley, 26, were charged with 3 counts of drug trafficking when they appeared today in the #2 Magistrate’s Court. They were also charged with keeping ammunition without a gun license and possession of a metal pipe used for smoking cannabis. They pled not guilty to the charges. Magistrate Sharon Fraser explained to them that the Court could not offer them bail. She remanded them into custody until June 28. The Police reported that on May
22 acting on information they received they went to an apartment building at #11 Guadalupe Street and searched it. They say that the search led to the discovery of 6.1 grams of heroin, 359 grams of cannabis, 27.6 grams of crack cocaine, 35 rounds of 9mm ammunition, one metal pipe and $10,000. According to the Police, Gonzalez and Bradley were the occupants, of the apartment at the time. Gonzalez was represented by attorney Dickie Bradley while Bradley was represented by attorney Nigel Ebanks.
Jury Finds Hemmans Guilty of Kevin Arnold Murder
Clarance Hemmans
BELIZE CITY, Wed. May 26, 2010 Clarence Hemmans, Jr. 20, charged with the murder of Kevin Arnold, 24, was found guilty of the charge in the Court of Justice Troadio Gonzalez on Friday, May 21. The jury of 10 women and 2 men deliberated for about 3 hours and 15 minutes before it arrived at its verdict. Although the automatic sentence should be life imprisonment, Justice Gonzalez has adjourned the sentencing until June 2 to see whether the fact that Hemmans
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was a minor when he committed the offence will have any effect. Arnold was shot 10 times at around 1:00 p.m. on May 27, 2007 while he was walking on Armadillo Street, going to meet his girlfriend Shana White who was by Los Cocos Bar waiting for him. White took the witness stand and testified that she saw Hemmans ride up on a bicycle and fire several shots at Arnold. She said Arnold tried to stay on his feet but Hemmans continued to fire shots at him and he fell to the ground. H e m m a n s g a ve a n a l i b i testimony in which he claimed that at the time of the incident he was at home with his common-law wife and two friends, Wilton Usher and Shelton Smith. Usher testified in an effort to corroborate Hemmans’ testimony but he was found not to be a credible witness. Hemmans was represented by attorney Phillip Palacio. Senior Crown Counsel Yohhanhseh Cave represented the prosecution.
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