POLICE STORIES

September 13, 2007

Independence Police have arrested a father and charged him for aggravated assault. This follows reports by a 13-year-old student who reported to Police that since she was seven years old her father started touching her private parts when her mother was not at home or when everyone is asleep at night. As a result Police arrested and charged the father.  

A man is dead after an altercation in San Ignacio. Police have arrested and charged 53-year-old taxi driver Joseph Garcia with manslaughter. This follows the death of 60-year-old American National Clifford Antony Mapp also known as Heniroso Romero. Garcia told Police around 7:20 pm last Saturday night, he was at the taxi stand in front of Courts Belize San Ignacio Branch. Garcia said Mapp, apparently under the influence of alcohol, approached him demanding that he pay him monies owed to him. According to Garcia, another man who was with Mapp came out of a vehicle and began choking Garcia. An altercation followed in which Mapp was hit on the head with a baseball bat which rendered him unconscious. Garcia received injuries to the nose. Mapp was transported to the San Ignacio Hospital and later to the Western Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. 

San Ignacio Police have made an arrest in connection with an incident last month in which police personnel were fired upon while processing a crime scene. 27-year-old Anthony Roches of Red Creek Area Santa Elena Town was charged with three counts of attempted murder and three counts of use of deadly means of harm. On August 4^th three police officers were in civilian clothing examining the scene of a crime which had claimed the life of 17-year-old Marvin Echavaria when several shots were fired at them. Scene of Crime Officer Philiberto Pott was hit in the lower back. Sergeant Enrique Aldana and Police Constable Roland Augustine both received grazes to the leg area.

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