By Breaking Belize News Staff: Tyrique Myles and Glen Lopez remain in custody awaiting sentencing, four years after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Police Constable Osburne Martinez. High Court Justice Nigel Pilgrim adjourned the case on November 11 to give Myles’ attorney more time to reach his character witnesses.
Defence attorney Norman Rodriguez told the court he intends to call witnesses on behalf of Myles, 26, but has been unable to contact them. Orson “OJ” Elrington, who represents Lopez, 29, said he would not call any character witnesses. The case is set to return to court on November 18.
Myles and Lopez pleaded guilty to manslaughter in November 2022. The terms discussed by the Crown and defence were 17½ years for Myles and 13 years for Lopez, but the court has yet to impose either sentence. An earlier sentencing hearing was adjourned because the agreed facts and formal plea agreement had not been filed.
Martinez, 27, was shot while responding to an armed robbery at the Belcove Hotel on Regent Street West in Belize City on November 2, 2018. He later died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The third man charged in the case, Rayford Mejia, was convicted of murder after trial and sentenced to life in prison in 2023.
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By Breaking Belize News Staff: Tyrique Myles and Glen Lopez remain in custody awaiting sentencing, four years after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Police Constable Osburne Martinez. High Court Justice Nigel Pilgrim adjourned the case on November 11 to give Myles’ attorney more time to reach his character witnesses. Defence attorney
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