By Breaking Belize News Staff: A taxi driver and an auto body technician pleaded not guilty on Thursday to helping others burglarize the Belize City Post Office. Francis Burke, 37, and Jahdey Santos Castillo, 20, were each arraigned on one count of abetment to commit burglary. As of the arraignment, no one had been charged with the burglary itself.
The Senior Magistrate granted Burke $5,000 bail with one surety despite the prosecution’s objection that his release could interfere with the investigation. Burke told the court he was his family’s sole provider. He was ordered to pay $2,115 in outstanding court fines before posting bail, observe a 6 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew and report to the Queen Street Police Station on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Castillo was denied bail and was already on remand on separate firearm and ammunition charges arising from the police response to the break-in. CIB officers took both men back into police custody after the arraignment. They are due back in court on January 22, 2027.
Police responded before 3 a.m. on November 10 after an alarm went off at the Post Office at North Front and Pickstock streets. Officers found a shattered glass panel, a safe and a sack of stamps outside. Police say they found Burke in a nearby minivan and recovered a bolt cutter from it. Investigators allege Castillo told police in an interview under caution that he acted as a lookout. A Post Office audit found that about $200 in cash was missing.
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By Breaking Belize News Staff: A taxi driver and an auto body technician pleaded not guilty on Thursday to helping others burglarize the Belize City Post Office. Francis Burke, 37, and Jahdey Santos Castillo, 20, were each arraigned on one count of abetment to commit burglary. As of the arraignment, no one had been charged
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