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Two of three men charged for murder of police constable Osburne Martinez plead guilty to lesser charge; Third man going to rial

Posted: Thursday, November 17, 2022. 9:04 am CST.

By Breaking Belize News Staff: Two of the three men charged with the 2018 murder of police constable Osburne Martinez have pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, while the third accused has decided to fight the matter in court.

The trial of Rayford Mejia, Glen Lopez, and Tyrique Myles, was to begin on Wednesday before Justice Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft. However, at the beginning of the proceedings, Lopez, represented by attorney, Orson “OJ” Elrington, and Myles, represented by attorney, Norman Rodriguez, pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

Justice Sandcroft set the date for their sentencing hearing for December 4, meanwhile, Mejia, who is represented by attorney Oscar Selgado, is due to return to court on November 21 for the continuation of his trial.

On the morning of Friday, November 2, 2018, Martinez and two other officers responded to a report of a robbery at the Belcove Hotel on Regent Street West. The officers ended up in a shootout with the robbers and PC Martinez was shot to the abdomen. He was rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where he died of his injuries while undergoing treatment.

 

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