City woman manages to beat drugs, gun, and ammunition charges after trial

Posted: Wednesday, September 11, 2024. 11:28 am CST.

By Aaron Humes: A Belize City woman charged jointly along with her then ex-boyfriend was acquitted of three drug and firearm related offenses at the end of her trial.

41-year-old Sherimah Genitty, a resident of Iguana Street Extension, was charged jointly with Ralph Herman Moody, but he was a no-show in the trial shortly after it started as he absconded. Information from police sources then was that he ran across the border to the United States of America and was shot and killed there a few months ago.

Genitty retained attorney Orson “OJ” Elrington. The court found Genitty not guilty of all charges: one count of possession of controlled drugs; one count of keeping a firearm and one count of keeping ammunition without a gun license for a nine-millimeter pistol loaded with a magazine containing eight live rounds of ammunition; Moody was also found not guilty.

The evidence before the court was that Genitty was found on premises owned by her and occupied along with Moody, when on August 1, 2021, officers searched the Iguana Street Extension home’s upper flat; however, it was in the lower flat of the 2-story house where, police allege, they found cannabis along with the pistol. They also found another sack of weed in the bathroom.

At the time of the search according to witnesses who testified in court, Moody told police, “Boss, the items are mines, my woman have nothing to with it.”

Video of the search entered into evidence showed clearly that the findings were made on the lower flat and there was no evidence Genitty had access.

The Senior Magistrate ruled that police had not made out their case by the legal standard of beyond reasonable doubt.

 

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