Shop Lifter lied to Police about his identity

BELIZE CITY, Wed. Nov. 23, 2011

By Roy Davis

It was not double but triple trouble for 36 year old Martin Ferguson, a laborer of 26 Raccoon Street Extension, when he stole 2 body wash for men from Williams Supermarket at the corner of Central American Boulevard and Vernon Street on Monday, November 21.

Ferguson was detained by the security guards at the supermarket. He said that while he was being kept at the back of the supermarket, waiting for the police to come and take him to the police station, he got into an altercation with one of the security guards and he was beaten in his face and head.

Ferguson was taken to Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where he was x-rayed and treated for his wounds. His head was heavily bandaged.

The altercation took place on his birthday.

Today he appeared in the #3 Magistrate’s Court and pleaded guilty to theft of the 2 body washes. Because it was believed that he had no previous conviction Magistrate Sherigne Rodriguez fined him $200 and gave him until December 30 to pay in default, 2 months imprisonment.

After she fined him she told him he was free to leave and Ferguson left. But he only got as far as holding cell area.

A police sergeant who is a prosecutor recalled that Ferguson was a defendant in his court on October 12 and that Ferguson, who gave Richard Ferguson as his name, had pleaded guilty to theft.

As a result, Ferguson was detained and he is now faced with a charge of mischievous act.

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