Boyfriend Jailed for Stealing from Girlfriend’s Purse

Tonight, a man is on remand at the Belize Central Prison after he was accused of stealing from his girlfriend’s purse while she was in the shower. He is thirty-six-year-old Albert Perez, a Belize City resident and call center agent. Allegations are that on Tuesday, Perez’s girlfriend, thirty-eight-year-old, Kimisha August, went into her bathroom around six ten a.m. to take a shower and took her purse containing one hundred and fifty-two dollars with her which she hung on the knob of her window. According to August, a few minutes later, Perez entered the bathroom and took her purse before exiting the room. August claims that she followed him out of the room, begging him to return it to her. Upon checking the purse, August saw that forty dollars was missing from inside it. She went to the police for assistance and upon searching Perez, the police found the forty dollars on his person. Both parties were escorted to the police station where a statement was recorded from August who requested court action against her boyfriend. Perez appeared unrepresented and pleaded not guilty to the charge. He was offered bail in the sum of one thousand dollars, plus a surety of the same amount. Before his arraignment concluded, the court record revealed that Perez was in debt to the court from 2020 in the sum of one thousand, five hundred dollars of which he was ordered to pay at least two hundred dollars by end of the day. Perez could not make the payment and late this evening he was escorted up to the Belize Central Prison until he can do so. His next court date is set for August nineteenth, 2024.