Martin Carcamo Charged for Stealing Police Corporal’s iPhone 12

Fifty-year-old Martin Carcamo, a security guard employed at the bus terminal here in Belize City, is in trouble with the law for stealing an iPhone 12 from a woman police officer.  The incident happened around 6:30 a.m. on Monday at the Michael Finnegan Market where Corporal Georgina Bartley was having breakfast.  She alleges that she placed her cell phone on the table while having the meal and, a few minutes later, she saw a tall, dark-skinned man approach the stall.  Shortly thereafter, Bartley realized that her phone was missing.  When she inquired about the whereabouts of the device, Carcamo reportedly walked away and headed in the direction of King Street.  The twenty-eight-year-old woman, who was in casual attire, pursued Carcamo and informed him that she is a police officer and would call for backup if he did not produce the phone.  Upon hearing that Carcamo surrendered the device.  At the same time a police mobile approached and he was detained and taken into custody at the police station where he was later charged for theft.  When he appeared before the lower court, Carcamo was arraigned on a single count of theft.  He pleaded not guilty to the charge and was granted bail in the sum of twelve hundred dollars, plus one surety of the same amount.