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Shot By Cops, “Cat” Hopped Into the Courtroom
posted (January 6, 2020)
Albert "Cat" Reid hopped into Belize City Magistrate's court today. Hopping, because police shot him in the leg one week ago - when he allegedly threatened two cops with a machete. They were responding to a domestic dispute in Hattieville.

Today, the 29 year old Reid appeared before Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitts Anderson and was read 6 charges: 2 counts of aggravated assault, 2 counts of threat of death, damage to property and using threatening words. He didn't waste the court's time: he pleaded guilty, and was fined, not confined. It was $800 for damage to property, $100 for using threatening words, $500 for each count of aggravated assault and $200 for each count of threat of death - a total of $2,300.

Reid and his common law wife had a dispute which led to him threatening his wife's grandmother whilst armed with a machete and then using the machete to damage the burglar bars on the window of her house. When police arrived, he brandished the machete at them - and when he refused to put it down, one of the officers shot him in the foot.

Today, he told the court that he had smoked marijuana laced with crack cocaine which made him paranoid.

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