So, while those 2 are awaiting trial, 22 year old Clarence Lamb changed his 10 pleas from "not guilty" to "guilty" when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith this morning.
Lamb was shot in the right foot after he and another person robbed the Belize Tourism Board of $1,732 dollars. They were armed with a knife and a gun when they stormed the Regent Street office on January second of this year, and robbed the cashier, of two cash pans which contained the money.
Only Lamb was apprehended after Edwin Torres, the security officer at BTB, shot him while he and his accomplice were trying to flee the scene. The two cash pans and the firearm were recovered from the scene as well.
Lamb was arraigned on January 7, and had to be assisted in and out of the court as he was still recovering from his injured right foot. He had pleaded not guilty to the charges, and had been set for trial today.
After changing his pleas, he asked the court for leniency for his crimes. But when he was asked why it was that after serving a two year sentence for a firearm offense in 2009 he didn't change his ways, he told the court that the system makes things hard for him to get a job.
Well, after hearing that, the Chief Magistrate then sentenced him ten years each for the firearm offenses; twelve years for the robbery; and two years each for the seven aggravated assaults. That is a total of forty six years, but since the sentences are to run concurrently, he will only serve twelve years.
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