{"id":82017,"date":"2026-02-12T18:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/?p=82017"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:05:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:05:03","slug":"case-collapses-but-charleston-green-stays-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/case-collapses-but-charleston-green-stays-jailed\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Collapses, But Charleston Green Stays Jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Belize City man beat an attempted murder charge, but that victory didn\u2019t carry him far. Twenty\u2011two\u2011year\u2011old Charleston Green walked out of the High Court after his trial fell apart on day one, all because the key witness never showed. Without Dixon Ramirez, the man police say Green shot in August 2022, the prosecution had no case, and a <em>nolle prosequi<\/em> was quickly entered. But Green didn\u2019t taste freedom for long. Moments after leaving the High Court, officers escorted him straight back to the Belize City Magistrate\u2019s Court\u2026 and then back to prison. That\u2019s because Green is already serving a three\u2011year sentence for firearm and ammunition offenses, plus aggravated assault on three police officers, charges that stem from that same 2022 incident, when police say he fired at them during a chase before being subdued with a loaded weapon. He was sentenced in 2025, and with his penalties running concurrently, the earliest he can walk out of prison is July 2027. So, while the attempted murder charge is gone, Charleston Green isn\u2019t going anywhere, at least not for another year and a half.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Belize City man beat an attempted murder charge, but that victory didn\u2019t carry him far. Twenty\u2011two\u2011year\u2011old Charleston Green walked out of the High Court after his trial fell apart on day one, all because the key witness never showed. Without Dixon Ramirez, the man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":81983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[484,452,444,475,453],"tags":[10698,10725,10724],"class_list":["post-82017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-crime","category-latest-news","category-news","category-trials","tag-2026-02-12","tag-but-charleston-green-stays-jailed","tag-case-collapses"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82018,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82017\/revisions\/82018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}