Man Charged with Assaulting Police Officer Granted Bail

Tonight, a Belize City man charged with assaulting a police officer is out on bail. Forty-year-old Bert Foreman appeared in the Belie City Magistrate’s Court where he was charged with assaulting Police Constable Nelson Phillips on July 31.  Foreman pleaded not guilty to the charge and was granted bail in the sum of eight hundred dollars. He is scheduled to return to court on September 18. Allegations are that the officer had stopped Foreman to conduct a search but he refused and pushed the officer in the chest.