Clive Hendricks Charged, Remanded After Checkpoint Shootout

A Belize City man is behind bars tonight after a dramatic encounter with police that ended in gunfire. Forty-four-year-old Clive Hendricks, a construction worker from Pickstock Street, is accused of opening fire on officers at a checkpoint earlier this month. Police say they returned fire, injuring Hendricks in the hand before he fled the scene. He was later caught, treated at the K.H.M.H., and today, appeared in court, his hand still bandaged, where he was formally charged with aggravated assault with a firearm. Hendricks pleaded not guilty and was remanded to prison, with a return date set for August twelfth.