CrimeStoppers seeks to build on success
According to its founders, since CrimeStoppers Belize was launched last year the non-profit organisation has made significant achievements. This morning they hosted a press conference to update the media on its current status and future plans. According to Chief Operations Officer, Chris Garcia, to date CrimeStoppers Belize has received a total of two hundred and eighty tips, from which thirteen arrests have been made. Ten thousand dollars worth of stolen property has also been recovered. Cases solved include the homicide of a security guard in San Pedro, a narcotics bust in St. Matthew’s Village that also resulted in two firearm arrests, and the discovery of fifty-seven rounds of ammunition during a house search in Belize City. In the Cayo District, a case of stolen artefacts was solved, with those items returned to the Archaeology Department. In Lord’s Bank Village, a fugitive who was wanted for robbery was captured. A pornography case in the Cayo District was investigated and led to the seizure of contraband beer and five thousand nine hundred dollars in U.S. currency. Three carnal knowledge cases were also investigated and one child neglect case is still being monitored by the Human Services Department.
Chris Garcia, Chief Operation Mgr., CrimeStoppers
“I take this opportunity to invite our law enforcement agencies to continue to lend us their support by following through on the information we received through our tips line. I take this opportunity to ask the media to continue doing the good job of keeping the public informed of crimes that are taking place. We now appeal to you to help us in keeping the CrimeStoppers Belize hotline number highly visible in the community and encourage people to search their memory for anything that they may remember about any unsolved crime and call in that information.”
Garcia also highlighted some high profile cases that remain unsolved and called the general public to assist the police in solving the child murders between 1998 and 2001 that took the lives of Sherilee Nicholas, Jay Blades, Jackie Fern Malic, Erica Wills and Noemi Hernandez, as well as the killings of Samantha Gordon and Nadir Husman. If you have any information to help solve crimes, you are asked to call CrimeStoppers Belize at 0?800?922?TIPS.
