Police make arrests in stabbing, robbery

In more crime news a man has been arrested in connection with a stabbing in the Corozal District. Francisco Pineda, a labourer of San Narciso Village was charged with attempted murder after an incident in San Pedro Village on May twelfth, in which he is accused of stabbing Jose Peña of Christo Rey Village. Peña, who is being treated at the Corozal hospital for stab wounds to the chest, is listed in a critical condition.

Arrests have also been made in connection with a robbery that occurred on Saturday in Santa Elena Town. Around eleven thirty that night, thirty-two year old Martha Swift was walking with her nephew on Savannah Street when two machete wielding men robbed them of three hundred and sixty five dollars in cash and jewelry valued at two thousand dollars. So far police have arrested two men Wayne Miralda, a twenty two-year old volunteer fireman of Santa Elena, and Anthony Roaches, a twenty-one year old laborer of Red Creek and charged them with two counts of robbery. Police have recovered some of the jewelry.

We’ve all heard of “Joe Grind,” but tonight police and officials of the Belize Chamber of Commerce are looking for one “Joe Brown.” This evening a man identifying himself by that name presented a fifteen hundred dollar cheque made out to him for cashing at Salvador W. Habet on Regent Street West. The cheque, written on the account of the Chamber’s Western Union business, was a forgery, and while employees of Habet’s tried to stall the man, he grew nervous and took off before police officers arrived. The public is asked to be on the lookout for Joe and to beware of suspicious cheques stamped Western Union.