Two burglaries reported in the city

Police have their hands full with the recent spate of shootings, but tonight they have two burglaries to solve. Seventy-seven year old Nigel Price, a British National who resides on Gabourel Lane in Belize City, told police that someone broke into his house between five Wednesday evening and seven-thirty Thursday morning. The thief helped himself to four thousand five hundred U.S. dollars, a laptop computer and two cell phones worth almost eleven thousand dollars.

In the second incident, thieves targeted Associated Engineering Services on Cemetery Road, also in Belize City. According to the manager, forty-nine year old Juliet Hines, the break-in occurred between five-thirty on Monday evening and six-thirty Tuesday morning, when the jackers jumped the back fence and cut the padlocks on a container at the back of the building. They took four typewriters, a fax machine and a beach cruiser bicycle, with a value of almost three thousand dollars. This was the second time in ten years that the business has been targeted. On the night of the burglary, there was no watchman on duty. Hines told News Five today that the management has downsized and that they are now planning to sell the property and will relocate.