One dead, one injured in city stabbing incident
Today police have another murder on their hands. The incident occurred sometime after ten on Friday night at a house on Juliet Soberanis Street in the Belama Phase One area. When police arrived on the scene, they found twenty-four year old Calvin Young, also known as Kelvin Young, dead, with knife wounds to the back, head, and neck, and fourteen year old Floyd Wade with a stab wound to the chest and neck. Today Commander of Eastern Division, Senior Superintendent Allen Whylie, offered little information as to what might have happened to Young and Wade.
Sr. Supt. Allen Whylie, Officer Commanding Eastern Division
“Our investigations revealed that he along with a minor and two other person including Errol Haynes were at the house where some misunderstanding occurred. As result the minor was stabbed to throat as well as the body and was presumed to have been death thereafter his assailant went outside into the living room and they stabbed Mr. Young to his death. The minor was able to make good his escape and is presently under guard, the police guard at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Based on our investigation we have also issued a warrant in the first instance of Arthur Young and we’ve notified all our police formations. We have also prepared a wanted poster in respect to Arthur Young.
“Yes they are know names to us and we have run-ins with them in the past. In terms of sensitivity we treat all cases I guess with some degree of sensitivity; there is no special emphasis with this over any of the other cases.”
“Well the players involved…we have briefed our personnel in terms of stepping up our patrols. We are increasing our stop and search in terms of persons who we know are associates and there is nothing to indicate at this point in time that any retaliation is being planned but we will try to be as proactive as possible.”
“I am saying that we have not established the motive so to speak; perhaps when we apprehend Mr. Young then perhaps he will be prepared to shed some light in terms of why and what but those things in spite of not having a motive based on where we are we are satisfied that we have sufficient evidence to charge Mr. Haynes and Arthur Young for the murder.”
At today’s press conference, the police high command also updated the media on a number of ongoing investigations. Regarding the case of the forgetful police officers, Darius Ramos and Anthony Polonio, Whylie said the case file has been sent to the D.P.P’s office for perusal and directions on any further charges. He added that regarding the murder investigation of Rennick Reneau, the case is not closed and Reneau’s mother has offered to assist police with the names of eyewitnesses to a possibly related shooting at a bar the night before he died. The D.P.P. is also perusing the case file regarding the death of Jimmy Gutierrez, who was shot by a police officer last week in San Pedro Town. In other police news, following the detention of three Ghanaian men and a Belizean woman on Friday, prosecutors have decided to expel the foreigners and bring criminal charges against the local female. Forty-one year old Irma Yolanda Valencia has been charged with thirty-one counts of Possession of a Passport. Magistrate Alberto Hoare set bail for the indictable offence at fifty thousand dollars and Valencia will stay at Hattieville Prison until she can raise the funds. Her next court date is November sixteenth. Charges against her alleged accomplices, including her common law husband Frank Boateng, Boateng’s brother Sampson Boateng and mechanic Gwame Boakye, were dropped and the men will instead be expelled from the country. All four people were arrested in a predawn operation in which police and immigration officials searched Boateng’s home on Smith Street and another property located at the corner of Partridge and Cemetery Road where cops say in addition to the passports, they also found other immigration documents and computer equipment. According to immigration officials, once you cannot give an acceptable explanation of how someone else’s passport came to be in your possession, you risk a fine of five hundred dollars per passport. In this case, investigators suspect that Boateng and his associates were being mailed passports from several countries on the African continent and the Dominican Republic. Once in Belize, fraudulent permanent residency stamps, visitor entry stamps and/or immigration extensions were imprinted and returned to the sender. Cops say that later on, the holder was then free to apply for either nationality or permanent residency by claiming that they had already spent the necessary time in the country.
