Police questioning suspect in relation to Jasmine Lowe
There appears to be a major break in the murder of thirteen year old Jasmine Lowe of Santa Elena, Cayo where police are preparing for the arraignment of a well-known Belize City man for her murder. The sensational arrest was made on Monday, two weeks after she was found dead near a farm in Cristo Rey. The shocking murder of the young girl sent shock waves throughout the country and in the west, where it hit home hard, the community has been agitating for an arrest. The arrest of the businessman came when he was caught with a minor in his vehicle and four others came forward alleging that he preyed on them. Jasmine’s mother also says she has identified her daughter’s ring, which was found in his car. Freelance reporter Duane Moody reports.
Duane Moody, Reporting
The residents of the Twin Towns of San Ignacio/Santa Elena gathered in front of the San Ignacio Police Station chanting for justice this morning. Police have apprehended a suspect in the murder of thirteen year old Jasmine Lowe. He is a well-known businessman that is no stranger to the courts. Jasmine’s mother, Marisol Lowe, says a ring belonging to Jasmine was found in his possession.
Marisol Lowe
Marisol Lowe, Mother of Jasmine Lowe
“When they told me that the man is there, I just felt like I want to see who is the guy.”
Duane Moody
“What have you heard has happened or who is he?”
Marisol Lowe
“The police haven’t told me really what’s happened but they tell me that they think it is the guy because they found the ring. And yes it is the ring because I went to see it yesterday; last night actually and it is the ring.”
Jasmine Lowe
Duane Moody
“And it was found in his possession?”
Marisol Lowe
“Yes it was found on him; on his bag and I know that it is the ring because it has six diamonds—five is real and one is not real—plus it was broken and I had it fixed for her because it was mine. I had it for nine years. But this is really hard. I just wish that there is justice.”
The detainee was nabbed around four p.m. on Monday with a minor in a remote area in Santa Elena in a police search for a missing teenager.
Alberto Palma
Alberto Palma, President, Bishop Martin neighborhood Watch Committee
“We received a report around two-thirty yesterday that a child was missing and so we got together and we came to the police station because we were ready to organize search parties and things like that; because we were not going to leave it for long. At the same time that that was going on, the police started going search all over the place and they say they encountered this car somewhere in a back road and that’s when they stopped and searched the car and they saw the guy with a little girl in the car. Some other little girls came forward and they identified and the car and they said that that was the car that was following them.”
Duane Moody
“Following them?”
Alberto Palma
“One little girl said that the car stopped and told her that he is lost and he is looking for a place and that he will pay her money to take her. And the little girl ran and told him no that she is going to school and that’s how she got away.”
Nathania Ochoa
Several minors claim they have been approached by the suspect in a grey in color Kia car. Seventeen year old student of Sacred Heart High School, Nathania Ochoa, with consent from her mother, recounted her experience last Thursday, June fourteenth.
Nathania Ochoa, Victim of Attempt Kidnapping
“Two blocks away from Sacred Heart College, this car stop me and ask me if I dah from den yah areas and weh I gwen and if I go dah college—if I dah wah sixth former or a fourth former—a lot of personal questions. And ih ask me weh I gwen afterwards. And then ih mi di ask me fi show ahn this shop around the corner on Bullet Tree Road. And so I tell he that I can’t because I have to go to college and I have things to do. But he still mi di insist fi mek I get ina the vehicle with ahn and he said that it neva mi wha take long; that it would only take fifteen to twenty minutes and he could offer me thirty dollars for the amount of time. I tell him I can’t and no and thing. I think he get tired and thing and so he gone. Thinking he gone fi good, right before reaching heart again, I meet him again and he tell me that dehn yah people just text him and he di ask for Greedy’s cause he noh know weh part Greedy’s deh. So I tell he ih noh far from yah and I mi di give him directions. But then he said he really need mi help. And so I tell him, if you really need help, you could ask the young bwai weh di come behind me. And he said that he noh like deal with young bwai. So right there so, other things come to my head that maybe this dah something else and he noh really need help.”
Duane Moody
“What color vehicle was he in and did you recognize him?”
Nathania Ochoa
“Well I neva recognize him and I neva recognize ih vehicle. Ih vehicle dah mi wah lee silver four door vehicle; the glass very tinted and like dehn lee Toyota corolla like; dehn lee car.”
Duane Moody
“When you did go online, did you confirm that it was the same person that approached you?”
Nathania Ochoa
“Yeah it was him. Wah man weh mi deh deh from Greedy’s he do the searching and everything and he show me the picture of the person and dah mi he. As I see he, dah he dah mi di person and then when I see the vehicle dah station, I coulda mi recognize the vehicle too. So dah mi he right deh.”
Ernie Braun
But the residents are adamant that justice must be served. They have been outside the station from the onset of the investigation.
Ernie Braun, Cayo Resident
“But this is too much and the public says enough is enough so the public says don’t let anything happen now. We will be here and we want to let them know that we expect something to happen now.”
Duane Moody for News Five.
This Wednesday, there is a call for a protest when the businessman will be taken to court.
A real test for GOB — a “well-known businessman” surely has “friends in high places.” Will one of them try to cover up a murder of a child for such a friend? Or, to say it better, for such a FIEND?
THIS HE-DEVIL MUST BE KILLED.
If this was done to Jasmine RIP I wonder how many others before and yrs ago. Torture used to work in the ole days…whaterver if he is guilty I dont think people will be happy is justice isnt served good job to authorities and public who helped!
FINALLY! They find this ….I beleive that this man should be hang. He need the death penatly show no mercy to this heartless sob!. He is sick and twisted and not needed on this earth. Get rid of scumbags like him right away. He is just taking up space and air. So now Jasmine Lowe will get the much needed justice she deserve. God only knows who else he had hurted in the past and got away with it but not anymore. Everyone will feel a little better knowing now someone like him is off the streets. It is very unfortunate that such a young life had to be taken in such a way. Thankful no one else will fall victim at the hands of this man.
YES HE LIKE RAPE LITTLE GIRLS HE BETTA NO DROP NO SOAP DA PRISON CAUSE HE WAH GET PHCK
IF BELIZE CITY PEOPLE DO WHAT THE CAYO PEOPLE UNU WA HAVE JUSTICE
boom boom boom. i know da who do it now.
Police will need to do a thorough search of this suspect’s home. Computer files, pictures, phone numbers, text messages, etc. Also, newspapers with stories of murdered victims. Oh yes, psychopaths love to safe periodicals of their victims. It’s something they cherish. It’s like their prized possessions. Is this suspect linked to the other child murders over the past ten years? I wonder!
Hang him hang him high and if the judge no hang him make we hang him ourselves the public caught him unu shoulda mi hang him unu self send a message that we are sick and tired of the ineptness of this gov. And judges hang hang him high.
If one googles this young mans name that was revealed on another news station u will find that he has been accused in the past in Belize city for kidnapping n sexually assaulting more than one young lady. He took them up the highway n tried to rape them it is too much of a coincidence that he took them up the highway when it is up the highway where the bodies of the missing little girls were found and now in cayo he is found with the ring of the murdered 13 year old.
Finally people are gettig fed up with those who prey on the people. I hope he being in possession of a valuable piece of evidence and the testimony of the other children will put this monster away for the rest of his live. This deserves the death penalty, if he is guilty.
Torture him and castrate him. then hang him by the neck until death. he deserves no less!!!! its a heinous crime so he should be given the maximum penalty!!!!!!!!!!
belize news (both) no up to par on their journalism skills. No mention that this same suspect was charged with kidnapping and attempted rape etc… not too long ago.
Don’t try him…don’t detain him…don’t spend one red cent of tax payers money on him. Just unlock his handcuff and release him into the streets of San Ignacio let the mob deliver the justice. Next case….
Bert Vasquez is the guys name. Why is the media hiding his identity. Whether he is found guilty or manages to walk out as he has done in the past (2009 and again in 2011), he is a suspect, is dirty, and the public deserve to know. I hope the police dig back into the “Jack” cases, the 11/12 girls that went missing in the same fashion and see if this guy can also be linked to those cases.
We need to see a picture of the Grime sleeper.
We will be waiting for him at nine today. Please take him out for us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On the other news there saying that the father house was broken into . A bet this sicko set some one up to break into the father house. Have a feeling he will claim the ring was sold to him. People watch this case carefully, this dude might walk if he has good connection.
Elgin:
google him (Bert Vasquez + Belize). his picture is all over the internet as he is well-known to the police and a typically example of how our justice system fails us over and over again. Maybe until we start to see some attorneys and ministers being shot they will start to straighten up and send criminals to the back for good or exterminate them.
The man even got facebook access in jail….check him out…search for Bert Vasquez, he even posts messages…Chester Williams needs to explain how that is possible.
Hang Bert Vasquez off the Haksworth Bridge .This idiot is a serial killer give him some street justice.Why is he being given special priviledge?
hand him over to us the people, will will serve justice.
at this moment the people are mad and crying for justice
he need to be hang right down town by Columbus park
I hope that the police do a thorough investigation and don´t screw up like they have don in the past. May justice be served. This was a cold blooded murder. I do pray that they don´t drop it down to manslaughter as has been done in previous cases. We should use social media to pressure the authorities to ensure that this man gets what he deserves for the killing of an innocent child like Jasmine (RIP). FIN HIM GUILTY OF MURDER … DEATH BY HANGING!!!
We also need to force the authorities to stiffen the penalties for these filthy individuals. As a victim of child abuse, it sickens me to see these people get off with a slap on their wrists or a minimal sentence when victims of sex crimes live with scars for the rest of their lives. TIME TO TOUGHEN THE PENALTIES FOR CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN.
MAY JASMINE LOWE AND ALL THE INNOCENT CHILDREN THAT HAVE GONE BEFORE HER REST IN PEACE!!!
No hanging for this person, what the authorities need to do is to cut off 1 hand, 1 foot, and castrate him, then let him rot in prison without medical attention.
How much u bet he wah walk out free again!
This guy has been charged and arrested over and over for the same thing, he is always granted bail! Seems like the officials dsnt see that he wont stop until he’s dead. Hang this sucker, if not, all belizean women will have 2 watch their backs!!!
According to other media outlets the suspects name is Bert Vasquez…..why am I not surprise???? Google this guys name & you will get a history of his criminal activities including abduction & attempted rape. He became a suspect after he tried to get a young lady into his car by offering her money to show him a “place” he wanted to go but couldn’t find it….typical child molester/predator behaviour. Did Jasmine know Bert??? Is he acquainted with her family??? How did he came in possession of the girl’s ring??? Did he use the same “I don’t know where I’m going story” with Jasmine as he tried to do with the young lady who had him caught??? I like the NO NONSENSE attitude of the residence of this town…..BELIZE CITY TAKE NOTE.
I hope that there is justice in this one. I just pray that they will lock him up for life time and as he reach jail let a big man just take his @$$ mek guta. Rape him good and let himfeel the pain of us mother out here. They should castrate him and let him punish and feel the pain that a mother go true cause you can never take back that pain that they went through to lose there baby girl……I am glad and happy they caught that ………. I believe if it was my child he be dead I personally would kill kill him cause he don’t deserve to breath another air….he would reach court….
why is he referred to as a businessman, what is his line of business. As a real besuinessman I feel offended. this is a repeat sex offender, this is the reason why in the US there is a sex offenders list. because they CANNOT be rehabilitated.
just let us keep this family in our prayers and let us hope that soon justice will be made. We cant be living in this town and no justice is made.
Lets see our justice now. Please let him out so he feels what he did to all the little girls. His days are numberd. Kill him!! Kill him!!! Go to the Belize forums they have his picture.
I have been reading the news and posts about Jasmine Lowe, unfortunately it is one crime amongst many.
Lot of mindless people in Belize.
First people accuse the mother’s boyfriend, then her lifestyle, then the mother, then the father, threaten to kill the father, now somebody robs the father’s house. Anybody in a hurry for a rush-to-judgement? Who needs the law, it just gets in the way to pull the trigger.
As for Vasquez, having been arrested and out on $5000BZD bond for attacking another girl last year, and has a long history of other related crimes: Belize needs a legislative inquiry here to explain the criminal justice system of the country to the satisfaction of the people.
And what about those bloggers, months past, coming to his defense? Why were they not keeping a tight eye on their “friend”, since he has been arrested so many times before?
Then there are those who want to hang him, torture him, castrate him, and anything else they can write, except see a fair trial. You really want that so it won’t be overturned on appeal.
Does not appear a lot of people in the jewel can handle the truth, or solve the crime problem.
BUT, at least the police did their job correctly and were able to arrest Vasquez and make the solid connection to Jasmine Lowe. With all the bad governance and crooked cops, I have much respect to the police officers who got him in a box, fortunately not everyone in the government are fools or criminals.
So let’s see if the government lawyers fumble the ball on this, like a lot of other cases, criminal or otherwise. Let’s see if they know what they do for a living.
OR perhaps this guy ends up dead not needing a trial, because the jails are out of control and there is this big rush-to-judgement in there. Perhaps the other criminals in the jails get to claim “true credit” that they are the only ones who could actually deliver “Belizean Vigilante Justice”, as opposed to the grandstanding bloggers who are OK the rest of the Belize justice system goes down the tubes.
Good work police officers, you do not get paid enough but have the self respect of doing your job correctly.
i think they should torture the ……… and not kill him becuz killing him will only hurt him for the time being killed.. he needs to be tortured everyday…. men like him needs more than juz killing dem… and if from the first they would have arrested him wen he did that from the first this wouldn’t be happening wat the !@# it wrong with Belize.. I love my country but this !@$$ has to stop.. if police dont start doing der jobs right they will be the one who people will start punishing.. they shouldn’t let those kind a people get out of jail none at all.. and it wouldn’t be any surprise if u hear he’s out again becuz money talks here in Belize.. Come on Belize tighten up….
Elgin – picture is on: http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=11082
Our prayers has been answer.hang him cut his di## off belizean we need to come together
The law is for the people. The people should choose the law. Lynch him The bridge is right there nereby….
@elgin martines, if you want to see his pic log in Facebook for the name jasmine alert and you’ll see the face of bert vasquez which lots of tv media try to avoid showing but the news media cannot stop our anger for this criminal, it’s more detailed in viral news fb, nowadays the people still find out more on this viral outlets. check it bro and see for your self .
How in the world did he get bail and if he is out did he surrender travel documents, or worst does he have to appear at a police station every friday and not get into any trouble or tamper with witnesses or the investigation? something is lacking here..
Thanks for revealing his name.. hmm Bert Vasquez deserves no mercy. He is a serial killer and if he is not killed, he will kill again. It can be your sister, your daughter… he deserves the death sentence and nothing else.
Elgin – this is the correct one: http://www.7newsbelize.com/index.php#story4
I have a concern, why would the media protect the identity of the maniac and not of the girl that gave her testimony? This is seriously nonsense, i dont get it. really?? hmmm seems to me that being a “business person” makes you have more privileges than others. I just hope Dickie bradley is not hired as his lawyer because he is def going to be set free… Thanks to Dickie bradley we have all these criminals, child molesters, etc free without any worries!! #justicehastobedone
Elgin – wrong one this is the correct one: http://www.7newsbelize.com/index.php#story4
Well i suggest the police let him go………. and let the Cayo people deal with him. Tops 5 mins before tire start to burn.
If we can’t …HANG HIM…
He should be a LIFETIME resident of THE PRISON FARM aka … THE Sustainable Rehabilitation Center.
There HE CAN EARN HIS KEEP and CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIETY at NO COST TO TAX-PAYERS.
One thing I don’t understand if this is really the guy who killed Jasmine why d hell were the police wasting their time looking for that white taxi vehicle and where did the information that she was in a white car and not a silver one come from.
Another thing the last time rumor was around that ring was already found in the white vehicle or was it not?
Everyone is talking about Justice for Jasmine but what really is justice. Does the judicial system still have the death penalty? Would he be dead man walking? Is there enough evidence that can prove this man guilty or would d system just botch it up and let him go AGAIN.
Would he be sent to prison and for what so that he can get a free meal and sit around breathing while the taxpayers maintain him?
I hope that the police do a thorough investigation and don´t screw up like they have don in the past. May justice be served. This was a cold blooded murder. I do pray that they don´t drop it down to manslaughter as has been done in previous cases. We should use social media to pressure the authorities to ensure that this man gets what he deserves for the killing of an innocent child like Jasmine (RIP). FIN HIM GUILTY OF MURDER … DEATH BY HANGING!!!
We also need to force the authorities to stiffen the penalties for these filthy individuals. As a victim of child abuse, it sickens me to see these people get off with a slap on their wrists or a minimal sentence when victims of sex crimes live with scars for the rest of their lives. TIME TO TOUGHEN THE PENALTIES FOR CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN.
MAY JASMINE LOWE AND ALL THE INNOCENT CHILDREN THAT HAVE GONE BEFORE HER REST IN PEACE!!!
I knew this guy as Bert Haylock why has he changed his name? Does he have more stuff to hide? The police needs to go indept in this guys life. They need to create a profile on him they would be surprise and might be able to solve more cases this way. For the record I remembered one incident involving Bert Haylock aka Bert Vasquez stealing $50 out of my purse when I believe he didn’t have to but as I went to his mom’s house she came out with my money as if though she knew he has done wrong but she will correct it. This behavior from a mother says a lot she takes up for him and now look what he has elevated to.
The residents of the twin towns should not give up, if they stand down the police will want take it easy. I wonder if this was the same man that was killing girls in Bz a while back.
Does anyone know what was the testimony of the 8 year old that he had in the car?
No need to keep him in jail release him so that we deal with him.
where can we see a picture? this teaches us a good lesson, the importance of awareness. parents, take the time to teach your children. it is never too soon, 2 yrs, 3 yrs..teach them from now. a good thing is that it looks like lots of these young girls have been aware and got away, Good going!
Lets show what Cayo people can do!!!!!
Dead rat and no one knows what happened.
they should giv him a 120years plus life in jail,justice need to be serve for jasmine