A twenty-six-year-old woman of Santa Elena Town is fortunate to be alive tonight after a gunman fired several shots at her home. Debbidee Clarke reports that around seven-thirty on Sunday night she heard a loud noise in her house and when she realized the sound was from gunshots being fired she ran to get her […]
Police have arrested and charged two persons in connection with a home invasion in San Jose Village in the Orange Walk District. Maria Vasquez reported to police that in the early hours of Friday morning on September fourth, three men entered her home, tied her up and proceeded to rob the place. Police investigation led […]
Just after seven on Friday night, three armed robbers hit a supermarket in Calcutta Village in Corozal. The thieves got away with some money and cell-phones. A.C.P. Joseph Myvett gives us the details: ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “Corozal Police responded to an information of a robbery at Community Supermarket in […]
Tonight, the family of police constable Bernard Ical is hoping for his safe return. A search by the B.D.F. and Police is underway deep inside the Columbia Forest Reserve between Machaquila and San Jose, Hawaii. Ical was last seen on September second. The father of three is part of the border patrol deployed to the […]
Several persons remain in police custody pending further investigation into a viral sex video that shows a woman being forced to perform oral sex on a man while another instructs her on what to do. The video was leaked on Wednesday and, shortly after it reached the desk of the Commissioner of Police Chester Williams. […]
Until those charges are laid, ComPol Chester Williams says that “Big Tom” will be taken to the central prison under the gang state of emergency, which was declared in early July following a spike in gang related murders. It is being done to hopefully allow the female victim to be comfortable enough to cooperate with […]
Another video has been released and is being investigated by the Belize Police Department. The video shows a man wielding a gun and is heard speaking of possibly robbing a Tutsi ideal truck. The video has been widely circulated on social media and has reached the hands of ComPol Chester Williams. He says the video […]
A well-known gang leader is in police custody for forcing a woman to perform sexual acts on another man, while she was recorded and berated. The reprehensible video made its way to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, who immediately ordered an investigation to take place. In the video, the woman is clearly forced to do […]
Earlier this week, three persons were killed in separate incidents. In San Ignacio on Monday night Joshua Villas and Anthony Tzul were targeted by a lone gunman. Villas died on the same night and Tzul died on Wednesday. Police have been unable to crack the double murders. In Orange Walk Town, Joaquin Perez was fatally […]
Twenty-two-year-old Joaquin Perez was fatally stabbed on Tuesday during the lunch hour. Perez stepped out of his house in the Louisiana area of Orange Walk to go to a store. But on the way there, Perez got into an altercation with a pair of men. He was stabbed multiple times when he slipped and fell […]
A second victim has succumbed following Monday night’s fatal shooting in the west. Joshua Villas was called out of his home in the Trench Town area of San Ignacio. Two men opened fire on Villas, killing him instantly in front of his common-law wife and stepchildren. The gunmen then turned on Villas’ neighbor, Anthony Tzul […]
Turning to crime….A man was callously murdered on Monday night inside his home in the Trenchtown area of San Ignacio. Because of the curfew hours, Joshua Villas was at home with his family when he was executed in front of his common-law-wife and stepchildren. His wife says Joshua was called out and when he opened […]
There is another murder, it happened this afternoon on Royal Palm Street in the Louisiana Area of Orange Walk Town. The victim has been identified as twenty-two-year-old Joaquin Perez Junior. Police in Orange Walk say that before one o’clock, Perez armed with a machete reportedly set chase after a male person who was riding a […]
Even as San Pedro prepares for a storm, a robbery took place this afternoon. A brazen thief hit the MoneyGram office on the island. Reports are that the cashier was held up at gunpoint and an undisclosed amount of money stolen. Resident reportedly saw the perp running towards the west area of downtown. Police are […]
Health Minister Pablo Marin shot and killed a man last week. Suspected burglar Arkel Matura was caught burglarizing the Minister’s house in Corozal on Thursday night. Matura was shot twice by the Minister who told police that Matura came charging at him with a knife. A warning shot was first fired before the Minister lodged two […]
A cop has been placed on interdiction pending the outcome of a kidnapping case in the south. Police Constable Dwayne Sutherland Junior, not to be confused with the Commander of the Professional Standards Branch who carries the same namesake, has been charged for forcibly abducting a woman he is in a relationship with. The incident […]
In Belize City, a woman has been charged for the attempted murder of her husband’s cousin. On August twenty-seventh, a fight between a pair of cousins on Nurse White Street in Belize City ended with the stabbing of Austin Robinson. During the scuffle between Robinson and Clifford Caballero, Jennifer Elizabeth Sanchez inflicted a stab wound […]
A man is hospitalized at the Northern Regional Hospital after he was the victim of a brutal attack on Sunday morning in San Jose Village in Orange Walk. Jonathan Juchim was heading to his house in the village when he was accosted by three men, one who wielded a machete. He was chopped to the […]
There is a lot to cover tonight from the re-opening of the P.G.I.A. to the use of rapid tests coming out of a lengthy press conference with Prime Minister Dean Barrow. We will have all that coming up but we head to Corozal Town where a suspected burglar was shot and killed on Thursday night […]
The file of the fatal shooting of Matura will be sent to the office of the Director of Public Prosecution for determination. Minister Marin did not offer any comments today, but during a virtual press conference, Prime Minister Dean Barrow expressed that he is standing in solidarity with his cabinet colleague. Prime Minister Dean […]
Byron Manuel Guevara, a farmer in Bullet Tree Village, reported to police that armed robbers held him at gunpoint on Thursday night just after seven o’clock on the Pilar Road, just outside of the village. Guevara was traveling in his two-door Toyota pickup, along with his wife, his five and thirteen-year-old children and granddaughter when […]
Two men were involved in stabbing incident on Thursday in the incident. Preliminary reports say that the incident happened between a step-father and step-son. The step-son reportedly got into an argument with his stepfather and shortly after he inflicted the injuries on his step-father at a house in south side Belize City. Chester Williams, […]
Corozal policeman Reginald Diego is in trouble again with the law. As we reported on Tuesday, Diego was arrested and charged for the crime of extortion. He met bail and was released. He was subsequently placed on interdiction and expected to face internal disciplinary measures. But after he was released, on Wednesday Diego reportedly went […]
Two men have been charged and arraigned for the murder of Rosa Chinchia. On August seventeenth, the fifty-nine-year-old was cut to the throat by a twenty-five-year-old man who asked to borrow some money and Chinchia refused. She was rushed to Belize Healthcare Partners where she underwent surgery. One week later, Chinchia died. Angel Adolfo Garcia […]
Earlier this week a food vendor was brutally beaten and robbed by two thieves and fortunately for him, painter Alex Sanker, bravely fought off the duo. Another food vendor, Alva McKoy, has also fallen prey to thieves. This time, McKoy was robbed of more than seven hundred dollars by three thieves that pounced on her […]
