The cops have been in pursuit of border jumpers and contrabandistas to minimize the risk of COVID-19. As you know, government has amended the law to impose a prison term of a year on anyone caught in the illegal activities. Police have been operating and monitoring border communities where contrabandistas continue to ply their trade. […]
There was a brazen broad daylight robbery and beat down of a tamales vendor in Belize City this morning and it all went viral on social media, posted by the very familiar face of painter Alex Sanker. Now, as the Corozal vendor went about his usual route across the city, two thieves targeted him. After […]
Police were quick to detain the two suspects, but one escaped. But did the good deed by Alex Sanker cast a shadow of fear on his life? The artist told News Five today that after hitting the robbers, they threatened to return. Sanker says that he has been living there for years and is not […]
A police officer, Reginald Diego from the Corozal District, has been arrested and charged for the crime of extortion, following an incident over the weekend in which he allegedly coerced a U.S. national into paying him three hundred dollars to avoid a fabricated charge of five thousand dollars for driving up to a checkpoint without […]
A nineteen-year-old man, who has had a history with the law, was shot and killed on Friday during an attempted robbery. He is Dennis Lamb and his fatal shooting occurred on Eleanor Usher Street in the Old Capital. The report from the police is that Lamb had attempted to rob a businessman. Both struggled and […]
A security guard on duty at Twins Supermarket on St. Thomas Street had a near brush with death on Saturday morning as an armed robber tried on several occasions to shoot him at point blank range. Thirty-eight-year-old Washington Augustine was accosted by a lone gunman as he stood at the entrance of the store. When […]
And while that police officer in the south was caught facilitating a border jumper, in the north an officer was charged with extortion. On Saturday, the officer was posted at the checkpoint in Towerhill in Orange Walk when a U.S. national drove to the checkpoint. According to the U.S. citizen, he was told that driving […]
According to Commissioner Williams, incidents of extortion by police officers have increased recently. He says that the law is to be amended to fast track the process to get a conviction since currently the process is fairly lengthy. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “I have also discussed the matter with the Attorney General because […]
Over the weekend a police officer was caught smuggling a border jumper in the south. The officer and his wife were stopped at a checkpoint in Punta Gorda. Police and immigration officers there were searching for an individual believed to be a border jumper, who had illegally entered Belize through Jalacte in Guatemala. Instead they […]
A third officer is in trouble with the law; the corporal of police was caught drunk driving and in possession of an unlicensed firearm. Elton Elijio was in a black Toyota Rav Four when he caught the attention of a patrol unit. The unit began pursuing Elijio and when he realized he was being pursued, […]
Alfred “Big Red” Usher last week bitterly complained to News Five that he has been illegally and unfairly detained and placed in quarantine. He was caught in Orange Walk with contraband cigarettes primarily sold at the Corozal Free Zone. More than two weeks had passed and Usher remained at the quarantine centre. A frustrated Usher […]
Police in Ladyville are investigating a stabbing which occurred on Saturday night. Adrian Hulse was walking on Pigeon Street when he was reportedly approached by Elcide Bainton who uttered the words “round two”. Bainton pulled out a knife and stabbed Hulse four times. During the struggle Bainton was also stabbed, according to A.C.P. Joseph Myvett. […]
Police in Cayo are investigating a robbery which left a taxi driver with gunshot injuries. On Saturday night Gerson Ramirez was operating his taxi with his wife in the passenger seat when they stopped for a passenger on the Bullet Tree Road. That passenger asked to be taken to Santa Elena and on the way; […]
A K.H.M.H. doctor, who tested positive for COVID-19, was spotted in the city conducting business. Surveillance footage captured the doctor on Friday afternoon and that image was widely circulated online. News Five understands that the doctor suffers from a pre-existing condition and was hospitalized over the weekend. But tonight questions surrounding the doctor’s movements in […]
In the south, a pastor in Santa Cruz village in the south is facing charges under the State of Emergency Regulations. Police say that there were sixteen persons inside the church on Sunday night, which is contrary to the new S.I. that was passed. The new piece of legislation makes provision for church goers but […]
A fifty-nine-year-old woman from Lindos Alley in Belize City is currently in a critical condition at a medical facility in Belize City after she was attacked at her home earlier this morning. Rosa Delia Chinchilla was at her home when a twenty-five-year-old man visited her residence and asked to borrow some money. Police say that […]
As Chinchilla fights for her life at the K.H.M.H., a man was found dead inside his house on Rivero Street in Belize City. A caretaker found Bernard Gillett lifeless, slumped on his bed. Police do not suspect foul play since Gillett had a pre- existing condition which may have caused his demise. Here is Duane […]
A grocery store on Central American Boulevard in Belize City was targeted by armed thieves over the weekend. On Sunday evening, ABC Shop owner was robbed of three thousand dollars in cash by two masked gunmen who held him up and demanded that he turned over the money from the cash register. He complied and […]
Police are looking for a man in connection with a stabbing incident on Saturday in Belize City. Fifty-five-year-old Aubrey Brown lives alone in a small wooden house on Johnson Street and while socializing with another man, an argument ensued. Brown was stabbed to the right side of the chest around one a.m.; he was later […]
The Belize Police Department has stepped up its operations along the northern border. Commissioner Chester Williams says that they seized a number of contraband goods and as well as canoes that are used for transportation in the border villages. The goods seized consists primarily of alcoholic beverages, including seventy-three bottles of beer; sixty-seven cans of […]
Police arrested and charged close to two hundred persons for breach of the State of Emergency regulations over the weekend. From our records, it appears to be the largest number of persons charged under the S.O.E. Commissioner Chester Williams says the one hundred and eighty-eight persons didn’t adhere to social distancing; curfew and face mask […]
Placencia Police were called out to the scene of an aggravated burglary on Saturday just before eight. An armed man entered a house, held up the homeowner at gunpoint and robbed him. Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett says that they have detained one person in connection with the burglary at the home of a […]
In other crime news, police have arrested a man in the west for an unlicensed firearm. Police say that a patrol unit encountered Nectali Yeh walking with the unlicensed firearm in his hand. Here’s more from Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “While San Ignacio Police […]
A bust took place this afternoon of more than twenty canoes believed to be used in contrabanding activities. It all happened in the village of Santa Cruz in the Orange Walk District, which is a known hot spot for contrabandistas who cross into Mexican communities and return with loads of contraband items. Last week, the […]
Commissioner of Police Chester Williams returned to Douglas in Orange Walk District on Wednesday where he once again met with villagers in an effort to dissuade them from the illegal practice of contrabanding. With the rise in border jumping and the importation of COVID-19 cases from neighboring Mexico, there has been a crackdown by local […]
