Belizeans security forces on Saturday night deterred a narco plane from landing in the country. That plane was forced to crash land on a highway in Quintana Roo, Mexico. The Mexican army secured more than five hundred kilos of cocaine in two separate vehicles linked to the plane. The aircraft was located by the army’s […]
On Friday we told you that forty-year-old Dylon Flowers was released from police detention pending further investigation. Today Superintendent of Police Alejandro Cowo confirmed this to say that the D.P.P.’s office is awaiting the post-mortem results of fifty-six-year-old Roy Gabourel. Flowers shot and killed his brother-in-law Roy Gabourel on his property in Burrell Boom Village […]
In the past few weeks we’ve been reporting on a number of robberies and just this weekend two Belize City men were killed. Police say that gang rivalry is at the heart of these killings and that these gangs are also committing other acts of crime especially since the State of Emergency was lifted. Now, […]
And when it comes to the gangs, Commissioner Chester Williams says that he has zero tolerance for the crimes they are committing and will not be taking it lightly – but will push through their actions to the fullest extent of the law. Today he told the press that he is not engaging the gangs […]
Five years ago to this date, Kareem Clarke was gunned down in Belize City. The journalist was heading home on his bicycle when he was met by gunfire. Like so many other murders, Clarke’s killing remains unresolved and justice has eluded his family over the years. Today, his sister painfully recollected the events of a […]
Kareem Clarke isn’t the only family member that Melanie Young has lost to gun violence. Her seventeen-year-old daughter, Kyla Young, was shot and killed in Belize City in February of this year. She was on Glenn Street with some friends when two men approached them and released a barrage of bullets. It is not known if […]
A man well-known to the law died within hours after he was shot following a brazen robbery. On Thursday, around three o’clock in the afternoon, the Belama Branch of Scotia Bank was hit by five robbers. Gasman Young Junior was shot to the neck when he attempted to flee, along with four others, in a […]
Dylon Flowers was released from police detention just after five this evening. News Five understands that because he was released pending investigation, he can be rearrested and charged. But at this time it would appear that he was released on the grounds of self-defence. As we reported, Flowers shot and killed his brother-in-law, Roy Gabourel […]
Armed robbers carried out a brazen robbery this afternoon around three o’clock; as many as five men, including a minor, pounced on the Belama Branch of the Scotia Bank. At the time, customers were still inside the bank conducting businesses. The investigation is in the early stage, but police have been able to provide some […]
As you heard just now, cops were quick to respond and nab the culprits in the robbery at the Scotia Bank Branch on the George Price Highway. Today, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams praised the officers’ good work. But we asked Williams what can business owners do to avoid becoming targets of robbers. The ComPol […]
Police are investigating the case of a man who was shot dead in rural Belize. The report is that it started out as a case of domestic dispute between a husband and wife. But the husband, the alleged aggressor, was armed with a machete and was outside of his in-law’s property after his wife had […]
As you heard in that story, Roy Gabourel is dead and his brother-in-law, Dylon Flowers is detained for the fatal shooting. This all happened minutes after Gabourel allegedly hit his wife Denise Gabourel with a machete and threatened to kill her. You just heard family members share what they know about the incident. Here is […]
A second cop is named and charged in the fraudulent gun documents at the Belmopan Police Headquarters. He is Corporal Donald Pinelo and he was slapped with six counts of forgery when he appeared in court today in Belmopan. He too was released on bail. Pinelo is the second cop to be name in the […]
The Mexican man who ran out of the quarantine facility in Orange Walk Town has been captured. Twenty-six-year-old Francisco Hernandez was captured on a feeder road between the villages of San Antonio and Santa Cruz, a few miles away from the border with Mexico. Hernandez escaped this morning from the Multi-Purpose Complex. He did so […]
Thirty-one-year-old Anselmo Ack was injured during a shooting incident in Punta Gorda on Tuesday night. The security guard was along with forty-nine-year-old Olympia Pate, the manager of the local Uno gas station, when they were fired upon by persons who attempted to rob them of the day’s proceeds in sales. Pate reported to PG police […]
There were two robberies in villages along the George Price Highway on Monday. Police say that two thieves robbed a supermarket in Franks Eddy Village, while a resident of Saint Matthews Village reported that he was also targeted by robbers. Police are now investigating if these robberies were committed by the same culprits. Sr. […]
….moving south, robbers also hit a gas station last week Friday. Police say that a gas attendant reported that some time after five that evening, four men visited the UNO Gas Station and stole cash and valuables. Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero shares the details. Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, Deputy Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch […]
Tonight police say that they have released the man who was being questioned about the murder of fifty-two-year-old Isaias Oroman of Bullet Tree Village. Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero says that they don’t have a motive for this murder; neither do they have a suspect. Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, Deputy Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch […]
A Bullet Tree Village resident was killed over the weekend. His body was discovered in the early hours of Sunday morning. Tonight the family says that they don’t know who wanted him dead. The circumstances of Isaias Oroman’s encounter with his killer remain unknown tonight – but reports say that cops are questioning a B.D.F. […]
News Five has received exclusive pictures of the fifteen persons who have been arrested by way of an order from the Commissioner of Police Chester Williams. The pictures obtained by News Fives show the two police officers and three B.D.F. soldiers at the site where they were first detained. The group of persons was briefly questioned […]
At the crack of dawn this morning, fire erupted dangerously close to the house of the resident pastor in the village of Gales Point, Belize District. The pastor and his family were asleep when a van parked in the yard was set on fire. The vehicle contained two tanks of butane gas which exploded inside […]
The situation was fraught with danger for Pastor Welch’s family. The police station, which is not far away from the pastor’s house, was locked up and it took hours for the police to arrive to process the scene. Fortunately, the quick thinking of the pastor saved the day. Here is News Five’s Duane Moody. […]
Fifteen persons have been detained for questioning after they were spotted in the Santa Martha Area over the weekend. In the bunch are two police officers and three B.D.F. soldiers who are being interrogated after they were seen in the area at around three o’clock in the morning. The area is a known narco-trafficking hotspot where […]
A Mexican woman, believed to have illegally entered the country last week, was caught in Belize City on Tuesday morning. Twenty-five-year-old Angela Soto lives in La Union in Mexico and reportedly has family here in Belize. The Ministry of Health is currently conducting contact tracing. Health officials received word that she was being housed by […]
Police have arrested Guatemalan national Esau Ramirez Lopez who was on the run since last Friday. Ramirez Lopez is accused of stabbing his former common-law-wife, Rebecca Munoz and her two children in the village of San Jose, Orange Walk District. The incident happened on June nineteenth at Munoz’s house. The accused is now in police […]
