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You’ve probably seen this before: a crime is committed, but the witnesses are killed or there are simply none, and the prosecution relies heavily on science to fill in the blanks. In almost all of those cases, DNA evidence can link the perpetrator to the scene, even if he or she has the best alibi […]
Written on October 11, 2023 | Posted in
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While most people were wrapping up the long Indigenous People’s holiday weekend on Monday evening, brothers, Jericho and Aaron Pershing were enduring a horrific experience at the hands of four armed thieves. The brothers were ambushed by the robbers, who proceeded on foot along the Agua Viva gravel road to the Mennonite community, where they […]
Written on October 10, 2023 | Posted in
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This afternoon, Assistant Commissioner of Police Hilberto Romero, provided an account of what transpired, informing reporters that investigators are seeking four suspects who made good their escape during the incident. ACP Hilberto Romero, Regional Commander, Eastern Division “On Monday, October 9th, 2023, around nine p.m., Aaron Pershing reported that he was in the Agua […]
Written on October 10, 2023 | Posted in
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A notorious street figure in Orange Walk is wanted in Mexico for murder. Thirty-four-year-old Nimrod Tillett has been acquitted of murder three times in Belize. But, he may now have to answer before a court in Mexico for a murder he allegedly committed in that country four years ago. This morning, Tillett was wheeled into […]
Written on October 10, 2023 | Posted in
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A shooting incident in Punta Gorda Town over the weekend has left one man injured, amid what is believe to be a rivalry between two groups in that southern municipality. Forty-six-year-old Danny Martinez was the victim of an armed attack when an unknown assailant emerged on a motorcycle and opened fire in his direction. Martinez […]
Written on October 10, 2023 | Posted in
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In Dangriga, on Saturday afternoon, a gang-related incident also resulted in a shooting that injured Vincent Martinez. He was riding a bicycle along George Price Drive when he was accosted by an unknown individual who fired multiple shots at him. Police say they have one suspect in custody following the attack on Martinez. ACP […]
Written on October 10, 2023 | Posted in
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In Orange Walk Town on Saturday, an employee of La Inmaculada Credit Union was reported missing when disappeared into some bushes, reportedly following an altercation with a security guard. A search party, including family members, friends and colleagues of Oswaldo Vasquez, has been scouring the area where he was last seen, but have not been […]
Written on October 10, 2023 | Posted in
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It has been over a week since seventeen-year-old Malachi Hamilton went missing from his Lake Independence neighborhood and his family believes that he has been murdered. According to the young man’s aunt, Natalie Hamilton, he spoke to her briefly last Monday before leaving home. The Hamilton family is concerned because this is the first time […]
Written on October 10, 2023 | Posted in
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On Thursday, we told you about an amendment to the Criminal Code Act that could see persons convicted of aggravated assault face up to as much as five years imprisonment. The amendment will upgrade the Use of Threatening Words or behaviors from a petty offence to a serious offence. Minister of Home Affairs, Kareem Musa, […]
Written on October 6, 2023 | Posted in
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Minister Musa was also asked about the decrease in violent crimes for 2023 and whether the statistics validate the Commissioner of Police’s performance. Minister Musa responded by saying that the decrease is a testament of improved performance across the department. Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs “I think that more than the commissioner’s solidification […]
Written on October 6, 2023 | Posted in
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The Leadership Intervention Unit in collaboration with the University of Belize and the Ministry of Home Affairs held a Crime Prevention and Crime Control Forum in Belmopan today. Among the presenters were Minister Kareem Musa, LIU Chairperson, Dominique Noralez, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Doctor Richard Rosado, and U.B. President, Doctor Vincent Palacio. Following the event, […]
Written on October 5, 2023 | Posted in
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As we reported on Wednesday night, the Belize Police Department presented its computer statistics, which show that major crimes, including murders, are down throughout the country. So, for a department that has been able to realize this achievement, at least in the first nine months of the year, it speaks to the leadership of that […]
Written on October 5, 2023 | Posted in
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The trial against Attorney Oscar Selgado for abetment to commit murder, continued today at the High Court. At the start of the trial on Monday, six witnesses took the stand. Marlyn Barnes, the woman who Selgado allegedly contracted Giovanni Ramirez to kill, was the first to take the stand. She told the court that she […]
Written on October 4, 2023 | Posted in
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Recent crime statistics have shown that murders in Belize have dipped by twenty-two percent. That is the information coming out of the Belize Police Department’s CompStat Report, short for computer statistics. CompStat is a method by which the police department measures crime trends, as well as crimes in a particular region. The revelation that murders […]
Written on October 4, 2023 | Posted in
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And as the Belize Police Department endeavors to keep the murder rate below figures of previous years, one of its concerns along that path has to be that a high-powered weapon that was used in the murder of Orel Leslie at the Albert and Regent Street junction in late August has still not been found. […]
Written on October 4, 2023 | Posted in
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After the Chairman of the Leadership Intervention Unit, William Dawson passed away in January, Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams, along with the Belize Police Department and the Ministry of Home Affairs scrambled to see how they could configure a team that would also be effective in keeping gang activity and violence at a minimum. Since […]
Written on October 4, 2023 | Posted in
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While the Commissioner of Police has explained the police department’s efforts to keep murders down, he has come under fire for the issuance of gun licenses. Today, the ComPol told the media that he also shares the same sentiment as Prime Minister John Briceño, who has said publicly that he doesn’t support the granting of […]
Written on October 4, 2023 | Posted in
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Attorney Oscar Selgado was charged back in July 2019, for the crime of abetment to commit murder. Selgado’s trial began today inside the High Court. Back in 2019, he was accused of asking a client to carry out a hit for him. The client in this case was Giovanni Ramirez, a man who was charged […]
Written on October 3, 2023 | Posted in
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We also heard from Senior Counsel, Adolf Lucas Senior, the attorney representing Selgado. Lucas says all the evidence that the Director of Public Prosecution has led up to this point are secondary and insignificant to the substantive matter. He gave us further details of today’s proceedings. Adolf Lucas Sr. SC, Attorney-At-Law “The prosecution who […]
Written on October 3, 2023 | Posted in
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Earlier today, twenty-eight-year-old Aaron Flowers was acquitted of the offense of aggravated assault with a firearm upon a woman. The businessman of the Lord’s Bank area is no stranger to the law and over the weekend he was detained of an old incident that occurred in mid-September where he allegedly pulled a firearm on a […]
Written on October 3, 2023 | Posted in
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Thirty-two-year-old Stanwell Bernardez, a construction worker of Antelope Street Extension, was read a single charge today when he appeared before the Chief Magistrate. Bernardez was arraigned earlier today on a charge of going equipped. That’s after he was found in possession of a pair of nine inch pliers and a small screwdriver. It is alleged […]
Written on October 3, 2023 | Posted in
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Near the end of each year, the Belize Crime Observatory, an arm of the Belize Police Department, shares statistics that reflect the crime rate in different categories for that particular year. The information usually paints a picture as to how grim the previous year was in terms of murders, sexual offences, home invasions, robberies, and […]
Written on October 3, 2023 | Posted in
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We begin tonight’s newscast with the arrest of two men for probably the most callous murder for 2023. Last Thursday, we brought you the gripping images of the murder of forty-three-year-old David “Goofy” Phillips, whose body was discovered in the Western Pines residential area at Mile eight on the George Price Highway. Phillips’s head was […]
Written on October 2, 2023 | Posted in
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Twelve fishermen have been slapped with seventy thousand dollars in total fines for having one thousand, one hundred conchs in their possession during the closed season. Reports are that on Saturday night at around nine o’clock, several hours before the start of the conch season, authorities came across a vessel named “Luisannie” two miles south […]
Written on October 2, 2023 | Posted in
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A man was callously murdered overnight near the Western Pines community. The killer apparently used a cement block to kill David Phillips, otherwise known as Goofy. The incident happened behind a concrete house that is still under construction and investigators are trying to put the pieces together of how the deceased, whose family members say […]
Written on September 28, 2023 | Posted in
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