There is a report tonight that a police officer has been arrested and charged for violating the curfew regulation. The cop, Patrick Roches, was detained on Monday night. From the reports received, Roches was also granted bail. Apparently Roches and another officer were drinking when they were apprehended.
Ulysease Roca, a twenty-five-year-old fashion designer, was found dead inside his house in Willows Bank, Belize District on Sunday. Roca’s death is under investigation because of the circumstances. Roca was gay and an HIV patient, two issues that made him a target for threats and bullying. Just before his demise, he posted on social media […]
Last Thursday evening one hundred and thirty-seven gang members were released from the Belize Central Prison. The men were sent to prison for one month following a series of killings and shootings over the span of forty-eight hours. As you’ll recall, police quickly declared a state of emergency which targeted eight crime-ridden and gang controlled […]
But while the released gang members appear to be keeping the peace, their release from prison has put an added pressure on the Belize Police Department during the State of Emergency. Commissioner Chester Williams says, however, that while it stretches the police resources, the officers have stepped up to the challenge. Chester Williams, Commissioner […]
Police have detained Belize City resident, Roderick Wade who uses the alias, Tape Boss. Not too long ago, the photographer was on social media claiming he had a raped a female. That video went viral and its content was met with widespread condemnation. Reports are that police have Wade in detention and that his house […]
Over one hundred persons breached the curfew law over the weekend but it did not include minors. On Friday evening, the new curfew regulations for persons sixteen-years-old and younger came into effect. That new law states that these persons must be in their homes by four p.m. everyday and cannot be found in public alone […]
On Thursday night, more than one hundred and forty persons suspected of being members of gangs were released from the Belize Central Prison after a month of incarceration. At the time of their arrests in March, the police imposed a state of emergency in the south side of the city to restrict movements due to […]
On Thursday night in San Ignacio, a motorist fled the scene of a collision after reportedly being pursued by police officers on motorcycle. The pickup truck, as seen here, ran off the shoulder of the road and tore into several palm trees before coming to rest. The front bumper was extensively damaged, but there was […]
Three police officers, including a corporal, have been arrested and charged following the coercion of two Belize City residents into a sexual act last Tuesday. Forty-six-year-old Jason Shaw, thirty-eight-year-old Leslie Martinez and twenty-year-old Anthony Villamil were arraigned earlier today for the crime of willful oppression. That’s because a report was filed by a forty-five-year-old laborer […]
There have been over five hundred persons and counting arrested for violating the emergency powers regulation with respect to the state of emergency and curfew. On Sunday, further restrictions were put in place in terms of movement of persons and there were a number of persons who were caught in the net. A total of […]
While there a number of arrests were made over the weekend for violators of the state of emergency, police are investigating a case of sudden death in the west. Earlier today, the decomposing body of an elderly man was found near a dumpsite in the Valley of Peace Village, Cayo District. According to information reaching […]
Turning to a despicable sex video in circulation; three officers, including a corporal, have been identified as the policemen behind the most appalling act of sexual coercion that was recorded and disseminated on social media earlier this week. The trio was on duty in Belize City during the early hours of Monday morning when they […]
According to ComPol Williams, the despicable act perpetrated by the officers undermines the work of the police department, as well as the individual efforts of their colleagues in shaping the image of the department. The male victim, he says, was innocent to the situation because, like the woman, he was also under duress. Chester […]
The vicious beating of seventy-seven-year-old Alejandro Chavez, as well as another resident of the San Martin community in Belmopan, at the hands of police officers, remains under investigation. While both victims had to seek medical attention in the wake of the incident which occurred last Friday night, statements have not been recorded by the Professional […]
A state of emergency, amid the coronavirus crisis, remains in effect for the entire country of Belize. The police are expected to enforce the law but tonight, many are questioning the scope of authority given to law enforcement during this time. That’s because a very revolting and graphic video is in circulation which shows a […]
Sixty more persons were arrested on Monday night for breaking the rules declared under the State of Emergency Powers Regulations. According to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, thirty-nine persons were arrested for being unable to provide a reason for movement outside of the curfew period which is between five a.m. and eight p.m. Nineteen persons […]
Police are under scrutiny for the way some have been conducting arrests during the state of emergency. One resident told News Five outside the courthouse on Monday that he was on his way to the mechanic shop when he was picked up by the police and charged. When he appeared before the magistrate, he pleaded […]
Did cops take the enforcement of the curfew law too far on Friday night in Belmopan? That’s what many have concluded after a video and photos of an elderly man being beaten by police surfaced online. The officers were reportedly patrolling the streets in the San Martin area when they pursued two persons on the […]
There were three fatal shootings over the course of four days last week, two of which have been recorded as murders. The most recent occurred on the night of April second in southern Belize in the Indianville community of Punta Gorda. News Five has confirmed that two persons have been detained for questioning in the […]
In the murder of Haitian national Raymond Cherestal, the motive seems to be robbery. Commissioner Williams says that an ongoing investigation has not led to any arrests. The former cab driver was found murdered on the doorsteps of his Ladyville residence on the morning of April second. Cherestal was shot to the head. Chester […]
Commissioner Chester Williams also gave an update on the shooting death of Rafael Sansores in Corozal. The Chula Vista resident was with friends at a house he frequented in the White Cocal area of that northern town when a pellet gun they were playing with discharged. Sansores was hit to the chest and died hours […]
The state of emergency came into effect on April first and by Thursday night, the streets of the City and around the country were virtually empty of people and there was very little vehicular traffic. Police was on the ground and by Friday morning, seventy-four persons had been arrested and charged as enforcement of the […]
There was a murder on Thursday night in the Indianville community of Punta Gorda. Sometime around seven p.m., PG police were called out to the area where they found twenty-seven-year-old Ismael Jacobs motionless with multiple gunshot wounds. Jacobs was lying face down in a pool of blood inside the living room of his home. The […]
All across the country, people are hunkering down to avert the spread of COVID-19. But in Ladyville, a criminal was on the loose. A Haitian cab driver was murdered and his body found early this morning at his house in the Milpa area. Raymond Cherestal made Belize his home since 1991 and while he is […]
Among the items found at Arthur Saldivar’s family residence in Camalote Village was a bulletproof vest. For this, he was charged with being in possession of an unregistered bulletproof vest. But according to Saldivar’s attorney, Richard “Dickie” Bradley, the prosecution attempted to convince the magistrate to remand Saldivar. Bradley says that having a bulletproof vest […]
