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On Tuesday at midday, the Belize Defense Force was informed that a contraption which appears to be an explosive object had been found on an aircraft belonging to Maya Island Air. When B.D.F. personnel arrived at the municipal airstrip a few minutes later, they observed that the device had already been removed from the aircraft […]
Written on September 28, 2023 | Posted in
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A Mahogany Heights resident has been convicted of drug trafficking after police discovered one hundred and seventeen grams of cannabis in her home. Reports are that on Wednesday night, police officers were conducting operations in the village when they conducted a search at the home of Nia Clother. Police say that while searching a room, […]
Written on September 28, 2023 | Posted in
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Also in Mahogany Heights Village, a family of four was busted with forty-one grams of marijuana. On Wednesday, police visited the home of Stephanie Copious and executed a search warrant for drugs and illegal firearms. During the search of the kitchen area, police say they came upon a strong aroma of marijuana coming from a […]
Written on September 28, 2023 | Posted in
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Earlier today, an eighteen-year-old was facing seven years for burglary, until his mother appeared in court to drop the charge. Brian Hilton is accused of breaking into his mother’s home on Tuesday afternoon with the intent to harm her. Charges were brought against him and he was taken before the lower court where he was […]
Written on September 28, 2023 | Posted in
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The conch season officially opens on Sunday, October first, and will run through to the end of June 2024. If the production quota is realized earlier, the conch season will be declared closed. Tonight, however, seven fishermen from various parts of the country have been charged jointly for possession of conch during the closed season. […]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-three-year-old Walter Martinez, a Honduran national pleaded guilty to failure to produce a visitors permit on demand when he appeared before a Senior Magistrate earlier today. On Tuesday, Martinez was caught walking along Coney Drive in the vicinity of Body 2000 when it was discovered that he was in violation of an immigration offense. The […]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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It was an outrageous story two days ago when it broke: a man embroiled in an argument with a woman over food, another man stepped in to part the fight, but ends up killing the man who was arguing with the woman. Well that is what reportedly happened on Sunday and today, the police informed […]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Ronlee Petillo, a Belize City resident who is well known to law enforcement, has been committed to stand trial for rape. When he appeared before the Chief Magistrate earlier today, she revoked his bail for sexual assault after noticing that he violated the conditions of his bail for another offense. Back in May, Petillo was […]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Thirty-one-year-old Jose Luis Eguizabal appeared unrepresented before the lower courts today where he was fined for being in possession of fifteen pieces of conch during the closed season. On September nineteenth, the fisherman from Sarteneja Village was busted along the seawall behind the High Court Building where he was in possession of the illegal fishery. […]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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A man was stabbed to death during a fight in Belmopan on Sunday. Reports are that the victim, Elmer Canto, was embroiled in a fight with a woman at a barbecue on Sunday and that a third person intervened to break up the fight. But Elmer then reportedly picked up a rock to throw at the […]
Written on September 25, 2023 | Posted in
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The fatal stabbing in Belmopan was not the only crime-related news that unfolded over the weekend in the Garden City. Police, on Saturday evening, also discovered a hand grenade in the nation’s capital. This evening, Belize Police Department informed that an operation was conducted in the Belmopan cemetery on Nicaragua Street in the Salvapan area […]
Written on September 25, 2023 | Posted in
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ComPol Williams further clarified that there is not a limit on the amount of gun licenses a single individual can possess. He noted that there are individuals with up to twenty gun licenses in the country. He also noted that it is not uncommon for him to approve multiple gun licenses in a single day […]
Written on September 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Seventy-year-old Jose Lopez, a security guard on a farm in Belize District, is lucky to have been spared jail time after being charged with kept unlicensed ammunitions. On September eighteenth, police responded to a farm near mile twenty-five on the George Price Highway after receiving information that someone was attempted to take his own life. […]
Written on September 22, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-seven-year-old Calvin McKay is spending the next three years in prison after he was convicted for two curfew violations during the states of emergency in 2020 at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. McKay appeared before the Chief Magistrate today on a pair of drug-related offenses, including one count of possession of an undetermined quantity […]
Written on September 22, 2023 | Posted in
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In the lower courts today, twenty-five-year-old Tyrek Tyrone Gillett, a police officer, was granted bail after being charged with assaulting his ex-girlfriend and threatening to kill her. Gillett, a resident of Curl Thompson Street, appeared unrepresented before a magistrate where he was read two charges: one count of common assault and another for use of […]
Written on September 20, 2023 | Posted in
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An ex-convict, who has spent time in jail for the murder of Alfonso Eck while in prison, is back behind bars tonight after he was charged with robbery and placed on pretrial detention. Lorenzo Smith Junior, a resident of Crooked Tree Village, appeared before the Chief Magistrate earlier today where he was arraigned for a […]
Written on September 20, 2023 | Posted in
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In the wee small hours of this morning, a burglar broke into the residence of Justice Nigel Pilgrim in the Hollywood area of Lord’s Bank Village. The forty-four-year-old High Court judge from Trinidad and Tobago was asleep on the second floor of his home when he was startled by a loud bang. When he opened […]
Written on September 18, 2023 | Posted in
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There was also a shooting on Custard Apple Street in Belize City over the weekend that left one man injured. Since the start of the September Celebrations, the police department has been working overtime in an effort to reduce incidents of crime and violence. Here’s more from Assistant Commissioner of Police Hilberto Romero. ACP […]
Written on September 18, 2023 | Posted in
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A Belize City woman claims that she was brutalized by police officers at the Raccoon Street Police Station when she went to file a report over the weekend. Fifty-two-year-old Sherlette Lamb says that she was socializing on Fabers Road at around two a.m. on Saturday morning when a man she knows threatened her life. As […]
Written on September 18, 2023 | Posted in
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The sound of gunshots permeated the dead of night on Far West Street in Punta Gorda Town in the early hours of Saturday morning, as a woman and her common-law husband were targeted during a shooting. When the shooting subsided, thirty-five-year-old Dana Gonzalez lay dead, and twenty-two-year-old Gustavo Mendez was critically wounded. The report is […]
Written on September 18, 2023 | Posted in
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On Thursday, reporters asked Minister Fonseca for his thoughts on the topic of gun license reform, as the discussion rages on, and with amendments to the Firearms Act already being passed through parliament. He was also asked if he thinks there should be an audit of the gun license registry. This is what he told […]
Written on September 15, 2023 | Posted in
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An elderly man is hospitalized tonight after he was attacked by a gunman in Santa Elena Town. Just after two a.m., seventy-three-year-old Natalio Castaneda was at his home on Carmen Street, preparing to head over to his tortilla factory when he was approached by two men, one of whom fired several shots in his direction. […]
Written on September 14, 2023 | Posted in
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The taxi operator responsible for toppling and damaging the bust of Belizean national hero Philip Goldson when he collided into the monument on Saturday morning, has been charged for driving a motor vehicle without due care and attention. Thirty-four-year-old Mervin Domingo has also been charged for driving a motor vehicle with alcohol concentration above the […]
Written on September 14, 2023 | Posted in
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A resident of Police Street who is presently on remand for a murder committed in 2022, has been found guilty of aggravated assault with a firearm upon a police officer. Earl Baptist was convicted of the offense upon Police Constable Darrel Myers. When he appeared without counsel in the Magistrate’s Court earlier today, Baptist chose […]
Written on September 14, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-four-year-old Kevaughn Middleton, a barber of Caesar Ridge Road, remains at the Belize Central Prison awaiting bail. That’s because he was arraigned on July tenth on several criminal offenses, including attempted murder, wounding, and use of deadly means of harm upon security guard Kelvin Todd. When Middleton appeared before a Senior Magistrate today he learned […]
Written on September 14, 2023 | Posted in
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