In the pursuit of Kenrick Longsworth, Belize City police descended on Pickstock Hutment, popularly known as Jungle. In a social media post, Commissioner Williams suggested that the fugitive stepfather was being harboured by residents of that community. The comment has incensed many who live in Jungle, despite the hotspot it is known to be. Upon […]
Belmopan Police carried out a number of operations in the Belmopan area over the weekend. One of the operations netted a trove of ammunition. Police say that the more than one hundred rounds of ammo have been labeled as found property because no one was in the area when the discovery was made. Here’s more […]
Police say one man will be charged in connection with an abduction and beating in Santa Cruz Village. The incident happened minutes before midnight last week Wednesday. Twenty-six-year-old Stefan Kerr reported to police that he was socializing in Santa Cruz when three men approached him and an argument followed. Kerr told police that the men […]
In the crime blotter, there was a shooting in which a twenty-one-year-old man was shot in Hattieville on Friday night. Police say that Tyrone Belisle was at home when he was fired upon just before midnight. Fortunately for Belisle, he managed to run away from his attackers and survived the gunshot injuries. Police say they […]
The second victim of the gun violence over the weekend was Philip Guzman, a resident of the Hollywood area in Lord’s Bank Village. Guzman was heading home from work when one of two persons opened fire at him. At this time, a motive has not been established and police are looking for a person from […]
Michael Pook was at his worksite when he came under gunfire. Pook is hospitalized in a critical condition. Police say that they are pursuing different angle, even taking a look at Pook’s criminal past, to solve this shooting. Supt. Alejandro Cowo, O.C., C.I.B., Eastern Division “Michael Pook, thirty-one-year-old, was working as a security guard […]
Three days after the gruesome murder of a Mexican national, police have levied murder charges on nineteen-year-old Deandre Guiffero. Gabriel Alejandro Guzman Cruz was brutally hacked and set on fire at Hanna’s Paradise, a property he was taking care of in Seine Bight Village. A number of items stolen from the property also turned up […]
A duo, including a minor, is in custody and is expected to be charged for the heinous murder of a Mexican caretaker. Gabriel Alejandro Guzman Cruz died a horrible death; he was chopped and stabbed and a mattress inside the property was set on fire. He managed to roll out of the house, but succumbed. […]
On Monday, we reported on the first murder of this year. Sixteen-year-old, Samantha Conorquie, was gunned down outside a house in Belize City where she had spent the Christmas holidays. The minor was on her phone when a gunman opened fire last Friday night. Today, police told the media that they have questioned several persons […]
A minor narrowly escaped from a storm of bullets on Monday. A gunman fired off several shots at the sixteen-year-old’s direction towards his grandmother’s residence in the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City. The gunman, Giovanni Lambey, has since been arraigned on a charge of aggravated assault. When he appeared in court on Wednesday […]
If you’ve been around the city in the past couple days, you would have seen a number of stop and searches being carried out by the police. Today, Superintendent Alejandro Cowo asked for the public’s cooperation – as he says these efforts are helping to keep residents safe and reduce the number of crimes being […]
One person is in custody tonight following a horrific murder in Seine Bight village on Tuesday afternoon. Police are looking for a minor and have recovered some items stolen in the robbery turn murder. A caretaker, forty-six year old Gabriel Guzman Cruz, was killed in a gruesome way at the property; he was cut on […]
The final numbers are in for the crimes committed in 2019 and the Belize Police Department says that major crimes were down this year. In the murder category, there were nine fewer than 2018. According to the department, most of the murders were committed with firearms and in rural locations. Commissioner Chester Williams says that […]
As you heard in the story, there were more murders committed in the rural parts of the country than in the urban settings for 2019. While the murders were down in Belize City – there was a hundred percent increase in other areas like Ladyville. But how did the rest of the country do? According […]
And other crimes, such as unlawful sexual intercourse were up while robberies, burglaries and theft decreased in 2019 when compared to 2018. Commissioner Chester Williams told the press today that crimes against women and children were also low for last year. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “Sex crime is up, particularly unlawful sexual intercourse. […]
Earlier you heard the Commissioner of Police share that the three most commonly used weapons to commit murders in 2019 were firearms, knives and machetes. Well, going into 2020, ComPol says that his officers will be enforcing the edge tools legislation that is on the books. Here’s how he explains it. Chester Williams, Commissioner […]
A man was killed late this afternoon in Seine Bight. Details are sketchy at this time, but News Five understands that the victim is Mexican national, Alejandro Guzman, who worked as a caretaker of a property in the area. Preliminary reports are that it is a home invasion turn murder. We are told that the […]
A popular taxi man escaped with his life on Monday evening when he was targeted by someone who was trailing him in the San Jose Nuevo Palmar area of Orange Walk. Forty-six-year-old Ricardo Uk was with a female passenger when he came under fire from a masked gunman in the area of the water tank […]
Back in November, we reported about the meeting held by the Belize Police Department with twenty-five or so gun dealers. In that meeting they discussed a number of proposed gun control measures. Some of the changes were to take effect this year and on Monday, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams told the press that the […]
A female minor is the first murder victim for 2020. She spent the holidays at a friend’s house in Belize City, but on Friday night, her life was cut short when she was murdered execution-style. Samantha answered a call and exited the house where she was staying on Ordonez Avenue. As she stood on the […]
Before noon today, another minor was targeted. Fortunately, the sixteen-year old student escaped the multiple shots that were let go in his direction at the house of his grandmother in the Port Loyola area. The older woman says she knows who the shooter is and believes the life of her grandson is under threat because […]
Four men have been slapped with drug charges after they were busted with over four pounds of weed. According to police, around two-thirty in the afternoon of January third, police were carrying out a routine checkpoint on the George Price Highway where they searched a car. Here’s more from ACP Joseph Myvett. ACP Joseph […]
Over the weekend, police detained a number of young men in Seine Bight village in the south. According to Commissioner Chester Williams, the youths were threatening the cops who were carrying out operations in the area. The matter was dealt with quickly and the men were charged. Here’s more from ComPol Williams. Chester Williams, […]
Police say that Christian Neal, who escaped from the Kolbe Foundation eight months ago, has been recaptured. Neal was picked up on Thursday, January second sometime around two p.m. According to ACP Joseph Myvett, Benque Viejo police officers were conducting patrols in that western town when they encountered Neal. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National […]
Earlier in the newscast we reported on the first murder of 2020. In the coming days, the Police Department will release the official stats with a full breakdown of the numbers. But today the Commissioner of Police Chester Williams spoke about the murders, of which he says, there were one hundred and thirty-four recorded in […]
