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Speaking to the media today, ComPol Williams says that there were also a growing number of domestic related deaths and they will be looking into increased collaboration to try to stem that for this year. Williams also noted that their numbers show a decrease in the number of gang-related murders. He says the number recorded […]
Written on January 6, 2020 | Posted in
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Commissioner Williams also spoke about alcohol and the factor it played in crime, particular murders. Williams says the department will be cracking down on the failure to adhere to alcohol regulations. He made a special appeal to the liquor licensing board. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “We will be categorizing the different murders to […]
Written on January 6, 2020 | Posted in
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Police needs your assistance in locating the family of this young boy; he is Joviel Zetina. He was found early this morning in the DFC area of San Pedro and handed over to the Human Services Department. Joviel communicates only in Spanish and had on him a bag containing his clothes. Authorities are of the […]
Written on January 3, 2020 | Posted in
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2020 did not start right for a constable who came under attack by as many as four men. It happened during a football match in the Belmopan area and it was captured on camera. The images show the constable attempting to break up two warring groups but the violence escalates and the men turn on […]
Written on January 2, 2020 | Posted in
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On December thirty-first, Hildebrandt Codd was charged and arraigned for the murder of Densmore Bowman. Bowman’s decomposing body was discovered on December sixteenth, about two and half weeks after he was reported missing. He was last seen alive on November twenty-ninth, socializing at an establishment in Roaring Creek Village; Bowman later got into a car […]
Written on January 2, 2020 | Posted in
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There was no reported gun violence in the city and elsewhere over the New Year holiday. But leading up to 2020, there were several violent incidents recorded. On December thirtieth around eight p.m., Lukie Barrow, a resident of CET Site in Belize City was injured during a shooting incident in the Gungulung area. He has […]
Written on January 2, 2020 | Posted in
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Shortly after a shooting in Belize City on the night of December thirtieth, Hattieville police responded to a domestic violence incident in the village. A woman requested assistance in a dispute with her common-law-husband Albert Reid. While there is reportedly no history of domestic abuse between the couple recorded at the police station, officers say […]
Written on January 2, 2020 | Posted in
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Less than forty-eight hours into the New Year and burglars struck again on the north side of Belize City; this time at a business in proximity to our studio on Coney Drive. Superintendent Alejandro Cowo says that the DHL office had been burglarized sometime over the holiday. The discovery was made around seven o’clock this […]
Written on January 2, 2020 | Posted in
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Two brothers have been charged for attacking and chopping Genaro Martinez and Patricio Kuylen on Sunday morning in Bullet Tree Village, Cayo. Police say that eighteen-year-old B.D.F. soldier Rony Hob and twenty-eight-year-old Ryan Hob committed the crime. They are charges of grievous harm, aggravated assault, and wounding. Martinez and Kuylen told police that they were in […]
Written on December 31, 2019 | Posted in
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We are in the last few hours of 2019, and about to enter the New Year. So far, there have been more than one hundred and thirty homicides across the country. That’s the unofficial figure and the police department is expected to release the official number in early 2020. Since Commissioner of Police Chester Williams […]
Written on December 31, 2019 | Posted in
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In 2019, we saw heinous and unbelievable murders. The official number of murders has yet to be determined and will be released in 2020 but by our count, it is dangerously close to 2018’s murder count which is a hundred and forty-four. The majority of the murders in 2019 were caused by three main elements: gang […]
Written on December 31, 2019 | Posted in
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And with a few hours to go before 2019 comes to an end, the police department will be out in full force with an objective to keep the murder count and other crimes stagnant. The government sponsored Christmas anti-crime campaign will continue across the country and Commissioner Williams says that known criminals will be monitored […]
Written on December 31, 2019 | Posted in
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The Baptist family from the Police Street area in Belize City is up in arms tonight after police officers barged into their houses just after six this morning. The officers were reportedly looking for drugs and by the time they had concluded the search, Denise Flowers says that they came up empty-handed. That did not […]
Written on December 31, 2019 | Posted in
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In her interview, Denise Flowers says as a law abiding citizen, she is asking for Commissioner of Police Chester Williams to intervene in what she says may have an adverse effect on peace and tranquillity in the area. Denise Flowers, Claims Police Harassment “Mister Chester have to do something to ih police dehn cause […]
Written on December 31, 2019 | Posted in
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Trial finally began today for the group of men accused of participating in the September ninth, 2018 landing of a drug plane in Tres Leguas, near Blue Creek in the Orange Walk District. That group includes former Commander of the Orange Walk Police Formation Superintendent David Chi and Police Constable Norman Anthony, along with two […]
Written on December 30, 2019 | Posted in
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Sixteen-year-old Chantuse Martinez died on Saturday night after being hospitalized for more than a month for gunshot injuries. Martinez and her boyfriend Mervin Martin were shot while near the entrance of Martin’s residence on Antelope Extension, Belize City. On November twenty-fourth, a lone gunman crept up on them, firing a barrage of bullets. One-year-old Melanie Martin who […]
Written on December 30, 2019 | Posted in
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Social media was abuzz over the weekend, following a leaked memo from within the Belize Police Department. It prompted commentary from various sectors that the department was ramping up its level of profiling. Earlier this year, residents were up in arms when police officers began intercepting people and photographing them as part of the stop […]
Written on December 30, 2019 | Posted in
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Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says that it’s a strategy being implemented by the department in the wake of a number of missing persons being abducted and taken to isolated areas to be murdered. Here’s how he explains it. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “Over the past years, we have had a number of […]
Written on December 30, 2019 | Posted in
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ComPol Chester Williams says that law-abiding citizens do not have to concern themselves with the procedure because the department knows who the transient criminals are. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “The checkpoints are not being done or will not be done in such a way that it will impede the free movements of our […]
Written on December 30, 2019 | Posted in
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Police have arrested and charged a pair of minors for the crime of burglary; one was additionally charged with aggravated assault against a police officer. Both teenagers were shot on Christmas Day when they were busted inside a Chinese store on Lakeview Street. They had reportedly broken into the building when police responded to the […]
Written on December 30, 2019 | Posted in
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A pair of friends is recovering at the San Ignacio Community Hospital from multiple chop wounds they received on Sunday morning as they left a bar in Bullet Tree Village. Genaro Martinez and Patricio Kuylen were out socializing at a party when they decided to go to El Ranchito’s Bar in the village. Just after […]
Written on December 30, 2019 | Posted in
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Two of three alleged burglars, including a minor from Hattieville Village, have been charged in connection with the burglary of a house in Santa Rita Layout, Corozal District. Police say that their investigation has led them to arrest Avery Bain of Belize City and a minor for the crime, which occurred on Friday night around […]
Written on December 30, 2019 | Posted in
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Two San Pedro Town residents are in trouble with the law tonight after they were caught in possession of drugs, as well as firearm and ammunition. On Saturday afternoon, a police patrol stopped and searched Justin Shamir Velasquez, a resident of the San Mateo area. Inside a carton box he carried were a gun and […]
Written on December 30, 2019 | Posted in
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A San Juan resident has also been charged with possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply to another. Carlos Castillo was taken into custody and searched; on him were over thirteen grams of crack cocaine. San Pedro police processed him and he was charged for the crime. Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero shared details. […]
Written on December 30, 2019 | Posted in
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An elderly man lost his life over the weekend in San Antonio Village in the Toledo District. Police do not suspect foul play in the death eighty-eight-year-old Ponciano Coy, who was discovered face down in a shallow creek with apparent injuries to his face. Reports are that on Friday night, an intoxicated Coy left home […]
Written on December 30, 2019 | Posted in
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