And in the Supreme Court , David Zetina, who pleaded guilty to “Causing Death by Careless Conduct”, will be sentenced on December thirtieth, 2019 by Justice Marilyn Williams. Zetina knocked down and killed sixty-five year old Constance Andrewin on February twenty-fifth, 2012, in Biscayne, Belize District. The woman was about to get to her house […]
Thirty-seven-year-old Belize City delivery man Issa Nunez is tonight recuperating after an attempt on his life was made on Saturday afternoon. Nunez was shot while inside a parked delivery truck on Saint Thomas Street. Two thieves approached Nunez, demanding monies before firing the shots. Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero told the press today that the culprits escaped […]
Last week, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams met with about twenty-five registered gun dealers in Belmopan. The meeting focused on proposed measures that would effectively increase gun control. One of those measures is an amendment to the Firearms Act which would limit the amount of ammunition that a holder of a gun license would be able […]
Preparations are well underway to bring in Garifuna Settlement Day. Today, police said that they have beefed up security for the nineteenth holiday. There will be increased presence on the highways, as well as patrols, particularly in the areas where there will be festivities. A.C.P. Joseph Myvett shares more. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National […]
Also in the crime blotter, a teenager was shot early on Sunday morning in Dangriga. Police say that nineteen-year-old Alvin Lopez was walking in the Lakeland area when another man took out a gun and shot him. The incident happened sometime after midnight, just before twelve-thirty in the morning. One man has been detained for […]
A firefighter was executed early on Thursday night. He was heading to his house on Welch Street, Belize City when Jiovanni Ian Lennan, was ambushed from behind by a gunman who delivered the fatal blast to his head. Lennan had just left the National Fire Service located on Cleghorn Street where he was training recruits. […]
Well-known Belize City barber and cabdriver Ursulo Mendoza, known by many as Dread or Barba, was manhandled by a pair of policemen attached to the Special Patrol Unit on Wednesday. The incident happened inside his barbershop on Mahogany Street where the officers parked in front of the establishment to conduct a search. According to Mendoza, […]
Commissioner Chester Williams confirmed today that there was a suspect low flying aircraft within Belize’s airspace late Monday. But he says that there is no information to suggest that the illegal airplane landed in Belize. The last known drug plane that landed in Belize was on September thirtieth, in the area of Blue Creek, Orange […]
Over seventy thousand dollars was stolen from an apartment in Belize City. Quick police work led to the recovery of most of the items and four persons have been detained. Superintendent Alejandro Cowo tells us more. Supt. Alejandro Cowo, O.C., C.I.B., Eastern Division “Mr. Edwin Beeks, a retired US Marine, residing in Belize City, […]
Police have charged three persons in connection with the robbery at J and A Store in San Ignacio. In Wednesday night’s newscast we told you about the two men who entered the business on Flaming Avenue on Tuesday afternoon and held up the proprietor. The men made off with an undisclosed amount of cash. Police […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Jason Garcia and a minor were charged and arraigned for the murder of Lee Lopez. Lopez was stabbed to death in front of his home on Heron Street in Ladyville on Saturday night. Today Superintendent Alejandro Cowo shares how police were able to find the two persons responsible. Supt. Alejandro Cowo, O.C., C.I.B., […]
A News Five team was doing its job at the Mahogany Street police station today when our crew came under attack. It happened when a witness was giving an interview about the unwarranted use of force against a father and son when the officer turned on our crew. The witness identified the same officer as […]
Today San Pedro police destroyed over one hundred kilos of various drugs on Ambergris Caye. The drugs, according to San Pedro police, have accumulated over a couple years. This is the first time that such destruction has taken place on the island. Here’s more from Superintendent Christopher Noble. Supt. Christopher Noble, Coastal Executive Officer […]
An operation mounted by the Gang Suppression Unit in Burrell Boom Village resulted in one person being shot with a non-lethal round as he attempted to flee from police. Dean Cain claims that the officers used unnecessary force against him, however, according to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, who sanctioned the operation; the officers were […]
This afternoon in the vicinity of South Street, officers from the Belize Police Department went door to door meeting with residents of the area. They were in full force as they converged on the neighborhood for the weekly Meet and Greet session. Assistant Commissioner of Police Alden Dawson told us what officers are doing to […]
There was a robbery in San Ignacio on Tuesday afternoon just before one. Police say that two men entered J & A Store on Flaming Avenue and held up the proprietor, forty-four-year-old Shu Yun Chen. Chen told police that one of the men was armed with a machete and the other armed with what appeared […]
The life of Lee “Bambino” Lopez was cut short on Sunday night in Ladyville, Belize District. Lee was hanging out with three persons he knew, on the street in front of his house. An argument between the friends escalated and the forty-one-year-old constructor worker was stabbed to death before nine o’clock. While he was known […]
Tonight a Belizean, forty-year-old Carlos Cirilo Chayash is recovering in a hospital in Felipe Carrillo Puerto, in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico after being stabbed on Sunday morning. Mexican media report that Chayash, a resident of Orange Walk Town was ambushed by robbers and left on a streeta. He sustained a gash to his […]
In the city, four persons, including a nineteen-year-old female, were shot and injured over the weekend. Gunshots rang out on Friday night on Neal Pen Road where Lemar Lamb and Daniel Lopez were injured when they came under fire from a gunman. Then on Saturday night, Alrick Smith and Alidia Morey were targeted in the […]
A twenty-one-year-old man was stabbed and a minor has been detained. Police say that Michael Williams was in Santa Elena on Sunday afternoon when a man he doesn’t know approached him. They had a brief exchange of words where the man queried Williams’ identity but Williams didn’t respond. Shortly after, he was stabbed to the […]
In the nation’s capital, a thirty-thousand dollar vehicle was destroyed by fire over the weekend. A Belmopan barber reported that his car was set on fire while parked in front of his yard on Ben Bluff Street. Police were called out to the scene on Saturday sometime after four in the morning. ACP Joseph Myvett […]
Missing teen, Jaswant Brooks has been found. He was murdered and dumped in some shallow waters in a patch of mangroves off the George Price Highway. As we’ve reported, eighteen-year-old Brooks went missing on Monday morning after he left home and was later seen riding his bike on Police Street. His family has been searching […]
Twenty-nine-year old Alrick Carcamo was shot after eight o’clock on Thursday night but his lifeless body was not found until two years later in the south side of the City. Carcamo was visiting with friends on Racoon Street Extension when he was ambushed by a masked gunman. He ran for his life but succumbed on […]
Benque Viejo police received sixty-thousand dollars worth of surveillance cameras. The donation was made by a security tech company called Belize VU and the technology and infrastructure for the project was developed by its sister company called Alternative Networks. A total of fourteen cameras were handed over today to the Benque police which will be […]
The Belize Coastguard and police searched the area of Burton Creek on the George Price Highway looking for eighteen-year-old Jaswant Brooks. Brooks, who is now missing for more than forty-eight hours, went to purchase items and did not return home. The Belize City man was last seen in the Lake Independence area sometime around eleven […]
