A grisly discovery was made on Sunday morning; the body of Roaring Creek resident Michael Gladden was found through a dirt road off the George Price Highway. Gladden was decapitated and his body dumped where it was found in the bushy area. This morning, the severed head of the victim was located. Michael was last […]
There was also a murder in Gales Point Manatee, a community located just off the Coastal Road in the Belize District. It was the first homicide to occur over the weekend. Around seven o’clock on Friday night, shots rang out in the relatively quiet community. When the echoes of the blast subsided, Inmar Welch had […]
While investigations continue into the weekend murders of Inmar Welch and Michael Gladden, police say that one of two persons wanted for the murder of Darren Gentle, has been charged for the crime. On the night of October twenty-third, the twenty-seven-year-old former employee of the Ministry of Works was inside a vehicle allegedly conducting a […]
Last Thursday, the body of a Hispanic man was discovered between two graves in a cemetery in Orange Walk Town. The person, believed to be in his mid-twenties, had been bludgeoned to death with a headstone. The deceased was shirtless and clothed in only a jeans pants and boots. It’s been five days since the […]
Twenty-three-year-old Joseph Richards is one of three persons who police believe entered Dario’s Meat Pies on Saturday evening and robbed Nicole Perdomo of a little over thirty thousand dollars in cash, in various denominations. According to Perdomo she was upstairs of the popular location on Hyde’s Lane counting the money when a pair of armed […]
Four persons have been detained pending charges for possession of cannabis and uncustomed goods. Around ten o’clock on Saturday night, police intercepted a vehicle in Orange Walk and inside a knapsack, discovered over four pounds of cannabis. A further check of the vehicle led to the discovery of one hundred and ten packs of cigarettes. […]
Police needs the assistance of the public to determine the identity of a murder victim. The body of the man was found between two graves at a cemetery in Orange Walk Town around two o’clock on Thursday afternoon. Today police released some photographs showing tattoos as distinguishing marks on the victim’s body. The name Marta […]
An employee of the Ministry of Works was gunned down in Orange Walk Town on Wednesday night. Darren Gentle was inside a vehicle when he met his death. The vehicle was parked on a dark area of Palmar Street and there are reports that someone else was inside the vehicle. Gentle, who is son of […]
While persons in the area have provided account of what they saw, Investigators say that Darren Gentle was in the presence of another individual and that the pair drove up to that location in San Jose Village to rendezvous with a group of men when they were pounced upon by a gunman. It is unclear […]
Even as investigations continue on the murder of Darren Gentle, this afternoon the body of another murdered man was found at the Orange Walk cemetery. At this time, he is being classified as John Doe pending the verification of his identity. In less than twenty-four hours, Orange Walk Police were called to the gruesome crime […]
Tonight, there is a very disturbing report of sexual assault against children. Police have finally confirmed a report circulating since the start of the week that a five-year-old girl has been sexually assaulted in the south. The young girl made the report at the Hopkins Police Station where she identified a fourteen-year-old as the perpetrator. […]
Forty-six-year-old Reynaldo Verde, the Deputy Director of General Tax Services, remains in jail in the United States. Verde is facing charges of extortion and attempted extortion. Today, he appeared before Judge Alicia Reyes in a Miami Court where he pleaded not guilty to the charges. The owner of Orchid Bay in Corozal laid out a […]
There are fresh details tonight on the unfortunate stabbing death of Isaac Marin and the stabbing of his brother Carlos, in Caye Caulker. Seventeen-year-old Isaac died shortly after the attack and Carlos is in stable condition. The person behind the stabbing is their cousin, Jaymie Marin, a mental health patient. Isaac is the second person […]
Police also provide an update to the murder of a Belize City resident. Louise Bevans Street resident Brandon Bennett was executed on Monday night and his body dumped on the roadside in Vista del Mar after eight o’clock. There were multiple gunshot wounds on the body. The twenty-six-year-old was recently charged for gang affiliation, but […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Allan Pitts, a support technician of Burrell Boom Village, was injured shortly after midnight on Tuesday when the vehicle he was traveling in came under gunfire. It is reported that sometime around two o’clock this morning, Belize City police visited the Belize Healthcare Partners where they observed Pitts suffering from a gunshot wound to […]
The Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams was flanked by the top brass of the Belize Police Department, including regional commanders, as he released a crime report. Williams says major crimes have reduced somewhat nationally, but regionally, the western belt encompassing Belmopan as well as Santa Elena and San Ignacio, the numbers have gone up by […]
Commissioner of Police Chester Williams during his interview with the media today took aim at the liquor establishments, who he says, have been irresponsible. He contends that alcohol consumption has been at the root of many of the murders across the country. Recently, a woman was badly beaten outside of a nightclub in Belize City […]
A Caye Caulker was stabbed to death and his brother injured in a violent stabbing incident after midnight on Monday. Police are calling the incident a stabbing death because the person who inflicted the fatal wounds has a mental health condition. It happened in the dead of night when the siblings were inside the bedroom […]
Even before the stabbing death in Caye Caulker, a Belize City man, well-known to the law, was found dead at the entrance of Vista del Mar on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Twenty-six-year-old Brandon Bennett was executed and his body left on the roadside after seven o’clock. Hours before his execution, Bennett was active online, clad […]
In the wake of another suspected drug plane landing, the Ministry of National Security says it does not have the resources to track or intercept planes entering the airspace. On Sunday morning, police discovered a hawker jet near Blue Creek, in the general area where an executive jet landed ten days ago. The suspected narco-jet […]
A sixty-six-year-old man, who lived alone, was hacked to death in the wee hours of Saturday inside his home in Corozal Town. It was a horrible murder that started after midnight and lasted for about an hour. Noises inside his house were reported to the police, but by the time they finally got there, Paul […]
While there were no murders in Belize City, police are investigating a shooting that occurred on Friday night. It happened at around nine-thirty at the corner of Sarstoon and Ebony Streets. The victim has been identified as twenty-one-year-old Tyrique Medwood. He was shot in the right leg and up to today, police have not been […]
Twenty-six-year-old Kevin Buller was also shot on Saturday night in Belize City. He was riding his bicycle on Jasmine Street when the shooter pounced on him from the rear and fired several shots in his direction. Buller was shot several times to the body and was rushed to the K.H.M.H. for medical attention. According to ACP […]
A shooting on Friday night in Ladyville has left one man hospitalized. Police say that sometime around ten-thirty that night, Denfield Tasher, was on the corner of Parakeet and Tapnachick Streets near Lowe’s Supermarket when he was shot. ACP Joseph Myvett tells us more about police’s response to the shooting. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, […]
A travel agency in Belize City was the scene of a brazen robbery attempt. Police say that twenty-four-year-old Samuel Trapp entered Matus Travel & Tour Services on Barrack Road on the evening of October fifteenth and attempted to hold up the business after inquiring about tickets to Caye Caulker by water taxi. When employees of […]
