According to a news report in The New York Post, U.S. national Christopher Prestipino found refuge in Belize after he murdered a model in Las Vegas. His stay in Belize lasted a week after which the murder suspect headed back to Vegas where he was picked up by the police. The victim is Esmeralda Gonzalez, […]
Police say they haven’t yet identified the men who robbed the Zitro Western Union outlet in Orange Walk Town on the Belize-Corozal Road on Wednesday. While cops say that they are following several leads, they are still looking for the get-away vehicle and the two criminals. Sometime close to two in the afternoon, two robbers […]
There was a home invasion on Wednesday night in the south where an elderly resident came under attack. According to police, three men, armed with a shotgun, entered a house at mile nineteen on the Placencia Road where they tied up the occupants, including a ninety-year old woman, and stole a computer and a vehicle. […]
Police in Orange Walk are investigating an armed robbery. Thirty-two-year-old Lizeny Marchand told police that at around two-thirty this afternoon, a man entered Zitro Western Union and he was followed by another seconds later. One of the men held the security guard at gunpoint while the other ordered Marchand to hand over the cash. Fearing […]
Twenty-year-old Troy Polonio was shot and killed while holding his infant son at his mother-in-law’s residence on Raccoon Street on Monday night. He was shot twice by an assailant who reportedly fled the scene on foot. Polonio’s father happened upon the shooting while on his way home that night and saw his son’s attacker as […]
The murder of San Lazaro, Orange Walk, resident Basis Hazid Diaz over the weekend is the most recent and most violent crime that has happened within that community in just over two months. Diaz’s body was found by a search party in a shallow grave off a feeder road. The murder follows two home invasions […]
In the south, retired rural development officer Santiago Pop was also murdered over the weekend. The fifty-eight-year-old was chopped to death inside his house sometime between Friday and early Saturday morning. His body was discovered inside his house in Cow Pen Village around six-thirty on Sunday evening. When we spoke with Village Chairman Victor Juarez, […]
Three persons were brutally murdered over the extended weekend. We start with the deadly and brazen shooting of Troy Polonio Junior on Monday night. Polonio Junior was on Raccoon Street where he had just picked up his girlfriend and young son. He was holding the toddler when a gunman trailing him opened fire hitting him […]
In San Lazaro, Orange Walk, a search party followed a blood trail and made a gruesome discovery in a shallow grave off a sugar road on Sunday morning. They found the body of Basis Haziel Samir Diaz, four hours after they set out looking for him. Haziel, as he is popularly known, was murdered sometime […]
This afternoon, Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero spoke briefly on the discovery as well as the ongoing criminal investigation into Hazid Diaz’s murder. Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, Deputy Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “On Sunday, October 13th, 2019, police responded to a report that a shallow grave had been found in San Lazaro Village. Upon […]
A retired public officer was brutally killed inside his house sometime over the weekend. The neighbours suspect that he was murdered sometime between the hours of Friday night and early Saturday morning. The last time anyone reported seeing him was on Friday night and when the neighbours didn’t see any movements at his house the […]
The Lake Gardens residence of BECOL C.E.O. Lynn Young was broken into over the weekend. The thieves, who were captured on surveillance camera as they entered the property, made off with Young’s 2014 Toyota Land Cruiser Prado. On Monday, the former Chief Executive Officer of Belize Electricity Limited took to social media requesting public assistance […]
Thieves broke into Buttonwood Bay Nazarene Primary School over the weekend and made off with seven thousand dollars in cash and other items from the principal’s office. According to Vice Principal Avril Arthurs, someone entered the second floor building between Saturday night and Sunday morning by prying open the burglar bar door. Once inside, the […]
Over the weekend in Belize City, a female patron was viciously assaulted outside of a nightclub near mile two on the Phillip Goldson Highway. The incident, which was caught on camera, shows the young woman being dragged, pummeled and beaten unconscious by two other women. The incident took place outside of Dream Like City. Police […]
The Belize Police Department has issued a wanted poster for Guatemalan national Cesar Agusto Lopez Mendoza. Mendoza is wanted for the murder of fifty-six-year-old Juan De Cruz Carrias, whose mutilated body was discovered in a wooden house in Succotz Village on Friday morning. It is not known what motivated the vicious chopping death of Carrias, […]
Twenty-nine-year-old Melvin Ray Charles Budna has been arrested and charged for the murder of Alvaro Aldana two years after he was shot and killed behind PK Store in San Ignacio. At the time of Aldana’s murder, the twenty-three-year-old was described as a well-known drug trafficker from the Kontiki area. The stabbing and shooting incident happened […]
A shocking discovery was made this morning just after eight o’clock in the village of Succotz located near Benque Viejo de Carmen. The lifeless body of a fifty-six-year-old man was found and identified as that of Juan De La Cruz Carrias. The construction worker met a gruesome and brutal death. He was chopped and stabbed […]
A salesman from Cayo is in big trouble with the law tonight. That is because his boss, also from Cayo, is reporting that he stole more than seventy thousand dollars worth of Ruffo dog food. It all came to light when another employee informed the owner of Recinos that while selling the dog food to […]
Just after five this morning a police patrol pursued a vehicle carrying a known criminal figure. That patrol chased the vehicle until it came to a stop when it crashed into a lamp post. The men ran off but police were able to detain the driver and that well-known figure. The man was identified as […]
Police say that a man who was shot on Tuesday night around ten-thirty in Belize City is recovering in the hospital. According to Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero, no one has been detained for the shooting of Russell Reyes. Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, Deputy Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “Police visited the Karl Huesner Memorial […]
Over the weekend, the business centre at Ladyville Technical High School was burglarized and a number of laptops donated by Digi were stolen. The Belize Police Department is asking the public’s assistance in locating sixteen grey and black Dell brand laptops. The crime occurred sometime between October sixth and seventh. The discovery was made by […]
Police are tonight still investigating a shooting in Belize City last Thursday during which three men were injured, one of whom passed away on Sunday at the K.H.M.H. It is reported that Justin Richards, Marquin Drury and Jamal Elijio were standing together on Santa Barbara Street when a vehicle drove up to them and an […]
Three days after he was shot on the back, Jamal Elijio died while receiving treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Elijio was standing along with his cousin Justin Richards and a third person, Marquin Drury, on Santa Barbara Street in the south side when they came under fire from someone in a vehicle that […]
Within days of taking up a job as a security officer, Rodman Welch was shot. The stevedore was eating while on duty at Excelsior High School when he came under fire on Saturday night. A gunman targeted Welch as he sat inside the security booth. The bullet hit him on the face injuring his jaw. […]
There were two cases of unlawful sexual intercourse reported in the Cayo and Corozal Districts. In the west, an alarming report has been made by a young girl. Police visited the Western Regional Hospital on Sunday evening to interview the young female student, who, in presence of her mother, told police that’s she had been […]
