There are two more arrests in connection with a drug bust that yielded police over one thousand three hundred kilos of cocaine. Thirty-six-year-old Terencio Mejia Cruz and fifty-three-year-old Jacobo Yovany Mejia Garcia were charged today with conspiracy to abet to import a controlled drug. It is suspected that both Honduran nationals are tied to the […]
Armed robbers were on a rampage targeting business establishments in Trinidad Village, Orange Walk on Friday night. The group of at least five men first hit Primavera Bar, holding patrons and employees at gunpoint. In a short time, they carried out their crime and moved on to a second bar, Sports Bar Los Amigos. But […]
Today, police say there is still no solid lead that explains why thirteen-year-old Christopher Chi was killed, but investigators have reason to believe it may be drug related. So far, they have charged a sixteen-year- old minor for the crime. Chi, a resident of Yo Creek Village in the Orange Walk District, had vanished on […]
A minor has been arraigned for the murder of Christopher Chi, his thirteen-year-old friend from the village of Yo Creek in the Orange Walk District. The minor was arraigned this afternoon in the Magistrate Court in Orange Walk. Another minor and an adult are expected to be taken to court on Monday. Christopher was last […]
Police have cracked the murder of storeowner, Jiang Zhang Xu. The execution occurred on September tenth after seven o’clock on Sunday night. Xu was sitting behind the counter of his store in Bella Vista Village, Toledo, when an armed masked man entered the store. The gunman demanded money and then proceeded to execute the store […]
There are developments tonight in respect of a drug plane that landed off the Coastal Road at an illegal airstrip on Sunday night. On Thursday afternoon, the alert owner of a resort on the George Price Highway called the police after two men were seen sitting for some time inside a parked vehicle at the […]
The trial of accused murderer William “Danny” Mason and four others charged jointly for beheading Pastor Llewellyn Lucas in July 2016, has been adjourned until September eighteenth, while the Supreme Court of Justice Antoinette Moore attempts to get another witness to testify in the ongoing case. Tim Reid, an employee of the United States Embassy, […]
A teenager, who turns eighteen years this Saturday, was granted Supreme Court bail today for unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. The Galen University student is accused of illegal sex with a thirteen-year-old girl. Today, his attorney, Hurl Hamilton, was successful in securing bail in the sum of five thousand dollars, plus one surety of […]
Tonight twenty-nine-year old Kareem Francis, who has beaten more than one murder charge in the past, remains in police custody until he can pay an old fine then post bail granted to him for the theft of a beach cruiser bicycle. Francis appeared this morning before Magistrate, Khadeen Palmer. Allegations against the George Street resident are […]
After a week on remand at the Belize Central Prison, accused of being a member of a gang, thirty-two-year old murder suspect, Troy Dion Hyde, a resident of Belize City, was granted Supreme Court bail in the sum of five thousand dollars. Hyde’s attorney, Norman Rodriguez, put up a fight in the court of Justice […]
William “Danny” Mason had his day in court today. Mason chose to give testimony from the dock on the murder of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas who was beheaded in July 2016. Mason and four other men are facing murder charges, following the discovery of the pastor’s head in a bucket at the back of his pickup […]
Three persons, two of them minors, remain detained at the Orange Walk Police Station pending charges for the murder of thirteen-year-old Christopher Chi. The child’s body was found tucked in a culvert on a sugar road, several miles from his home in Yo Creek Village. The suspects are said to be close friends to Chi. […]
It has been six days since nineteen-year-old Adamir Choc was last seen by family and friends and a frantic search to locate the Belmopan resident is underway tonight in the areas surrounding the nation’s capital. According to Marciano Choc, his niece set out on Friday evening with a friend of hers and reportedly ended up […]
According to Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett, an official report was filed with Belmopan police on September eleventh. Choc’s cell phone was reportedly left with a friend and all other attempts to contact her have been unsuccessful. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, NCIB “On Monday, police received a report from Elvira Choc who reported […]
The government today issued a statement in respect of Reynaldo Verde, the Deputy Director of the Belize Tax Services Department seeking to distance itself from the forty-seven-year old tax officer. As we have been reporting, Verde was returning from Brussels when he was nabbed at the Washington, Dulles airport. Verde was attending a taxation workshop […]
Tonight, teenager, Vince Timmons is on remand at the Belize Central Prison on three criminal offenses, including an indictable offense of arson. Late on Wednesday, Timmons appeared before two different magistrates to answer to the charges. First he appeared before Magistrate, Stephanie Gillett for a threat to destroy. Allegations are that on September third, 2019, […]
Police are currently looking for two persons who robbed two men while conducting business in Belize City. Superintendent Hilberto Romero told the media today that on Wednesday, armed men held up workers of Madisco while they were on Flambouyant Street. Supt. Hilberto Romero, CIB, Belize City “Two complainants, namely Clinton Abraham and Edilberto Guerra […]
A chilling murder took place in the Orange Wald District in the past few days. A fourteen-year-old boy from the village of Yo Creek died a horrible death. His head was smashed and he was brutally beaten. The body of the minor was then stuffed in a culvert and found in a feeder road off […]
In the village of Bella Vista in the Toledo District, a Chinese grocer was the second victim of murder during the Tenth holiday. Shortly after seven o’clock on Tuesday night, a robbery was reported at Chens Store in the village. Store owner Jingzhang Xu, was inside his business sitting behind the counter when an armed […]
This afternoon, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams spoke briefly on the murder of Jingzhang Wu. He also confirmed that a suspect has been detained for the deadly shooting. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “Sometime yesterday, Independence police were called to Chen’s Store in Bella Vista Village, Stann Creek District, whereupon arrival they saw the […]
Police are moving swiftly with charges relating to one of the biggest drug busts in Belize. Four of six foreigners were arraigned today for the drug plane that landed at an illegal airstrip off the Coastal Road on Sunday night. The group comprises of two Honduran nationals, a Mexican pilot and a commercial pilot from […]
According to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, the two hospitalized suspects will be criminally charged once they are discharged from the K.H.M.H. When the six men were apprehended on Sunday during the bust, there was a shootout with the police. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “The persons charged are, we have Carlos Cruz. He […]
The illegal plane landing took place on an illegal airstrip on private property off the Coastal Road in the Belize District. It is believed that the men legally entered through the western border days before the drug plane landing. It is also believed that they may have canvassed the area to prepare the illegal landing. […]
There are further details tonight on the arrest of senior government official, Reynaldo Verde. Verde is the deputy director of the Belize Tax Service Department. Over the past weekend he was detained at the Washington Dulles airport by the Federal Bureau of Investigations. He was returning from a conference in Brussels and he is facing […]
A well-known Kraal Road resident, who is no stranger to police, picked up a second attempted murder charge today in court for Sunday morning’s shooting on George Street when two men were injured. Twenty-one-year-old Jason Horace Anderson, aka “Jason Williams”, the son of Jason “Soup” Williams was read six criminal and indictable offenses. Anderson […]
