Also on the crime blotter, Police are looking into a string of robberies that have been plaguing the Cayo District. In less than two weeks, two business establishments were targeted by robbers in two villages in the Belmopan area. As we reported before, on August fifteenth Gentleman’s Bar in Saint Matthews Village was targeted by […]
Tonight, Zane Peter Patt is accused of harm by his common-law-wife. The construction worker, who dismantles houses for a living, appeared before Senior Magistrate, Tricia Pitts-Anderson to answer to a single charge of harm. Allegations are that on Tuesday, he intentionally and unlawfully caused harm to his common-law-wife, Nicole Reyes. Patt initially pleaded guilty to […]
Three persons are said to be in detention for the murder of Nelson Flores in Santa Elena, Cayo. Flores was at home with his family when a gunman entered his house and unleashed a barrage of bullets on Sunday night. Flores was rushed to the hospital but did not survive; his twelve-year-old daughter was also […]
The robbery of a store in Cotton Tree Village, Cayo was caught on camera and police are looking for the three perpetrators. It happened on Monday evening after five o’clock. The store owner, thirty-nine year old Xinlong Chen and his wife were inside the store when three thieves bolted in. One was armed with a […]
Police have made a significant drug bust in ongoing anti-drug operations. As a result, a Corozal man was found in possession of a significant amount of weed. On Monday afternoon, at around two thirty, police searched a Dodge van that was being driven by twenty-five year old Bryan Hamilton. Inside the vehicle police found a […]
A father of a six-year-old girl was in court today for stealing a microwave from the house of his ex. For that burglary, thirty-four year old Allison Cutkelvin, will spend three years in jail. Cutkelvin made a hole on the wall and entered the home of Denise Martin on Lacroix Boulevard and camped out there […]
A Santa Elena man was ambushed and executed on Sunday night inside his house. He is Nelson Flores, who is no stranger to the law and has two drug convictions. Flores was in his living room with his family when a gunman entered his house through the back door. The gunman shot Flores multiple times […]
Police are tonight looking for a suspect who reportedly abducted a teenage minor from San Ignacio on Friday and brought her to Belize City against her will. The fifteen-year-old girl was able to escape from the custody of her abductor on Regent Street when his vehicle had to slow down in traffic. She managed to […]
Twenty-three-year-old Henry Gideon has been arrested and charged following an incident in Trinidad Village, Orange Walk, where he viciously attacked his grandmother. Fernanda Garcia suffered multiple injuries inflicted on her when Gideon attacked her with a knife as she rested in a hammock. It is reported that during the incident, her grandson also robbed her […]
A fifty-nine-year-old Belize City resident was attacked on Saturday night as he walked along Cemetery Road. Horace Lord reported to police that he was assaulted by someone who cut him in the face with a knife. It is believed that his attacker may be suffering from mental disorder. Supt. Alejandro Cowo, O.C., C.I.B., Belize […]
Belize is among four Caribbean countries placed on a list of drug transit or illicit drug producing countries. President Donald Trump in his Presidential Determination on Major Drug Transit or Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries for Fiscal Year 2020, also named The Bahamas, Haiti and Jamaica in the Caribbean. Belize finds itself among other countries […]
Police have cracked the murder of an elderly woman. Eighteen-year-old Derry Bennett, a resident of Camalote Village, has been remanded for the murder of sixty-nine-year-old Ofelia Cruz, who was bludgeoned inside her home in the Salt Creek area of Sand Hill Village two weeks ago. The Mexican national was reportedly struck over the head with […]
There was a shooting incident in the Belama Phase Four neighborhood on Saturday night which left Jaime Williams injured. It is believed that an argument between two families earlier that day resulted in the armed assault during which a woman was also grazed by a bullet. Superintendent Alejandro Cowo says that they have detained persons […]
Police are still looking for twenty-three-year-old Henry Gideon, the man accused of attacking and stabbing his own grandmother on Wednesday night. Gideon allegedly pounced on his grandmother, sixty-five-year-old Fernanda Garcia while she rested in a hammock inside her small home in Trinidad Village, Orange Walk District. The elderly woman, who has been blind for more […]
The Operation Support Team and other Units of the Police Department made a number of busts in the past two days. The Operations team got a firearm off the streets following an operation at an airline at the Belize Municipal Airstrip on Thursday afternoon. They retrieved a box containing a nine milimetre Glock seventeen pistol […]
A fight between a pair of siblings over property ended violently and tonight, thirty-eight year old Mark Anthony Ferguson is on remand accused of attempting to kill his brother, forty-four-year old Oliver Peters. Ferguson was arraigned on Thursday evening for the attempted murder of Peters. The incident took place on August seventeenth in Belize City. […]
At the crack of dawn this morning, there was a shooting in Dangriga. Twenty-one year old Darrel Smith was shot in the upper leg and transported to the Southern Regional Hospital where he is in a stable condition. The mechanic of Rivas Estate was in the vicinity of a bar in the town when he […]
On Thursday morning, a patrol mounted by the Operation Support Team of the Police conducted a search on a Silver Ford Edge S.U.V., at Miles seventeen in Hattieville, Belize District. Twenty-one- year old Patrick Dean Tillett of a George Price Highway address was behind the steering wheel of the vehicle. Inside police found two sacks […]
A sixty-five-year-old woman is attacked by her own grandson while she is resting inside her house in the village of Trinidad, Orange Walk. Fernanda Garcia has lived alongside her husband in a small house at the entrance of the village for decades. She lost her sight over twenty years ago and in the village; she […]
The police today provided updates on a number of recent crimes. Police say that they are looking for two Hispanic men who were in the area of the bus shed in Hattieville, Belize District, who they believe pulled the trigger that ended the life of forty-seven-year-old security guard, Kevin Hyde. Hyde was waiting for a […]
While police could not confirm whether the killing of Kevin Hyde is a case of mistaken identity, investigators say that Belize City resident, Brindel Munnings was the intended target in a near fatal shooting on Sunday night. The forty-four-year-old is clinging to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital since then. Munnings was targeted as […]
Police are also searching for Anthony Williams; he is the main suspect in the attempted murder of Brian Chavarria in Belmopan. On Monday night around eight o’clock, Chavarria was conversing with a group of men, including Williams, in front of his mechanic shop on Sinsonte Street in the Capital City. An altercation, allegedly over putting […]
There has been a breakthrough in the stabbing case of Oliver Peters, which occurred over the weekend. While the weapon used to inflict the wounds has not been recovered, Superintendent Alejandro Cowo says that the main suspect has been detained. On August seventeenth, Peters was viciously stabbed during a family dispute on Arlington Drive and […]
He is well-known to the law, and on Tuesday afternoon around three o’clock, Lloyd Faber was targeted by a gunman on Amara Avenue, Belize City. Faber was socializing with a friend when a gunman drove up in a vehicle and opened fire at him. He was later seen ailing on the pavement and within minutes […]
Even as the law allows for a person to be in possession of up to ten grams of weed, a group of nine persons, including a theologist, were before the court on a drug trafficking charge for eighty-nine grams of cannabis. Victor Lara and his wife Brea Stanke, along with Alex Salazar, Sebastian Young, Marcus […]
