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This week, we reported on the donation of ten breathalyzers to the Belize Police Department. The devices used to measure blood alcohol concentration will be distributed to different police stations around the country. Today, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams shared that while the breathalyzers are commonly used across the region and accepted into evidence for […]
Written on August 16, 2019 | Posted in
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Nineteen-year-old Everald Sambula will stand trial at the Supreme Court for a robbery that happened at Premium Wines and Spirit last September. In 2018, Sambula was arraigned on four counts of robbery. The Preliminary Inquiry was held today before Magistrate Emmerson Banner where he ruled that Sambula must stand trial in October. The teenager, who […]
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Sixty-nine-year-old Ofelia Hernandez Cruz was bludgeoned to death inside her home in Sand Hill Village. Her body was discovered on Tuesday afternoon and it is believed that she was attacked and killed by two young men who managed to enter her house in search of her husband’s licensed shotgun. The shocking and cold-blooded murder of […]
Written on August 15, 2019 | Posted in
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Devin “DJ Perf” Peyrefitte and Denzel Usher have both been charged for the crime of rape. The men stand accused of allegedly raping a woman in the wee hours of Monday morning, while at a social gathering at a residence in Belmopan. The allegation is that the men had sexual intercourse with the woman against […]
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In May, Belize City resident Vince Martinez visited our office to share his case of police brutality. Martinez claimed that on May twelfth while at his house on Far West Street, he was shot in the groin with a rubber bullet by a police officer; officers were responding to a call of domestic abuse at […]
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Vince Martinez made an official complaint to the Professional Standards Branch after he was shot in the groin. According to Martinez, there hasn’t been any progress in the case. Commissioner Williams told the media that some cases are complex. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “Some investigations are complex because we have found that at […]
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Mexican national Ofelia Hernandez Cruz lived in Belize for years with her husband; he is the caretaker at a property in an isolated area of Sand Hill Village. But on Tuesday afternoon, as Cruz was home alone, she was attacked by two young men who came looking for her husband’s licensed shotgun. They were able […]
Written on August 14, 2019 | Posted in
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Twenty-year-old Stephan McLaren was executed in broad daylight on Monday afternoon in Belize City. He was standing at the corners of Cleghorn Street and New Road in the company of Karon Gladden when they were blindsided by a lone gunman who shot McLaren in the back of the head at close range. Gladden was also […]
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The man believed to be the ring leader in the killing of Derrick Ramirez is alive. This is according to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams who, last week, alluded that the life of Oscar Williams Junior may have ended prematurely at Cross Caye. Ramirez went missing on August fourth at Cross Caye and was found […]
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Police Commissioner Chester Williams also briefly spoke on the investigation of the double murder of prominent American Doctor Gary Swank and San Pedro tour guide Mario Graniel. Both men were fatally shot on Sunday, June twenty-third while out in the lagoon in Graniel’s skiff. Investigators believe that the gunman was after Graniel, and Dr. Swank […]
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The family of Anisha Young is yet to receive closure. The family received more devastating news when they were told by officials that DNA test results conducted were inconclusive. The family through spokesperson Jose Espat called on the police department to release the chain of custody of the DNA results so that they can have […]
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Today, thirteen special constables officially joined the ranks of the Tourism Police Unit in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye. The selected thirteen will join the existing four members of the unit and are expected to use their skills and knowledge to effectively police Belize’s top tourist destination. News Five’s Hipolito Novelo reports. Hipolito Novelo, […]
Written on August 14, 2019 | Posted in
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An onsite post mortem conducted on the body of Derrick Ramirez on Monday confirmed that he had been murdered. The results showed that Ramirez died as a result of chop wounds. His body was found in the GraGra Lagoon in Dangriga. Ramirez’s head had been severed and remains missing. He was last seen alive a […]
Written on August 13, 2019 | Posted in
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Twenty-eight-year-old Karon Gladden is one of two men injured during a mid-afternoon shooting in Belize City on Monday. While he was fortunate to have escaped with only a gunshot wound to the left hand, his friend, twenty-year-old Stephan McLaren, wasn’t so lucky. McLaren was shot once to the back of the head as he stood […]
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A second suspect has been nabbed for the murder of seventy-year-old businessman Oscar Rosado Senior. Today, twenty-year-old Jose Gomez was formally charged and arraigned for the murder. Rosado was gunned down inside his store when three men entered Rosado’s Construction Supply on Cemetery Road in Belize City on April twenty-third of last year. Gomez, a […]
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Back in mid-February, two Belizeans and a Guatemalan national were arraigned and remanded to the Belize Central Prison after being charged jointly for possession of prohibited firearms and ammunition. Guatemalan Jorge Luis Reyes Villeda and Belizeans Edgar De La O and a seventeen-year-old minor, both from Benque Viejo del Carmen, were busted by police with […]
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Attorney Hurl Hamilton believes that the action taken by the police department against Jorge Luis Reyes Villeda is an abuse of the process of the court and that his client is unlawfully detained. Hurl Hamilton, Attorney “Well it is very unfortunate and I am very surprised if indeed the police department would go through […]
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Police constables Leonard Nunez and Hallet King were released from custody today after being held on remand for the manslaughter of Caye Caulker resident Hilbert Sotz. The pair was initially arraigned on a count of murder but that charge was subsequently reduced to manslaughter. Sotz died while in detention at the police station in Caye […]
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A single gunshot ended the life of a young father this afternoon. Stephon McLaren and another unidentified individual were standing near the corners of New Road and Cleghorn Street and had just been frisked by a police officer when gunfire erupted. McLaren, who was waiting for a friend who had walked up the street to […]
Written on August 12, 2019 | Posted in
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The body of Derrick Ramirez was found this morning. Ramirez, a native of Dangriga, had allegedly gone missing while at Cross Caye, north of Dangriga Town on Sunday, August fourth. The events leading up to his disappearance have investigators, including Commissioner Chester Williams, extremely skeptical. Ramirez’s body was reportedly found decapitated in the GraGra Lagoon […]
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The body of a U.S. national was found onboard a sailing vessel in southern Belize. On Sunday, the Belize Coast Guard discovered the vessel near Colson Caye, some eighteen miles east of Dangriga. Police say that the elderly man, seventy-one-year-old Michael Junker, was found with his documents onboard and there were no signs of violence […]
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A cop in the west has been placed on interdiction after being slapped with eight counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a thirteen-year-old girl. Police say that last week, the minor reported the incidents and identified Constable Herman Milian. ACP Joseph Myvett told the press today that they do not have any information at this […]
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The remnants of a twin-engine aircraft were discovered in the Monkey River area. According to police, the burnt airplane was found on an illegal airstrip in a pine ridge area in southern Belize. While the public believes the vestiges are that of a suspected drug plane, ACP Joseph Myvett isn’t so quick to come to […]
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Police say that two workers on Long Middle Caye were drinking when one shot the other. The incident happened in the early hours of Sunday morning when one of the workers allegedly took out a rifle that is not licensed to him and fired a shot that hit his co-worker in the chest. The injured […]
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On Saturday night, eleven teenage girls absconded from the Princess Royal Youth Hostel and fled to various parts of the country. It is not clear how they were able to escape from the compound and an investigation is underway to review where the breach of security at the facility occurred. The Community Rehabilitation Department and […]
