According to Budna, he was subjected to severe abuse at the hands of prison authorities in Guatemala. He went as far as showing his scars from stabbings and chopping incidents that left him injured. Joseph Budna, Escaped from Guatemalan Prison “I wouldn’t wish this for any Belizean, soh unu be careful when unu go […]
A San Pedro resident is a free man tonight after his murder case which had kicked off before Justice Colin Williams fell apart in the Supreme Court. Forty-five-year-old Rafael Ramirez Calderon was accused and arraigned in 2015 for the May third, 2015 murder of San Pedro taxi-man, Dionicio Trujillo. Calderon was on remand for more […]
Corporals Leonard Nunez and Hallet King are tonight spending their time behind bars, in a cell at the Belize Central Prison. The cops were found guilty of manslaughter on Monday by a jury of nine for the death of eighteen year old Hilberto Sotz. During the trial, the jury was taken to the police station […]
Also in the court, a man accused of murder pleaded guilty to manslaughter. An argument between a security guard on the job and a hustler ended fatally for the guard who was ambushed, slashed in the head and repeatedly hit by his attacker and died days after. Today, Kevin Jex, accused of murdering forty-nine-year-old […]
There is breaking news tonight. News Five has been able to confirm that attorney Oscar Selgado will be needing an attorney for himself. While the details are brief at this time, we have learnt that the police have in their hands critical information in terms of a recording in which Selgado is heard talking to […]
The family of a missing minor made a shocking discovery this morning. A body was fished out of the Belize River in the area of Sand Hill and the Grinage family believes it to be sixteen-year-old Doren Grinage who was last heard from almost a week ago, on Tuesday. The Grinage’s had conducted searches in […]
According to Police, Doren was last seen alive on July ninth around five-thirty p.m. around mile nineteen on the Old Northern Highway. As we said, the lower half of a body, believed to be that of a young male, was retrieved this morning from the river behind Sand Hill. The family believes that it is […]
Fidel Bardalez suffered a horrible death at the hands of his murderer. He was beaten and chopped to death multiple times and his body left along the Hummingbird Highway. The Alta Vista resident left his home in the village on Friday night to hang out with friends; hours later, his body was found. His family […]
A minor is in police detention pending the investigation into the brutal murder of Bardalez. According to ACP Joseph Myvett, Bardalez and the minor, both believed to have been consuming alcohol, got involved in an altercation during which the minor produced a machete and inflicted the fatal wounds on Bardalez. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, […]
Joseph Budna is home safe, following a daring and successful escape from a Guatemalan prison where he was serving a twenty-five-year sentence for kidnapping and extortion. It was his second attempt at freedom, having fled briefly from another penitentiary in 2014. According to the Camalote resident, he crossed the western border into Belize shortly after […]
According to Budna, on Thursday a group of plainclothes police officers swooped down on him as he was walking along the George Price Highway near Camalote Village. With guns trained on him, Budna was taken into custody in Belmopan where he was held for a little over forty-eight hours. When News Five spoke with Commissioner […]
This afternoon Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett explained why Budna had to be released after being picked up and detained since Thursday. He told the media that they are looking into a previous drug trafficking offense for which Budna was arraigned in the San Ignacio Magistrate’s Court. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes […]
Another drug plane lands in southern Belize. Remnants of the drug plane were found in southern Belize on Sunday evening in the vicinity of Graham Creek. As in most cases, the planes are destroyed and the cargo dealt with by the time police gets to the scene. In the most recent case, residents reported hearing […]
Dangriga police continue to investigate the execution of Edwin Nasario which occurred on Friday in the parking lot of the Southern Regional Hospital. Nasario was about to enter his vehicle when he was gunned down. The incident has shocked the community and police say that they are looking at the possibilities that the murder may […]
Three men have detained on separate occasions in respect of the murders of San Pedro tour guide Mario Graniel and American Doctor. Gary Swank. These suspects, according to Superintendent Alejandro Cowo, are different from an initial trio that was brought in for questioning. Despite not being able to make an arrest, Cowo says that they […]
Nineteen-year-old Raheem Chambers remains hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. after being shot near Lacroix Boulevard on Thursday night. The incident is believed to be gang-related as police are saying that it is the result of an internal dispute within one of the gangs operating in the area. Superintendent Alejandro Cowo says police are still investigating the […]
There are not too many places where you would feel safe, but now not even the hospitals can bring any sense of security. This afternoon in Dangriga, a resident was shot as he entered a car on the compound of the Southern Regional Hospital. Edwin Nasario was placed in a stretcher and rushed inside, but […]
A group of robbers did not get too far after executing a well-planned armed robbery. On Thursday night, the masked robbers accosted the owner of Cooking Master on Saint Thomas Street in Belize City and forced him into the restaurant. They fired shots and stole an undisclosed amount of cash from under the restaurant counter […]
While robbers targeted a restaurant on Saint Thomas Street, in the south side a teen was shot multiple times on Thursday night and is recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Eighteen-year-old Raheem Chambers was on M and Y Street walking towards Holy Emmanuel Street when he was attacked by a man who pulled out […]
Tonight, Joseph Budna remains in police custody and not at the Central Prison in Hattieville. He escaped from Guatemala earlier this year, in May, and ended up in Camalote, Cayo where an operation carried out by the Belize Police Department on Thursday morning led to his apprehension. Budna was serving a thirty-year sentence for kidnapping […]
Budna has a checkered past and as it relates to his troubles in neighbouring Guatemala, ComPol Chester Williams says that sans extradition treaty, there are protocols in place to hand over the wanted man to their Guatemalan counterparts. Williams says prisoner exchanges have taken place multiple times in the past for persons wanted by Belize […]
Police have confirmed that they are investigating a home invasion at a property in Lord’s Bank area of Ladyville. While the information is scarce at this time, reports to our newsroom are that the victims were followed after they collected monies for a vehicle that was sold on Thursday. The culprits reportedly escaped with an […]
Five additional persons have been charged and arraigned for their alleged involvement in a case of human smuggling that was intercepted by police on Tuesday afternoon. It is being categorized as human smuggling and not human trafficking because it is believed that four Honduran nationals—two minors and two adults, who illegally entered the country—were being […]
Even before the five were arraigned today, Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett shared details on the investigation surrounding the alleged human smuggling. He says that the operation, which led to the detention of the seven Belizeans and four Honduran nationals, was carried out by Orange Walk Police with assistance from Ladyville Police. According to […]
Escape prisoner Joseph Budna has been captured in Belize and remains in custody. Back in May of this year, the thirty-eight-year-old Belizean, who is serving a thirty-year sentence in a Guatemalan prison for kidnapping and escape, absconded from lawful custody while at a hospital in San Benito, Guatemala. It is the second time that he […]
