Police found over fifty pounds of weed along the Hummingbird Highway. On Tuesday evening sometime around five in the evening, police conducted a search of some bushes about fifty feet off the highway at mile fifty-two where they discovered eighteen parcels of suspected cannabis. The parcels weighed in at fifty-six and a half pounds. The […]
There were a number of traffic fatalities over the Easter holidays, but we start with the report of a shooting of a father and his infant son, which has shocked the community. Jose Navarette Senior and his three-year-old son received gunshot injuries at their home over the weekend. Police say that the farm manager of […]
There was a home invasion out west in the Bradley’s Bank area of San Ignacio Town. Sixty-two-year-old retiree Dan Williams reported to police that sometime after nine p.m. on Good Friday, he was inside his house with his son when they were accosted by two men; one wielded a machete. The robbers demanded money, but […]
Although there were three fatal road traffic accidents recorded, police are reporting that its Safe Highway Operations over the extended weekend were successful. Commander of Operations, ACP Marco Vidal spoke about the crime-fighting strategy and the deployment of specialized units across the country in hotspots. He says that the department ensured that crime was contained […]
The weekly police press brief had a change of venue today; it was hosted at the office of the Commissioner of Police in Belmopan. ComPol Chester Williams took the opportunity to speak about the success so far for April, which over the past years proved to be packed with criminal activity due to mass gatherings […]
A Belize City man is hospitalized after he was stabbed in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Police say that forty-one-year-old Delbert Quilter was socializing when he got into an argument with another man. It was during that misunderstanding that Quilter was stabbed in the chest. Cops say they don’t know much about what led […]
A Corozal businessman is in a critical condition after he was badly beaten inside his home. Police say that they don’t have much details about what happened but cops in Corozal responded to the scene sometime around eight this morning. It was there that they found the owner of Maya World Guest House suffering from […]
There was a shooting on Wednesday night in Belize City. Police say that sometime after ten a man was shot inside his yard – that shot, according to police, was fired by someone the victim is familiar with. Police say they are now looking for one suspect. Here’s more from Inspector Wilfredo Ferrufino. Insp. […]
Police say a man was shot and robbed over a money dispute on Tuesday evening in Ladyville. Twenty-six-year-old Harry Montero was shot in the leg after he tried to repay some money that he owed to a man identified as Aaron Flowers. Montero reported that this led to a dispute during which Flowers shot him […]
Earlier this week, we told you about Oswald Warrior who succumbed to gunshot injuries a week after he was shot. Warrior was walking along Sarstoon Street in Belize City when a man shot him the face. Since that shooting, the Corozal resident had been in the hospital in a critical condition until he passed away […]
Three separate businesses in the Cayo District were robbed this week. On Monday night sometime around eight, cops responded to an armed robbery in Valley of Peace Village where three armed men held up a grocery store owner. The men assaulted the owner and got away with cash and a licensed pistol. Police say that […]
The second robbery happened in San Ignacio Town. Around two on Tuesday afternoon, two clear complexion men entered Julie’s Hardware on Blue Bird Street. The owner of the store told police that one of the men pretended to be a customer and when she attempted to serve him that is when she was held up. […]
The third robbery in the Cayo jurisdiction happened on Tuesday night around eight-forty-five in Benque Viejo. The owner of Lighthouse Restaurant reported to police that two men went into his business and held him up at gunpoint. The robbers got away with some cash and also stole four plates of fried chicken. Police say that […]
Earlier in the newscast, we told you about the string of robberies at businesses in the Cayo District. As you heard, the robbers pretended to be customers and others are believed to have monitored the businesses before they struck. Today the Police Department issued a special safety message for business owners. ASP Alejandro Cowo urges […]
Robbers were on the loose on Tuesday in Cayo targeting business establishments. Just before closing on Tuesday night, the Lighthouse Restaurant on Border Road was hit by a duo of thieves. The proprietor of the restaurant, thirty-eight-year-old Yinghua Zheng told police that two men carrying what he believes to be a firearm, went inside his […]
There are separate shooting incidents to report on from the Stann Creek District tonight. Around five p.m. on Tuesday evening, a Belizean fisherman of Hope Creek Village was shot in the right leg by an individual whom he owed money. According to twenty-one-year-old Harry Stanley Montero, he handed over an amount of cash to Aaron […]
The Supreme Court was the scene of a mid-morning execution back in June 2010 when well-known gang boss Andre Trapp was executed as he left the courthouse. Since then, there has been a twenty-four presence of security personnel stationed at the adjacent buildings. But on Monday evening, another daring incident took place in plain view […]
The proprietor of a grocery store in Valley of Peace, Cayo was left traumatized after he came under attack from three armed robbers. At around four o’clock on Monday evening, while Tan Jian Pan, was at Pan Store, a trio of robbers burst into the grocery store and in the blink of an eye, stole […]
Twenty-two-year-old Oswald Warrior of Carmelita Village has succumbed to gunshot injuries eleven days after he was shot in Belize City. Police reported that Warrior died just after one this afternoon. We reported that the Orange Walk man was walking on Sarstoon Street in Belize City on April fifth sometime after seven o’clock when he was […]
There was gun violence over the weekend in Belize City, Ladyville and Hopkins. The most recent occurred just after twelve this morning in the southern village of Hopkins. Jessie Cal is tonight recovering at the Southern Regional Hospital after he was shot near the cut-off to the village on the Southern Highway. The twenty-five-year-old Toledo […]
The gun violence started on Friday night during news time. Just after seven p.m., Faber’s Road resident Cashief Myvett was targeted by a gunman as he walked into an alley off Fairweather Street, just a short distance from Eastern Division headquarters. The twenty-six-year-old was struck to the right hand. He was rushed to the Karl […]
There is a criminal and an internal investigation ongoing following a police-involved shooting on Sunday night in Ladyville. According to police, Shawn Lanza remains under police guard at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital recovering from a gunshot wound he sustained at the hands of an officer responding to a burglary. Lanza and another suspect, who […]
There are still no arrests for the murder of Joshua Gallego, which occurred last Thursday evening on North Creek, Belize City. Gallego was shot in the afternoon and succumbed at the K.H.M.H. hours later, around seven-thirty p.m. while receiving treatment. While in its official capacity, police did not go on record to reveal the motive […]
Twenty-six-year-old Joshua Gallego was shot on Thursday afternoon; hours later, he succumbed at the K.H.M.H. While the matter was under investigation, the question is if Gallego’s past had caught up with him. A lone gunman inside a vehicle fired at Gallego as he dropped his girlfriend in the North Creek area. News Five’s Isani Cayetano […]
A shooting in Belize City left a man injured. It happened earlier this afternoon at around two thirty in the North Creek area. The victim has been identified as Joshua Gallego. According to reports, Gallego had dropped off his common-law wife and as he was driving off, a man inside another car released a barrage […]
