We’ve been reporting on the detention of two Belizean lawmen and two others in Livingston, Guatemala over the weekend. The men: coastguard officer Pedro Colomer, police officer Fabian Laurie as well as Kevin Hernandez and Jerille Laurie were charged for firearm offenses and were being held at a prison in Puerto Barrios. They appeared before […]
While the Eastern Division jurisdiction for the Police Department has been relatively quiet as it relates to major crimes, petty crimes such as robberies and burglaries have spiked. A well-known supermarket in the Ladyville area is the latest to be hit by thieves. Early this morning just as the owner and his employee were opening […]
Earlier this week reported that two gas depots, belonging to BWEL and TOMZA, were robbed within hours of each other on Tuesday. The culprits got away with an undisclosed amount of cash in both instances. But despite police patrols across the city and along the highways, early this morning, sometime after two o’clock, the UNO […]
Last week, the skeletal remains sans skull of an elder person were discovered in the dried up savannah behind the Los Lagos Community off the Philip Goldson Highway; a denture was also found along with the bones. Relatives as well as police believe that the remains are that of eighty-three-year-old Hubert Richards, who went missing […]
Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett also gave updates on the two recent murders out west. On Monday, investigators from the San Ignacio Police Formation were called out to a wooden house off Thornley Street where the badly decomposing body of forty-seven-year-old Macario Tzib was discovered lying face up in his bed. He was stabbed […]
The other murder was the shooting death of Lloyden Bejerano. The twenty-nine-year-old was inside his house in the Oscar Sabido area of San Ignacio Town. He was visited by a group of men and soon after he was executed on a sofa inside his living room sometime around eleven p.m. on April eighth. It is […]
On Wednesday, a pair of guns was found near the river bank area in Benque Viejo Del Carmen. Police say that a forty-five glock pistol with twelve live rounds and a nine millimetre gun with thirteen rounds were retrieved from an area that has for some time been a hotspot for the department in that […]
The vast Chiquibul Forest in the south-western region of Belize stretches across more than four hundred and twenty-three acres of land. The tropical rainforest includes the largest cave system in Central America, the Caracol Mayan Site, and the Chiquibul River. It is an invaluable natural resource, but the Chiquibul continues to be raped by Guatemalans […]
Thirty-three-year-old Fabian Laurie, twenty-five-year-old Pedro Colomer and two others identified as Kevin Hernandez and Jerille Laurie remain locked up in a Guatemalan prison tonight after appearing in court in Puerto Barrios earlier today. The men, all Belizeans, were busted on Saturday in Livingston where they were found in illegal possession of weapons and ammunition. Fabian […]
The same cannot be said for Pedro Colomer, a coast guard officer from Dangriga. His fate is entirely up to the Guatemalan justice system and his bosses here in Belize aren’t lifting a finger to go beyond wishing him well. That’s because Colomer failed to show up to work in Belize City last Friday; neither […]
Police in Hopkins Village wasted no time on Tuesday when they promptly acted upon information that a drug deal was about to go down in neighboring Silk Grass. At around midday, the residence of sixty-year-old Jose Nolberto was stormed by a team of officers. Inside the house at the time of the raid was forty-four-year-old […]
Up north, four men are in police custody following a drug bust at the northern border. Corozal police were called out to the Corozal/Mexico border today where customs officials handed over a male person and a bag containing marijuana. Police report that three other persons were caught after they attempted to escape into the bushes. […]
Thirty-six-year-old Belizean Jermaine Belgrave remains incarcerated in the U.S. Reports from Erie County in Pennsylvania suggest that Belgrave’s possible long criminal history and gang affiliation here in Belize was factored in a judge’s decision. Belgrave made a request to reduce his bond to ten percent of one hundred thousand U.S. dollars. The sitting judge denied […]
Police have arrested and charged a fifteen-year-old boy with attempted murder, aggravated assault, deadly means of harm and dangerous harm. The charges are in connection with the shooting of twenty-five-year-old Keith Courtenay Junior. Around eight-thirty on Monday morning, a group of persons were standing outside a residence on Sibun Street in Belize City when a […]
Robbers hit two gas depots on Tuesday. The first robbery happened at the BWEL gas depot just after two-thirty on Tuesday afternoon. Police were called out to mile fifteen on the George Price Highway where twenty-six-year-old Delroy Buckner reported a man with a gun approached him at his workplace and proceeded to rob him of […]
A man was shot and killed inside his house in San Ignacio; he is one of two murder victims in the west. Twenty-nine-year-old Lloyden Bejerano was gunned down inside his house. A female friend of his found his body on Monday night when she went looking for him at his house in the Oscar Sabido […]
The second murder victim in San Ignacio was Macario Tzib. The security guard’s body was discovered on Monday evening, hours before the murder of Bejerano. But due of the state of decomposition, it is believed he was killed a few days ago. He was stabbed multiple times and his throat was slit and left on […]
A Belizean police officer and a member of the Coast Guard are two of four men who remain in detention in Livingston, Guatemala. The four Belizeans: thirty-three-year-old police officer, Fabian Laurie, twenty-five-year-old Coast Guard officer Pedro Colomer, thirty-four-year-old Kevin Edwin Hernandez, and twenty-eight-year-old Jerille Jerome Laurie were detained on Saturday night. The National Civil Police […]
Twelve Guatemalan nationals were released last weekend, soon after they were detained with a huge amount of U.S. dollars. The group was in a vessel near Moho Caye in the southern waters when they were intercepted by the coastguard and handed over to the Belize Police Department. Their release has come under scrutiny for various […]
In the aftermath of a red alert by the International Criminal Police Organization for Alberto Samid, the seventy-one-year-old was detained in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye. Samid, who is wanted in Argentina for tax evasion, reportedly made his way to Belize after he escaped his country through Paraguay. Samid, who goes by the name “King of […]
But is the shooting of Warrior connected to another that occurred around this morning at a barracks located at the corner of Sarstoon and Ebony Streets? Around eight-thirty a.m., a gunman fired a single shot at a group of persons standing in the area. The men scattered for their lives, but unfortunately Keith Courtenay Junior […]
There was gun violence over the weekend in Belize City, both incidents in proximity of each other and in a well-known gang territory. It started as early as Friday night on Sarstoon Street; a Carmelita resident remains in critical condition tonight at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot to the face. Why […]
A Belize City construction worker is in a critical condition after he was brutally beaten in Crooked Tree Village over the weekend. According to Elton Baiza’s family, he went to Crooked Tree for work and on Saturday night he was socializing during festivities in the village. But sometime between one and four-thirty on Sunday morning, […]
Are the human remains found in the dried up lagoon behind the Los Lagos community that of eighty-three-year-old Hubert Richards? On April fourth, just before one p.m., human bones of an elder person were discovered scattered in a twenty feet diameter. Police also discovered a denture, a pair of black silk socks, and a gray […]
A huge sum of money was stolen on Saturday afternoon from A.C. Construction on San Pedro. Around three p.m., the manager, Carlos Jex, was targeted by armed thieves while inside his office in the San Pablo area of the island town. With their faces covered, one of thieves robbed Jex of twenty thousand Belize dollars, […]
