An outing in Santa Elena Town on Friday night turned violent. Two friends were out drinking, when around ten p.m., their celebration became violent and within minutes one of them was chopped multiples times in the head with a machete. Daniel Castellanos was viciously injured and rushed to the San Ignacio Hospital where he remains […]
The remains of an elderly man were found today near the Los Lagos community, Ladyville. It has been determined so far that the bones are that of an elderly man, but there are still many unanswered questions and his identity has not been confirmed. Not far away, police also found clothing items and a denture. […]
Belize is among five countries that have been named as “drug transit” countries by the U.S. government in the latest International Narcotics Control Strategy Report. The other four countries are: the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica. The report states that Belize was also named a transit country for illicit drugs destined for the […]
Interpol says Argentinean fugitive, seventy-one-year-old Alberto Samid is hiding in Belize. International Criminal Police Organization issued a red alert for the Samid who is wanted in Argentina for tax evasion. Investigators believe that Samid escaped the country through Paraguay, later flew to Panama before making his way to Belize which does not share an extradition […]
In less than twelve hours, there were two shootings and a stabbing that left a total of two persons dead and three others injured. It all occurred within a two block radius on Faber’s Road Extension where officers attached to the Gang Suppression Unit have been deployed to avert any retaliation. The violence started on […]
The other loss of life was as a result of a stabbing as early as nine o’clock on Wednesday morning. A young man was killed during a violent confrontation at a popular shop on Faber’s Road Extension, Belize City. His partner in crime was injured and remains hospitalized. Marcus Frazier and Kyle Saunders are said […]
A shooting that occurred three hours earlier is believed to have triggered the murder of Eugene Wallace. It happened on Rio Grande Crescent in proximity of the Wallace murder scene and started the gun violence on Wednesday. A fifteen-year-old minor was injured as he exited his house after the gunman called out his name. Emory […]
On Tuesday around one-thirty a.m., two Canadian guests at Sapphire Resort located nine and a half miles north of Ambergris Caye were targeted by thieves. Joseph and Marilyn Troiano were the only guests at the resort at the time when three men and a woman, wearing rags over their faces and carrying a gun and […]
A joint operation between officers attached to the Special Patrols Unit and the Mobile Interdiction Team led to the discovery of a grenade in Benque Viejo del Carmen. On Tuesday, the team, based on information received, conducted a search at the water pump area and discovered a live grenade. The explosive device was retrieved by […]
Twelve Guatemalan nationals were found with over fifty thousand U.S. dollars in cash in the southern waters of Belize last Friday. The men and their vessel were in the Moho area when they were intercepted by the Belize Coastguard. They were taken to the Punta Gorda police station, the cash was counted and the Guats […]
The number of murders in the first quarter of the year has gone down by a significant percentage. Commissioner of Police Chester Williams provided the breakdown today in Belmopan. So far, there have been more than thirty homicides between January and March, the majority of which have not been gang-related but due to alcohol consumption. […]
Today, the Police Department convened its national COMSTAT; it’s a forum where commanders from across the country would provide a report card on the operations, including crime stats from their respective jurisdictions. During the meeting, the officers also discussed crime fighting strategies. One initiative introduced today was the use of hi-tech cameras in hotspots in […]
There are reports of an aggravated burglary at a resort on northern Ambergris Caye. News Five has received information that four armed, masked men targeted the Sapphire Resort located nine and a half miles north of San Pedro, Ambergris Caye. The robbers reportedly got the property’s security guards out of the way by tying them […]
A well-known mechanic from Corozal is in big trouble with the law tonight after he was busted with over forty-five pounds of cannabis. Police are reporting that on Monday night around eleven-forty, officers conducted a search on a Ford F-150 pickup truck belonging to Joel Recinos. The forty-year-old resident of Calcutta Village in Corozal has […]
Since the beginning of the year to the end of March, there have been thirty-one murders recorded across the country. According to the Ministry of National Security, the Belize Police Department recorded the ‘lowest level of murders for the first quarter of a year since 2012.’ There were fifteen murders less for the first quarter […]
A violent incident in Sand Hill, Belize District, involving two relatives, ended fatally for Malcolm Leslie. On Saturday afternoon, Malcolm was stabbed to the left side of his chest by his cousin James Gibson. Malcolm was at James’ house in the village where a confrontation took place while the two cousins were on the verandah. […]
A B.D.F. volunteer was found dead the morning around six-thirty on the Hummingbird Highway. The thirty-year-old had been chopped to death and left on the roadside in Armenia. Police say some monies, a cell-phone and the man’s documents were retrieved from the scene. Just prior to his murder, Hermelindo Ical was enjoying a night out […]
Eighteen-year-old Rudy Morales went missing days ago and his family and the police had issued a missing person’s bulletin. Well, the news tonight is that his body was found floating in the Mopan River in Benque Viejo. The teenager from Kontiki area in San Ignacio left home on Saturday en route to a party. But […]
Thieves hit two schools in the rural community of Burrell Boom, disrupting the ability of teachers to smoothly carry out their functions today. Investigators believe that it is the same group of thieves that carried out the robberies over the weekend. At the Methodist Primary School, the robbers gained access to duplicate keys and cleaned […]
Another person lost his life over the weekend and police are looking at it as a death investigation. A fishing trip turned deadly on Sunday when one cousin punched another and he fell and hit his head. The Eight Miles resident never regained consciousness and died about an hour later at the K.H.M.H. Police say […]
There is finally an official comment from police on the murder of Carlos Noe Reyes. The forty-eight-year-old fisherman from Citron Street in Dangriga was fatally injured in a shooting at his home in that southern municipality on Thursday night. He was along with Sarawee villager Israel Pimentel when they came under gunfire by someone who […]
Aside from the murder in Armenia, there was another chopping incident in the west, but luckily the victim survived the attack. It occurred in Franks Eddy Village on Sunday afternoon. George Jones was chopped to the head and body by Randy Franco near a shop in the village. Despite being injured, Jones managed to wrestle […]
The Dangriga community is still reeling over the murder of one of its own; Jordan Lorenzo was killed in Belize City earlier this week. But on Thursday evening, they lost another resident to gun violence. A local fisherman was executed inside his house in the town. It is not known why Carlos Reyes was targeted, […]
Four persons, including three minors, have been arrested and charged for the murder of twenty-six-year-old UB student Kevin Frutos. A sixteen-year-old, two seventeen-year-olds and twenty-two-year-old Christian Pineda were all arrested and charged for murder. Five days after he was reported missing, the student was found murdered and partially buried in some bushes off the George […]
There was a major contraband bust in the north. San Victor Village in the Corozal District is a well known area for illegal crossing into Mexico to purchase contraband goods and has been a hotspot for the Customs and Excise, as well as the Police Department. This morning, between five o’clock and seventy-thirty, during a […]
