Police say two persons are detained and being questioned about the murder of twenty-two-year-old Jordan Lorenzo and the shooting of minor, Rakeem Cruz. The two Dangriga residents were inside a house around seven on Wednesday morning when two men went inside and fired multiple shots killing Lorenzo in the living room and injuring Cruz who […]
On Wednesday we reported on the gruesome killing of U.B. Student Kevin Frutos. The twenty-six-year-old went missing on Friday and his body was discovered in a shallow grave around eight-thirty on Wednesday morning. He had been robbed and his throat slashed. According to police, the investigation has shed new light on Frutos’ last hours. He […]
A Belize City man is in the hospital in a critical condition after he was shot inside his home on Pelican Street in Belize City on Wednesday night. Police say that sometime after nine, a man visited the house of thirty-eight-year-old Lawrence Simpson and called out his name. Simpson was inside with his family and […]
Police say that they have charged two brothers for attempted murder in Orange Walk. The incident happened on Saturday, February twenty-third when the Diaz brothers entered a man’s property where they started an argument with him. During the dispute, one of the brothers chopped him up. Police say there is nothing to show if the […]
Thieves wiped out a small business and then set it on fire in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Marta’s Snack Shop was located on the corner of Lacroix and Balan Streets in Belize City, but just after one p.m., the structure went up in flames. Police were able to detain several persons seen fleeing […]
A dispute over a woman led to bloodshed in Seine Bight on Tuesday. Police say that a couple was walking when they came under attack by a man. The perpetrator was reportedly jealous of the relationship and had a beef with the man. Placencia police were called out to the village. ACP Joseph Myvett says […]
UB President Clement Sankat, today issued a statement on the murder of business students, Kevin Frutos. The twenty-six-year-old from Bullet Tree was found along the George Price Boulevard in Belmopan with his throat slit. His family believes that he was robbed before being murdered callously. President Sankat described Frutos as a beloved member of the […]
Two men lost their lives in separate murders in the city and the Capital. Five days after he was reported missing, a Bullet Tree resident was found murdered and partially buried in some bushes off the George Price Boulevard in Belmopan. A post mortem conducted this afternoon on the body of twenty-six-year-old Kevin Frutos shows […]
In the city, before seven o’clock this morning, a twenty-two-year-old was executed inside a house in the Gungulung area of Lake Independence. A gunman attacked Jordan Lorenzo while he was in deep slumber on a mattress. A minor, Rakeem Cruz was injured in the gunfire, but survived the gun violence. There is still no known […]
A well-known snack shop that over the years blossomed into an integral feature of the community in the Lake Independence area of Belize City was destroyed by an overnight fire. A blaze quickly swept through Marta’s Snack Shop on Lacroix Boulevard and when residents got up this morning, only the rubble remained of the popular […]
A vehicle overturned on Monday night following a high-speed chase with police. The incident occurred at the corner of Mopan and Mahogany Streets in Belize City. Two persons were detained at the scene while a third suspect is said to have escaped. It was captured on amateur video and one person is seen bleeding. Neighbours […]
An online news article published by Reporteros De Banqueta in Mexico identifies a Belizean man as part of a criminal gang operating in Chetumal and Bacalar. According to the article, the Public Safety Director for the jurisdiction released the identity of Amado Gonzalez as the alleged leader of the group. It is believed that Belizeans […]
On the crime blotter…A resident of Tigris Street in Belize City was arraigned in San Pedro Magistrate’s Court today for the double murder of Deon Faber and Allen Martinez that occurred on Thursday afternoon in the island town. Police believe that Anthony Carballo, another man and a woman who carried a baby, travelled to Ambergris […]
Twelve days after the murder of Luis Cabrera Junior in Punta Gorda, his alleged killer is hauled before the court and arraigned for murder. Over the weekend, thirty-seven-year-old Alexander Ruiz was charged for the homicide that occurred on the night of March thirteenth at Dahanny’s Bar in that southern municipality. Cabrera Junior was stabbed to […]
An off duty cop was assaulted in Belize City around three o’clock on Saturday morning. The entertainment strip was buzzing with activity as Police Constable Mark Martinez was driving his private vehicle. As he drove pass Marina Towers, he honked his horn when another vehicle blocked his path on Princess Margaret Drive. That action triggered […]
A woman and two men were captured on surveillance camera arriving by boat in San Pedro just prior to the double murder of Deon Faber and Allen Martinez. The woman was carrying a child and a diaper bag. The trio headed up Pescador Drive and would arrive at Faber’s house, but she stayed one block […]
Since the start of the year, and including Thursday’s double homicide, there have been four murders in San Pedro. It is two more than last year’s statistics for the island during the same period. The crime situation, including narco-trafficking, is a major concern for Superintendent Reymundo Reyes, who says that murders on the island have […]
On Thursday, thieves targeted the Caribbean Tires Wholesale branch located in Orange Walk Town. Today, the company’s accountant, thirty-eight-year-old Rosita Wade, reported to police that she left her workplace around five on Thursday evening, but when she returned the following morning around seven-thirty, she found thieves had broken into the office in Tower Hill and […]
Two men were gunned down in a brazen daylight execution this afternoon in San Pedro Town. The victims have been identified as forty-one-year-old Deon Faber and thirty-four-year old Allen Martinez. At around one o’clock this afternoon, the men were near a mechanic shop in the Boca del Rio area of town when they were approached […]
The sensational story of the killing of Luis Cabrera Junior and the chilling accident that followed involving his alleged killer and another man sent shockwaves across the Punta Gorda community. The alleged killer Alexander Ruiz fled on a motorbike with William Garcia and was injured in the accident on the road to San Antonio Village […]
The infamous John McAfee is back in the news tonight and it’s in relation to the murder of Gregory Faull who was subdued, tortured and murdered at his San Pedro residence on November eleventh, 2012. A U.S. federal district judge in Florida handed down a decision against McAfee and in favour of the estate of […]
It’s not the first time that criminals have struck during a black-out, but that is what happened when an elderly man was shot in the city earlier this week. Police told the media today that they don’t have much to go with because sixty-three-year-old Gilroy Garnett was shot during the dark and so he is […]
On Wednesday night, Joshua Gillett was shot in Belize City as he walked through an alley in Belize City. Gillett reported that he was approached by a man who shot him. Today, we asked police what caused the shooting and they say it seems to be related to an ongoing neighborhood feud. ASP Alejandro […]
Tonight, we know a little bit more about the skull that was discovered last week Thursday near Bacab Eco Park off the Philip Goldson Highway. Police say a forensic examination of the skull determined that it belonged to a male between twenty to thirty years old. In a press briefing with the media, ASP Alejandro […]
It made headlines back in mid-January when a group of South Americans was arrested and taken into custody here in Belize but tonight that case is quickly falling apart. A trio of men, including Peruvian national Luis Marroquin, was nabbed in Dangriga on January seventeenth, under the suspicion that they are ATM scammers. During the […]
