Police say they still haven’t identified a man who was stabbed and left for dead in Orange Walk. Cops were called out to Guyana Street sometime around eight-thirty on Tuesday night where they found John Doe. Police say they do know that the man had an altercation with three other men earlier that night and […]
On Wednesday afternoon, a brazen robbery at a bar in Belmopan left one man hospitalized. Police say that two robbers posed as patrons of the establishment and then pulled out a weapon and shot the owner of Chino’s Bar. Elder Paredes remains in a stable condition at the Western Regional Hospital. The thieves stole the […]
On Wednesday night you heard the story of a sixty-four-year-old security guard who was attacked as he stood watch at Prosser Fertilizers at mile eight on the George Price Highway. Today, police shared the details of what happened, but they say that it is unclear whether the business was the target or if the assailants […]
Police say a fourteen-year-old boy was charged with wounding after he lassoed another student and dragged him along a walkway and onto a field. The victim received extensive abrasions to the lower body. The incident happened on Tuesday afternoon between the two young boys who are from high schools in Belmopan. Police say that they […]
Mexican authorities continue to investigate the crash landing of a drug plane in fields near San Pedro Peralta, located south of Quintana Roo, Mexico. The pilot remains in a critical condition at the military hospital in Chetumal, while his passenger perished at the scene. The identity of the two men has still not been released, […]
A sixty-four-year-old security guard remains hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital recovering from gunshot wounds to the buttocks and leg. He was shot by four robbers who gained access to the compound of Prosser Fertilizers and Agrotec Company Limited by cutting through the perimeter fence. They would target the security guard to the entrance […]
The former municipal president of Othón P. Blanco in Yucatan, Eduardo Elías Espinosa, is a fugitive and Mexican authorities believe he is in Belize. Online Mexican newspapers report that Espinosa did not only seek refuge in Belize, but residence. An arrest warrant was issued for Espinosa in November 2017 on twenty-two criminal charges for the […]
A man from Orange Walk Town is in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. His identity has not been officially established by police, but he was reportedly hit with a blunt object on Tuesday night near the town’s market square. Police report that at around nine-twenty p.m., officers were called out to […]
A father of two was executed on Sunday morning in Sandhill Village. Residents in the village told News Five that they heard Denmark Casimiro and another man arguing inside his house that morning before gun shots rang out. Today, Casimiro’s family says they have received numerous reports that he was killed over a tattoo machine. […]
A small plane carrying one ton of cocaine crash landed into fields in the community of San Pedro Peralta, south of Quintana Roo, Mexico. One person was reportedly killed. Mexican media is reporting that before midnight on Sunday, a plane was reportedly flying low in the area. The Cessna type aircraft that is commonly being […]
A pair of fake cops robbed PUMA Gas Station on the Philip Goldson Highway Sunday evening and they made it look so effortless. Two armed men, dressed in what can easily be mistaken as police uniforms, waltzed inside PUMA Gas Station and demanded to speak to the manager. They forced themselves in the manager’s office […]
A well-known courier service provider from Corozal and a cargo agent for a local airline company are on Supreme Court bail tonight after they were intercepted by police last Wednesday with three kilos of cocaine. Fifty-nine-year-old Henry Menzies and thirty-eight-year-old Melvin Cal were nabbed after three p.m. by officers who were at the Ranchito Municipal […]
It is not the first time that local airlines are being used to transport illicit cargo across the country; in fact, the police department has intercepted packages carrying suspected drugs, including marijuana and contraband, multiple times at the Corozal airstrip and elsewhere. Today, the media questioned why the scope of the investigation did not include […]
The Belize Defence Force carried out a destruction of marijuana fields in northern Belize over the weekend. The B.D.F. carried out an operation in the early hours of Saturday near Little Belize in Corozal and found a weed plantation with three thousand marijuana plants. No one was found in the area and the trees were […]
On Friday night, criminals seized the opportunity to commit crimes when there was a brief interruption in power in Belize City. Sometime around seven-fifteen that night, during the “black out”, nineteen-year-old Belize City resident Melroy Pelayo was on Rio Grande Crescent in the Faber’s Road Extension when he was shot in the leg. He was […]
Belize City resident Linsford Baldwin also fell victim to a gunman in the city over the weekend. Police say that sometime after nine on Saturday, twenty-eight-year-old Baldwin was shot to the upper body. ASP Alejandro Cowo says they don’t have a motive at this time and there are no known suspects. ASP Alejandro Cowo, […]
Since last week we’ve been reporting on the brutal killing of a young, pregnant mother Joan Gabourel from Valley of Peace, Cayo. She went missing and was found dead several days later on March third. She was stabbed, chopped and bludgeoned to death. As we told you, two persons were detained, including a relative on […]
On Wednesday, a number of cops were honored for the capturing of six robbers who held up money changers at the northern border a week ago. Those cops happened to be in the area on a separate mission when they were alerted of the robbery. Of the robbers they detained, four have already been slapped […]
At the weekly press brief today, police also said that they are actively investigating the double murder that happened last month in Punta Gorda that claimed the lives of Kevin Moro and Oscar Humes. The two friends were at a house on Main Street when they came under fire. Humes died on the spot, while […]
Last month at least three vehicles were intentionally set on fire in Punta Gorda. Police have been trying to solve the case of the burning vehicles but they haven’t had much luck in nabbing the serial arsonist. And on Wednesday night an arsonist struck again; this time, torching a vehicle and motorcycle. Unlike the other […]
Today police say that they may have Clinton Pou’s shooters in custody. Several persons were detained for the shooting that left Pou with injuries to his left hand and chest. Sometime after five on Sunday evening, the twenty-two-year-old man was inside his house on North Front Street in Belize City when two men walked inside […]
Some two weeks ago, the top cops were singing the praises of officers who are going above and beyond the call of duty even when their lives are at risk. Well, today, the top officers of the Belize Police Department came together to honour cops who are doing good work even though the department still […]
Police officers attached to the Ladyville formation are being accused of stealing t-shirts. Yes, you heard right—t-shirts. According to reports, cops seized a bag of t-shirts that was on a bus and when the owner received the baggage, most of the shirts were gone. Those shirts were reportedly shared among officers of the Ladyville Police […]
Things got chaotic on Monday night at the Isidoro Beaton Stadium in Belmopan. A football match was underway between Galen University and the University of Belize when a fight broke out between players from both teams. Seconds after, an-off duty police officer is caught on camera pulling out a firearm and blasting two shots in […]
But there is another incident in Belmopan that landed a resident in the hospital. Clement Mangar of Maya Mopan in Belmopan is lucky to be alive tonight. The fifty-five-year-old man was targeted by a gunman at around nine o’clock on Monday night while he made his way home on Tul Street. Mangar was shot twice […]
