With thirty-one new Wingle pickups added to its existing convoy of vehicles, will the presence of more police officers in the streets of the country make the Belizean citizenry feel any safer? It is the hope of the Belize Police Department that not only will the vehicles serve their time, but that their use will […]
Minister of National Security John Saldivar says that 2019 will be the year of technology within the police department. Today, he told the press that the department will be meeting next week to discuss the new commissioner of police’s strategy to tackle crime and move the department forward. But, Saldivar says that he has requested […]
Minister Saldivar spoke with the press following his presentation. He says that while there may be concerns about the use of the tracking devices, they are making sure that the committee looks at all aspects of this newly proposed initiative before they consider its implementation. He says, however, that he has seen this method used […]
The world’s most infamous and feared drug cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was found guilty on Tuesday by a U.S. Judge. The sixty-one-year-old international drug lord was convicted on all ten counts brought against him by U.S. prosecutors and sentenced to life in prison without parole. The eleven-week trial, with testimony from more than […]
There are a lot more guns in the streets of the Old Capital tonight, following a major burglary, described as a breach of national security, at a local firearms dealer. At around three o’clock this morning, the warehouse of Victor L. Bryant and Company on Chetumal Street, Belize City, was broken into and burglarized. The […]
As a safety precaution, ComPol Williams also told the media that the police department has taken possession of the remaining stock of firearms and ammunition at Victor L. Bryant and Company. Williams says that the company’s license to import and sell firearms is being reviewed and the owner of the company is being given the […]
And while the fate of Victor L. Bryant’s license hangs in the balance, today Commissioner Williams warned all gun dealers to ensure that they are complying with the law, in order to prevent such reoccurrence. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “We really and truly have to take a serious look at gun dealers to […]
While thieves have managed to make off with a cache of weapons from a Belize City gun store, several arrests have been made in respect of other seizures conducted during a recent operation across the country. Earlier today, a trio of men, including two Belizeans and a Guatemalan national, appeared in magistrate’s court in Benque […]
No arrests have been made in the murder of tour guide, Shawn Hemmans. The thirty-three-year-old King’s Park resident was viciously killed earlier this month at a house he frequented on Saint Thomas Street. Following the homicide, speculation ran amuck as to what motivated the crime which took place around seven-thirty that night. News Five’s Duane […]
Former basketball athlete and popular barbecue vendor, Bart Sanchez is reporting a case of police brutality at the hands of officers attached to the Gang Suppression Unit. Now, Sanchez is not linked to any gang in the city, but claims he was harassed when he picked up his phone to video GSU officers taking a […]
The Orange Walk community is reeling from the murder of twenty-year-old Dwayne Avila-Cummings. The young UB student and promising basketball player was executed in the wee hours of Sunday. He had just left the Orange Walk Multipurpose Complex en route to his home at San Lorenzo Housing Site when he was gunned down. His body […]
Dwayne Cummings is the second UB student to be murdered in less than five days. He was a business student at the University of Belize. A statement from UB’s President Professor Clement Sankat reads, quote, Dwayne was a well-loved, out-going and an exceptional student-athlete at the University of Belize. He played basketball for the UB […]
Area Representative for Orange Walk East and Minister of State Responsible for National Security, Elodio Aragon Jr., says that he was angered to see a positive and promising star murdered for no apparent reason. According to Minister Aragon, the Belize Police Department is doing everything possible to identify and bring those responsible to justice. […]
According to reports, residents of the area where Cummings’ body was found say that they saw a suspicious vehicle in the area after gunshots were heard. Minister Aragon is appealing to persons with information to come forward and assist police with their investigation. Elodio Aragon Jr., Minister of State Responsible for National Security “A […]
The Belize Police Department is leaving no stones unturned in an effort to solve the murder of nineteen-year-old Masaki Yanai. The UB architecture student and his father, restaurateur Takayuki Yanai were both gunned down on Thursday night outside of the family home on Park Avenue in Buttonwood Bay. It is believed that three men traveling […]
Victor Martinez, a resident of West Canal, is lucky to have escaped serious injury over the weekend when he was attacked by a lone gunman as he was entering his yard. The twenty-four-year-old was shot once in the palm of the right hand during an altercation with someone who wanted him dead. Police have ruled […]
There was an exchange of gunfire between officers responding to the scene of a burglary and thieves fleeing from the Mayflower Street area on Sunday night. Residents report hearing a barrage of gunshots shortly after ten o’clock and when they peered out of their windows they saw a team of policemen giving chase to a […]
Twenty-six-year-old Darren Pugh was busted over the weekend in his hometown of Orange Walk with a serious stash of marijuana hidden at his residence. According to police, a joint intelligence operation led them to Pugh’s home where a raid was conducted. During the search officers unearthed two thousand, six hundred and thirty-seven grams of suspected […]
What are two high-powered assault rifles and a cache of ammunition doing on the Benque side of the Belize/Guatemala border? A pair of Belizeans and a Guatemalan national were found in possession of those weapons on Sunday morning as they partied hard and acted disorderly outside of a nightclub in the border town. When police […]
There were two other firearms taken off the streets of Benque Viejo on Sunday morning when police carried out a search near the bank of the Mopan River. A comb of the area yielded a nine millimeter Bersa pistol, three nine millimeter magazines and four live nine millimeter Luger Brand rounds. They also discovered a […]
A father and his only son came under attack on Thursday night at around six thirty during a brazen armed robbery. The son, a well-liked student of University of Belize, Masaki Yanai, did not survive the gun violence and his father Takayuki clings to life. He is the owner of the Taka Kitchen at the […]
A GSU raid this evening on a cluster of homes at a property on Freetown Road quickly turned into mayhem when the officers conducting the swoop opened fire into the crowded yard. We are not sure whether rubber bullets or live rounds were in fact discharged during the search. What we do know is that […]
A man believed to be Belizean was shot on Thursday afternoon in Erie City, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Investigators suspect that it was an upper-level drug deal gone bad which led to the seizure of a significant quantity of suspected heroin at the scene. One of the men from Chicago was shot in the chest and was […]
A heated verbal exchange between two men in Lord’s Bank Village ended with forty-two-year-old Enrique Pandy almost losing a finger from his left hand. Pandy reported to police that he was making his way on bicycle along Serosi Street when he encountered an individual with whom he has been having a dispute. One thing led […]
An elderly resident of Buena Vista, Cayo was seriously injured during a shooting incident on Thursday night. According to Alfredo Gonzalez, he was riding a bicycle along a backstreet in the village when he heard several blasts that he believed to have been gunshots. Immediately, he realized that he had been struck by several bullets. […]
