As we close 2018 with this newscast, investigating officers might have a first clue in the murder of Anisha Young. The young woman has not been seen or heard from since the morning of December eighth when she vanished after socializing with her boyfriend at a night club. Suspects have been questioned and released, but […]
One hundred and forty-three, that is the murder count tonight for 2018 which trails the 2012 record-breaking figure by two. The first part of the year was the most violent and despite more boots on the ground and the imposition of a state of emergency in three areas of the City, this year, more persons […]
The scourge of crime and violence continues into 2019 and government, as well as the Belize Police Department is still very much hamstrung in stemming the bloodshed. It is a point that the prime minister acknowledges as a weakness that will be addressed in the coming year through a reform of the department. Prime […]
In our previous newscast, we aired the story about a man who was shot after he attacked a family on Faber’s Road. The alleged gunman, Frank Smith, and another man went to the Hislop’s residence with a gun because there was a dispute over a horse. Smith got into an altercation with twenty-four-year-old Dennis Alexander […]
Just before news time on Thursday, shots rang out on Faber’s Road Extension at the residence of Dennis Hislop and his family. An armed man had targeted his son and a friend during which a struggle ensued. The fifty-three-year-old father pulled out his licensed gun and fired a single shot at the gunman, hitting him […]
There are no arrests to report on tonight, in respect of the daylight execution of Daniel Hughes on Boxing Day. Police are asking the public to come forward with any information that can help them in cracking the case. While a firearm was recovered from the scene of the shooting on Tibruce Street, test are […]
A Belize City fisherman was shot and killed on Wednesday and police strongly suspect that the homicide may have been the result of a longstanding feud between two families. Daniel Hughes Senior is dead and his in-laws say that his murder is not related to the ongoing beef. Earlier this year, however, around mid-March, three […]
Police in Orange Walk are trying to stem the bloodbath in an ongoing gang feud which left two persons injured on Christmas Day. Twenty-eight-year-old Llamont Wade and twenty-one-year-old Pablo Reyes were exiting Reyes’ home on Muffles Street when they came under gunfire at around seven o’clock on Christmas morning. Both men survived the attempt on […]
Two officers have been suspended pending further investigation into a suspected drug plane in southern Belize. Police Constables Peter Graham and John Ordonez are in trouble with the law tonight because of their alleged involvement in the illegal landing of a single engine aircraft in Barranco Village, Toledo District. During today’s police press brief, Deputy […]
News Five has been reliably informed that the aircraft was not making a drop, but was in fact carrying out a pickup. As has been seen in previous suspected drug plane landings, the aircrafts are normally gutted to make space for the illicit cargo. But this case was different. As the evidence has shown thus […]
A joint operation on Saturday resulted in police discovering more than seventy pounds of marijuana. Police say that the operation was conducted near the Casa Maya Road of the Shawville area of San Ignacio Town. The operation led to the discovery of seventy-one point seven-five pounds of marijuana. ASP Alejandro Cowo shared more details. […]
Police are investigating the savage beating and stabbing of Paul Moro. Moro and his wife were at a wedding on Saturday in Burrell Boom Village when he got into an altercation with another person. As the couple left the event, a group of men attacked and stabbed Moro. Police shared more details. ASP Alejandro […]
Thirty-six-year-old Ernie Miranda was fatally stabbed on Thursday night sometime before twelve a.m. His lifeless body was not discovered until Friday morning by sanitation workers collecting garbage on Morning Glory Street in the vicinity of Sadie Vernon High School. But the man we’ve all reported on as Ernie Miranda is actually Earl Abraham Hyatt. That’s […]
A young man was shot on Sunday evening and investigators believe that it may be gang related. The victim is twenty-two-year-old David Diaz and it is reported that he is associated with the Back-a-Town Crips Gang of Orange Walk Town. He was shot while he was near a barber shop, known to be a hub […]
Police in Hopkins Village are investigating a shooting incident which left forty-five-year-old Alvin Lopez injured. Lopez was inside his home in the village when he heard gunshots. He told police that it happened early this morning sometime after midnight, as he was entering his bedroom. He received a gunshot wound to the knee. Police told […]
The saga of Iverson Neal who went missing from Belize City on December eleventh, has come to a positive end. The twenty-three-year-old was found alive near the outskirts of Belmopan on Saturday afternoon sometime around four p.m., by someone who spotted him just outside of the city. That individual wasted no time in apprehending Neal […]
Benson Jerry Butler was found alive and in good health over the weekend. The fifty-three-year-old resident of West Lake Area of Western Paradise Village had been reported missing last week after his family and friends did not hear from him since December second. That was when he had left home en route to Belize City […]
A man is in police custody and facing firearm offences. He is thirty-seven-year-old Marvin Monge and according to police, he was busted with a handgun at a checkpoint early this morning. Police had set up a routine checkpoint at the junction of Monkey River and the Southern Highway when they intercepted a James Bus. Police […]
Someone’s Christmas plans were ruined on Saturday after police in Caye Caulker confiscated twenty-one cases of contraband Mexican beers on Saturday afternoon. Police say officers searched a cargo at Ocean Ferry and discovered fourteen and a half cases of Corona canned beers and seven cases of Superior canned beers. The beers were handed over to […]
The most recent suspected drug plane landing was in southern Belize. Previous landings were occurring frequently up north where the narco-traffickers were generally outsmarting police in their modus operandi. The plane that landed overnight is a Centurion single engine, similar to one that was found in Tres Leguas community in Orange Walk with one thousand […]
There have been two more murder victims this week, which brings the murder count so far in 2018 to one hundred and forty-two. That is dead even with the total number for the entire 2017 and there is still ten more days to go. This morning, sanitation workers made a gruesome discovery. In a drain […]
Police Constable Modesto Cucul lost his life on Thursday morning when he was ambushed by a pair of gunmen who opened fire on him and his common-law while they were en route to Crique Jute. He’s the second murder victim for this week. The thirty-five-year-old officer, who was stationed in Belmopan, was returning to his […]
The family of missing man Iverson Neal says that, contrary to police reports, they fear he is dead. Today family members told the media that they don’t believe the twenty-three-year-old is in hiding over a conflict because there is no feud within the family. The family alleges that the girlfriend knows more than she is […]
As Christmas Day approaches, the family of Anisha Young grows more resolute in locating her. The young woman has been missing for almost two weeks now and there has been no contact or information from her. Young left a night club in a taxi with her boyfriend and disappeared in thin air. While it is […]
On November second, PC Osbourne Martinez was murdered in the line of duty in Belize City when robbers shot at him on Regent Street West. This morning, in southern Belize, another cop was shot and killed. Police Constable Modesto Cucul was ambushed inside his vehicle a mile from the San Antonio and Crique Jute junction […]
