The search continues for twenty-three-year-old Anisha Young. It’s been five days since she has gone missing and search parties have been combing the Philip Goldson and the George Price Highways, looking for Young. Reports also surfaced on Thursday that her body may have been dumped off the main road leading to Lemonal Village. All searches […]
Hopes are dimming tonight for the family of Anisha Young; they are offering a reward of ten thousand dollars for concrete information on her whereabouts. The twenty-three-year-old disappeared on Sunday morning after she left a popular nightclub with her boyfriend in a taxi. Both shared a house on Nargusta Street in Belize City. Her boyfriend […]
On Tuesday around two p.m., a Belizean truck driver from Orange Walk was shot inside a water truck he was driving in the Gungulung area of Belize City. Two men approached and shot him in the leg before escaping with a fanny pack containing an undisclosed amount of money. Police in the area set chase […]
On Monday night, Corozal police came across an abandoned white van in an isolated area of Baeza Layout of the town. On the passenger side of the vehicle was the body of well-known businessman, Michael Arnold. The fifty-eight-year-old had been shot twice to the head with a nine millimetre pistol. Police investigation led to the […]
While police have no leads in the murder of Michael Arnold, they say that they have one person detained in connection with the murder of Asher Saunders in Belize City. The twenty-year-old was executed as he socialized at Pier One Bar at the B.T.L. Park last Friday night. ASP Alejandro Cowo confirmed today that they […]
Two persons drowned in separate incidents earlier this week in Belize City and Corozal. On Monday evening, a boat incident in the vicinity of the Cerros Maya Monument ended fatally for a well-known bus company owner. Forty-one-year-old Rudy Morales perished when the skiff he was travelling in, along with several other persons, began taking in […]
The other victim was an eleven-month-old baby who drowned in a bucket of water inside her family home in Belama phase two. Marianne Vasquez is believed to have tried to retrieve a piece of paper inside a bucket of water when she drowned while her family was in the kitchen. Today, ASP Alejandro Cowo was […]
There was a home invasion this morning in Guinea Grass Village, Orange Walk. Three masked men broke into the house of Veronica Quetzal and stole an assortment of jewellery; the thieves also got away with an undisclosed amount of money. Quetzal was unable to recognize any of the robbers and fortunately she was not injured […]
An Armenia villager is in critical, but stable condition at the Western Regional Hospital after he was chopped multiple times to the head and body as he slept in a hammock underneath a house in the village. The incident occurred sometime before two o’clock on Tuesday morning and while police have one person in custody, […]
There are also two missing person reports from the national crimes investigation branch. A Mexican national was reported missing on Monday. Teresa Gomez says that her farm caretaker, seventy-two-year-old Arturo Gomez, has been missing since last Friday from the property located in the San Luis area of Orange Walk. Police say searches have since been […]
Tonight police in Corozal are trying to figure out who killed Michael Arnold and why. Arnold, a very popular businessman in the community, was found with two gunshot wounds to the head on Monday night. His body was on the passenger side of his white Chrysler van in an isolated area of Baeza Layout of […]
Just before News Five, the family and friends of missing woman, Anisha Young, congregated at the Queen Street Police Station when word spread that her boyfriend was being released from custody. He has been held for forty-eight hours following the disappearance of the twenty-three-year-old woman. Anisha went to a Christmas party on Saturday and left […]
Wesley Primary School on Albert Street was broken into on Tuesday morning by two thieves who arrived at the school well armed to carry out the crime. Surveillance footage shows the duo jumping the fence before creeping towards the principal’s office. Once there, they proceeded to steal over a hundred dollars plus a laptop. It […]
The family of Anisha Young continues to hope for the best, but is bracing for the worse. Today, a search party was organized by her family and went looking for answers. Young disappeared on Sunday morning; she was at a night club after a work Christmas party and was seen getting into a taxi. But […]
Corozal police are tonight investigating the callous murder of Michael Arnold, a beloved figure in the community. Arnold was found with two gunshots wounds to the head on Monday night. The gruesome discovery was made by police officers who were on mobile patrol that night. Their attention was caught by a white van which was […]
Police are tonight looking for the gunman responsible for the murder of Asher Saunders. The twenty-year-old Bagdad Street resident was sitting at the bar of the Pier One night club when a single shot to the left of his head ended his life. As music blared and patrons moved around, Saunders was executed within minutes […]
A Guatemalan man was viciously chopped to death on Friday night in a western village. Police believe that Guatemalan Filiberto Itche attacked and killed Dimas Choc in a fit of jealous rage. Both men had recently been living together at a piece of farmland in Cristo Rey Village along with their separate common-law-wives. But on […]
Police have been unable to charge any suspects for the murder of Brenda Castellanos. The twenty-five-year-old mother was mortally wounded last Thursday as she stood inside a yard on Bishop Martin Street in Santa Elena, Cayo. Her friend, Jennis August, was also injured in that shooting and has since been treated and released from the […]
The family of Anisha “Annie” Young is desperately looking for her. The young woman, who is an employee of Voyse International went missing on Saturday night. She attended her staff Christmas party and seems to have disappeared in thin air; calls to her phone are unanswered. She was last seen alive at Sit and Sip […]
Two months after the Paz family in San Pedro Town received information that forty-nine-year-old Jose Milo Paz had perished, on Friday; his wife Ermijines Paz filed a missing person’s report at the police station saying that the pilot cannot be located. In early October, reports spread like wildfire that the veteran pilot and aviation pioneer […]
There was a shootout between police and a man in the Mayflower area, Belize City on Sunday night. According to reports, a barrage of bullets echoed in the distance and cops attached to a checkpoint in the area responded and set chase after a man who was seen in an alley with a firearm in […]
There are a few more details about the rape and robbery of a forty-nine-year old U.S. national in Ladyville. The victim, who is a student, reported to police that on Thursday morning at around nine o’clock the woman was sexually assaulted by a man as she was about to get into her vehicle. After she […]
Also on the crime blotter…There was a chopping incident in Saint Margaret’s Village on the Hummingbird Highway. Jose Ical was maimed and his left hand amputated above the wrist following a dispute at a bar in the village. Ical and a friend were injured as three men waylaid them outside the bar. According to Assistant […]
Twenty-two-year-old Nathaniel Perera, the cashier at Benny’s Bargain Center on Freetown Road reported to police that he was robbed of over four thousand seven hundred dollars on Friday. Around four-thirty p.m., he was approached by a gunman at the entrance of the store and relieved of the deposit bag containing the day’s sales. ASP Alejandro […]
A mother of a two-year-old is dead tonight and another woman is hospitalized following a shooting in Santa Elena, Cayo on Thursday night. Brenda Castellanos, who was carrying the toddler in her arms, was fatally shot while Jennis August received three gunshot wounds. The women were inside their yard on Bishop Martin High School Street […]
