A San Pedro woman is also spending her first night behind bars at the Central Prison in Hattieville. She was arraigned on Monday afternoon for the charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the May thirteenth, 2018 killing of American restaurateur, Lamont “Monty” Lipka. The businessman from Texas, U.S.A. was inside […]
Armed robberies remain unabated across the country, where thieves continue to prey on businesses, both big and small. In Belmopan on Monday morning, forty-four-year-old Chinese businessman Hong Liang Li was relieved of three hundred dollars in cash when a lone gunman entered Tai Fu Store sometime around eleven-thirty. The incident, which was captured on surveillance […]
A mega drug cocaine drug bust last week involving a boat moored at the Princess Hotel, a single engine plane and two S.U.V.s won’t result in any drug charges. The operation started on Sunday and involved the B.D.F., the Police Department and the Coastguard, but something went awfully wrong. First, a group of twelve Guatemalan […]
Around ten a.m., five of the seven Guatemalans appeared before Magistrate Emmerson Banner for the cache of ammo found on them at a checkpoint in Hattieville and at a hotel in Belize City. They are: forty-one-year-olds Marco Palencia and Mario Moreira Lopez, forty-year-old Gilberto Jimenez, forty-six-year-old Bernardo Carillas de la Franco and fifty-four-year-old Sergio Morales […]
This afternoon, the two remaining Guatemalan nationals were also hauled before the courts and charged along with the first group for having entered the country illegally. Jorge Martinez Pinto and Luis Martinez Diaz were joined by Sergio Morales and arraigned before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford for having entered the country through the western border in […]
Armed robbers also hit a business in the Cayo District. Two Hispanic men, one armed with a handgun, held up the owner of Lily’s Store in San Ignacio Town at around eleven o’clock this morning. Surveillance video shows the men ordering the storeowner to place the cash inside a knapsack, while the armed robber held […]
Ryan Cole from Tibruce Street, in the Saint Martin De Porres area has been arrested and charged for the armed robbery at Freetown Drug Store. He along with another suspect, who police believe they have in their custody, entered the drug store on Thursday night and stole an undisclosed amount of cash from the proprietor. […]
With the alarming number of robberies across the south and north sides of Belize City, the police is threatening to reinstate a state of emergency. Numerous businesses have been hit at day time and at night by armed robbers who are believed to be working in a ring. Deputy Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says […]
Shots were fired as the convention was being held on Sunday. In an effort to intervene in an altercation between two rival gangs, a police officer fired warning shots in the air. No one was injured, but tensions were diffused. Here is how the Deputy Commissioner Chester Williams explained what transpired. Chester Williams, Commissioner […]
Samuel August Senior, who is accused of killing his five-year-old son, Samir, and his mother-in-law, Louise Young, remains hospitalized under police guard at the K.H.M.H. August Senior is accused of taking a backhoe and ramming it into Young’s house causing her death and that of his son; two other houses were also damaged last Wednesday. […]
Newsrooms across the city were spread thin since early this morning as a number of robberies, drug seizures, accidents and a murder unfolded. We start with the shooting death of an on-duty cop, who responded to an armed robbery in downtown Belize City, this Friday morning. Twenty-seven-year-old police constable Osbourne Martinez lost his life when […]
The shootout on the Haulover Creek occurred just minutes before a press conference held by the top brass of the police department on a major drug bust. Our team was headed to the Queen Street Police Station when it diverted to the scene. Our cameras captured over two hours of police in action, apprehending the […]
The shocking police shootout with the robbers and subsequent death of PC Osbourne Martinez has gripped the nation. A statement from the Ministry of National Security says that PC Martinez lost his life while valiantly executing his duties as a law enforcement officer. This afternoon, Leader of the People’s United Party, John Briceño joined the […]
A sting operation led by the Belize Police Department, in collaboration with the Belize Coast Guard and the Belize Defense Force, has yielded another sizeable cocaine bust and a cache of firearms. Thirteen persons, twelve Guatemalans and a businessman from a popular store in the Louisiana area of Orange Walk were detained on Thursday afternoon […]
Shortly after the detention of the duo, a team of officers, including police and Belize Defense Force personnel, staked out an area approximately ten miles into the Coastal Road. There they observed a low-flying aircraft hovering the area. After circling the vicinity a few times, the single-engine CESSNA changed course and flew south. On the […]
The entire operation, a joint effort between police, B.D.F. and coast guard elements, consisted of maritime, terrestrial and aerial surveillance. Shortly after the arrests and seizure, they then observed a vessel leaving harbour in Belize City. The Boston Whaler was the same boat moored at the Princess Marina. The vessel was intercepted by coast guard […]
This morning, ComPol Whylie also debunked rumors that a vehicle reportedly belonging to the wife of a senior police officer was used in the trafficking of the narcotics. While a vehicle was indeed used as part of the sting operation, it does not belong to an officer. The Commissioner of Police also commented on the […]
Samuel August Senior, the deranged man who killed his son and mother-in-law, escaped from the K.H.M.H. this morning where he was under police guard. The thirty-five-year-old was hospitalized after Wednesday’s horrific incident on Fabers Road where he rammed a backhoe into three houses. After fleeing the hospital around seven o’clock, he attacked a mother of […]
The mental state of August Senior has come under question following the killing his five-year-old son, Samir August, and the child’s grandmother, fifty-three-year-old Louise Young. On the morning of October thirty-first, he used a backhoe belonging to the City Council and rammed it into three houses on Fabers Road, including the house where his children […]
Police in Belmopan are investigating the mysterious death of twenty-three-year-old Celso Carcamo Junior who was found lifeless, hanging from rope outside his Belmopan residence on Thursday morning. The matter is being treated as a death investigation and police are trying to determine if there was any foul play involved. That’s because Carcamo Junior was found […]
The most recent robbery involves a Chinese grocery store which was targeted by armed thieves near the Los Lagos community. The incident happened around one-forty p.m. Footage of the robbery shows a dark complexioned man approaching the cashier and places a single bill on the counter. Shortly thereafter, another man makes his way to the […]
There has been a wave of armed robberies across the north side of Belize City over the past few days, with business establishments including restaurants and grocery stores being hit by thieves. On Thursday night, gunmen entered Freetown Drug Store and relieved the proprietor of an undisclosed sum of cash before making good their escape. […]
The rash of armed robberies is not limited to Belize City. On Thursday morning, just before two o’clock, a trio of men stormed the Zeta compound in Ladyville and accosted a security officer on duty. According to the watchman, the men bound his arms and legs before making their way inside the building. There they […]
The killing of five-year-old Samir August and his grandmother, Louise Young, continues as a death and not murder investigation at this time. Samuel August Senior, who rammed a backhoe into Young’s house on Faber’s Road, will undergo a psychiatric evaluation to determine the state of mind that led to the deadly incident. August Senior drove […]
A pair of thieves struck Midtown Restaurant and Bar on Wednesday evening, robbing a manager of almost twenty-five thousand dollars in jewelry, cash, cell phones and other personal items. According to investigators, the duo entered the popular eatery sometime before six o’clock. The men made a beeline toward the bar where they relieved the employee […]
