There has been another incident at TKO Farms in Teakettle, Cayo. This time, a farmhand was assaulted on Wednesday morning by a group of four masked men who were armed with handguns. Manuel Gomez reported to police that he was attacked by the gang while at work on a ranch in Teakettle Village. He informed […]
Nineteen-year-old Kelvin Gongora has been arrested and charged for attempting to discharge a firearm inside a Chinese fast-food restaurant on Mahogany Street last Friday. The Mopan Street resident was caught on surveillance camera taking aim at a patron of the establishment when the weapon snapped twice. He then trained the firearm in the direction of […]
Corozal police are also investigating what appears to be a case of arson in Patchakan, where a five bedroom structure went up in flames on Monday night. According to ACP Joseph Myvett, indications are that the intruder entered the vacant building, rummaged through it and then set it on fire. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, […]
Detectives from the Federal Bureau of Investigation have joined the Belize Police Department in probing the death of forty-nine-year-old Claire Elizabeth Rigdon. The lifeless body of the American national was found floating in a swimming pool at her residence on the Consejo Road on the night of October thirteenth. According to her husband, Robley Smith […]
Seventeen-year-old Gerardo Vasquez remains missing from Ontario Village, despite the belief that he may be dead. The teenager was last seen on September twenty-fifth. Since then, there has been an intense effort to locate him. The search party which included friends and family, as well as local law enforcement, turned up nothing. Notwithstanding the discovery […]
Nineteen-year-old Stephan Bowen is facing a charge of murder, following the death of Elroy ‘Scrub Board’ Saldano who was shot while riding a bicycle in the vicinity of Belize Water Services on October fifteenth. The forty-nine-year-old succumbed to a single gunshot injury to the back on Tuesday, while receiving treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial […]
Investigators have made some progress in the murder of thirty-seven-year-old Felina James. Though no one has been charged, vehicle parts of a Kia Sorento owned by James were reportedly found this morning in Steadfast Village, Stann Creek District. We are told that the vehicle was found at a mechanic shop and one man is being […]
On Monday, we reported on the shooting of twenty-one-year-old Nathaniel Lockwood of Sand Hill. He was driving his motorcycle carrying a passenger when a vehicle pursued him and the driver shot him several times in Gardenia Village. Lockwood is still in the hospital awaiting surgery. His mother called the media to say that the police […]
There is a report that forty-nine-year-old Elroy Saldano succumbed to gunshot wounds today while receiving treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Saldano was shot on October fifteenth while he was riding his bicycle on Haulze Street, Belize City. The lone gunman approached Saldano from the rear, releasing a barrage of bullets. Police believe that […]
Just after ten o’clock on Saturday morning, the body of nineteen-year-old Charleston Cleland was found dumped in a swampy area near an embankment off the George Price Highway. Cleland was out on Friday night and was last seen with friends at one of the popular hangout clubs in the city. When he left the entertainment […]
It could have turned deadly earlier on Friday night in Belize City when a gunman pulled out a firearm and attempted to kill several persons. Security footage of Tasty Restaurant on Mahogany Street, Belize City, shows a man pulling out a weapon, pointing it at several persons and attempting to fire. Luckily for the intended […]
A Camalote resident in western Belize was stabbed as many as seven times on Saturday night. Jose Gonzalez was at a bar when his attacker pounced on him. His family believes that the stabbing stems from a previous incident in which Gonzalez had intervened. But even as he fights for his life at the hospital […]
In Benque Viejo Del Carmen, police do not suspect foul play in the drowning of a popular taxi operator. Abel Chi lost his life in the waters of the Mopan River on Saturday morning when he went for a swim. Chi, who is originally from Guatemala, suffered from epilepsy and it is believed he experienced […]
American National forty-nine-year-old Claire Elizabeth Rigdon was found dead in her swimming pool at her Consejo property in Corozal last Sunday. According to her husband, Robely Smith Rigdon, he and his wife were socializing that afternoon around four. He told police that he fell asleep and when he woke up around eight in the night, […]
An attempt was made on the life of twenty-two-year-old Raheem Gordon. The Belize City man was sitting inside his house on Casuarina Street on Sunday night around eight-thirty, when a bullet zipped passed his ear and hit the concrete wall. The fragments from the wall caused a small injury to Gordon’s neck. When we spoke […]
In the early hours of Sunday morning, Nathaniel Lockwood of Sand Hill Village was shot several times in the chest and stomach in Gardenia Village. Twenty-one-year-old Lockwood is now listed in a stable condition at the K.H.M.H. Police say that Lockwood and a friend were on a motorcycle when they were pursued by someone in […]
Police are asking for your help in locating Ruby Petino. The Guatemalan national was living with a friend on East Collet Canal up to the time of her disappearance on October sixteenth. Police say Petino was with her baby when they left home and has not been seen or heard from since. Today, police shared […]
A feud among neighbors has resulted in a young woman losing the use of an eye after being struck repeatedly to the head and body during a physical altercation last Friday. Felicia Audinett was reportedly mobbed by a group of persons near her home on Riverside Street, following an exchange of words. Despite an attempt […]
After being missing for seven days, thirty-six-year-old Felina James was found murdered and her body dumped along the Coastal Road. Her remains were discovered by a caretaker of a nearby farm. He told police that he smelled what he believed was a rotting carcas of a horse but upon making checks, he realized that it […]
The families of Richard and Maria Stuart exited the court today in an emotional state. Ten years ago to date, the young couple was brutally murdered at their house in the West Landivar area of Belize City after returning home from a social event. In the days following, two men were charged for the couple’s […]
Moving on the crime, police in Corozal Town found a rusty nine millimeter pistol with no serial number on Thursday afternoon at Dominguez Layout. Since no one was in the immediate area, it was deposited as ‘found property’. The pistol did not contain a magazine nor did it have any visible serial number or brand […]
Three men have been charged for allegedly trafficking five thousand, four hundred and thirty-five grams of marijuana. They are twenty-nine year old Deon Arnold, nineteen-year-old Ian Young, and twenty-nine-year-old Alex Lewis, all of Hattieville Village. The men were busted on Thursday morning on the Patchakan Road, Corozal District. Police say the men were acting suspicious […]
There is a report that the body of a woman was found off the Coastal Road. Police are yet to confirm the identity of the female. We will have more on this on Friday.
A thirty-one-year-old Salvadoran national is accused of raping his five-year-old step-daughter on Monday night while she was left with him at their house in San Pedro. The step father was arraigned today in Belize City before Magistrate Emerson Banner who told him that no plea will be taken because the offence is of an indictable […]
Twenty-six-year-old Japhet Bennett was released from the Belize Central Prison on Wednesday afternoon after a life sentence handed down to him at the age of sixteen was quashed by the Caribbean Court of Justice. Bennett was accused and subsequently convicted of the murder of Ellis ‘Peppa Gacho’ Meighan, who was shot and killed in Belize […]
