Two minors were arraigned today for the murder of Bobby Garcia, a nineteen- year-old San Ignacio resident. Garcia’s body was found inside a temple at the Cahal Pech Archaeological site with multiple stab wounds. Indications are that the bizarre murder was a ritual killing carried out by Emo followers. The minors reportedly have provided police […]
A thirteen-year-old Nazarene High School student has been missing since Monday evening. Today, her mother Shemadine Panting came to News Five studios to report that Asha went to school and has not been returned home. The second former was last seen around five-thirty p.m. when her teachers dropped her home following a volleyball game at […]
Two minors, ages fourteen and fifteen, remain in police custody in San Ignacio tonight. They are held in connection with the strange murder of nineteen-year-old Bobby Garcia, whose body was found inside a temple at the Cahal Pech Archaeological Site on Sunday morning. Garcia was reportedly lured to the area via a conversation with a […]
Police are perplexed at the murder of Bobby Garcia, a nineteen-year-old resident from San Ignacio who was viciously stabbed to death over the weekend. His body was found inside the Plaza E temple at the Cahal Pech Maya Monument. Garcia’s body was shirtless and in addition to multiple stab wounds, an X was etched on […]
There is a third investigation taking place in western Belize. Benque police are looking into the sudden death of Pedro Pena. The elderly man was found with a large cut wound to the back of the head by his nephew who was visiting with a grandmother on October fourth. According to relatives, Pena was out […]
Human remains were found on Friday morning at BWS’ sewage treatment compound in Belmopan. Police were alerted of the discovery at around nine o’clock that morning. When they arrived on the scene, they came across a jaw bone and two shoulder bones confirmed to be that of a male person who is believed to have […]
A bar brawl at an establishment in Belize City almost claimed a woman’s life after being attacked with a bottle for attempting to part a group of fighting women. Ana Heredia remains hospitalized after she was viciously cut and left to bleed out inside La Barbie on Cemetery Road. While police have since detained three […]
A nineteen-year-old resident of Arlington Drive is lucky to have survived an attempt on his life on Friday night after coming under gunfire while talking to a friend a short distance from his home. Thomas Ferguson was shot twice while he stood on Arlington Drive by someone who wanted him dead. The nineteen-year-old was injured […]
Police Constable Michael Patten remains under investigation for discharging a firearm outside of a nightclub in Orange Walk Town last week. While the officer will be dealt with internally, criminal charges are yet to be brought against him amid questions of what transpired at the establishment that night. It is believed that Patten may have […]
Thirty-year-old Magdiel Ceas, a Belizean laborer of San Jose Village in the Orange Walk District has been charged with a criminal offense after it was discovered that he was sexually involved with a missing teenager. While the minor has since been located, it is being reported that Ceas had unlawful sexual intercourse with her. Assistant […]
Twenty-eight-year-old Orange Walk resident Juan “Canikas” Quintero is wanted by police. Quintero is a known affiliate of the Back-A-Town Crips gang and from what we understand, he is on the run. The wanted person poster that we have seen states that Quintero is wanted for the crime of murder and attempted murder. He is accused […]
Fifty-one inmates, all presumed to be members of the George Street and Ghost Town gangs, were discharged from the Belize Central Prison on Wednesday night and returned to Belize City. Upon their arrival, they were escorted to the Queen Street Police Station where they reportedly met with Deputy Commissioner of Police Chester Williams and Dianne […]
A pair of minors in Trial Farm Village, Orange Walk District reported an incident to police in which they were being pursued by two unknown individuals. An eight-year-old girl and a fifteen-year-old were both walking home on Plum Street when they observed someone following them. Frightened, they both took off running, only to realize that […]
Twenty-three pounds of marijuana were discovered on Wednesday just outside of the Commercial Free Zone in Corozal. The quantity was found inside a brown wrapping, away from the outer fence and when police opened the packages the observed that it appeared to be cannabis. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “Border police […]
A police officer is under investigation tonight for discharging a firearm outside of a nightclub in Orange Walk Town. Michael Patten was captured on video letting loose his service weapon as he exited an establishment on Guadalupe Street. It is reported that he was coming to the aid of a patron who had been injured […]
An intense search effort continues in the Cayo District where seventeen-year-old Gerardo Vasquez vanished without a trace from Ontario Village over a week ago. Despite the subsequent discovery of a pair of human legs downstream along the Belize River, investigators cannot ascertain whether the severed lower limbs are those of the missing teenager. According to […]
As many as fifty-one inmates from the George Street and Banak Street gangs are being released from the Belize Central Prison tonight, after being held in detention for the past thirty days. The men were all picked up during a predawn raid on their homes on the morning of September fourth. Since then, they were […]
This afternoon in San Pedro, Rufino Hernandez, one of two persons suspected of the brutal murder of Caye Caulker resident Christopher Meighan, was arraigned in the magistrate’s court. He joins Belizean/American Lalman Logan at the Belize Central Prison where he is also on remand after being indicted for the same offence. Meighan was found butchered […]
The criminal past of a current coast guard officer is being brought back to life after it was reported that Belizean-born British soldier Lee Charles Busano is back in Belize and serving in one of Belize’s security arms. Three years ago, in 2015, Corporal Busano who was based at Weeton Army Camp in the U.K. […]
A British national was arraigned this morning in the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court for an alleged kidnapping. He is sixty-three-year-old Roger Wallis, a well-known businessman in the community, who drives a white van. Last week, three siblings alleged that a perp attempted to kidnap them. They claimed that they fought him off when he tried to […]
There was a murder and shooting in Orange Walk for which there are more questions than answers. Twenty-five-year-old Samuel Castro was shot early on Sunday morning. He was running an errand on Muffles Street when two men on a motorcycle approached him and fired several shots at him. Castro was hit five times, once to […]
Less than five minutes after the shooting of Samuel Castro, Orange Police responded to another shooting. This time the victim was twenty-three-year-old Justin Diaz. Diaz was at the corner of Sapodilla and Zericote Streets, when one of two men on motorcycles opened fire. While it is not known if the shooting of Diaz has any […]
Two severed legs were retrieved from the Belize River over the weekend. The gruesome discovery was made on Saturday by Coastguard and police search parties scouring the area of the river at Warrie Head and further downstream. Since Friday, residents of Ontario had been conducting searches after a teen from the village went missing on […]
Before noon on Friday, the body of Caye Caulker chef, Christopher Meighan was found in a room at the Central Park Hotel in San Pedro. Meighan had been viciously stabbed all over his body. He was seen entering the hotel room accompanied by two men; police have now apprehended both. On Saturday, U.S. national Lalman […]
Kevin Bodden is believed to have been the triggerman in the execution of Ghost Town boss Kendis Flowers back in March. It took investigators six months to crack the sensational case and bring in their suspect. But Bodden did not remain in police custody for too long. In fact, the twenty-five-year-old escaped from detention by […]
