Corozal police have been able to tie up a string of armed robberies in that jurisdiction after making several arrests in respect of incidents that were reported last week. A trio of men has been arrested and charged for the crimes. Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett shared details of the arrests. ACP Joseph […]
There is a murder in San Pedro that police are investigating. The body of a young man was retrieved from a hotel room on Barrier Reef Drive around midday today. He is a U.S. national who resides in Caye Caulker and has been identified as Christopher Meighan. According to reports from the island, surveillance camera […]
A sixty-three-year-old British national is in custody at the Belmopan police station. It is believed that he was the perpetrator of a foiled kidnapping of an eight-year-old boy on George Price Avenue in the outskirts of Belmopan. The minor was heading home along with his two older siblings when a man described as Caucasian attempted […]
The state of emergency for two south side neighborhoods is presumably nearing its end. That notwithstanding, another amendment was tabled before parliament today. The Crime Control and Criminal Justice Act was once again brought before the House of Representatives with a revision in respect of bail restrictions for gang membership and other offenses. The reintroduction […]
Two businesses in Corozal were hit by robbers in just over twenty-four hours. The most recent occurred on Thursday night just before nine p.m. at Gao Tai Store at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Fifth Street South. Four men dressed in dark clothing entered the store and one of them held up the Chinese […]
Investigators are trying to figure out where a high-powered rifle retrieved in Orange Walk originated from. As we reported on Wednesday, Orange Walk Police discovered an AR-Fifteen, five-point five-six rifle in a cane field about two miles west of the northern road airstrip. The firearm was found with five rounds of ammunition. The northern section […]
There is a report of the alleged kidnapping of an eight-year-old student on Monday. It happened in Belmopan while the boy was heading home from school along with his older brother and sister. The children told their mother that they were approached by a man in a white van offering them a ride home. The […]
A policeman and seven B.D.F. soldiers, who were jointly charged for the crime of murder but had the charge dismissed on Wednesday, will be re-arrested and the charge levied against them again. This is what Minister of State for National Security Elodio Aragon Junior told the media this morning. The men, police officer Lennart Cajun; […]
A fifty-two-year-old woman was violently attacked and raped in broad daylight while at her house. On Wednesday, Dangriga police were called to the Southern Regional Hospital where they saw the woman with injuries to her face. The victim told police that she was at home in Pomona Village doing laundry when a man who she […]
Shots were fired on Wednesday night on Faber’s road in the Old Capital. Residents of the area say that they heard the sound of gunshots at around seven o’clock. When police responded they discovered that no one was hurt. ASP Alejandro Cowo told the media today that the shooting resulted from a dispute between residents […]
A fight between two men who were supposed to be friends led to a shooting incident in Armenia Village, Cayo. Twenty-nine-year-old Roni Diaz and fifty-nine-year-old Miguel Funez were at a bar in the village socializing on Wednesday when a verbal disagreement ensued. It got physical with Funez pulling out his nine-millimeter pistol and shooting Diaz […]
San Ignacio Police are investigating an armed robbery which occurred on Wednesday afternoon. Delivery man and driver for Vega’s Imports, Ellsworth Martinez told police that he and the two coworkers stopped on Carrillo Puerto Avenue in Santa Elena Town to make a delivery. He and one of his coworkers exited the vehicle and upon returning […]
The Taiwanese Government has gifted the Police Department one million dollars in motorcycles and crime fighting equipment. Last year, the then Minister of Home Affairs Wilfred Ellington lobbied for the monies to strengthen the department’s capacity to tackle crime. The sum of five hundred thousand dollars was awarded by the Taiwanese, for which the department […]
Twenty-two-year-old construction worker, Steve Kent Crawford of Belize City has been charged with two counts each of Attempted Murder, Deadly Means of Harm and Dangerous Harm. Crawford is believed to have been the shooter who aimed and shot siblings Everal Neal and Jermaine Garbutt on September nineteenth. The siblings were on Neal Pen Road when […]
The Orange Walk Police have picked up a high-powered rifle, described as a Rockriver arms with serial number C.M. one-seven-six-five-eight. The firearm was found during a search at a cane field about two miles west of the northern road airstrip and ten yards from the roadside. Police also found five rounds of ammunition. The firearm […]
Two young students from Santa Elena, Cayo were manhandled by the police; the images were caught on cell phone camera and posted on social media. The incident was witnessed by a number of students and has caused uproar in the west and elsewhere. The duo has been released by the cops without charges and an […]
Twenty-six-year-old Kenrick Longsworth Hendy handed himself over to police this afternoon. Longsworth was wanted for allegedly shooting at police officers on Saturday morning near the Swing Bridge in downtown Belize City. The official police report states that forty-seven-year-old police officer Glenn Caliz was on Hydes Lane in a police mobile when he received information of […]
A twenty-year-old young woman of Saint Margaret Village, Cayo says that she was raped by two men, known to her husband on September fifteenth. According to the victim, the men visited their house around ten that night and raped her. Police say a Guatemalan national of Esperanza Village has since been charged and they are […]
On Saturday, Punta Gorda police executed a search at the residence of special constable of police, Devin Trapp, a twenty-year-old resident of Orio Street in that southern municipality. The search led to the discovery of six police uniform pants, a south-side strike team and a Special Patrol Unit outfit. The news of the bust spread […]
Almost two weeks after he disappeared, the decomposing body of Miguel Arroyo was discovered on an island near San Pedro. The twenty-three-year-old San Pedro fisherman headed to a store on the island and that was the last time his family had contact with him. Despite joint searches by family and police, it was not until […]
A Santa Elena resident is tonight fighting for his life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a shooting on Saturday night in Santa Elena. Harvey Trapp was shot in the head just before nine p.m. as he and several friends socialized at a house on Santa Teresita Street in that western town. The twenty-seven-year-old […]
There was a shootout between police and a gunman in the vicinity of the Swing Bridge on Saturday morning just before five o’clock. A senior officer travelling along with a sergeant of police and a B.D.F. soldier were in an unmarked pickup truck, assigned to the Police Department, when they were alerted of a gunman […]
There was yet another shooting in the Neal’s Pen Road area of Belize City; the fourth in the past two weeks. But today, police say that the shooting of thirty-seven-year-old Leroy Waller is unrelated and that he was simply at the wrong place at the time. On the night of Independence Day, Waller was walking […]
On the twentieth night as Belizeans were in a celebratory mood, an attack was made on the San Joaquin house of a Corporal of Police attached to the Corozal Police Station. According to his common-law-wife, around ten p.m., she heard several blasts outside their home, but thought it involved fireworks from the festivities. It was […]
One man has been charged in connection with the brawl at the Pier One Bar at Digi Park two weeks ago. That person is Dwayne Michael Leslie and not Wayne Leslie as the police had first said. Dwayne has been charged and arraigned for dangerous harm and use of deadly means of harm in connection […]
