On Tuesday around nine-thirty, police conducted a search at the home of twenty-four-year-old Abram Friesen’s in Shipyard. That search led to the discovery of a licensed semi-automatic assault type rifle. The rifle, however, was observed with an adopted scope affixed for which Friesen couldn’t produce an authorization. ACP Myvett tells us more about Friesen’s charge. […]
A Caye Caulker resident is hospitalized after he and a friend were attacked on Caye Caulker on Tuesday night. Forty-seven-year-old Amado Watson and an American national, thirty-three-year-old Kathleen Perry, were socializing at a bar when they got into an argument with some patrons of the establishment. Shortly after, Watson and Perry were attacked. The injuries […]
The Belize Police Department is tonight responding to social media posts made by a Facebook account under the name “Vincent Edwards.” The sensational posts make reference to suspected drug plane landings in the north since the beginning of the year. Photographs show parcels of suspected drugs inside an aircraft before it was destroyed by fire. […]
Opposition Leader John Briceño today reacted to Government’s position on what is calls ‘false information on social media.’ Briceño says that the government is not doing enough to address the recent spate of drug plane landings. John Briceño, P.U.P. Leader “So we are in March, April, May, June, July, August- six months after and […]
Thirty-year-old Mathew Smith escaped grave injury on Tuesday night after being shot once in the upper right arm near the corners of Johnson Street and Cemetery Road. The incident happened shortly before ten p.m. while Smith was purchasing food at a stand on Cemetery Road. According to the victim, he was approached by a pair […]
A pair of Indian nationals was flown back to their home country on Tuesday after spending almost a year in protective custody in Belize. Twenty-four-year-old Keyur Barot and Jitendra Kumar were both placed on a Copa flight out of Belize. The back story is that the men allegedly stole a vehicle, as well as cash […]
Police report today that on Wednesday, a search was conducted at the house of twenty-four-year-old Abram Friesen of Camp twenty-four Shipyard. There, the officers found a semi-automatic assault-type rifle for which a license was issued in Belmopan and valid until the end of November. But police say a scope was affixed to the rifle, but […]
A Camalote resident, Roshane Jones was found brutally murdered this morning. The body of the twenty-four-year-old was discarded in a bushy area near the Valley of Peace Village in Cayo. Jones is known to have run-ins with the law, but his family says the incidents involved petty crimes. The victim was shot twice to the […]
The transshipment of narcotics through northern Belize, particularly via unregistered aircrafts landing on clandestine runways in the far reaches of the Orange Walk and Corozal Districts, continues unabated. In most, if not all reported cases, the response of law enforcement personnel has been sluggish; with officers arriving at the scene of the destruction long after […]
There were a number of shootings in the city on Friday. A Belize City mother of one was one of the shooting victims. She was hit five times just after midnight, but luckily she survived. Police say that they are looking for one person of interest. According to the authorities, Dawn Parchue may have been […]
A vehicle believed to have been used in a shooting on Friday evening has been impounded by the police. Just before six o’clock, a pair of robbers targeted the security guard on duty at the law firm of Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay, Chris Coye and other partners at number fifteen, A Street in Kings Park. […]
Two men charged for the 2010 murder of Richard and Maria Stuart took the stand today before Supreme Court Justice, Colin Williams. Milton Maza and Eli Avila López both proclaimed their innocence to the court. From the dock, Maza told the court that he was innocent of the crime he has been accused of. Lopez […]
The murders of Junior Triminio and Christopher Calderon remain unsolved, despite investigators impounding a vehicle believed to have been used in the flight of their killers. The deadly shootings took place in Orange Walk Town on Sunday, August nineteenth as the pair was socializing a short distance away from where a football tournament was being […]
Zebedee Martir, who allegedly suffers from mental illness, is facing charges of Aggravated Assault and Wounding. He is accused of injuring a police officer on duty in Seine Bight Village. On the morning of August twenty-third, Martir reportedly inflicted chop wounds on special constable Rafael Caliz. The cop was attempting to appease Martir, who turned […]
In the magistrate’s court, the notorious twenty-seven-year-old Nicoli Rhys was sentenced to three years in prison today by Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser. He was found guilty of kept firearm and ammunition without a gun license. Back in May 2015, while on Dean Street, Belize City, Rhys caught the attention of a group of police officers […]
Two men charged with drug trafficking and possession of firearm and ammunition without a gun license were freed of the charges today. They are thirty-three year old Carlos Lopez and thirty-seven-year-old Peter Schmidt. The duo was arrested and charged in December 2017 after they were reportedly busted in Belize City with five kilos of cocaine. […]
There was a late evening shooting today. Just before six o’clock this evening, the security guard at the law offices of Courtenay Coye was shot and rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Early reports are that two men drove up in a car before opening fire at security guard Lazarus Jeffords, who was hit […]
There was a robbery today in Caye Caulker, but quick police action helped to capture the two thieves and recover the stolen items shortly after the incident. It happened around two-thirty this afternoon at the Caye Caulker Gas Station that is located on Back Bridge Marina on the island. Fifty-year-old pump attendant Luis Choc was […]
There is an increased police presence in the Port Loyola neighborhood tonight. Shortly after six o’clock this evening, police were summoned to an area on Trinity Street following reports of gunfire. Fortunately, there were no injuries. Moments later, gunfire once again erupted, this time in the vicinity of Jane Usher Boulevard. Again, there are no […]
Turning to crime…a twenty-four-year-old woman is the latest victim of an aggravated burglary which happened during the predawn hours of this morning. The young lady, a legal assistant employed by a well-known P.U.P. area representative, reported to police that she awakened by a strange noise inside her apartment shortly after three o’clock. When she got […]
Investigators have not recovered any of the money stolen from seventy-nine-year-old Harold Williams at his home on Monday afternoon. They have, nonetheless, made significant inroads in catching up with one man whom they believe was the mastermind behind the robbery of the elderly Kings Park resident. Forty-one-year-old Eugene Tillett has been arrested and charged with […]
Seine Bight police shot a mentally challenged, machete-wielding man this morning after he turned his cutlass on an arresting officer. Zebedee Morter was shot in the right forearm after he chopped a special constable in the back of the head. According to police, they were responding to information that a villager had been observed swinging […]
Junior Triminio was laid to rest on Wednesday in his hometown of Orange Walk. His memorial service and funeral procession was attended by family and friends, including close associates who are also members of the Back-a-Town Crips, a local street gang which Triminio headed. Since his execution, police have been on high alert in anticipation […]
A trio of suspected burglars is on the lam tonight, having escaped from lawful custody on Wednesday in Independence Village. Selvin Linares, Gregory Flowers and Kendale Flores absconded during a thunderstorm sometime between eight and nine p.m. by damaging the lock to their holding cell. A fourth prisoner who was in the lockup for a […]
Police Constable Godfrey Moreira is facing internal discipline after being fined a hefty sum by the Customs Department for a stash of contraband beer found in his possession on August twelfth. PC Moreira was busted in Succotz driving a white pickup truck laden with fifteen cases of illegal booze. Moreira, who is attached to the […]
