Police have moved swiftly to crack the murder of Alberto Vargas Junior in Orange Walk. A Belize City construction worker was arrested and charged; twenty-four-year-old Nisani Daniel Garcia is believed to be the triggerman in the execution on the Belize/Corozal Road on Tuesday night some-time around eight. Police believe that Garcia was one of two […]
Thirty-eight-year-old Emmanuel Ivan Sosa was fatally shot back in April at the Pasadita Bar in Ranchito Village. Three months later, twenty-one-year-old George Bednarik has been charged for the murder which occurred in the early hours of April fifteenth. The owner of the bar was reportedly closing up when a masked man entered the business armed […]
The expectation is that the charges will be upgraded to murder for Christian Espat, Nigel Williams and a sixteen-year-old minor following the death of Clifford Kirk, an American expat. The trio was charged for shooting and robbing Kirk on Monday; the aggravated burglary occurred at his home on the north end of San Pedro. As […]
A man was stabbed in San Pedro Town sometime on Thursday. He is now in a critical condition at the K.H.M.H. and police say they are now questioning a woman who was detained. ASP Alejandro Cowo says that there is not much known at this time, but the victim has been identified as twenty-six-year-old Adrian […]
Police made two separate drug busts. The first seizure was made about a week ago in a warehouse in San Pedro but the contents of the packets were tablets and they have been sent for testing so the type of drug remains unknown. And just this week, police made a second bust of tablets, this […]
One man has been detained for Tuesday night’s shooting of thirty-four-year-old Ambrosa Bernadez. Bernardez was shot in the vicinity of West Canal and Armadillo Street when a man rode up on a bike to target another person due to an ongoing gang feud. Today, police had a different perspective on the incident and were not […]
There are persons impersonating staff members of the Elections and Boundaries Department visiting residents and obtaining information. The public is advised that all employees of the department have staff identification cards. During the mass re-registration exercise personnel from the department will be visiting homes to conduct investigations. The department further advices that the public has the […]
Twenty-one-year-old Albert Vargas is the latest murder victim. He was killed inside a car in Orange Walk Town on Tuesday night near a tacos stand in a heavily trafficked area. Vargas was parked along the Belize/Corozal Road near Landy’s and Sons when a gunman appeared pointed a gun at him and released the bullets, injuring […]
A woman was shot just before eight o’clock on Tuesday night. Thirty-four-year-old Ambrosa Bernardez of a North Creek address was not the intended target in an ongoing gang feud. She was sitting with friends at the entrance of an alley in Queen Square when a gunman fired shots in their direction. He missed his target, […]
A Ladyville resident reports that she was robbed on Tuesday night around nine o’clock. Thirty-two-year-old Shaniva Arnold was walking with a group of persons on Albert Quilter Street when they were pounced upon by two men, one was armed. The duo proceeded to rob them of a long list of belongings including jewellery, tablet, cell […]
Five days after he was shot to the head in a home invasion, American expat Clifford Kirk, died this morning in a Baltimore hospital in the United States. Kirk and his wife had been coming to Belize since the 1980’s and years ago they settled in Ambergris Caye. Last week Thursday, a group of armed […]
Following a massive drug and firearm bust in northern Belize, police operations led to a smaller, but significant seizure of drugs in the west. This morning, police conducted a search in a busy area of the Casa Maya Road in San Ignacio. They retrieved a bag loaded with seven point four kilos of cannabis which […]
A Belize City man from Racecourse Street, who was shot just after midnight on Sunday, died hours later at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Twenty-two-year-old Emerson Talbert and two other persons were playing video games, a favourite pastime, when he was executed. The group was at a house on Cemetery Lane when Talbert was ambushed […]
A U.S. expat Clifford Kirk remains hospitalized in the United States where he was flown to for emergency medical treatment following an attack on his life. Kirk’s house is located about ten miles from San Pedro and last Thursday, he was gravely injured during a home invasion. Today, a trio of alleged robbers was taken […]
No one has been detained, but police on Sunday afternoon made a massive bust of drugs, firearms and ammunition for the AK forty-seven rifle in northern Belize. The police proceeded to the village of Chan Chen which is located off the Philip Goldson Highway and not far from the northern border, an area known for […]
Two months later, police have cracked the murder of Jason Sutherland which occurred on May third. Twenty-nine-year-old Sutherland was in his yard on Cemetery Road when he was shot by a man who monitored him from a nearby store. Veris Ventura, a resident of Hopkins is facing murder charges after police picked him up a […]
A shooting took place in the City early on Friday afternoon and luckily two persons who were injured were treated and released from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. It happened at about one-thirty at the house of thirty-seven year old carpenter, Kenrick Sanchez, on Lakeview Street. Sanchez was hanging out with friends when a pair […]
An unsuspecting bus driver was chopped as he let off a passenger. Late last week, twenty-five-year-old Arnulfo Muñoz, a resident of Armenia was transporting employees from Santander Factor to the village of Amentia on the Hummingbird Highway. Munoz claims that around mile fifty, one of his fares asked to be let off near the Funez […]
Belize City police have nabbed two suspects whom they believe were involved in a robbery on King Street on Friday. Twenty-year-old Sherwin Santos was arrested and charged for the daring hold up of New Fortune Restaurant, along with a minor. The heist was perpetrated by a trio of thieves who were caught on surveillance camera. […]
It’s been just over a week since Superintendent Reymundo Reyes took over as Coastal Executive Officer of the Police Department with responsibility for La Isla Bonita and La Isla Cariñosa, but stationed as the commander at the San Pedro Police Station. Gun violence and drug trafficking have been hitting hard the prime tourism island. With […]
Twenty-five-year-old Akeem Vargas was shot multiple times early on Thursday night as he headed to his Wagner Lane’s house. He is the first murder victim in the city in seven days in an area that has been relatively quiet for years. A gunman emerged near Simon’s Alley and opened fire; two bullets hit the young […]
Sixty-year-old Clifford Kirk is on his way to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland in the U.S. for medical attention following Thursday’s shooting in San Pedro. A local non-profit called “Triple R” short for ‘Rickilee Response and Rescue’ works with Charity Air to help transport victims and coordinate transfers for extreme emergencies. Kirk was shot […]
A reward of fifteen thousand dollars is being offered for any information that can lead police or the family of Omero Campos to his whereabouts. The family says that the information should be concrete and precise and the source will be kept confidential. The forty-three-year-old businessman was kidnapped on June sixteenth while at his cattle […]
Police in Cayo are investigating a case of unlawful sexual intercourse. Along with her mother, a fifteen-year-old girl reported to police on Thursday that she was sexually assaulted by her ex-boyfriend. The incident is said to have happened more than a month ago on May twenty-sixth, 2018. Police are investigating.
An American expat was shot this morning in San Pedro when robbers stormed inside his home. Tonight, sixty-year-old Clifford Kirk, better known as ‘Cliff’, is fighting for his life after he was shot in the head. Around eleven-thirty this morning, four robbers went to Kirk’s house located at miles ten and a half on the […]
