Creole Wagans located on ‘E’ Street was the target of robbers on Monday around two-thirty in the afternoon. The perpetrators only managed to take a small amount of cash and some fashion jewelry, but held owner Jesucita Reyes at gunpoint. Even though we are told that the robbers disconnected the surveillance cameras while inside the […]
Are robbers abandoning downtown and targeting the north side? From all indications it appears so. After police implemented the “safe zone” on the Alberts following a string of daring armed robberies, the robberies slowed down but at the same time robberies were being committed on the north side of the City. Creole Wagans, Moon Grocery […]
And from robberies in the city to a burglary in the north. Today police said that Landy’s and Sons, a hardware store on the Belize-Corozal Road in Orange Walk Town was burglarized between Wednesday night and this morning. This is the second time in recent times the businessman has been robbed. Back in April, his […]
Late this evening, there was a murder in the south side of the city. Police have not been able to confirm details, but we know that a man on Collet Canal reportedly shot another in the area of Pound Yard Bridge. We’ll have more on this on Friday.
Police say they were called out to the scene of a shooting around eight-forty-five on Wednesday night in Calcutta Village, Corozal. A man who was standing behind a supermarket fired shots at the establishment’s security guard. The guard returned fire, but instead of hitting the armed man, a bullet caught bystander Phillip Rancharan in the […]
Baby Dashawn Dwehene from Gales Point Manatee was discharged today from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where he had been recovering from a gunshot wound to the back. Over the weekend, the newborn was shot by his father Lincoln Dwehene with a safety-off pellet gun. The child’s mother, Tyreeka Welch spoke to News Five today […]
Twenty-one-year-old Ryan Rhaburn was arrested and charged along with two others on October thirtieth, 2017, concerning the robbery of a pawnshop in Belmopan a few days earlier. Rhaburn was arraigned on a single count of abetment to commit robbery for his alleged role in the heist. Since being released on bail, however, he has reportedly […]
Rhaburn’s mother, who also asked not to appear on camera, makes some very bold claims against members of the police department. Likewise, Shari Lopez accuses the owners of the pawnshop of having the G.S.U. officers on their payroll in an attempt to shakedown borrowers who are either delinquent or have defaulted on their debt. She […]
Deputy Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, who has viewed amateur footage of the incident, tells an entirely different story of what transpired. He goes as far as stating that the G.S.U. officers used necessary force since Rhaburn clearly was resisting arrest. The family contends that he is being harassed and profiled. DCP Williams, on the […]
A Hattieville man was executed at his house in the village over the weekend. Before eight o’clock on Saturday morning, twenty-six-year-old Philmore King was shot to the back of his head by a person he was chatting with on the verandah of his house. But is his murder related to a recent drug bust in […]
A most troubling report came out of the quiet village of Gales Point Manatee this weekend when it was discovered that a newborn had been injured in the lower back after being shot with a pellet gun. Four-month-old Dashawn Dwehene was accidentally wounded by his father on Saturday when he reportedly discharged the air rifle […]
A third shooting on Saturday involved twenty-three-year-old Eugene Henderson Junior who has been transferred to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The Burrell Boom resident was in Roaring Creek with family members preparing for a service for a missing relative. Henderson Junior was sleeping on a sofa when a gunman entered the lower flat of the […]
There has been a surge in dangerous daylight robberies of various stores in the downtown area of the City. In the past two weeks, Hofius, Nacho World, and M and L Collections were hit by armed thieves who remain on the loose. Police have put more on boots on the ground in the downtown area […]
A police officer was shot while off-duty on Saturday night in the Victoria Street neighborhood. Sergeant Shawn Walton was seated inside his vehicle when multiple shots were fired within proximity of him. Despite a trio of checkpoints in the vicinity, Walton’s attackers were able to flee the scene successfully by heading in the direction of […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Nimrod Fitzgibbon is recovering from a gunshot wound to the leg after coming under attack by a lone gunman on Sunday morning. He was returning home on bicycle after purchasing food near the intersection of Dolphin and Armadillo streets. Upon passing Queen’s Square Primary School, Fitzgibbon noticed someone standing in the schoolyard. The unidentified […]
Two Guatemalans were detained inside the Chiquibul Forest some four kilometres from the western border on Wednesday. Rangers attached to Friends of Conservation and Development came upon a group of five men, later discovered to be poachers. Three of the men managed to escape, but the rangers successfully captured twenty-nine-year-old Edras Geovani Cantoral Garcia, originally […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Police Constable Leonard Benjamin, a resident of Santa Elena Town, was arrested and charged for aggravated assault earlier today. PC Benjamin is accused of pointing a service weapon at his colleague during a heated exchange inside the San Ignacio Police Station on May twenty-fourth. The report was made by fellow policeman Obed Arzu, following […]
Proprietor Jeremy Spooners was robbed under the threat of being shot on Monday night while in the process of locking up his business on North Front Street. During the holdup at Spoonaz Café, a lone gunman successfully made off with approximately five thousand dollars in Belize and U.S. currencies. Spooners was taken by surprise when […]
Belize City police have been working diligently in ridding the streets of illegal firearms. Those efforts are often countered by criminal elements who persist in the stealing of weapons during the armed robberies of businesses and individuals. Tonight, there are two more guns unaccounted for, both taken during the robbery of an employee at Brints […]
Forty-eight-year-old Fiorman Erick Gillett, a Belizean based in Houston, Texas, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, also known as crystal meth. Gillett, also known as “B,” was being looked at by the Drug Enforcement Administration of the U.S. in February of 2017 after they snared a confidential source who […]
Was thirteen-year-old Elwin Pitter armed with a handgun as police say he was when they fired at him on Saturday evening? Deputy Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says that the teenager was found in possession of a point thirty-eight revolver, confirming the account given to the media on Monday by investigators. In fact, the police […]
Over the past few weeks, we’ve reported on several armed robberies on businesses in the downtown area. In less than a week, two businesses on Albert Street, including Hofius, were robbed. And just this week, Spoonaz Café on North Front Street was robbed as well as another establishment on Albert Street. Today, we caught up […]
As we showed you earlier, Area Representative for Albert Division Tracy Panton was out and about today in the downtown area, accompanied by the Belize Police Department. Panton says that she has received a number of reports and calls from businesses and residents who are concerned about the crime. She says that while the police […]
So, what are Police doing about the growing number of robberies on businesses in the downtown area? Deputy Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says that they will enact “Operation Safe Zone.” There will be increased police presence in the downtown area to discourage robberies and burglaries – but according to Williams, that is only a […]
A Hopkins’ resident is tonight out on a five thousand-dollar bail having been accused of raping a seventeen-year-old student at the Mango Fest held over the weekend in that southern village. On Saturday evening, the minor reported to Hopkins Police that around three-thirty p.m., she was raped in a bathroom by a man she knew […]
