A manhunt is ongoing by the police department for three prisoners who escaped from the holding cell at the Corozal Police Station on Wednesday. According to the police, just before five a.m., officers were preparing to transport the trio, among others, to the Central Prison in Hattieville when they made the shocking discovery that Johnito […]
On Tuesday night, a Chinese family was assaulted during a home invasion on the north side of Belize City. Zing Zhou was inside their Douglas Jones Street house with his family when two armed burglars entered their home on the upper flat of the building which also houses a salon. Zhou was gun butted before […]
There was a shooting in the Gungulung area of Belize City, off Holy Emmanuel Street, where twenty-one-year-old Dean Nembhard was targeted by a gunman. Sometime around four o’clock on Tuesday afternoon, Nembhard was shot twice to the abdomen. While it is believed to have been as a result of gang rivalry in the area, police […]
On Tuesday, a freak storm hit Crique Jute (hoo-te) Village in southern Belize around three-thirty in the afternoon. It was approximately thirty minutes of hail and what residents say were winds of about thirty to forty miles per hour. Huge trees were taken down blocking pathways to houses and destroying several farms in the village, […]
A senior citizen was found dead this morning inside his house in Saint Ann Village on the Maskall Road. Neighbours visited Augustine Smith’s house and found him with his face blasted open, apparently from a bullet of his shot gun. A note was discovered on the scene with a short message. Family and friends believe […]
Community policing is at the heart of the fight against crime in the south side of the city where a number of initiatives have sprung up through collaboration between the department and the business community. And because every bit helps, the Eastern Division Commander Howell Gillett took inmates from the Belize Central prison to clear […]
The Ministry of National Security hosted the first of its national consultation series on citizenry security and crime prevention. The Belize National Teachers Union was the first of the Trade Unions of Belize to be consulted. Minister of National Security John Saldivar reminded them that the fight against crime must be a joint effort by […]
Young persons left scarred and traumatized by gun violence gathered today in the city as police look for new opportunities to keep them away from crime. They are students from a school in the Saint Martin de Porres area which has been one of the city’s hotspots. Today, survivors of gun violence addressed them on […]
An internal investigation is ongoing by the Professional Standards Branch against officers attached to the Punta Gorda precinct over allegations of police brutality. Leray Simon claims that he was viciously beaten in the cell block on Sunday night after he was detained by police while socializing with his football teammates following a match in the […]
Two illegal Guatemalan fishers were busted inside the Port Honduras Marine Reserve. A joint patrol of the site’s rangers and coast guard discovered the fishers within the protected area just before two on Sunday morning. A check on the boat led to the discovery of a gill net being used to catch fish. Also on […]
There were no murders recorded this weekend. But in Ladyville, there was an almost fatal stabbing. Douglas Bowen is tonight hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in an induced coma following an incident in the Japan area. Bowen was stabbed on Sunday night after a basketball game. Police say, however, that Bowen does not […]
Just after one on Friday afternoon, police responded to a robbery in progress on Zennia Street in the Cohune Walk area of Belmopan. A cargo truck parked in front of Carrie Four Store was the target of an armed robber, who approached the driver, seventy-year-old Luis Sutherland. The Belize City resident was inside the truck […]
Police quickly got into action and set up a checkpoint between miles thirty and thirty-one on the George Price Highway to intercept the getaway car, identified as a Dodge nitro van. Police set chase after the robbers, who lost control of the vehicle and flipped near the entrance to La Democracia. In the process, the […]
Leray Simon of Punta Gorda Town is tonight hoping someone, anyone, in the Belize Police Department will listen to his complaint of alleged brutality. Information reaching News Five is that Simon was detained on Sunday night by police in P.G., who allegedly beat him while in the cell at the police station. As seen in […]
On Friday, we reported on the murder of the Leeroy Haylock which happened in San Pedro. The twenty-two-year-old was out socializing with friends when he was slashed to the throat and left for dead in a bushy, empty lot in the north end of the island. According to reports, Haylock was lured to the area […]
The violence spilled over into Sunday night in San Pedro where a man was targeted for an unknown reason. Armando Trapp reported that he was outside his house around seven-thirty when he was approached by a gunman who fired several shots at him. Trapp was transported to the K.H.M.H. where he is in a stable […]
An internal investigation is ongoing up north in Corozal where a San Andres villager was shot by police over the weekend. Twenty-five-year-old Alejandro Dominguez was reportedly under the influence of alcohol and armed with a machete when he approached the cops in a threatening manner. Police claim one of their own fired a warning shot […]
Police are currently looking for a Belize City resident as investigations continue into reports of an alleged rape on the south side of the Old Capital. A thirty-year-old Canadian woman is reporting that on Wednesday night she was socializing with her boyfriend and some other persons at her apartment on Faber’s Road. She reportedly fell […]
The forty-ninth murder victim since January is a youth from San Pedro. He was killed in the early hours of this morning on the north side of La Isla Bonita. Just after midnight, twenty-two-year-old Leeroy Haylock was slashed to the throat and left for dead in a bushy, empty lot. There is no information about […]
Like American military officials in Iraq or Afghanistan, Minister of National Security John Saldivar, his C.E.O. and other top brass in the Police Department swooped down on the south side of Belize City on Thursday night. It was done mostly in secret and it was intended to get a first hand view of the current […]
There was a daring apparent robbery on the George Price Highway this afternoon. A delivery truck for a business from Belmopan was the alleged target. Police, responding, apparently set up a checkpoint to intercept the robbers, and shot one multiple times to the foot. The robbers’ vehicle, a Dodge Nitro, sped off and police made […]
Four persons have been charged in connection with the drug bust made at the northern border on Wednesday night. Blancaneaux Maudel, Michelle Benguche, Kenyon Lewis and Phylmore King were charged with importation of drugs, drug trafficking and unlicensed ammunition. As we reported this week, Corozal Police were tipped about two vehicles traveling from Chetumal which […]
A horrible home invasion took place in Cotton Tree, Cayo District. The victim is an elderly U.S. national who moved to the village more than a decade ago. While Judith Classen survived the ordeal, she is pretty much traumatized. The house of the seventy-one-year-old was broken into and the thieves made away with a number […]
A wanted poster was issued today by the Belize Police Department for twenty-five-year-old Kevin Bodden. According to police, he is the prime suspect in the murder of Ghost Town boss, Kendis Flowers, who was executed almost three weeks ago on March seventeenth at the corner of Sibun and Mahogany Streets. Initially, police had withheld the […]
There have been a number of anti-drug operations around the country. Up north at about nine p.m. on Wednesday, Corozal police were tipped about two vehicles at the border heading to Belize City from Chetumal. In one of the vehicles, a Ford Escape, driven by Blancaneaux Maudel and passenger Michelle Benguche, police found twenty-four parcels […]
