Minutes later, gunshots rang out again; this time on Antelope Street Extension. Eleck McKoy was shot to the face by a lone gunman who came up to him at close range and opened fire. Police say that they have not been able to gather much information as McKoy discharged himself from the hospital minutes after […]
Over in San Pedro Town, a couple was targeted by a gunman in the San Juan area. Gilberto Lara and Catherine Torres were on their way home, traveling on a golf cart sometime after three o’clock on Saturday morning when someone opened fire on the unsuspecting couple. The bullets grazed Torres, while Lara was hit […]
Separate busts of marijuana were made in Camalote village and in Western Paradise village on Sunday. Belmopan police recovered five parcels containing a total of four and a half pounds of cannabis on a feeder road which was deposited as found property. Around five in the evening, the Gang Suppression Unit was on operations in […]
Over the years, we’ve reported on the work of the Friends for Conservation and Development and the illegal activities of Guatemalans inside the Chiquibul. We’ve documented the incursions and the measures implemented to curb those illegal activities. The FCD says that the past ten years of work have resulted in significant achievement for the protection […]
Thirty-three-year-old San Pedrano William Godoy has been formally arrested and charged for the murder of Alfredo Cowo. Cowo was killed on Tuesday morning as he sat in a golf cart with his girlfriend in front of Jaguars Nightclub. A lone gunman came up to the couple and opened fire on the twenty-eight-year-old fisherman. That murder […]
A string of unrelated, fatal shootings across the country, involving police officers and allegations of their participation in these incidents, has given the department another black-eye. The most recent cases including the death of Mario Vernon in Punta Gorda and the murders of Fareed Ahmad and Alfredo Cowo in Hattieville and San Pedro, respectively. Public […]
Guadalupe Reymundo Flores, a labourer of Guinea Grass village, Orange Walk was charged for drug trafficking and also faces a Customs case after a major bust was made this morning around nine. Police searched his residence and found just over three pounds of cannabis in a black knapsack. They also recovered sixty cases of different […]
Errol Elrington, he is the sibling of Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington who fled to Belize in 2014 as a fugitive of the United States. The doctor is being sought by authorities in respect of his alleged role in defrauding Medicare and Medicaid of almost half a million U.S. dollars. He absconded back to his home […]
Shots rang out again on Wednesday night in an area of the city where gang-related violence has erupted. Twenty-eight-year-old Quency Gentle was two blocks away from his Wilson Street house when he was shot by a lone gunman just before midnight. He was transported to the hospital, but succumbed within minutes. Though police say he […]
Investigations are also ongoing in the death of twenty-one-year-old Joselin Dominguez. A post-mortem conducted on her body was inconclusive. Police have ordered a toxicology report to determine the cause of death of the woman. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “The post-mortem results show that the cause of death is pending toxicology […]
In May 2017, the burnt remains of a body were discovered in a vehicle in the Gracie Rock area, Belize District. After the discovery, it was widely believed that the body was that of Pamela Lino, a teacher from Belmopan. Seven months later, a DNA test has determined that the remains were that of the […]
Police have one suspect in custody for the murder of Alfredo Cowo. The San Pedro man was killed shortly after mid-night on Sunday as he hung out with his girlfriend across from the Jaguars nightclub in San Pedro. Cowo predicted his demise one week earlier saying his life was under threat. While a motive has […]
We reported on the matricide that happened in Carmelita, Orange Walk on Tuesday morning. Twenty-five-year-old Andy Rhaburn used a crowbar to hit his mother, fifty-four-year-old Braulia Pech on the head. Pech’s daughter found her bleeding and injured in the back yard. That same day, Rhaburn attacked another woman; luckily, a resident rescued her. As for […]
PC Tevin Aranda was charged with manslaughter for the killing of Mario Vernon this past weekend. The Punta Gorda community is crying foul; they say that charge should have been murder. As we reported this week, Police said that Vernon was carrying a firearm and Aranda fired the shot fearing for his life. Since the […]
We’ve been reporting on the case of missing man Mark Pollard since last year. There are several reports that Pollard has been killed and his body dumped, but so far all search efforts have failed to locate a body. A recording was released on Wednesday by the family in which someone believed to be a […]
Jamal Humes is another missing man we’ve been reporting on since December twenty-seventh. Earlier this week, the family said the police was doing enough. ASP Alejandro Cowo said today that the department has been working to help the family find their loved one. ASP Alejandro Cowo, O.C., C.I.B., Belize City “I know that the […]
Twenty-three-year-old Justin Stephens was shot on Monday night and police are now looking for one person to question. Stephens was shot at the corner of Dolphin Street and Cemetery Road shortly before eight. ASP Alejandro Cowo says that Stephens was the target of the shooting and that it may be connected to another shooting that […]
Police say they are looking for one person in connection with the shooting of Damion Cattouse and Carolyn Revers. The couple was shot on Tuesday night while they were on North Front Street. Cattouse remains hospitalized at this time. Here’s what police have to say on the shooting. ASP Alejandro Cowo, O.C., C.I.B., Belize […]
Twenty-six-year-old Alfredo Cowo was ruthlessly dispatched in the early hours of Tuesday morning, as he sat in a golf cart with his girlfriend in the vicinity of Central Park in San Pedro. But his murder is not going down quietly. The fisherman was shot and killed by an unknown gunman one week after telling News […]
Randell is outraged that the case against Coye and Madril was tossed out because the court prosecutor, himself a police officer, failed to appear before the sitting magistrate in the San Pedro jurisdiction. Likewise, serious concerns are being raised about the officers being reinstated following the dismissal of the matter, particularly in light of their […]
Belize City resident forty-nine-year-old Mark Pollard has been missing since July 2017. Tonight, the questions are whether he is dead, and did family members have anything to do with it? This afternoon at a press conference in Belize City, a bombshell was dropped when a recording was released. Jose Luis Espat, who has been consulting […]
A friend of Pollard’s who is familiar with recent events has told News Five that along with the suspected family member, at least two other intimates of the missing man are suspected of involvement as well as a high-ranking police officer. In fact, our sources even claim to know the general location of Mark Pollard’s […]
Twenty-eight year old Jamal Humes has been missing since December twentieth, 2017. The auto mechanic disappeared sometime between socializing with friends and visiting his mother’s house. Searches of the immediate area have turned up nothing, but the family believes it has found a possible motive in the far north, potentially involving a police officer. Humes […]
Fareed Ahmad was killed on December twenty-eighth in his vehicle outside Hattieville. The alleged killer, Woman Police Constable Michelle Brown, is behind bars awaiting indictment and trial. But much about the case is still unsettling. According to police investigators and Minister of Home Affairs Wilfred Elrington, newly released video surveillance places Ahmad as having picked […]
A Belize City couple remains hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. tonight after being attacked by a gunman on Tuesday. Thirty-seven-year-old Carolyn Revers was seated inside a parked vehicle along with her boyfriend when they came under gunfire. Residents in the vicinity of North Front Street, near its intersection with Pickstock Street, told News Five this evening […]
