Two cops are home free tonight after charges against them were dropped in the San Pedro Magistrate Court. The duo was charged last April for firing indiscriminately at a crowd of spectators on the island after hitting a woman. Five persons were injured in the mayhem and the officers were subsequently placed on interdiction. According […]
Since last Thursday, there were reports circulating that vocal Belize City taxi man, Roy Craig, better known as ‘Bullet’ and ‘Street Vibes’ was in trouble with the law. Tonight Bullet is on bail after arraignment this afternoon for the crime of sexual assault of a minor. The seventy-six-year-old outspoken cabbie was unrepresented in court and […]
Gang violence isn’t letting up, despite the roundup of gang members across the Old Capital. Tonight, a fifty-six-year-old man is fighting for his life at the K.H.M.H. following broad daylight shooting on Saturday afternoon on Iguana Street, near the Belize City Racoon Street Police Station. Steve Finley and thirty-year-old Tyrone Barcelona were fixing a vehicle […]
Today, Leon Garcia was laid to rest in Belize City; he was the first murder victim for 2018. Heavy police presence was noted in the Saint Joseph Church area where funeral services were held. Garcia was savagely stabbed during an ambush by at least thirty persons, believed to be gang members. His brutal murder has […]
Full details are to come from the Police Department, but Belize’s rate of murders remains high. Official statistics from the Department as revealed by Minister of State Elodio Aragon Junior at Friday’s House meeting, confirm a total of one hundred and forty-two murders countrywide, an increase of four from 2016’s figure of one hundred and […]
On the adjournment of the House of Representatives on Friday, Leader of the Opposition John Briceño gave a general address on the issue of crime, zeroing in on the murder of Fareed Ahmad on December twenty-eighth, for which a woman police constable, Michelle Brown, has been charged. While Briceño was not able to bend the […]
At first glance, it seems like just another night on the street in the Old Capital. A group of young men are hanging around and shooting the breeze. Except this street is George Street, and the young men you will see in this video are soldiers of the feared George Street Gang, also known as […]
Extradition proceedings against Andrew Bennett are set to commence as soon as Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington signs a sheaf of documents presented by Solicitor General Nigel Hawke, on behalf of the United States government. The well-known attorney was a no-show at the opening of the Supreme Court earlier today, amid the scandal that has ensued […]
George Bull was arrested and charged for the murder of thirty-five-year-old Jaime Pelayo Junior. The Carmelita Village resident was on the run since the second week of December, following Pelayo’s murder, but cops finally caught up with him. Bull was charged for killing Pelayo on December fifteenth in Orange Walk. Pelayo was out socializing with […]
Fareed Ahmad was killed on December twenty-eighth and a woman police constable traveling in his vehicle on that tragic night has been charged for his murder. That case, however, continues to unravel with more questions than answers. The family of the well-known barber from Hattieville believes that law-enforcement officers had a hand in his execution […]
The Police Department is under severe pressure in the investigation of one of its own, Woman Police Constable Michelle Brown for the murder of Fareed Ahmad on December twenty-eighth. In a release issued this evening, police say that their investigation, “has unearthed no evidence that [Ahmad’s] death was a “state- ordered” execution… The Commissioner of […]
Minister Wilfred Elrington has also weighed in on the Fareed Ahmad homicide investigation. He reiterates what the lead investigator for the Professional Standards Branch indicated on Tuesday, that there is no evidence to suggest that other police officers were involved in the Ahmad’s murder. As for the troubling messages that were allegedly sent to members […]
There is a disturbing report by a fourteen-year-old female student against her stepfather, who could also be the father of her unborn child. On Tuesday, the minor along with her sister reported to the Orange Walk Police Station that on two separate occasions in the months of July and September of 2017, her stepfather sexually […]
The ceremonial opening of the Supreme Court on Monday will possibly buy Andrew Bennett additional time to lawyer up and prepare a defense ahead of extradition proceedings. That is if Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington endorses paperwork compiled by the Attorney General’s office on behalf of the U.S. State Department. Bennett is wanted by U.S. authorities […]
Gang violence in the city has once again exploded since the murder of well-known gang leader Leon Garcia on New Year’s Day. On Tuesday night, a pair of gunmen shot and killed Jermain Vellos and injured his wife in what many believe is a case of mistaken identity. On Wednesday, they struck again, shooting an […]
As the GSU cracks down on rivalry gangs in the City, another act of violence overnight left an elderly man in critical condition. A bullet penetrated the cheek of fifty-nine year old Charles Foreman and exited his neck as he sat with this family at his house on Pickstock Street on Wednesday. It is believed […]
The Foreman and Vellos families are still reeling from the deadly attack on their loved ones on Tuesday night in Belize City. Husband and wife couple Jermain and Stephanie Vellos returned to their home on Doris Bishop Street sometime before eight o’clock that night, only to be ambushed by a pair of killers. The hit […]
Tonight there is more from the family of Fareed Ahmad, whose claiming that despite Fareed’s murder, they continue to be under surveillance. As we reported on Wednesday night, the family claims it was in possession of threatening text messages, which they have already showed the police. News Five has seen text messages said to have […]
An eleven-year-old student from Trial Farm Government School in Orange Walk is tonight recovering at the K.H.M.H. following a near fatal blow to the head at the hand of another resident in that northern village. On New Year’s night, Jahmar Ferguson was walking with his brother and cousins in the village when two persons rode […]
According to the family, it was not until today, when Ferguson regained consciousness that a statement was taken by investigators, even though there were witnesses to the incident. But the family is even more concerned since Jahmar may not be able to walk. Sasha Thomas, Aunt of Victim “I just want justice for my […]
Several arrests have been made in respect of a number of crimes that were committed across the country in December. Police have since charged a Ranchito resident in connection with the discovery of a quantity of cocaine inside a Lincoln Navigator at the northern border crossing in Santa Elena. The driver of the vehicle attempted […]
Another well-known George Street affiliate has been charged in connection with a shootout along the Boom Road on New Year’s Day. Brandon Tillett was intercepted in a vehicle following the January first incident and despite a search, police were unable to locate a firearm. Nonetheless, they have proceeded to charge Tillett on the strength of […]
Jamal Humes has been missing for two weeks and as the days go by, his family in becoming increasingly worried. The twenty-eight-year-old mechanic was last seen on the corner of Faber’s Road and Central American Boulevard on the night of December twentieth. He sent a cell-phone message to his girlfriend to tell her that he […]
While the search has come up empty-handed, the family and police believe that the disappearance of Humes may be linked to an upcoming trial in which he was to appear as a witness. ASP Alejandro Cowo, O.C., C.I.B., Belize City “Jamal Humes, up to now he is still missing. I know that police are […]
In part two of our series on community policing in U.S. Cities, we take you to Boston, Massachusetts where News Five joined a team of journalists from Central America on the U.S. State Department sponsored reporting tour. The journalists went into communities of Latin American and Caribbean nationals to find out how crime and other […]
