After almost a week in trial, Belize City taxi-man, Nestor Gallindo, a Salvadoran national, was found guilty today of committing an aggravated assault upon a fifteen year-old minor on January second of this year. The assault occurred in Gallindo’s taxi after the child’s mother sent him to pick up her daughter. In trial, the minor […]
Belizean Akeem Garnett, a deportee and resident of Amara Avenue, Belize City was today in court to answer to a single charge of failure to comply with the requirements for deportees having been sent back to Belize for a second time since 2016. Garnett appeared this evening before Senior Magistrate, Aretha Ford and pleaded guilty […]
The lopped-off head of fifty-six-year-old Hilton Wade was discovered on a bench under a makeshift bus shed in Cotton Tree Village on Wednesday morning. His mutilated body was found approximately one mile from where his head had been placed for public viewing. It is a most gruesome murder that Roaring Creek police are tasked with […]
Beheadings are rare in Belize, but early this morning a gruesome discovery was made near the Harmony community on the George Price Highway. The head of a man was found at a bus shed and his body later discovered in Cotton Tree Village. His identity has been confirmed as Hilton Wade, a fifty-six-year-old resident. Wade […]
Murders may have blessedly slowed to a trickle, but that doesn’t mean crime has abated in the Old Capital. Two robbers took advantage of an opportunity on Monday night, but what they didn’t know is that they were caught on camera. News Five has obtained surveillance footage of an attack on two women on King […]
There has been a noticeable increase in the number of contraband seizures reported in the Corozal District within the past few weeks. That’s because customs and police have been working tirelessly to stem the flow of uncustomed goods entering the country from Estero. The community has been featured in the news at least three times […]
There is a report tonight coming out of the Cayo District that a significant sum of money is allegedly missing from the San Ignacio Magistrate’s Court. Those monies, according to our sources, are the proceeds of fines levied against illegal immigrants entering the country from nearby Guatemala. News Five understands that an investigation has been […]
For more than six months, the former Ballistic Examiner, Orlando Vera has been behind bars following a conviction for perverting the course of justice in the Michael Moderi gun related case. Vera was sentenced to two years imprisonment by the then Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith. Today, after more than a month waiting to hear […]
At the age of fifteen years, Inmas Espinal, then a second form student at Canaan High School, was arrested charged and remanded to prison for the March fifteenth, 2012 attempted murder of naturalized Belizean, eighteen-year-old Jose Antonio Sarabia. The trial of the now twenty-year old concluded today before Justice Adolph Lucas in the Supreme Court […]
More than seven pounds of marijuana was found on a public bus at the Orange Walk Town bus terminal this morning. But according to police, no one is claiming responsibility for it. Cops from Orange Walk and Corozal searched the bus, whose owner was not named, around eleven-fifty-five a.m. They recovered a pink school bag […]
In northern Belize, a second suspected drug plane has been found in less than six months to signal that the drug trade is thriving. The burnt scrap of the aircraft was discovered in a remote cornfield near Hill Bank, Orange Walk, on Sunday morning. A joint taskforce comprised of police officers and B.D.F. personnel was […]
Belize City resident, Clinton Arthur Davis, was beaten to death and his decomposing body was found three days later on Friday at his property. Davis owns a piece of land beside Old Belize on the outskirts of the city. The land was passed down in his family but his wife says that it has caused […]
And while Davis’ immediate family believes that a close relative was responsible for his murder, police say they don’t have anything to corroborate that claim. But they are questioning several persons. On the night of the murder, police say they received a tip of a body in the area but didn’t find anything until Friday […]
There is very little progress to report on an allegation of rape that reportedly occurred a few weekends ago inside the lockup at the Independence Police Station. Earlier today, police informed that a file will be forwarded to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions whenever an internal investigation into a claim that two […]
Burglars stole almost twenty-thousand dollars’ worth of valuables from a home in Sand Hill Village. Well-known education officer, Yvonne Davis, says she wasn’t home between Thursday and Friday and later received reports that several men with two vehicles were spotted in her yard between midday and about three on Friday afternoon. The burglars gained access […]
A trio of men was busted with a significant quantity of marijuana in the Corozal District on Saturday. Twenty-one-year-old Ian Mossiah, twenty-five-year-old Vincent Aldana and thirty-seven-year-old Abner Cardenas were nabbed in an area known as Estero, reportedly a transshipment point for the passage of Mexican-grown weed into the country. The men were arraigned before the […]
Twenty-one-year-old Maninger Singh, a student at the Belize Medical College, was reported missing by his roommates on Friday. He wasn’t seen or heard from since November ninth. The Indian national is a resident of the Los Lagos community and last attended classes at the institution on the Boom Road on Thursday, the day before his […]
An executive summary of the Auditor General’s Report on Belize Jungle Experience Limited, dated the seventh of June, 2017 has been obtained by News Five. It details the transactions between Lieutenant Colonel Charlton Roches, his company Belize Jungle Experience Limited, and his employers, the Belize Defence Force for training of the German Military. As has […]
Twenty-three-year old Nijah Brandon, a construction worker from la Democracia Belize District, was today before the court to answer to a charge of possession of counterfeit currency but even as he was granted bail, he was quickly nabbed by police. On November twenty-third, 2017, police claim they found him with two fifty dollar currency notes […]
The signing of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption in December 2016, is nearing its one-year anniversary. Despite the ratification of the document, legislation is yet to be passed in order to bring government into compliance with the accord. On Friday, Public Accounts Committee Chairman Julius Espat weighed in on UNCAC and criticized the present […]
Additional reinforcement will be brought into Belize City as of Friday, when the Christmas season formally commences. With all the hustle and bustle in the streets of the Old Capital in the month of December, thieves are all the more tempted to take advantage of crimes of opportunity. In anticipation of a spike in crime […]
Fifty-three-year-old Clinton Arthur Davis is the latest victim of murder in the Old Capital. Around noon today his partially decomposed body was found face down with an abrasion to the forehead. Davis was found about one hundred and fifty yards from the highway in bushes near to his residence. The resident of Mile five and […]
While legislators were busy discussing the decriminalization and the reclassification of marijuana from a regional perspective, local law enforcement was proceeding with drug trafficking charges against a cab driver in Corozal. Forty-eight-year-old Brian Young was busted on Wednesday morning with roughly twenty pounds of weed inside a plastic bag. The seizure was made by customs […]
Was the theft of a substantial amount of monies from the principal and bursar of Escuela Secundaria Tecnica Mexico the result of a well-orchestrated heist or did their assailant benefit from a chance hold up? A police investigation into the incident which took place in the Corozal District on Tuesday is ongoing. According to twenty-two-year-old […]
Eighty-three-year-old Hubert Richards remains missing tonight, despite all efforts being expended by his loved ones in trying to locate him alive. The elderly man is said to be suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and has been sighted in several areas along the Phillip Goldson Highway, including Los Lagos and as far north as the Guinea Grass […]
