Are police any closer to cracking the murder case of Michelle Anison? The decomposing body of the British expat was discovered in her apartment on Perez Road, Ladyville last Friday; her vehicle and personal effects were missing. News Five understands that Anison’s wallet, with her bank cards and I.D. was discovered on a bus and […]
The murder of Anison has left the staff and children at Liberty Children’s Home traumatized. Director Valentine says that persons have been brought in to counsel them; she also describes Anison as a humanitarian, who adopted the Ladyville community as her new home and family. Agatha Valentine, Director, Liberty Foundation “Our children aren’t really […]
Fifty-six-year-old Michelle Anison was buried with haste on Friday evening, following an autopsy which confirmed that she had been stabbed multiple times inside her apartment in Ladyville, sometime early last week. The badly decomposed body of the British national was discovered by her landlady who was there to collect on overdue rent. Ladyville police were […]
According to Assistant Superintendent Cowo, the British High Commission has been informed of the incident, so has Anison’s family in the United Kingdom. ASP Alejandro Cowo, O.C., C.I.B., Belize City “Because of the advanced state of decomposition, the body had to be buried on the same date. Yes we have communicated with the British […]
A shooting in Corozal has now turned murder and police have been unable to crack this case. Twenty-two-year-old Brenda Jandrez, a resident of Corozal Town, has succumbed to gunshot injuries after being mortally wounded on November first. As we reported back then, Jandrez was inside her home on Mahogany Street at around eight-thirty that Wednesday […]
The Customs and Excise Department has to continuously grapple with contrabandistas, especially in the north. The latest culprit has been identified as one Edwin Patt, the brother of Labour Minister Hugo Patt. Villagers from Patchakan, where the brothers live, reportedly fought with police and Customs officers to hold on to the contraband goods and briefly […]
Is the Belize Police Department attempting to keep under wraps details of an alleged incident in Independence where two women are said to have been raped while in detention last weekend? Information on what purportedly transpired while the pair was in police custody is hard to come by, despite previous requests to the Professional Standards […]
The search for eighty-three-year-old Hubert Richards, a retiree of Sand Hill Village, continues after five days of being lost. Anna Richards reported to police that she hasn’t seen her father since he left her residence on Queen Helmet Avenue in Coral Grove last Thursday. Despite surveillance footage reportedly showing the elder man in the vicinity […]
A British woman was stabbed to death sometime this week in Ladyville and it wasn’t until her landlady made a check at her apartment that her advanced decomposing body was discovered. Michelle Anison was stabbed several times and her vehicle is now missing, according to Police. There are not many details on this latest killing, […]
Thirty-three-year-old security officer Glenford Brown was picked up by police on October fifteenth, following a shooting incident outside of the Ramada Belize City Princess Hotel and Casino. Brown reportedly discharged a sawed-off Mossberg shotgun in an attempt to disperse a crowd of patrons who were involved in an altercation while leaving from Club Elite. Instead […]
There is an alarming report coming out of Corozal Town tonight, where news of a foiled abduction has spread like wildfire. The victim of the thwarted kidnapping has been identified as Angela Villanueva, a part-time instructor at the Corozal Junior College. It is reported that shortly before eight o’clock on Wednesday night, Villanueva was accosted […]
An allegation of rape against several male officers attached to the Independence Police Station is being investigated by the Professional Standards Branch, after two women claimed that they were sexually assaulted while in lockup last weekend. Investigators have been slow to file charges against the accused officers, prompting concerns that the department is being lackadaisical […]
A pair of police constables has been placed on interdiction even before appearing before a tribunal earlier today. The unnamed officers are accused of taking nude pictures of male cadets attached to the Placencia branch of the Youth Cadet Corps. The act is abusive, to say the least, and the fate of both men has […]
Late this evening in Belmopan, police formally charged an Armenia couple for the murder of twenty-nine-year-old Carlos Humberto Navarijo Albeño. Jose Valladarez and his common-law-wife, Amelia Garrido, were processed for the murder. Valladarez is charged for murder while Gariddo is charged for abetment to commit murder. The duo, along with a third person, was being […]
It has been almost two weeks since the murders of German national Raimund Adalbert Kobler and Amit Moryani in San Pedro and Orange Walk Town, respectively. Despite launching separate investigations into the homicides, police in both jurisdictions are still coming up empty-handed. As far as the fatal road traffic accidents down south last Friday, investigators […]
Keyur Barot and Jitendra Kumar are former employees of businessman Jack Charles. The duo has been accused of stealing over sixty thousand dollars in proceeds from the wholesaler when they were sent to collect payments in Dangriga back in September. Kumar and Barot reportedly made off with the money, as well as the sports utility […]
A Guatemalan national, who resides in Armenia Village, remains in police custody tonight pending directives from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions if charges should be laid on him for the murder of his friend and fellow villager, Carlos Humberto Navarijo Albeño. Navarijo, who is also a Guatemalan, was shot to the chest […]
Police have arrested and charged three Caye Caulker residents for a drug offence. Around two-thirty on Tuesday afternoon, Police searched the home of fifty-seven-year-old Timothy Stapleton where they found sixty-five grams of weed on a table. Police say Stapleton was along with two other men, thirty-year-old Bernaldo Teul and twenty-five-year-old Raphael Erebua. All three were […]
A four-year-old boy on Monday afternoon stumbled into the body of a villager from Armenia, Cayo. The child thought the man was drunk, but as it turned out, Carlos Humberto Navarijo Albeño was dead. Surveillance camera captures him leaving a village shop on Friday morning; sometime after, it is believed he was shot and killed […]
Two police constables attached to the Placencia Police Substation are in big trouble and their fates lie in the hands of the Commissioner of Police tonight after multiple reports from minors accusing them of perverse actions. The Police Department has been strict when it comes to dealing with children, but over the weekend, two officers […]
There were no murders reported over the weekend, but this afternoon, the body of a man was discovered this evening sometime around four in Armenia village, just outside of Belmopan. Photos of the scene show a body of a shirtless Hispanic person wearing long pants. While we have received a report that it is a […]
There is a disturbing report coming out of Independence tonight. The troubling incident reportedly involves at least two cops attached to the Independence Police Station. Two females were allegedly raped inside the station sometime over the weekend. Sources say that the women were taken into the station where a female police officer allegedly orchestrated the […]
There has been a welcome reprieve in murder reports for the past week; in fact, no murders were reported over the past weekend for the first time in some time. But there were two shooting incidents to report, the first in the Cayo District. At today’s press briefing in Belize City we got comment from […]
In Belize City, a man was shot over the weekend. Shortly after midday on Saturday, Clinton Dale Abraham was riding his bike on Magazine Road when he was targeted. Luckily, he sustained a shot to the knee. Police have since arrested and charged twenty-six-year-old Eugene Mark Anthony Frazer with use of deadly means of harm […]
The Professional Standards Branch continues to investigate multiple reports of police misconduct, including two cases of extortion. Sergeant Lenancio Bol and Constable Daniel Requeña of Belize City were arraigned in September for extorting a businesswoman out to help her friends while two other officers, Samuel Elijio and Allen Castillo are charged in a case in […]
