Police provided several updates in relation to recent open cases across the country. The cause of death was released for German attorney, fifty-two-year-old Raimund Adalbert Kobler, whose body was found a week ago Sunday in San Pedro with a massive wound to his head inside a partially complete building on Monday morning around seven o’clock. […]
A primary argument for those opposed to the recent decriminalization law is that Belize already has high rates of students smoking marijuana fairly regularly. They argue that decriminalization would increase that rate and make it more attractive. While the law does allow that no marijuana can be carried onto school properties, today Minister of Education […]
Shooting victim Leon Usher tells News Five that Ladyville Police are lying on him. He says they fabricated a report that he threatened, aggressed and attempted to take away a firearm from one of the officers who responded to a domestic dispute with his common-law-wife Tiffara Tillett at his home. Usher called News Five to […]
Police have since launched a criminal and intern investigation into the shooting incident. Usher says that the cop who shot him should be held responsible. He told us that his leg was shattered in six places because of the gunshot and now he is in the hospital with no help. On the Phone: Leon […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Llamont Wade is in the hospital in a critical condition after he was stabbed multiple times. According to police, sometime after four this morning, they were called out to the Northern Regional Hospital where they saw Wade with stab wounds to the chest, abdomen and back. Police say that around four this morning, Wade […]
A major sting operation in Honduras last week, resulted in the arrest of Denia Suyapa Ochoa, believed to be the ringleader in a human trafficking organization that extends to Belize. She is the Ministry of Health employee in San Pedro Sula, Honduras who is accused of smuggling as many as seventy young women into the […]
A pair of Asian men, one a Taiwanese/Belizean from Camalote, Cayo and the other a Chinese businessman, pleaded guilty to falsifying immigration documents when they appeared in the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court. The duo has been in detention since Monday after being busted while attempting to apply for a Social Security Card using a bogus Belizean […]
There are still no arrests to be made in a heist that saw thieves make off with ten thousand dollars in cash from a Western Union branch in Corozal Town on Monday morning. As we reported, twenty-eight-year-old Doris Montejo was held up at gunpoint and relieved of a substantial amount of cash at her place […]
Indian nationals Keyur Barot and Jitendra Kumar are accused of having stolen a sports utility vehicle, as well as sixty-two thousand dollars in cash from businessman Jack Charles back in September. The salesmen worked for the well-known wholesaler and were on a trip to Dangriga on September thirteenth, to collect monies on behalf of the […]
Who killed German national Raimund Adalbert Kobler in San Pedro on Sunday night? It’s a mystery that local police on the island are still trying to unravel. While an autopsy is scheduled for Friday, they are no closer to a motive for his murder. Kobler’s lifeless body was discovered with a massive wound to his […]
On Monday, police told the media that they strongly believe the murder of businessman Amit Moryani in Orange Walk Town may have been committed by thieves who have also been operating in the Corozal District. Tonight that gut feeling holds, except that they are unable to act on the hunch and proceed with an arrest […]
This morning, residents in the vicinity of Raccoon Street Extension discovered a body inside a drain. Initially, it was believed that the then unidentified male may have been the victim of foul play. Belize City police were immediately called to the scene and it was later learned that the individual was fifty-five-year-old Elvis Bandosingh. According […]
Leon Usher is the man that Ladyville Police shot and is now under guard at the K.H.M.H. Police say that they responded to a domestic dispute at Usher’s residence in Milpa Area in Ladyville and he got into a verbal exchange and made threats. The report says, “Usher then aggressed the police in a boisterous […]
Police say that a criminal and internal investigation has been launched into this shooting incident. Usher remains hospitalized and is in need of surgery. But before he does that, he needs four pints of blood. Tillett made it clear that even though they were involved in a domestic altercation, she was not pressing charges and […]
Chinese national Zheng Yuanran and a Taiwanese national acting as his translator remain in police custody tonight in Belmopan. Zheng entered Belize on Sunday, November fifth, but the pair was arrested by the following day, on Monday, at the Social Security Board office after Zheng tried to apply for a Social Security card using a […]
It is not surprising for residents in rural areas of the country to be found in possession of certain wildlife species. As a matter of fact, in some southern communities one would often come across an encaged parrot or a coati being kept as a pet. So when a resident of Caye Caulker was hauled […]
Thirty-six-year-old Leon Usher is in the hospital under police guard after cops shot him in the knee on Tuesday. Ladyville police were called out to Usher’s residence in the Milpa Area because of a domestic dispute between him and with his common-law-wife, Tiffara Tillett. Tillett told the cops that Usher was stopping her from leaving […]
The crime-ridden community of Port Loyola known as Jane Usher Boulevard has been designated as a hotspot by the Belize Police Department, following a recent spate of shootings in that neighborhood. Since launching Operation ACT a week and a half ago, there has been a round-the-clock presence of law enforcement in the area and incidences […]
The Immigration Department made a significant arrest today. Two Asian nationals are tonight in custody at the Belmopan police station where they are being investigated for immigration offenses. Chinese national Zheng Yuanran arrived in Belize on Sunday and reports are that by Monday, he went to the Social Security Board office in Belmopan to apply […]
On Monday night, we reported on the murder of eighteen-year-old Oscar Obando. The teen was shot to the chest and left for dead on a farm between Belize and Guatemala. There are more questions than answers about what Obando was doing in the area and who killed him. So far, police do not have a […]
A young woman remains in a critical condition inside the Intensive Care Unit of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a near fatal shooting in the Corozal District almost a week ago. Last Wednesday morning around eight-thirty, twenty-two-year-old Brenda Jandrez was shot to the abdomen while inside her house. Jandrez was at home along with […]
On Friday night, businessman Amit Moryani was brutally killed in Orange Walk Town, while attempting to defend his mother who was under attack by armed robbers. A month ago, Daniel Carillo was gunned down as he headed home. Aside from murders, there has been a growing number of crimes happening in that municipality. But the […]
There were four murders between Friday night and Monday morning in San Pedro, Orange Walk, Benque and in Belize City. The carnage started early on Friday night here in the Old Capital where a twenty-year-old delivery man was shot and killed. Dedron McKay was visiting with family when he was gunned down in the yard […]
Minutes later in Orange Walk, a businessman was murdered in front of his business on Friday night. Thirty-seven-year-old Amit Moryani was inside his store when he saw two men assaulting his mother, Babita. He ran out to assist her and that is when one of the assailants shot and killed him. The killers, nevertheless, escaped […]
Two of the four murders were simultaneously recorded around seven o’clock this morning by investigators in San Pedro Town and Benque Viejo del Carmen, hours before the scheduled police press conference in the city. On Ambergris Caye, the body of German national Raimund Adalbert Kolber was discovered with an injury to the head inside an […]
