A pair of brothers is awaiting arraignment in San Pedro after being charged for one of two recent homicides on the island. Jose Armando Marroquin and Sarbelo Marroquin have been charged for the brazen murder of Scott Charles on the night of August sixteenth. Twenty-four-year-old Charles was inside his house in the Bay Side area […]
There are two murders to report tonight and in both cases, the identity of the victims has still not been established. Just before two p.m. today, police were called out to an area between miles three and four on the George Price Highway. Some three hundred feet off the pavement in some bushes, they discovered […]
Belize City police are investigating what appears to be a murder at sea. Shortly after one o’clock this afternoon, officers were summoned to an area on Princess Margaret Drive near St. Anthony’s Trading Company where a report was made that an unidentified person was badly beaten and tossed into the murky waters a short distance […]
An accused killer is tonight on the run from the law after escaping from police custody early this morning. Twenty-four-year-old Jevon Belizaire was arrested and charged on Tuesday for the murder of his next door neighbor on Neal’s Pen Road on Sunday night. He was being held at the Raccoon Street Police Station prior to […]
There have been quite a few murders in San Pedro over the past week, including several shootings. Last Wednesday night, Scott Charles was shot multiple times inside his home in the Bay Side area of San Pedro Town, as he responded to a knock at the front door to his house. He died the following […]
A post mortem on the body of thirty-year-old Dwayne Almendarez was conducted this afternoon in Belize City and certified that the Yo Creek resident died as a result of complications related to gunshot injuries. Almendarez was mortally wounded during a shooting incident in the Orange Walk District last week which involved a customs officer on […]
There was a shooting on Monday night in Belize City in which an eighteen-year-old man was shot once to the right thigh. But that is all we can report tonight because, according to police, the victim is not cooperating with investigators.
Traffic Officer Mario Vernon is tonight spending his first night on remanded at the Central Prison in Hattieville after his twenty-one-year-old neighbor accused him of pulling a gun at him and pointing it in his face, following a misunderstanding over missing money. The incident reportedly occurred on Tapir Street in Belize City, last Friday. This […]
Another violent weekend across the country has ended with three murders being reported. Two men were shot and killed in Belize City and San Pedro on Sunday, while another man was hacked to death down south. The most recent of those killings happened on Neal’s Pen Road shortly after nine p.m., when gunshots rang out […]
On Sunday afternoon, in the heart of San Pedro Town, gunfire erupted inside a bar, just a stone’s throw from the Central Park. Thirty-four-year-old Armando Lopez, who was originally from Corozal, was the target of at least one gunman who pounced on him as he had a beer at the bar. News Five’s Duane Moody […]
Four days prior to Lopez’s murder, his friend Scott Charles was targeted inside his home in the Bayside neighborhood. Charles heard a knock and when he opened the front door, a barrage of bullets would be unleashed on him. The twenty-four-year-old was airlifted to the K.H.M.H., but died just after one on Thursday afternoon. But […]
The gun violence on the island began one week ago in the San Pedrito area of town. On August twelfth, Lloyd Tyndall was shot multiple times to the abdomen and left leg and remains in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. During that attack at the Easy Does It A and A […]
Over two hundred rounds of ammunition and six firearms were taken off the streets during operations conducted across the country. A significant amount of those came from San Pedro, for which eighteen-year-old Aureliano Pascual and a seventeen-year-old female have been charged for kept unlicensed and prohibited firearm and ammunition without a gun license. ACP […]
There was also a murder in Santa Cruz Village over the weekend. On Sunday morning, shortly before ten o’clock, Independence police were called out to the roadside community where they observed the lifeless body of a Hispanic man. He was later identified as Juan Jose Ortega. The Salvadoran laborer was seen with several chop wounds, […]
A countrywide law enforcement operation which began at the stroke of twelve last Wednesday morning has resulted in a number of seizures, including contraband alcohol, illegally harvested seafood, firearms and ammunition, as well as illegal immigrants. POSE, short for Police Operations Simultaneous Everywhere, concluded over the weekend, but not before a significant haul on the […]
A Salvadoran national is under police guard at the Western Regional Hospital where he is receiving medical attention for a gunshot wound he sustained on Saturday. Twenty-four-year-old Juan Jeremias was shot by officers attached to the Mobile Interdiction Team after being chased into a citrus orchard off the Hummingbird Highway. According to police, Jeremias and […]
The distribution center of Bowen and Bowen located at Slaughterhouse Road in Belize City was robbed on Thursday night. The brazen robbery occurred before eight o’clock and involved four masked men. Of the four, two were armed; they held up personnel and proceeded to carry out the heist which netted them as much as twenty-five […]
The family of thirty-year-old Dwayne Almendarez is demanding answers from the Belize Police Department. The Yo Creek resident remains in an induced coma at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after being shot multiple times during an altercation involving a team of B.D.F. soldiers and customs personnel in the Orange Walk District. The incident reportedly stemmed […]
The latest murder victim is a tour guide and fisherman from San Pedro killed within days of a shooting that left an adult and two minors injured. On Wednesday night, a group of men went to the Elliott sub division house of Scott Charles where he was with his wife and baby, knocked at his […]
Thirty-year-old Dwayne Almendarez, an Orange Walk resident of the Union Town area tonight remains in a critical but stable condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot by a Customs Officer. While the Customs Department denied giving an interview or any information on the incident, today, the Police Department provided further details […]
In an update to a burglary at Caribbean Tires in Spanish Lookout, Cayo, over the weekend, police have arrested a company employee. He is twenty-two-year-old Omar Gomez, a truck driver of Billy White village. Today, he was taken to San Ignacio Magistrate’s Court and charged with Burglary, Handling Stolen Goods and Damage to Property. Gomez […]
Corozal police made a significant bust in a joint operation in the village of Chan Chen earlier today. In an open lot, they found nineteen point five pounds of compress cannabis in several parcels. No one was in the area so the drugs are in the custody of police.
At news time this evening, police confirmed that Jafari Castro and Gilbert Franklin are in police custody pending charges. The duo was detained earlier today in the south side of Belize City. Assistant Commissioner of Police responsible for Operations, Edward Broaster, told us earlier that the third suspect in the beating of basket ball player […]
As police were announcing the arrest of twenty-one-year-old Christian Espat on Monday evening for charges of attempted murder, deadly means of harm and dangerous harm for a shooting incident on Ambergris Caye over the weekend, he was being brought to Belize City and arraigned even before getting to speak with attorney Richard “Dickie” Bradley. Espat […]
One week ago, Police Constable Franklin Ramirez was busted by fellow officers in the Mobile Interdiction Team along with three civilians. He was driving a vehicle carrying a gun hidden secretly under the dashboard coming across from Guatemala. He was charged for firearm and ammunition offenses and is out on bail but his troubles are […]
