San Ignacio police continue to investigate the burglary of the Caribbean Tires depot in Spanish Lookout, Cayo District, which is believed to be an inside job. On Saturday some twenty thousand U.S. dollars in cash; five thousand in cheques and an undisclosed amount in Belizean currency were stolen but a majority of it was almost […]
Over the weekend San Ignacio police received six Guatemalan nationals – thirty-eight years old Agusto Perez Gonzalez of Dolores, Petén; twenty-six years old Wilfredo Antoniel Chavez of Barrio Nuevo; eighteen year old Dimas Espana of Las Brisas; and three minors all seventeen years of age. They were caught digging for gold deposits inside a pit […]
A motorcycle stolen from the Ministry of Education has been recovered by police from the possession of a fisherman. Today in court, Lerone Williams, a resident of Faber’s Road in Belize City, was arraigned for handling stolen goods. He appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser and pleaded not guilty to the charge. Williams […]
The Professional Standards Branch of the Belize Police Department is inundated with cases of alleged police misconduct and there were several updates coming out of Monday’s press conference with its head, Assistant Commissioner Chester Williams. Back in June, Chunox resident, Richard Allen Garcia, got into a stand-off with police. The officers dispatched from Corozal Town […]
In Punta Gorda, two cops have been accused of shaking down a school principal for money to hush up an alleged violation of insurance expiration. They agreed to accept money to avoid towing away her vehicle and revoking her drivers’ license. But they didn’t count on getting caught red-handed with the money by their own […]
Though not confirmed, there are reports of an altercation between Customs and a group of Belizeans in the Santa Cruz area of Orange Walk. This village is particularly known for contraband activities and has been difficult to police by the department. The report is that one person, identified as Dwayne Almendarez was shot to the […]
Belize City resident Francine Pitts gained public attention when her young daughter, Eyannie, was shot and killed as she slept at home. Pitts would go on to experience a long list of setbacks and misfortunes that instead of breaking her, only had the effect of strengthening her resolve. But this weekend, death knocked at her […]
After a week of much hesitancy and serious backpedaling, the Belize Police Department has finally confirmed the names of three men, including Jafari Castro, who are wanted for the vicious beat down of a university athlete. But police is still not able to determine Jafari’s whereabouts. According to Minister Edmond Castro, in an interview with […]
So with all the confusion surrounding the whodunit mystery, is the department attempting to protect Jafari Castro and his alleged accomplices? According to ACP Broaster, there hasn’t been any political interference during the course of their investigation, despite the abrupt transfer of Inspector Fitzroy Yearwood. Last Wednesday, it was announced that Yearwood had been relocated […]
This morning, Police Constable Ismael Monima was taken before the Corozal Magistrate’s Court for tampering with evidence. The junior officer is being accused of perverting the course of justice after he removed a urine specimen from the Traffic Office at the Corozal Police Station. According to a Corporal of Police, last Thursday morning around four-thirty, […]
On Friday, Monima was charged with Perverting the Course of Justice and was held in lockdown until today when he was arraigned. Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says that corruption within the department will not be tolerated. ACP Chester Williams, Commander, Professional Standards Branch “I will tell you from a police standpoint and […]
Superintendent Dinsdale Thompson is on personal leave from his desk at the Queen Street Precinct, amid an ongoing investigation being conducted by the Professional Standards Branch. A probe into the smuggling of an undisclosed quantity of pharmaceuticals is being done internally, after the senior officer was busted in Arenal on August fourth by customs officials. […]
Some twenty thousand U.S. dollars in cash, five thousand dollars in checks and an undisclosed amount of Belizean currency were stolen over the weekend from the Caribbean Tires office in Spanish Lookout, Cayo District. But the money has been recovered through community and police work. Tonight, an employee is detained for questioning. According to Superintendent […]
There’s more crime to report…a trio, including two minors, escaped grave injuries on Saturday night when a pair of gunmen opened fire on them at a woodwork shop in San Pedro. Nine-year-old Jaheem Martinez and twelve-year-old Armando Bernardino Hernandez, both primary school students, are lucky to have survived an armed assault during which Lloyd Tyndall […]
While the police department is reeling from a string of infractions conducted by its own, one officer is being commended tonight for apprehending an alleged rapist over the weekend. The incident happened near Maya Center Village in South Stann Creek where a woman was sexually assaulted after hitching a ride with a motorist at the […]
Friends for Conservation and Development have reported the detention of six Guatemalan gold panners over the weekend in the area of the Ceibo Chico creek in the southern Chiquibul National Park. They face charges of illegal entry, mineral extraction without a permit and defacing a protected area. The men have been identified as thirty-eight years […]
There were two separate shooting incidents in Belize City on Friday night. Teenager Alden Lara was on Levi Slusher Street in the Jane Usher Boulevard area when he was shot to the pelvic area. Lara was treated at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Meanwhile, forty-four-year-old Sydney Ellis was shot at on Curl Thompson Street by […]
It has been a less than stellar week for the Belize Police Department, as the men and women of law enforcement have been finding themselves on the wrong side of the legal system. Earlier today, a pair of officers was arraigned in the Punta Gorda Magistrate’s Court on a joint charge of extortion, after they […]
A daring robbery was reported at high noon in the Culture Capital, Dangriga, today. According to police, a single armed man walked into the Dangriga Sub-Treasury on Saint Vincent Street around twelve-thirty, having arrived on bicycle. The suspect used a sawed-off shotgun to hold up the cashier and a civilian who was doing business there. […]
There have been four murders in south side Belize City alone since the beginning of August, but unfortunately, no one has been charged for any of the crimes. The most recent homicide; that of twenty-three-year-old mechanic, Christian Velasquez, is the only of the four that has seen two persons taken into custody for questioning and […]
Belmopan police continue looking for twenty-two-year-old Angel Antonio Orellano, also known as Weche, in connection with the July thirty-first murder of twenty year-old Samuel Mendez, a Salvapan resident and security guard. Mendez was chopping grass at the yard of a relative when he was shot around seven-thirty a.m. He attempted to flee from his attacker, […]
Police were busy across the city on Thursday conducting searches within hotspots of the Old Capital. Now, it is a crime for anyone to be in possession of a bullet proof vest, but in a search through Munoz Alley, police discovered a Safari Land brand armor with serial number SLK-zero-two-five-three-seven. Over on New Road, a […]
There was the robbery of a Quality Poultry Products truck on Ysaguirre Boulevard, Hattieville. Around one p.m., thirty-six-year-old Otoniel Pech was along with Heraldo Chiac and Orlando Teul and when they arrived at Blessed Love Shop in Hattieville to make a delivery, they were held up at gunpoint by two men. One of the assailants […]
An attempt to create employment in the style of B.T.L. and, less successfully, Memorial Park, in Belmopan threatened to backfire except for Police’s quick intervention. Thieves struck at Independence Park on the central walkway in the capital on Thursday, targeting the solid mahogany doors on several of the booths. But the thieves were run down […]
In the wake of the disappearance of Teakettle resident Mark Mendez, who was found murdered in June, residents of the village got frustrated with the police’s response and set tires on fire on the George Price Highway, disrupting traffic for close to an hour. The department’s intent to investigate what happened provoked intervention from Cayo […]
