Fifteen thousand dollars for groping and kissing a teenage minor, that’s the bail amount that was set in the Supreme Court earlier today when thirty-two-year-old Freddy Espinosa appeared before Justice Denis Hanomansingh. Espinosa’s appearance follows an incident on July twenty-fourth in Belmopan where it is alleged that he sexually assaulted a fifteen-year-old girl. Represented in […]
Police are trying to puzzle out a strange incident reported on Tuesday afternoon involving three men from Orange Walk. There was a traffic accident reported in front of M-1 Sugar. Thirty-seven-year-old Tiburcio Fernandez and twenty-two-year-old Abdi Aban had been drinking and driver Fernandez lost control of the vehicle. But the story actually starts, according to […]
The robbery of a Guatemalan businessman went under the radar until it turned murder forty-eight hours later. The thirty-nine-year-old businessman who was robbed and shot early on Saturday morning, perished at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and tonight police are looking for a suspect. Josue Ambrocio Arizarieta was with another Guatemalan national, Walter Lopez, on […]
In the southern village of Bella Vista today, a young man was laid to rest after being fatally shot over the weekend. But the circumstances that led to the death of Wilfred Malcolm on Sunday at a shrimp farm are under question. Malcolm was shot by a security guard who claims there have been numerous […]
Back in 2015, villages surrounding Belmopan had a spiraling in crime committed by youths. After assessing the issue, the Belmopan Police decided to do a program to engage young people to offer them an alternative to crime. Youth Engaged in Agriculture was piloted last summer as an initiative where youths from Belmopan and surrounding communities […]
There are more questions than answers in the fatal shooting of a fisherman in South Stann Creek. Wilfred Malcolm was along with a friend when a single gunshot from a security guard at a shrimp farm caused his immediate death. The Malcolm family believes he was murdered when he got lost during a thunder storm […]
There is another fatal shooting that is under investigation. Last Thursday in San Ignacio, Jose Castellanos was at a restaurant when he was fatally shot by Nevis Betancourth. Tonight we speak with the owner of the restaurant, who says that an unsuspecting Castellanos retrieved a machete to defend himself from Betancourth. In the altercation, Betancourth’s […]
The murder of twenty-four-year-old Daniel Sosa in Orange Walk continues to rattle the northern community. Sosa was shot on Saturday morning inside a red Dodge Ram pickup belonging to forty-two-year-old Hilmar Alamilla, who was arrested two hours later at his home for the heinous crime. It is believed that Sosa sat across from Alamilla in […]
Police have released details of a man wanted for the murder of twenty-year-old Samuel Mendez, a resident of Salvapan, Belmopan. He is twenty-two-year-old Angel Antonio Orellano, also known as Weche, who is five feet eight inches in height with light brown complexion and brown eyes. Police also believe Orellano is armed and dangerous. Mendez was […]
Four men lost their lives in the past four days, although only two are counted as murder victims and police continue to investigate the two others. Twenty-four year old Daniel Sosa of San Antonio Road in Orange Walk Town was shot dead early Saturday morning. Tonight, forty-two-year old Hilmar Alamilla, the well-known political operative and […]
Hilmar Alamilla, also known as David, has retained Richard ‘Dickie’ Bradley as legal counsel. He appeared before Senior Magistrate Albert Hoare in the Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court and was remanded until his next hearing on September fifth. In this video courtesy CTV-3 News, Bradley says his client and the deceased did not argue at any […]
According to Bradley, Alamilla, on advice has not spoken to police, but Bradley seemed fairly confident that he could show reasonable doubt that he had nothing to do with the fatal shot fired at Sosa. Richard ‘Dickie’ Bradley, Attorney for Hilmar Alamilla “He was in a complete state of shock; he hurriedly drove home, […]
Early this morning, a resident of the Riviera Area in Belmopan was murdered as he chopped a yard. Twenty-year-old Samuel Mendez was shot several times to the body by a gun man. Mendez, a security guard, ran up the street but did not survive the shooting. One person is in detention but the motive for […]
Guatemalan businessman, Carlos Pop Xol, was stabbed to death back in April near the remote village of Jalacte in the south. Pop’s lifeless body was found by a relative not far from Tree Tops, a military outpost. The police investigation into that murder has led to the arrest of a naturalized Belizean; twenty-seven year old […]
Police continue to investigate a fatal shooting in the west that occurred last Thursday in Santa Elena. Jose Castellanos, also known as “El Chele” was at a restaurant when he was shot by Nevis Betancourth. There are conflicting reports on how the shooting occurred, but an eyewitness reports that Betancourth initially attacked Castellanos who pulled […]
A twenty-five-year-old man lost his life on Sunday morning when he was shot and killed by a security guard on a shrimp farm in southern Belize. The incident happened sometime around two a.m. when Wilfred Malcolm Junior and another unknown individual ventured unto the compound. The machete-wielding trespassers reportedly advanced toward the armed watchman who […]
Two Guatemalan nationals are in custody following their arrest over the weekend. Forty-year-old Thomas Gomez and thirty-seven-year-old Domingo Pana from Naranjon, Dolores Peten were detained on Saturday morning in the Ceibo Chico region of the Chiquibul National Park. A team of five park rangers from Friends of Conservation and Development spotted the Guatemalans sleeping under […]
According to Manzanero, the Ceibo Chico conservation post was installed three years ago and despite presence of joint B.D.F. and FCD patrols in the southernmost area of the Chiquibul, Guatemalan gold panners remain undeterred. Gold panning activities remain at an all time high and Manzanero says that they have since changed their approach to tackle […]
The Police Department has received six motorcycles to bolster its fight against crime, primarily in the Belize District. The generous donation came from Offshore Solutions at the request of the former Regional Commander for the Rural Eastern Division, Assistant Commissioner Edward Broaster, who was present at today’s event. Broaster says the motorbikes will get the […]
There was a fatal shooting overnight in Santa Elena Town that claimed the life of a Honduran construction worker. Thirty-seven-year-old Jose Leonardo Nunez Castellanos was found lying face down under a business establishment at the corner of Eden Drive and the George Price Highway. He had been shot several times to the body. According to […]
Over a million and a half Belize dollars in forensic equipment was handed over to the Ministry of Home Affairs today. The donation, gifted by the US Embassy, is to assist the National Forensic Science Services in its work to properly analyze evidence handed over by the Scenes of Crime Unit. As a part of […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Leroy Gladden is fortunate to have escaped grave injuries after coming under gunfire on Tuesday night. The stevedore, of a Black Orchid Street address, was standing in front of a residence a short distance away from where he lives when he and several friends he was socializing with were fired upon by two gunmen. […]
A fifty-year-old man was arraigned today in the Belize Magistrate’s Court after he was arrested and charged with six counts of sexual assault and three counts of unlawful sexual intercourse of his ten and eight-year-old stepdaughters. The disturbing incidents date back to December 2016, when the ten-year-old was first approached by her stepfather who made […]
There have been reports that some sixty thousand dollars were unaccounted for from the GSU’s budget. But today Junior Minister Elodio Aragon says that the funds are not missing from the GSU’s information gathering account. He says that what happened was just a routine check to account for the monies, but nothing was taken or […]
The family of Ashton Augustine in Dangriga says they want answers from the police because the seventeen-year-old boy was shot under what they consider an excessive use of force. His aunt says that he was with friends playing football on Sunday evening when on his way home, he stopped with his friends on Ecumenical Drive. […]
