San Ignacio Police tonight have another apparent murder on their hands. The incident that precipitated the death of thirty-eight-year-old Marlon Peters took place ten days ago; however, the investigation has taken on a rapid pace after Peters’ unfortunate passing over the weekend. Police are now focusing on the man with whom Peters had his last […]
There was a second murder recorded over the weekend, similar to that of Peters. Twenty-two-year-old Trevaun Chee was hit multiple times to the head and body allegedly with an aluminum bat in broad daylight on Friday afternoon in front of many witnesses on Mahogany Street Extension in Belize City. Two days later, on Sunday night, […]
A teenage minor of Santa Familia Village was sexually assaulted over the weekend by someone who broke into her home on Saturday morning. The thirteen-year-old-girl had just got home, only to discover that the front door was ajar. When she entered the residence, she was immediately grabbed from behind by an intruder who attempted to […]
A forty-two-year-old has been detained for her alleged involvement in the disturbing discarding of a newborn baby boy last Wednesday in East Canal in Belize City. While that person is not the suspected mother, she has been in detention for questioning in the matter. According to Inspector Wilfredo Ferrufino of the Crimes Investigation Branch, they […]
The Gang Suppression Unit was busy this past weekend as personnel from the agency descended on Police Street on Saturday afternoon. No arrests were made but the officers were able to recover a quantity of marijuana from the area, along with five live rounds of nine millimeter ammunition, as well as crude, homemade firearm. The […]
A second man has been charged with the armed robbery of businessman Robert Pickwoad at the Uno Gas Station on February seventh. He is thirty-three-year-old auto body works mechanic Arthur Humes of Curassow Street, Belize City. Humes joins Lloyd Leslie Junior of Bocotora Street, who was previously charged in March and is out on bail. […]
Twenty-three-year-old Patrick Petillo and twenty-eight-year-old Ronald Michael were jointly charged with one count of drug trafficking when they appeared in court today. Police report that on Saturday, July twenty-second, they made a bust of almost nine pounds of weed inside a vehicle that belong to Petillo, but was being driven at the time by Michael. […]
South Side Commander Senior Superintendent Marco Vidal was in the Mayflower/Ghost Town area today on a walking tour, meeting with residents and gang networks in that area. One of those prominent members he spoke with at length was Kendis Flowers. Vidal declined an interview about his visit, but Flowers says that he remains committed to […]
Before nine o’clock this morning, the lifeless body of a baby was found by a sanitation worker at East Canal in Belize City. The full-term baby boy, with his umbilical cord, was stuffed in a black plastic bag and dumped in the dirty water from where it was retrieved by the worker who says he […]
The Gang Suppression Unit has been under the leadership of Superintendent Andres Makin since the beginning of July when transfers within the Belize Police Department came into effect. While the GSU is being led by a new boss, his predecessor is reportedly under investigation by the Ministry of Home Affairs which oversees that arm of […]
There was another big drug bust on Wednesday up north in Corozal. Thirty-four-year-old Altamira, Corozal resident Albert Humes and nineteen-year-old Belize City resident Shanice Humes have been arrested and charged for drug trafficking after they were caught with approximately seven pounds weed. The duo was caught around three p.m. in the vicinity of San Pedro […]
A Florida national is headed to jail for using hidden Belize accounts to conspire to commit tax and bank fraud. Forty-eight-year-old Casey Padula of Port Charlotte, Florida, pleaded guilty in March and was sentenced this week to fifty-seven months imprisonment; three years of supervised release; a fine of one hundred thousand U.S. dollars and payment […]
In a press release issued today, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development says that scam artists are attempting to hustle money from the public under the pretense that homes have been approved for them in a housing project purportedly being executed by the Ministry in Belmopan. The matter was brought to the attention of […]
We’ll come back to the senate hearings later, but a Belize City resident wanted for the stabbing death of Phillip Samuels has surrendered himself to police and is being held in custody pending an arraignment for murder. Cecil Gill, the prime suspect in the vicious attack of the thirty-one-year-old, turned himself in earlier today. On […]
This afternoon, CIB personnel escorted two of their own to court to be arraigned for extortion. Corporal Marvin Salam, a police officer of Corozal, along with Corporal Anthony Blair of the Ladyville area, appeared before Magistrate Carlon Mendoza. The duo is stationed at the Racoon Street Police station in Belize City. Allegations are that on […]
GSU police have seized almost a pound and a half of powder cocaine from the streets of the Old Capital during an operation conducted this evening. At around four o’clock, a team of officers was called out to an area of Sittee Street where they conducted a search inside a boat. In the interior of […]
A Corozal along with a Belize City man is tonight out on bail after they were arraigned for drug trafficking. Both were busted on Tuesday with almost four and a half pounds of weed in the Port Loyola area of Belize City. Just before midday, a patrol on Louise Bevans Street, in the south side […]
This afternoon, Belize City police took to the streets to acquaint themselves with residents of the Port Loyola, Driftwood Bay and Palm Grove communities. The weekly meet and greet took place earlier today and News Five caught up with a team of officers led by Eastern Division South Commander Marco Vidal in the vicinity of […]
Early on Monday night, thirty-one-year-old Phillip Michael Samuels was stabbed and killed. Samuels was hanging out with a group of friends at an apartment on Boots Crescent, Belize City when he was stabbed once to the chest. Witnesses say that Samuels intervened in a fight in which a man hit a woman, and that decision […]
While police continue to look for a Belize City resident in connection with the recent murder of Phillip Samuels, Regional Commander for the Eastern Division South jurisdiction, Superintendent Marco Vidal says that they are also seeking suspects in the murder of Hammond Lemoth. Lemoth succumbed to multiple gunshot injuries last Thursday, almost two months after […]
The bail application for David and Anke Doehm, the American couple charged with cruelty to late thirteen-year-old daughter Faye Lin Cannon, will be heard at the Supreme Court on Friday. Attorney for David Doehm, Richard ‘Dickie’ Bradley, confirmed this afternoon to News Five that he and Anke’s attorney, Senior Counsel Ellis Arnold, have filed their […]
News Five has confirmed that the Senate Special Select Committee is taking a different tack for its hearing on Wednesday at the National Assembly in Belmopan. For the last two weeks, four Ministers of Government have been testifying about their activities in relation to the Immigration Department. Now for the first time, the Committee is […]
There’s a ten thousand dollar bounty on Vildo Westby’s head. He’s the man wanted for the murder of Felix Ayuso Junior that happened on San Pedro in February of this year. Twenty-eight-year-old Westby is considered armed and dangerous and is described as five feet seven inches in height, weighs about one hundred and fifty pounds […]
It may have flown quietly below the radar at the beginning of the month when officers within the Belize Police Department were being transferred to various positions, but the Gang Suppression Unit is now under the control of a new top cop. As of July first, the GSU welcomed Superintendent Andres Makin as its new […]
Belize City resident, Keith Middleton, the ex- boyfriend of a woman attacked with a screw driver, is spending his first night on lock down at the Belize Central Prison after he was denied bail this morning for two criminal offenses. Middleton appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann-Marie Smith for the offenses of aggravated assault with a […]
