New O.C. of Corozal Superintendent Sinquest Martinez comes to the job from National Crimes Investigation Branch and the Major Crimes Unit, where he was staff officer. He has thirty-one years of experience, seventeen of those as an investigator. Corozal has been reeling from two double murders of couples – American Drew Devoursney and Canadian Francesca […]
Last week, Chetumal Police rescued a Belizean teenager who was briefly ensnared by suspected human traffickers in the Botes area. It highlighted the severe problem of human trafficking, for which Belize was roundly censured by the U.S. Government in its recent Trafficking in Persons report. Today, the Mexican press and consular officer commended the Belizeans […]
Six months ago in January, we reported on the death of an eighteen-month-old child, Edwin Lorenzo Duarte. He drowned after falling into an uncovered well while playing behind his house in the Maya Mopan section of Belmopan. It happened again on Thursday afternoon on the other side of the community and this time the victim […]
A photograph of Anke Doehm has been making the rounds on social media. The photo is taken from afar, but it shows Anke lining up inside the Belize Bank. When we contacted Attorney Dickie Bradley about this photo, he offered that if the Doehms were in the bank, there would be nothing improper and illegal […]
Forensic examiner Orlando Vera was back in court today as he continues to seek bail ahead of an appeal of his June first conviction for abetment to pervert the course of justice. Supreme Court Justice Herbert Lord has been hearing the case and made several orders to expedite the hearing of the appeal, but it […]
The Gang Suppression Unit is under fire once again, this time for allegedly beating up the younger brother of well-known Police Inspector Fitzroy Yearwood. On Thursday night, G.S.U. personnel on mobile patrol in the vicinity of Tow Tow Grocery Store closed in on Keith Yearwood who was on his way to the shop along with […]
The entire ordeal was witnessed by Yearwood’s son who happened to also be in the area purchasing food at a nearby restaurant. Not only has the incident left him badly shaken, it has also left his father in a neck brace. This morning, Keith Yearwood visited a doctor who certified his injuries as harm. Of […]
Fifty-three-year old Edward Usher, a resident of Louisiana, Orange Walk was nabbed by police after he exited a bus at the entrance of Belize City earlier today. Acting on information, police lay-waited Usher as he got off a Tillett bus to get into a taxi and moved in on him. He was found to be […]
Eric Mazin, a twenty-four-year-old teacher, has been charged by police with unlawful sexual intercourse with one of his female students, aged sixteen. According to police the incident happened when the girl was fifteen. Mazin teaches at Mopan Technical High School in Benque Viejo del Carmen, Cayo District.
David and Anke Doehm were escorted to the Magistrate Court in Belize this afternoon for arraignment. The American couple has been under investigation since last week after their adopted daughter Faye Lin Cannon was found dead in their apartment. The thirteen-year-old died of compression to the chest, but there is additional information that the young […]
As we told you on Wednesday, David Doehm is not the adoptive father of the Faye Lin and her three siblings. In court today it was revealed that David Cannon, Anke’s ex-husband, adopted the children while they were together. Cannon traveled to Belize on various occasions to visit his daughters. Cannon also provided his ex-wife […]
Fifty-one days after he was shot on the head in the city, Hammond Lemoth succumbed this morning, just after eleven o’clock. Lemoth was inside a barber shop on Central American Boulevard on the south side of Belize City when a gunman ran into the shop and opened fire at him and a patron. The Ontario […]
San Pedro police are tonight questioning a Belize City man in connection with the shooting death of sixteen year old Julian Tun. We understand that he was picked up in Belize City when he appeared before the court for another matter earlier today. Tun was killed on Sea Grape Drive in San Pedro on Saturday […]
Tonight there is a disturbing report from the north about a Belizean teenager rescued from the clutches of human traffickers in Chetumal, Mexico. It comes on the heels of the U.S. 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report which once again places Belize in Tier Three and attacks Belize’s willingness to fight the problem. The story was […]
An elderly farmer has been robbed of an assortment of items worth more than forty thousand dollars. Eighty-one-year-old Douglas Own Fox resides in San Estevan, Orange Walk District but his papaya farm is located off the Northern Highway in the village of Carmelita. On Wednesday morning, Fox went to his farm only to find out […]
In Tuesday’s newscast we confirmed that despite statements by ComPol Allen Whyle, David Doehm was behind bars at the Central Prison while his wife Anke remained in the hands of the police at the Queen Street police station. The couple is under suspicion in the death of their thirteen-year-old daughter, Faye Lin Cannon which occurred […]
Earlier today, two men were busted at a police checkpoint at the Establo Roundabout at the northern entrance of Orange Walk Town. Thirty-one-year-old Jose Garcia was the driver of a Belize Package and Mail Service van bearing Belize City license plates which when searched was found to be carrying a total of eleven kilos of […]
The gang truce has had success in the city, so much so that murder statistics have gone down in the Old Capital as well as in the rest of the country since the beginning of the year. But while major crimes are down, there is an issue with convictions. On Tuesday, the police high command […]
Senior Superintendent Moody also spoke of the strategies he will implement to maintain law and order and keep criminal activity on the low. Sr. Supt. Ralph Moody, Regional Commander, Eastern Division North “I must say that there are some programs in place that I don’t want to touch. One is the discipline of the […]
The police command was also on its meet and greet initiative on the south side of the city. Today cops from the eastern division south joined their Deputy Regional Commander, Superintendent Daniel Arzu in the areas of Administration Drive, La Croix Boulevard Crown Street and surrounding areas. We caught up with the cops on Holy […]
It has been just over a week since Arzu and his commander Marco Vidal took over the Eastern Division South. Today, when we met Arzu on the south side, we asked they were being embraced by the community in the wake of the departure of Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams. Arzu says the work […]
There are new developments into the American couple, David and Anke Doehm, who was detained for questioning last week in the wake of the suspicious death of Faye Lin Cannon, their adopted daughter. This morning, the Doehms were whisked by boat to Belize City from San Pedro under police escort. According to the Commissioner of […]
Charges relating to the alleged murder of adopted daughter Faye Lin Cannon are yet to be levied. From what we have learnt, there is not enough evidence as to who murdered the young girl inside the couple’s apartment on the island. According to ComPol Whylie, the police department is awaiting instructions from the Director of […]
As the coverage of this very tragic death continues, a former neighbor of the Doehms provides details on the life of the couple in Hawaii before they moved to San Pedro. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting In the face of a dead sexually abused thirteen-year-old Asian American girl, there has been […]
The death of Faye Lin Cannon has sparked response from all corners. On Monday the Human Development issued a lengthy release on the allegations made against the department. Those allegations are that the alleged abuse of Faye Lin and her three sisters were reported but the social worker attached to San Pedro and Caye Caulker […]
