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After a year of investigation by Italian police, the courts of Italy have pronounced justice on several persons accused of defrauding investors of more than twenty million U.S. dollars in a faked hotel resort scheme. Chief Developer of the Puerto Azul “eight-star” hotel project, Domenico Giannini; his partner, Fabio La Rosa; and two others have […]
An internal investigation conducted by the Professional Standards Branch into an officer-involved fatality in Chunox Village is ongoing. On Friday evening, forty-four-year-old Richard Garcia was shot and killed when a team of four policemen visited a residence in that rural community in the Corozal District to carry out an eviction of the handyman. According to […]
The deadly shooting took place on the evening of June ninth, at around five p.m.; however, the lifeless body of Richard Garcia was not removed from the scene until almost eighteen hours later. The corpse remained in the open throughout the night with several officers standing guard until the scene was able to be processed […]
Police in Orange Walk are just back from the scene of a murder at a shop in August Pine Ridge village that happened around midday this afternoon. The victim has been identified as ninety-year-old Pedro Pol. Police have confirmed that robbers hit Pol’s shop and the incident escalated into murder. We’ll have more on this […]
Written on June 15, 2017 | Posted in
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The Toledo Teachers Credit Union in Bella Vista Village was burglarized last Thursday and a significant sum of money, over one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars, was stolen from the lending institution. Those funds were secured inside a vault within the building; however, thieves were crafty in their pursuit of the ill-gotten jackpot. In the […]
Written on June 15, 2017 | Posted in
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In the coming weeks, Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams will be leaving his Commander duties on the south side of Belize City to take up a new position in the Capital. During the course of his tenure, he would invite the media out to on his weekly meet and greet on the south side. […]
The Corozal Police Department remains under pressure tonight. Four officers were assigned by Corozal Police in an operation to evict forty-four year old Richard Garcia last Friday in Chunox Village. The task was accomplished with prejudice – Garcia was shot dead after, the officers alleged, he menaced them with a machete. The Professional Standards Branch […]
Written on June 13, 2017 | Posted in
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One suspect is being questioned following the brazen robbery of the Toledo Teachers Credit Union late last week. The robbers concocted an elaborate plan to break into the building, pry open the vault containing over a hundred thousand dollars in cash, and then flee with the money undetected. But even as the robbers carried out […]
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Omar Barahona Junior was shot seven times and killed as he attended a going away party in his honor on Saturday night. The twenty-one-year-old from Cotton Tree was socializing with a cousin and twenty-year-old Devon Brooks when a man fired several shots at the trio; seven of those caught Barahona Junior, one hit Brooks in […]
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In the immediate aftermath of Sergio Chuc’s disqualification to contest the presidency, the vehicle of Michael Blease, the secretary general of the federation, was set on fire. Both Chuc and Vicente came out against the criminal act, saying whoever is responsible should be dealt with by the law. Sergio Chuc, Football Stakeholder “That was […]
An internal and a criminal investigation is underway following the shooting death of Richard Garcia, a handyman in Chunox, Corozal, by police who went to the Garcia’s house to carry out an eviction request by the landlord. The officers claim that on Friday afternoon Garcia charged at them with a machete and fearing for their […]
Written on June 12, 2017 | Posted in
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Corozal cops are in hot water after Garcia’s death, but they say it’s not that simple. Today, Senior Superintendent Dennis Arnold said police had previously responded to several incidents involving Garcia, and this time officers were told to go prepared because the Chunox handyman was considered “armed and dangerous.” While the incident is being investigated, […]
Written on June 12, 2017 | Posted in
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Before we go to break…in respect of the shooting death of Richard Garcia in Chunox, Senior Superintendent Arnold also told us today that Garcia had chances to leave the property peacefully, but instead attempted to injure cops with a machete. In the end the tenant would be left dead and the community would lash out […]
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Just days before his departure from his home village of Cotton Tree, a twenty-one year old popular resident was shot and killed. Omar Barahona Junior was at a family get-together when he was murdered. Omar was along with his cousin and Devon Brooks when he was targeted by a fourth person. But even as seven […]
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A well-orchestrated robbery was executed with precision on Thursday at the Toledo Teachers Credit Union in the south. A pair of robbers made away with over a hundred thousand dollars in Belize and U.S. currency which would have been used for pensioners, as well as other payments on Friday. After they cut padlocks, shutters and […]
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Last week, in the immediate aftermath of the brutal double murder of Zeidy Orozco and Balthazar Lopez, questions were raised as to whether a serial killer may be at work in the Corozal District. Like Canadian-American couple Francesca Matus and Drew Thomas DeVoursney, Orozco and Lopez were last seen together; their vehicle was discovered separate […]
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On Saturday evening, police responded to a report of a robbery at Twins Supermarket on Saint Thomas Street in north side Belize City. Today, it was business as usual at the establishment, but business owner forty-two-year-old Quan Pan Chan says that just after four p.m. on Saturday while he was on the second floor of […]
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In Orange Walk, on Saturday afternoon around twelve-thirty, eighty-four year old Pablo Zenon Reyes was standing in front of his establishment, a tortilla factory located on Progress Street. Suddenly, without warning, one Nigel Guerra stabbed him once to his left forearm and twice to the abdomen with a kitchen knife. Reyes continues to fight for […]
Written on June 12, 2017 | Posted in
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There is another fatal shooting up north in the Corozal District. At this time, police are at the scene in the village of Chunox where a resident was shot this evening. Reports are that four officers responded to a report of violence at a house adjacent to E and R shop in the village. There […]
Written on June 9, 2017 | Posted in
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A security officer remains hospitalized tonight after an attempt on his life on Thursday night. John Hoare is employed by Technical Security System from Cayo but was on duty in Belize City when he was shot. Two men approached Hoare but instead of going after the equipment he was guarding, they went after his firearm […]
Written on June 9, 2017 | Posted in
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Hamy Reyes is tonight safe at the San Ignacio Police Station. The seven-year-old student of Ambergris Elementary School in San Pedro was abducted by her grandmother from the babysitter’s house in the San Mateo area on the island and taken to Guatemala over the weekend. According to the mother, Hade Chacon, Maria Quischan, who is […]
While the rate has slowed down of late, especially in Belize City, crime and especially murder remains an issue at the forefront of the national consciousness. Valiant efforts are being made by members of the gang element, especially on Southside, to reduce friction leading to deadly disputes and taking advantage of means of mediation and […]
Family and friends of Zeidy Orosco and Balthazar Lopez were emotional with grief today as the couple was laid to rest in Corozal Town. The outpouring of support for the family of the couple has been constant all week, but today the final farewell was marked with the pain of loss. A post mortem concluded […]
Written on June 8, 2017 | Posted in
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There was an armed robbery in Belize City on Tuesday night, involving an employee of Gas Tomza Ltd. Twenty-four-year-old Irvin Carranza, a Salvadoran national, was at work a fuel depot near mile one and a half on the George Price Highway when a man armed with a knife entered the office. That individual approached the […]
Written on June 8, 2017 | Posted in
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Five murders in just over a month in Corozal have thrown the municipality in the grips of a murder spree. Today, the bodies of a missing couple were found at around two o’clock. Families of Zeidy Orozco and Balthazar Lopez had decided to discontinue their searches in the coming days, when the grim discovery was […]
Written on June 7, 2017 | Posted in
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