Police say they are almost sure that they have identified Jane Doe. They have gotten contact information for a family that believes the dead woman found in the Belize River may be their relative. Based on the tattoos and description provided by police, one family says it is pretty certain that the slain woman is […]
Today, Belmopan police delivered their version of a Christmas gift to residents of the villages of Armenia and Valley of Peace in the Cayo District. The villages are respectively the northern and southernmost points covered by Police in that formation and according to Commander, Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett, this eliminates the lengthy response time by […]
How do you solve a problem like gang violence? The Belize Police Department has tried truces, interventions, aggressive patrolling and arrests; the courts, and societal condemnation, but little has managed to stick. With the majority of the one thousand plus murders in Belize in the last decade happening on Southside, time is ticking to fix […]
For the last few days on this newscast, we have been featuring safety tips for Belizeans to avoid incidents and mishaps over the Christmas season. On Thursday, police commander for Belmopan, Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett, issued a comprehensive list of his own, especially as it relates to movements on and around the holidays. According to […]
Two weeks ago, a month shy of her second birthday, twenty-three-month-old Janeeka Campbell suffered a most brutal and senseless death in St. Matthews’s village, in the Cayo District. According to statements to police from her parents, Baby Janeeka fell down a flight of stairs, after getting out of bed where her father was sleeping and […]
Police in the Belmopan area have been kept busy recently with several murder cases. Teakettle’s Abner Vasquez was beaten to death in the village on December second. On December fifteenth, the body of Manuel Medrano was found at his farm outside Buena Vista village, off the Spanish Lookout Road. Only a day later, mason Freddy […]
He walked free from court on Monday afternoon for the brutal attack on an elderly man, but tonight police are looking for thirty-six-year-old Chester Noralez. He is to be re-arrested and charged for the aggravated burglary and near-fatal assault of ninety-three-year-old Patrick Grant. Grant was the victim of a home invasion at his residence on […]
The Price Barracks residence of Brigadier General David Jones was broken into a few weeks ago, while the B.D.F. commander was out of the country. The discovery that his home had been burglarized and ransacked was made upon his return on the weekend of December second. Stolen from the property was approximately thirty thousand dollars […]
And that technology seems to be much need in places like Sunset Park and Lake Gardens. These are two small communities within the Rural Eastern Division. And ACP Edward Broaster says that there have been a string of attempted burglaries in those areas. He gave us an update on how the Police, with the help […]
Crime continues to grip the city. A shooting overnight has left a fifty-three year old Belize City resident hospitalized. Griffith Moody was outside his home on Lakeview Street with a friend when three masked men, one wielding a firearm, held them up and demanded his belongings. Fearing for his life, Moody handed over a gold […]
Police are no closer to identifying the body of the woman retrieved from the Belize River last Wednesday. When it was fished out of the river, it was noted that the body had several cut wounds and post-mortem certified that she died as a result of the cuts to her head. Although Police announced that […]
After as many as forty years, a double murder case has been cracked. An American from California has been charged with two counts of maritime murder for the deaths of a British couple in their mid-twenties who had travelled to Belize. Seventy-five year old Silas Duane Boston is accused of luring Christopher Farmer and Peta […]
For most Belizeans Christmas is a time of spreading cheer but it’s also a time when criminals spread fear –robbing and burglarizing homes. Those criminal elements have been around the Ladyville area looking for places to target. We asked Regional Commander ACP Edward Broaster what residents in his jurisdiction should do help keep themselves and […]
A mother of nine was savagely murdered at her house in Santa Elena, Cayo. The gunman entered her home and unleashed a barrage of bullets that took her life. Paulina Urbelina Sanchez is sixty-nine- years old; she was killed in front of family members. A land dispute is said to be at the centre of […]
On Friday evening around five thirty a man was killed by his close friend. It happened in the San Martin community in Belmopan. The men got into an argument and one pulled out a knife and stabbed the other several times. While the exact nature of the conversation they were having is not known, what […]
There was an attempted murder in Buena Vista Village, Cayo that happened on Thursday evening after five. The village is also where a farmer, Armando Medrano, was murdered on the same day. A twenty-year-old woman, mother of two Consuelo Queme was shelling corn under home when her ex-spouse approached her and proceeded to chop her. […]
A couple who own a business on the Belize-Corozal Road in Orange Walk Town were attacked late on Sunday. A masked and armed pair stormed into their residence, intent on committing burglary, but they were unable to get away with anything and barely got away from police. However, they did cause damage to both household […]
A B.E.L. Security Guard was robbed at gun point of his firearm and even though he put up a fight he was over powered by a pair of gun men. One of the two alleged robbers has been identified as a minor who was arraigned in the Belize City Family Court this afternoon on a […]
Two city men were quickly apprehended in a drug bust over the weekend after one got nervous and told the cops where the drug was hidden. The duo of Dean Cain and Alston Adolphus was arraigned in the Magistrate’s Court on a charge of drug trafficking of nine pounds of cannabis earlier today. Both Cain […]
The decomposing body of a sixty-year- old man was discovered on Thursday at his farm a couple miles away from Buena Vista Village in the Cayo District. When Manuel Medrano didn’t show up for work on Monday and Tuesday his boss became concerned and alerted the family. A search of his property lead to the […]
Four employees of the Vital Statistics Unit have been sent home on suspension by the Public Services Commission, for two months. Their offense…? Major misconduct in allegedly causing the preparation and issuance of a fraudulent birth certificate to one William Alexander Mason, better known as Danny Mason, Rajesh Ouelette, Ted Ouellet and many other names. […]
News Five was informed this morning just after nine-thirty of a burglary in progress at a home in the Western Pines area of Western Paradise Village, Belize District. We arrived on the scene to find Police speaking with the owners of the home and five young men being held in their pick-up truck. According to […]
According to San Pedro Police, sixty-two-year-old Maria Nagy Sandorne Dobria, also known as Maricska, was handed over to Hungarian police by Special Branch Division of the Belize Police Department on December seventh, after months of investigation in conjunction with their Hungarian counterparts and Interpol. She now faces millions of dollars in fines in connection with […]
Golf carts are the hot items for thieves on San Pedro and police say that drivers need to ensure that they lock up their carts. When we spoke with Assistant Superintendent of Police Henry Jemmoth earlier this week we asked him to share some safety tips for islanders and visitors for this holiday. He says […]
The body of a woman fished out of the Belize River on Wednesday, remains unidentified tonight. No one has come forward to verify her identity despite very distinct features on the body. It is believed, however, that in life she was homeless who wandered the streets of the City. The body had cut wounds to […]
