Another Belizean lost his life, but across the western border. The body of Wilber Gabriel Sanchez from the Belize side of Arenal was found by minors on Sunday at a farm in the area of Melchor de Mencos. Sanchez had wounds to his head believed to have been caused with the use of a firearm. […]
So far, we’ve reported on four Belizeans who were murdered over the weekend. But there was other violence. On Sunday night, there were two separate shootings on the south side. A fourteen year old female student was shot in her legs. Police believes the adult who was with the minor at the time of the […]
There were two shootings on Sunday in the Rural Eastern Division area. The first occurred in Ladyville where a woman was shot at. While police discovered a bullet hole on the door of the wooden house, fortunately no one was injured. The second incident took place about an hour later on the Old Northern Road […]
Later that night in the city, a minor was grazed on the cheek by a bullet. She was standing in front of her home on Raccoon Street Extension when shots were fired. She was treated and released. The CIB say that they are questioning several persons and at least one has been detained. Sgt. […]
Between Friday evening and Sunday night, the city saw three people killed and three injured in separate shootings – the Daly Street double murder and the Mahogany Street midnight homicide and then the south side shootings. Today we asked Police what was being done from an operations perspective to curb the spike in shootings and […]
A minor is dead following a shooting incident on Daly Street this evening. The minor was accompanied by an adult who remains hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Sometime around four-thirty p.m. they came under gunfire as they were making their way on a bicycle towards Craig Street. It is reported that as many […]
There is a second murder to report tonight in connection with an act of arson at a house on Aloe Vera Street, Belize City on October fourth. Five weeks after the house was set on fire, Ian Sambula succumbed on Wednesday night at the Shriner’s Hospital in the United States. The four-year-old child sustained severe […]
Last Monday, on October thirty-first, at around ten-thirty, police discovered a man on the pavement on Central American Boulevard, Belize City with head injuries. According to police, he was suffering from seizures and was taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital for medical treatment. But it was not until four days later that the aunt […]
Eighteen-year-old Kentroy McKoy is lucky to have escaped grave injuries during an armed assault on Wednesday night in Belize City. The shooting occurred in the vicinity of Pinks Alley where McKoy was reportedly socializing with several others. A lone gunman emerged on the scene and opened fire, hitting McKoy in the right foot. According to […]
Orange Walk Police are wrapping up their investigations and may make an arrest of one of their own in a case of police brutality reported in Guinea Grass, Orange Walk. The village’s lone police officer is accused of laying a beating on twenty year old construction worker Hugo Noh following a traffic stop in front […]
After clearing up an administrative tiff between the Commissioner of Police and Assistant Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams, the top cop is back on the job as regional commander for the Eastern Division South. Williams was placed on leave briefly on Monday, but by Tuesday afternoon, after a meeting with the top brass of the […]
The family of a construction worker from Guinea Grass, Orange Walk District, twenty-year old Hugo Noh, claims he was badly beaten by the village police officer in the presence of several witnesses. The officer was said to be drinking with friends in front of Zeng Zeng Store in the village. As he drove by, Noh, […]
Police have confirmed a major cocaine bust that occurred over the weekend. The report is that this past Saturday the Anti-Narcotics Unit were conducting an Interdiction Exercise near the Philip Goldson Highway junction with the Burrell Boom Road when they made the bust. Alert officers spotted a heavily tinted SUV turning unto the Boom Road […]
Police have arrested and charged fifty-five year old Karim Adle of San Ignacio Town for common assault on popular youth activist and journalist Micah Goodin. The incident took place around twelve-fifty-five on Saturday afternoon, November fifth. The People’s United Party was holding elections for the party’s youth arm, the Belize Youth Movement executive at the […]
A Cayo resident is hospitalized tonight at the Western Regional recovering from a shooting. Patrick Gordon was travelling in a small car when he was shot at in Santa Elena Town. One of the bullets hit him on the chest and police have recovered four expended shells from the area where the shooting took place. […]
Last Friday, we reported that a government vehicle assigned to the Ministry of Health was stolen from an employee’s yard in the Kontiki area of San Ignacio. Well, there was a second Toyota Hilux pickup truck stolen from the west, but from Belmopan. Lizburn Anderson, who was charged for allegedly delivering a payment to a […]
After languishing in prison for six years, Gary Sewell is finally a free man. He was apprehended back in February, 2010 but had been on the run since 2007 wanted by the US government for his purported role in the trafficking of drugs into the U.S. Sewell was busted in an anti-drug operation at a […]
But government is settling out of court on another matter. In mid-April of last year, Orange Walk resident Andres Rodriguez was brutally assaulted by three police officers, under suspicion that he was involved in an incident that occurred sometime earlier. The trio was said to be following up on a report that Rodriguez had been […]
A government owned vehicle was stolen in the early hours of this morning in San Ignacio Town. The vehicle attached/assigned to the Ministry of Health was parked in an employee’s yard when it was taken. San Ignacio Police don’t have a suspect and are still looking for the pick-up truck but it is known that […]
Twenty-five year old father of one, Jeon Peebles, died in mysterious circumstances nearly a week ago. Peebles was picked up by the cops on Sunday night near a supermarket on Mahogany Street. Twelve hours later, his body was found off the Boom/Hattieville Road with multiple gunshots to the head. On Wednesday, police announced that one […]
In December of 2015, a woman from Palmar Orange Walk and another from Ranchito, Corozal District were accused by a Belize City businesswoman of shoplifting underwear from her store. This morning, Donaela Bernaldita Smith and Johny Netty Lopez, had a change of heart when they appeared in court. They changed their not-guilty plea to guilty […]
The issue of sexual harassment within the workplace isn’t new to the Belize Police Department. With several hundred officers within its ranks, cases of unsolicited advances among officers have been reported on various occasions. Tonight, there are allegations of unwanted sex-related behavior against a pair of men attached to the Gang Suppression Unit. The GSU […]
A politically charged fracas that ensued outside of a popular Belize City nightclub on Sunday morning between two political opponents has been settled. Footage of the disturbance outside of Sit and Sip went viral and Eastern Division North police were preparing to levy charges on Douglas Grant Junior for brandishing his licensed firearm in the […]
The complaint by Ferguson was withdrawn on Tuesday evening after he agreed with Grant not to proceed with the criminal matter. This afternoon, ACP Chester Williams explained the possible scenarios. ACP Chester Williams, Regional Commander, Eastern Division South “Well, the truth is that a person who is the victim of a crimedo have the […]
A cop is tonight in custody of his colleagues in connection with the execution style murder of Belize City resident Jeon Peebles. The twenty-five year old father of one was picked up by the cops on Sunday night near a supermarket Mahogany Street. Twelve hours later, his body was found off the Boom/Hattieville Road with […]
