As we said, we caught up with Commander of the Eastern Division South Chester Williams and his officers on their weekly meet and greet in Precinct One in the downtown area. The officers walked Albert, Orange, Church, Regent and surrounding streets to talk primarily with business owners and some residents about the safety and security […]
In recent weeks, there has been a spate of shootings and murders across the city. It is believed that these have resulted from turf wars on the south side, namely the Antelope Street, South and North Creek Areas. These turf wars are because well-known criminal elements want to control specific areas to sell their drugs. […]
Belize City police say they are armed with sufficient evidence to charge gun-toting Douglas Grant Junior with a firearm offense. But, will a warrant be issued for the U.D.P. henchman’s arrest? A criminal investigation into an incident which occurred on Sunday morning, a short distance away from the Sit and Sip Nightclub, reveals that Grant […]
The department disputes the presence of a mobile patrol in front of the Sit and Sit Nightclub, but says that police officers arrived on the scene moments later. But Grant was never taken into custody. Instead, Ferguson was detained and taken to the Queen Street Precinct and held for a few hours. According to ACP […]
A young mother in the village of Seine Bight, Stann Creek District, suffered a sudden loss over the weekend, after she found her fifteen-month old daughter motionless in her bed on Sunday morning. She had fed her child and put her to sleep on Saturday night. Police are investigating the incident as a sudden death, […]
Around twenty thousand dollars of equipment were stolen from the Eagles Nest International Church on Sunday night. Keyboards, amplifiers and digital and other equipment were looted after a truck was seen packing up the church’s property. Pastor Howell Longsworth told us that no windows or doors were broken and so they are still wondering how […]
There have been four murders in the prime tourism island of San Pedro in the month of October; three occurred last week alone. It is cause for concern to law enforcement since citizen’s security is clearly at stake and tourism can be impacted negatively. On Monday, Assistant Superintendent Henry Jemmoth said that police are fighting […]
A training center was launched today as a welcome addition to the police station on Queen Street in Belize City. The facility was previously abandoned, but has now been converted into a space to be used by the Eastern Division North to hone the skills of officers in areas other than law enforcement. News Five’s […]
The murder statistics went up by four between Friday night and this morning. Aside from a slew of other acts of violence, four persons were killed at different locations: three in the Belize District and one in the Orange Walk District. Early this morning, police were called to the scene where the body of a […]
In another murder in the Belize District, thirty-seven year old George Young was shot multiple times to his chest, back and leg on Saturday evening. The father of three was getting a haircut at Bucks Barbershop when his life was snuffed. The murderer entered the barber shop and opened fire on Young; the victim expired […]
On Friday night, San Pedro recorded its fourth murder for the month of October. Antonio Paguada, a forty-four year old father of two, was killed a short while after he visited his family. San Pedro police believe that the San Pedro resident’s murder was a revenge killing for well-known drug peddler Jason Gillett who was […]
So far this year, there are a hundred and twenty murders recorded by the police. In Orange Walk on Saturday night, a man acquitted of murder was found dead. Police have identified persons of interest, but no suspects thus far, in the fatal beating and stabbing of twenty-five year old Manuel Alejandro Toloza. Four years […]
There is more on the crime blotter. Orange Walk police had a very busy weekend in addition to the murder in Trial Farm. In Carmelita, the village immediately south of town, two women were shot following a confrontation on Saturday. They survived, and Police have arrested the attempted killer. Officer Commanding Orange Walk Formation, Superintendent […]
In further violence up north, a pair of co-workers got into a confrontation in Orange Walk’s Louisiana neighbourhood over the weekend. It resulted in one of them landing in hospital with a very serious injury. Orange Walk Formation’s commanding officer, Superintendent Selvyn Tillett, says police are still trying to figure what caused the attacker of […]
The Eastern Division Rural formation removed a firearm and drugs off the streets. Their latest find took place on Thursday night in a remote section of the Philip Goldson Highway. Officer Commanding Ladyville Police, Assistant Superintendent Juanito Cocom explains where the items were found. ASP Juanito Cocom, O.C., Ladyville Police “On Thursday, twenty-seventh October […]
A criminal and an internal investigation are ongoing at the Eastern Division South of the Police Department after officers shot a minor on Saturday. Around six p.m., police observed a fourteen year old in the area of Curassow Street; he had escaped from youth hostel and was being sought by police. The minor was pursued […]
The Belize Police Department’s quarterly crime statistics covering the six major crimes – murder, robbery, burglary, theft, rape and unlawful sexual intercourse or carnal knowledge – were publicly announced at this morning’s conference of senior officers of the Belize Police Department; we will have a report on that conference later on. As you might expect, […]
The Commissioner of Police offered something of a theory for why murders went up countrywide. However, in Belize City the pace has fallen off, if only a little. Minister of State Elodio Aragon also weighed in, stating that in general crime has been trending down in recent years and that eradicating crime entirely will never […]
Earlier this week, we brought you the statements of the new Minister of State for Home Affairs, Elodio Aragon Junior. He served as a police officer for seventeen years, bowing out as Deputy Commissioner in 2013 to pursue politics. He was duly elected in the Orange Walk East constituency and up until last week Tuesday, […]
Twenty-five-year-old Juan Carlos Martinez was killed, allegedly at the hands of Police, on the island of Ambergris Caye on Tuesday night. A fugitive from justice since December of 2015, Martinez was considered armed and dangerous, and police say he engaged in a shootout with them before succumbing. But there are other accounts which suggest that […]
William “Danny” Mason may be behind bars as he awaits the next phase of his trial procedure for murder and kidnapping charges, but he continues to be a thorn in the side of the Police Department, due to the many unprecedented connections he made with powerful figures, both in Government and in the Department. Nearly […]
Our news crew was back on the island of Ambergris Caye today, following another fatal shooting in the San Mateo area of San Pedro Town. Around six-thirty on Wednesday night, a well-known drug peddler was executed a short distance from where he lived. But, was thirty-year-old Jason Gillett murdered in a drug war on the […]
If you haven’t seen any Police meet and greets in your area in recent weeks, don’t worry the community policy programme hasn’t been cut. As a matter of fact, it fully resumed on Wednesday in the St. Martin’s area. ACP Chester Williams explained to the media that the cops who go around the neighborhood were […]
There is Breaking News coming out of San Pedro. Minutes ago, a man was murdered in the Boca Del Rio Area on Ambergris Caye. Reports reaching News Five are that several shots were fired and Police are currently processing the scene. The victim has since been identified as thirty-year old Jason Gillett. More details on […]
Belizean fugitive Juan Carlos Martinez has evaded police for almost a year, but tonight he is dead, following a shooting in the San Pedrito area of La Isla Bonita. Martinez was serving a ten-year sentence for firearm-related charges, but escaped from custody on the island on December fourteenth, 2015 when he was brought from the […]
