While the occupants of that home escaped injury, another fire—a confirmed case of arson—took the life of eleven year old Aaron Gabourel in south side Belize City. Last week, you heard the tearful plea of Caroline Hamilton asking anyone with information to come forward and help solve the arson that took her young son’s life. […]
Five people are being questioned in connection with Monday’s shooting that has left Coast Guard Daniel Arzu Junior fighting for his life in the hospital. Police say they are almost sure they have picked up the man who pulled the trigger. But they are still waiting for written statements that would help them to nail […]
Police say that they are looking for Raymond Rivers because he has made some threatening Facebook posts. Today, ACP Chester Williams told the media that he needs to have a talk with the firebrand activist because his online actions are sending the wrong message. ACP Williams noted that this is not a call for an […]
Police have arrested well-known Afghanistan Gang affiliate Roy Davis for the possession of an unlicensed firearm. On Tuesday night, police were on patrol when they encountered Davis and conducted a search that turned up a firearm with ammunition. Police say they believe the gun was used earlier that night. They will be examining the gun […]
A police constable attached to the San Pedro police formation has been arrested and charged for two counts of theft. This afternoon, PC Zani Savala appeared before the magistrate court for the offenses and is now on interdiction. According to information received, the charges came following an investigation into a report made by a taxi […]
On Monday night, police were called out to an area in San Pedro where the lifeless body of a woman was found face down on the pavement. An investigation was immediately launched and surveillance video captured the woman moments before she collapsed on a street in the DFC area. Today, police told the media that […]
A Coast Guard Officer and father of two is fighting for his life at the K.H.M.H. tonight. Daniel Arzu Junior was shot in the head yesterday in Belize City when he went to visit his child’s mother. While Police aren’t able to say what triggered the attack, they are questioning three men in connection with […]
The near fatal shooting of Petty Officer Daniel Arzu Junior has shocked the Belize National Coast Guard, as well as the Belize Police Department where his father is an experienced officer. The unexplained attempt on Arzu’s life has left him in an unconscious state at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. There at his bedside is […]
The fate of a coastguard sailor who brutally pummeled a pair of men in Ladyville on Monday morning also hangs in the balance, as Ladyville police are yet to record a statement from the victims, to determine whether or not the seaman acted in self-defense. As we reported, the twenty-four-year-old resident of Orange Walk was […]
A teenager was raped in Belize City on Monday night. The sixteen-year-old told police that a man entered her home and had sexual intercourse with her against her will. Police didn’t want to go into details because they feared it would lead to the identity of the teen. Here’s what ACP Chester Williams had to […]
Police say they stopped a burglary in progress in the early hours of this morning. Three burglars broke into Eighty-Eight Kitchen on Central American Boulevard but didn’t manage to make off with anything because police caught them in the act. One of the men, who had a little under a hundred dollars on him, was […]
Shortly before eleven o’clock this morning, officers attached to the San Pedro Police Station, including Special Branch, CIB and the Quick Response Team intercepted a knapsack containing two parcels of suspected powder cocaine. The cargo of drugs with a suspected street value of seventy thousand dollars arrived on the island onboard a Thunderbolt vessel which […]
On Monday, a Belmopan-area businessman told local media that he was extorted, allegedly by members of the Police Mobile Interdiction Team, who stopped him around Mile twenty-five on the George Price Highway. The businessman was returning from Chetumal with his wife and a search of his vehicle found one undeclared box of perfumes for a […]
This morning, the Ministry of Home Affairs formally introduced the Belize Crime Observatory, an information management system which aims to strengthen analysis of crime and violence data in order to improve public security in the region. Chief Executive Officer in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Retired Colonel George Lovell speaks on the concept of the […]
Police in Rural Eastern Division have a thorny case of alleged attempted rape to investigate tonight. The case involves a Coast Guard officer, a manager for a major import and distribution outlet and a secondary school teacher, the latter two of whom lived at the same address in Ladyville. They came one after the other, […]
In Hattieville over the weekend, Rural Eastern Division police made a major seizure of drugs and a firearm. Two persons, including a minor, were arrested and charged and police have reason to believe the adult was a courier for an operation in the West. We get more from ASP Juanito Cocom of Ladyville Police. […]
Thirty-two-year old Sarita Ash, an unemployed single mother of three children, now has a conviction on her record for theft. But the circumstances are somewhat unusual. According to security guard forty-eight-year-old Frederick Trapp, he had his wallet stolen on Thursday, October twentieth, while at the Uno Gas Station on Youth for the Future Drive in […]
Elwin Vanegas managed to successfully avoid capture by evading authorities for eleven years, after fleeing a prison bus in 2005. But we can report that he has been captured and returned to Belize from Guatemala, where he was said to be in hiding. Vanegas was picked up over the weekend and today, a warrant was […]
A love triangle among teenagers in the city turns sour and leaves a seventeen-year-old hospitalized in a critical condition at the K.H.M.H. tonight. Kenroy Daly was badly beaten and stabbed by another teen on Friday night near the corner of Central American Boulevard and Raccoon Street. Daly was rushed to the hospital. Police have since […]
Well-known Breastfeeding Counselor Penny Casasola was robbed on Friday night around seven-thirty, just outside her home on Rectory Lane. The elderly woman was attacked and robbed by a man on a bike. The robber managed to make off with Casasola’s purse and gold chain. She received bruises to her arm and scratches to her chest […]
In other news out of Eastern Division South; tonight, police say there are two fewer guns on the street. With assistance from the public, they were able to recover two guns with ammunition from the Saint Martin’s area on Sunday. In a separate incident, over nine hundred grams of weed was confiscated. While the weapons […]
While Eastern Division South officers were able to remove two guns from the city streets; over on La Isla Bonita, San Pedro police were able to seize a nine millimeter pistol. According to police, around one-thirty this morning, a routine patrol stopped and searched Forest Newton Green near the Barry Bowen Bridge on the island. […]
Last week, Allen Martinez was charged for the alleged arson of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Patrick Faber’s vehicle at his Lords’ Bank residence. The key piece of evidence is surveillance footage from Faber’s property which clearly captured the face of the accused arsonist. But is the person on the footage and the […]
We’ve often reported on allegations of police brutality and how officers attached to the Gang Suppression Unit are accused of using excessive force—breaking into homes and beating up on residents. Well tonight, a nineteen year old resident of Burrell Boom is claiming that on Thursday morning, he was the victim of an attack by the […]
Sanjay Casey and Belhem Guzman, both of Camalote village, Cayo District, were today read charges of attempted murder, dangerous harm, use of deadly means of harm, and aggravated assault. Casey was separately charged with damage to property while Guzman was additionally charged with common assault. The charges stem from an incident on the night of October […]
