But there was also a stabbing in the Lord’s Bank community also in Ladyville, where thirty-year-old Brandon Stevens was stabbed to the chest following an altercation at a bar in the community. Officer Commanding Ladyville Police, Assistant Superintendent Juanito Cocom says that the suspect was detained shortly after by patrol in the area. It is […]
A police officer is in trouble with the law tonight, facing a minimum of twelve years to life imprisonment if found guilty of the act of a sexual assault upon a minor. Twenty-one year old Darren Martinez was arraigned late this evening for sexually assaulting a girl as young as eight years. The despicable act […]
Three of four persons are in custody tonight for a shoot-out last Thursday night in the City. The intended target was Mark Vernon, a city resident. But it led to another shooting involving top cop, Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams and officer in charge of south side team, who was in the area in […]
There was an attempt on the life of top cop, Chester Williams who has been strengthening community outreach with the police as a way of reducing crime and violence in the city. But tonight nineteen year old Zacharia Knox is in custody after he attempted to kill Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams on Thursday […]
The man who fired at Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, Zacharia Knox, was picked up shortly after at a residence on Benbow Street. Police have also gotten a lucky break, since the expended shells found at this scene appear to match those from a shooting earlier in the day. That one happened at around […]
So what’s the reasoning behind the sudden spate of shootings? Apparently there is a revival of gang activity in a city which was surprisingly bloodless in 2015. Within the last month two notorious gang figures have been executed – George Street don Gerald “Shiny” Tillett and Keon “Gambis” Williams. Police say they know the players […]
As we bring you the news tonight, Cayo Police are still trying to verify very disturbing reports at the farthest regions of their jurisdiction near the Guatemalan border. Unofficially, News Five understands that two Mennonite farmers were clearing a fire-break with a bulldozer on their farm near the El Pilar archaeological site. That’s when we […]
Three murder cases fell apart in court today. We start with forty-five year old Orlando Williams who was the first murder victim at the start of the New Year in 2013. Today, the suspect in his murder, twenty-three year old Akeem Humes, a known George Street associate, walked free. Williams was gunned down as he […]
A pair of men also walked free of the murder of Michael Welch and the attempted murder of Kingsley Morrison, who were both shot in the Saint Martin de Porres area of the City. The duo walked when their case file could not be located almost a year after their arrest so they had not […]
Twenty-year old Boyd Lopez is home tonight following his sentencing for the February eighteenth, 2015 traffic fatality that took the life of seventy year old Marie Knowles. Knowles was walking on the side walk on Baghdad Street in Belize City when Boyd, who did not possess a driving licence, hit her. The elderly woman sustained […]
Fighting gang and criminal activities with basketball? That’s what the police department is doing. Today they officially launched a sixteen week basketball programme in the Southside that will see members of ten gang groups participate in friendly competition. A.C.P. Chester Williams says that he hopes it will help to put down the guns and squash […]
A resident of the Duck Run Three Community remains in a critical condition at a Belize City hospital after he was shot to the chest and hip on Tuesday night following a shootout at Pasadita Bar on the Iguana Creek Road. Eddy Larios is one of three persons who were shot and injured by Jose […]
The murder stats in the west continue on an upward trend. The most recent murder victim is a businessman man who was shot at a bar after eleven o’clock on Tuesday night. Three other persons were injured in the shooting. Fifty-nine-year-old Jose Anibal Molina Estrada of Duck Run Three was mortally wounded at the Pasadita […]
Molina is the fifth murder victim in less than two weeks in the San Ignacio jurisdiction. There was a drug-related double murder involving Guatemalan nationals Santos Ramon Gomez and Orlando Antonio Garcia Calletal, a domestic violence double murder in which Miriam Mai and her sister-in-law Daisy Miralda were killed over the Labor Day weekend. Police […]
Two nationals from Bulgaria appeared late in court this evening and were charged for theft from the Belize Bank. There was a delay in their arraignment because the court was looking for a translator. The duo is being implicated in an international scam in which they used fake ATM cards to withdraw cash from the […]
Aptula’s attorney says that they are in communication with the Belize Bank to settle the matter. The two Bulgarians allegedly visited the Albert and North Front Streets ATMs of the bank to conduct the fraudulent transactions. Aptula also pleaded not guilty to theft. Oscar Selgado, Attorney for Halid Yuksel Aptula “The police has only […]
During arraignment today, the police claimed that the scam begun on September seventh, 2015. The men were detained on Saturday and taken to their room at Easy Inn on the Phillip Goldson Highway, where one hundred and eleven credit cards which did not have the issuing bank or card holder names were discovered. Also found […]
After spending just over a week recovering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, on Monday afternoon, thirty-one year old Andy Bustillos was arrested and charged for the double murder of his ex-common-law wife, Miriam Mai and her sister-in-law, Daisy Miralda. On April thirtieth, Bustillos entered Betty’s Salon in Santa Elena to rekindle his […]
Meanwhile an investigation is ongoing in the double murder of two Guatemalan nationals in the San Francisco area of San Ignacio. Fifty-two-year-old Santos Ramon Gomez and thirty-seven-year-old Orlando Antonio Garcia Calletal, who were believed to be drug peddlers from neighboring Melchor De Mencos, Peten, were executed off a feeder road between mile sixty-nine and seventy […]
The last time we reported on a murder in San Pedro AC was back in March of this year. It appeared that violence and crime were on pause, but on Friday night, the body of a well-known football player was found in the south of the island on a feeder road. Police happened on the […]
Also on the island, police have made a significant firearm bust. Last Tuesday, a high-powered MP-Forty submachine gun was found south of San Pedro Town in an area known as the Mosquito Coast. The bust also yielded other firearms, ammunition and drugs. Three San Pedro residents were surprised by officers on patrol as they were […]
He has been in the news in recent months for a number of criminal offences, including attempted murder and drug trafficking. But on Friday night, the notorious Alrick Smith, aka Ricky, was shot at his house on Aricari Street in Ladyville. A gunman reportedly targeted Smith, hitting him on the left leg. He was rushed […]
A brazen thief stole a 2014 Mazda pick-up truck from Police Superintendent Selvin Tillett who heads the Orange Walk formation. The incident happened back on February fourteenth; Tillett was robbed at gunpoint of the vehicle which was parked in front of his house on Humble Street, Benque Viejo del Carmen. Police arrested twenty-one year old […]
Late this afternoon, a teenager of Antelope Street Extension was arraigned in the Belize City Family Court for Wednesday’s broad daylight murder of Troy Cole. Cole was riding his bicycle on Gibnut Street, a stone’s throw away from where he lived, when he was accosted by a gunman. Late that night, Ryan Thompson was detained […]
