Akeem Thimbriel and Shawn Lopez were laid to rest today in Camalote, after they were gunned down last Sunday as they walked together in the village. The young men were allegedly killed as a result of an altercation in which they were not even involved. Belmopan Police acted swiftly and detained two persons who reportedly […]
Thirteen-year-old Shinique Perez has been reported missing by her mother for the past nine days. The teenager has reportedly run away from home and was last seen in the Saint Martin’s area. This afternoon, her mother made a plea for her safe return. Merlene Clark, Mother of Missing Teen “The last place I know […]
Gang warfare is intensifying in the Old Capital and bodies are piling up; there have been eight murders in five days; three of them in the city and four in the west and one in Ladyville. The latest victim was gunned down early on Wednesday night near downtown Albert Street. Johan Cocom was riding his […]
Less than twelve hours before the murder of Cocom, a well known street figure, Troy Cole, was gunned down near his home on Gibnut Street in south side Belize City. Today, Assistant ComPol says that the main suspect, who is a seventeen-year-old of Antelope Street Extension, was detained on Wednesday night and will be charged […]
The murder of Troy Cole on Wednesday morning in Belize City is mired in controversy, particularly because Cole’s family and the Belize Police Department are alleging that he was refused medical attention after being shot on Gibnut Street. The deadly attack occurred less than a stone’s throw away from the Belize Integral Health Center. It […]
But in the murder of Glen “Gambis” Williams, police say that they need the public’s assistance in finding a grey four-door Lincoln that was used by the shooter in the homicide. ACP Chester Williams, Regional Commander, Eastern Division South “As it relates to the murder of Mister Williams, we continue to look into that […]
According to our records, to date, there have been fifty-three murders since the start of the year; thirteen of those homicides were in Belize City and all but on one on the south side. April was the most murderous month with a total of fifteen followed close behind by January with thirteen murders. We’re only […]
The murder count went up by another two in the past twelve hours but since Saturday, a total of seven persons have been brutally murdered in the Belize and Cayo districts. This morning just after nine, a shooting ended in murder on the south side. Troy Cole was shot twice as he rode his bicycle […]
The second murder took place on Tuesday night in the Ladyville area where gunshot blasts were heard as early as nine o’clock in the night. A resident of the Japan area was showered by bullets as he was preparing to take a bath. Thirty-one year old Lloyd Gerald Robateau was ambushed and died near the […]
An expecting mother whose pregnancy was terminated under dubious circumstances remains at the center of a police investigation tonight. Police were notified late Tuesday that a fetus had been discarded in a shallow grave on Jane Usher Boulevard in the south side of the city. They have since been posted at the location where preparations […]
Turning to the weekend murders….Today, postmortem examinations were conducted on the bodies of thirty-nine year old cosmetologist Miriam Mai and her sister-in-law, twenty-nine year old Daisy Miralda. The duo was killed on Saturday evening around five-thirty by the estranged common-law-husband of Mai, Andy Bustillos, who turned the gun on himself after he committed what the […]
The double murder of Mai and Miralda in Santa Elena occurred two days after the bodies of two Guatemalan nationals were discovered off a feeder road between mile sixty-nine and seventy leading to the Mopan River in San Ignacio. Last Thursday, fifty-two-year-old Santos Ramon Gomez and thirty-seven-year-old Orlando Antonio Garcia Calletal, who are believed to […]
Tonight, Belmopan Police are tentatively one step closer to a breakthrough in the weekend murders of Camalote youths, Akeem Thimbriel and Shawn Lopez. The friends were gunned down as they walked towards Lopez’s house, targets of gunmen who fired at them from a grey pickup which pulled up beside them. Police have confiscated a vehicle […]
Since the shooting death of reputed George Street boss Gerald ‘Shiny’ Tillett several weeks ago in Dangriga, there has been a spate of gun violence in Belize City. The series of shootings, believed to be acts of retaliation by various gangs, have prompted Assistant ComPol Chester Williams to once again reach out to the feuding […]
Officers from Eastern Division continued their weekly meet and great sessions in Belize City this afternoon. Assistant ComPol Chester Williams led a team of policemen and women into Taylor’s Alley where they met with residents in the neighborhood. Now, Pregnant Alley, as it is otherwise known, is a hotspot for gang activity and police have […]
Over the past few days, a number of residents have come forward to complain about police brutality. Martha Phillips and her sons claim that they were manhandled by police officers at their home on Armadillo Street over the holiday weekend. Similarly, Noel Maheia’s apartment on George Street was reportedly stormed and ransacked by GSU officers […]
There has been a sustained clampdown of businesses selling liquor after nine p.m. that are not restaurants or nightclubs. For the past few weeks, the police department has been actively enforcing the shutting down of shops and other establishments that are operating outside of the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Act. Officers have been briefed by Assistant […]
There were as many as five murders over the weekend: two double murders in the west and another in the City where a Supal Street affiliate was murdered; all within a day. The madness started on Saturday at a salon in Santa Elena, Cayo where security guard Andy Bustillos went on a crazy shooting spree. […]
The community of Camalote in the Cayo District is grieving and angry. They demand justice for the cold-blooded, brutal murders of Akeem Thimbriel and Shawn Lopez on Sunday night. Thimbriel and Lopez were gunned down just feet from Lopez’s home in the village, riddled by a hail of bullets fired from a grey two door […]
In addition to the already disturbing indication of an execution summoned to settle an altercation earlier Sunday, there is also the allegation that police officers may have been involved very directly in the murders. The family of slain Akeem Thimbriel has heard the same thing, and so has Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett, the man coordinating […]
A fifth person was murdered over the Labor Day weekend. It happened on Iguana Street where Glen “Gambis” Williams was gunned down after he had purchased barbecue. Williams is a known affiliate of the Supal Street Gang and police do not know if his demise is related to the murder of the George Street leader […]
In the wake of the murder of Glen ‘Gambis’ Williams on Saturday evening, it is strongly believed that factions within the Supal Street Gang may have triggered a spate of retaliatory shootings across the city. On Sunday night, not too far from where Gambis was gunned down twenty-four hours earlier, Shane Valdez and thirty-year-old Anthony […]
Three men were killed in two separate incidents within hours of each other in the west. The first, a double murder, occurred on Thursday afternoon, in the San Francisco area of San Ignacio Town. Two Guatemalan nationals, believed to be drug peddlers from neighboring Melchor De Mencos, Peten were executed off a feeder road between […]
There was also a murder in the wee hours of this morning in the village of Camalote. A father of four was killed near a farm off the George Price Highway, about a mile away from where he lived in the village. Gelion De Leon had a large cut wound to the neck and gunshot […]
There was a double murder today in the west off the cutoff to the garbage dump near Misty Meadow Farms. Two Guatemalan nationals were found murdered off a feeder road between mile sixty-nine and seventy leading to the Mopan River. The bodies of the two men were lying side by side with multiple gunshots. At […]
