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Police have charged a man with Arson in connection with a fire last Friday that destroyed a house at Tropical Park in Hattieville. Sixty-eight-year-old Bernard Moore told police that he set some bushes on fire and that the fire spread to the house. But Moore was charged, and today he appeared before a Magistrate to […]
Written on February 13, 2023 | Posted in
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A Lord’s Bank Village resident was chopped to death on Old Well Road in that community just after midnight this morning. Twenty-eight-year-old Alburn Rivero’s body was found in some bushes on the road, about a quarter mile from the Phillip Goldson Highway. A purple and brown beach cruiser bicycle was near the body. Darlene Fuller, Rivero’s […]
Written on February 10, 2023 | Posted in
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Corporal Elmer Nah was back in court along with his wife and brother-in-law, and they all will have a case to answer to for two counts of kept unlicensed ammunition for one hundred and thirty-nine live rounds of ammunition. Senior Magistrate Baja Shoman today read Nah four more new charges, one for the murder of […]
Written on February 10, 2023 | Posted in
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An elderly man was robbed of over six hundred dollars when he attempted to make a kind gesture. According to Aubrey Dale Garbutt, he was at home alone when a man he said was known to him stopped by to visit. The man then asked for some water and to use the bathroom, and when […]
Written on February 10, 2023 | Posted in
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Thirty-four-year-old Nicole Polonio was laid to rest on Saturday in the island town of San Pedro, one week after she was seen on the streets, acting out of character in what her friend’s called a mental breakdown. What happened there after is being investigated because the mother of five was restrained with chains and padlocks […]
Written on February 6, 2023 | Posted in
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A fire in the early hours of Saturday morning gutted a wooden structure and destroyed four golf carts and part of a home on the island of San Pedro. Tonight, police are investigating whether it is a case of arson or an accidental fire. ACP Romero told us more. ACP Hilberto Romero, Commander, Easter […]
Written on February 6, 2023 | Posted in
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Also in San Pedro, a man is in police custody on charges of aggravated assault and firearm charges after allegedly attacking a businessman. According to the Assistant Commissioner of Police, the incident occurred on Saturday while the businessman was standing at the gates to his hotel. He was able to preserve his life by successfully […]
Written on February 6, 2023 | Posted in
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An Orange Walk resident dies after experiencing heart complications while driving a tractor. On Saturday, the lifeless body of Carlos Suarez was discovered on Fireburn Road in Orange Walk next to his tractor. An investigation revealed that Juarez was driving his tractor around midday when he experienced a heart attack. Juarez lost control of the […]
Written on February 6, 2023 | Posted in
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Two men impersonating police officers ransacked a home in Armenia Village and stole several items, including cash, after tying up the homeowner. Jose Gonzalez told police that on Friday evening, he arrived at his home in the village and noticed an unknown vehicle parked in front of his property. He entered his house, and the […]
Written on February 6, 2023 | Posted in
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There is a bizarre story coming out of the island town of San Pedro where a mother of five died after being bound and restrained with chains for days. Nicole Polonio was discovered on Saturday morning dead inside her room and now, a death investigation is ongoing by police in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye. News […]
Written on February 3, 2023 | Posted in
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Senior Magistrate Baja Shoman will hand down a decision on a no case submission that was made by accused murderer Elmer Nah earlier today, in respect of ammunition charges brought against him, following an incident on the Southern Highway in November 2021. Nah, who was charged jointly along with his common-law wife Epiphania Caliz and […]
Written on February 3, 2023 | Posted in
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Forty-year-old Arthur Higgs, his common-law wife Tamara Cooper and forty-five-year-old Michelle Higgs, all residents of seventh Street in Kings Park, were arraigned before Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitts-Anderson earlier today on charges of drug trafficking. The trio was arrested after being found in possession of a little over two hundred grams of cannabis. While Cooper pleaded […]
Written on February 1, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-two-year-old Robert Lamb was arraigned and remanded to the Belize Central Prison earlier today after being charged with attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm, dangerous harm and robbery. The slew of charges follow an incident over the weekend during which an Indian businessman was attacked and stabbed multiple times on Cemetery Road. On […]
Written on January 31, 2023 | Posted in
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In August 2021, Shane Bradley was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder prior to being detained for murder. Earlier today, a preliminary inquiry commenced before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser who determined that based on a prima facie case has been established against the forty-year-old accused murderer. Bradley, who appeared unrepresented in court, will stand trial […]
Written on January 31, 2023 | Posted in
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On Friday, we reported on the discovery of a dismembered body in the vicinity of Jane Usher Boulevard. Tonight, the family of a missing Belize City resident has come forward to say that they have positively identified the remains. Earlier today, News Five spoke with the family of Akeem Augustine who went missing on Christmas […]
Written on January 30, 2023 | Posted in
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And, while Augustine’s family is confident that the discovered human remains are his, today Assistant Commissioner of Police Hilberto Romero told reporters that authorities are yet to confirm an identity. Here is what he had to say during today’s police press conference. ACP Hilberto Romero, Deputy Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “On Friday, police […]
Written on January 30, 2023 | Posted in
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A thirty-four-year-old businessman was viciously attacked by a pair of robbers over the weekend in Belize City. Deepak Cataria was accosted by the men who restrained him and proceeded to stab him multiple times to the upper body, before relieving him of several items. According to Assistant Commissioner of Police Hilberto Romero, one suspect has […]
Written on January 30, 2023 | Posted in
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A youth who is known to the law has been accused of robbing two gas attendants at gunpoint. Eighteen-year-old Aaron Chavez, who got into trouble while he was out on bail for another criminal matter, was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrates’ Court on two counts of robbery. This was after two gas attendants were […]
Written on January 30, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-five-year-old Jose Raul Pineda, a construction worker of Belize City, appeared unrepresented in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court earlier today where he confessed to stealing thirty-eight thousand, five hundred dollars in cash from his mother. It is alleged that sometime between December twentieth, 2022 and January third, 2023, he stole twenty-five thousand dollars in cash […]
Written on January 30, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-three-year-old Shania Dominguez, a recruit with the Belize Police Department, has been charged under the Cyber Crime Act. It is alleged that the resident of Biscayne Village, who appeared unrepresented in Court Number Six, used a computer system to transmit data that is obscene and vulgar. The intent was purportedly to humiliate, harass and cause […]
Written on January 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Members of rival Belize City gangs called a truce in court earlier today after they chose not to proceed with criminal charges against each other. Esmir Garrido, a convicted member of the Rocky Road Bloods, is accused of attacking and stabbing thirty-five-year-old Hilberto Ruiz on Wednesday morning in the vicinity of Krooman Lagoon. The incident […]
Written on January 26, 2023 | Posted in
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When we caught up with Minister Musa earlier today, he was also asked for his take on the Marco Vidal surveillance footage. As we have reported, Vidal was caught on camera questioning a shopkeeper near the scene of the New Year’s Eve triple murder in which his nephew, Elmer Nah, has been implicated. And, Musa […]
Written on January 25, 2023 | Posted in
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It’s not often that we report on crimes in the north, but on Saturday night, a man was murdered in Yo Creek Village, in Orange Walk District. Eufemio Garcia was among four persons that got shot while in front of a store in the village. Garcia died on the spot while three others were rushed […]
Written on January 23, 2023 | Posted in
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Commissioner of Police Chester Williams has come forward to dismiss conjecture surrounding the incident on January fourteenth during which former Assistant Commissioner of Police Marco Vidal visited a small business in the Maya Mopan area of Belmopan, requesting surveillance footage from that premises. In the wake of surveillance footage being released of the brief encounter, […]
Written on January 20, 2023 | Posted in
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With respect of the audio recording that was presented by Marco Vidal and Senior Counsel Godfrey Smith to Belmopan police on Thursday, ComPol Williams told the media that he has had an opportunity to listen to the copy. Notwithstanding the fact that the recording doesn’t show former ACP Vidal saying or doing anything illegal, the […]
Written on January 20, 2023 | Posted in
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