A twelve-year-old minor was sexually assaulted at her home in Benque Viejo del Carmen over the weekend. Her parents and other family members left her home with her three-year-old sister and her much older uncle preyed on her. Police report that on Monday, they have charged forty-eight year Feliciano Merejildo Sutherland for the crime of […]
There is a report tonight that a stolen vehicle has been found in the possession of a local politician in Belmopan who is employed at the City Council through the efforts of the Ministry of National Security. No one is talking but the vehicle is believed to have been crossed into this side of the […]
There are fake cops on the prowl in Belize City, and they’ve already gotten away with two weapons taken from security guards. The latest incident happened in the early hours of Saturday morning. Two Haitian security guards at the JL’s Quick Loan facility on Douglas Jones Street were approached by two men in what appeared […]
Yearwood declined to provide information on the persons in custody, but Police sources tell us one of the detained men is related to a Police Officer, which could explain the uniforms. If and when those men are positively identified, charged and arraigned, the Police Department will call off the alert. But if the men in […]
Punta Gorda Police have made short work of the investigation into the murder of sixty-nine year old Thomas Paul Rockowski. The American National who lived alone was stabbed multiple times in his home on Saturday night. He passed away on Monday night and by Tuesday Police had three men in custody. On Friday one of […]
Margarita Pech/Noralez, the thirty-five year old mother of a one month old baby, who was remanded to prison a week ago was back in court today. Pech has a long rap sheet with as many as twenty convictions and this morning, two more were added to the growing list. Pech pleaded guilty to burglary and […]
There is another report on the sexual violation of a minor. A twelve-year-old female student claims that on Friday night at about eight-thirty, her uncle sexually assaulted her when she was at home in Benque Viejo, Cayo. The heinous act occurred when she was left alone with him. Her mother was at work, but her […]
Another notorious figure is recovering from injuries he received during a fight Saturday night in Mahogany Heights. Jerson Grinage was cut to the back of his head, to his forehead and to the right side of his face after he tangled with Ervin Fitzgibbon at a local Chinese store. Police have been having a tough […]
Two weeks ago there was a sensational incident in which two Canadian tourists were robbed at gunpoint just after they checked into the Tropical Education Centre on the George Price Highway. Shortly after, those robbers shot a Good Samaritan, Jorge Lopez, who saw them fleeing the scene but thought they needed help. Adolphus Palacio, the […]
A resident from the village of Caledonia, Corozal went missing on the morning of January fifth, 2016. His vehicle, a KIA Sportage, was found abandoned off the main highway near the junction of the roads leading to Buena Vista and Caledonia. When it was discovered, there were bullet holes on the vehicle and inside, Police […]
Police continue to search for a person of interest in the murder of Honduran national Johana Samantha Mendez Barrios. The waitress of Compadres Bar in San Pedro was cut to the throat inside her apartment on Tuesday morning at the Basil Paris Apartment Complex. Mendez Barrios sought assistance from her friend on the lower flat […]
Turning to crime…There were two shootings on the south side of Belize City over the weekend, but details have just become available from the police. The first was the shooting of nineteen year old Raheem Bailey who was injured at his home on Allan Pitts Crescent. A lone gunman reportedly rode up on bicycle and […]
The second shooting on south side Belize City occurred an hour later on Boots Crescent near the Saint John Vianney Primary School. As we reported on Monday, a seventeen year old was shot from behind by a lone gunman on bicycle as he headed towards Rivero Street Extension. Police said today that within hours, they […]
There are two murders to report—one in Punta Gorda and one in San Pedro. Tonight, the body of Honduran national Johana Samantha Mendez Barrios lies inside the morgue at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where it awaits an autopsy. This morning, the twenty-two-year-old’s throat was slashed inside her apartment in the Boca Del Rio area […]
And while San Pedro Police hunt for a killer, their counterparts in Punta Gorda are looking for evidence to identify three. On Saturday night, American National Thomas Rockowski was at his home in Hopeville, Punta Gorda when three men stormed into his residence and attacked him. Rockowski was stabbed multiple times, but clung to life […]
There was a bold and brazen car-jacking in Benque over the weekend. For one thing it happened in broad daylight in a populated area. For another, the vehicle was in the possession of a senior member of the Police Department when two persons decided to claim it as their own. Officer Commanding the Orange Walk […]
A Guatemalan national is currently hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. after he was chopped to his head, right thumb and knees. His index finger was amputated in an incident on Sunday night near the Salvapan area in Belmopan. Thirty-three year old Fernando Soria was heading home when Edwin Chacon, with whom he had been drinking, allegedly […]
There was no love on Belize City streets this Valentine’s weekend as five persons were shot in three separate incidents. The first happened on Friday night just before seven, when nineteen year old Raheem Bailey was reportedly at home with a friend on Allan Pitts Crescent. Investigations reveal that a man rode up on a […]
Just about an hour after that, police were called out to Boots Crescent by St. John Vianney Primary School where a minor was seen lying on the street in a pool of blood. Preliminary investigations reveal that the seventeen year old male was walking on Boots Crescent, heading towards Rivero Street Extension when he was […]
And then, in the early hours of Valentine’s Day, three persons were shot near the Renaissance Towers on Newtown Barracks. Just before 4:00am, nineteen year old Wilbert Welch was walking near the Renaissance Towers on Newtown Barracks. Police believe that he was the target of three men parked nearby in a white car. One of […]
A laborer from San Pedro is dead, allegedly as a result of too much alcohol leading to a long drop into a shallow creek. The body of Fernando Melendez was discovered in a creek near an illegal crossing between Melchor and Benque. Preliminary investigation suggests the Melendez tried to make the crossing in the dead […]
On Thursday, Police issued an advisory warning the public to be aware of persons purporting to be Police officers. That advisory is a result of two incidents on Tuesday. In one of them, two Hispanic men dressed in Police uniforms gained entry to the Central Cable Company compound where they relieved the watchman of his […]
Belmopan Police are still on the hunt for a cold-blooded killer in that jurisdiction, for the brutal murder of Chinese bar owner Zhijuang Zhang on Saturday morning. Zhang was stabbed and slashed seven times, his throat cut by a man who entered the Sixty-Nine Bar in Teakettle through a window in the rear of the […]
Two men were busted with a sizeable amount of marijuana while Belmopan Police were conducting vehicle checks on Wednesday in Camalote on the George Price Highway. Travis Sutherland of Georgeville and Anthony August of Santa Elena were travelling to the capital when they spotted the police checkpoint at about four-thirty in the morning. The men […]
Police are on the lookout for two robbers who are operating in the city and impersonating cops. Within the past twenty-four hours, they struck twice. In the first incident, the wannabe cops hit Channel Broadcasting Cable just before midnight on Wednesday. A security guard at the cable company said he heard a loud bang and […]
