Guatemalan Lydia Janet Garcia was reported missing on January nineteenth by her son, Alexander Enrique Garcia. He told Benque Police that his mother was last seen on January eighth when she reportedly told him via text that she was heading to Cowpen to meet a person known only as “El Nica. But Garcia never made […]
Since Sunday, Police have been on the lookout for a red 2001 Mazda pickup, stolen on the old Western highway from Jorge Lopez. Lopez was accosted by two men, one of whom shot him once in the back and then attempted to shoot him in the head following the assault and robbery of two Canadian […]
On Monday, we told you about the disturbing armed robbery of a Canadian couple just a few hours after they checked into the Tropical Education Center on the George Price Highway. Stephen Temple and Cynthia Fredrick may have lost their cash and valuable electronics, but they were unhurt. Jorge Cruz Lopez wasn’t so lucky. Lopez […]
Late word to News Five is that Dangriga police are at mile six on the Hummingbird Highway where the decomposing body of a man has been found. There are few details on that and it is not known if it could be a case of murder. But we can confirm that following an autopsy on […]
A Chinese bar owner was brutally slashed to death at his place of business in Teakettle in the Cayo District, early Saturday morning. Fifty-two year old Zhijuang Zhang was closing up Sixty-Nine Bar at around two a.m. when a lone assailant carrying a firearm entered. In the next few moments Zhang was dead, stabbed multiple […]
There was another sensational crime this weekend, in which two Canadian tourists were held hostage by armed robbers who then shot a man while stealing his vehicle to make their getaway. The first incident, the armed robbery, took place at the Tropical Education Center at mile twenty-eight on the George Price Highway. The shooting took […]
Honduran national, Orbin Reyes, who is an off and on resident of Orange Walk Town, claims he was used as a mule to transport over fifteen pounds of weed into Belize City and was paid a pittance. The twenty-five year old was detained on Saturday morning in a sting operation between miles eight and nine […]
There have been numerous incidents of violence against visitors which do not augur well for the tourism industry and serve to discourage potential visitors to Belize. As recent as this weekend, two Canadian visitors were robbed and assaulted at the Tropical Education Center on the George Price Highway. Then, there is the recent murder of […]
A Belize City man is lucky to be out on bail tonight and luckier to be alive after he got drunk and slammed his red Ford Escape into a tree at Mile sixteen on the Phillip Goldson Highway. The accident happened very early this morning. When Ladyville Police responded to the scene they saw thirty-four-year-old […]
Hours after that, officers from the Rural Eastern Division’s Rapid Response Team found another cache of weed. At about nine-thirty, they conducted searches on several male persons hanging out at the Chinese shop in the community of Bermudian Landing. While nothing was found on those persons, a search in the immediate vicinity yielded a black […]
Brazen thieves made away with a thirty-five-foot boat on the island of San Pedro. The boat was stolen on Thursday morning from the Grand Colony Dock; it belongs to Island Divers Belize. Valued at one hundred thousand dollars, the vessel is equipped with a canopy, twin Yamaha two hundred horsepower engines, oxygen units, life jackets […]
Two men were shot on Wednesday night in south side Belize City just before seven o’clock, shattering a period of relative quiet on the streets since the beginning of the year. Twenty-six-year-old Benua Andrews was hit twice on the chest and is in a stable condition at the K.H.M.H. His friend, twenty-six-year-old Tyron Myers was […]
Orange Walk was once known as Rambo Town, back in the days when drugs and violence had overtaken that northern community. It has not quite reached that point yet, but there is an increase in illicit activity which may have lawmakers sitting up and paying keen attention. Even as investigators try to solve a broad […]
Belizeans Milin Vasquez and Hugo Casanova were serving time behind bars in neighboring Chetumal since February 2013. They were arrested when they were busted at the house of notorious Mexican dealer, Carlos Cabanas Catzin, known as the Monster. In the house, the Mexican navy found with two million dollars worth of crystal meth. There were […]
There have been fifteen murders since the start of the New Year. In January alone, there were thirteen; and since the start of the month, a double homicide in Orange Walk has increased the number of murder victims to fifteen. Police have embarked on initiatives of community policing in the City to bring down the […]
Two young men from Orange Walk Town are the most recent victims of gun violence. A brazen gunman, still on the lam, opened fire on seventeen year old Rene Antonio Acevedo and nineteen-year-old Erlindo Matura Junior as they stood on Gristock Street at about four-thirty on Monday afternoon. A third person, a minor, was with […]
Also in Orange Walk, officers have been conducting anti-drug operations on a weekly basis. On Monday morning, a search in some bushes on Savannah Street in Orange Walk Town led to the discovery of a plastic bag containing thirteen, sixteen-gauge cartridges and ten point one grams of cannabis. There were no arrests and the items […]
At around four-thirty this afternoon, two teenagers were gunned down on Cristock Street in Orange Walk Town. Minutes ago, the bodies were still on the ground while investigators scoured the scene. Police sources tell News Five that three youths who are well known to them were on Cristock Street when a man on a bicycle […]
There’s another murder to report for which three men charged in the home invasion of Sarkis Abou Nehra are prime suspects. This weekend in Belize City, thirty-two year old Marian Castillo of Georgetown, Stann Creek District was fatally stabbed just before one o’clock on Saturday morning, as he walked with a female friend on Mahogany […]
The Fisheries Department is reporting a huge bust in undersized conch made on Sunday evening. Officers were on routine patrol in the Turneffe Atoll when they came up on the SOL, a sailboat with eight fishermen on board. Five of those fishermen, from the Sarteneja and Copper Bank areas of Belize, are in custody while […]
The timing of the bust by enforcement officers could not have been scripted better, since it comes at the onset of a stakeholder training on enforcement and compliance. Hampton Gamboa, Supervisor, Conservation Compliance Unit “We started a one week training yesterday in terms of enforcement training for our stakeholders and our enforcement agencies such […]
A Belizean was arrested in Melchor de Mencos over the weekend and was scheduled to be processed in court today, but we cannot confirm that that has occurred. Twenty-five year old Kayla Adriana Sanchez is accused of stealing a cellular phone from a store in Melchor and detained by the Guatemalan authorities on Sunday. She […]
On Thursday, January fourteenth, ABC7 Chicago Executive Producer Anne Swaney was murdered on the grounds of the Nabitunich Resort in San Jose Succotz. Her senseless and brutal killing created shockwaves locally and internationally, and at one point F.B.I. investigators combed the grounds to assist with the investigation. But two weeks later, there is nothing new […]
On Wednesday, San Ignacio Police swarmed Esperanza in response to reports that a man had been shot in the head on a Westline Bus. Conrad Thomas, bleeding profusely and unconscious, was rushed to the San Ignacio Hospital. At the time passengers on the bus were in a panic and Police got conflicting reports. But there […]
There have been two suicides in the West recently, young persons who took their own lives. There are organizations which deal with depression and other related factors, but as we found out, the Police Department in Cayo is also taking the initiative to step up. The Department acts as investigators in any incident, but they […]
