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Fugitive David Nanes Schnitzer slipped through the cracks immediately after he was granted a ten thousand dollar bail by the Supreme Court on November twentieth, 2015. Nanes, who was caught in San Pedro on November sixth, where he was living for some years, was arrested with a slew of illegal Belize documents—from a social security […]
The contraband of goods into Mexico from Belize and from Belize into Mexico is a thriving trade. The Commercial Free Zone is an area of particular concern. It is known that cigarettes and other goods enter the zone and eventually make it into the Mexican market. Contrabandistas are also known to use the Rio Hondo […]
There is also the issue of the transshipment of illicit drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana that get into Mexico from Belize. Just two weeks ago, on January third, Orange Walk’s Quick Response Team came up on a very large quantity of drugs that was suspected of being a drug cartel shipment. The compressed […]
Also in the north, the search continues for fifty-nine year old Juan Carlos Gutierrez. The Salvadoran national is wanted by Orange Walk Police for the cold-blooded murder of Indian Church Vice-Chairman, fifty-one year old Francisco Arevalo. Police believe that sometime on Saturday night Arevalo was accosted and killed by Gutierrez near an incomplete cement house […]
Written on January 20, 2016 | Posted in
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Investigations also continue in another murder. Last Friday morning, the body of Anne Swaney, an executive producer with ABC Chicago, was found floating in the river at Succotz, Cayo. She had been staying at a resort in the area when she was strangled and her body found in the river. Police have been questioning persons […]
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On Tuesday, twenty-year-old James Emmanuel Cortez and his mother, forty-five-year-old Florita Pineda were charged for possession of a number of stolen items. Those articles were reported missing when occupants of a vessel were robbed near Middle Long Caye on January thirteenth. According to John Picard, a retired U.S. national, pirates boarded his boat sometime around […]
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And on the streets of the city, a team of police officers led by Superintendent Suzette Anderson was deployed this afternoon. While there was no chaos or crime to report on in the downtown area today, the officers were busy chitchatting with residents in Precinct Three’s jurisdiction. They shook hands, asked questions, laughed and made […]
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A pair of young men is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being arraigned for separate murders in Punta Gorda Town. Twenty-one-year-old Albert Valentine Junior, along with a fifteen-year-old minor, was indicted on two counts of murder when he appeared before Magistrate Emerson Banner on Monday. Both PG residents are accused of […]
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On December third, 2015, eight men stormed the Burrell Boom home of Lebanese Consul General Sarkis Abou-Nehra. He and his wife were not in the country, but the men stayed the night, cleaning out the house of money, valuables and electronic appliances. The men also brutally beat the caretaker while at least one of them […]
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A trio has been charged in connection with a robbery on board a vessel anchored near Middle Caye last Thursday. On board was US retiree, John Picard who was awoken by two men who demanded money, ransacked his vessel and stole an assortment of items. Three persons have been arrested for handling stolen goods and […]
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Tonight, there is a report of a Guatemalan woman that mysteriously disappeared in Belize. A report has been made to the Benque Police by her son, nineteen-year-old Alexander Enrique Garcia Giron. According to Melchor De Mencos resident, his mother, Lidia Janet Garcia Giron travelled to Belize since January the eighth and has disappeared. Lidia reportedly […]
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2016 is off to a murderous start. Since the beginning of the New Year, there have been a total of ten homicides across the country. One of the most shocking that is receiving international attention and is having an impact on the local tourism industry is the strangulation of Anne Swaney, an ABC executive producer […]
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Now to the murders … Ann Swaney, an executive producer at ABC Chicago who was vacationing in Belize was killed in the west; that murder is being reported by ABC network, CNN and numerous other media outlets. But who killed Swaney? On Thursday, two days before she was to return home to Chicago, Swaney was […]
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There have been three other murders due to chopping since Ann Swaney was strangled to death. In Indian Church in the Orange Walk District, a Guatemalan national was likely lured to his death in a love triangle. Francisco Arevalo received a phone call from his lover on Saturday night and by Sunday morning his nude […]
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There was a gruesome, bloody murder in San Pedro in broad daylight Saturday afternoon. It happened at a home in the San Pedrito Area of the island and involved alcohol, a machete and a large knife. According to reports, three men were drinking at an apartment belonging to Jose Alfredo Villeda. Villeda and another man, […]
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The most recent murder occurred this morning. In the Stann Creek District, a Honduran national was hacked to death shortly before six o’clock. Independence Police visited Bella Vista Village where they discovered that twenty-four-year-old Maria Suyapa Garcia had been fatally chopped to the head, face, neck and arms. Their investigation revealed that the woman was […]
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Bradley Paumen, the American resort and tour company owner who allegedly hired a hit man to kill four persons, one of them a local attorney, is currently free, out on bail. But two men who did work for him, accountant Ian Skeen and mechanic Linzburn Anderson, are behind bars. Over the weekend Skeen and Anderson […]
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The prosecution in the Bradley Paumen case is convinced that they have more than enough to convict the wealthy American businessman on four charges of Abetment to Murder, each which carries a life sentence. One of the objections to bail centred on the fact that Paumen has the means to flee prosecution with relative ease. […]
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On January eleventh, Paumen had been on remand three days already, but strangely, police made no noise about the very significant, very high-level arrest. So when the GSU found a gun in an abandoned garage on Plues Street—a gun registered to Bradley Paumen—it was reported as just another firearms bust. Now, with subsequent information on […]
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On January second, a family was traumatized when they were jacked at gunpoint in Armenia Village. According to Melanie Popper Coc, she was heading to Pomona with her mother and four children when she received a phone call and pulled off the road to answer it. According to Coc, that’s when a man came out […]
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There’s still more crime…A vessel moored near Middle Long Caye came under attack last Wednesday by pirates operating in waters southeast of Belize City. During the incident, passengers onboard the boat were held at gunpoint before being relieved of a number of possessions, including cash, camera, computers, food, drinks and jewelry, as well as an […]
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Last Wednesday, Chinese businessman Zu Chu Wu reported to Ladyville police that whilst at his business in Vista del Mar, he was robbed by two men of East Indian descent. According to the proprietor of Mike’s Store, he was held up at gunpoint by one of the men who demanded cash from his register. The […]
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Two weeks ago a Canadian filmmaker, Matthiew Klinck was murdered at his house in Selena in the Cayo District. Tonight, there is another murder to report which gives Belize a black eye and is likely to have an adverse impact on the tourism industry. This morning, the body of a vacationing American television producer with […]
Written on January 15, 2016 | Posted in
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Swaney was the executive producer of online operations at ABC 7 in Chicago, Illinois. The news of her demise spread quickly at ABC where her colleagues are still in shock. This afternoon, the television station carried the following report about the homicide of one of their own. {Feature: ABC &7 Reports on Murder of […]
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But a U.S. businessman is facing some serious charges in Belize for allegedly ordering a hit on four persons. Last week, Bradley Paumen, the owner of Dark Night tours, was detained and tonight he is a free man, at least for the moment. He was granted bail when an application was made before Justice Antoinette […]
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