Bradley Paumen’s legal troubles are bad enough, but he may soon be facing additional charges. Remember Michael Modiri, the man police believe was the target of a hit man hired by Paumen? Well he was arrested on May fifth, 2015 after a search of a checkpoint turned up an unlicensed vehicle and ammunition in his […]
Did American Bradley Paumen, owner of tour company Dark Knight put a hit on four persons? Apparently the Police believe that he did. On January sixth, Special Branch officers detained and arrested Paumen. That Friday, the eight, Paumen was transported by Special Branch officers to San Ignacio where he was quietly arraigned on four counts […]
On January ninth, the badly decomposed body of PG resident nineteen year old Jarrell Edward Pop was found dumped in a well in the town. He had multiple stab wounds to the body and neck, and apparent blunt force trauma. Police have held details of the investigation very close, but tonight we can confirm that […]
While Valentine is on the way to Punta Gorda, a PG youth is currently detained at the police station in that southern municipality in connection with Pop’s murder On Sunday night, the family of a fifteen-year old was detained by police as a way of smoking out Barillas for questioning in connection with the murder. […]
Was the near-fatal Monday night assault of a pregnant teen and her mother reprisal for a weekend murder in Hattieville? According to police, the shooting of eighteen-year-old Shenell Rolland and forty-one-year-old Stephanie Smith is directly related to the murder of Cleon ‘Tush’ Smith who was shot and killed in Hattieville on Sunday night. While the […]
While Belize City police believe that the shooting of a woman and her pregnant daughter on Dolphin Street are linked to the murder of Cleon “Tush” Smith, the Hattieville police say that they are nowhere closer to solving the homicide in the rural community. This afternoon, a post mortem examination certified that the alleged former […]
As we reported on Tuesday, twenty-nine-year-old Leon Garcia came under gunfire from a pair of men who ran up on him while he was conversing with a friend in front of JB’s Auto Wash on Barrack Road earlier in the day. According to the proprietor, he observed his employee run into a nearby storeroom and […]
Since mid 2015, the Eastern Division of the Police Department has embarked on meet and greet initiative to bring the community closer to the police as a strategy to curb crime. The police say it has been met with success and this afternoon we caught up with the top brass of the police in both […]
A barrage of gunshots was unleashed before nine o’clock on Dolphin Street, Belize City on Monday night. Gunmen fired as many as fifteen shots at two men sitting on the steps of the Rolland family home. The duo would escape the gunfire, but a mother and daughter were not so lucky. Shennel Rolland, who is […]
While a mother and child were injured in the Dolphin Street shooting, a pair of Belize City men is fortunate to have escaped unscathed from a mid-morning shooting near Newtown Barracks earlier today. The intended target of the armed assault has reportedly been sought for quite some time by a rival group from Majestic Alley […]
The communities of Salvapan and Maya Mopan are still reeling from the brutal murders of two young taxi-men from those communities. The body of Isidro Suar was discovered late Friday night on the George Price Boulevard. He had been shot just minutes before. Even as Police investigated that murder, the decomposed body of Yoni Maas […]
The Gang Suppression Unit was involved in four anti-drugs operations in various areas of the City on Monday. At noon the Unit searched the house of alleged drug peddler Elvis Aldana on Rivero Street, Belize City. Aside from Aldana, Tyra Tillett, a resident of Crooked Tree, Marco Zelaya and Joseph Lopez, both of Belize City, […]
Eleven days into the New Year and the police department is recording its sixth murder. Over the weekend, as many as four persons were brutally killed. We start with the murders of two taxi men…both young, Hispanic and living in the same general area of Belmopan. Both worked at the same stand by the bus […]
Today, twenty-five year old Lincoln Bejerano was charged for Robbery, Conspiracy to Commit Robbery and Keeping Ammunition Without a License for the point thirty-eight calibre rounds in his pocket. He and a minor found with him at the checkpoint were also charged for Keeping a Firearm Without a License and Keeping Ammunition Without a License […]
In the Belize District, an execution style murder took the life of Cleon Smith, aka Tush. It is said that the street figure moved to Hattieville some years ago to escape the life of gangs and reform himself. But on Sunday, one of two gunmen caught him off guard under a shed in the village […]
The fourth murder victim was found inside a well in Punta Gorda. The grisly discovery of the decaying corpse of Jarrel Edward Pop was made by Punta Gorda police on Saturday morning. The body of the nineteen year old had what appeared to be multiple stab wounds to various parts, including the abdomen and neck. […]
A string of fires in a span of two hours deliberately set by an arsonist kept Punta Gorda police and firefighters busy on Sunday morning. Around one-thirty a.m., local authorities responded to a vehicle on fire on Cayetano Street. There, they observed a team of firemen attempting to douse flames emanating from the engine of […]
There is one more allegation of rape to add to the growing list. It reportedly occurred in the south over the weekend. A resident of San Ignacio, Cayo District, claims that soon after she got off a bus last Saturday at about twelve-thirty at the junction near Dangriga, she was accosted by a man carrying […]
Twelve-year-old Shinique Perez, a student of Saint Martin’s Primary School, remains missing tonight after failing to return to her classroom on Friday afternoon. The family was immediately notified by the school. Today, her grandmother, Eleanor Wright confirmed to News Five that Shinique has not been seen or heard from in the past three days and […]
Another minor is missing. Fifteen year old Seily Jozeline Aguilar has been missing since January sixth. She left her home in Valley of Peace early, as usual, in her Belmopan Comprehensive School uniform. She never returned home. Her mother has been frantic since, and has enlisted the aid of the Belmopan Police in an attempt […]
On Wednesday, two teenagers from Santa Elena, Cayo were detained for the vicious and sensational murder of Canadian filmmaker Matthiew Klinck. Klinck’s body was found at the house he lived in at Selena near Spanish Lookout. He had been stabbed fourteen times in his face and upper body. Early this morning, based on confession statements, […]
There is major news and cause for celebration today in Mexico where the world’s most wanted man is back in the hands of the police. At a predawn operation around four o’clock this morning, the notorious drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo’’ Guzman was recaptured in the town of Los Mochies, in Sinaloa, his home state […]
Police are remaining tight-lipped on the investigation into the shockingly brutal murder of Quebec native Matthiew Klinck. But reliable sources tell News Five that there has been a breakthrough in the case. According to reports, two men were picked up on Wednesday evening and remain in police custody tonight being interrogated. We have been able […]
Tonight, the whereabouts of thirty-one year old Caledonia resident, Luis Alcoser remains a mystery and police are nowhere closer to cracking the case. Alcoser disappeared on Monday after he left home about six o’clock that morning from his home in the village. It is not known precisely where he was heading, but around midnight his […]
The special investigation into the fire which claimed the lives of three minors at the Princess Royal Youth Hostel commenced five weeks ago, on December first. To date, no information has been provided on any findings coming out of that investigation. Via text, C.E.O. in the Ministry of Human Development Judith Alpuche told us only, […]
