There will be peace in the twenty-two thousand square miles of the Rural Eastern Division’s jurisdiction this Christmas, at least if the officers in that division have anything to do with it. The R.E.D. has been in the news constantly of late, as it beefs up its crime-fighting resources and also explores very real interaction […]
Three days after an outrageous allegation by a twenty-five year old woman that she was raped by a Police Constable while detained at the San Ignacio Police Station, an investigation is still ongoing. And no charges have yet been laid against the accused. According to the alleged victim, from Bullet Tree, a policeman took her […]
Keyren Tzib will be home for the holidays. After walking up and down the steps of the Supreme Court many times, the court today granted the coastguard officer bail. She is accused of the manslaughter of her common law husband who she stabbed to death at their Lord’s Bank home during a domestic dispute. At […]
Forty-five-year-old Lindbert Brown lost his life this morning, following a predawn assault during which he was stabbed multiple times inside a residence on Amara Avenue in Belize City. It is reported that Brown attacked a woman with a piece of broken bottle when the object was wrestled from him and used to injure him fatally. […]
An American has come forward to claim the mystery plane which landed at the Municipal Airstrip on October twenty-seventh and was abandoned there. The plane is a US registered Piper PA 34 Seneca Twin-engine aircraft. There was no sign of a pilot or any cargo, and since the plane illegally landed before the facility opened […]
Police had reported, based on the findings of a very preliminary investigation right after the aircraft landed, a flight plan had been filed. That plan had the Piper Seneca routed from Aruba to the Phillip Goldson International on Sunday, October twenty-fifth. Instead, it landed at the Municipal Airstrip two days after, on Tuesday. An intensive […]
News Five has received correspondence from an organization called the Missing Children Society of Canada seeking the help of the public in locating a child. According to investigator Lori Mantle, two year old Treyson Trockstad-Greenway was taken out of Canada in January 2014 by his mother, Robin Leanne Trockstad, during a custody dispute. Mantle says […]
Call it Community Policing, Christmas spirit or a combination of both – but whatever it is, it brought smiles to the faces of commuters pulled at random off rural buses today. That’s because the officers of the Rural Eastern Division decided to hand out some Christmas cheer of their own – the kind that folds. […]
The home invasion at the house of Lebanese Honorary Consul in Burrel Boom is back in the news tonight. A total of eighteen persons have been charged but the last of eight suspects believed to have invaded the home of Sarkis Abou-Nehra reportedly tried to commit suicide while locked down at the Ladyville Police Station […]
There is a serious allegation tonight coming out of San Ignacio but details are sketchy. A twenty-five year old woman from the village of Bullet Tree was in police custody when she was allegedly raped. She claims that at about five thirty on Sunday morning while she was being held at the police station, an […]
Three men were busted at a checkpoint in the area of the toll bridge on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Just before midnight on Friday, a vehicle with license plates BZ-C-34105 was stopped and checked. Travelling in the vehicle were thirty-one year-old Alrick Smith, twenty-seven year old Norely Cruz, both of Ladyville and thirty two year […]
Thieves burglarized a warehouse on the Philip Goldson Highway and made away with a sizeable amount of beers sometime in the past week. Forty-two year old businessman Jignesh Paintar of Euphrates Avenue reports that his warehouse at Miles four and a half was broken into and the beer thieves stole one hundred and twenty five […]
An internal investigation is taking place at the Post Office following a report of missing monies. As many as ten thousand dollars was allegedly misappropriated by a second grade clerk from Orange Walk who works in the EMS unit of the Belize City office on Queen Street. The report has been forwarded to the C.E.O. […]
After months of intense training, one hundred and sixty-seven new officers joined the police force today. Their graduation took place at the National Police Training Academy in the Capital. Family and friends beamed with pride as the officers were formally admitted to the force. On Monday, they take on assignments across the country. Duane Moody […]
While crime has been prevalent throughout 2015, the murder count is slightly less than 2014 so far. There were one hundred and twenty murders last year and that number this year stands at one hundred and sixteen with two weeks more to the end of the year. Minister Saldivar says that major crimes are down. […]
Punta Gorda Police are trying to determine who may have lured a taxi-man to his death on a remote feeder road on the outskirts of that community. A we reported on Tuesday, a passerby found sixty-one year old Elridgeville resident Antonio Rodriguez barely alive on the ground next to his vehicle at about midday. He […]
Tonight, twenty-eight-year-old Jeffery McDougal is behind bars after being accused of a shooting incident which occurred on Sunday, December thirteenth, 2015 in which Brandon Allen was shot and injured in his buttocks and had to be hospitalized. The shooting incident is said to have occurred at the corner of East Canal Street and Water Lane, […]
This afternoon, ninety-three year old Wilmenia Santos, a resident of number thirty Caesar Ridge Road since Independence, was given an early and very meaningful Christmas gift from the Community Policing Unit. Her home was given a facelift by officers and interns, including a fresh coat of paint inside, repairs, a new mattress and bedding and […]
Details are sketchy at this point, but News Five has been able to confirm that the body of a very well known P.G. resident was found in his vehicle on a deserted feeder road. According to reports, just before midday somebody passing by saw the body of sixty-one year old taxi-man Antonio Rodriguez, a resident […]
Tonight, an ITVET student is on remand at the Belize Central Prison accused of sexual abuse of a fourteen year old girl. He is twenty-year old Kristoff Myvett. It is alleged that Myvett abused the minor on September twenty-eighth, 2015 in Belize City. Myvett appeared before the Senior Magistrate, Sharon Fraser today and was represented […]
There have been four murders in the Corozal District this year, but that count went up to five as a result of a stabbing on Saturday night when a village dance was taking place in Paraiso. Twenty-two-year-old Alberto Briceño was stabbed multiple times by a pair of siblings who were known to be his friends. […]
There were other serious crimes committed over the weekend. In San Pedro Ambergris Caye, police have arrested a deliveryman after he allegedly took a woman to a remote area of the island on his motorcycle and raped her on Friday. The thirty-four year old victim was allegedly looking for employment when twenty-three year old Arlen […]
And from rape to attempted rape, also on San Pedro, Police have arrested and arraigned a teenage male after he was positively identified by two of his victims. Salvadoran Fabio Hernandez Cuellar, an eighteen year old construction worker, is suspected to have brutally beaten a seventy year old woman as she walked home on the […]
There is also a report of sexual abuse from the south. The incidents happened back in November, but are only being reported in the police blotter. Three young boys, two who are twelve years old and one who is eleven years old, allege that they were sexually assaulted by a seventeen-year-old relative. Their mothers say […]
The investigation into the home invasion at the house of the Lebanese Honorary Consul continues to unfold. Today police say they made seven more arrests over the weekend, five directly related and two related indirectly to the home invasion in Burrell Boom on December third. By our unofficial count…including these arrests eighteen persons have been […]
