Prior to his murder, sixteen year old Ivan Choc was hit to the pelvis by a gunman about three weeks ago. He was shot near the cemetery in the village as he headed home on bicycle. David Cruz, who is the suspect in Choc’s shooting, is currently on remand at the Central Prison in Hattieville. […]
There is another homicide to report, but local police could not offer any details. A sensational double murder took place over the weekend in the neighbouring Chetumal. A businessman from the Belize Commercial Free Zone, Ernesto Alonso De Miguel, also known as “El Espanol,” was murdered on Saturday, at a popular restaurant across the border. […]
A forty year old Benque Viejo Del Carmen resident is facing charges of sexual assault on his stepson. The carpenter is accused of acting inappropriately against the fourteen year old student on more than one occasion, the most recent taking place on Saturday night. The student claims that he was sleeping on a sofa when […]
No arrests have been made, but late last week, police were tipped off that someone intended to transport weed on the Tropic Air flight from Corozal Town to San Pedro. Special Branch and Criminal Investigation Branch personnel headed to Tropic’s office in the village of Ranchito and made the bust on Friday. Some four hundred […]
A criminal investigation remains open into the death of Arlie Andrew Avilez, who succumbed to injuries received during a physical altercation in mid-October. Today, his grieving family is simply trying to have their questions answered. It was not until his sibling visited the K.H.M.H. while her daughter was hospitalized that she learned of the demise […]
Despite the family admitting that their loved one was a drug addict, they maintain that he did not have to meet such a violent end. While they all want justice, they are not optimistic that fairness will be the outcome of the matter. Voice of: Andy Avilez’s Sister “Police they told me that a […]
Three family members were wounded during a domestic dispute at their home in San Pedro Columbia, Toledo. On Wednesday night, an intoxicated Luis Co and his wife were embroiled in a violent fight and according to the police their two children intervened to diffuse the situation and that’s when it got ugly. Twenty-five year old […]
Was fifty-one year old Arlie Andrew Avilez killed? An investigation is ongoing by officers attached to the Belama Police Station into the untimely death of the Belize City man on October twenty-fifth at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The official police version is that on October ninth, Avilez was involved in a brawl on the […]
On October thirteenth, however, only Avilez would appear before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith and arraigned for one count of wounding upon the Chinese businessman. He pleaded guilty to the charge and was released. But in court that day, Avilez told the Chief Magistrate that he was badly beaten—not for attempting to steal, but while […]
Exactly seven days after a man fired his weapon into the air in front of hundreds of witnesses on election night, there has been no arrest. The alleged shooter, identified as a close affiliate of Minister of National Security John Saldivar, was immediately detained by police. That’s when Saldivar shouted at police officers to back […]
Discharging a firearm in public is a criminal offence. So is obstruction. And from the video, there it appears that there was obstruction by John Saldivar and by his supporters who actually pulled away the man detained by police, very aggressively. He wasn’t Minister of Police then, just an ordinary man. But he is Minister […]
There is an ongoing criminal investigation into the death of fifty-one-year-old Arlie Andrew Avilez of Belize City. Avilez passed away since October but a post mortem examination has just been concluded. The results show that it may not have been a case of natural death. Last month, on October ninth, he was involved in a […]
A police officer attached to the San Ignacio formation has been arraigned on a single charge of harm after repeatedly striking an individual in custody at the station with a baton. Gustavo Williams had been brought in and detained inside a holding cell following a report of a domestic issue. Whilst in confinement, the young […]
A retired police officer is being heralded as a hometown hero after thwarting a robbery attempt in Punta Gorda Town. The incident has subsequently led to the arrest of a Belize City man who has since been charged for three counts relating to the brazen stab. Jeremy Parham remains on pretrial detention tonight at the […]
A daring, armed robbery at a café in San Ignacio Town on Monday night has left a cashier and her co-worker short of cash and other valuables. According to thirty-eight-year-old Marisol Milan, sometime before eight o’clock a male person with a shirt concealing his face entered Vivian’s Coffee House on Joseph Andrews Drive. Shortly thereafter, […]
On election eve, police in San Pedro made the arrest of a high profile international figure wanted by International Criminal Police Organization who has been residing in the island for more than two years. David Miguel Nanes Schnitzer has reportedly obtained Belizean nationality, driver’s license and social security status under a different name. Schnitzer is […]
A single mother of five children, Odette Lambey, who was accused of placing the hand of her five year old son over a flaming stove causing him to sustain second degree burns, was sentenced on Tuesday. Lambey pleaded guilty to Grievous Harm but was spared jail time and instead the Chief Magistrate, imposed a nine […]
The death toll went up by one in San Ignacio where as recent as Sunday morning; a Guatemalan national was stabbed to death as he exited a popular nightclub. That murder was followed by another this morning when a twenty-six year old resident was killed in a drive-by shooting in San Ignacio. Darwin Guerrero was […]
Also in San Ignacio, there was a near-rumble on Monday night following a standoff between supporters of both mass parties in front of the Center for Employment Training. Reports are that the United Democratic Party took control of the area outside that station, cordoning it off with flags and red and white cloth on both […]
A lso on the crime blotter…just before midnight on Monday, shots rang out on Magazine Road, in proximity to the Raccoon Street Police Station in the city. Another youth had been shot on the eve of the General Elections. Pitter Street resident, twenty-three-year-old Nigel Augustine was targeted by a single gunman, who approached and opened […]
Tonight, a Belize City resident is accused of having unlawful sex with a foster child from a child care home in the City. Nineteen year old Guillermo Silva, of Antelope Street Extension, was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court before the Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith this morning. A fifteen year old girl claims that […]
There was violence in Belmopan and San Ignacio over the weekend. In the outskirts of the capital, two men on motorcycles wearing Halloween masks rode up to a home in the San Martin area, where a number of persons were gathered. One of the men drew a weapon and fired into the crowd. Police have […]
Four persons are currently detained at the San Ignacio Police following a brawl on Sunday morning outside of the Blue Angels Night Club. Twenty year old Iter Espino’s body was discovered ten minutes later at the steps of the Bismilah Furniture Store near the Welcome Center. Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting As partygoers […]
Meanwhile, Roaring Creek police are investigating a case of the sudden death of a Salvadoran living in the Valley of Peace. On Saturday afternoon, the body of fifty-eight year old Luis Antonio Gonzalez Herrera was found fifteen miles from the Valley of Peace Community. He was last seen on Saturday morning when he left home […]
A “Basic Intelligence Analysis Training” for officers attached to the Belize Police Department concluded today at the Best Western Biltmore Plaza. The training, which is being coordinated through the Central American Regional Security Initiative, CARSI, is designed to improve the officers’ abilities to analyze data gathered from their communities. But the course takes it a […]
