A Salvadoran woman, who is the mother of two young boys, is serving her first night of a six-month sentence imposed upon her by Magistrate Ladonna John this morning. On Tuesday Lourdes Yohannah Quixote was arraigned on a single charge of Harm upon Nora Murrillo stemming from a fight which occurred on September nineteenth 2015 […]
Today, a pair of relatives was arraigned for a shooting at the house of Brian Davis, a Sand hill resident, on Monday, September fourteenth, 2015. A youth, who turns eighteen on October first, along with his uncle, twenty-nine year old Raymond Dominguez were taken to court before Magistrate Ladonna John and jointly charged with Aggravated […]
A registered sex offender from California, who is now living in the Lake Independence area of Belize, is still walking around free despite heinous allegations being made against him in the United States. The forty-three year old is from San Diego, California, but it is not known when he entered the country or how long […]
There are reports that the parents of the child have asked that no charges be brought in the matter, for whatever reason, but that is unconfirmed at this time. According to Williams, even if that is so, the perpetrator would still be arrested and charged. If and until criminal charges are laid, the alleged predator […]
Any news about police breaking down doors and barging into peoples’ homes unannounced would practically be a non-story – not because it is right, but because it is basically an everyday occurrence. Evadne Scott, who lives on Raccoon Street Extension isn’t prepared to just accept that and move on. She claims that over the weekend […]
Scott took to the airwaves, and her story caught the attention of Commander of Eastern Division South Chester Williams. Williams today told us that Scott has gotten her apology, and officers have reportedly been told to exercise more care and discretion. Sr. Supt. Chester Williams, Regional Commander, Eastern Division South “I had visited the […]
On Independence Day, there was a shooting in the city that left twenty-two year old Otis Anthony Gladden hospitalized. After seven p.m., the Racecourse resident was shot to both his legs as he rode on bicycle on West Canal. While authorities have been unable to determine who made an attempt on the life of the […]
The police department has been on meet and greet initiatives for some time now and today Eastern Division South and North officers were out in the community meeting with residents in an effort to address crime. While officers were in Apollo Street, Urban Avenue, Beltex Avenue, and surrounding areas of Belama, across the bridge, on […]
There was a home invasion in the Santiago Juan Layout of San Ignacio Town. Just after eleven on Monday night as forty-six year old immigration officer and owner of Coaba Restaurant, Ismael Pullido, arrived at his house on Rose Wood Street, three armed masked men accosted him inside his yard. Before robbing him of some […]
On August thirty-first there was a very disturbing incident at the Palm Centre, which is a residential psychiatric care facility in Belmopan. Because of the nature of the allegation, and the fact that it is under investigation by the Police, officials could provide little information. The police provided News Five with more details, but explained […]
Belmopan Police have made no arrests in the very sensational murder of Roaring Creek underworld figure Russell Hyde. Hyde, along with his companion Marcy Humes, was gunned down on August twenty-eighth as the couple approached his Camalote hilltop home. While there are no arrests, Police believe they know who was responsible, or at least involved. […]
But while things may have calmed down somewhat, there was another murder last week. Roaring Creek resident Devin Neal Flowers was riding his motorcycle on the Valley of Peace Road when he was gunned down. Police say his murder is unrelated to the spate of allegedly drug related murders which have plagued the area. They […]
There is also an update on the investigation into the murder of Nicaraguan Eduardo Perez Sanchez. He was shot in the head twice and his body dumped on the Young Gal Road in Teakettle. Almost immediately after the discovery of the body on the morning of August twenty-ninth, Kim Barrow’s bodyguard, thirty-three year old Ryon […]
The eastern division of the police department has been on a community policing campaign for some time now. Officers from precincts around the city and in rural Belize have been going into neighborhoods to meet with residents to better police their areas. This afternoon, the eastern division north and south officers took to the streets […]
Around two p.m. on Monday, the lifeless body of Guatemalan national Oscar Ik was discovered in some bushes forty-five miles outside of Punta Gorda, near Corazon Creek in the Toledo District. The twenty year old vendor, who lived in Guatemala and would travel across the border to Belize to sell clothes, was making a delivery […]
Acts of sexual violence against boys and girls are constant despite a number of new measures in place that provide more protection to victims and make it harsher for perpetrators of the crime. One way to prevent this scourge is through awareness and getting people to reject all forms of sexual exploitation. This morning, a […]
There were several violent incidents over the Carnival weekend in the city and in rural Belize district as well as in the south. But we start with a murder that occurred in the May Pen Village off the Phillip Goldson Highway near mile twenty-four. On Saturday morning, forty-two year old Carl McCulloch made a gruesome […]
Back to the Belize District. As many as four persons were hospitalized for injuries sustained in the gun violence that started around nine-thirty on Saturday night. An off-duty female police officer was socializing with her common-law husband and friends in front of her house on Curassow Street when a gunman opened fire and her common-law-husband, […]
Two hours later, police were called out to Antelope Street where two persons were injured in another shooting. Around eleven-thirty p.m., at least two gunmen reportedly fired a barrage of bullets at the house of twenty-one year old Andrea Buller and twenty-five year old Kendale Sanchez, hitting them to various parts of the body. Buller […]
The first two shootings on south side Belize City, it would appear, prompted a swift reaction from Eastern Division South and this morning between three a.m. and ten a.m., a joint police operation comprising of the Mobile Interdiction Team, the Special Patrol Unit and the Gang Suppression Unit rolled out in the George and Antelope […]
But there was a third shooting in the Old Capital, this time on north side. Nineteen year old Gary Young was shot on the wrist and a sixteen year old minor was shot on the buttocks at the corner of Barrack Road and Pickstock Street. According to Young, they were approached by three men, an […]
The spate of violence continued this morning. In Sand Hill, a resident Brian Davis was shot near his house following a misunderstanding with a group of men over a bicycle and some cash. The Rural Rapid Response Team of the Police Department was activated immediately after the shooting and has since captured one of four […]
On Placencia, a gathering of family and friends turned tragic for the close-knit Cabral families. From all accounts, Warren Cabral accidentally shot his cousin, Vance Cabral, while the two were socializing in a boat celebrating the Tenth of September. The fatal shooting has gripped the community because the cousins were considered close and are both […]
There was a burglary in Placencia that could well be an inside job. On Tuesday night, in the span of an hour, between ten and eleven p.m., two men broke into A and L Construction owned by Albert Loewen. The armed thieves got into the business place after gagging and tying up the seventy-one-year old […]
Deeper in the south…A fourteen year old girl high school student has been sexually abused in Punta Gorda. The young girl reported the matter to the police last week. She says she was first violated in March and the abuse was followed by two other incidents. A twenty-nine year old man is being held by […]
