Last Wednesday, two officers, PCs Leonard Nunez and Hallet King were arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate Court for the murder of eighteen year old Hilberto Sotz. Sotz, a second form student of Baptist High School in the west, was killed while in police custody and Nunez and King were allegedly responsible for his demise. […]
The sensational murder of eighteen-year-old Hilberto Sotz of Caye Caulker left the country stunned. Sotz was beaten and killed whilst in police custody at the island’s police station. As we said, two cops were arraigned and remanded, and several others are on interdiction. The police officers involved alleged that Sotz was experiencing breathing problems and […]
As we told you on Wednesday night, Dangriga Police recovered the shotgun used and detained suspects in the latest homicide of that municipality. Well, we can confirm that two men have been charged with the murder of fifty-one-year-old Ralston Patnett. The men, thirty year old Brandon Mason Kerr and thirty-two-year old Lindsburgh Oxford Williams were […]
The autopsy on the body of Hilberto Sotz was finally released this morning and the second form student of Baptist High School did not die of natural causes as police had originally indicated he died after complaining of chest pains. By this afternoon, Caye Caulker Police Officers, forty-three year old Leonard Nunez and thirty-two year […]
Up to news time, there has been no statement from the police department on the crisis they have on their hands. But we can confirm that aside from the two officers that have been charged today, three others are on interdiction until the determination of a tribunal. Corporal Kirby Palma, Eriberto Patt and Bernardette Ramos […]
Just minutes before seven tonight, the ministry of national security just finally sent out a release on the death of Hilberto Sotz. It states that “the Hon. John Saldivar, Minister of National Security, condemns the alleged use of unwarranted personal violence by PC Leonard Nunez and PC Hallet King and the apparent neglect of duty […]
On Monday night, we told you about the brutal murder of fifty one year old Ralston Patnett. The former veteran fireman was killed around midnight on Sunday on the Jetty Road in Dangriga Town. Police were called out to the scene near the Commerce Bight Port, where a car, described as a red Camry, was […]
All hell broke loose on Caye Caulker on Monday night after word spread across the island that a young man had died while in police custody. Protesters took the streets and the Gang Suppression Unit was later called into the island to bring control. Eighteen-year-old Hilberto Sotz was detained before noon on Monday and hours […]
Personnel from the Gang Suppression Unit have been deployed to Caye Caulker where they have remained stationed since Monday night. The GSU was summoned to the island during a heightened state of unrest among residents who took to the streets in protest following Sotz death. Amid the chaos, an angry mob proceeded to target the […]
While dozens of officers have descended on the otherwise quiet village of Caye Caulker, among their ranks is Assistant Commissioner of Police Noel Leal. He is heading an internal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Hilberto Sotz. He is also tasked with carefully examining the role the arresting officers may have played in […]
A mother says that her son, twenty-one year old Ibrahim Cadogan was brutalized whilst in police custody. Vidalia Cadogan visited News Five today to tell her story. She says police were unlawful and subjected her son, Ibrahim, to unwarranted beatings. Cadogan says that on Friday her son was in Placencia visiting relatives and while he […]
There is breaking news. A Cayo resident has died at the police station in Caye Caulker. Police are not talking about this incident, but Gilbert Zotz died in custody so there are many questions to answer. A team of police investigators from San Pedro are on their way to Caye Caulker to investigate the incident. […]
The body of a veteran fireman was found burnt inside his vehicle in Dangriga. But who would want him dead and why? Well, it seems that the price on his head was high because his killers didn’t only fire a barrage of bullets on his vehicle, but they also set him on fire inside his […]
Belize City police are tonight looking for well known street figure, thirty-year-old Maurice Felix, who was released on bail last Friday after being charged with the attempted murder of two men. He is now wanted for murder two weeks after the shooting. On Monday, May twenty-fifth, Mark Gentle and Calvin Cumberbatch were both seated in […]
A chopping incident over the weekend left a man hospitalized. Twenty seven year old Rodolfo Perez was chopped multiple times in the Long Bank Road a few miles outside of Dangriga. Officer in Charge in Dangriga told us more. Supt. Roy Joseph, O.C., Dangriga “On Sunday, the seventh of June 2015, at approximately two-ten […]
Internal and criminal investigations are currently ongoing at the Police Department in Belize City after a city resident was shot by an on-duty police officer. Thirty-year old Kareem Betancourt is tonight in stable condition and under police guard at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot to the right arm by a police […]
There has not been a murder since the gruesome killings in Roaring Creek at the end of May. But in the early hours of this morning, a woman was killed in More Tomorrow, Cayo. And are pig thieves responsible for the murder of the mother of six children? That’s what family and associates of Paola […]
With the assistance of Interpol, the local police department has issued a warrant for Tracy Channon Nessl, the common-law wife of American retiree, Timothy Patrick McNamara, who died on Christmas Day of 2014. The sixty-six year old man was found dead on the verandah of his house in Boston Village, Belize District; he had been […]
It’s been several days now since the sensational murders of Roaring Creek residents Steven Hyde and Edilberto Madrid, and no one has been charged. Both men, an associate and a cousin of Russell Hyde, respectively, were found badly mutilated—limbs and head severed—in the Young Gial Bank Road. Madrid’s body was found in the Belize River […]
There has been a serious spike in murders this year, even as there continues to be a decrease in other crimes. It’s a serious problem for the Ministry of National Security which has struggled to effectively deal with the situation and the criticism. According to C.E.O., George Lovell, they’ve taken a multi-pronged approach and will […]
One of the major thrusts is strengthening the forensic capabilities of the Police Department. Just a few weeks ago, twenty-seven police personnel were certified as international scenes of crime officers. Which of course begs the question – where’s the forensics lab and DNA testing facility which has been a campaign promise every election since 2008? […]
This morning, thirty five year old Kenrick August, a construction worker and disc jockey was arraigned in the courtroom of Magistrate Ladonna John on a single charge of Indecent Assault. Allegations are that on March tenth, 2015, he entered the home of ex-wife while she was asleep. He jumped on top of her and began […]
Late this evening News Five confirmed that no charges have yet been laid against the three men detained as persons of interest in the two recent, bloody Roaring Creek slayings of Edilberto Madrid and Steven Hyde. Police at this time are awaiting some critical elements which they feel will enable them to close the investigation […]
The Corozal police are reporting various seizures of firearms and live rounds in Carolina Village, Corozal. The operations began this morning at about nine-thirty. In the first instance a black plastic bag was found with a nine millimetre pistol with five live rounds of ammunition. Two hours later, at an abandoned house, they found a […]
The brutal slayings of two Roaring Creek men, just a day apart, has shocked the small community, and indeed the nation. Twenty-eight year old Edilberto Madrid went missing on Sunday, his body discovered on Tuesday floating in the Belize River. Fifty-one year old Steven Hyde was likely killed Monday night, his body discovered in a […]
