Frank Castro…it’s the name that sparked terror in the nineteen nineties and early two thousand. The notorious street figure was a known ring leader in serious felonies, including the murder and kidnapping of taxi driver Peter Novelo in the late nineteen nineties, as well as a string of robberies and other offenses. He spent over […]
News Five has been able to confirm reports that a badly decomposed body was discovered at around four this afternoon between miles five and six on the Phillip Goldson Highway, just past the Haulover Bridge. The body, which is unidentified at this time, was found in the sea behind a building, allegedly by a resident […]
A Corozal police man has been detained following allegations of a rape of a fourteen year old girl. On Monday evening, the minor and her mother visited the Corozal Police Station and reported that the girl was walking home in Altamira on Monday when she was offered a ride on a cycle by the cop. […]
There are still more questions than answers about the murder-suicide that happened over the weekend. In our story on Monday night, we told you about the tragic incident which resulted in the loss of two lives; thirty-year old Colleen Sharp and fifty-four-year old Michael Estell. But, what was the motive? And who killed whom? That’s […]
A well-known Ladyville couple was found dead inside their house in Ladyville, Belize District. When family members were unable to get in contact with them on Sunday, police were called. Inside the bathroom of the house, on the second floor of the building on the Old Coke Road, police would discover the bodies of fifty-four […]
The spate of violence over the weekend extended to the City where six persons were injured and one man was killed. The gun violence started as early as seven-thirty on Friday night on Banak Street, near its junction with Magazine Road. Within forty-five minutes, gunshots rang out on Curl Thompson Street and Central American Boulevard. […]
Just before ten this morning, political friction erupted in the Lake Independence area and police were called in to avert any violence. Residents and P.U.P. Standard Bearer, Cordel Hyde gathered at an abandoned structure, the property of Lake Independence Action Committee, which was the campaign office of Hyde and subsequently served as the venue for […]
An Orange Walk pastor has been arrested and charged on multiple counts of child pornography of two minors. Honduran national Gerardo Lopez of the Evangelical Church in Trial Farm was questioned in connection and confessed that he took the photos of the children, ages two and ten years old. He told police that he was […]
As we reported earlier, there were six persons injured in three other shootings in the Old Capital, but are not linked. Prior to the murder of Vern Magdaleno at the junction of Faber’s Road and Central American Boulevard, three other persons including a fourteen year old girl had already been shot and transported to the […]
Within minutes of the shooting on Curl Thompson Street and even as the scene was being processed, another team of officers responded to a shooting; this time at the corner of Banak Street and Magazine Road. At about seven-fifty p.m., eighteen-year-old Nissane Usher was shot to the left thigh. Usher and two others were standing […]
By Saturday, night, two other persons including a fourteen year old girl would be shot and taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Just after ten p.m., two gunmen approached a house on Police Street in the Lake Independence area and opened fire. His target, believed to be thirty-four-year old Levar Taylor, was hit to […]
And up north, a couple in Corozal Town remains hospitalized tonight, following a domestic altercation on Sunday. Twenty-three-year-old Leandro Botes, a resident of Altamira, was stabbed in the left shoulder during an incident at their residence. Sometime around nine o’clock, police visited the Corozal Community Hospital where they observed Gomez bleeding profusely from his injury. […]
We have reported on the violence in the Belize District and up north in Corozal. In the west, a domestic dispute landed a woman in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in a critical condition. Shortly before three on Saturday morning, San Ignacio Police were called out to Esperanza Village about a reported attack on twenty-seven […]
A businessman was also robbed on Saturday night in Santa Elena Town. Robbers netted over two thousand dollars in cash and valuables. San Ignacio Police say they are investigating this robbery and with the help of surveillance cameras they hope to find the perpetrators. We spoke, via phone, with Deputy in Charge of the San […]
Following his political announcement, the PM spoke to the media on a myriad of issues, including one very recent and serious discovery. Auditors and the police have been called into the Treasury Department to investigate an inside scam which netted perpetrators somewhere in the region of half a million dollars – allegedly diverted when persons […]
Tonight, the officers involved in the vicious beating of Andres Rodriguez in Orange Walk Town on Sunday have been found guilty of excessive use of force. That is the outcome of a tribunal held earlier today. As we reported on Wednesday, the officers will face disciplinary measures for their respective roles in the incident. This […]
A weekend incident between an Orange Walk resident and three law enforcement officers, caught on candid camera, has gone viral. Actually it’s more than just an incident. A Police Constable and two Special Constables were allegedly following up a report that Andres Rodriguez was following an unidentified woman. They caught up to Rodriguez at his […]
There is a gruesome murder to report in the community of Maxboro on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Sometime late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, thirty-one year old mechanic Leon Leslie Sr. was brutally killed in his home. His decomposed body was discovered Monday evening, and it was immediately obvious to Police that his death […]
Two men have been charged in connection with the latest homicide in San Ignacio. Twenty-one-year-old Wendell Ovando, a construction worker of Kontiki area in San Ignacio, Cayo, and a fifteen-year-old student were slapped with murder charges for the death of twenty-four-year-old Aurelio Montero Jr. San Ignacio Police say the third suspect has since handed himself […]
Police are reporting a significant cocaine bust in San Pedro Town involving known members of the Victoria Street gang. It happened at around 12:30pm today in an apartment in the San Pedrito Area. When the Police Strike Team descended on the apartment, they found well known gang affiliated players in the drug trade – forty-five […]
On Monday evening, a video was uploaded to Facebook showing a police officer and two special constables attempting to handcuff a man and hitting him in the process, resulting in a bloody face. The incident, which happened on Sunday night in Orange Walk Town, shows the civilian, Andres Rodrigues, on the ground appearing to refuse […]
Tonight, a small community in Roaring Creek Village known as Hattieville is still in shock, and residents are afraid, following a bold execution of one man and the attempted murder of another over the weekend. Early Saturday morning, a lone gunman targeted twenty-four-year-old Allen Garbutt and his friend, twenty-four-year-old Jermaine Welcome, as they stood outside […]
The second murder of the weekend occurred after nine on Saturday morning in the heart of Ghost Town gang territory. Five bullets made its mark on forty-year-old Edward Usher inside his yard on Mayflower Street; his body was discovered face down on the steps of a two-storey wooden house. Family and friends gathered as police […]
On January seventeenth, B.D.F. soldier Denver Villafranco was stabbed and killed in Belize City. Three days after, Police arrested forty-one-year-old Phil Staine and thirty-eight year old Orlando Staine and charged them for the murder. Today, they say their investigation has been completed with the arrest and arraignment of a third brother, thirty-three-year-old Kareem Staine. Staine […]
This week has been a particularly violent one … there have been three murders in the same number of days. On Thursday night, just before eleven o’clock, thirty-two year old Michael Horace Foreman of Iguana Street Extension, Belize City became the third murder victim. He was hanging out on Taylor’s Alley when he was shot […]
