In response to a flare-up of violence in San Pedro which Police believe is directly connected to drug rivals warring, special units have descended on the tourism mecca. One early casualty of the crackdown is the Campos/Hernandez family which is believed to be one of the warring factions. On Wednesday, a special unit of San […]
As we told you earlier, there is a major crackdown underway in San Pedro Town, necessitated by violent crime which even resulted in the brutal murder of a two year old boy. Because things seem out of control, the police are fighting fire with fire, and already the complaints are pouring in. Today, Irma Mejia […]
Diego Wade is another San Pedro resident who says he barely survived a meeting with the infamous Gang Suppression Unit earlier this week, and at one point thought they would kill him. Both Wade and Allen are being represented by Attorney Oscar Salgado who says that he is fed up of the constitution being flouted […]
Police Special Units have been conducting countrywide operations targeting drugs, and it is meeting with very significant success. On Tuesday morning, a joint Special Branch, K-nine and Belmopan Team conducted a search in the Hattieville Area of Roaring Creek. In an abandoned lot they discovered six parcels of cannabis which weighed in at just over […]
The spike in violent crimes across Belize in 2014 has prompted the U.S. State Department to release a revised crime and safety report which points out that the country has seen an increase in theft and murder over the past year. Despite the fact that a majority of tourist destinations, including archaeological sites and cayes, […]
Luigi Zaldivar reported to police that a man who was repairing his truck made off in it almost two weeks ago and hasn’t returned since. Sometime during the last week of February, a man went to Zaldivar’s house in Kings Park looking for a job and Zaldivar gave him his 1997 Ford Escort to fix. […]
Deportee from the United States, twenty-six year old Luis Campos, was stabbed to death in a shack on the grounds of Cuello’s Stables in Orange Walk on Sunday morning. Police responded to a 911 call and found Campos’ body with wounds to the abdomen and face wrapped in a sheet. Since investigations started on Sunday, […]
Elsewhere during the recent police offensive, a raid on the residence of another notorious San Pedrano family yielded an unlicensed firearm and eight rounds of matching ammunition. Fifty-one-year-old Peter Moses Hernandez, also known as Campos, and nine others, all of a San Juan Area address, have been arrested and charged jointly for the offenses of […]
An intense sweep of San Pedro Town has resulted in multiple arrests for criminal offenses ranging from drug trafficking and firearm possession to attempted murder. The crackdown led to the detention of twenty-one-year-old Deshawn Goff, who has since been charged for the Attempted Murder of thirteen-year-old Meredith Escalante. The minor was shot to the left […]
The extended holiday weekend was marred by violence up north, in the city and in the west. We start in Orange Walk Town, where a recent deportee was murdered and police have a duo in custody in connection with this homicide. In the early hours of Sunday morning, Orange Walk Police received a call from […]
There was also violence in the City. Two persons, including a fourteen year old student of Wesley College, were injured in a shooting on Saturday night in Belize City. Just before nine-thirty p.m., twenty-three year old Shane Flowers and the female student were socializing with some friends at a house on Glynn Street, behind the […]
Another shooting happened on Sunday evening. Two persons were shot when masked gunmen stormed a home in the Hattieville Area of Roaring Creek Village. The apparent target of the attack was twenty-one old Barrington Moro. As they do most weekends, he and friends were sitting under a tree in the yard listening to music and […]
There is one more report on crime in tonight’s broadcast. It involves a shooting that took place on election night on Mayflower Street in the City in which one person was killed and two others were injured. The family of Jervis Valencia, who is under police custody in the K.H.M.H. as a suspect in the […]
Two men were murdered in a span of seven hours on Thursday. In the city, an Ontario resident was found dead in the bathroom of a small guesthouse. He is caretaker forty-nine year old Oscar Grijalva who arrived at the Isabel Guest House on Albert Street in the morning accompanied by an alleged female escort. […]
The other homicide was in Roaring Creek in the west. Around eight-thirty on Thursday night, a man from the Young Bank Road in Camalote was shot and killed while he was preparing for business for the following day. Elroy Ramirez was at the house of Reginald Ruiz when he met his untimely death. With few […]
While residents across the Old Capital were absorbed in the counting of ballots on Wednesday night, gunfire erupted near the corners of Mayflower and Vernon streets where a group of men were standing. Sometime after nine o’clock, a succession of gunshots was heard in the Ghost Town area. It would later be learned that the […]
But on the eve of the elections, one man was killed in San Pedro. Around eight-thirty on Tuesday night, San Pedro police responded to a shooting incident that left thirty-eight year old Pablito Barboza of San Pedrito Area, suffering with apparent gunshot wounds to the head and the chest area. Thirty-six year old Humberto Alcoser […]
A teenager is on remand tonight at the Belize Central Prison after being arraigned for the murder of twenty-one-year-old Ian “Uno” Adolphus last Wednesday. This morning, eighteen-year-old Akeem Kirklin Trapp appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith where he was indicted on a count of murder. His mother, who declined an on-camera interview, maintains that […]
The polls had just closed in Corozal Town on Wednesday night, when shots rang out. Three persons were injured in a robbery at a Chinese store. Three armed men held up a couple and a customer and inflicted injuries on them before fleeing the area with an unknown amount of cash. Duane Moody reports. […]
Over the weekend, Oscar Williams was brutally attacked by a group of men when he tried to defend his daughter from a group of young men hurling disrespectful remarks at her. Williams is unconscious and remains hospitalized, as he slowly recovers. News Five’s Andrea Polanco has the story. Andrea Polanco, Reporting Forty-two year old […]
This morning, a team of law enforcement officers in San Pedro busted a couple in possession of a substantial quantity of marijuana. Acting on information received the team visited and apartment in San Pedrito which is being occupied by twenty-seven-year-old Jeffery Navarette and twenty-four-year-old Delfina Romero. A physical search of Navarette yielded a black plastic […]
There were three murders over the weekend; two in Belize City and one in Corozal. In the city, we start with the most recent murder that occurred just after eleven on Sunday night. Two disc jockeys were socializing at a residence on Periwinkle Street when they were targeted by two gunmen who were reportedly on […]
Four hours before the cold-blooded murder of Michael Welch, shots rang out behind the Charles Bartlett Hyde building, better known as the Complex. Just before seven p.m. on Sunday, twenty-seven-year-old Japhet Martinez of M and Y Street, off Holy Emmanuel Street in Belize City was the target of a gunman. Martinez had left home and […]
A Mexican national was hacked to death in the Corozal District over the weekend. On Sunday night in San Victor Village, the mutilated body of Sergio Martinez was discovered inside a pimento bungalow with multiple chop wounds to the face and head. Punctures were also visible on Martinez’s neck and chest. Initial investigations revealed that […]
At around midnight on Saturday, an attempt was made on the life of twenty-six-year-old Jaime Emmanuel Chavarria. Just outside his house on West Canal, Chavarria had just exited his vehicle, when a man, who came from the direction of Rocky Road, fired several shots. Chavarria was hit twice. Neighbors say they heard at least seven […]
