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News Five has confirmed that three persons were arrested and charged in connection with assault on Aron Castillo, following formal report. The suspects are nineteen-year-old Victor Carillo, thirty-five-year-old Lorenzo Menjivar, and twenty-four-year-old Alexis Oretencio. They were arraigned inside the San Pedro Magistrates Court this morning for the crime of Wounding. All three men pleaded not […]
Written on December 20, 2022 | Posted in
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We also heard from Caleb Orosco, the Executive Director of the United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM). Orosco has been in communication with Castillo since the incident occurred. And, according to Orosco, the behavior displayed by the alleged perpetrators is a reflection of how the state, “gives these kind of people permission to sustain violence on […]
Written on December 20, 2022 | Posted in
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A mechanic of Roaring Creek was shot on Monday night while driving through the village. Reports are that around seven-thirty p.m., thirty-five-year-old Daniel Franco was driving a motorcycle towards his house when, upon reaching Progress Avenue, someone opened fire on him. The bullet entered his abdomen and exited through his hip. Franco managed to drive […]
Written on December 20, 2022 | Posted in
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Two men were shot in Belize City this morning. Reports are that Robert McDonald and Jefferson Dawson were inside a yard on Black Orchid Street in the Saint Martin’s Area when they came under attack. Information gathered from the scene is that the gunman rode up to the property on a bicycle and fired in […]
Written on December 19, 2022 | Posted in
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Last Thursday, we reported on a shooting in the Lake Independence area in which three persons were injured, Kingsley Morrison, Chris Welch and Ulide Allen. While we caught up with police as they processed the scene on Mahogany Street, just past the Complex Building, today, police confirmed that that it was only one of two […]
Written on December 19, 2022 | Posted in
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There was an aggravated assault report coming out of Dangriga. It occurred in the wee small hours of Friday night at Island Breeze Restaurant. Reports are that Hopkins resident Eden Pauline Nunez was socializing with relatives at the establishment when a squabble ensued and she was stabbed to the lower back by another woman, who […]
Written on December 19, 2022 | Posted in
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There was a shooting in Belize City on Saturday morning that has left one man injured. Rosney O’Brian was travelling on Lakeview Street just before three a.m. when he heard the blast of a single gunshot. He then realised that he had been shot, and managed to ride his motorbike to the K.H.M.H. where he […]
Written on December 19, 2022 | Posted in
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There was also a burglary reported by a construction company in Belama. Kevin Ayuso reported to police that a forty-foot container at his property was broken into and stolen from within were numerous items valued at about ten thousand dollars. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood shared the details, while asking the public to be aware of purchasing […]
Written on December 19, 2022 | Posted in
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An early afternoon shooting on Mahogany Street in Belize City has left three men injured. At around two p.m. today shots rang out near the Complex Building when at least one gunman targeted three men in a vehicle. Among the three victims is one person who News Five is told was detained in connection with […]
Written on December 15, 2022 | Posted in
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The Communications Director of the Belize Police Department also confirmed with the media today that Police Constable Walford Smart is spending his first night behind bars after he was criminally charged and arraigned in court today. Smart is being remanded in connection with a firearm that went missing from police exhibit, ended up in the […]
Written on December 14, 2022 | Posted in
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Commissioner of Police Chester Williams recently returned from a regional commissioners’ conference in Miami. During the conference, ComPol Williams engaged in a number of discussions on issues related to violent crimes within the Caribbean. The discourse also had a cybercrime component to it. And, one of the pressing issues for ComPol Williams is the proliferation […]
Written on December 14, 2022 | Posted in
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As to the issue of violent crimes across the region, ComPol Williams says Belize is at the bottom of the list for 2022. According to the commissioner, countries in the Caribbean that were trailing Belize in violent crimes are now ahead, while some of the more violent Caribbean states are now logging record and close […]
Written on December 14, 2022 | Posted in
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One of the reasons cited for the decrease in violent crimes, particularly in Belize City, is the free education program implemented in four high schools. But, with progress comes its own problems. The increased access to education has funneled some not so well behaved youths into the school system, which has taken some street rivalries […]
Written on December 14, 2022 | Posted in
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Today, the Belize Police Department held a press briefing on crimes that occurred over the weekend. Among the first topics addressed were two murders which occurred within twenty-four hours of each other. The first was reported in the newscast on Monday; that of twenty-seven-year-old Byron Herrera, but the other, which occurred in Dangriga, somehow went […]
Written on December 13, 2022 | Posted in
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As we said, there was a second murder that was recorded at the start of the weekend. On Friday night in Dangriga, shots rang out on the south riverside bridge area of town. Despite being mortally wounded by two persons who approached from behind and fired shots at him, Douglas Gonzalez made his way home […]
Written on December 13, 2022 | Posted in
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ASP Fitzroy Yearwood was also asked for an update on the double murder of Cleon Smith Junior and Kendale Ramirez which occurred on December fourth in the Saint Martin’s area of Belize City. The men, who are from southern Belize, were inside a parked vehicle on Electric Avenue when a young man brandishing a gun […]
Written on December 13, 2022 | Posted in
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It is not a bank heist, but thieves got away with an ATM containing over one hundred thousand dollars. Today, the Belize Police Department confirmed with the media that an ATM at the Escuela Secundaria Tecnica Mexico in San Roman Village, Corozal was stolen from the school’s compound. But it would seem that the four […]
Written on December 13, 2022 | Posted in
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A trio of men, reportedly belong to an offshoot of the MS-13 gang known as Normandie Locos Salvatrucha, was arrested and charged before being taken to court today to be arraigned for being members of a gang. Thirty-five-year-old Hilberto Ruiz, a truck driver of Antelope Street Extension, his younger sibling, thirty-year-old Angel Antonio Ruiz, and […]
Written on December 13, 2022 | Posted in
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This morning, the father of Orange Walk’s latest murder victim was at the cemetery in that northern municipality, taking measurements and preparing to lay his son to rest. On Saturday night, shots rang out in an area just beyond the People’s Stadium in Orange Walk. Byron Herrera had been killed by at least one gunman […]
Written on December 12, 2022 | Posted in
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Brandon Hughes and Jose Gomez have been convicted of the murder of businessman Oscar Rosado Senior. The pair appeared before Justice Susan Lamb today in the Supreme Court where she handed down her very first verdict for murder. The incident happened at Rosado’s place of business in April 2023 when he was shot and killed […]
Written on December 9, 2022 | Posted in
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Earlier this week, U.S. fugitive Aldrick Scott was detained in Caye Caulker and handed over to U.S law enforcement. He is now being held in custody, but Scott is wanted in connection with the disappearance and possible murder of his girlfriend, Cari Allen, a resident of Nebraska. Allen remains missing tonight and reports are that […]
Written on December 9, 2022 | Posted in
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2022 comes to an end in less than three weeks and the police department is working overtime to ensure that it maintains a lid on crime and violence going into the new year. While the official statistics will be released in the weeks ahead, the Ministry of Home Affairs anticipates that figures for 2022 will […]
Written on December 8, 2022 | Posted in
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An arrest is yet to be made in a deadly Sunday afternoon shooting in Belize City that claimed the lives of Cleon Smith Junior and Kendale Ramirez. Despite the mother of Smith’s infant son being taken into police custody for questioning, as well as her current boyfriend, no one has been charged for the double […]
Written on December 8, 2022 | Posted in
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Thirty-year-old Edward Cabanas is free from jail tonight after he was handed a suspended sentence on a remaining prison term. Back in 2012, Cabanas stabbed his sibling three times in the thigh and the injuries that Brandon Bahadur received ultimately led to his death. On October twenty-first, Cabanas pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of […]
Written on December 8, 2022 | Posted in
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Police have still not charged anyone as yet for the fatal shootings of Cleon Smith Junior and Kendale Ramirez and there is no one detained for the grisly double homicide, as the investigation enters its fourth day on Thursday. Today, however, the common-law wife of Kendale Ramirez spoke with News Five and explained how he […]
Written on December 7, 2022 | Posted in
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