In the south on Saturday night, a joint operation conducted by uniformed Police Officers and Special Branch Personnel from Placencia in Seine Bight Village led to the discovery of drugs in that southern village. Based on Placencia Special Branch intelligence, a passenger bus was searched around seven-thirty p.m. and inside a black Safari Express knapsack […]
The Gang Suppression Unit is also reporting on seizures of ammunition and drugs over the past few days. On Saturday, during a search on Victoria Street, the Unit found a total of forty-seven live rounds of ammo at an abandoned lot. Also on Saturday on Castle Street, the GSU found a plastic bag containing one […]
Last week, a well-known Belize City tattoo artist was sent to prison after he was accused of having a sex with a fifteen year old girl. Well, two brothers from Calla Creek Village in the west are under investigation for similar offenses following a report made by a thirteen year old girl from San Ignacio […]
And in the north, a mother of Fourth Street North in Corozal Town is reporting that her underage daughter has been missing since last November. Now you’d be asking why the mother has just made a report, since fifteen year old Ana Villanueva reportedly left the house two months ago. According to the mother, […]
Ladyville Police and the Belize Defence Force are investigating a robbery of thousands of rounds of military ammunition. That’s right, military ammunition stolen from a guarded B.D.F. facility on the Lord’s Bank road. The heist was discovered early this morning at what the B.D.F. call an echelon, a storage base for ammunitions and explosives. The […]
In the magistrate’s court today, popular Tattoo Artist Esteban ‘Steve’ Mossiah, proprietor of Stinging Scorpio’s Tattoo, was remanded to Belize Central Prison after he arrested and charged with two counts of carnal knowledge. No plea was taken from forty-five year old Mossiah who appeared unrepresented in court this morning and subsequently denied bail due to […]
Belmopan Police are still actively investigating the murder of twenty-four year old Emerson Daly Junior. Tonight, one of the men, who were detained and being questioned, remains in custody. Police say they haven’t ruled out any motive and are still closely looking from all angles. Daly Junior, a small business owner, failed to return home […]
A wanted American national who was nabbed in Dangriga last Friday was handed over to U.S authorities this morning. Fifty-four year old Robert Andrew Ragin, who was wanted by U.S by Florida law enforcement agents to answer charges on twelve counts of promoting sexual performance by a child, was reportedly living in Belize for […]
Tonight, two persons are being questioned about the murder of twenty-four year old Roaring Creek entrepreneur, Emerson Daly Junior. While Police are not saying if the men in custody are friends of Daly’s, they confirmed that the duo is from the Belmopan Area. On Wednesday morning, Daly’s decomposing body was discovered in the Belize […]
News Five has confirmed that this morning, Chairman of the U.D.P. Alberto August was involved in a broad daylight domestic altercation in Santa Elena. We were told officially that it got so bad that officers had to be dispatched to the location. Now August is a very high profile U.D.P. personality, and police say […]
An early morning fire has destroyed a building and equipment valued over one hundred and forty thousand dollars belonging to Grand Colony Resort in San Pedro Town. After two on Wednesday morning, San Pedro Police responded to a 911 call at Grand Colony Resort on Sea Grape Drive where a wooden carpenter’s workshop was on […]
Another San Pedro hotel took a hit on Wednesday, this time by robbers. According to police, a receptionist of Caribbean Villas reported that around four-thirty on Wednesday, he and two other co-workers were at work when a man with a rag over his face entered and held them up with a black handgun. The man […]
A search for Emerson Daly, a Roaring Creek resident, concluded this morning when his body was pulled out from the river behind Banana Bank in the Cow Run area. The decomposing body was partially nude and while it was suspected that he died from stab wounds, police clarified this evening that Daly was in fact […]
The family of a missing Roaring Creek resident fears the worst tonight. Twenty-four year old Emerson Daly took off on Sunday in a vehicle belonging to his uncle promising to return it soon enough but he never did. This morning, the police found the Pathfinder in an abandoned area of Belmopan with blood stains on […]
Two brothers have been arraigned for Saturday’s murder of B.D.F. volunteer, Denver Villafranco. The siblings, Orlando and Phil Tyrone Staine from the Saint Martin De Porres area appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith today after they were charged for the violent and cold blooded homicide. Villafranco was chopped to death near the Complex building […]
Twenty-five year old Cassian Young was charged today for the Possession of a Controlled Drug with Intent to Supply to Another. Young was intercepted by police in the area of Conch Shell Bay where the Gang Suppression Unit was carrying out anti-drug operations. According to the GSU, Young was heading to Vernon Street from […]
San Ignacio Police are seeking your help in locating a 1999 Honda CRV with license plate BMP-2024. The vehicle was stolen during an armed robbery in the Santiago Juan Layout on Monday. Four men, one armed with a gun and another armed with a knife, relieved Ruby Obando of her vehicle and a cell phone […]
According to the murder stats for 2014, San Pedro has quickly become a most dangerous town. The island accounted for the second highest amount of murders last year. On Saturday around noon, murder victim number was found. The body of a Honduran woman, who had been missing for four days, was discovered north of San […]
In Belize City, the grieving family of Denver Villafranco says various persons watched as the B.D.F. volunteer was cold-bloodedly murdered by a group of three men believed to be persons with whom he had a previous altercation. The murder happened on Saturday night in proximity of where he lived with his mother. Police recovered the […]
The last time we reported of a major crime in San Pedro was on December fifteenth when Pedro Castillo was shot dead in an exchange of gunfire between Coast Guard personnel and three civilians twenty-one and a half miles north of San Pedro Town. Since then, it has been relatively quiet on the island as […]
Four men were arraigned this morning in the Orange Walk Magistrate Court for drug possession and trafficking of forty pounds of heroin, worth ten million dollars. It follows a huge bust by the Anti-Drug Unit of the police department in front of a bar at the South End entrance of Corozal Town. There was no […]
A fisherman was heading home to Oleander Street in the City on Tuesday night when he was ambushed in his boat. Pedro Ayuso Junior, also known as Pete, was in the area of Belcan Bridge when someone travelling in another skiff opened fire on him. The salvo of bullets found their mark on the father […]
While no one has been charged for the murder of “Pete” Ayuso, a prison inmate was this afternoon arraigned for a murder that happened five years ago. Twenty-nine year old Lorenzo Smith Junior is serving a ten year prison term for arson and was soon to be released when his past caught up with him. […]
But in the south, there’s a complicated story in Independence village which we’ve been following for the past week – one which involves a Policeman, a minor, and to some extent, a jealous wife. Independence Police haven’t had much to say when we’ve contacted them, but we note that the Police sitrep for today does […]
Late this evening, there was a shooting in the area of the BelCan Bridge in Belize City. We’ll have more of this in Wednesday’s newscast, but we can say that one person was injured and rushed to the K.H.M.H. after he was shot.
