Late this evening police in the north confirmed that an anti drug unit operation yielded a huge bust of heroin near the outskirts of the Corozal. The exact quantity of the drug is believed to be forty pounds or nineteen plus kilos which carries a street value of twelve million Belize dollars. It is the […]
A forty-one year old nurse aide originally from Belize, who worked at the University Nursing Home in New York, has been charged for the killing of a resident of the home and will face a grand jury on Tuesday in the Bronx Criminal Court. Cherrylee Young is accused of beating seventy-seven year old Frank Mercado […]
Nineteen year old Porfilio Rodriguez also known as Vanessa Champagne is home tonight with relatives after spending the Christmas behind bars. Champagne spent plenty time last year before the courts but tonight he is out on bail on his latest charge of Burglary. His application was heard in the Supreme Court before Justice Troadio Gonzalez, […]
Late this evening, the Supreme Court took a half hour session to practice for the upcoming opening of the Supreme Court set to commence on Monday which traditionally kicks off with a church service. But earlier in the afternoon, before Justice Troadio Gonzalez, the closing of the 2014 session of the Supreme Court concluded with […]
A Honduran national who resides in Minnesota, U.S.A., but was visiting Belize and staying on La Isla Bonita, San Pedro was busted with a “roach,” which is a small amount of weed, totaling point nine grams. Mario Silva Brown was busted on January fifth, 2015 and today due to the unavailability of a Magistrate in […]
Today, under heavy security with police armed with M-sixteen rifles, Troy Deon Hyde, of Curl Thompson Street, Belize City, was taken to court for arraignment. At eight-ten this morning, when he was first brought to court by CIB personnel in their private vehicle, word spread on the streets that gunmen would cause trouble as […]
It’s only five days into the New Year, and there are already three murder victims as the bloodbath extended from Belize City to Belmopan. The manager of Dream Valley, Yaima Ledesma, was murdered cold bloodedly on New Year’s Day at the resort in Teakettle. Over the weekend, two others were shot and killed in the […]
Kareem Lopez was in the headlines dating back to 2006 for a slew of charges which included murder and attempted murder. He was out on bail for a November drug possession charge when he was murdered. This morning, on Central American Boulevard before seven o’clock, Mervin Underwood was executed near Pound Yard Bridge where he […]
There were a total of four shootings over the weekend – three which ended fatal. The third killing occurred on Sunday night in Belmopan and police are saying that evidence so far would suggest that the shooter acted in self-defense. Sometime around seven p.m., the mutilated body of nineteen year old Kevin Vasquez was discovered […]
Police Officer Bernard Villanueva who is attached to the Bella Vista Police Station has been arrested and charged for extortion. Villanueva was busted in a sting operation following a report made by twenty-eight year old Jeydi Romero who claimed that the cop had suggested that she cough up two hundred dollars for the release of […]
A Good Samaritan of Police Street in Belize City is fortunate to be alive after he was stabbed while trying to intervene in a fight. Thirty-two year old Aaron Kerr was socializing at a party on Saturday morning at his residence when he was stabbed to the left side of the head as he intervened […]
Aside from the murders and attempted murders, there was other criminal activity elsewhere in the country. In Roaring Creek, Nelson Gallardo reported to the Belmopan Police that at about two-thirty on Sunday morning, he was at his business place which is the Westar Gas Station, when he was alerted by a security guard that someone […]
Several operations were undertaken by the Gang Suppression Unit over the weekend. On Saturday, the GSU were on the ground in the Conch Shell Bay Area. In an open lot, they found a black plastic bag hidden under several pieces of lumber. It contained ten live rounds of ammunition. The ammo was confiscated by the […]
There were two murders in less than twenty-four hours of each other at the start of the New Year celebrations. As Belizeans across the country prepared to say goodbye to 2014, there was a homicide in Orange Walk Town around six p.m. on Wednesday. Hours later, a woman would be shot and killed at a […]
The second murder in two days, and the first of the New Year, happened at a resort in the village of Teakettle, in the Cayo District. It was a bizarre, broad daylight, cold-blooded execution of thirty-year-old resort manager Yaima Duany Ledesma. Reports are that two men, dressed neatly, walked casually into the bar at Dream […]
But back to Orange Walk…The murder of fifty-one-year-old Miguel Medina was the start of a rash of violence in that municipality. Just after midday on New Year’s Day, police were called to the residence of Orlando Baiza on Baker’s Street in Orange Walk town. Baiza had reportedly took out his licensed firearm and fired a […]
There was also a second stabbing incident in Orange Walk Town; it occurred in the wee hours of this morning. Three young men were stabbed at a wedding reception around twelve-twenty-three a.m. and rushed to the Northern Regional Hospital. Twenty-two year old Levy Bennett was stabbed once to the center of his chest and twice […]
Four days before Christmas popular San Ignacio resident Jermaine Padgett was shot and killed as he socialized with friends. It is not believed that he was the target, but was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and with the wrong persons. Police immediately launched an investigation and determined that the murder was […]
An arrest is yet to be made in the weekend murder of seventy-two-year-old Felix Castillo Carranza who was massacred inside his Lakeland abode in Dangriga on December twenty-seventh. Even with the detention of three men, following the horrific incident, charges are yet to be brought. Meanwhile, an autopsy certifies the cause of Carranza’s death as […]
Thirty-seven-year-old Aura Beatrice Moro, a resident of Santa Elena Town, has been arrested and charged with drug trafficking, following the discovery of individual quantities of illegal substances on her person. On Tuesday, officers on a routine stop and search escorted Moro to the Caye Caulker Police Station where they rummaged through a bag she was […]
The constant story for this year remained about murder, which according to the statistics, continued on a constant upward trend in 2014. Tonight, there is one more to add and it happened in southern Belize. On Saturday, a minor made a gruesome discovery in a house in the Lakeland Area of Dangriga, where the body […]
In Belize City, just after midday today, police visited a house on Eve Street in the vicinity of the Ice Cream Shoppe. In the upper flat of the concrete and wooden structure, the decomposing body of Walter Humberto Melendez was discovered face up on his bed. The Guatemalan construction worker had been living alone and […]
Tonight, the outspoken chairman of the Stann Creek Fishermen Association, Mark McKenzie, stands accused of embezzling thousands of dollars from an associate in what is being described as an unsuccessful fisheries venture. According to NeNe Abraham, a Nigerian businesswoman, she was approached in early November to partner with McKenzie as an investor in Carib Prince, […]
On December eighteenth, Antonia Cal got the news that no mother wants to get. Police came to her workplace in Ladyville to ask her to identify the bones and clothing believed to be those of her son, Marvin Bul, found in the Dewdrop Estate in Ladyville. His Social Security card was also found inside the […]
There is also a report of an alleged rape which is under investigation by the cops. A twenty-two year Belize City woman claims she was raped around midnight on December twenty-sixth as she was heading home on Antelope Street. The young woman says her attacker was dressed in a warm cap, shirt and pants, all […]
