A police officer attached to the San Pedro Police Formation will be tried for the crime of Theft. Twenty-six year old Police Constable Dean Perez, originally from Belize City, has been accused of stealing six hundred dollars in cash and a cell phone from a San Pedro Town resident while carrying out an investigation. The […]
Thirty-seven-year-old Roger Anthony and twenty-three-year-old Kendis Flowers were arraigned this morning in the courtroom of Magistrate Herbert Panton on a battery of firearms-related offences. The charges stem from a shooting incident on Sunday night in Belize City. Anthony, the reputed boss of the Ghost Town Crips, was transported from the Queen Street Precinct to magistrates’ […]
A victim of a shooting spree back in September died on Monday night at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Leon Savery was among a group of men who were targeted in the area of Saint Mary’s Primary School hours after Cyril McFoy was murdered in his yard on Euphrates Avenue. For five weeks, Savery remained […]
Last week Belmopan Police narrowly missed capturing a man who was stealing a Toyola Hilux assigned to the Department of Archaeology. He abandoned the vehicle and escaped in the bushes near Georgeville in the Cayo District, despite searches by the K9 unit. Still, police have pursued the matter relentlessly, and today one man was charged […]
Belize and four other countries in the region continue to take the lead with the highest murder rates in the world. The other hotspots for murders are Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala and just further south, Venezuela. The grim statistics have just been published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, known as […]
Over the weekend, a sixty-four year old mother and daughter were accosted in broad daylight by two men on Albert Street West, near the Anglican Cathedral College. One held up the daughter at knife point and took her bag with all its contents. Police report they have arrested nineteen year old Khalil Heusner of Berkley […]
Thirteen days ago, reputed gang leader Roger Anthony, bolstered by the Gang Suppression Unit chief, Mark Flowers, gave a televised statement renouncing gang life, in this case the Ghost Town Crips. It was a big announcement because Anthony was claiming that he was involved with the gang for about twenty six years and that he […]
A Ladyville resident who went on a spending spree at someone else’s expense, was before the court today. Ron Haylock reportedly found John Hun’s visa credit card sometime between October twelfth and nineteenth and made numerous charges on it before he was caught. Earlier today in the courtroom of Magistrate Dale Cayetano, he was charged […]
In the capital, a juvenile is claiming that she has been sexually abused by her own brother for three years. The minor made the report to the police on Friday afternoon in the presence of her mother. According to the underage girl, the abuse started in 2011 and continued up until sixteenth October. It is […]
There were a number of robberies committed over the weekend which kept the Police Department on their toes. On Saturday, a sixty-four year old Belize City mother and her daughter were attacked in the area of the Anglican Cathedral College on Albert Street West just after three o’clock in the afternoon. Two men pounced on […]
The body of a Guatemalan male was found floating in the Mopan River near Calla Creek at around eleven Thursday morning. It has since been identified as that of twenty-two year old Rudy Leonel Salazar, who has been missing since Sunday. Salazar and two other men crossed into Belize illegally from Suchitan, Melchor Sunday to […]
Belmopan Police are one step closer to solving the baffling case of government vehicles stolen in broad daylight and with complete disregard for scrutiny or security. This morning, the brazen thief tried to make off with a 2011 Toyota Hilux assigned to the Ministry of Archaeology, but his luck ran out. He was spotted leaving […]
We reported on Tuesday night, that both the Fisheries Department and Belize Marketing and Development Corporation were hit by thieves that took off with office equipment and computers. And so was a business on Tuesday night. Representatives for the Business Development Associate for Asset Guard Management and Insurance agency located on Church Street, Belize City, […]
On Sunday, three men from the Guatemalan barrio of Castrillo de Suchitan headed into Belize to fish in the flooded Mopan River near Clarissa Falls. What happened there on Sunday night has the Benque Police a little baffled. One man, nineteen year old Cesar Umberto Chinchilla Rodriguez, was shot in the leg. Another was allegedly […]
In the south, there is a disturbing allegation tonight against a twenty-five year old man from Independence. The details are few, but we can report that the grown man was taken to court on Monday for a heinous offense and is on remand. It is alleged he sexually abused a five year old boy who […]
Two government agencies were robbed over the course of the weekend. The fisheries department is reporting that sometime between five-thirty p.m. on Friday and seven-fifty Monday night, its offices located on the second floor of the Fisheries Department Building on Princess Margaret Drive in Belize City was broken into. About ten thousand dollars in electronic […]
Benque Police are investigating a very curious shooting which has left one Guatemalan minor injured and another likely dead. It happened at around four Sunday afternoon, when three minors from Melchor de Mencos crossed the border illegally to fish in the Mopan River near Clarissa Falls. One minor told Police that while fishing the trio […]
While police continue to search for the Guatemalan minor, who is presumed dead, the body of forty-four-year-old Samuel Dawson, a truck driver of Hattieville, was found in his San Pedro apartment early on Saturday. Dawson, who had been working at a construction site on the island since the beginning of October, was dropped off at […]
Twenty-four-year-old Ivan Aldana is hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. after being shot in San Pedro on Sunday during an incident in which someone he is familiar with attacked him and fired as many as five shots at him. Sometime after ten p.m., Aldana, who was socializing at Iguana Gardens Bar in San Pedrito, was accosted by […]
On Friday, the Gang Suppression Unit conducted a series of searches on San Pedro. The all-day anti-drug operation led to the arrest of as many as twenty-five persons who have since been hauled to the Magistrate Court in San Pedro after they were arrested and charged for drug trafficking and possession of a controlled dug. […]
Just before nine Wednesday night, the body of twenty-two year old Gregory Goodfellow was discovered on the side of the Boom/Hattieville Road. The Ladyville youth was lying in a pool of blood. He had been shot multiple times, allegedly to the body and head. Police immediately cordoned off a two mile stretch of road as […]
Twenty-one year old Brandon Flowers was stabbed Sunday morning in Ladyville, which means that this is the second murder in that community in four days. But is there a connection between the murders of Flowers and twenty-two year old Gregory Goodfellow? The two men grew up in the same area and knew each other, so […]
The Coast Guard’s duties can be broken down into its military, law enforcement, and humanitarian functions. In fulfilling the law enforcement mandate, the unit has been deployed to assist the Belize Police Department with the ‘Not in My City’ campaign. That campaign is not only targeting crime in violence ridden hot zones in the city, […]
On Tuesday, the US Embassy, through its Office of Public Affairs, issued a press release in which it announced the discovery and destruction of marijuana with a street value of twenty-seven million U.S. dollars; that’s fifty-four million Belize dollars. The joint five-day operation included participation from the B.D.F., the Belize Coast Guard, the Anti-Drug Unit […]
Another issue that has remained in the headlines is the execution-style murder of Danny Conorquie at the Caracol Archaeological Site, inside the Chiquibul National Park. The BDF says that groups of unauthorized visitors are showing up at the Conservation Post along the border and taking photos of its layout, as well as of security personnel […]
