The Gang Suppression Unit conducted an operation today in the south side Belize City. The target was a property on Supal Street belonging to an elderly resident, seventy-two year old Marina Plunkett. The search occurred sometime after ten this morning, and by the end of the operation, five men and three women including the elderly […]
A Belizean electrician from Corozal has been charged with drug trafficking after a search of his car yielded a significant stash of cannabis. The Border Patrol Team was on operations at the northern border when their checkpoint was approached by a man identified as thirty year old Armando Vasquez. Vasquez was asked to pull his […]
Fifty-five-year-old Sherwin Leslie, a car washer, who was accused of stealing an eleven-dollar Armor-All, has been sentenced to six years in prison. Allegations are that on Sunday, Leslie, a resident of Flamboyant Street, entered Uno Service Station on Central American Boulevard and lifted the product which he uses to do his business. The cashier wasn’t […]
The long arms of the law caught up with a minor and another resident of San Pedro. It all started with a shooting and ended with an arrest for drug trafficking. Police today charged thirty-year old San Pedrito resident Juan Menjivar with drug trafficking, discharging a firearm in public, uncustomed goods and possession of money […]
Gun violence in the city continued over the weekend, but luckily no one was injured in either of the shootings. Around ten-twenty p.m., the thirty-four-year-old driver for Election and Boundaries reported that he was driving a government-issued Great Wall Wingle pick-up truck on West Collect Canal, but as he reached its junction with South Street, […]
Three men have been charged for the kidnapping and murder of seventy-one year old Ramon Cervantes Sr., and Police are actively hunting for another man, Manuel Castillo. The body of Cervantes was found on July fifth, buried in a shallow grave. He had been beaten to death. Three days after, the men arrested for the […]
The heinous, cold blooded murders of Ramon Cervantes Sr. and Sonia Abac have shaken the community of Orange Walk, and are grim wake up calls that safety and security in the tight-knit municipality cannot be taken for granted. While the families of those murder victims struggle to return life to some semblance of normal, Cervantes […]
There are thirteen more days to go in the month, but July has already turned out to be a bloody one. There have been nine murders so far and early this morning, another was added to the growing list of violent crimes. The body of a preacher, Oscar Lambey, was found on the grounds of […]
Police made a major bust at around three o’clock this afternoon that will provide some relief to residents in the city. Officers retrieved an Israeli-made military type assault rifle from bushes in an abandoned lot on Faber’s Road Extension, an area which we told you on Thursday night is quickly becoming a hot spot for […]
Going into the weekend, the Belize City Police Department conducting a crack-down in the city of what is known as quality of life crimes due to a wave of violent shootings and murders. Across the city, and along main thoroughfares, police and B.D.F. have been deployed to monitor any violation of the laws—whether petty or […]
The following story is about what is known about woman fum fum. A Ladyville resident came to our studios to allege that his wife of one year handcuffed and beat him up badly on Thursday. While we could not reach Natalia Wade, thirty-nine year old Keith Staine claims that they had a quarrel in the […]
The area of the Raccoon Street Extension is quickly becoming a hotspot in the south side of Belize City. Four shootings, three of which ended in murder, have occurred in that area in the past two weeks. It started with the shooting of PIV leader, Edwin “Drive” Flowers, on Neal Penn Road extension. While he […]
A daring mid-morning robbery during which a Bowen & Bowen delivery truck was held up in the Lake Independence Area, but instead of money, the robbers went after the service weapon of the security escort. Shortly before eleven o’clock, a routine delivery came under assault when a gunman emerged on the scene and jacked the […]
Twenty-three-year-old Jamal Ariola, an inmate of the Belize Central Prison, was the victim of a stabbing incident on Wednesday morning when a fellow prisoner stabbed him multiple times with a shiv. At around ten a.m., while conversing with twenty-year-old Giovanni Ramirez in the prison yard, Ariola says he felt a sharp pain on the left […]
Traditionally vehicle thefts occur overnight or when their owners park them in isolated locations for a prolonged period of time. But that wasn’t the case on Tuesday, when a government vehicle issued to Mayor Simeon Lopez from Belmopan was stolen, right outside City Hall. Today, Lopez told us that he arrived at work just before […]
The Smith family is settling back home after spending a week in prison. They had just returned to their house after burying family member, seventeen year old Myron Smith, when police conducted a search of their house. It yielded a firearm and live rounds of ammunition and the entire family of seven, including two minors, […]
Thirty-seven-year-old Manuel Mendez Castillo remains on the lam, following the heinous murders of seventy-one-year-old Ramon Cervantes Senior and forty-six-year-old Sonia Abac in the Orange Walk District. We can confirm tonight that ‘El Pelon’, as he is also known, is wanted by Interpol, as well as the Belize Police Department for the brutal killings. Castillo absconded […]
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There was one murder over the weekend and the victim lost his life senselessly. Fifty-nine year old Julio Mendoza was hanging out on Raccoon Street Extension, as he routinely did, when he met his untimely death while playing his favorite pastime game of dominoes. Two gunmen were in pursuit of two men in the area […]
Police are looking for two persons in connection with a broad daylight robbery which turned near fatal for a cashier of Publics on East Canal on Sunday. Just before eleven a.m., Salvadoran cashier of Publics Fruits and Vegetable Store, twenty-three year old Fatima Figueroa, was accosted by two men—one armed with a gun—who demanded that […]
Interpol and federal agencies are asking very pointed questions about Belizean Javier Romero; the President, C.E.O., Secretary, Treasurer and Director of Cynk Technologies…a five billion dollar social networking company – at least on paper. Romero has been traced to a small town in Massachusetts, where he reportedly moved to months ago. Before that, he was […]
While several persons have been detained for questioning in reference to the murders and shootings that occurred in the past week, there have been no charges levied against anyone. The majority of the carnage occurred within the jurisdiction of Precinct Two and included the murder of Myron Smith, Leon Burgess, Davee Copius, Dwayne Hilton as […]
A delegation of Guatemalan parliamentarians was in the country last week visiting the Chiquibul. But on the heels of the visit, the Prensa Libre is reporting that four residents of the community of Monte Olivos, Dolores, Peten, were captured by Belizean soldiers last Friday when they were mining for gold in a river near the […]
The internet and news outlets, including CNN, have been abuzz since Thursday and today about a company called CYNK Technology and its networking site Introbiz whose address was traced to the Matalon building here on Coney Drive. Introbiz is a social network operator that offered services to purchase the contact information of personalities including celebrities […]
Ramon Cervantes Senior was abducted on July first and killed on July second, beaten to death with a stick before being buried in a shallow grave. The men Police believe are part of the ring which carried out the heinous crime were charged with murder on July ninth, and for kidnapping on July tenth. The […]
