Twenty-two year old Egbert Ferguson was charged today with handling stolen goods. The charge came following allegations that Ferguson was in possession of a Dell Laptop stolen, along with other items, from the house of Jeremy Pipersburgh. The Lord’s Bank resident was detained by Belize City police on Tuesday and today, he was arraigned for […]
In the south, two men ended in the Punta Gorda hospital following a stabbing incident. Twenty-four year old Eden Mejia was involved in a confrontation with twenty-six year old Jordy Flores on Monday; the motive is not known, but both men are in critical condition. According to police, Mejia pulled out a knife and attacked […]
Benque Police are tonight investigating a report of the kidnapping of a six year old Guatemalan girl in Belize. Germayoni Asucena Cancinos Letran commutes daily from her home in Melchor De Mencos, Guatemala to attend school at the Adventist Primary School in Hills of Promise in Benque Viejo Del Carmen. But today, her father, who […]
The violent assault of Ernesto Chan last Thursday in San Ignacio by a pair of officers is the fourth reported incident of police brutality within that jurisdiction of late. On Monday, Chan gave a dramatic account of being accosted by two plainclothes officers who pursued him from in front of his home in the Santiago […]
In April, a transgender woman named Vanessa Champagne Paris was badly beaten as she walked on Vernon Street in Belize City. She claimed that she was targeted because of her sexual orientation. Tonight she is back in the news after an incident which occurred in Belmopan. Actually, the incident occurred on June tenth but went […]
Canadian Brian Townsend was murdered at Christmas in the Valley of Peace community in the Cayo District. It was a sensational crime, more so because within a matter of weeks two men suspected in the murder also died violently. Brothers Raul Balona and Marlon Flores were killed, but Police found another suspect in early February. […]
A money changer from San Joaquin, Corozal, narrowly escaped death today when he was targeted shortly after five this morning. Forty-seven-year-old Martin Guerra was shot after he left his brother’s house in the Santa Rita area of Corozal Town. Guerra was driving his Dodge Caravan towards the Philip Goldson Highway when he detected a man […]
Allegations of excessive use of force by police officers are commonplace in the media and reports of brutality are no longer as sensational. But for one San Ignacio resident who has found himself in the middle of an alleged love triangle, the wanton act of violence followed him from his home where he reportedly busted […]
This afternoon, we spoke with Inspector Reymundo Reyes who told us that the matter is being investigated both criminally and internally since there are conflicting accounts of what transpired. Via Phone: Inspector Reymundo Reyes, Deputy O.C., San Ignacio Police “Thursday night we had a gentleman by the name of Ernesto Chan, who visited the […]
There has been a recent spike in violent crimes and drug trafficking in San Pedro, the most recent resulting in the arrest of a couple on Friday for possession of a hundred and sixty grams of cannabis. To combat the upsurge the Belize Police Department has reshuffled its command on the island. Assisting Superintendent Luis […]
A nineteen year old woman alleges that bail bondsman Adil Abdullah raped her on June thirteenth in an area off Mile eight on the George Price Highway. She has provided specific details to the police saying among other things that the sexual abuse happened when he was to take her to an apartment and […]
A police raid at the house of a San Pedro couple yielded one hundred and sixty grams of cannabis; that’s five point six ounces. When police arrived at their bungalow house on Laguna Drive, Boca del Rio on Tuesday afternoon, twenty-six year old Reina Galdamez and a child were home. Shortly after, twenty-five year […]
For days police have been investigating an allegation of rape made by a nineteen year old woman against a well-known bail bondsman. Well tonight, sixty-five year old Adil Abdullah, who is also known as Errol Bishop, has been charged with a single count of rape. Abdullah was arrested on Wednesday and arraigned this morning before […]
While Abdullah is refuting the claim made by the young woman, the police believe they have the evidence. This afternoon, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Christopher Noble, spoke briefly to the media, about what led to Abdullah’s arrest. ASP Christopher Noble, Rural Executive Officer “Firstly, the female did make a report some days ago, we […]
Thirty-four year old Kingsley Ferguson is tonight recovering from gunshot wounds following a near brush with death in what Belize City police believe to have been a case of mistaken identity. Ferguson, a resident of Neal’s Pen Road, was visiting his girlfriend at a residence on Jones Street on Tuesday night when he was accosted […]
At ten this morning, a funeral service for Tulio Caceres was held at the St. Joseph Church before his casket was taken to the entrance of Taylor’s Alley on Orange Street for a final viewing by family and friends. His body, News Five understands, will then be cremated. This morning, police detained one person in […]
In news from the West, a sixteen-year-old male has been remanded to the Hattieville Prison following a major drug bust early this morning. Just after ten a.m. in Santa Elena, a police patrol came up on the youth, who fled from the scene as they approached. Inside the football field, a brown crocus bag was […]
San Ignacio Police are also investigating one of its own in connection with reports of a domestic assault in that western town. Police Constable Fermin Choco is wanted by police after his common-law-wife reported that she was physically assaulted by him on Tuesday night. According to Inspector Reymundo Reyes, there have been previous incidents of […]
A cargo truck carrying more than fifty cartons of contraband cigarettes was busted by Guatemalan police. Today’s edition of Prensa Libre reports that the cargo originated from Belize; the bust occurred in the area of Santa Ana, Peten. According to the Guatemalan police, a total of two hundred and forty-seven thousand cigarettes were confiscated, but […]
There was more gang related violence over the weekend in the City. On Saturday night, twenty-two year-old Efrain Assi of Miller Street was rushed to the hospital after he was shot multiple times. Assi was hanging out with four other men at the basketball court on Alicia Street when he was targeted after nine o’clock. […]
There was another shooting in the Old Capital in which seventeen year old Clinton Pou of Jasmine Street was shot and wounded on the cheek and neck. The incident also has telltale signs that it is gang related. Pou was on Poinsetta Street walking toward Jasmine Street when he was targeted by a group of […]
Gun violence has claimed the life of two men in fifteen hours; both murders are gang related as the city is gripped by a resurgence of gang warfare. At around ten-thirty this morning, a gunman opened fire on thirty-year old Tulio Caceres who was hanging out at Majestic Alley, considered hostile turf for the Taylor’s […]
The other victim of gun violence is twenty-two-year-old Kirk ‘Lenny’ Smith Junior who succumbed to gunshot injuries he received during an armed assault at a graduation party just after midnight on Sunday. Smith Junior was one of five persons wounded when gunfire erupted inside a packed hall at the Brown Sugar Marketplace, where friends and […]
Gang rivalry was at the root of a spate of shootings that started over the weekend and continued through Tuesday. As many as nine persons were shot and injured including Rafael Cruz, who is clinging to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was ambushed on Tuesday morning. Then on Sunday, five persons […]
A Valley of Peace resident is tonight admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Western Regional Hospital following a stabbing incident on Tuesday afternoon. Sometime around two p.m., forty-three year old Luis Guevara, was stabbed with a machete to the right side of the chest at his home at Santos Amaya’s farm located four […]
