A resident of Franks Eddy Village remains missing tonight and friends and family are concerned about his whereabouts since he was last seen in police custody four days ago. It is unclear whether Guatemalan national, Manuel Acevedo, is dead or alive. Despite an ongoing investigation in which Belmopan Police say they were initially unaware of, […]
There is another case of extortion to report on in Orange Walk, and this one is really frightening. News Five understands that the Cabanas family, which owns a large thrift and used clothing store, is the target of a death threat, delivered in truly grisly fashion. We’ve been able to confirm that the threat was […]
Today, police presence has been boosted significantly in the area of Jane Usher Boulevard, following a shooting incident just before noon. It happened on Freedom Street which runs parallel to Jane Usher Boulevard. An eighteen-year-old student and a friend of his are both lucky to be alive after two gunmen fired as many as eight […]
There was another shooting in Dangriga which has left one youth recovering from three gunshot wounds. Just after eight pm on Wednesday night gunshots were heard in the vicinity of Castillo Alley, and when Police arrived on the scene they found seventeen year old Hansel Garcia lying on the street. He had been shot in […]
On March eighth at about one p.m. a sixteen-year-old female of San Ignacio Town visited the San Ignacio Town Police Station in the company of a guardian and reported that the night before whilst walking on Bullet Tree Road heading home from Maxim’s Restaurant and upon reaching Rx Pharmacy, a male person who was behind […]
Drug seizures are often the result of intelligence-led operations conducted by personnel from the police department or, in some cases, a collaborative interagency effort utilizing such information. Whether police at a checkpoint along the George Price Highway were tipped off about narcotics onboard two individual passenger buses or the subsequent busts were the outcome of […]
On Tuesday, we reported on the tragic death of a sixty-eight-year-old woman in the village of Boston. It is believed that someone broke into her home during the Easter weekend and violently attacked her with a piece of wood. Myra Miller, a Jamaican national, was clinging to life when she was discovered inside her home […]
Corozal Police have been unable to identify the body of a young woman found on Tuesday afternoon. The partially decomposed body was discovered by a resident of Chan Chen, lying in a pond just outside that village. There were extreme signs of violence on the woman police are calling Jane Doe, believed to be caused […]
Twenty-two year old Patrick Bevans a resident of Port Loyola was shot and killed this morning by an unknown assailant. The latest Belize City homicide is believed to be the result of an ongoing rivalry between two established gangs. It is rumored that there is an imminent takeover of the Jane Usher Boulevard by the […]
The brutal murder of the unidentified woman has shattered what has been a very peaceful month in the Corozal District. The traditional Easter weekend was uneventful save for a few minor incidents, and Police even went on the offensive by capturing two wanted criminals. Today officer commanding the Corozal Police Formation took the opportunity to […]
There is breaking news. At around two pm this afternoon the body of a woman was found in a lagoon on the Chan Chen Road in the Corozal district. She has not been identified, but News Five has confirmed that there were signs of extreme violence on the body, which was found completely nude and […]
The past Easter weekend had its share of traffic mishaps, robberies and murders. We start our newscast with a report on a sixty-eight year old Jamaican woman who died on Sunday at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after she was found clinging to life at her house. The retiree lived in the small community of […]
The second murder of the weekend happened in Melchor de Mencos, Guatemala. The body of young Benque Viejo resident Edwin Chan was found in a remote area early Saturday morning by Guatemalan Police, who were alerted by residents. Chan had been badly beaten and shot to the head. Benque Police have been forced to rely […]
Joseph Budna, a former freelance reporter, who gained notoriety for kidnappings in Guatemala is on the lam tonight. According to Prensa Libre, Budna had an illness and had to be taken to the hospital. It is from there that he managed to escape even though three officers stood watch at the hospital. The guards have […]
With Good Friday and the Easter Holidays upon us, the demand for fish has increased and so has vigilance by the Fisheries Department for seafood that is out of season. The Fisheries Department is today reporting a major bust of fishy products which were confiscated during several patrols. From about nine a.m. on Wednesday, the […]
While no one was arrested for the illegal seafood found on the buses, one man, a resident of the Belize River Valley area, was arrested on Wednesday following a patrol of the lagoons and rivers in the Belize District. While he has not been charged, the Fisheries Department claims that he was detained with illegal […]
Sometime either late last night or in the early hours of the morning a teenager from Ladyville was stabbed multiple times. Police are in the middle of their investigations and details are scarce, but we understand that Parrish Copious is currently in critical condition at the K.H.M.H. This morning, News Five visited Copious’ home in […]
A United Nations report recently released has placed Belize as the third most dangerous country in the world and that dubious distinction might be having some effect. So far this year, there have been twenty-eight murders as a crime wave sweeps across the country. To many, Belize is the perfect tourism destination, but the grim […]
On December twenty-third, 2012, Canadian William Webster was found dead in his home in Santa Elena in Cayo. He was hanging from a strap attached to a beam in his basement. The Police ruled it a suicide and closed the case. Normally, that would be the end of that, but William Webster’s wife Renee is […]
It is the kind of crime that is considered utterly shameless and unimaginable… preying on the elderly. But tonight, we report on a barefaced theft that could have very well resulted in a home invasion. Seventy-six year old Loretta Wright, mother of Anglican Bishop Phillip Wright, was at home inside their Southern Foreshore residence on […]
Two men are in police detention for the senseless murder of forty-one year old cyclist Ernest ‘Dangalang’ Thurton. He was killed by a single bullet to the left side of his chest at about four o’clock on Tuesday afternoon. The Weekend Warrior and long time member of Team Santino’s lived on Queen Charlotte Street […]
Luke Cox and Saul Garcia are dead while Guinea Grass shop owner Edison Johnson is in jail, charged for two counts of murder. The deadly incident occurred on Friday at a remote family farm in Carmelita owned by Johnson. Cox and Garcia were allegedly there to steal items from the farm when they were shot […]
Two firearms were recovered in the past few days by police…one on Rhaburn’s Alley near the residence of fifty-seven year old Alfonso Cruz who was murdered on Saturday night and the other, in a vacant lot in the Jane Usher Boulevard area and reportedly in proximity of the home of Sunday night’s murder victim, eighteen […]
A Belmopan resident, who stepped in to break up a fight, ended up a victim of maim. Thirty year old Leon Humes reported to the police that after he socialized with friends at the Cabana night club in the Capital, he headed to a food stall in proximity of the club, at about two o’clock […]
A man was killed late this afternoon in Lake Independence, behind the Complex building off Cumberbatch Street. It is the sixth murder in four days and the seventh for the month of April. Ernest Thurton wasn’t from the neighbourhood, but at around four today, he was shot once by an unknown assailant and died on […]
