Last Friday, we told you about three prisoners who had escaped from police custody. Well tonight, the streets are safer because two of the three have been recaptured. Late this afternoon San Ignacio Police nabbed twenty-five year old Jarob Arthur Lamb in Santa Elena, Cayo. Lamb, an accused murderer, was heading to court when he […]
A second prisoner who police claimed eluded the long arms of the law is also back in police custody. Twenty-three year old Sherman Rodney handed himself to police this afternoon accompanied by the Ombudsman. While police claim that Rodney had escaped from the K.H.M.H., Rodney and his mother, Florence Horne claim that after receiving treatment […]
A Belize City youth is tonight in a critical, but stable condition at the K.H.M.H. following a shooting on Sunday night in the St. Martin De Porres area. According to police, just after ten p.m., eighteen year old Andrew Augustine was walking on Jasmine Street when a gunman on bicycle approached and fired a single […]
A San Ignacio cop is in the hot seat after being accused of extorting money from a Santa Elena couple. Police constable Henry Nunez was arraigned at the San Ignacio Magistrate Court last Friday for extortion; after pleading not guilty, he obtained bail of two thousand dollars and was released. The report against Nunez was […]
The Gang Suppression Unit carried out two anti-drug operations over the weekend. On Saturday afternoon, the GSU searched the lower flat of a two storey concrete building on Mahogany Street. In one of the bedrooms of the apartment occupied by Barry Lee Wade and Elizabeth Ann Linares, the GSU says it found three large black […]
In Thursday’s newscast, we reported that San Ignacio Police have launched a manhunt for accused murdered, twenty-five-year-old Jarod Arthurs Lamb. Lamb escaped from custody around eight-thirty on Thursday morning, while en route to a court hearing in the western town. He was along with six other prisoners when he broke free from a handcuff and […]
Thirty-five-year-old Jason ‘Soup’ Williams, the reputed leader of the Supal Street gang, believed to be involved in a near-fatal shooting incident on Tuesday, during which a pair of Belize City men were injured, was arraigned in court this morning. The charges however, do not include the attempted murder of twenty-five-year-old Kariq Tzul or twenty-seven-year-old […]
Unfortunately, the events of Tuesday night would subsequently trigger a deadly reprisal by members of the George Street gang, resulting in the callous murder of twenty-five-year-old Tarique Cadle. While Jason Williams has been arraigned for the shooting of Kariq Tzul and Andrew Tate, no one has been detained for the murder of his nephew. […]
Belize City police are tonight investigating the theft of almost thirteen thousand dollars from the bank account of a well-known accountant. According to the fifty-eight-year-old resident of Albert Hoy Avenue, sometime between January second and twenty-fourth, someone cleared a total of twelve thousand, nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars from his First Caribbean Bank account using […]
A second prisoner has escaped from custody while en route to a court hearing. Earlier this month, on February fourth, twenty-nine year old Edwin Paula, an inmate at the Belize Central Prison, escaped while being transported to Belmopan for a court appearance. Paula was accused, along with three other persons, of an array of charges, […]
There is a very disturbing case to report tonight, and it was no accident. In fact, its senseless nature practically defies comprehension. News Five has confirmed reports that on Saturday, a dog was beaten badly and hung from a tree by its neck, before its throat was slashed. It happened on Neal Penn Road […]
There is a murder to report tonight resulting from the hostility between two south side gangs. It stems from a shooting on Tuesday night at the corner of King Street and West Collet Canal. Two men were injured and hospitalized in that incident. But by this morning, in the George Street area, a resident of […]
While police are investigating Tarique Cadle’s murder, the two Belize City gang affiliates of George Street who were shot on Tuesday night remain hospitalized. Twenty-five year old Kariq Tzul of West Street and twenty-seven year old Andrew Tate from George Street were sitting on the steps of house inside a yard at the Corner of […]
On Monday evening, the lifeless body of sixty-one year old Lester Rowland was discovered inside a concrete vat outside of his home on Guerrero Street. A team of law enforcement officers worked diligently the following day to remove the corpse from the tank, before a post mortem examination could be conducted on site. While the […]
A News Five team traveled to a farm on the Guinea Grass Road where human remains were found by the farm’s caretaker. While the police would not confirm the identity on Tuesday, today, they verified that the remains were those of twenty-three year old Luis Moreno. Moreno had been reported missing by his mother, Marcela […]
Moses Williams, a mentally challenged person, was shot and killed by the police in Big Falls. Police told News Five that Williams was shot after chopping the left arm of one of the officer. Today, the Mental Health Association issued a statement on the confrontation between Williams and the police that ended in his death. […]
There was significant progress made in the citrus industry today with an agreement to reconfigure the Board of Citrus Products of Belize Limited. We’ll have all those details coming up but first we go to the story of a Belize City family who is coming to grips with the death of their loved one whose […]
Up north, human remains were found today at a farm in the outskirts of the village of Guinea Grass in the Orange Walk District. A caretaker at a farm discovered the bones today on a trail in the farm. At news time, the identity of the person is not known, but a family has reported […]
A US woman who was living in San Pedro for some time was picked up by US agents with the cooperation of local police and whisked away to the United States. There is little information available locally on how she was arrested and flown to the US, but the US Department of Justice in a […]
Punta Gorda police are tonight investigating the shooting death of a Big Falls resident at the hands of one of their own. Police claim that Moses Williams, a mentally ill patient, was reportedly throwing a fit at home when police were called to the residence. When they responded the officers came under attack by Williams […]
It has been one week since Stephen Kuylen Junior was killed in the front yard of his Orange Walk home. Today when we caught up with police in Orange Walk, they told us that while they are following up several leads, there has been no arrest. What abounds police said is rampant speculation about the […]
The Gang Suppression Unit is reporting another bust in the alleged ring controlled by Raynard Grinage. On Monday evening, the GSU mounted an operation on Central American Boulevard, where they spotted a Toyota car. Standing beside it was Orvin Leonard Hugh-Donald Beeks, a thirty-five year old taxi driver. The Unit proceeded to search the vehicle […]
A sporting event was abruptly interrupted on Sunday night in Ladyville when a gunman fired aimlessly at a crowd comprising of men women and children. A Ladyville resident and a minor were injured in the shooting which sent the residents scurrying for safety. The incident has traumatized the community; thirty-seven year old Arlene Bainton was […]
While the Ladyville police have two persons detained for questioning in regards to the shooting at the basketball court, the Belize City police are investigating a shooting on Saturday morning which is gang related. Sometime around two-thirty a.m., twenty-seven year old Robert Tracy, a known PIV affiliate, was walking on Central American Boulevard when he […]
There is much more to report tonight in what might be four recent murders that are linked. Belmopan Police have detained a nineteen year old Benque Viejo resident. They say he, along with the now deceased Raul Balona, likely murdered not only Canadian Brian Townsend on Christmas Day, but also Isidoro Bonilla, who was chopped […]
