In its latest anti-drug operation in the City, the Gang Suppression Unit retrieved over twenty pounds of marijuana. The bust took place on Monday afternoon in the Dyke Area of Faber’s Road. Over three pounds of the weed were found in a refrigerator and the remaining quantity was found in a bucket. No one was […]
Shots rang out in City on Friday night in the area of Hyde’s Lane and New Road. A twenty-eight year old father of four within close proximity of his house was gunned and died within minutes. Two family members, his sister and common law wife, heard the shots but could not fathom the idea that […]
Last Friday, we reported on American fugitive, forty-seven year old Kenneth Hibbs, who was caught by San Ignacio Police on Burns Avenue. Hibbs was wanted by U.S. Marshalls for parole violation and theft of Motor Vehicle. Hibbs carried no identification but he is currently in detention awaiting extradition to the U.S. sometime this week. But […]
A sting operation over the weekend conducted by the GSU has yielded a whopping one hundred pounds of cannabis. The unit arrested Anibal Garcia of Arenal Village, Cayo District along with Sergio Vega, a taxi-driver of New Area, Benque Viejo. Both were preparing to supply the weed to a purported buyer on Sunday when the […]
An American fugitive has been caught in Belize. Forty-seven year old Kenneth Hibbs is wanted by U.S. Marshalls in his home country for violation of his parole and for the theft of a motor vehicle. Hibbs was apprehended by San Ignacio Police on Thursday following reports that he was causing disturbance on Burns Avenue in […]
In the early hours of this morning, a small house in the Antelope Street Extension area of Belize City was engulfed in flames. The Fire Department responded and extinguished the fire before it could spread to neighboring houses. Shortly after, they made the gruesome discovery of a body inside the home, burnt beyond recognition. The […]
Three persons are in Police lockdown after an operation this morning netted a large amount of marijuana. Between six and nine a.m., Placencia Police and the Special Branch conducted searches of several homes on the peninsula. At the home of eighteen year old student Julian Diego, Police hit the jackpot. In a bedroom they found […]
A Belizean woman is currently detained in neighbouring Chetumal after she was caught attempting to shoplift four bottles of liquor. According to media reports in Chetumal, thirty-four year old Shirley Arnold was caught on video surveillance at Chedraui Supermarket at the Plaza de Las Americas as she placed the rum in her bag. When she […]
Two men from the Corozal district have been hit with a slew of charges after an attempted rape on a minor. The sixteen year old girl from Xaibe Village told Police that on October tenth she was walking home on the San Roque Road at around three in the afternoon. She observed when three men […]
Today one man lies critically injured in the K.H.M.H. and five others are recovering from wounds they received at the hands of a machete-wielding family in Cristo Rey, Corozal. According to reports, six youths were on the bleachers in a park in Cristo Rey making noise. Villager Guadencio Che approached them and asked them to […]
Aside from the passport scandal, there is crime to report. A man was stabbed in Cristo Rey, Cayo District, over the weekend. At the center of the latest homicide is a cousin of the murder victim. Leroy Tzib was stabbed to death as he headed home; tonight his relative Geovanni Pech has been charged with […]
Twenty-eight year old Shane Vernon remains in critical condition tonight at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after being shot in the City on Thursday night. According to police, Vernon, who lives around the corner on Seagull Street, was standing in front of the gate of his ex-common law wife’s address on Iguana Street around eight-thirty […]
Caye Caulker Police have detained and charged a woman from the island for drug trafficking. On Wednesday at around four in the afternoon officers were on routine mobile patrol when they observed a group of persons in the Palapa Area on Front Street. Because one of the women in the group was acting suspiciously, she […]
Molestation of minors has become increasingly prevalent, but it never ceases to invoke outrage and horror. Tonight there is a shocking claim of incest of a thirteen year old girl in the Corozal district. The minor visited the Corozal Police Station in the company of her mother to report the matter. According to reports, the […]
The Mexican newspaper, Diario de Quintana Roo, is reporting today that Belizean, Delmar Javier Guerra, a resident of San Joaquin up north was shot in Calderitas on Monday. The report says that the motive for the attempted execution is unknown, but it is believed it has to do with organized crime. The incident happened in […]
With so much happening on the political scene, the discovery of what seem to be human bones in Belmopan went somewhat under the radar. The bones were discovered by workers near the garbage dump on the Hummingbird Highway. On Saturday, Police were called out to the scene and took possession of the bones. According to […]
After months without a murder in the Old Capital that spell was broken on Friday night. A twenty-eight year old Punta Gorda resident who had just relocated to the City, was gunned down around ten p.m. Gary Pratt moved to the City to earn his livelihood and on the day he collected his first paycheck […]
On Thursday, the Gang Suppression unit seized twenty-six pounds of marijuana from a lot on Belama Phase four. The report by the unit states that officers conducted a search on an open lot occupied by thirty-three year old Richard Smith and two other persons. While nothing incriminating was found on the lot or on any […]
While Smith was charged by Police, today his girlfriend Sandra Thompson says the GSU made a deal with her, and then didn’t keep their part of the bargain. According to Thompson, she was on the scene and the GSU beat Smith before going to the lot where they found the drugs. She claims that she […]
On Wednesday’s newscast, we reported that police had found the body of a Teakettle resident who was shot, killed and buried. A caution statement was given by a resident of a nearby community saying he acted in self defense. Tonight, police have charged Santiago Guardado with five counts of aggravated assault of a cop because […]
Four days; five murders…that’s the new record for Camalote and Roaring Creek communities of the George Price Highway. Tonight, we report on the most recent murder which is also most bizarre homicide. Pedro Ruben Andrade Luna, a resident of the Arizona Area in the outskirts of Teakettle, was shot and killed for trespassing a farm […]
Belmopan Police believe that they have in custody the two persons who murdered American David Reichel and Filipino Alry Rose Sardido on Saturday in Roaring Creek. But even as they prepare to lay charges, they have been faced with two additional murders. Those murders occurred in Camalote on Monday evening and claimed the lives of […]
Within an hour, Honduran Oscar Leonel Benitez was murdered to protect the identity of the man who killed Juan Carlos Olmedo. In a tragic twist of fate, both killer and victim chose the same trail in the bushes behind Camalote – one was fleeing after a murder and the other was simply returning home after […]
There is another case that could turn out to be murder as a family from the Arizona area of Teakettle is convinced that their father and husband, Pedro Ruben Andrade Luna, is dead. The forty-nine year old farmer left home on Thursday afternoon to gather contrive, which he would then sell in Belize City on […]
While the overnight murders of two Camalote residents are making headlines tonight, the brutal slaying of a Guatemalan national, who was killed in Jalacte Village over the weekend, has gone below the radar. On Saturday, a pair of men from the neighboring country visited the residence of sixty-one year old Fernando Sacul where they sought […]
