A Belize City resident told the court this morning on arraignment that he is afflicted with HIV AIDS and had to steal for medication. Thirty-four year old construction worker, Kenroy Brown, admitted to stealing a two hundred and fifty dollar bicycle which he intended to sell and use the money to buy his medication. Allegations […]
On Monday, the Gang Suppression Unit made a surprise raid at Antelope Street Extension; it yielded them some eighty pounds of marijuana. This afternoon, the GSU executed a search at the house of Michael Anderson located at twenty-four Guerrero Street in the Port Loyola Area of Belize City. Anderson was not at home, but four […]
The Gang Suppression Unit is reporting a major marijuana find. At midday today, the GSU searched a one bedroom apartment on Antelope Street Extension whose occupant is Therese Elizabeth Eligio who also goes by the name of Tanisha Young, a thirty-one year old unemployed. While Eligio was not at home, in the apartment, the GSU […]
A Mahogany Heights resident is tonight in critical, but stable condition at the K.H.M.H. following a chopping incident inside his home. In the dead of night, shortly after twelve o’clock this morning, Kenneth Flowers was sleeping inside his residence in the western community when a machete wielding man entered the bedroom and inflicted several chop […]
Nineteen-year-old Jose Alfredo Herrera, a resident of Valley of Peace Village, has been charged with possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply, kept firearm without a gun license and two counts of kept ammunition, following a raid of his residence by personnel attached to the Gang Suppression Unit on Thursday morning. While an […]
There is good news coming out of the Police Department with respect to crimes. According to the figures released, major crimes are down by twelve point seven percent from January to July 2013 when compared to 2012. The release points to a significant decline in murder, from eighty-eight in 2012 to sixty-seven this year. And […]
A Chinese businessman from San Jose Village in the Orange Walk District has been detained after a shooting on Wednesday night. Reports are that at around six p.m. three men were at the Chinese store in San Jose drinking beers when they got into an altercation with the owner and began banging on the door. […]
On Sunday, seventy-four year old Onofre Sabido, better known as “El Primer Tacero or Senor Waco”, was brutally attacked inside his home in San Jose Palmar in the outskirts of Orange Walk Town; two men were charged for the offense. Twenty-seven-year-old Najirie Quiroja and eighteen-year-old Edwin Cruz pleaded not guilty to Aggravated Assault and Robbery […]
San Ignacio Police are looking for one man in connection with a shooting incident on Monday night. Just before nine pm Police were called to the emergency ward of the La Loma Luz Hospital in Santa Elena where they saw thirty-two year old Matthew Ifield suffering from a gunshot wound to the right thigh. Initial […]
The murder rate may be down but instances senseless violence continues in some communities. A well known senior citizen of Orange Walk Town was viciously attacked by two persons, including a minor. Duane Moody headed to Sugar City to unravel the circumstances that led to the multiple injuries of a man over seventy years old. […]
A domestic dispute in the village of Camalote in the Cayo District almost turned deadly on Saturday. At about six thirty that evening Police were called out to Sirenita’s Bar after reports of a shooting. When they arrived at the scene they observed a man later identified as Roberto Castellanos walking away carrying what appeared […]
Police reports are sketchy, but tonight there is information that an unidentified resident of San Ignacio Town was robbed over the weekend. The robbery allegedly occurred on Friday at around three twenty-five in the morning, when the man told Police he was awakened by a noise coming from a trailer office in his yard. The […]
A forty-two year old Salvadoran national is currently in serious condition at the Western Regional Hospital. Amilcar Alvarado Cortez was chopped to the head and hand on Thursday evening while hanging out at the corner of Guatemala Street in the Salvapan area of Belmopan. Residents of the area told News Five that Cortez was chopped […]
What does a person do with eighty five and a half pounds of marijuana? Get busted by the police of course. On Friday August sixteenth, 2013 the Gang Suppression Unit searched the upper flat of the Saint Anthony Trading Center building located on Princess Margaret Drive. The building has three flats. The caretaker, forty-four year […]
It is not often that you hear of criminal activities happening in the village of Crooked Tree…but tonight there is a disturbing report of an elderly man found dead within his house in the village. It is not know what transpired, but residents who discovered the body of Barry Blaney say that he was bound […]
Tonight, there is a new charge of brutality by the Gang Suppression Unit against two men, one not only ended up in the hospital, but also before the courts. Jermaine Ottley has a case pending for drug trafficking in the lower court, but before Ottley could make it to court today, he claims he was […]
A post mortem examination was conducted on the body of twenty-six year old police constable Roy Robert Fernandez today to ascertain whether the cause of death was the result of a violent thrashing he suffered at the hands of a pair of siblings in Georgetown Village over a week ago. Fernandez died in Independence Village […]
A Utah born serial killer, linked to eleven murders in the U.S., was in Belize for a month in 2005. Israel Keyes slit his wrists In December 2012 while incarcerated for a murder in Anchorage, Alaska. According to reports in the international media, between 2001 to 2008 Keyes traveled to Canada, Mexico and Belize. The […]
One murder was recorded this weekend and at news time tonight, one of two persons is in detention for the homicide of a cop. Twenty-six year old Roy Robert Fernandez was brutally attacked by two men, as he walked to his home in Georgetown, Stann Creek District in the company of two females. Fernandez did […]
A shooting early Sunday morning in the Gungulung area of the Old Capital has left one of two persons hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Eighteen year old Leroy Wasani Fernandez and twenty-five year old Losandri Gonzalez were sleeping inside a house on Holy Emmanuel Street not far from their residence, when a lone […]
A Belize City police officer attached to the Director of Public Prosecution’s office was busted today with four point five pounds of weed. P.C. Suazo was headed back from Arenal with the drug when he was busted by San Ignacio Police at a check point. Report to our newsroom is that Suazo was carrying the […]
On Sunday morning, fifty-one-year-old Pedro Antonio Vasquez, a Guatemalan national, was brutally murdered in Benque Viejo del Carmen after a night of socializing on the town. While his son initially came forward to say that Vasquez was last seen at the Picadilly Lounge, he has since retracted that statement. The laborer was discovered lying in […]
There are fresh details on Samer Akil Rada, the Venezuelan Lebanese businessman, whose name has been linked to eight hundred and eighty pounds of cocaine that was consigned to the Corozal Free Zone. The cocaine was found in containers of frozen pineapple juice in a vehicle that was busted in the outskirts of El Salvador […]
Turning to crime news, there was a vicious murder over the weekend in Benque Viejo del Carmen. A Guatemalan national who made the border town his home for at least fifteen years, was bludgeoned to death and his body found near a gas station in the downtown area on Sunday morning. Most of the injuries […]
A van loaded with uncustomed goods was busted over the weekend. According to the police, the bust took place on Saturday morning when Operation U-Turn, along with a police mobile patrol, intercepted a Plymouth van on Antelope Street in Belize City. A customs officer and two others were travelling in the vehicle and in a […]
