The police department has confirmed that a cab driver who went missing on the job has been murdered. Forty Five year old Jose Maria Aguilar Umana disappeared on July seventeenth. At four-fifteen on Wednesday afternoon, his partially decomposed body was found in the “new housing area” off the George Price Boulevard in Belmopan City. How […]
A thirty-one-year-old resident of Palmar Village in the Orange Walk District is tonight in police custody following a report made by a minor that the two engaged in sexual intercourse in late January. The fifteen-year-old girl told police that around one-thirty on the afternoon of January thirty-first, she visited an area at a dump site […]
A taxi driver from the Belmopan area disappeared over the past weekend. The father of a four year old daughter went missing after a fare hired him on Saturday morning while he was stationed within close proximity of his wife’s stall at the Belmopan market. Jose Ummana’s wife says he had a habit of calling […]
A San Pedro resident has been acquitted of a murder charge by Justice Denis S. Hanomansingh in the Dangriga Supreme Court. The murder occurred on September 12, 2009 at Johnson’s Store in Big Falls, Toledo District. Twenty three year old Gabriel Salazar was accused of the murder of Francis Johnson, the store owner, during a […]
Three alleged gang members who were deported from the US have been arrested and charged. Roger Anthony, who has said that he is the leader of the Ghost Town Crips, was arrested last Thursday when he was seen associating with reputed affiliates of the Ghost Town Crips Gang. He has been charged for Associating with […]
Philip “Faada” Henry is an outspoken community activist was assaulted on Friday morning as he dropped off a female friend at the bus terminal on East Collet Canal. According to Henry, threats were made against his life by two men, who were reportedly intoxicated, alighted a pickup truck registered to the Sports Council. A police […]
Twenty-eight year old Deon Bruce remains tonight in police custody, after being detained this afternoon by personnel from the Gang Suppression Unit. According to Bruce’s family, they were unofficially informed that he is wanted by U.S. authorities for his alleged involvement in a homicide committed in Chicago. Bruce was picked up around three thirty p.m. […]
In broad daylight on Monday, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints located on Cemetery Road was burglarized. The culprits have been identified as two minors and twenty-two year old Jahleel Morera, a resident of Lakeview Street who lives in the vicinity of the church. This morning, the trio appeared in the Belize […]
A Guatemalan national is in big trouble with local authorities after he was busted in the west on Tuesday with over seventeen pounds of weed. Just after ten a.m., San Ignacio Police intercepted a B.B.O.C. bus at the corner of Fifth Street and Joseph Andrews Drive in San Ignacio Town. During a search, eighteen year […]
As we reported in Monday’s newscast, twenty-one year old Jamal Neal was executed in one of the City’s most dangerous neighborhoods. Just after six o’clock on Monday evening, shots rang out on Banak Street; as many eight rounds were fired. Neal had just left his house after placing a routine call to his mother when […]
Breaking News: There was a fatal shooting late this evening on Banak Street in south side Belize City. It has been confirmed that at least one person died and was taken away in the pan of a police truck. He has been identified as Jamaal Neal. A News Five crew was at the crime scene […]
In the south, two persons were killed over the weekend and though the murders were unrelated, there are striking similarities. Both happened in the south of Belize, both were done with sharp instruments, both happened during altercations in which alcohol was involved and in both cases, the person Police believe is responsible has been apprehended […]
There was another murder in the south which occurred in the small community of Bella Vista on the Southern Highway. In the early hours of Sunday morning, twenty-one year old Marlon Martinez received a fatal stab wound to his chest during an altercation. Police say he died on the spot. The man who allegedly killed […]
San Ignacio Police are investigating the cause of death of a Santa Elena resident found floating in the Macal River. Twenty-eight year old Mark David Robateau was last seen by relatives on Saturday evening and today the family received the shocking news that his body was retrieved out of the river. At about nine-ten this […]
A Belizean student in Canada has avoided deportation even though she was found guilty of a credit card spree with cards belonging to other persons. Twenty-six year old Nahyelie Maria Burn committed the crime while she was a student at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University in Corner Brook City. From 2011 to 2012, she stole credit […]
A mid afternoon robbery occurred in the King’s Park Area. Three robbers entered One Click Supermarket at the corner of Hopkins and First Streets and robbed the establishment of an undisclosed amount of money. But the three men then turned their attention to a female patron in the store and jacked her handbag containing a […]
While Flowers clings to life, the body of twenty-eight year old Alvin “Vinnie” Pascasio was found this morning. Pascasio was last seen by his family last Monday and this morning, their worst fears were confirmed when his body was found in bushes at the entrance of the Vista Del Mar community on the Phillip Goldson […]
A Belizean-American woman was executed on Tuesday night in South Los Angeles. Twenty-seven year old Yolanda Smith-Major was killed in front of her two year old daughter as she stood outside of her vehicle on South Hobart Boulevard. Major, reportedly a relative of Minister of Education Patrick Faber, was fatally wounded during a hail of […]
At the end of May, the Police Department released statistics which showed a trend of significant reduction in major crimes including murder, rape and robbery. That trend continued through to the end of June, and the half-year stats show that there have been one hundred and seven fewer major crimes from January to June of […]
A Belize City fisherman is free tonight after he was acquitted of charges of Kept Firearm and Kept Ammunition. Twenty-five year old Victor Foreman Junior of Belize City was allegedly caught on August second, 2011 in possession of a point twenty-two Smith and Wesson brand nine millimeter pistol along with nine live rounds of ammunition. […]
But while one man is free, another is heading to jail. A week ago, thirty-four year old Derrick Sanchez, a resident of the Ladyville area was found guilty of kidnapping a Belize City taxi driver whose vehicle was hired in July 2011. Today, Sanchez, who has a long rap sheet, appeared before Justice Adolph Lucas […]
It was a violent weekend in the Cayo and Belize districts. We start with this story of two cousins from Santa Elena in the Cayo District who were shot and killed on Saturday night during a failed attempt to rob a Chinese supermarket. Police say the men approached a security guard stationed outside the store, […]
In Belize City, just before nine o’clock on Friday night, a Belize City man was shot and killed on Neal’s Penn Road, not far from where Michael Bucknor was killed about twenty four hours earlier. Twenty-five year old Ashli Garnet died on the spot from gunshots that hit him on the forehead and abdomen. The […]
But while police are still looking for one person known to them in connection with the murder of Garnet, another has been charged for the murder of sixty-one year old Michael Bucknor. His nephew, twenty year old Sydney Bucknor Junior, was arraigned in court late this evening. Bucknor was shot once to the back of […]
There is other crime news from the Cayo district. A U.S Missionary is in coma tonight at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after a armed attack on Saturday night. Vicky Weaver and her husband were returning to the Valley of Peace over the weekend when armed men fired at their vehicle. Pastor Dan Weaver was […]
