There was an execution style murder early on Thursday night in Belize City. Michael Bucknor, the manager of Bingo King Apartments, was shot and killed on Fabers Road as he was conversing with a female friend. The bullet penetrated the back of his head, exited through the right eye and grazed the woman. Bucknor, who […]
There is word that a Guatemalan national who was shot by B.D.F. personnel in the Caballo Camp area of the Chiquibul is tonight at the KHMH being treated for a serious infection. The official report at the time of the shooting, on June third, was that Edgar Alexander Alveno allegedly fired on a B.D.F. patrol. […]
The Gang Suppression Unit (GSU) continues to suppress the supply of drugs in Belize City. This morning at eleven-twenty-five, members of the GSU conducted an anti drugs operation in the Faber’s Road Extension area behind the residence of a reputed drug trafficker. During a thorough search of the savannah area, amongst the garbage, officers found […]
Last week, the Ministry of National Security announced that major crimes, murder in particular, has decreased for the first five months of the year, when compared to 2012. But though the numbers have dipped, two persons were killed over the weekend. A charge has not been issued for the murder of a Sandhill resident, but […]
The second murder occurred in Belize City. The victim was well known businesswoman in her neighborhood. But while it had the appearance of a scripted robbery, it was anything but a robbery. It was a cold blooded murder. It is not certain who wanted the woman dead, but her life was extinguished with precision. Isani […]
A businessman from Corozal District did not suffer the same fate as the shopkeeper in Belize City, but he was terrorized during a home invasion. According to police, as the Louisville Village resident and his wife exited their vehicle; they were ambushed by five armed and masked men at eleven p.m. on June twenty-first. They […]
Menjivar’s month long stint behind bars was without incident. However, two inmates at the Belize Central Prison have been treated and released after they were stabbed during altercations at the facility. On Monday, Domingo Chiquin, who is serving five years for robbery, was stabbed in the upper back in Tango three. He was taken to […]
The U.S. Embassy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have teamed up to provide “Law Enforcement Training for Safety and Survival (LETSS) to Belize’s law enforcement officers. The LETSS training is designed to give officers the skills and mindset required to identify and handle critical situations in high-risk environments. Basic survival techniques taught include hallway […]
The Chiquibul National Park, located in the Cayo District, is more than four hundred square miles of rugged terrain and thick forests which is teeming with resources. Those resources are under protected status, but that hasn’t deterred illegal visitors from Guatemala who prey on our timber, xate and gold. With that much area to cover, […]
Minister of State with responsibility for gangs Mark King may be a free man since the charges of aggravated assault, threatening words and disorderly conduct were dropped after the police officer involved in the matter decided not to press charges. One other officer could not identify the Minister of State either. The charges stemmed from […]
The top brass of the Belize Police Department converged at the Police Training Academy as ComPol Allen Whylie presented the latest crime statistics for 2013 up to the end of May. Major crime, particularly murders have decreased since the start of the year. Mike Rudon reports on the department’s initiatives that appear to have limited […]
A young man who had turned his life around was shot and killed on Monday night. Until he was murdered, Delone Vernon was an employee of Youth for the Future. On Monday night, he was at his Sibun Street house with his in-laws when the gunman burst inside and unleashed several gunshots which caught Vernon […]
A Belizean also lost his life to violence in the United States. The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating the murder of a Belizean American inside his home on Sunday. Two months after visiting relatives in Belize, thirty-eight year old Gregory Bennett also known as Gregory Scott was killed. Bennett was shot three times in […]
An elderly man was reportedly beaten and sodomized in Armenia Village on the tenth of June, while socializing at a local bar. The man, in his sixties, was said to have been intoxicated and fell asleep on the roadside while on his way home…that was around two a.m. last Monday. But, he never made it […]
There is a murder to report tonight…it is the third for the month of June and it happened at the eight miles community of Western Pines off the George Price Highway. Sometime around eight-twenty a.m., Hattieville Police were called out to a house under construction where the body of twenty-four year old Elias Santos was […]
There is a disturbing report coming out of the south. A fourteen year old student of the Toledo District is claiming that she had sex with her teacher. The minor visited the police station in the company of her father and reported that on May twenty-ninth, she went to her teacher’s house in the Santa […]
Belmopan Police are currently investigating two incidents which occurred over the weekend that have left several persons recovering at the Western Regional Hospital. The first incident happened at around eleven-thirty on Saturday night in Valley of Peace. Salvadoran farmer, Edwardo Antonio Garcia, reported to police that he and a group of friends were coming from […]
And on Sunday, an altercation in Ontario Village in the Cayo District also landed three women and a minor in the Western Regional Hospital. Police are still trying to sort out the details, but preliminary indications are that the minor is the daughter of Aminta Jimenez and was at a shop when she was allegedly […]
An all points bulletin, issued for the apprehension of Sergio Moran, whom it is strongly believed brutally killed his wife on Wednesday in Caye Caulker, remains in effect tonight. Moran is suspected of butchering twenty-eight year old Julia Moran, who was hacked and stabbed multiple times with a machete inside the couple’s home on the […]
When thirteen year old Jasmine Lowe disappeared in June, 2012, the nation joined her parents in fear, and Cayo residents combed the land for clues. The murdered teen’s death changed the nation and there were protests in San Ignacio in front of the police station, and all chants were for justice. It has been a […]
A mother of one was murdered in her house in Caye Caulker; her mutilated body was found around noon hidden under clothes on her bed. Her family says Julia Moran who is originally from San Pedro Columbia, lived in an abusive relationship with her husband of several years. Tonight, he is on the lam and […]
And in Belize City, there were two shooting incidents on Tuesday evening in South Side Belize City which left three persons suffering from gunshot injuries. The first occurred around five-thirty p.m. on Pitters Street in the vicinity of Antelope Street Extension. Thirty year old Arturo Varela was involved in an argument with his common-law-wife and […]
But as police were processing the scene on Pitters Street, shots rang out in close proximity of the well known Pratts Fried Chicken. Two cousins, Cecil Gill and Rafael Francisco Aguet were heading to Pine Street from the direction of Ebony Street at about seven-forty when they were ambushed by a man standing at the […]
Tonight a twenty-six year old woman in Belize City is claiming abuse at the hands of her cousin, her cousin’s boyfriend and the Belize Police Department. Vivian Martinez says that since Friday her life has been a nightmare and she has nowhere to turn for help. According to Martinez, she lives at a rented house […]
Last week, Belmopan Police were flying high when they arrested four men who they believe are part of a criminal ring operating in the capital. These men, three fourth form students and the other said to be the leader of the gang, were charged for a brazen robbery at the University of Belize Belmopan Campus […]
