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Police are refuting a number of the claims being made by Espat. According to ASP Yearwood, police were in contact with a family member during the entire search. Yearwood contends that he was in contact with a family member while Espat was live on social media. Reporter “Reports are that police refused to join […]
Written on September 20, 2022 | Posted in
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Two arsons were reported over the weekend – one in Belize City, which involved a vehicle being set ablaze and the other, a structural fire in Biscayne Village. The latter was a domestic dispute that ended with the home of Dione Requeña being set on fire. On Saturday morning, Dione was at her home, off […]
Written on September 20, 2022 | Posted in
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Earlier that same day, there was another case of arson, this time on Antelope Street in Belize City. Just before five a.m., police responded to a report of a vehicle on fire. There they found a silver, 2003 Toyota Sequoia, the property of Paul Gamboa, engulfed in flames. Fire personnel managed to extinguish the fire, […]
Written on September 20, 2022 | Posted in
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A Belize City resident was the victim of a shooting on Friday night. Edward Hall was socialising at the corner of George Street and Rocky Road when two men on a motorcycle rode up and fired three shots in the yard. Hall was struck to the leg and taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. […]
Written on September 20, 2022 | Posted in
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Forty-five-year-old Ervin Middleton, a windshield repairman of a Santa Barbara Street address, appeared unrepresented before the magistrate’s court earlier today where he was read a single, indictable charge of rape of a child. It is alleged that two years ago, sometime during September 2020, he forced a thirteen-year-old girl into having sexual intercourse with him. […]
Written on September 15, 2022 | Posted in
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Last night, we told you about the gruesome discovery of the lifeless body of thirty-five-year-old Belize City resident, Allen Martinez. A post mortem examination was conducted on the body this afternoon to determine the cause of death. There were no visible signs of injuries on the badly decomposed body upon discovery. As of news time, […]
Written on September 13, 2022 | Posted in
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The John Smith Road, in recent times, has been an area of concern to the Belize Police Department because it has been used for the disposal of the bodies of murder victims. ComPol Chester Williams told the media today that while the department is under-resourced to place patrols in the area, they are considering the […]
Written on September 13, 2022 | Posted in
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A post-mortem examination is scheduled to be conducted on the body of Marcelina Makin, a resident of southern Belize, whose decomposing body was discovered on a tomb inside the Independence Cemetery. There are reports that Makin may have been sexually assaulted before her life was taken. Commissioner of Police Chester Williams gave an update saying […]
Written on September 13, 2022 | Posted in
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Yovany Sandoval, a twenty-six-year-old man who is wanted in his home country of El Salvador for an alleged rape of a minor in that country, will be deported after a magistrate issued a removal order today. Sandoval, who had been on the run in Belize for the past five years, was deemed a prohibited immigrant. […]
Written on September 13, 2022 | Posted in
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Two murders were recorded in the south in less than forty-eight hours. The first involved the chopping death of a man in Bella Vista Village, but it was a most gruesome discovery of the body of a woman in Independence Village that is gripping the crime news from the south tonight. The resident from Santa […]
Written on September 12, 2022 | Posted in
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In the wee small hours of the Tenth of September, a murder was recorded in Bella Vista Village, Toledo District. Forty-six-year-old Ernest Ellis Blanco was chopped to death by the jealous ex-common-law husband of a woman he was speaking with. Now, police are looking for Elias Pacheco, who is wanted for the crime. News Five’s […]
Written on September 12, 2022 | Posted in
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Last week, we told you about a shooting incident involving a police officer and a Belize City resident. As we reported, twenty-two-year-old Rondane Swaso, a call center employee, was shot once to the chest by a police officer. The incident took place on Euphrates Avenue last Thursday night. Swaso’s girlfriend claimed that he was on […]
Written on September 12, 2022 | Posted in
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A father and his son are both in police custody tonight after an altercation that led the father to fire a warning shot at his son with a license firearm in Sarawee Village. The incident took place on Sunday morning, after a family gathering. A.S.P. Fitzroy Yearwood, the Communications Director at the Belize Police Department, […]
Written on September 12, 2022 | Posted in
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An elderly man died on Sunday morning in a road traffic accident along the Placencia Road. Seventy- six-year-old Amado Galindo was riding his motorcycle when he collided into an SUV. Unfortunately, Galindo lost his life after being flung off his bike. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, Belize Police Department “Police responded to an accident […]
Written on September 12, 2022 | Posted in
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The lifeless body of thirty-five-year-old Allen Martinez was discovered about one mile into the John Smith Airport Link road this morning. Martinez was reported missing by his relatives on Saturday, September third. Since then, family members have been searching for him. Last week, a team of Belize Defense Force Officers and his relatives, spent four […]
Written on September 12, 2022 | Posted in
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The month of August saw a significant decrease in murders, especially gang related murders, in the Old Capital. ComPol Williams spoke about the department’s crime fighting strategy in this regard and how increasing police presence in gang-ridden areas across the city has improved safety for residence. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “Certainly, our crime […]
Written on September 12, 2022 | Posted in
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On Thursday night, a single shot rang out on Euphrates Avenue in Belize City. When the echo of the gunshot subsided, twenty-two-year-old Rondane Swaso, a call center employee, had been shot once to the chest. Police were on the scene within minutes and an injured Swaso was retrieved from an overgrown property, placed in the […]
Written on September 9, 2022 | Posted in
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According to an official report on the police-involved shooting, they were at the corner of King Street and East Collet Canal attempting to detain Swaso for handling stolen goods, when he ran away. The report goes on to say that police set chase after Swaso who escaped into a bushy lot. While searching the overgrown […]
Written on September 9, 2022 | Posted in
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The proliferation of guns into the country, firearms that are brought over illegally from neighboring Guatemala and Mexico, is a year-round issue for law enforcement. A majority of those weapons are used in the commission of violent crimes. Earlier today, police in Corozal District discovered thirty, five point five-six rounds of ammunition from a cane […]
Written on September 6, 2022 | Posted in
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The Espat family in Orange Walk Town is mourning the death of their loved one, following an early morning execution in that northern municipality. Twenty-four-year-old Ramon Espat Junior was outside Spicy Bites Restaurant on Aurora Street in the vicinity of Hi-Five Night Club when a gunman brandishing two weapons approached him and opened fire. The […]
Written on September 5, 2022 | Posted in
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The Espat family is asking for justice in the death of their loved one. Earlier today, Deputy Head of the National Crimes Investigation Branch, Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero told the media that investigators are seeking two suspects in relation to this latest homicide. Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, Deputy Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “We […]
Written on September 5, 2022 | Posted in
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Brothers Keon and Calvert Young came under attack by someone wielding a knife while they were reveling in the carnival J’Ouvert on Saturday morning. The pair, celebrating amongst a throng of merrymakers, had just passed the Queen Street Police Station when they were stabbed. It was the only violent incident recorded during that festivity. This […]
Written on September 5, 2022 | Posted in
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Later on that same day, gunshots rang out a short distance away from the Raccoon Street Police Station. When the shooting subsided, thirty-six-year-old Giovanni Williams had been injured with multiple gunshot wounds to the body. While he is cooperating with investigators, a motive for the shooting remains unclear. Here’s more from the Deputy Commander of […]
Written on September 5, 2022 | Posted in
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Twenty-nine-year-old Mindy Novelo was viciously attacked with a hammer over the weekend by her ex-common-law husband. The incident happened after five p.m. on Saturday evening in the community of Corozalito while Novelo was walking home with her children. Forty-four-year-old Edin Chi reportedly charged at the woman and inflicted multiple injuries on her using the hammer. […]
Written on September 5, 2022 | Posted in
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Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser issued removal orders for sixteen Cuban nationals after entering Belize without passports. The Cuban nationals claim that on Thursday, September first, they were seeking asylum in the Cayman Islands but accidentally ended up in Belize when their boat ran out of gas and drifted ashore after experiencing bad weather. But, Chief […]
Written on September 5, 2022 | Posted in
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