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A Police officer shot a man this afternoon on Cottonwick Avenue in Belize City. Information to News Five is that officers entered an abandoned building just after midday where they allegedly came across a man holding a knife in his hand. Officers reportedly demanded that the individual drop the knife, but the man allegedly did […]
Written on September 1, 2022 | Posted in
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A teenager who recently turned eighteen is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison after he was arraigned earlier for eight charges in connection with Tuesday night’s shooting near the Soca Moca Mas Camp. Charleston Green Junior, of Antelope Street Extension, faces charges of: Attempted Murder, Use of Deadly Means of Harm, Grievous Harm, Keeping Unlicensed […]
Written on September 1, 2022 | Posted in
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A shooting in Belize City on Tuesday evening has raised serious concerns about public safety heading into the carnival weekend. The armed attack on Dixon Ramirez, a short distance away from where Soca Moca was preparing for its mas camp on Pelican Street, canceled an event where participants in the pre-carnival activity were up to […]
Written on August 31, 2022 | Posted in
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Twenty-seven-year-old Jason Sanchez appeared before Justice Herbert Lord on Monday where he was convicted for the execution style murder of Emmerson Arnold, an employee of Belize Water Services Limited. The incident took place on the morning of November, twenty-eighth, 2014 when Arnold was shot as many as six times by his attacker. Sanchez, otherwise known […]
Written on August 30, 2022 | Posted in
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A security guard employed by the Belize Brewing Company has been charged for stealing fifteen cases of Smirnoff from the compound in Ladyville. Thirty-year-old Phillip James Lopez is accused of making off with the boxes, each valued at seventy-eight dollars. The theft allegedly occurred over the weekend and was captured on surveillance camera. This morning, […]
Written on August 30, 2022 | Posted in
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Amateur footage of a civilian being arrested by a trio of police officers who struggled to take him into custody has found its way to social media and has since gone viral. In the thirty second clip, the officers are forced to manhandle the individual who is seen putting up a resistance. This morning, Commissioner […]
Written on August 29, 2022 | Posted in
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An article in a U.K. publication citing the latest episode with Jasmine Hartin and the Belize Police Department has ComPol Williams balking at a statement that was reportedly made by the Canadian national. The statement alleges that there was a plot to execute Hartin upon leaving a police station where she was being held. Here’s […]
Written on August 29, 2022 | Posted in
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Thirty-four-year-old Reese Fitzgibbon has been served with an eighty-two page disclosure for allegedly being a member of a gang. The Supal Street resident recently pleaded guilty to keeping a firearm and ammunition and is presently serving a three-year sentence. In the lower court on Thursday evening, Fitzgibbon was served with the disclosure, despite being charged […]
Written on August 26, 2022 | Posted in
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A trio of men, including twenty-three-year-old Shemaud Nunez, eighteen-year-old Azzane Kaylon Domingo and twenty-one-year-old Damion Saldano appeared before the magistrates court for the first time after they were arraigned individually for the murder of Benjamin Hyde Senior on Father’s Day. In Courtroom Three, Nunez and Dominguez requested bail since they were only charged with conspiracy […]
Written on August 26, 2022 | Posted in
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Police officers attached to the National Prosecution Branch are participating in a three-day training course geared towards sharpening their skills in effectively pursuing criminal cases in court. Today at the Radisson, they paid keen attention to presentations made by attorneys and other facilitators. The goal is that police prosecutors will be successful against seasoned criminal […]
Written on August 25, 2022 | Posted in
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A Columbian national working in Belize as a Computer Technician was charged with rape and remanded to the Belize Central Prison today after he was denied bail. Forty-six-year-old Luis Alejandro Rios is accused of committing the sexual offense on Sunday, upon a twenty-three-year-old woman. While rape is a bailable offense, Prosecutor, Sgt. Theodore Lopez objected to bail […]
Written on August 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Tonight, two fishermen of Belize City are spending their first night on remand after they were charged in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for the robbery of a maintenance worker. Thirty-year-old Stanley Wade, of a Faber’s Road address and thirty-one-year-old Eugene Fraser of West Canal were denied bail. The allegation is that on Saturday, the pair […]
Written on August 23, 2022 | Posted in
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A man is in police custody following a fire in Dangriga on Saturday night. A reportedly intoxicated Michael Flores visited his father’s house in the Wagierale area of the town. They got into an argument before the twenty-four-year-old took out a machete and attacked his father, fifty-one-year-old Santos Flores. Flores believes that his son then […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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This afternoon, police released the official results of a post-mortem examination carried out on the body of Leroy Cus. The graphic designer of Belmopan died from multiple penetrating stab wounds to the chest. Cus was senselessly robbed and killed as he was walking from the bus terminal in Belmopan. Over the weekend, reports surfaced of […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Three men were the victims of an armed robbery on Saturday night in Belize City. Darwin Henderson reported to police that around ten-thirty p.m., he was on Baracat Street with his son and another person when they were accosted by two men; one brandished a firearm. The trio was searched and robbed of an undisclosed […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Orange Walk resident Elias Reynoso has been charged with Manslaughter by Negligence, following a fatal road traffic accident in Ladyville. Details are that Reynoso was behind the wheel of a pickup truck on Poinsetta Street around six-thirty p.m. on Friday when he knocked down and killed eight-year-old Mercedes Campos who was with her mother at […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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A tattoo artist has been singled out as the person who killed Ronald Gill almost a month ago in Dangriga. Today, police arrested and charged twenty-eight-year-old Devin Billy Parchue of Dangriga with Gill’s murder. Ronald Gill left his home on Lakeland Street on July twenty-third to purchase a meal at a nearby fast food outlet […]
Written on August 19, 2022 | Posted in
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Two persons lost their lives overnight. Separate murders occurred in the Finca Solana area of Corozal and in the Capital City of Belmopan. Then, an elderly woman perished in a fire out west in San Ignacio. We head north to Corozal where an American man was murdered as he exited his vehicle at home. News […]
Written on August 18, 2022 | Posted in
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A teenager from Belmopan lost his life while on his way home on Wednesday night. Eighteen-year-old Leroy Cus was walking from the bus terminal to his address in the San Martin Area when he was robbed and stabbed to death. This is yet another senseless act of violence that has claimed the life of a […]
Written on August 18, 2022 | Posted in
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The Department of Youth Services is also demanding justice of Leroy Cus. A release from the Ministry of Youth, through the Department of Youth Services, condemns the brutal murder. In light of this recent murder, the Department of Youth Service says it is prepared to work with all stakeholders involved, including the Belmopan City Council, […]
Written on August 18, 2022 | Posted in
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He was busted back in December 2020 in Orange Walk with over forty pounds of weed. But tonight, the trial for Dion Bellini, charged for possession of a control drugs with intent to supply was adjourned to August twenty-third. The trial for the interdicted cop was transferred to Belize City and will be heard before […]
Written on August 17, 2022 | Posted in
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The result of a post-mortem examination is still outstanding, following the death of Derrick Uh. The twenty-year-old Cristo Rey resident was detained by officers at the San Joaquin Fiesta in Corozal for allegedly touching a woman inappropriately. He was placed inside a police prison van and was left unattended for over twelve hours before he […]
Written on August 16, 2022 | Posted in
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A woman from San Ignacio Town is urging the Belize Police Department to act swiftly in detaining her ex-common-law husband, Ludin Najera, after he allegedly attacked her in a fit of jealousy outside of a night club. Angela Lemus says she was out with her former partner on Saturday night when he became jealous after […]
Written on August 16, 2022 | Posted in
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Earlier today, we got a chance to speak with Tanya Santos the C.E.O in the Ministry of Human Development who commented on the high number of domestic violence reports in Belize. Here are her thoughts on how these acts of gender-based violence can be decreased. Tanya Santos, C.E.O., Ministry of Human Development “It is […]
Written on August 16, 2022 | Posted in
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The popular San Joaquin Festival held annually around mid-August has been marred by tragedy, following the death of a young villager from Cristo Rey. There are multiple reports of what led to his detention, but in the wee hours of Sunday, an inebriated Derrick Uh was taken into custody by officers working the festival and […]
Written on August 15, 2022 | Posted in
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