In the past couple years, there have been an unusually high number of international fugitives being caught in Belize. News Five reported on many of those captures, but one wanted man whose arrest went under the radar was sixty-five year old Robert Widdowson, a resident of Texas who was on the run for over twenty […]
The Chiquibul Forest covers four hundred and thirty-seven thousand acres, which is about seven point seven percent of the entire landmass of Belize. This area encompasses the Chiquibul National Park, Chiquibul Forest Reserve and the Caracol Archaeological Reserve; all protected areas. The national park, however, has come under unrelenting plundering by organized, illegal loggers who […]
The crime statistics for the period January to October are out. According to the Belize Police Department’s release, the number of murders at the end of October stood at one hundred and twelve, a small increase compared to one hundred and six during the same period in 2010. For the crimes of rape and carnal […]
Well-known Ghost Town Gang affiliate, twenty-four year old Emmerson Trapp was arrested and charged for kept unlicensed firearm and kept unlicensed ammunition. Today, the Gang Suppression Unit conducted a search at Trapp’s residence on Pelican Street where they discovered a nine-millimeter pistol along with a magazine containing nine rounds of ammunition. A further search of […]
When police discovered a badly stabbed body off a feeder road at mile three on the Western Highway on Friday, they had no clue who it was. By Monday night police identified the victim as forty-year old Nigerian Security Guard, Abayomi Olatunji. While police have no leads on this murder, his family in Nigeria believes […]
A Fisherman of the Conch Shell Bay area is facing criminal charges after he reportedly lost his temper during an argument with a seventeen year old girl on Sunday. Twenty-one year old Luke Cox was charged with Harm when he appeared before Magistrate Sharon Frazer today. The teenager alleges that she was at a Chinese […]
A Belize City fisherman who is the father of five children will not be with his family for Christmas this year. George Rochester was gunned down on Saturday night in Ladyville as he was making his way to a party. He was shot multiple times by an unknown gunman. At least one man was seen […]
Aside from the two murders, there’s other violence to report. The Texaco Service Station, popularly known as Texaco North Star, located near mile one and a half on the Northern Highway, was targeted by a pair of armed robbers during a midmorning heist today. Shortly before eleven o’clock the duo entered the premises where store […]
A group of seven, including two women, appeared before Magistrate Sharon Frazer today for the possession of a loaded nine millimeter Luger brand pistol. The weapon and ammunition were found inside a vehicle they were traveling in on the Northern Highway on Saturday morning. Earl Gill and Jamie Young, both residents of Sand Hill Village, […]
There has not been a murder in the Old Capital for weeks, but police need help tonight in identifying the body of man found early this afternoon off Mile three on the Western Highway. From all accounts, the victim had a horrific end; his body was badly mutilated and when it was found following a […]
On Thursday night we told you about the death of forty-nine year old B.D.F. Volunteer Sergeant, Thomas Reyes Senior. On Thursday, San Ignacio police were considering Reyes’ death as a homicide; however, police have now ruled it as a suicide. Reyes, who was working as a supervisor with SOS Security Firm in San Ignacio, was […]
Thirty-one year old Lyndon Flores, an officer of the Belize Defense Force, is remanded at the Belize Central Prison tonight following an appearance in the courtroom of Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith. Flores is accused of assaulting his common-law wife Shayla Morena with a gun and destroying several household items during a domestic dispute one […]
On Sunday night, armed men held up at gun point Orange Walk businessman, Rosendo “Chendo” Urbina Junior and his wife Becky as they were leaving their secluded house in the Honey Camp area. The couple and immediate family members have since fled the country to the United States. It’s a major story because Chendo is […]
A B.D.F. volunteer sergeant was found dead this morning at his house in San Ignacio. There were telltale signs that Thomas Reyes made have taken his own life. A note and gun were found nearby. San Ignacio police, however, are investigating it as a case of homicide. The forty-nine year old Security Guard was found […]
How did a gun stolen from inside the San Ignacio Police Station end up at the Price Barracks Compound in Ladyville? Earlier this week the weapon, a nine millimeter pistol along with ten live rounds of ammunition, was stolen from an on-duty officer, who was reportedly sleeping on the job. It has since been retrieved […]
Well-known Orange Walk businessman, Rosendo “Chendo” Urbina Junior was ambushed and held at gunpoint as he exited his gated estate on Sunday. This evening, Urbina and his immediate family, left the country on a late flight bound for the US following Sunday night’s assault. Urbina is the son of former ambassador of Belize to Mexico, […]
A dangerous hand grenade and assorted ammunition were taken off the city streets on Monday night. A concerned citizen, whose identity will not be revealed, handed over a black plastic bag with the grenade as well as ammunition including twelve forty-millimeter rounds, fifty-two seven point six-two rounds, and eighty-six point two-twenty-three rounds of ammunition to […]
It has been quiet on the city streets for days, but on Monday night violence flared up again. An eighteen year old Belize City student was shot and is hospitalized. Keshawn Goff and his girlfriend were riding on Welch Street shortly after seven p.m. when they were approached by a man near the junction with […]
A San Pedro businesswoman, who was in Belize City over the weekend, was greeted with a very unpleasant surprise when she returned to the island. The home of Catherine Paz was burglarized while she was away and the thieves made off with a sizeable loot. Two laptops, a sound system, an iPod, as well as […]
On Sunday, November twenty-seventh, Castula Westby, a resident of Zericote Street in Belize City, was stabbed numerously; her family says as much thirteen times, while laying asleep inside her bedroom. The home invasion, it is believed, was the result of enmity between her grandson and a group of young men from the neighborhood over a […]
A Belize City young woman claims says she was raped by two men, one which is her friend. The rape case came up before Magistrate Roberto Ordonez today and the eighteen year old claims she was raped after having consensual sex with one of them. The alleged rape occurred last Thursday at the home of […]
Mexican national forty-four year old Martin Rafael Urias was busted with a huge amount of cocaine on Thursday night and by Friday evening, he was tried and convicted. Urias was sentenced to sixteen years in prison following the major drug bust near the Belize/Mexico Border in Corozal. It was not Urias’ first trip to Belize. […]
A major drug bust took place on Thursday night. It started at the western border where police officers were training on how to conduct searches at checkpoints. The officers detected that a vehicle heading toward the checkpoint, suddenly made a suspicious U-Turn. The Nissan truck with Mexican license plates had initially crossed the border from […]
A Security Guard at the Gomez Saw Mill in Bladen Village was fatally shot on Monday evening. While forty-one year old Selvin Ramclam was shot once on the head, it is not considered a case of murder. Today police report that they have formally arrested and charged Williams Ical, a laborer of the village who […]
The shooting death of forty-one year old Selvin Williams, a resident of Bladden Village does not appear to be a case of murder. The watchman, who was employed at Gomez Saw Mill on the Southern Highway, was shot once to the right side of his head on Monday evening. When Punta Gorda police reached the […]
