It’s the kind of crime you cringe at – a child being sexually molested. Police have reported that a little girl was raped twice on the same day by an elderly man. The incident happened last Thursday while the child, aged seven, was attending a function at the home of the accused. On Saturday, in […]
There was a murder in Dangriga Town on Monday night. Forty-three year old Adolpho Nunez was at his Rear Pine Street residence with a family member when they heard someone calling for Nunez at his front gate. Shots were heard when Nunez went outside to make checks. The family member inquired and found Nunez on […]
Just before five this evening, reports spread like wildfire that a double homicide had been committed in the Saint Martin’s area of Belize City. News Five has confirmed that a lone gunman is believed to be the shooter in two incidents that occurred in proximity of each other; one person is confirmed dead, while another […]
Two persons lost their lives at the hands of another in less than twenty-four hours over the weekend, but only one at this time is being classified as a murder. We begin this segment of the newscast with the broad daylight stabbing death of thirty-eight-year-old Ronald Gill around midday on Saturday on George Price Drive […]
Three men were shot as they socialized with others in a yard in the Lake Independence area on Sunday night. While two of them are in stable condition, one is in a critical state and police do not know who their shooter is. Today, the Police Department’s Communications Director, Assistant Superintendent Fitzroy Yearwood told the […]
There was also a homicide in Belmopan for which a death investigation is ongoing. On Friday night in the Las Flores community, a single blast echoed near Mariposa Avenue. Twenty-one-year-old Daniel Orellano was mortally shot in the neck and face area with a shotgun by someone he knew as a friend. It is alleged that […]
There was a second shooting incident in Belize City over the weekend and while no one was injured, police on mobile patrol did intercept someone who was running away from the area. They have since identified that person as Nigel Freeman, who, Communications Director, A.S.P Fitzroy Yearwood, said they will charge. A.S.P. Fitzroy Yearwood, […]
Tonight, we begin our newscast with the murder of a twenty-five-year-old Guinea Grass resident. Lisandro Martinez was shot and killed on Wednesday night as he headed to Boston Village in the Belize District on a motorcycle driven at the time by Jose Morales. A vehicle drove up beside them on the Old Northern Highway and […]
In the wee hours of March fourteenth, 2016, Edwin Ixpatac was beaten to death while in police custody in San Pedro Town. In the wake of the incident, three police officers: PCs Reydel Teck, Jahsimir Cob and Romelio Logan were charged with murder. Today, the trio appeared before Justice Ricardo Sandcroft in a trial by […]
Twenty-six-year-old Paul Jex Junior has been found guilty of rape, following a verdict handed down by the Supreme Court. This is in respect of an incident that occurred in December 2015 where the wife of a watchman was sexually assaulted in front of her one-year-old child. Jex was among a group of seven men who […]
There was another rape conviction handed down in the Supreme Court this afternoon, also in the courtroom of Justice Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft. Thirty-seven-year-old Andre Gordon was found guilty after careful consideration of the facts in the case brought against him. Gordon, a former special constable and hotel security guard, was accused of sexually assaulting a […]
The body of a Belize City resident was positively identified by members of his family this morning when they visited the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. On Monday, Prime Minister John Briceño’s longtime driver made headlines when he knocked down and killed an individual riding a bicycle along the Philip Goldson Highway. The incident happened on […]
A twenty-year-old resident of Bella Vista Village was found dead on a dirt road off the Southern Highway near the entrance to the polyclinic in the village. He had been stabbed multiples times to the neck. What is believed to be the murder weapon was recovered a short distance away from the body of Randy […]
Twenty-two-year-old Rasheed Maskall and his girlfriend are the victims of an armed assault at their home in the Bainsville community of Hattieville. The couple was in bed when a volley of gunshots disturbed their slumber. Shortly after the shooting, Latifah Ferguson and her boyfriend realized that they were both injured. According to Assistant Superintendent of […]
An attempt on the life of Kenrick Gordon over the weekend, in the neighborhood of Lakeview Street, was thwarted by a police officer who was working a special assignment at an Asian place of business. When the firearm that a pair of gunmen attempted to shoot Gordon with snapped, the would-be assassins took off on […]
The Belize Police Department has launched a pair of investigations into an incident that occurred in San Pedro over the weekend which resulted in a man being injured when police officers opened fire after a pair of men on a motorcycle ran through a checkpoint. According to Communications Officer, A.S.P. Fitzroy Yearwood, the Professional Standards […]
Two Belize City men have been remanded to the Belize Central Prison for a most heinous crime. Ronald Michael and Herman Grant were charged separately for the rape of a child when they appeared before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser. Reports are that the fourteen-year-old minor was raped by both men on July seventh and then […]
Twenty-two-year-old Frederick Rodriguez, a resident of Riverside Street, Benque Viejo Town has been arrested and charged with possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply. That’s after he was busted during a special operation being conducted by police along the banks of the Mopan River from the San Jose Succotz Ferry to Benque Viejo […]
Also in the vicinity of the Mopan River on Riverside Street, Benque Viejo police discovered a nine millimeter pistol containing a magazine with fifteen live Luger brand nine millimeter rounds of ammunition. No one was in the area at the time and as a result, the firearm and ammunition were sealed, labeled and deposited as […]
Wendell Thurton Junior was released from custody on Tuesday, following a decision of the Supreme Court, after pleading guilty to abetment to murder and abetment to attempted murder. This is in the case of a fatal stabbing incident in January 2016 that claimed the life of thirty-seven-year-old Ian Blair. Thurton, along with two other suspects, […]
Twenty-four-year-old Wendell Thurton Jr. is free from prison after spending six years and six months on remand, following a 2016 murder in Belize City. Today, Thurton pleaded guilty to the crimes of abetment to murder and abetment to attempted murder in the January 2016 stabbing death of thirty-seven-year-old Ian Blair, and the attempted murder of […]
A Belize City resident is seeking public assistance in identifying an individual who burglarized her home. Keisha Banner a resident of Estella Metzgen Street in Belize City has obtained surveillance footage of a man she believes was involved in the burglary of her home at around three p.m. on Monday. The surveillance footage shows a […]
A Belize City man was shot dead inside his yard just before midnight on Friday and police believe that the attack on the Antelope Street resident was the result of an ongoing conflict over the sale of weed in that neighborhood. It’s the second execution of its kinds we have reported on in the Old […]
ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, B.P.D. “A little after eleven [p.m.], police responded to, yet again, the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where they saw Edward Anthony Nunez, twenty-eight-years-old, suffering from apparent gunshot wounds to his left upper thigh and to his right upper thigh, inner thigh. Initial investigation revealed that on Friday, he was […]
Also over the weekend, there was a stabbing incident on Saturday night that ended with a twenty-three-year-old being hospitalized in a stable condition. Deon Jones visited a residence in Rowland’s Alley where he began tossing bottles at the home and was subsequently attacked by a knife-wielding individual. He was badly beaten and stabbed multiple times […]
