The past weekend claimed four lives and tonight there’s a fifth murder in as many days. It happened just after five this evening when many were heading home from work and traffic was thick in the area of the Vernon Street Bridge and fish market. Nineteen year old Philip Swift, a.k.a. P.J., was gunned down […]
There was a fire in Belize City early this morning in the heart of the entertainment section of the old capital. A jeep belonging to the president of JD Financial was ablaze across the street from the B.T.L. Park. The vehicle was parked while Joseph Marinan was asleep in his apartment. Marinan is known for […]
Jose Luis Robles Beltran, a former Mexican soldier who was charged for counterfeit currency and having an unlicensed weapon while he was at the Commercial Free Zone, is still detained at the Belize Central Prison. Robles’ case is still under appeal and he was transferred in the still of the night from detention at the […]
Earlier we told you about the latest murder in the old capital, but on Tuesday night a mother of four survived a shooting at her home in Hattieville. Thirty-seven year old Jacqueline Rhaburn was sitting on her verandah at the corner Tiger Richards Street and Foster Drive shortly before ten when she was shot in […]
San Ignacio police have made an arrest following Sunday’s early morning murder of sixty-nine year old Julian Lara and burglary of Chuc’s Gas Station. Shajeem Espat was today arraigned in the San Ignacio Magistrate’s Court, but the charge brought against him was not for murder. Espat is charged with Conspiracy to Commit Robbery of the […]
Another case in the courts involves twenty-one year old Michael Neal, who was today arraigned in the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court for Rape. Neal is accused of raping a nineteen year old woman, who went to his house to pick up her child. The woman alleges that Neal told her the baby was asleep and when […]
At age forty-eight, Joseph Bevans Junior has as many as nine convictions on his rap sheet; most of them for crimes of dishonesty. On March eighteenth, he added another crime to his list when he allegedly broke into a house, owned by Kevin Graham, in the Western Paradise area. Bevans was caught as he left […]
A crime spree swept across the Old Capital and spread to San Ignacio in the west. Four men were killed; three in the City which statistically continues to record the highest number of murders in the country. We start with the homicide of a baker who was last seen on Saturday night. His body was […]
The second murder for the weekend in the Old Capital occurred on Saturday morning. A Cayo youth, twenty-three year old Marlon Jones, was gunned down in the Port Loyola area. Jones, who is from Georgeville, was hanging out with a friend when he was approached by two men. Minutes later he was dead. News Five’s […]
The violence started on Friday night when twenty-two year old Brandon Gibson, a resident of Moya Street in Belize City, was killed shortly after nine o’clock. While residents of the St. Martin’s neighborhood remain tight-lipped about the shooting incident, Belize City police are probing what appears to be a case of self-defense. Gibson was shot […]
Earlier we reported on the murders in the Old Capital. The crime wave spread to the west where a watchman was stabbed to death while on duty at a bar. When the body of the elderly Julian Lara was found just past midnight on Sunday, his arms and legs were tied up. The owner of […]
While police are yet to make arrests in the weekend’s homicides, a fisherman was brought to the Belize City Magistrates Court for a crime he allegedly committed in San Pedro Town. Twenty-one year old Jamie Young is accused of raping a thirty-eight year European woman on March seventeenth and he was arraigned “en camera” today […]
Armed thieves broke into a business establishment not far away from the Mesopotamia police sub-station. The late afternoon robbery on Tigris Street in Belize City netted the three brazen robbers an undisclosed sum of money from Plastic Packaging Supplies Company. Shortly after three o’clock three men entered the business and held up two employees at […]
While the police look for the suspects in the Plastic Packing Supplies robbery, a female constable was arraigned for Theft following a report from a Belize City woman that her personal belongings were stolen. Theft is a common crime but this crime allegedly happened while her jewelry was in the possession of officers at the […]
A fifty-four year old man, who was out on parole is back behind bars. Winston Dennison was arraigned today for Unlawful Carnal Knowledge of a fourteen year old high school girl. According to court records, Dennison was charged for murder, but was convicted for manslaughter and granted parole in August of 2009. It is now […]
It also did not go down well for an American National, who is facing stiff penalties for stealing three beers and a coke from Red Hunt Inn in the Bella Vista Area. The price of the goods is just under ten dollars but Gregory Keith Walp, from Allentown, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to burglary and […]
A thirty-eight year old European visitor was reportedly raped while vacationing in San Pedro. The woman told police that on Wednesday night she met a man, who identified himself as Jamie at Wet Willy’s Night Club. She says she socialized with Jamie and at around one a.m. on Thursday morning they left the club and […]
A nineteen year old domestic worker from Camalote Village in the Cayo District was allegedly raped by her ex-common-law husband. The woman told police that she went to her ex’s house to pick up their child at around eight-forty-five on Tuesday night, but he told that the baby was asleep inside the bedroom. According to […]
It’s a trick that has played out many times and the perpetrators have been caught as many times. A Ministry of Works employee who went to visit an old childhood friend at the Belize Central Prison is in trouble with the law because officials there allege they found weed stashed in one of five plates […]
Two men were arraigned this morning in court for the weekend murder of a market vendor. But even before the two suspects were hauled to court, there was another round of deadly gunshot blasts on Monday night. Hours later, while hospitalized, Reymundo Quinote died on his twenty-seventh birthday. The shooting occurred on Faber’s Road in […]
We reported earlier about a brawl in Progresso Village, and while that was nasty, further north in Cristo Rey Village, Corozal, a machete war early Sunday morning left three men injured. Police have since found out that twenty year old Richard Cantun was along with eighteen year olds Dennis Villatoro and Henry Pena as well […]
She is only five years old, but a school girl is reporting that she has been sexually abused. The alleged perpetrator is her step-father and the girl says that the crime occurred at her home in the San Pedrito Area of San Pedro Town. Last week she told police that her two younger brothers were […]
Over the weekend there was a major heist at the Maya Island Air office at the Philip Goldson International Airport. The brazen thieves easily penetrated the building and walked away with items, including tools, electronics and appliances as well as aircraft equipment. Over one hundred and thirty-one thousand dollars. Two men, thirty-one year old Lindon […]
Also in court, a twenty year old man who was caught nude inside the bedroom of an eleven year old girl in Belize City was remanded to the Central Prison today. Elgin Graham was charged with Burglary with Intent to Rape and the prosecutor strongly objected to bail at his arraignment this afternoon. The accused […]
The past weekend brought grief to at least three families. In the first instance, it is believed that robbery may have triggered the latest murder in the Old Capital. A market vendor of Honduran nationality who has been residing at Boston Village was shot at the start of the weekend. One man stood watch while […]
