A Corozal woman was the victim of a horrifying home invasion in broad daylight over the weekend. The twenty-eight year old woman reported to police that on Sunday afternoon, someone knocked at her door and when she opened it a Hispanic male stormed in and attempted to rape her. The woman screamed for help and […]
A robbery that occurred this afternoon could have turned fatal for the victim. It took place cross from the Belize City Center on Jude Street after three-thirty and when we got behind the gates of the Belize Recycling Company, officers were combing the scene for clues. Apparently only one person, thirty two year old Myra […]
It took a high speed chase on the highway in the north and a barb wire barrier for police and Customs officials to seize two vans containing a massive supply of contraband liquors in the Pine Ridge Area. While the Uncustommed goods were taken into custody, the occupants of the vehicle managed to getaway. But […]
A resident of Lord’s Bank Village is recovering from a surgery tonight after he suffered multiple stab wounds to his chest and abdomen on Thursday night. The victim, thirty year-old Michael Usher, was found near the junction of the Lord’s Bank Road and the Northern Highway sometime after eight on Thursday night and dropped off […]
As we reported in Thursday’s newscast, Errol Haynes and Anthony Barrow, both Belizeans on the run from the law, were nabbed by authorities in northern Mexico for possession of an arsenal of assault weapons. The duo, along with Mexican national Juan Miguel Alvarez, was busted inside an apartment in Calle, a city in the state […]
A Mexican soldier is in custody tonight after he was found with a large amount of US currency on him. Jose Luis Beltran, who is from Tabasco, Mexico was picked up by police at the Corozal Free Zone on Thursday and by this evening he had already gone through the court system. Beltran had on […]
Also from the police blotter, a Belize City taxi driver had a close call on Thursday. Two men requested Elmer Martinez to take them to Neal’s Pen Road from his station on Albert Street. According to Martinez, one of the men asked to stop near an alley where he came face to face with two […]
Two Belizeans are being held tonight in northern Mexico for possession of firearms used exclusively by the army. The two are Errol Cuthbert Haynes and Anthony Wilfred Barrow. Haynes, viewers will recall was at a house in Ladyville where a silencer and equipment to manufacture the weapon accessory were found last February. He was charged […]
The police department is looking for one of its own tonight. The officer was recently suspended and now there is mounting evidence against him for an alleged theft. He is identified as Gaspar Sanchez. According to our records up to November of 2009, he was the Head of the Scenes of Crime Unit. Reports are […]
Break-ins at schools are becoming common practice and for Queen’s Square Anglican School, they have become all too frequent. On Tuesday night, the school was targeted for the third time since the beginning of this year. It’s a crying shame because the school is already facing financial challenges. The thieves gained entry by breaking locks […]
On Monday we reported on the sad story of a Belizean woman living in the United States who is a victim of human trafficking. The report from ABC News showed a twenty-three year old woman by the name of Jamelia, who said she was sold by her mother to an American national. She has been […]
Police are looking for the drivers of two vehicles that were found to be carrying a stash of contraband liquor. The vehicles were intercepted with Heineken, black label and other liquors, south of Orange Walk Town. Shots were fired to stop the rented vehicles in the early morning bust, but the drivers still managed to […]
A first form student of Wesley College found himself in serious trouble on Monday. The student brought a loaded gun to school. It wasn’t a show and tell day but someone did inform the authorities that the school was in jeopardy because of this young man. The Police department was called in and a search […]
Two men were shot just after eight o’clock on Monday night; one in Belize City and another in the Yalbac Area of the Cayo District. Eighteen year old fisherman, Justin Grant, was socializing with friends outside of his home on Conch Shell Bay when they heard a single gunshot. Grant was hit on the left […]
The Bowling area of the Princess Hotel and Casino was burglarized on the weekend of February fifth and sixth. And it turns out that the culprit is a former employee who seems to have forgotten that the building is armed with surveillance cameras. Twenty-seven year old Gilroy Garnett managed to get away with a cash […]
A family of four was hauled to the Magistrate’s Court today to face drug trafficking charges. What’s disturbing is that two of the persons charged are a twelve year old girl and her thirteen year old brother. They were detained along with their mother, thirty-two year old Mirna Chi and older brother, nineteen year old […]
According to the United Nations, nearly two point five million people from one hundred and twenty-seven countries are being trafficked around the world. The annual revenue derived from trafficking in persons is estimated to be in the billions. It is a brisk trade and victims are often sorted into categories of bonded labor, forced labor […]
A Chinese grocer is tonight lucky to be alive after being grazed over the head by a bullet during an armed holdup on Saturday night. Forty-five year old Jian Liang Li, proprietor of Liang Kee Fast Food near mile two and half on the Northern Highway, was the victim of an attempted robbery when a […]
A Belize City fisherman broke into a jewelry store and only got away with twenty dollars. It’s a small loot, but it was enough to land twenty-six year old Marlon Young in jail for five years. The Barrack Road resident entered C-Medina’s Jeweler Souvenirs at the Commercial Center on February eleventh after the owner, seventy-six […]
A Belize City woman, who has been in police custody for the past four days, was arraigned today for allegedly stabbing her neighbor. The police reports and charge sheet have the name of the accused woman as Stasha Lopez, which was taken from her Social Security Card. She says, however, that her name is Sasha, […]
Exactly two weeks after he was shot by two men at his home, a money changer has died of the injuries. Thirty-four year old Jaime Headman who lived in San Joaquin Village, Corozal, was met by gunfire when he opened his door on the night of February seventh. He was shot to the upper chest […]
While education is the cause of distress at Sadie Vernon, a tool on which most teachers and students use on a daily basis, is the cause of a deep knife wound. Twenty-three year old Elizabeth Martinez remains hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight following a near fatal stabbing incident across from her home […]
And in the Belmopan court, an electrician and a carpenter were charged with Drug Trafficking after allegedly being found with eleven and a half pounds of cannabis. The men, twenty-eight year old John Henry and thirty-one year old David Gabourel, were busted on Thursday at mile fifty-four on the Western Highway. They were travelling in […]
The 2008 plot to kill a Belize City businessman and the kidnapping of his family members made many in the business district tighten the security measures at their establishments and at their homes. The cold blooded details are just coming to light. After over two years behind bars, the Supreme Court trial for five of […]
Belize City police are tonight seeking two male suspects whom they believe carried out a daring late evening shooting on Wednesday. While there were no fatalities twenty-six year old Derrick Clarke and fifty-six year old Rose Arnold were both struck a number of times as they stood on Wagner’s Lane. The gunmen, police say, drove […]
