After a numerous adjournments, a date has finally been set for the preliminary inquiry to determine whether Dennis Lopez, a Police Inspector, will stand trial for the Attempted Murder of Stephen Buckley. Lopez received full disclosure today and his Preliminary Inquiry was set for March eighth before Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb McKenzie. Buckley has been […]
A bar on St. Thomas Street in Belize City was burglarized on Sunday morning. It appears that the thieves were more interested in getting high than getting cash. The burglars broke into Diamond Entertainment during closing hours and stole over a dozen packs of cigarettes, half a dozen quarts of rum, an assortment of brandy, […]
A brazen, late evening shooting near downtown Belize City has landed two persons inside the emergency room at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. As many as twenty-one shots were discharged on South Street at its intersection with Wagner’s Lane. When the smoke cleared in the area also known as Jump Street, two victims lay on […]
A second suspect has been charged for the double murder of thirty-four year old Ian Martinez and seventeen year old Daniel Puerto. The two were killed on February fourth in a hail of bullets that was unleashed by two gunmen as they stood at the corner of Tibruce Street and Hibiscus Lane. Daniel’s twin brother, […]
There are two cases of family violence that are showing that crime is no longer the domain of thugs on the street. Nonetheless, two families are still mourning the deaths of loved ones, who were killed over the weekend. Details are just coming in regarding Saturday night’s murder of a sixty year old man who […]
Instead of being a peaceful night before Valentine’s Day, tragedy struck on Sunday for five children who are without their fathers tonight. One is dead, stabbed to the heart, and a father of four is behind bars for murder. Even worse, all children were at home at the time when Vincent ‘Steeno’ Tillett committed the […]
A Belize City Customs Officer lost his wallet and the person who found it, used his credit card to go on a personal shopping spree. Thirty-two year old Albert Matute reported that the wallet, which contained his driver’s license, voter’s I.D., along with his debit and credit cards, was stolen on January sixteenth. Matute’s credit […]
It was a deadly weekend for two persons. In the City, a love triangle ended with the homicide of a man half the age of the accused, Vincent Tillett Sr. Darwin Phillips, who has one child with Denise Phillips was killed when Denise’s ex, showed up at her house on Sunday. Tillett has fathered four […]
The other murder is an unusual case of suspected patricide which is rocking residents of Dominguez Layout in Corozal Town. Early Sunday morning, a fifteen year old minor discovered the bloody body of his father whom he had left at home drinking with his elder brother several hours earlier. While Gumercindo Meza Jr. has since […]
A very disturbing case of sexual assault has been reported by a teenager, who ran away from home. The thirty-three year old mother of the child first reported on February second to the Family Violence Unit that her young daughter did not attend classes on that day and that she feared the girl had run […]
Businessman, Bert Vasquez, was arraigned today for three criminal offenses in respect of a complaint made by a twenty-two year old accountant. In court, Vasquez was charged with unlawful imprisonment, aggravated assault and indecent assault. He pleaded not guilty but the magistrate upheld a no bail submission by the prosecutor which means that Vasquez will […]
A money changer from the village of San Joaquin in the Corozal District was targeted over the weekend at his home, only this time he wasn’t harmed. The money changer, fifty seven year old Fortunato Dominguez, told police that he was about to enter his vehicle at around six on Saturday morning when two youths […]
Meanwhile, there’s an update to another assault on a money changer who was shot at his house in the same village of San Joaquin. Thirty-four year old Jaime Headman was at his house when two men reportedly drove up in a red pickup truck and called out for him last week Sunday night. His wife, […]
Heading west to Santa Elena, a teacher and wife were assaulted at their home over the weekend. Police report that one of the two assailants was armed with what appeared to be sawed off shotgun which he directed at the teacher as he demanded money. The brave teacher, however, was able to disarm the assailant. […]
On January seventeenth, aspiring local musician Damion August came to our studios with his jaws wired shut to make a public complaint of police brutality. August, who goes by the stage name Weezy, is tonight once again in the news not for an album release or another physical confrontation with the police but for allegedly […]
In another case along the same lines, two police officers almost lost their jobs and had their reputations tarnished when a Caye Caulker resident accused them of stealing cash and household items from him. But forty-five year old Maxwell Castillo is now being accused of fabricating the allegations and is facing a charge of Committing […]
Also in court, a local musician was charged for allegedly raping a fourteen year old girl in late January and today another appeared in court for Carnal Knowledge of a twelve year old. The nineteen year old Ladyville resident, Maxwell Wade, was remanded to the Belize Central Prison until March twenty-third after being arraigned in […]
A young boy is traumatized following a home invasion on Wednesday morning. The boy’s father, a tacos vendor, told police that he and his wife left their two children, a boy and a girl at their Orange Walk home around four on Wednesday morning while they went to sell tacos. That was when two men […]
Twenty year old Charles Young Jr. has been fingered as one of two gunmen who assaulted a trio last Friday evening as they stood talking at the corner of Tibruce Street and Hibiscus Lane. Despite being charged on Tuesday for the murders of Ian Martinez and Daniel Puerto as well as the near fatal shooting […]
In other news, four policemen and one Customs boatman who were charged in connection with the biggest drug bust down south were escorted to court today in shackles and under heavy security. But before the case could proceed, Attorney Dickie Bradley, informed Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie that a bail application is presently before Belmopan Supreme […]
A group of cruise visitors who were out sightseeing in downtown Belize City today fell victim to one of the crooks that plague the streets of the old capital. Just after eleven a.m. fifty-five year old Dutch National Koos Klybroek was along with his wife, Esther Van Eeden and three friends when he was suddenly […]
Twenty-three year old Miguel Matus, a prisoner who escaped from custody on February third, remains at large tonight despite being sighted by residents of Toledo District near Salamanca earlier this week. Matus, who was serving a life sentence for murder, has been on the run for the past six days after fleeing from a corrections […]
Also in the north, a money changer from the Corozal District was shot at his own house on Monday night. The incident happened shortly after seven thirty in San Joaquin Village and the victim is thirty-four year old Jaime Headman, who is clinging to life. Jaime is undergoing surgery at the Belize Medical Associates to […]
While police have not yet established a motive for the shooting, they say it does not appear that robbery was the reason. They have also made contact with their Mexican counterparts in respect of the getaway vehicle and its occupants. It is believed that the two suspects are a Mexican and Belizean, who reside in […]
Twenty year old Charles Young Jr. is in police custody tonight after being read a number of charges related to a double murder in Belize City on Friday evening. Young was escorted by members of the Special Homicide Unit where he appeared in front of Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie and was charged for the murders […]
