The body of a murdered man found near Cotton Tree on August second, was known only by his many tattoos. On Thursday thirty-one year old Guatemalan National, Lesly Larios Catalan, visited the K.H.M.H. morgue and identified the body as that of her brother, Guillermo Larios Catalan Junior. Guillermo was a twenty-six year old resident from […]
Lord Ridge caretaker, Russel Neal, was well loved. According to friends and family members, he was a kind man. Testimonials were given by others whom he gave shelter when they were homeless or money from his pockets when they were hungry. That is what Melanie Belisle, Neal’s girlfriend said today following his murder on Tuesday […]
On Wednesday News Five broke the story about a body that was found in the Belize River Valley. The discovery was made around four in the evening in an overgrown area of Scotland Half Moon Village. The residents of the village have not reported anyone missing and do not believe the dead person was a […]
The cops believe four men were on their way to murder a high profile person when they were busted inside a blue Crown Victoria taxi in front of the Shell Gas Station in Ladyville on Monday night. At the time, the taxi was loaded with high powered weapons and ammunition. After three nights in lock […]
Another unidentified body was located today around four o’clock this afternoon. Residents of Scotland Half Moon Village, a remote community in the Belize River Valley, have not reported any missing persons within the past few days but late this afternoon the usually quiet community was buzzing with word of a possible abduction and murder. The […]
The other murder happened in the old capital. The Lord Ridge Cemetery will be the final resting place for the man who took care of the graveyard for a decade. Fifty-eight year old Russel Neal was killed at his home by a gunman who fired the shots through the window. Police are questioning his ex-wife […]
On Tuesday night, we broke the story that police had made a major bust involving a blue Crown Victoria taxi. The incident happened on Monday night at the Shell Gas station in Ladyville but was not reported until today in the daily police blotter and from details now available, the car was loaded with an […]
Belmopan police still need your help in identifying another body that was found on Wednesday morning in the west. The cops still have very little to go by, but it is known that during the post mortem today, three slugs were removed from the body of the Hispanic man. Those slugs have not yet been […]
The latest murder victim was found on Monday night in an area where several other homicides have been reported. The body of the Hispanic man was discovered shortly after ten about a hundred feet off the Western Highway on Mount Pleasant Road between miles forty-five and forty-six. According to police, the identity of the man […]
On Monday night we reported that a pregnant woman was viciously attacked as she and her family slept at their Neal Pen Road home. The victim is twenty-eight year old Valerie Sheran, who was seven months pregnant with her third child. She is still hospitalized recovering from injuries allegedly inflicted by her ex-boyfriend, twenty-one year […]
The Police Department has removed three more weapons off the street and it is believed the owners could have been on their way to commit a crime when they were busted. After eight on Monday night, two officers of the Ladyville Police Station intercepted a blue Crown Victoria taxi. Several men were inside and upon […]
On July fifteenth David White, the common-law-husband of court personality, Lavern Longsworth was doused and set on fire during an argument at their home on Castle Street. White died this morning at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, where he was hospitalized since the incident. Longsworth, who is known as a victim of domestic abuse, was […]
There’s another tragic story to report tonight. A mother to be was stabbed before dawn at her home on Neal’s Pen Road. The incident was not reported in the daily police sitrep, but Valerie Sherann was rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after three o’clock this morning. Sherann, who was seven months pregnant, was […]
Eighteen year old Gilroy Barrow was killed on M and M Street in the St. Martin De Porres area of Belize City on July twenty ninth. Barrow was shot six times by gunmen whom family members claim were once his friends. His sister, Sherilee, claims that the former friends threatened to kill Gilroy because of […]
Esso Ramon’s Gas Station at two miles on the Northern Highway was robbed over the weekend. It seems that the robbers were casing the joint before moving in since they waited until the manager closed the business and then they followed him to his home on Dolphin Street. When Ricardo Gongora exited his van, two […]
There’s another homicide to add to the grim statistics. An eighteen year old was murdered just before midnight in the old capital. Gilroy Barrow was shot and killed in the Gungulung area by persons that were waiting for him. Whether or not he had a sense of his foreboding fate, in the last twenty-four hours […]
There was other gun violence in the city; a robbery at a restaurant on Orange Street in Belize City almost turned fatal when a customer intervened in the situation. According to forty-three year old Chong Wu Tan, the owner of Olympic Restaurant, on Thursday night at seven-forty p.m. three men with bandanas over their faces, […]
Just after nine this morning a hail of bullets was unleashed in the old capital and while that’s not unusual to that area, fortunately no one was hurt. A lone gunman walked past Dave’s Furniture World, which was already opened for business and opened fire. News Five’s Marion Ali was at the scene soon after. […]
Twenty-one year old Rafael Mencias is tonight in police custody after being apprehended at a bus terminal in Corozal Town around nine-thirty on Tuesday night. As we reported on Tuesday night, Mencias was wanted for the gruesome murder of Philip Moses Hall, a resident of Carolina Village. Hall had been stabbed numerous times before he […]
We have covered stories about gruesome murders, but tonight the slaying of a forty-one year old man in the north is one of the most horrific to report. Philip Hall was stabbed multiple times, his private parts were severed and then he was set on fire in a small house a few miles outside Corozal […]
Under the cover of darkness, a minor was fatally shot and his brother injured at Cinderella Plaza. It happened after four in the morning when the usually busy plaza was scanty. Alexander Murray was in a car along with his brother, Alton, and two friends when they were sandwiched by two vehicles at the stoplight. […]
There was another murder today; it’s the third for this week and it happened in the west of the country. The homicide happened at Legends Bar on Bullet Tree Road in San Ignacio and as News Five’s Marion Ali discovered, it is believed the slaying of the thirty-nine year old man was motivated by jealousy. […]
Late this afternoon, robbers jacked the Brodies Agrochemical division on the Northern Highway which is located near the first roundabout. Details are still unraveling but at least three men pulled into the compound in a car that has been described from gold to beige in color. The men, who did not wear any masks, but […]
Emil Audinett, who was detained for the execution style murder of Giovanni Lauriano, was released last night. No charges were brought against him. Lauriano, a well known street figure, was gunned down on Sunday evening as he headed home to his wife in Hattieville. He ran from his vehicle after the first bullet hit his […]
Balthazar Urbina, the second fake cop to be caught this week is in police custody of Orange Walk Police pending three charges. Urbina was wanted for other offences, but when he was picked up on a bus at a police checkpoint in the Santa Martha area, he got himself into more trouble. He was caught […]
