A Belize City resident was shot multiple times this morning and contrary to reports of his demise, he is recovering from surgery tonight. Thirty-five year old Jeffrey Roches was heading on bicycle to his mother’s house at about seven o’clock this morning when he was targeted by two gunmen, who unleashed a volley of bullets […]
He was detained earlier this week for the shooting murder of thirty-two year old Giovanni Lauriano. But when cops could not pin him down they released him. But sure enough, Emil Audinette, was brought back to the Queen Street Police Station today. Police now think they have enough evidence to charge him. Lauriano was gunned […]
Aaron Wilson the man who pretended to be a cop may have inspired a copycat. The details are still sketchy but a man was busted at an Orange Walk police checkpoint earlier today with counterfeit money. He probably thought he could be bold like Wilson, but he must have forgotten that Wilson was busted. So […]
Cops in the north and west are on the lookout for accused sex offenders. In Orange Walk, Miguel Chuc of August Pine Ridge Village, is wanted after police received a report on Wednesday that he was intimate with a young girl from the same village. The child was admitted at the Northern Regional hospital, where […]
Ladyville police have made in-roads in two recent murders. With respect to the murder last Thursday of eighteen year old Anthony Matura in Ladyville, police are looking for a fifteen year old student of Anglican Cathedral College who is at large. An eyewitness has placed the minor at the scene at the time of the […]
Belizeans for Justice held its press conference on Monday at the Radisson Fort George without a hitch. The conference was initially postponed because of a threat received by one of the group’s founding members, Joan Sutherland. Security was beefed up to protect the participants from any potential danger. But while the officers could physically protect […]
Belize City police are tonight no closer to solving the weekend murders of Giovanni Lauriano and Niki Pinkard. Despite the detention of two suspects in connection with the Sunday evening slaying of Lauriano no charges have been brought against the men in custody. A post mortem examination conducted on the body of the thirty-three year […]
The bloodbath continued over the weekend; two men were murdered within hours of each other on Sunday and a third who was shot a month ago died past midnight on Friday. On Sunday evening, the life of Giovanni Lauriano, aka Nose, a well known street figure ended in a most tragic way; he was gunned […]
Within hours of the execution style murder of Giovanni Lauriano, another man was gunned down and it is believed that the two homicides are linked and gang related. Niki Pinkard was killed at the house of his girlfriend’s relatives on Jasmine Street in the same area where Lauriano grew up. News Five’s Isani Cayetano has […]
The third man to die over the weekend due to gun violence is Collin Lord. Twenty-nine year old Lord was injured to the head in an early afternoon shooting a month ago, and on Friday, he succumbed to his injuries while receiving treatment at K.H.M.H. Lord and Raymond Andrews were injured while socializing with a […]
The entire country was plunged into darkness Thursday night shortly after six-thirty. About an hour and a half after power was restored two gunmen wasted no time in seeking out another of the remaining three Felix brothers. Twenty-five year old Ryan Bennett, also known as Ryan Felix, lays in stable condition tonight at the Karl […]
Ryan Bennett is the fifth of the Felix brothers to have been shot in the area of Port Loyola. Of the five brothers Tyrone and Faron have fell victim to gun violence. On April sixth of 2009, an older brother, Terry Felix and Edward Thompson were also shot while standing in front of Excelsior High […]
There’s another family grieving tonight. On Wednesday afternoon eighteen year old Anthony Matura was killed as he alighted a bus in Ladyville. Anthony was returning home from Belize City he was attacked and stabbed in the chest. He ran a few feet to another lane and died in the vicinity of the Ladyville Police Station […]
As we said earlier, eighteen year old Anthony Matura, is the latest murder victim. Matura was stabbed twice in the chest and neck sometime after three this afternoon. The teenager had reportedly just disembarked a bus and was heading to his home about three blocks away when his attacker pursued him and pounced on him. […]
The stabbing death of eighteen year old Anthony Matura comes as another striking blow to Glensford Matura Sr., whose other son Glenford Jr. was killed on Euphrates Avenue in Belize City on March tenth. A few months later his best friend Wilfred Peters died of natural causes and today another of his children this time […]
The Grim Sleeper is the name given to a serial killer in Los Angeles, California, believed to be responsible for ten murders; the victims were primarily prostitutes. Lonnie Franklin was caught earlier this week and is currently in jail awaiting trial. But there was a period when Franklin appeared inactive in the US; that timeframe […]
As we said earlier there is a sense of fear among City residents. One of the crime events was called off because of death threats to the organizers. And even as the family of eight year old Marques Mahler grieves and prepares for his burial, they have also been receiving threats. News Five’s Isani Cayetano […]
Eight year old Marques Mahler, fought bravely for his life following a brazen daylight shooting on Friday afternoon. He was rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where doctors performed emergency surgery to save him. Despite their attempts Marques passed away on Saturday afternoon, the youngest murder victim of the street violence in the south […]
The passing of eight year old Marques Mahler on Saturday after being shot multiple times a day earlier is believed to have created utter chaos in the Faber’s Road area shortly after the family received word of his death. A swarm of police and B.D.F. soldiers descended on the residences of Theodore Mahler and Brian […]
The violence spread to Orange Walk over the weekend. Two men are hospitalized in the Northern Regional Hospital after a shooting and a chopping incident over the weekend. In the case of the shooting, a housewife claims she was threatened by two men so when they entered her yard, she turned on them with her […]
Just past mid-day, a man heading back to work after purchasing lunch, was shot multiple times on Faber’s Road. He did not survive the vicious shooting and died while receiving treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. An eight year old boy who was in the same area was also injured when the barrage of […]
Elsewhere in the city, a senior citizen was viciously attacked early Thursday morning. What’s most disturbing about the attack is that the victim was not at a crime hotspot; he was right at home, sleeping in his bed. At five fifteen a.m., sixty two year old Percival Blancaneaux, of Taylor’s Alley was in bed when […]
Charles Manson, Ted Bundy and the fictional Hannibal Lecter are probably the three most well known serial killers. Well another serial killer’s identity has been found out recently and it seems he may have ties to Belize. The killer who was called the Grim Sleeper, murdered ten of his victims between 1985 to 2007. Fifty […]
Robberies are crimes committed so often that they rarely make the news. But when the perpetrator becomes the victim of the attack and at the hands of the target, it certainly warrants news coverage. And that is exactly what happened on Tuesday night when four year Karate student, twenty one year old Carmelita Kuylen startled […]
Last week Monday thirty-five year old Ernesto Perez was shot by two gunmen as he sat inside a taxi at the corner of Rivero and Fairweather Streets. He had just gone to purchase meat for someone when his attackers pounced on him. Perez was shot in the left side of the face and upper back […]
