There is a late breaking report coming out of Utah and that is that notorious Belizean, thirty-three year old Kenneth “Big Tom” Flowers has been shot dead. News Five has not confirmed the reports but details are trickling in and it is reported that Flowers suffered multiple wounds. He was rushed to a hospital in […]
The stabbing death of seventeen year old Erin Sutherland remains under investigation by Orange Walk Police. Sutherland succumbed to injuries received after being stabbed multiple times to the body around midnight on Saturday. He was walking along Sapodilla Street in the Louisiana area of town when he was accosted by a group of young men […]
There were two robberies on Marine Parade this past Monday and in one of them a victim was raped. The twenty-two year old female was walking along with a co-worker at around eleven-fifteen p.m. and they were accosted by three males. One of the assailants, armed with a firearm, demanded money from the two and […]
The past weekend was not without its share of violent crime and two more names were added to the growing list of murder victims. This time the incidents happened in the northern districts. Marion Ali took a trip north to get the details. Marion Ali, Reporting The first homicide occurred shortly after six on Saturday […]
Earlier in the newscast, we reported on a murder in Corozal Town, a second murder occurred in Orange Walk Town and this time it was a minor who was the victim. Here again is Marion Ali. Marion Ali, Reporting Seventeen year old Erin Rivero Sutherland was stabbed at around twelve thirty on Sunday morning on […]
There are some new details that our newsroom has uncovered about the suspect drug plane that was discovered south east of Northern Two Caye on Friday April ninth. Photos show the tip of one wing barely above water. Several parts of the plane were recovered including a video digital component box. The origin of the […]
In this week alone there have been four murders, two perpetrators were killed in robbery attempts and at least four persons were injured in shootings; the most recent happened when most people were having lunch. Three men armed with deadly M-sixteen assault rifles, drove up to the home of forty-three year old Cecil Lewis and […]
Marie says Cecil is the third of her children to be injured in shootings for unknown reasons and she thinks the crime situation is escalating because the culprits have life too good when they’re behind bars. Marie Lewis “I think that they should give them more penalty than what they are doing right now because […]
Cops have still been unable to determine if damages caused to the building housing the law firm of the prime minister were the result of gunshots. The damages are believed to have been caused by a projectile on Thursday morning at seven fifty-five a.m. Prime Minister Dean Barrow is a partner in the firm, Barrow […]
Before dawn this morning, B.D.F. soldiers and a News Five crew headed north to an area called Riven Ridge, located south of Joe Goff’s Pine Ridge, at Mile thirty-four. The mission was to find the most accessible drug with the greatest appeal to youths and adults- marijuana. In addition to the police, the Belize Defense […]
Before the groundwork was completed, the operation began with a flyover and reconnaissance by the B.D.F.’s Defender. The man at the helm, Lieutenant Colonel Ganey Dortch, said that it was a team effort by various departments in the B.D.F. that led not only to today’s success but to the one hundred and fifty thousand plants […]
At around eight this morning, forty-five year old Juan Menendez was caught by prison officials and police officers on the manhunt in the Sandhill area. His capture confirms the Kolbe Foundation’s suspicions that he was heading north. Before Menendez, Jose Luis-Cocom was caught at his sister’s home by prison officers in Orange Walk and then […]
A Belizean living in Westmont, Chicago is facing charges for the murder of his wife, which occurred on Saturday morning. Thirty-three year old Ian Alamilla turned himself in to police after he strangled his wife while their children—ages five, seven and eleven—were in bed. According to reports in the international media, Ian told the police […]
The police crime statistics that Police Commissioner, Crispin Jeffries released to the media earlier this week suggest that there has been a decrease in major crimes. But if we were to take a random poll, that idea is not one that many people would agree with. Just this week there were four murders, two robbers […]
At around eight o’clock this morning, word spread that the law firm of Prime Minister Barrow and his partner, attorney Rodwell Williams, had been targeted in the spate of crime. Belize is not a country known for violence against its leaders so the report was alarming. Employees at the firm were trickling in to begin […]
Accused murderer Carlos Keme is once again on the run from law enforcement authorities. It happened when Keme was at the Supreme Court in Orange Walk Town this morning. He was being escorted to court in handcuffs along with other prisoners, when he mysteriously escaped from custody. Keme was scheduled to be in court for […]
Keme is not the only prisoner on the run; three of five inmates who escaped from the Belize Central Prison remain the targets of a manhunt. We reported on Tuesday that Jose-Luis Cocom, an escaped inmate was recaptured. Well tonight he is joined by another escapee, thirty year old Terry Bainton, a Ladyville resident. Bainton […]
During the robbery and shoot-out at the Spanish Lookout branch of Scotia Bank on March thirty first, one man died, that is Stephen Lopez, while another was seriously injured. Clifford Neal and his attorney Arthur Saldivar allege that Neal was shot four times by a Special Constable attached to the Spanish Lookout Police Formation. Neal […]
There was a double murder on Faber’s Road in the murder capital, Belize City, last night. One of the victims is the son of Dangriga Magistrate Clive Lino, and the other is the brother of Ryan ‘Fatback’ Young, who was killed a few feet away from where the two men were gunned down after nine […]
Meanwhile, police have made two arrests in the Sunday morning murder of a sixteen year old from Roaring Creek. Raheem Velasquez was shot several times by members of a group he had an “old beef” with and just this afternoon Belmopan police charged twenty year old Darren Banner and nineteen year old Jaime Gill for […]
Notisureste, a Quintano Roo newspaper is reporting that a Belizean national Pervis Perez Mendez killed an entire family, including a two year old boy, in the community of Othon P Blanco in neighbouring Chetumal. According to the report, Perez shot Gabriela Sansores Canche, the sister of his ex-common-law-wife, her father and her two year old […]
The notorious Arthur Young is still in hiding from the police in fear that they are out to kill him. In recent communications with News Five, Young has named senior officers who he claims want him dead. While we will not release those names, in a meeting with the media today Commissioner of Police Crispin […]
The case of a killing on San Pedro when a sergeant of police fatally shot a corporal is finally moving forward. Almost a month after the death of Corporal Gavin Sanchez, the medico form was just handed in by Dr. Mario Estradabran today and the file will be handed over to the Director of Public […]
You may have seen him around town on his bicycle. Many people know him as the ‘Tart Bwai” because of the pastries he has sold for almost a decade. But Ishmarley Sterling almost lost his life over the Easter holiday weekend. He said he became involved in an altercation with a deportee from the United […]
While the family of slain car dealer Kashif Jeffries makes arrangements to lay him to rest, Belize City police are still looking for his killers. Jeffries was callously gunned down while in his vehicle on Levi Slusher Street on Sunday afternoon just hours before his flight to Houston, Texas. His trip to the United States […]
