Few crimes, mainly robberies, were reported over the extended Easter weekend. It is comforting news since the sensational announcement last Thursday when the Commissioner of Police, Crispin Jefferies, and Prime Minister Dean Barrow informed that a ring of rogue cops who had terrorized the nation with robberies and possible murders, had been busted. News Five […]
A group of six men and a woman has been charged in connection with last Tuesday’s deadly bank heist in Spanish Lookout. During the robbery unarmed KBH security officer Steven Lopez was mortally wounded. The robbers then turned their guns on a police officer who was stationed next to the Scotia Bank Branch. Today Police […]
The country is in an economic recession but there is money on the streets or at least plenty cash inside some vehicles on the street. During a routine vehicle checkpoint at the junction of Sandhill Village and Maskall Road police checked a Ford Expedition and found sixty thousand two hundred and forty dollars in U.S. […]
Both the Prime Minister Dean Barrow and the Commissioner of Police Crispin Jefferies dropped a bombshell today in the recent spate of armed robberies. It is an admission that is bringing shame to the department. The violence was undeterred and criminals were controlling the streets. Barrow and Jefferies told the press that a recent sting […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow explained that it was one of the civilians who were apprehended during the incident in Saint Martin de Porres that turned in his partner in crime, the police constable. So now that the news has been spilled, the Police Department and the government will dismiss the officers who are suspects. Crispin […]
So if you’re wondering how the city will look after you leave for the Easter holidays, well Jeffries says his senior officers are on high alert and will not yield to the criminal element. Jeffries and his team will man the streets this Easter, but the PM is more focused on strengthening the Department. Dean […]
The criminal ring may have also planned the robbery at Courts Belize Limited on the Northern Highway shortly after three on Wednesday afternoon. In the ongoing investigation, it is now known that only two thieves entered the building, the total number may have numbered up to four because two other suspects waited in a parked […]
Eight members of Kolbe returned from a vigorous training in Santa Fe, New Mexico on Monday. The training along with fifty thousand dollars worth of equipment came courtesy of the Central American Regional Security Initiative (CARSI) which is an initiative geared to battle crime in Central America and Mexico. On hand for the presentation was […]
At about three-thirty this afternoon, three armed masked robbers walked separately into Courts on the Northern Highway. The first headed directly upstairs where the cashiers are stationed and asked a female cashier to hand over the cash pan. She was threatened and handed over the money and the robbers ran out of the store. The […]
It is about thirty hours since the murder and daring robbery at the Scotiabank Branch in Spanish Lookout and police have already made some progress in cracking the case. Five robbers entered the bank after eight Tuesday morning and got away with a large sum of money from the bank and a customer. A K.B.H. […]
Also in the city this morning, a young man was shot in the head on Prince Street. Tyler Garbutt was reportedly going to visit his girlfriend when someone on a bicycle rode by and shot him in the back of the head. The bullet exited through his face and Garbutt is receiving treatment at the […]
Five thieves hit a bank in Spanish Lookout today in one of the biggest and deadliest bank heists in recent times. They got away with a large sum of money during the armed hold-up, almost double the biggest amount won in the lotto. Over three hundred thousand dollars was stolen in the robbery when the […]
And in the City, the area of Central American Boulevard near its intersection with Fabers Road has long been the scene of a number of shooting incidents. That area is considered a hot spot where another early morning shooting left one man suffering from gunshot a wound to the hand. News Five spoke with Police […]
The budget for the police department is being slashed in the upcoming financial year which begins April first and law and order is expected to come under more strain. March has been a busy month for criminals, and even before the month closes, gun violence continued unabated in the streets of the old capital. Two […]
We have reported that Harold Crooks, the Jamaican consultant, who was commissioned to evaluate the police force and make recommendations for its improvement, is wanted by Jamaica for sex related offences of an under-aged girl. According to the Jamaica Observer, Crooks who is also the former commandant of the Island’s Special Constabulary Force (ISCF), is […]
With the increase of crime in the city streets, anyone can become a victim at any time. This weekend, well-known freelance writer, fifty-six year-old Roy Davis, was the victim of a robbery at gunpoint when he was held up on Cemetery Road in the wee hours of Saturday morning. Davis is still in pain after […]
On Thursday we showed you riveting images caught by our cameraman George Tillett of a shooting underway at North Front Street. Police have not yet levied any charges against the suspect they nabbed seconds after he allegedly robbed Accents Store and a customer paying an electricity bill. The seventeen year old was shot by the […]
It was a chaotic scene at North Front Street this morning when two robbers jacked Accents Store which also serves as a collection agent for Belize Electricity Limited. When the shots rang out, passers-by scurried for cover and our news team who was on assignment on another story, was at the right place at the […]
The mid-morning robbery, like the recent daring attacks on the business community, is a signal of just how serious crime has become in the old capital in these crippling economic times. Marion Ali got firsthand accounts from a passer-by who was shot, and interviews from the Police and the Principal of Holy Redeemer Primary School […]
The Lucky Strike Information Technology Center is a project funded by the European Union, the government and the University of Belize to provide internet services at the government school. It was useful for the students and teachers but all that changed last night when burglars cleaned the building of all the equipment, leaving behind only […]
As we reported earlier, our News Five team was out investigating a burglary on North Front Street when they captured the mid-morning shootout at Accents. The story that we had initially showed up to investigate was a break-in at Sports Belize, which is located near the Marine Terminal on North Front Street. According to Linda […]
Harold Crooks, the man who wrote the famous Crooks Report for the Belize Police Department, is still in hiding. On Tuesday, we reported that Crooks was wanted by law enforcement in Jamaica for sex related offences and today it is now known that Crooks has absconded from the island. Today’s issue of the Jamaica Observer […]
There’s another suspect on the run but here in the city. He is wanted for a shooting that has ended in murder. Shots rang out on Ebony Street just before ten on Monday night and one man was wounded. Hours late he succumbed while at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. But witnesses say Anthony Burgess, […]
Just before news this evening a bomb threat was called in to Scotia Bank Albert Street Branch. Bank employees were already leaving work when someone called in a bomb threat. The bomb expert arrived on the scene shortly after and the threat turned out to be a prank. A thorough search of the building yielded […]
And while Harold Crooks is being sought in Jamaica, in Belize local crooks are carrying on an onslaught of robberies. On Monday night it was Cosmetic Corner on Cemetery Road which was targeted and this afternoon robbers zeroed in on Swami’s Boutique on Albert Street at around two ten and the Port of Belize Limited […]
