In other crime related news, a businessman parked his vehicle on Woods Street near KBH Security Company and just as he was exiting it, he was held up at gun point and robbed of twenty thousand dollars in cash. Belmopan resident, Carlos Moreno, the owner of Belize Food Supply located at Mile four on the […]
While one San Ignacio cop is facing charges of Attempted Rape, a shooting incident involving two Belize City Officers on Sunday night is still up in the air. Police Constable, Adolph Navarro made an official report to the Patrol Branch Unit that he was shot at Sunday night by P.C. Adrian Lopez, a colleague from […]
In a report just in to the newsroom, a young man was shot this evening in Belize City. The incident occurred at the corner of Mex and Amara Avenues around six-forty this evening and left Peter Myvette with bullet wounds to his hip and hand. Myvette has been taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital […]
A police officer attached to the Dangriga precinct is tonight admitted in the medical ward at the K.H.M.H. recovering from a cut wound to his hand. Constable Santiago Ciau Junior suffered a large chop wound to his right hand while standing in front of a night club on St. Vincent Street near the main bridge. […]
Belmopan police are investigating a shooting incident on Wednesday that has left yet another man admitted to ward at the K.H.M.H. According to Justin Stuart, around eleven-fifteen p.m. he was inside the bathroom at E and L Sports Bar in the Garden City when a person known to him as Hamied Abadi approached him. Stuart […]
The “no entry sign” at the corner of Bishop Street and East Collet Canal did not stop robbers from forcibly entering Venus Photo Lab late this afternoon. The owners are shutting down the stores around the city as they go out of business with the store located on North Front Street being closed since Monday. […]
Two police officers attached to the Orange Walk Branch are tonight in trouble with the law. That’s because Private Constables Roman Canul and Enrique Bacab were both charged on Monday with Handling Stolen Goods in respect of two burglaries in June and October of this year. According to Superintendent Miguel Guzman of the Corozal Police, […]
But what really transpired at the Yabra Police Booth when an on-duty officer’s nine millimeter pistol allegedly disappeared? On Saturday morning, police constable Castillo Cal reported that his service revolver was stolen from inside the Yabra Police Booth between the hours of one a.m. and seven a.m. The officer reported he was clueless as to […]
Businessman Jason Coombs was shot at close range on Wednesday evening. The well executed murder has left police baffled over a motive as the thirty eight year old businessman was not known to have any enemies. While police detained six men shortly after the slaying, they were released today for a lack of evidence. The […]
The nation’s eighty-fourth murder occurred on Wednesday evening in Belize City when a brazen gunman drove a vehicle to a busy construction site and opened fire at the owner. The businessman died on the spot and the slaying has left police clueless. While no one except for police was willing to talk on camera out […]
Police are still investigating the murder of Jason Coombs and now have daylight jacking to solve. Sometime after four this evening, the Belize Marketing Board, which is downstairs of the Education Department and next door to the Conscious Youth Development Program (C.Y.D.P.) was robbed. Police arrived at the scene even before the armored vehicle that […]
Earlier in the newscast, we reported on the robbery at the Marketing Board. That took place today, but the owners of a fried chicken shop on Mahogany Street were the latest victim of an invasion. After ten-thirty Wednesday night, Thet Niang Hung and his wife, both Burmese nationals, closed the shop known as “Favorite.” While […]
The first murder for the month of November occurred this evening in the Port Loyola area of the city. The victim is well known in the area and early reports say he was shot several times by a gunman who drove up in a vehicle. Marion Ali was there minutes after it happened and files […]
Almost two years after a murder in early 2008, a second man has been charged. An armed robbery of the Sanabria family of Cotton Tree Village in the Cayo District ended in the horrific murder of a twenty-two year old woman. Mirna Sanabria was fatally shot on the neck on February twenty-seventh at her family’s […]
Two months after the heinous crime, two residents of the same village: twenty year old Nelson Gibson and twenty-six year old Sherman Anderson, believed to have been monitoring the family, were arrested and charged with Robbery. Gibson was also charged for Murder, Attempted Murder, Use of Deadly Means of Harm and Wounding on April twenty-eighth, […]
And in Belize City, a man is clinging to life tonight after he underwent surgery for injuries he sustained early this morning. Alex Goff of Carmelita Village, Orange Walk, was transferred from the Northern Regional Hospital to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he fell unconscious when he was injured on the head. Police say […]
The latest crime figures have been released. The good news is that in the month of October, hard crimes such as murders went down compared to the September numbers. The statistics also show a decrease in carnal knowledge, rape and theft. But don’t hold your breath because there was marked increase in the number of […]
Police are looking for the man with sticky fingers who has left a Belize City businessman short of thousands of dollars. Murli Mahitani, owner of Delta Store, reported to police that when he investigated a long outstanding bill owed by Honey Supermarket on the Lord’s Bank Road, he was told that an employee had already […]
A Canadian couple living in the Freetown Sibun was hit for the second time in four weeks. The home of the couple was first burglarized on October twelfth: they reported the matter and relocated in fear for their lives. In the past few days, thieves went back to the Sibun home of the Reeves, vandalized […]
The home of the Canadians was not the only house broken into. Police also report a burglary in the Vista Del Mar area of Ladyville on Tuesday afternoon. Ashanti Guzman and her husband were not at home when the incident occurred, but the employee of the Kolbe prison, received a call after one p.m. that […]
It is not a big case, but it is news because it involves persons in top places. No one was injured in this morning’s shooting, but it is noteworthy that the target, Michael Sutherland, was driving the private vehicle of Minister Anthony “Boots” Martinez’. Details are being released little by little, but is has been […]
Minister Carlos Perdomo was in the news recently over a piece of land that he took from a single mother, a constituent of Minister Michael Finnegan. Tonight the news is that someone has now taken the minister’s computer and accessories. Someone broke into the minister’s constituency office over the weekend and stole the items. While […]
Private Constable Donald Pinelo, who was shot while in the line of duty, is still admitted at the K.H.M.H. in stable condition. Pinelo was shot last Saturday in the Calla Creek Area near Arenal Village adjacent to the Belize-Guatemalan border in the west. Following reports of armed masked men roaming the area, Pinelo and three […]
A retired woman who shuttles between New York and Belize, got a shocking welcome when she came back home over the weekend. The woman arrived on Saturday and that same night two armed masked men invaded her Ladyville home. One held up her nephew and the other placed a knife at her throat. When they […]
No arrests have been made in the Ladyville home invasion, and heading west, a police officer was injured allegedly by a group of Guatemalan bandits. The officer has been admitted to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following the shooting that occurred in the Calla Creek Area of the Cayo District. This latest incident in that […]
