Thieves were also busy on the other side of town as they used guns again to get their way at one of the city’s gas stations. The incident occurred late Tuesday night and the robbers got away with a little over five hundred dollars from Shell One Stop at the corner Cemetery Road and Central […]
Darrel Francis’ life ended with one shot. A post mortem examination conducted on the body of the twenty-one year old certifies that the cause of death was asphyxiation due to Bronchial Aspiration head injury, a consequence of the gun shot wound to the head. On Friday August twenty-eighth, Francis was standing in front of a […]
Last week Monday Western Union relocated to its new location in Belize City. And within days a heist at the new office at the Thurton Building on Coney Drive had all the appearances of a well planned burglary. The success and the tale of the burglars continued today as the police recovered the metal safe […]
Belize Water Services’ logo and personnel signatures were plastered on fraudulent cheques that were cashed in different parts of the country. Whoever the con artist was did a pretty good job because the fake cheques looked uncannily genuine. So far eight of them have been retrieved, totaling over four thousand dollars and all made out […]
The streets were quiet last week and very little violence was reported by the cops. But the silence was shattered on Friday night when one man was killed in Belize City. Twenty-one year old Darrel Francis, an unemployed man of Rivero Street, was standing in front of a shop at the junction between Neal’s Pen […]
In more violence in the city, a shooting occurred on Friday night a short distance from the murder scene of Darrel Francis as we reported earlier. Kareem Abdul Arnold was sitting with some friends outside an apartment building at the corner of Caesar Ridge and Kraal roads and the gunman who is described as a […]
A day after the murder and shooting, a heist in Belize City netted some unsavory criminals thousands of dollars. The sign outside said “Western Union Coming Soon”, but thieves found the office before the public could. A week ago, Western Union moved its main office to the Thurton Building on Coney Drive. And on Saturday […]
The loot was much smaller for three thieves who got away with over five hundred dollars during an armed hold-up at the Shell Gas Station between miles eight and nine on the Northern Highway. The incident happened just after the busy lunch hour today and no one was hurt, but it shook up management and […]
And in the north, a shooting in an apparent case of jealousy shortly after midday on Wednesday has left a Hall’s Layout mason in critical condition at the Northern Regional Hospital. Thirty year old Edgar Chan is in a coma after he was shot to the right chest, abdomen and calf allegedly by Jesus Echeverria. […]
In news on other crimes, a broad daylight shooting around ten-thirty Tuesday morning left a construction worker with a bullet wound to the leg. Forty-three year old Andrew Azueta told police that while he was standing at the corner of King and Plues Street in Belize City, he heard a loud noise and after realized […]
On the other side of town, robbers struck close to the Queen Street Police Station minutes later on Tuesday morning. Shortly after eleven a.m., Global Consulting Services located at the corner of New Road and Hydes Lane was jacked by brazen thieves. According to an employee, two men entered the business, one armed with a […]
A postmortem was conducted on the body of Leroy “Red Ants” Rhaburn. Rhaburn was stabbed and killed during a Friday night altercation with Walter Beaton at Kevin’s Bar at the corner of Euphrates and Cemetery Road in Belize City. The examination certified the cause of death to be exsanguination and external bleeding as a consequence […]
Two men were murdered over the weekend and both homicides occurred on Cemetery Road in Belize City. The first one involved a well known ex- gang leader. Twenty-eight year old Leroy Rhaburn, better known as Red Ants, was fatally stabbed at a club at two a.m. on Saturday morning. Rhaburn was no stranger to the […]
The other murder incident occurred at about ten p.m. on Friday night. A Honduran Laborer of Mangrove Street in Belize was brutally killed near a bus stop. Thirty-three year old Samuel Sanchez was standing near the pedestrian ramp on Cemetery Road when two male persons on bicycles rode up to him. One of the assailants […]
Police believe they were at the right place at the right time to foil a robbery planned by three culprits in Belize City. But that’s not all and in the process police shot one of the men and retrieved a handgun they believe the robbers intended to use in the hold up. The incident began […]
The crime statistics released by the Police Department on Wednesday show that there were fourteen categories of crime committed throughout the country between January and August fifteenth of this year. And it seems the year started off with a bang as most of the major crimes such as murders, rapes, robberies, thefts and burglaries occurred […]
He has been surprised with power theft at least three times this month. And this afternoon police and Belize Electricity Board personnel showed up at the home of TV personality and businessman, Rufus X on Second Avenue in the Buttonwood Bay area. But it was not a courtesy call they were paying. In fact, the […]
A number of illegal and firearms and ammunition are off the streets in Belize City as well as the west and south of the country. On Wednesday, a police search at an empty lot on Raccoon Street turned up a double barrel homemade shotgun with two sixteen gauge cartridges hidden in some bushes. Moving west […]
As disturbing as the reports are, they keep coming and tonight another minor has to live with the horrific memories of a sexual assault. This time the victim is a fifteen year old girl from the Toledo District, who reported the incident to police earlier this week, although it occurred back in March. According to […]
Four members of the Belize Coast Guard Service are being questioned after a skiff went missing. The incident occurred sometime around six on Wednesday morning when the group finished patrolling the waters near San Pedro. They reportedly moored the thirty-nine foot vessel and left it unattended sometime around four on the same morning. When they […]
We reported on Tuesday about a second phantom Medical school that claimed to be operating in the country. The first fictional operation was the University of Central America School of Medicine and its website was run by Dr. Niazi Baker of Brownsville Texas. That operation disappeared as soon as our story aired. Jose Sanchez, Reporting […]
The Crime statistics for the period January to August fifteenth have been released. While the records show that major crimes decreased compared to the same period in 2008, the numbers are startling and they put Belize on the international charts. The police account is that crime decreased by nine percent. At August fifteenth, murders stood […]
He was acquitted of the murder almost two years ago and today twenty-two year old Alberto Allen is dead. Allen’s body was found around midday at this house off a dirt road across from Cisco Construction at mile three on the Western Highway. When we arrived at the scene the only door to the house […]
The police have charged a security guard for a shooting at Esso Ramon’s Service Station last Friday night. Ignacio Reyes, who was not in uniform, was charged with two counts of Grievous Harm late Monday. At twelve-ten a.m. on Saturday morning, Jose Gonzalez and Thomas Garcia attempted to purchase gasoline minutes after closing time. After […]
We reported at the top of the newscast that Alberto Allen was found dead today at midday. Just before news time tonight, the last person who saw Allen alive his aunt, Adelina Braddick, came forth with information on the murder. According to Braddick, she saw a red car stop by her house to pick up […]
