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He is a police officer and the assigned driver to a well known judge but that did not stop culprits from stealing his vehicle that was parked on Amara Avenue. Thirty-six year old Police Constable, Clinton Belgrave, the driver of Judge Herbert Lord, has reported that his blue 1994 Geo Prism was stolen. PC Belgrave […]
Police are investigating a shooting incident which occurred at the Esso Ramon’s Service Station at mile two on the Northern Highway on Saturday at twelve-ten a.m. and left two persons injured. Ignacio Reyes, a security officer, reported to Police that three male persons arrived in a grey Mazda car and made their way onto the […]
Belize City police are investigating a home invasion that occurred on Saturday night. Linsford McKenzie and his girlfriend were at home when around eight-forty p.m. five men entered their home. One of the men was armed with what appeared to be a nine millimeter pistol. He demanded that the couple hand over their jewelry. In […]
Two people are in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after they were shot last night in Belize City. The incident happened shortly before eight on the street in front of a Neal’s Pen Road residence. News Five understands that twenty-four year old Darren Dawson and his twenty-seven year old sister, Shanda Dawson, were standing outside […]
A Tuesday night out on the town turned into a nightmare for a twenty-three year old female from Santa Elena, Cayo. The woman reported to police that while attempting to access a club’s restroom, she was accosted by a dark complexioned man who threatened her and forcibly had sex with her in the bathroom before […]
Police ruled his death a suicide while family members call it a homicide. The death of sixteen year old Kevin Francis Jex continues to be contentious. Last week his uncle, Elton Jex, held a press conference at his home and called names of people he claims could help unravel the mystery. On that list… Charles […]
The uncle of deceased, sixteen year old Kevin Francis Jex, last Friday released information in which he alleges linked the police to his nephew’s death. Elton Jex claimed during a press conference at his house that he found out from another youth described only as Kareem, that he and Francis had robbed two people, including […]
A shooting occurred in Belize City over the weekend in an area prone to violence. On Saturday night at about nine, a minor was standing at the corner of Vernon and Lakeview streets when two assailants rode up and blasted shots. One of the bullets caught the youth on the buttocks. Though the incident wasn’t […]
Also on Friday, around two-thirty that afternoon, a store in the Saint Matthew’s Village near mile thirty-nine on the western highway, was the target for an armed robbery. Seventeen year old victim, Elsworth Cus, told News Five off camera that he was alone at home with his mentally challenged brother when two men entered the […]
And in the capital, a fourth person was charged this morning in connection with the vicious murder of eighty-two year old Belmopan taxi-driver, James Young. Twenty-five year old Sherlock Myvette now joins twenty-six year old Matthew Gentle, twenty-five year old Leon Gentle and nineteen year old Transito Ricardo Tzul for Young’s murder. Mister Jimmy, as […]
The sudden death of sixteen year old Kevin Francis was ruled a suicide on July twenty-sixth. His family, however, is not convinced and says that the fourth form student was murdered after he left home on Saturday, July twenty sixth. His uncle, Special Constable Elton Jex, has gone on camera to accuse the Police Department […]
There is another case of missing monies in the west. Last month, Julio Santos was fired and then charged for the Theft of thirteen thousand dollars plus from the Border Management Agency. Well today, an employee of the Benque Viejo Town Council has been fired for thousands of dollars that went missing at the council. […]
Turning to crime, home invasions: it’s the term for armed attacks on families in the confines of their homes. And these types of crimes seem to be getting more frequent throughout the country. Thursday night was the most recent invasion upstairs of Tow Tow Grocery on Fairweather Street in Belize City. The victims were elderly […]
Still up north, thieves made off with a sizeable loot when they hit the Nineteen Miles Supermarket in Sandhill. The loss to owners tallied up to the tune of over seventeen thousand dollars and when we spoke to co-owner of the store, Brian Liou, he told us he thinks they were being watched because the […]
And five days ago the body of eighty-two year old taxi-driver, James Young, was found in the bushes near the Pooks Hill Resort some thirteen miles off the Western Highway in Teakettle Village. Tonight there is progress to report in the investigation of who could have killed the senior citizen of Cohune Walk in the […]
There is another murder to report tonight. On Monday police discovered the body of eighty-two year old taxi driver James Young in the area of Teakettle in the Cayo District on the Western Highway. And today another body has surfaced. The victim is a Hispanic man believed to be between his thirties and forties. His […]
Taxi driver, James Young, from the nation’s capital died a horrific death. He was stabbed at least seventeen times. His body was discovered some two hundred yards off a feeder road in the vicinity of Pooks Hill Resort located thirteen miles from the Western Highway in the Teakettle Village. He had been missing for some […]
In crime news, the son of well known Belize City attorney Richard “Dickie” Bradley was shot on Saturday. According to Bradley, his son, thirty year old Adrian, was hanging out with friends on Wagner’s Lane near their former residence. Three officers on patrol in the area smelled marijuana wafting in the air and proceeded to […]
Still on crime, last week Friday News Five reported on a brutality case in which the victim Ronlee Petillo, who is no stranger to the police, claimed that two Belize City based police officers took him on the highway and in addition to beating him at a desolate location, one of them fired shots near […]
Roshane Andrewin, a notorious figure, has twice beaten murder charges but he ran out of luck today. Just after midday Andrewin was gunned down on the corner of Vernon and Mosul Streets. He had just jacked one of three men in a yard and did not get too far when the fatal shot were fired. […]
And while police were forthcoming with information on today’s fatal shooting, they did not shed any light on the circumstances leading to the death of sixteen year old St. Michael’s College student, Kevin Francis. Francis’ body was retrieved from behind the BTIA building near the Memorial Park on Monday. He had been hanging from the […]
In more violence in the City’s streets, one man was critically wounded on Mahogany Street just after eleven Thursday night. According to the police, Claiborne Pascasio was stabbed during an altercation with Giovanni Tillett. Hilberto Romero “We have one Claiborne Pascasio who received a stab wound to the right side of the abdomen. This is […]
Ronlee Petillo was released on bail one week ago. Today, News Five caught up with him at home recovering from injuries he says he sustained in a close encounter with the law. The twenty-one year old has been on bail since last Thursday for Attempted Murder and Use of Deadly Means of Harm. Petillo spent […]
There is another case with eerily similar allegations against the police to report tonight and this time a mother travelled all the way from Punta Gorda to bring her story to the public. Emolin Gomez says she is seeking justice because her son Patrick was allegedly beaten up by the cops in the south. The […]
