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The victim of an attempted robbery at the Western Union’s office on Regent Street last month has ended with the death of fifty-three year old Glenford Williams. Williams was hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. receiving treatment for gunshot wounds and on Saturday, he succumbed to the injuries. The security guard was on duty when around eleven […]
Written on June 2, 2009 | Posted in
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Sixteen year old Daniel Soto was murdered on the night of February twenty-sixth while socializing in Orange Walk. Since then, eighteen year old Eric Gonzalez, who police believe fatally stabbed Soto, has been on the run. Soto’s father, along with Crime Stoppers Belize, is appealing to the public to come forward with any information about […]
Written on June 2, 2009 | Posted in
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A robbery just before closing time at a grocery store turned deadly for one of two well known robbers, one of them named in last year’s Carnival Day grenade incident. Shortly before nine Saturday night the two robbers; nineteen year old Richard Flores and thirty-three year old Anthony Major made their way into Tongs Supermarket […]
Written on June 1, 2009 | Posted in
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And according to the cops, Flores and Major have had previous run-ins with the law. Flores was waiting for his day in court for a charge involving a grenade that was hurled at a crowd of bystanders near the K.H.M.H. on Carnival Day last year. Officer in Charge of C.I.B., Superintendent Julio Valdez, says the […]
Written on June 1, 2009 | Posted in
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Allegations of sexual misconduct have rocked the Catholic Church especially in the United States. Tonight there is one more case to report, but this time it is close to home. This Wednesday, reports in the international press say that a pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Roman Catholic Cathedral in Belmopan has been named in […]
Written on May 29, 2009 | Posted in
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Murder There is another murder to report in Belize City. Wednesday night, an epileptic was murdered as he approached his home. The victim in this latest homicide is thirty year old Gilbert Olivera of Dean Street address. Olivera was reportedly discovered lying on the street, at the corner of Prince and Plues Street. And while […]
Written on May 28, 2009 | Posted in
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A man who is the suspect in two robberies is being detained tonight by police. According to twenty-two year old Christopher Carter, at about ten-thirty Tuesday night, a man with a chrome revolver approached him and some friends in his yard and demanded that they hand over their belongings. Carter and his friends complied and […]
Written on May 27, 2009 | Posted in
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Stephen Palacio has been on the run since this past Saturday evening when six year old Jose Garcia Junior was knocked down and killed at the intersection of Amara Avenue and King Street in Belize City. But today Palacio handed himself into the Belize City Police Traffic Unit and cops were waiting to greet him […]
Written on May 27, 2009 | Posted in
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Two notorious residents of the West Lake Community—mile eight on the Western Highway—are currently detained for the murder of a seventy-three year old resident. Reports are that an act of revenge was exacted with a kitchen knife on Saturday night following an altercation between two groups. Duane Moody found out more. Duane Moody Reporting Seventy-three […]
Written on May 26, 2009 | Posted in
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A sixteen year old youth from Hattieville was shot during a joint police BDF mobile patrol in Belize City over the weekend. Police say they came across the youth lying down in some bushes in an abandoned lot on George Street around nine fifteen on Saturday night. He was ordered to get up and he […]
Written on May 26, 2009 | Posted in
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A man was robbed of over seventeen hundred dollars worth of jewelry while at a night spot in Belize City. Twenty-four year old John Gongora told police that he was at Lipps Bar on Newtown Barracks around ten last Saturday night when the incident occurred. Gongora says he went to use the restroom and while […]
Written on May 26, 2009 | Posted in
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There are reports of Theft coming from the Ministry of National Security in Belmopan. According to police reports, the ministry’s Finance Officer discovered eight fuel vouchers that were approved without authorization. The vouchers —issued between December seventeenth 2008 and the seventh of this month— total slightly more than twenty-six thousand dollars. It was also noted […]
Written on May 26, 2009 | Posted in
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There is yet another murder to report in our newscast tonight. This time around, the victim, a taxi-driver, was a resident of Libertad Village in the Corozal District. The fifty-two year old Guatemalan National, who recently moved to Corozal, was hacked to death sometime last night. Duane Moody has this report. Duane Moody, Reporting, Shortly […]
Written on May 22, 2009 | Posted in
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In court news, two men were charged with Handling Stolen Goods when they appeared before Magistrate Tracy Sosa today. Alrick Smith and Arturo Maheia were charged in connection with a 1995 Mazda car that was stolen from Mirna Acevedo on May first. According to police reports, they found the vehicle and documents belonging to Acevedo […]
Written on May 22, 2009 | Posted in
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A school teacher at La Isla Bonita claims she has been the victim of abuse for some time by her ex common-law. And in the latest incident this week, the situation turned uglier when two missionaries who went to her aid, were also assaulted by the same man, a police officer. Jose Sanchez went to […]
Written on May 21, 2009 | Posted in
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An apparent inside job at the Madisco Marketing Distribution Company Limited has cost the company over twenty-three thousand dollars worth of stock. Operations Manager, John Nicholson, reported to police that after making inventory checks at the company’s warehouse, he discovered that twelve cases of Colonial and Independence cigarettes were stolen from the premises. A review […]
Written on May 21, 2009 | Posted in
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And there are still no arrests for the two latest homicides in the Cayo District and police continue to investigate the deaths of Mennonite farmer, Peter Guenther and Guatemalan national, Juan Carlos Castillo. Guenther, the first murder victim, was shot once to the back of his neck as he arrived at his home in the […]
Written on May 20, 2009 | Posted in
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A man identified as twenty-seven year old Juan Carlos Castillo was brutally murdered in the village of Buena Vista in the Cayo District. Castillo’s body was discovered this morning and it is believed he was killed sometime between Monday morning and today. Police are putting together the facts of this latest murder in the Cayo […]
Written on May 19, 2009 | Posted in
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A Belize City businessman is hospitalized after he was allegedly involved in a drug deal gone bad. He is thirty year old Marvin Isaac Moguel and police investigations have so far revealed that he was with another businessman, fifty-five year old Charles Daniel of Los Lagos, when he was shot. Moguel and Daniels were in […]
Written on May 19, 2009 | Posted in
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A US citizen visiting Belize is out of much more cash than he planned to spend when he went out to eat on Monday evening. Sixty-nine year old Phillip Hikey of Oregon U.S.A, reported to police that he parked his rented Toyota Prado at a restaurant on Marine Parade Boulevard from six p.m. to six-forty-five, […]
Written on May 19, 2009 | Posted in
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Green Hills is a new community settled by Mennonites twenty miles away from Spanish Lookout near the western border. Its residents are primarily farmers who till the soil for a living. But the peace in the small community was lost on Saturday night when one of its own was killed by one fatal shot and […]
Written on May 18, 2009 | Posted in
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Twelve year old Saida Noemi Veliz of Frank’s Eddy Village was murdered back in March. No one was ever charged with her homicide but now there is a new twist to this unresolved case. The facts are that on March thirteenth, Saida was last seen getting into a vehicle reportedly driven by a former volunteer […]
Written on May 18, 2009 | Posted in
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A businessman in Independence Village was scammed out of ten thousand dollars in a land sale gone sour. Forty-eight year old businessman, Fidel Escalante, was offered a parcel of land adjacent to his business on the Savannah Road by Jennifer Murrillo. Jennifer approached Escalante on April twenty-fourth, equipped with a land certificate, verifying that she […]
Written on May 15, 2009 | Posted in
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Three attendants at the Esso Gas Station on Freetown Road were hit by four robbers on Thursday night. At twenty-minutes after eight, thirty-four year old John Diaz Junior was the first to be approached by an armed man who demanded money from him. Just as Diaz handed over two hundred and forty-three dollars, another armed […]
Written on May 15, 2009 | Posted in
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A Honduran national on the lam is wanted in the fatal hit and run accident on May 9th in Ladyville that claimed the life of thirty-eight year old Roldan Trapp. The suspect and owner of a red Ford pickup truck involved has eluded authorities since then and police have now identified him as thirty-nine year […]
Written on May 14, 2009 | Posted in
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