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Another crime on the increase is Obtaining Property by Deception. The most recent case involves a forty-eight year old U.S. national, Stan Pore who has been jacked of over a hundred thousand dollars. Pore reported to police that he has been arranging to purchase four parcels of land in Carmelita Village, Orange Walk since February […]
Written on March 31, 2009 | Posted in
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The search continues for approximately four men who police say continue to scam businesses out of household appliances with fake Bowen and Bowen cheques. We say about four because it is not certain if it is actually four different people carrying out the deed or just a couple of them using four different names. Since […]
Written on March 30, 2009 | Posted in
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In the deadly and dangerous streets of Belize City, another person’s life was cut short. This time, it is a minor who months ago had a quick brush in the grenade explosion on Mayflower Street. The sixteen year old was confined to a wheelchair for some time but last night he ran out of luck. […]
Written on March 27, 2009 | Posted in
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The Plues Street youth who was detained after the murder of Sharife Smith was charged today for Keeping an Unlicensed Firearm Without a Gun License when he appeared in Family Court today and was sent to Boot Camp until May fourth. Late this evening, a concerned family member came by our studios to say that […]
Written on March 27, 2009 | Posted in
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Two murders that happened earlier this week remain unresolved. Police have detained one person and are looking for other persons of interest in connection with the shooting death of Police Constable Wiener Denis. Denis was shot dead in the Salvapan area of Belmopan around two twenty-five on Thursday afternoon; he had just left home and […]
Written on March 27, 2009 | Posted in
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In the other case, Belmopan police also have on their hands the mysterious death of twelve year old Saida Noemi Godoy Veliz of Frank’s Eddy Village that occurred on Tuesday night. And while police have still not charged anyone in connection with her death, they are looking at the possibility of charging more than one […]
Written on March 27, 2009 | Posted in
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It has not been a good week for the Police Department; one officer has been charged with Abetment to Murder, three more may face charges in connection with the same incident, the murder of a Chinese National in Orange Walk Town. Another is under investigation in the death of a twelve year old girl in […]
Written on March 26, 2009 | Posted in
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Belmopan police are about to detain and question once more, a volunteer special constable in connection with the unresolved death of a young girl. The twelve year old girl had gone missing and her remains were discovered on Tuesday night in a ditch close to a dump site off a dirt road in Cotton Tree […]
Written on March 26, 2009 | Posted in
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Tonight we have more disturbing news to report of yet another member of the Police Department who is under investigation. And if the news earlier this week of rogue cops named in the recent killing of Hui Li Chen in Orange Walk Town was not bad enough, the investigation of another officer’s possible involvement in […]
Written on March 25, 2009 | Posted in
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There’s more bad news for the Police Department. News Five has learnt that the investigation into the recent murder of Hui Lin Chen from Orange Walk Town has taken even deeper root in the Police Department’s office of National Head of Crime Investigations. It is now known that at least three more officers, whose ranks […]
Written on March 25, 2009 | Posted in
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In the Supreme Court today, twenty-four year old Bejohn Martinez, charged with Attempted Murder and Attempted Robbery, was freed of the charges but will remain behind bars for other charges. The trial concluded when Justice Adolph Lucas ruled that the evidence of identification was insufficient and directed the jury of five men and four women […]
Written on March 25, 2009 | Posted in
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There has been an increasing number of reported cases of forgery in the past few weeks. The latest victim is twenty-eight year old Deepak Advani, the owner of Ayana Super Store on Burns Avenue in San Ignacio. Advani reported to police that at ten a.m. on March fourteenth, two men entered his business and purchased […]
Written on March 25, 2009 | Posted in
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The cops believe they have cracked the recent grizzly murder of a Chinese national in Orange Walk Town. And as it turns out, the case has the plot twists of a Sherlock Holmes mystery novel… murder for a business transaction gone sour. This morning the charge of Abetment to Commit Murder, the second most serious […]
Written on March 24, 2009 | Posted in
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And in other crime news, in an update to a story aired on March thirteenth, in which a fruit and vegetable vendor was scammed out of some money, police have arrested and charged Emmanuel Lopez for the crime of Obtaining Property by Deception. Sixty-four year old Teodoro Blanco of Charros Fruit and Vegetable at the […]
Written on March 24, 2009 | Posted in
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The shootings in the city continue unabated and tonight twenty-one year old Owen McFoy is recovering from a gunshot wound to the left forearm. McFoy says he was riding a bicycle on Orange Street at around nine on Monday morning when he noticed a man in Trench Alley. The man reportedly pulled out a shotgun […]
Written on March 24, 2009 | Posted in
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The recent murder of twenty-seven Lacey Rosales remains a mystery. Belize City police have still not made any arrests in connection with last Tuesday morning’s stabbing murder on Pen Road. Rosales died after receiving numerous stab wounds to her chest and throat. The woman was surprised around five that morning as she exited her home […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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The quiet of Sunday evening was broken when two minors and an adult were shot at Rowland’s Alley, not far from downtown Belize City, when they stopped at a friend’s house for water. At about six-thirty p.m., eighteen year old Brandon Middleton was shot twice and received two injuries to his right thigh, three to […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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In another shooting incident, also on Sunday, police have detained a suspect and a weapon. Forty year old Sarah Reyes of Simon Lamb Street told police that she was socializing in Lord’s Bank around six that evening when she felt a burning sensation in her left arm and realised she had been shot. Reyes reported […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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Closer to the city, there is a cool spot where you can get away and enjoy the seaside breeze. Perhaps that is what inspired two men to rob the bar near the sea at mile four and a half on the Northern Highway. The proprietor of the Bayview Oasis, sixty-five year old Otto Petterson, said […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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He came out of the water blazing with two guns after leaving behind a dead business man and several injured officers, but tonight the former cop turned outlaw, Kevin “Cowboy” Alvarez, has been remanded to the Hattieville prison. Since Saturday night’s chase in Orange Walk, Alvarez has been under police guard at the Northern Regional […]
Written on March 20, 2009 | Posted in
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He was charged with Theft and released… and just when twenty-one year old William Steven, former bank employee, thought he was home free, the cops took him back in. Joy Flowers, manager of Caye International Bank Limited in San Pedro, initially made a complaint of theft against Steven on October sixteenth, 2007. He was arrested […]
Written on March 19, 2009 | Posted in
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We rarely report on these cases, but the following story is about a prostitution ring in the United States that is reportedly being run by a Belizean woman. A Houston based reporter told us that thirty-three year old Deborah Louise Dawkins, A.K.A. Vivian, is in possession of a green card and she is married and […]
Written on March 19, 2009 | Posted in
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Last night we reported on the brutal murder of twenty-seven year old Lacey Rosales and up to news time, no one has been arrested. Though no arrests have been made, the word on the street is that it wasn’t a random murder and Rosales was known to have a habit of leaving the apartment on […]
Written on March 18, 2009 | Posted in
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The latest and most vicious homicide occurred this morning in murder capital, Belize City and according to our records it is the twenty-sixth murder since the beginning of this year. Twenty seven year old Lacey Rosales, originally from Sand Hill, returned to Belize from the United States only a few months ago and was not […]
Written on March 17, 2009 | Posted in
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And in the murder of Chinese national Hui Lin Chen on Saturday night in Orange Walk Town, cops continue to hunt for a second suspect they consider armed and dangerous. Although police have not yet released the identity and details of this suspect, they have concentrated their search for him in the Belize and Orange […]
Written on March 17, 2009 | Posted in
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