The ongoing murder trial at the Supreme Court of Brandon Tillett and James Escarpeta has run into a hitch and that is because one witness has been shot and the other developed amnesia. Sherlett Arnold, the chief witness in the murder of Kevin Parks, who was scheduled to take the witness stand on Wednesday, was […]
The Arnold sisters were not the only Belize City residents who were shot on Monday night. A little after eleven, police visited a shooting victim at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Thirty-nine year old Elroy Saldano said that he was walking on East Canal when two men chased him into a yard and shot him. […]
It has been only a week since we reported a forgery case. In that case, a man tried to cash a forged cheque of almost ten thousand dollars. In this latest case, a San Pedro resident almost allegedly got away with swindling a parcel of land worth over half of a million dollars. Twenty-three year […]
On March sixth, a Chinese businessman was robbed, stabbed and his throat slashed in Belize City, and over the past weekend this time in Orange Walk, a Taiwanese was murdered under the same circumstances. It happened on Saturday night at a three storey building on Lover’s Lane. Three police officers were also shot and injured […]
And with the recent murders of the Chinese nationals, the Chinese Association of Orange Walk is asking for heightened security. President of the association, Tony Lee, is asking government to do its part to make the streets and business community safer. Tony Lee, President, O.W. Chinese Assn. “I’m shocked to hear that the people who […]
The frequency of reported crimes continues to haunt the cops. And though there are hot spots throughout the old capital that are often in the news, lately more robberies and burglaries are occurring in the heart of Belize City. In February “A Fashion” store on Albert Street was burglarized, businessman Madhu Babani was robbed in […]
Early this morning, police were called to Bannister Caye resort, located nine miles away from Belize City where the manager of the resort had been killed. Jose Sanchez took a twenty minute boat ride to the resort and has the following story. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Bannister Island Resort is a private island with over three […]
Two gas attendants got the scare of their lives this afternoon when they were forced to lie on the ground as three thieves jacked the station at gunpoint. The crime occurred around four p.m. at CDS Gas Station located on the Boom Hattieville Road. The manager of the station told police that one of the […]
The police have two cases of Obtaining Property by Deception to solve on their hands. In the first instance, a Corozal man was cheated out of a whopping thirty-five thousand dollars. Forty-one year old Crisologo Sosa of the Altamira area reported to police that in November of last year he purchased a parcel of land […]
In the west, police made a sizeable drug bust in Benque Viejo on Thursday. Cops on mobile patrol between miles seventy and seventy-one became suspicious of a Toyota Tercel Station Wagon heading towards San Ignacio and set chase. When they caught up with the vehicle, occupied by thirty-four year old Roland Garcia and his common-law-wife […]
An eleven year old girl of San Pedro Town is one of the latest reported victims of Carnal Knowledge. On Thursday the minor and her father told police that her step-father had sexual intercourse with her at their home and had been doing so for the past five months. A doctor’s examination has confirmed that […]
The media was invited today to the Queen Street Police Station, the venue for the destruction of the most recent cache of illegal weapons. And while this time there were no hand grenades, among the eighty-six firearms were high caliber weapons including an M-sixteen, a sixteen gauge shotgun, and also home-made pen guns. Marion Ali […]
With some guns now destroyed, local authorities are looking at a patent from regional legislations to use phone intercepts to help curb planned and organized crime. When Commissioner of Police, Gerald Westby, held a news conference earlier this week, he expounded on just how they intend to use this new option without violating people’s right […]
While at Price Barracks, News Five also spoke to Minister of National Security, Carlos Perdomo, about the most recent grenade attack targeted at the Comptroller of Customs, Gregory Gibson. Perdomo says that there are no significant leads as yet but the investigations continue and the grenade might have come from a spill over from violent […]
The incident occurred late last year but it is only now that the long arms of the law have caught up Wyatt Anderson who is now facing murder charges of his sister’s boyfriend. Twenty-eight year old Anderson of North Creek was charged today with the murder of Robert Brown. A little after midday on November […]
Grocery stores are robbed on a regular basis, but the investigation of a robbery in Cayo proved to be more interesting than the crime itself. Thirty-three year old Wen Fen Zhui, the proprietor for First Stop Grocery Store and restaurant in Santa Elena Town, was the victim of the robbery. Zhui reported to the cops […]
A resort’s bank account was almost drained of close to ten thousand dollars on Tuesday, but quick thinking by a bank employee aborted the theft. On March tenth, Jerome Augustus Arnold went to the Albert Street branch of Atlantic Bank to cash a cheque valued at nine thousand eight hundred dollars issued to him by […]
Last night a Belize City man became the latest victim of a drive by shooting. At five after eight on Wednesday night, nineteen year old Calvin Palma of Baracat Street was standing in a yard on Nurse Findley Crescent when the incident occurred. A car was passing by from which a man known only as […]
In other news, police have charged eighteen year old Tariq Tzul of West Street in Belize City for the crime of Attempted Robbery. A seventeen year old minor who was Tzul’s partner in crime was also charged with Attempted Robbery, Attempted Murder, Use of Deadly Means of Harm, and Wounding. The incident occurred on Sunday […]
In last night’s newscast we reported that police found the body of Jose Manuel Salazar, a sixty-seven year old Belizean labourer of Carmelita Village, in the Orange Walk District. A postmortem has now been concluded on the body of Salazar and the cause of death has been determined to be strangulation due to asphyxia. Salazar […]
Criminals let loose over the weekend and in tonight’s newscast, we lead with reports of a fatal shooting, two murders and the latest on a grenade that exploded at the home of the Comptroller of Customs Gregory Gibson. In the first case, a youth was killed during a crossfire in which two cops were shot […]
And in a murder in Belize City, Brian Williams, also known as “Benji”, would have turned thirty-four on March seventeenth but will never get to see that day because his life was cut short around two on Baron Bliss Day. Williams was reportedly painting a house at the corner of Faber’s Road and Nurse Findley […]
There was another murder over the weekend but that one occurred in the Orange Walk District. There are more questions than answers in this case and while details are sketchy, it is known that the victim, sixty-seven year old Manuel Salazar was found inside his house in Carmelita Village around noon on Sunday. Police says […]
One of the issues that the media was persistent about at today’s police conference was the increasing incidents of grenade explosions; the fourth which occurred on March third at the home of Comptroller of Customs, Gregory Gibson. Although luckily no one was hurt, the type of grenade that was detonated was the most lethal yet […]
In other crime news, around ten-thirty on Friday night, four masked bandits, armed with handguns, targeted the White Swan Bar at mile seven on the Stann Creek Valley Road. Bartender, Cleotilda Montoya of Hope Creek, says that four Hispanic men wearing peak caps entered the establishment, placed a gun to her head and demanded money. […]
