Earlier we reported that thieves targeted a high school in Punta Gorda, but in Belize a young food vendor got a rude awakening when two youths jacked him at gunpoint rather than patronizing his business. Nineteen year old Gustavo Ereas, a resident of West Canal, told police that he was selling fruits on Neal’s Pen […]
Police suspect that a resident of Sittee River Village may have been poisoned by his step son. Fifty-six year old Herman Foster reported to the cops that about midday on Tuesday, his stepson Luis Assi arrived home and gave him a bottle of juice. Foster said that after taking two mouthfuls of the juice, he […]
Dangriga police are investigating what appears to be the murder of a woman. Acting on a tip, on Tuesday cops visited the Barrier Reef, thirteen miles east of Glovers Reef where they discovered the body of a woman of Hispanic descent. The unidentified corpse was in a state of advanced decomposition and could not be […]
A resident of the Youth Cadet Corps is in big trouble, not only with his parents with but the law. According to reports from the Family Court, today the teen was arraigned on charges of Attempted Arson after he tried to set the building’s bathroom on fire. Around eleven-thirty on Friday the staff at compound […]
A woman has been fined ten thousand dollars for trying to sneak weed into the Hattieville Prison. On Monday twenty-one year old Janet Bernard was busted with just over two ounces of weed when she was searched by a prison officer. The illicit drug was found inside a plastic bag tucked into Bernard’s tennis shoe. […]
Jackie’s Supermarket on Dolphin Drive in Belize City was robbed last night. Forty-two year old Jian Xianey Zheng, the proprietor of the store, which is located in the yard behind Golf Hotel, said that on Monday at approximately seven p.m., he was inside the supermarket along with his wife and his brother when three customers […]
A twenty-three year old man of Unitedville Village in the Cayo District has been arrested for having sex with a minor. On Monday, the fifteen year old girl and her mother, both of Unitedville, reported the incident to police. The girl said that sometime in January, she had sexual intercourse with her boyfriend and a […]
Last Friday we reported on a grizzly murder in Orange Walk Town, and in tonight’s newscast, there is another homicide to report, this one in Belize City in which a forty-three year old man was gunned down. The motive has still not been ascertained and no arrests have been made up to news time. Marion […]
There is a development to the brutal murder of forty-four year old Enrique Lino Castillo who was murdered last Friday in Orange Walk Town. Lead suspect, Nimrod Tillett, who is believed to have slit Castillo’s throat, turned himself in to Orange Walk police yesterday. Today Tillett was charged for Murder and remanded to prison. The […]
On January thirtieth San Pedro police were summoned to an area some seventeen miles from town, where the bullet-riddled body of Paul Saldivar was discovered. Today police report that they have arrested and charged three persons in connection with the murder. The three are twenty-eight year old Shelton Tillett of George Street, twenty-eight year old […]
One man is in critical condition at the K.H.M.H. following a stabbing incident at the well known Li Chee Restaurant on Freetown Road. The incident took place last Friday night at about nine o’clock when the fast food restaurant was crowded with patrons. Nineteen year old Vince Mitchel of Belama Phase two was wounded on […]
Also in Belize City, two brazen thieves targeted Quality Supermarket in the peak hours last Friday afternoon. According to cashier, twenty-two year old Dennis Ortiz, around two-twenty, two men entered the establishment armed with what appeared to be a point thirty-eight revolver. One of the men ordered a female customer to the floor and the […]
“Bridging the Gap between poverty and possibilities” is the motto of the Friends Boys School on Allenby Street in Belize City. The school is very small in comparison to most primary education institutions and is designed to pull primary school dropouts back into the education system. But over the weekend it was burglarized. Candi Young, […]
In a grizzly murder, less than twenty-four hours before Valentine’s Day, one man was brutally murdered in Orange Walk Town. Police are on the hunt for the lover of the murdered man, Enrique Castillo, who is believed to be the main suspect. Forty-four year old Castillo returned from his job as a head waiter at […]
There are more details on this morning’s brutal murder in Orange Walk Town. Neighbours are accusing the police of not responding promptly but cops have swiftly detained a number of suspects. The prime suspect, Nimrod Tillett, who police believe actually slashed Castillo’s throat, remains at large tonight and police have released his picture with the […]
And in crime news, the law has caught up with a Punta Gorda man who had sex with a sixteen year old minor. Twenty-three year old Dennis Trapp, a mechanic of Oriole Street in Punta Gorda Town was charged today for the Unlawful Carnal Knowledge of the teen. Even though Trapp committed the act alone, […]
At about one-twenty p.m. on Thursday February twelfth, police executed a search warrant for drugs and firearms at Amelia’s DVD Store, located two miles on Northern Highway. The cops discovered three black plastic bags containing green leafy substances suspected to be cannabis in a suitcase and an additional six black plastic bags under the suitcase. […]
It was on February third that San Pedro police discovered the last two bodies in the triple murders that occurred the weekend of Friday, January thirtieth. While San Pedro police had arrested and charged twenty-two year old Alex Soler, twenty-seven year old Victor Garnett and twenty-nine year old Brionne Swift for the murders of twenty-six […]
The attack on the business community is relentless and Belize City police are looking for two suspects following another armed jacking in broad daylight, this time against B.E.L. But the incident did not take place at the headquarters; instead, the robbers attacked one of the utility company’s outlets. At around two-thirty on Wednesday afternoon twenty […]
A group of tourists have been robbed in the Cayo District and it is not good news for the already declining Tourism Industry. Around two-thirty Tuesday afternoon, a tour at the Rio Frio Cave in the Mountain Pine Ridge Area ended with the armed robbery of the group’s belongings. Tour guide, thirty-four year old Everald […]
Last week Thursday we reported that the police found the body of taxi driver Antonio Orellana between miles three and four on the Western Highway. Orellana was murdered and investigations are still underway on who murdered the taxi driver. And on Monday another body was found. This time police found the naked body of a […]
The Alliance Bank ATM on Barrack Road appears to be a frequent target for criminals. Sometime between five p.m. on February fifth and ten a.m. on February ninth, the ATM was burglarized. A thief or thieves went inside the building by torching the metal door on the northern side of the building. According to Kenneth […]
The Ministry of National Security has unveiled many plans to combat crime as part of a countrywide strategy. To complement the plan and their fleet of vehicles, the ministry got some more wheels. Today at the Curl Thompson Building in the Garden City, the police department received seven motorcycles. Minister of National Security, Carlos Perdomo […]
Belize’s strategic geographical location on the map places us in a position that is ripe for illicit drug transshipments from South to North America and it is recognized that perpetrators of organized crime have enjoyed significant successes in doing just that. Coupled with this, a 2007 U.N. report showed that gang activity in Central America […]
It has been a week of violence, including three murders in San Pedro alone. And tonight we report on another victim, a Belize City taxi driver. The Honduran national was missing for a week and when he was found this morning, it was not a pretty sight. The forty-one year old man was murdered execution […]
