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A vehicle belonging to a police officer was destroyed by fire but the police department is not calling it arson yet. Augustine Cobb, a thirty-three year old Police Constable of San Pedro Village in the Corozal District parked his Chevy S-ten pick up in a yard between miles seventy-four and seventy-five on the Northern Highway. […]
Written on February 5, 2009 | Posted in
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We reported yesterday that San Pedro police had discovered the bodies of two more men whose murders they believe are linked to a drug deal gone bad that began to unfold last Friday afternoon. The first body police found was that of twenty-eight year old John Paul Saldivar, a tour guide who was shot dead […]
Written on February 4, 2009 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, an internal investigation by police has determined that Eric Swan was indeed shot by a cop last Friday. And while he recuperates in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, police are not yet clear whether any one officer will face trial for his shooting or even more seriously, Swan’s attorney, Michael Peyrefitte, is still waiting […]
Written on February 4, 2009 | Posted in
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We have reported on a stabbing at Club Next and tonight twenty year old Vincent Galvez of Belize City is behind bars charged with the Attempted Murder of Edwin Neal. When he appeared in court today, Galvez was also charged with Dangerous Harm and the Use of Deadly Means of Harm. Bail could not be […]
Written on February 4, 2009 | Posted in
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George Betson, who lost his home at mile two on the Northern Highway in July of 2008 during a very public land dispute, has come across another piece of bad luck. The sixty-six year old’s current home on Partridge Street was burglarized on Monday sometime between one and six-forty p.m. The thief or thieves stole […]
Written on February 4, 2009 | Posted in
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The latest victim of gun violence in the City is hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. The twenty-six year old was on his way to work when he was attacked. The motive is not known but it is confirmed that Marvin Underwood was at the venue at another shooting that ended in murder over the weekend. Marion […]
Written on February 3, 2009 | Posted in
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And in San Pedro, police are currently investigating three murders that appear to be connected to drug trafficking. The latest two bodies were found on the island today and appear to be connected to last Friday’s murder. The men have been identified as Edward Gutierrez and Jason Swan, both of whom reportedly went fishing on […]
Written on February 3, 2009 | Posted in
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A Taiwanese businesswoman was shot twice on both arms last night by a thief who stole her gun and money. Thirty-nine year old Ai Lian Gu told police that at around eleven-thirty she and businessman, thirty-eight year old Xing Duan Xu arrived at her house. Ai said that when she went to open her front […]
Written on February 3, 2009 | Posted in
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The government of Belize has indicated that it will disburse the Venezuelan funds for poverty alleviation through small grants to individuals making twenty thousand dollars or less. Well it seems that one enterprising woman decided to take advantage of persons hoping to get the loans by scamming them of hard earned money. The woman, using […]
Written on February 3, 2009 | Posted in
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In other news, on Saturday night twenty-eight year old Erlin Neal, a resident of Magazine Road, was at the Princess Hotel and Casino on Princess Margaret Drive when an altercation occurred. Neal and his girlfriend were partying at the hotel’s disco, Club Next, when he became embroiled in an argument with Vincent Galvez, who was […]
Written on February 3, 2009 | Posted in
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But while those in the cane industry had full day and regrettably one person lost his life and others injured, in La Isla Bonita a series of events last Friday bore their own weight of strange twists. Marion Ali was out on Ambergris Caye today and has this report. Marion Ali, Reporting Details of Friday’s […]
Written on February 2, 2009 | Posted in
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There are two other murder cases to report, and from San Pedro we turn to Belize City where a shooting at a nightclub early this morning resulted in the death of a Belize City man. The incident occurred at Club Enterprise, formerly known as Q-Club, on Caesar Ridge Road. A gunshot went off near the […]
Written on February 2, 2009 | Posted in
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And we go north where a mother of two was murdered in Corozal Town. This past Saturday around six-thirty in the morning, police found the partially nude and lifeless body of a woman floating in the waters near the entrance of the town. The body was retrieved from the sea and taken to the Corozal […]
Written on February 2, 2009 | Posted in
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Two days after police spoke of their new crime fighting strategy thieves proved that they were not deterred by the warning cops sounded. Today just before midday three thieves armed with guns busted the office of Discovery Expeditions on Manatee Drive in the Coral Grove area. News Five understands that the first robber to enter […]
Written on January 30, 2009 | Posted in
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Police are looking for several suspects after a San Pedro businessman was swindled out of nine thousand dollars. The report, a tangled tale of extortion, came from sixty year old Rick Davidson, owner of the Pinguino Winery. According to Davidson, on December fifteenth he was informed by someone at the Belize Port Authority that a […]
Written on January 30, 2009 | Posted in
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A popular pizza parlor was burglarized on Wednesday night by someone who knew the business well. Just before midnight this past Wednesday, Stephen Roberts, the owner of Peppers Pizza, received a call of a break-in at the establishment. Roberts made his to the pizza parlor on St. Thomas Street to investigate. And when he got […]
Written on January 29, 2009 | Posted in
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In news from the courts, a squabble between a Belize City woman and her former boyfriend has landed the man in police custody. Thirty-one year old Kenisha Velasquez of Central American Boulevard told police that at around twelve-thirty this morning, her boyfriend dropped her off at the gate and upon entering her home, she heard […]
Written on January 29, 2009 | Posted in
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A Caye Caulker man was today remanded into custody for a robbery in which two vacationing women were injured on Monday. The two Canadian tourists, Valerie Walker and Sofia Stefanio, reported to police that around three-forty-five that afternoon, they were in the south end of the island when a man armed with a machete and […]
Written on January 29, 2009 | Posted in
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Dangriga police have launched an intensive manhunt for two men following a report of rape. The victim, a nineteen year old domestic told police that at around eight-forty-five on Monday night she was on Front Street in Dangriga when the two suspects approached her and dragged her into a wooden house and had sexual intercourse […]
Written on January 28, 2009 | Posted in
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Earlier in the newscast we reported on the brevity of the controversial Crooks Report and at today’s conference at the Raccoon Street Police Station, police told the press that the department is turning to a new strategy to combat the alarming levels of crime. And this involves the use of technology that will balance expertise […]
Written on January 28, 2009 | Posted in
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It has been in the news for some time, the damages to the reef caused by the cargo ship Westerhaven which is still under arrest at Anchorage until the dispute is settled. And the news tonight from Martin Alegria, Chief Environmental Officer for the Department of Environment is that Fritz Schroeder, who was captain for […]
Written on January 28, 2009 | Posted in
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It is one of the largest chain stores around the country, Courts Belize, and it is known for its deals, but still some felt that the best deal was to steal. The Belize City warehouse was burglarized over the weekend and neither the security guards nor the surveillance cameras could deter the thieves who got […]
Written on January 27, 2009 | Posted in
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A vegetable vendor from Succutz Village in the Cayo District is dead, the victim of a brutal murder that occurred in Melchor de Mencos, Guatemala. There are many questions still unanswered for the family of the victim. According to thirty-one year old John Cal’s family, Cal had finished vegetable sales for the day and was […]
Written on January 26, 2009 | Posted in
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A Belize City cab driver was shot in the early hours of Sunday morning by a passenger in his own car. At about twelve-forty a.m., forty-eight year old Clive Smith was driving on Albert Street, when he was approached by a young man who asked him to be taken to Tigris Street. Upon reaching at […]
Written on January 26, 2009 | Posted in
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In another shooting, a dispute over parental rights escalated into a shootout between one of the parents and police officers. Twenty-two year old Kimberly Westby, of Nurse Findley Crescent in Belize City, was asleep in bed with her husband when they were awakened by an argument in their home. After leaving her bedroom, she found […]
Written on January 26, 2009 | Posted in
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