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The police department has made two arrests in the southernmost and northern districts in regards to separate incidents of carnal knowledge. Forty-six year old Andres Makin, a farmer of San Marcos Village in Toledo has been charged in connection with an incident which occurred on January thirteenth. And in the Corozal District, eighteen year old […]
Written on January 16, 2009 | Posted in
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There was complete mayhem this afternoon in the city following a robbery at the Water Store at Miles one and a half on the Northern Highway that escalated into a collision, shootout, and kidnapping on one of the busiest arteries in the north side. Just before four o’clock this afternoon, four robbers busted into the […]
Written on January 15, 2009 | Posted in
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A Corozal resident is behind bars tonight after he was nabbed with an unlicensed firearm and ammunition. Twenty-one year old Natividad Nasario Reymundo of Sarteneja Village was charged after a search around six fifteen on Wednesday morning at his house yielded a sixteen gauge shotgun and two live rounds.
Written on January 15, 2009 | Posted in
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News Five has confirmed that three persons will be charged shortly with Conspiracy to Commit Murder on businessman Jose Shoman and family members. Word from the Director of Public Prosecutions, Cheryl-Lynn Branker-Taitt is that the file is on its way to the police. The charges against thirty-three year old Aldo Miguel Urbina of Orange Walk […]
Written on January 14, 2009 | Posted in
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And in an update to the murder of Marcos Ishim that occurred in Belmopan on Monday afternoon, fifty-four year old Wayne Gabb of Camalote Village in the Cayo District was arrested and charged with Ishim’s Murder. The forty-four year old prison officer was stabbed to death in front of TV Capital Entertainment, on Constitution Drive. […]
Written on January 14, 2009 | Posted in
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Cases of sexual abuse in 2008 spiked forty eight and a half percent over 2007. And there are three more incidents of carnal knowledge to add to the statistics tonight and two of the alleged culprits were close to the victims; the father and step-father. The first incident involves a twelve year old who lives […]
Written on January 14, 2009 | Posted in
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Today San Pedro Police had a substantial catch on their hands. About two miles north of San Pedro Town, a resident found twenty five packages of suspected cocaine. The police were called and verified that the packages did contain the illicit drug, more than fifty five pounds. They believe it may have been part of […]
Written on January 14, 2009 | Posted in
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He left his job at the Hattieville Central Prison and was heading to the Valley of Peace near Belmopan but the prison officer never made it home. His murder was witnessed by least five persons and it happened in broad daylight. And now the family of 2009’s murder victim number six is seeking justice. Marion […]
Written on January 13, 2009 | Posted in
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In Benque, however, the cops have detained two adults and a minor pending firearms charges. Around four Monday afternoon police responded to reports of shots being fired in the Water Pump area. In an unfinished cement house at the corner of Church and B streets, cops spotted three males, who upon noticing the authorities are […]
Written on January 13, 2009 | Posted in
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In the other case, another police constable is tonight on the other side of the law and is accused of extorting money from a Salvadoran national. The incident occurred at the police checkpoint at mile four on the Western Highway on Monday afternoon when P.C. Andre Almendarez allegedly asked the driver for money in exchange […]
Written on January 13, 2009 | Posted in
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There is another case of murder to report tonight. This latest incident involves the gruesome beheading of a man in the Stann Creek District last week Friday. Police in Independence are reporting that forty-two year old Honduran National Israel Escobar Montoya was killed inside his home in Cowpen Village. Officers have been investigating this horrific […]
Written on January 12, 2009 | Posted in
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There were several robberies to report that took place over the weekend. The first incident occurred on Friday on Orange Street in Belize City. About seven-fifty p.m. two men entered Sunshine Restaurant and one of the two, stood guard at the door while the other headed to the counter and pulled out a black point […]
Written on January 12, 2009 | Posted in
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The numbers show that cases of carnal knowledge increased dramatically last year and tonight there is one more to add. The first case of this type of sexual abuse for 2009 was reported this past Thursday when a thirty-two year old food vendor of San Lazaro Village in Orange Walk accompanied her fifteen year old […]
Written on January 9, 2009 | Posted in
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He disappeared along with over ninety thousand dollars in December and even a bounty of a thousand dollars for his apprehension, yielded no clues as to his whereabouts. But it turns out that all the while twenty-one year old Hong Jian has been an unwanted guest of the Mexican government in Quintana Roo. Soon after […]
Written on January 8, 2009 | Posted in
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Almost everyday on this newscast we report some man being charged with unlawful carnal knowledge. And the statistics released by the police department on Wednesday, reveal that the number of reported cases of the crime rose from sixty-six in 2007 to ninety-eight in 2008. That’s a staggering increase of forty-eight point five percent. Are there […]
Written on January 8, 2009 | Posted in
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There is some good news to report on the latest murder and robbery involving Bowen and Bowen employees which happened shortly after five on Monday evening in front of the Belize Bank in San Ignacio Town. One worker died on the spot and the other, Millard Tun was shot to the head and right arm. […]
Written on January 7, 2009 | Posted in
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And burglars in Corozal hit the mother load when they broke into the Brodie’s Warehouse in the Free Zone. Store Manager, twenty-five year old Hensleigh Jones, reported to police that sometime between five-fifteen p.m. on December thirty-first and the morning of January second someone gained access to the premises. Once inside the thief or thieves […]
Written on January 7, 2009 | Posted in
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And in the south, in a sting operation Tuesday, Dangriga police visited a plantation where thirteen marijuana shrubs measuring two feet in height were found. The plants were being grown by thirty-four year old Hector Diaz and thirty-one year old Ricky Polanco. The two farmers of mile twenty-five on the Hummingbird Highway were arrested and […]
Written on January 7, 2009 | Posted in
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A man who appeared in court for failing to report to the police, was slapped with a subsequent charge of Aggravated Assault. Fate was not kind to twenty-four year old Michael Young, a deportee when he appeared in the Magistrate Court today. Young pleaded guilty to the charge of failure to report and as a […]
Written on January 7, 2009 | Posted in
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A man who was serving one of two years in prison for drug trafficking was sentenced to an extra year in prison for another drug trafficking incident. Today, nineteen year old Charles Leslie appeared in Magistrates’ Court where he was found guilty of possession of forty point six grams of cannabis. Magistrate Edd Usher stipulated […]
Written on January 7, 2009 | Posted in
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As suspected, there was a dramatic increase in crime last year, in particular in reported cases of carnal knowledge. Murders went up and so did robberies, burglaries and firearm offences. And Belize City gets the dubious distinctionas the crime capital. Figures were released today by the police department that show a comparative review of crime […]
Written on January 7, 2009 | Posted in
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We lead tonight’s broadcast with news of three murders in the last twenty-four hours… as two previous gunshot victims succumbed to their injuries. But first, today News Five returned to San Ignacio for the latest homicide, which is also the second for that municipality in past three days. It involved an attack on two employees […]
Written on January 6, 2009 | Posted in
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In the other two cases, two more Belizeans succumbed to gunshot wounds. Around four-thirty Monday evening, after ten days in a coma at the K.H.M.H., eighteen year old Cameron Blease died while receiving treatment for gunshot wounds he received after a crossfire outside the Princess Hotel on the night of December twenty-sixth, 2008. The culprit; […]
Written on January 6, 2009 | Posted in
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In one of the most recent shootings in the city, the victim is thirty-eight year old Marion Henkis who was shot while exiting her yard towards Regent Street West. At around six Monday evening, Henkis was in an alley heading to a nearby shop when she observed two young men riding on separate bicycles from […]
Written on January 6, 2009 | Posted in
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A shopkeeper has reported being robbed. On Monday, two armed gunmen entered the business place of thirty-one year old Areliona Leon, located in the Another World area of Roaring Creek. A scared Leon ran out the backdoor, leaving her fifteen year old shop assistant. The teen says the men then pointed a gun at him […]
Written on January 6, 2009 | Posted in
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