2009 is only five days old and already the murder trend is matching last year’s record high. On January third, tragedy visited a family in San Ignacio Town just as they were about to close for business shortly before nine that night. It’s an all too familiar story… yet another attack on a Belizean family […]
And in Belize City, crime continued unabated. The Castillo family’s moving day last week Friday was expected to be a happy and uneventful occasion, but it was everything that it shouldn’t have been. The homeowner plus the three men who were assisting with the move were shot and badly injured. Edmond Castillo and his wife […]
The shooting incident on Curl Thompson Street was not the only one that occurred on January second. After seven p.m. Friday night, a seventeen year old young man was shot when he went over to a friend’s home to play a video game by a familiar offender who was thought to be behind bars. Justin […]
James Gerou is back in police custody. The thirty-seven year old American baseball player allegedly got away from the Queen Street station on Friday before police could charge him in connection with the discovery of over a million and a half dollars, mostly in Belize currency in the biggest case of money laundering to be […]
A domestic squabble has landed a man to the remand section of the Central Prison. Thirty-five year old Ralph Sherlock Martinez a.k.a. “Miniman” who allegedly pulled a gun on his twenty-two year old stepdaughter, Lucretia Myvett was charged with Aggravated Assault and sent to prison until his case comes up on February third. Myvett reported […]
And while the crime statistics for 2008 are not yet available since the December numbers are still being tallied, we can share the figures for the San Ignacio/Santa Elena Twin Towns from January to November. The chart shows that there were a total of thirteen murders, sixteen attempted murders, six grievous harm, one hundred and […]
Our first news story to begin the year is about a million dollar case of money laundering that has now taken on a new twist. It involves a family of five that had been arrested on New Years Eve for money laundering of over one and a half million dollars. But now several police officers […]
The last day of the year is a day when love rules and old sins are forgiven with the hopes of a fresh start. While that may be the norm, a Rancho Dolores woman had her own twist for the New Year. She wanted to do it alone or at least without her common-law-husband. But […]
And in an update to a story we carried earlier this week, police have made an arrest in the murder of a Valley of Peace resident. On Wednesday, police formally charged thirty-eight year old Edelio Rios for Murder. Rios has been in detention since Tuesday when police discovered the body of thirty-three year old Arturo […]
And in Belize City, a man is tonight recovering from a gunshot wound to the buttocks. Around one-thirty on Thursday morning twenty-seven year old Kent Taylor was riding on Kraal Road. When Taylor reached the junction with Faber’s Road, however, he said he heard six gunshots ring out behind him and realised he had been […]
A couple of fire victims had their problems compounded when they were arrested on firearm charges. On Tuesday, U.S. nationals fifty-three year old Robert Jones and his wife, fifty year old Tammy Lee Jones, both of Arizona, checked into the Diamond Hotel at mile four on the Northern Highway, leaving the trailer house they drove […]
There are two home burglaries to report. Leslie Sanchez and Troy Foreman had a stream of bad luck coming their way as before a traffic accident, their home in Los Lagos was burglarized on New Years eve. The burglars gained access through the rear part of their home. Sanchez says that when she and her […]
To close 2008, the number of murders went up by one, the latest recorded is in the Cayo District after seven last night. After receiving information about the homicide, police found the body of a man on a street called Without Law, in the Valley of Peace community. Thirty-three year old Salvadoran, Arturo Romero, was […]
In other crime news, an elderly Belize City taxi driver was robbed at the stroke of midnight last night. The Albert Street cab driver, seventy year old Lester Coleman picked up two men who wanted to be taken to a Faber’s Road address. One man who was wearing a striped, sleeveless shirt and long blue […]
Police have made an arrest in the Sunday night shooting of Griffith Green Junior. The alleged culprit is twenty-seven year old Roger Wagner Junior of Junesville in Belize City. Wagner handed himself in to police just before midnight on Sunday, but refused to participate in an I.D. parade and chose to remain silent. This morning […]
In news from the courts, Edwin Davis, a.k.a. Lieutenant Stitchie, who is known for stealing batteries from cars, appeared in Magistrate Court this morning, to face another charge relating to missing batteries. Davis was charged with Attempted Theft and Damage to Property following an incident this past Monday. Davis was recently charged with several offences […]
Another fight had more serious repercussions for the victim. On Monday morning police visited the K.H.M.H. and saw twenty-eight year old Michael Caine with four stab wounds to the back. Caine told police that he was in the Port area when he became embroiled in an argument with Alvin Conorquie, a resident of Second Street […]
The battle to get guns off the streets rages on and tonight police are reporting two more successes. Around seven on Sunday night cops acted on an anonymous tip and visited an empty lot on Iguana Street Extension in Belize City. Hidden in some bushes in the yard was a point thirty-eight Special Taurus revolver. […]
Two Belize City boat owners have reported their vessels stolen. Fifty-one year old Galindo Perez told police that on December eighteenth he left his twenty-three foot blue and yellow fiberglass skiff along with a forty horsepower Yamaha engine at Potto Stuck Island located thirteen miles from Belize City. The boat was in the care of […]
There were a string of murders, shootings and robberies over the long Christmas weekend as criminals took to the streets. We begin with a fatal shooting early on Boxing Day at the Princess Hotel and Casino parking lot. It happened as twenty-nine year old Jermaine Trapp of Faber’s Road was about to drive out of […]
And while many families were celebrating Christmas, a fourth person was murdered. The man’s body was found in a building that was totaled by fire in downtown Belize City. At first the fire originally appeared to be accidental, but there is now reason to suspect that the building was set on fire to conceal the […]
Criminals were undeterred over the holidays and the number of shootings turned the weekend into a Wild West movie. Early Christmas morning in Saint Matthews Village, fifty year-old John Olivera, a laborer of Franks Eddy Village, was shot in his head. Olivera’s son, John Junior told police that the shooting followed a fight in his […]
Police were out in force during the holidays and although they couldn’t stop many crimes, they were able to take several guns off the streets. While on mobile patrol on Boxing Day, cops managed to get their hands on three guns and over twenty bullets. On Sarstoon Street they found nineteen year old Winfield Dennison […]
And a grocery store in the Kings Park area of Belize City has been robbed. On Sunday afternoon just after midday, two men with rags over their faces stormed Tang Supermarket on Third Street and held up eighteen year old Zhen Deng. Zhen said after the assailants opened up the barred entrance to the store, […]
And still on crime, on Boxing Day, police visited the Western Regional Hospital and saw twenty year old Brian Garbutt of Roaring Creek admitted to ward with cut wounds to his face, back of the head, neck, shoulder and hand. Investigations reveal that sometime earlier Garbutt became embroiled in an altercation with Corwin Mendoza, who […]
