A woman is tonight thanking her lucky stars after she narrowly escaped a kidnapping and probably rape. Thirty-one year old Yettie DeSouza reported to police that just after midnight on Christmas morning she was taking food to her common-law husband. DeSouza says as she neared the junction of Calle al Mar and Baymen Avenue, a […]
A nineteen year old waitress from San Ignacio was not as lucky as Desouza. The woman told police that over the weekend she was socializing with a male friend by the name of Amir Eck at Legends Nightclub, but when she went to use the bathroom, Eck followed her, dragged her into a nearby corner […]
He has been at large ever since he allegedly stole over ninety thousand dollars from his employer. Now a reward of a thousand dollars is being offered for information leading to the arrest of twenty-one year old Asian National, Jian Hong. The management of the North America International Company Limited at the Commercial Free Zone […]
Corozal police have discovered a loaded prohibited firearm. The find, an AK-forty-seven rifle, was found at an abandoned lot off a feeder road in the Dominguez Layout area of Corozal Town. It had a magazine and three live rounds. No one has been arrested and police continue to investigate. They believe the weapon with serial […]
The family of a young man from Benque Viejo del Carmen who went missing last week got their worst fears confirmed when his father discovered his body over the weekend. On Saturday, Ricardo Chulin found the body of his son, twenty-one year old Nelson Chulin with machete wounds to his head and chest. His body […]
The hope is that when you bury your loved ones they get to rest in peace. But that has not been the case for at least the past week. News Five was invited to the Lord’s Ridge Cemetery to view a number of graves that have been vandalized, presumably by mischief makers prowling through the […]
They are supposed to uphold the law but tonight a police officer finds himself in all kinds of trouble with the law and his own comrades have to charge him for allegedly committing the crime of Bigamy. The charge against Constable Luciano Jaime Pena followed a report by Mrs. Ruby Pena, a teacher of Corozal […]
It seems that there is no end to the stream of robberies that are coinciding with the Christmas Holidays. People at home, on the streets and every type of business have been targeted. Last night it was a drugstore on Freetown Road in Belize City that became part of the crime statistics. Raul Acevedo, the […]
And while Bou-Nahra’s death is yet inconclusive, a fifty five year old man was shot and killed early Saturday morning. George Emmanuel Cofffin was at the corner of South Street and East Canal when a man pulled out a small firearm and fired a single shot to his face. The senior citizen then walked from […]
Two B.D.F. soldiers are in the hot seat tonight facing investigations by their own and the police. The two were busted with over a thousand rounds of ammunition over the weekend. Thirty year old Sergeant Emerson Michael and twenty-nine year old Corporal Henry Williams were charged with Keeping Ammunition without a Gun License when they […]
But police tonight have no leads into an armed hold-up of an employee of a Belize City bank. During the broad daylight jacking, fifty year old Griffith Green was robbed of cash and personal effects after demanding the combination for the Alliance Bank ATM safe on Barrack Road. Green, who was driving along with a […]
It was not only the bank employees who were targeted by robbers, but thirty-five year old Guatemalan, Vergillo Serceno, says that he was jacked shortly after eleven Saturday night. Serceno says that when he got home in the Another World area in Roaring Creek Village and alighted his vehicle, a male person wearing a mask […]
In other crime news, a fourteen year old girl has reported being raped at knifepoint. The teen told police that just after midnight on Friday she was walking on Main Street in Seine Bight Village when she was approached by Wallace Cayetano, also known as Scurvy. She says he invited her to his house to […]
In September we told you of MV Faina, the Belize-flagged merchant vessel which was seized by pirates. Almost three months after the capture, it appears that the hijackers will get millions of dollars in ransom payments. According to reports in the international media, the pirates had originally asked for thirty-five million dollars, but reduced that […]
The bad news continued with another report that the owner of a Belize City security company is being investigated by the Los Angeles Police Department. According to media reports coming out of the U.S., forty-nine year old Johnny Baltazar, owner of Elite Security, is being investigated for allegedly smuggling several handguns into Belize last year. […]
Police are looking for three suspects in an Aggravated Assault. Between twelve-thirty and one on Thursday afternoon, twenty-five year old Shama Menzies of Magazine Road says that while walking on Mosul Street she was approached by Taneese Mejia and two men. Menzies says that one of the men gave Mejia a handgun which she was […]
Shopping increases considerably during the Christmas season and criminals are using it to their advantage to slip in some counterfeit notes. That was the case for Friendship Restaurant on Hummingbird Avenue in Belmopan. Around nine last night, thirty-one year old Qun Fang Tan told police that two men, one Caucasian and the other of Hispanic […]
In court news, a couple was charged with ten counts of firearm and ammunition offences after police discovered a weapons cache during a house search. Twenty-one year old Sheldon Moguel and his girlfriend, eighteen year old Anna Hunter, today appeared in Magistrates’ Court to answer to three counts of Keeping Prohibited Ammunition, two counts of […]
And in the Magistrate Court, Cecil Castillo, a twenty-three year old labourer of Iguana Street Extension, was charged with two counts of robbery. Castillo pleaded not guilty to the charges and was remanded into custody until February fourth. The incident occurred around seven-ten p.m. on Tuesday. George Meggs, a forty-one year old boat captain and […]
Arson and robbery are believed to be the motive for a fire this morning in Belize City which left a tenant without his home and all his belongings. A thief broke into room twelve of an Apartment Complex on Campus Drive in the West Landivar Area and stole numerous electrical appliances before setting the apartment […]
A startling discovery was made this morning in the area of Newtown Barracks that connects with Marine Parade. Two kids playing in the area where local fishermen sell their catch saw a shimmering black plastic garbage bag trapped amongst the rocks. Being curious, they crossed the sea wall to fetch the bag and when they […]
And in an update to the missing guns from the Customs storeroom, so far police have questioned a third person in connection with the six missing weapons. The last to be interviewed is an attendant stationed at the Queen’s Bond building where the guns were stored. Last Thursday it was discovered that the weapons were […]
And while it seems that, at least for now, the Brannon brothers’ case is hanging in the air, the D.P.P. has directed that additional charges be levied against those who allegedly planned an attack on the family of businessman, Jose Shoman. Today D.P.P. Cheryl-Lynn Branker-Taitt shed some light into that matter. Cheryl-Lynn Branker-Taitt, Director of […]
She claimed that two masked men killed Anthony “Antics” Herrera at their home in Burrell Boom on Saturday, but the police didn’t buy her story. And so Kimberly McLaughlin was detained by the police for questioning when Kimberly made the report to the police she used the last name McLaughlin, but the cops have since […]
In other news from the courts, two brothers will spend the Christmas and greet the new year at the central prison. Armando and Angel Bolon, who were both involved in an altercation with B.D.F. soldier William Felix Cho were charged with Maim when they appeared Tuesday in Magistrates’ Court. No Plea was taken from them […]
