He has the rank of Ambassador for Youth, but the long arms of the law today reached nineteen year old Kenroy Young of Regent Street, who was charged with nine offences in connection with three forged cheques when he appeared in Magistrates’ Court. Young was charged with three counts each of Possession of a False […]
A mother and son were charged with permitting defilement and carnal knowledge of a minor on October seventh and one month later, one more family member is being charged for the same offence. Maureen Staine‘s husband, forty two year old store clerk, Stephen Staine senior was charged today with the same charges of permitting defilement […]
A domestic worker of Flamboyant Street in Belize City who allegedly attempted to help herself to bed sheets has been charged with Attempted Theft. Today fifty-one year old Martha Young appeared before Magistrate Aretha Ford who placed charges on her for allegedly trying to steal two sets of sheets from Bottom Dollar Supermarket. Young wanted […]
Gun amnesty has been extended for a month and there are still many Belizeans who do not intend to take advantage of the program to hand in illegal weapons without fear of being sent off to prison. Thirty-three year old Luis Alberto Williams Junior probably wished he heeded the warnings as on Wednesday about ten-thirty […]
A Santa Elena resident boarded a bus a free man but came off it a prisoner. On occasion criminals use public transportation to peddle drugs. But one man did not consider the fact that his parcel of marijuana had a strong smell and a police officer was sitting nearby. On Wednesday, an officer boarded a […]
Sexual assaults on minors have become constant on our newscast and tonight we report on three more cases of Carnal Knowledge. In the first instance, Ladyville police are searching for a man in his twenties in connection with an alleged case of Carnal Knowledge upon a thirteen year old girl in Burrell Boom Village. The […]
There was a ruckus when eight kids were taken to the Queen Street Police Station for kicking a ball that accidentally hit a three year old child on Tuesday night. According to witnesses, the minors were playing football on Eve Street in the yard of the apartment complex where they live. The toddler hit with […]
In an update to a story last night, twenty-one year old Tyrone Gentle, the alleged shooter who fired several shots at Austin Rowland was charged today. Gentle appeared in the court of Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb to be arraigned on charges of Attempted Murder and Damage to Property. Due to the nature of the offence, […]
But a woman fared better and escaped rape. The Trial Farm resident reported to police that she was home on Tuesday when someone knocked at her door. The woman says she opened the door thinking that it was her husband, but instead it was a man, known to her as Eric Sambas. A shirtless Sambas […]
Cops believe a shooting in Belize City on Saturday night is gang related. And a Saturn car with license plate number BZ 32327 saved the life of twenty-two year old Austin Rowland in the shooting. Rowland, who was the driver of the vehicle at the time of the incident fled towards Central American Boulevard and […]
Cops are on the hunt for a man wanted for Drug Trafficking and are focusing on the driver of a taxi with license plate number CYD-3354. On Saturday night at around nine-thirty, police conducted a highway patrol on the Western Highway and their attention was drawn to a vehicle parked off the road in Blackman […]
And cases of carnal knowledge appear to be climbing and tonight there are reports of sexual abuse of a fifteen year old minor of San Marcos Village. This past Monday, the minor told police that on September eighth around six-thirty a.m., forty year old Leoncio Muku of the same village had sexual intercourse with her […]
Even when there is no amnesty program, police are always trying to get guns off the streets. On Friday, Belize City cops received some assistance securing a firearm and ammunition from a tip. Acting on that information, police visited an abandoned lot on Albert Street and found a Glenfield model twelve-gauge pump action shotgun and […]
Quick response by police has resulted in another bike thief being nabbed. Fifteen year old Wilfred Ramirez reported to police that around three-fifty Sunday afternoon he was riding his bike when at the corner Antelope and Pitter Streets, he was approached by Randy Coye. Ramirez says Coye placed a black object resembling a firearm to […]
And in Corozal police are investigating an allegation of rape. A sixteen year old girl accompanied by her mother, reported to police that on Saturday she was socializing at a home in the town and met three young men. The girl states that they began drinking and later that night all three had sex with […]
The Police Department is warning the public to be on the lookout for counterfeit currency. The press release places particular emphasis on fifty dollar bills in Belize currency and one hundred dollar U.S. currency notes. Business persons are being asked to be especially vigilant at night when fake notes are easily passed.
An investigation of firearms found in a barrel has intensified and elements of the Police Department’s Anti-drug Unit have taken over the probe into last Thursday’s bust at the Customs compound. The weapons include three high-powered guns, a home-made silencer and several rounds of ammunition that were discovered in a routine inspection by the Customs. […]
He’s been on the police wanted list since Monday night after four Chinese businesspeople were attacked, two of them fatally in Dangriga Town. But four days later the law has caught up with eighteen year old Percival Jones. This afternoon police apprehended Jones not in Dangriga, but Belize City. The teen had just dropped by […]
A villager from Bullet Tree Falls, Cayo will be spending three years behind bars after pleading guilty to Drug Trafficking. Thirty year old Miguel Angel Mendez was nabbed around eleven Thursday morning by a police border patrol unit as he was exiting the administrative building at the Belize Western Border on his return from Melchor. […]
Ladyville police are investigating a report of Unlawful Carnal Knowledge upon an eight year old. The minor, accompanied by her mother, told police that on several occasions this year while she was visiting a relative, Anthony Myvette, he had sexual intercourse with her. An examination on the child has confirmed that she was molested and […]
Security guards are hired to protect person and property, but today one employee was charged for failing to do his job. Forty-four year old Phillip Estrada, a security guard at the Youth Hostel, pleaded not guilty when he appeared in court today for allegedly stealing a shade of wire from his employer. According to reports, […]
In another major story tonight, three firearms, two of them high powered, a home-made silencer and a cache of matching ammunition were discovered today. The bust was made by the Customs Department as officers inspecting a shipment of goods spotted a barrel originating from Los Angeles, California. The two small weapons and ammunition were stashed […]
And in another break, people who deal with stolen vehicles are getting more innovative in this business and it is getting increasingly difficult to detect the stolen vehicles. But today, the Customs Department scored two for two when they intercepted what is believed to be three stolen vehicles. The vehicles include a 2006 white Kia […]
In an update to the gruesome murder in Dangriga on Monday, a post mortem examination has been conducted on the bodies of thirty-three year old businessman, Yue Lian Liu and thirty-one year old, Liping Zhen, which concluded that both men died of internal and external hemorrhaging. Today police have issued details of the identity of […]
There are reports of two acts of carnal knowledge tonight. First, in the north in Orange Walk District, a thirteen year old minor reported to police that on the twenty-eighth of October around three-thirty the afternoon, she was at the house of a male friend who had sexual intercourse with her. The minor, who was […]
