Accused serial rapist, twenty-two year old Leroy Gomez, was stabbed today in the Maximum Security Area of the Hattieville Prison. According to reports, around eight this morning Gomez was stabbed twice in the left side of his back with a sharp object. The weapon has still not been found, but police confirmed that Gomez was […]
Three women appeared in court this morning and were promptly charged with Theft and while the charge is common, in this case the price and appetite for the item may have been the motive. The trio, all cousins who reside in Carmelita Village in Orange Walk Town, is accused of stealing six units of Dutch […]
In news from the police blotter, a seventy-four year old farmer from the village of San Juan in the Stann Creek District reports that he was attacked by three armed men at his home this past Tuesday. The farmer, Juan Albueno Perez, reported that he responded to a knock on his front door when he […]
A fourteen year old student in southern Belize has reported that she was sexually abused twice in a period of two weeks by two individuals. According to the student, on the fourth of this month she went to a friend’s house in the Village of Steadfast where the friend had sexual intercourse with her. Two […]
And in breaking news, two persons have been shot near the traffic lights at the corner of Mahogany Street and Central American Boulevard. They have been transported to the K.H.M.H. More details on this breaking story in our newscast tomorrow night.
And in other news, very ambitious thieves attempted to rob the Sikaffy residence on Bishop Street, not once or twice, but three times in the past month. Located next door to Kings music, on the third floor of the building that houses the Magistrates’ Court and a Smart outlet, you would think that the twelve […]
He hit a seventy-five year old relative with a stick, and he is now facing charges of Attempted Murder and Grievous Harm. The accused, twenty-two year old Gilbert Conorquie, a resident of Rivero Street, reportedly struck his older relative Gilbert Lodge this past Tuesday. When Lodge was examined, a doctor classified the injury to his […]
In more news from the Courts, three men charged with Aggravated Burglary were sentenced to seven years after they were found guilty on this past Tuesday. They are nineteen year old Julian Ebanks, twenty-eight year old Kenrick Reneau and twenty-six year old Nicholas Gordon. The burglary occurred on the night of March sixth, 2007 on […]
In an update to a report we carried in our newscast on Monday night, two persons were charged this morning for the robbery of the Belize Bank Branch in Corozal Town. Alex Arana, a twenty-nine year old truck driver of the Altamira area of Corozal Town was charged with various offences including Robbery, Aggravated Burglary, […]
In news from Magistrates’ Court in Belize City, a Salvadoran national, thirty-nine year old Juan Jose Lozano, who is accused of burglarizing Calvary Temple Primary twice in three days, was charged with two counts of Burglary and one count of Handling Stolen Goods when he appeared in court. Lozano wanted to take a guilty plea […]
And in the Belmopan Magistrates’ Court, thirty-eight year old Jess Dawson, a construction worker of Franks Eddy Village who pleaded not guilty to Theft when he first appeared in Court, today had a change of heart and took a guilty plea. Dawson is accused of stealing a number of items from the farm of forty-nine […]
It was business as usual this morning at the Belize Bank Corozal Branch, but that was not the case Sunday night when the bank, that is located within eyeshot of the police station, was robbed of over a hundred thousand dollars. According to Corozal Police, around eight-fifteen that night they were alerted by two tellers, […]
An auto mechanic has expanded his skills from fixing cars to breaking into them. Alton Lodge apparently broke into a 1991 Honda accord early this past Saturday morning while the Honda was parked in front of Putt-Putt Bar and Grill on Newtown Barracks. Police, however, moved quickly and when Lodge was picked up they found […]
A former clerk of the Income Tax Department is in plenty trouble tonight following charges brought against her for Theft of government funds. Twenty-six year old Natasha Kingston of Police Street pleaded not guilty before Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb today. While the prosecution objected to bail on grounds that Kingston is a flight risk and […]
A prison inmate serving time for burglary has been sentenced to an additional three years in prisons for drug trafficking. The inmate, thirty-six year old Emerito Reyes, got lucky in the sense that his new sentence will run concurrently to the five year sentence he is serving so that he has three years more of […]
If the following story was a Mastercard commercial it would read: bus trip to Placencia: twenty dollars; two days of free wining and dining: six thousand, one hundred and five dollars; conning the village council and businesses: priceless. But instead of a happy ending, tonight a teen is in Hattieville Prison charged with Obtaining Property […]
And in the Magistrates’ Court, a mother and son were charged today in connection with a report of carnal knowledge made by a fifteen year old girl. Eighteen year old Steve Staine was charged with Carnal Knowledge and his mother, forty-one year old Maureen Staine, was charged with Permitting the Defilement of a Young Female. […]
A Belize City man has been arrested and charged for Possession of Counterfeit Currency. Around ten-fifty on Thursday, police on mobile patrol stopped Windell Pope and conducted a search on him. They discovered a fifty and a hundred dollar note in Belize currency and a hundred dollar U.S. and promptly detained Pope. He appeared in […]
A jury of six women and three men was not convinced of an allegation by a thirteen year old that she was sexually abused by twenty-one year old Cesar Diaz, a naturalized Belizean from El Salvador. The case of carnal knowledge concluded today in the Supreme Court and Diaz, a boat builder, who was unrepresented […]
An intruder was caught in the act after he broke into the home of a San Pedro resident. On October thirteenth, twenty-four year old Alden Dominguez, a man who lives near the airstrip in San Pedro, broke the louvers on the window of Marvin Mendoza’s home to gain access inside the house. Thirty-six year old […]
In this newscast, varying degrees of unthinkable crimes are reported from time to time, but bestiality is one that is not often heard of, much less reported. Today we report of one such case in the Magistrate Court where fifty-eight year old Salvadoran national Brigido Majano pleaded guilty to the charge of unnatural crime with […]
The Gun Amnesty Program is scheduled to end on October thirty-first, but a Belize City man who did not hand in his, is facing eight years in jail for an unlicensed gun and ammunition. Eighteen year old Floyd Hyde was picked up by police on Monday, October thirteenth, to be interrogated about a robbery. While […]
And in other news from the courts, two robbers have been spared a five-year prison term and paid for their crime with cash. Today, twenty-three year old Charles West and his brother, twenty-four year old Nigel West, were both fined two thousand dollars each for a robbery they committed last week. On October, the brothers […]
Thirty-three year old Kirk Smith, a fisherman by profession and father of three girls, became Belize’s seventy-seventh murder victim on the high seas. Smith’s body was brought in by skiff from Turneffe Island last Friday night. There is much speculation on the motive behind the killing, but this morning police arrested and charged a Sarteneja […]
And in the Magistrates’ Court in Belize City today, twenty-nine year old Edward Sandoval, the stepfather of an eleven month old baby boy was charged with Child Neglect after the child suffered a fractured nose on October ninth. Sandoval, a construction worker of Barracat Street, pleaded not guilty to the charge and was offered bail […]
