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On Thursday, we told you of the community effort in San Pablo Village, Orange Walk that led to the detention of two suspected thieves. The two men reportedly robbed Jay’s Mini Mart after pretending to be customers. One of them attacked a customer with a knife, while the other grabbed over a thousand dollars and […]
Written on December 29, 2023 | Posted in
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On Wednesday, we told you about Christian Ramos, the eighteen-year-old whose body was found stuffed inside a barrel floating in a Belize City canal. The young man had been fatally shot and his body disposed of in a blue, plastic container that was later found in the waterway near Sarstoon Street. Investigators mentioned that while […]
Written on December 28, 2023 | Posted in
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A Heritage Bank ATM was ripped from the U Mall building in Ladyville overnight. Sometime around four a.m., culprits utilized a van to execute the theft. The bank has confirmed that the ATM did not contain any money at the time of the incident. This marks another instance of thieves targeting Heritage Bank ATMs, with […]
Written on December 28, 2023 | Posted in
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Entrepreneur Tanya Leslie’s new business, Brandy and Cris Shop in Belize City, was targeted by burglars just before Christmas on two separate occasions. Thieves entered through the ceiling, stealing tools and merchandise worth more than three thousand dollars. Despite setbacks, Leslie says that she remains determined to open her shop in February and achieve success […]
Written on December 28, 2023 | Posted in
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It was a violent weekend across the country, as three murders and several other shooting incidents have been reported. This morning, the decomposing body of a teenager was found inside a shipping barrel. He had been fatally shot and stuffed inside the container. The body of eighteen-year-old Christian Ramos was discovered inside a blue barrel […]
Written on December 27, 2023 | Posted in
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One man is dead and another remains hospitalized at the K.H.M.H., following a Christmas Eve shooting in Belize City. Things quickly went downhill when an individual, identified as Shaquille Perrera, arrived at the Ramclam family home on Maskall Street. He was there to see his son and, in the process, asked for the child’s mother. […]
Written on December 27, 2023 | Posted in
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In Punta Gorda on Christmas Day, thirty-year-old Kaleem Chun was executed by someone he knew, as the trio of men made its way on foot along Main Street. While walking along with Lazaro Barrientos and Louis Barillas, a firearm was produced and used to mortally injure Chun. Those individuals, Barrientos and Barillas, have been charged […]
Written on December 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Another suspect has been brought in for the murder of twenty-six-year-old Denver Montero. This time, it was a seventeen-year-old minor. Back in April, Denver Montero was killed in a robbery at Gracie Rock village, where he was shot and then chopped to death. Ryan Kerr, who was also shot during the incident, was able to […]
Written on December 27, 2023 | Posted in
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On Christmas Eve in Lord’s Bank Village, someone opened fire on a vehicle belonging to Bert Ramos. He told police that he does not have any misunderstanding with anyone who would want to destroy his property. According to Ramos, he was at home when the sound of gunfire erupted. When the shooting subsided, he stepped […]
Written on December 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Forty-one-year-old Carlton Belisle was shot on Christmas Day. The mechanic from Hattieville Village was at his residence in the village when he was attacked. Belisle says that he was exiting his latrine when someone he knows appeared and fired several shots at him. He was injured to his leg and is recovering. Assistant Commissioner of […]
Written on December 27, 2023 | Posted in
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A reward of a thousand dollars is being offered by Crime Stoppers Belize to anyone who can assist investigators in arresting a pair of suspects, following a robbery at Crystal Auto Rental on December twenty-fourth. On Christmas Eve two men showed up at the car lot inquiring about a vehicle. When fifty-three-year-old Elmer Francisco, a […]
Written on December 27, 2023 | Posted in
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A police officer was stabbed several times on Thursday evening in Red Bank Village, Stann Creek. The incident happened around five o’clock, as four men: Carmelo Cholom, Gerald Garcia, Eddy Garcia and Gilberto Caw were socializing in front of a business establishment. That was when the policeman, thirty-four-year-old Perfecto Tush, arrived in a pickup, got […]
Written on December 22, 2023 | Posted in
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Tonight, thirty-eight-year-old Brandon Gillett, a bailiff at the Belize City Municipal Court, is on remand at the Belize Central Prison pending bail at the High Court. He has been charged in the wake of an amateur video that has since gone viral. In the brief clip, Gillett, dressed in black, is seen brandishing a rifle […]
Written on December 22, 2023 | Posted in
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Two days after San Pedro police detained her son for the murder of American tourist J’Bria Bowens at the start of the year, Amancia Martinez came public. She claimed that her son, Delson, was at home at the time Bowens was gunned down near the Central Park in San Pedro, but that the police still […]
Written on December 22, 2023 | Posted in
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In Belize’s judicial system, convictions for murder and other violent crimes are far and few. But one would have noticed that a number of lengthy jail sentences were being handed down this week in the High Court where several men, including brothers Delson and Tionne Paguada, were condemned to life in prison. On Thursday, Justice […]
Written on December 22, 2023 | Posted in
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According to ComPol Williams, the Belize Police Department has been working closely with the United States Embassy in providing training for officers in various capacities, including evidence gathering. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “Our investigators across the country have undergone a number of trainings in investigation and, again, thanks to the U.S. Embassy who […]
Written on December 22, 2023 | Posted in
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Guilty of the murder of Densmore Bowman, but where is Hildebrandt Codd after escaping lawful custody prior to his last court appearance? This morning, that verdict was handed down in the absence of the fugitive who sprang to freedom on December fifth out of Courtroom Number Three. Here’s News Five’s Isani Cayetano with details of […]
Written on December 21, 2023 | Posted in
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With ten more days left in the year, the Belize Police Department is boosting efforts to keep crime at an all-time low. In his Christmas Message, Police Commissioner Chester Williams says that murders are down by twenty percent. According to the ComPol, this year has recorded less than a hundred murders as was the case […]
Written on December 21, 2023 | Posted in
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Life sentences were handed down to brothers Tionne and Delson Paguada earlier today after they were jointly convicted of the murder of Paul Jex in San Pedro in January 2018. This morning, the siblings appeared under heavy police guard in the High Court chamber of Justice Nigel Pilgrim where they were convicted and condemned to […]
Written on December 20, 2023 | Posted in
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Today, sixty-year-old Efrain Beltran Martinez was told that his initial twenty year sentence for the death of forty-three-year old Elmer Salazar would be reduced to six. Martinez, a Salvadoran national, pleaded guilty to manslaughter early this year, following the death of Salazar- a Guatemalan national who was found chopped to death on the compound of […]
Written on December 20, 2023 | Posted in
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Forty-five-year-old Josue Sic stands accused of a heinous act involving a five-year-old girl. It is alleged that on Sunday, December seventeenth, the laborer of a Holy Emmanuel Street address intentionally touched the infant. According to the child’s father, he was socializing with Sic and when he got hungry, he left to purchase food somewhere in […]
Written on December 19, 2023 | Posted in
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Late this evening, twenty-two-year-old Cassius Myers, an electrician, was escorted to the Belize City Magistrate’s Court where he was arraigned on three criminal offenses, including attempted murder, dangerous harm and use of deadly means of harm. Myers is accused of stabbing twenty-six-year-old Maleek Pitts on Sunday, in the vicinity of CET Site in the Lake […]
Written on December 19, 2023 | Posted in
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Days before Christmas, a two-months-old baby boy was left without a father following a murder in Carmelita Village, Orange Walk. Forty-five-year-old Hugo Rodriguez was fatally shot while returning home from a local shop on Sunday night. Rodriguez’s murder unfolded after an altercation at the store. Hipolito Novelo reports. Hipolito Novelo, Reporting Baby Justin Daniel […]
Written on December 18, 2023 | Posted in
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A father of three was fatally stabbed to death in San Pedro on Friday night. It happened while he and his common-law wife were leaving their place of work, a resort that is located on the Mahogany Bay compound. Already, police have arrested and charged eighteen-year-old David Lambey for the crime. While police say the […]
Written on December 18, 2023 | Posted in
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Tonight, Belize City police are no closer to catching up with the individual who ruthlessly pursued and gunned down nineteen-year-old Leslie Young Junior in the wee small hours of Friday morning. Young was leaving an establishment on Newtown Barracks when someone began following him. The unnamed gunman then opened fire in Young’s direction. Despite an […]
Written on December 18, 2023 | Posted in
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