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It’s a big bust for Customs and the Police. This afternoon, three containers of illegal drugs and counterfeit items were detected by alert officials who have been tracking the importation of illegal drugs into Belize and authorities pulled off their biggest haul yet. When the first two containers were opened at the port this afternoon, […]
Written on September 24, 2008 | Posted in
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But back to the Marlboro container. Customs officials revealed that the container was shipped to a company named Skyline, registered at the Commercial Free Zone in Corozal. This container sat at the Port for two weeks and it was the history of the Skyline Company that led customs officials to target the shipment. Colin Griffith, […]
Written on September 24, 2008 | Posted in
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And as to the reason why the containers had not been owned up or cleared for two to three weeks, well law enforcers believe that their stringent eyes may have scared away the quote importers. Colin Griffith, Collector for Customs “I do believe that the main reason for this is that Customs have increased their […]
Written on September 24, 2008 | Posted in
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And still on the issue of Pseudoephedrine, there’s a new development in the container that was released with forged documents from the Port Authority compound on September sixteenth. Two men, Howell Hutchinson of Cotton Tree Village, and businessman Hilberto Marchand, who both turned themselves in yesterday, are being questioned by police. It is believed that […]
Written on September 24, 2008 | Posted in
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The hunt for Leroy Linden Gomez has intensified and police may be close to making an arrest. Gomez is an alleged serial rapist wanted for a string of cases of rape and attempted rape that have been reported by victims in the Lake Independence and Collet areas of Belize City between August twenty-fourth and September […]
Written on September 24, 2008 | Posted in
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Police dropped in twice today at the Oleander Street home of Gomez. The second search today occurred at the same time that News Five’s team was about to interview Gomez’s mother. Things got hasty and the police threatened to arrest the News Five crew while they were conducting the search. And Beverley Patterson, a mother […]
Written on September 24, 2008 | Posted in
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A watchman and a minor have been remanded to prison for the theft of a music system from a car. They are eighteen year old Wayne Herrera and his seventeen year old friend. The two were charged with Theft, Handling Stolen Goods and when they could not meet bail in Magistrates’ Court, they were promptly […]
Written on September 24, 2008 | Posted in
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Last week we reported that police had picked up a B.D.F. private in connection with the grenade which was thrown at spectators on carnival day in Belize City. The private was being questioned for his possible involvement in facilitating the release of the grenade. Tonight it appears that there was not enough evidence to link […]
Written on September 23, 2008 | Posted in
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Reports of crime involving grenades, shootings, stabbings and drug smuggling, have been constant on the news and now there is reason to believe that a serial rapist is lurking in the city streets. Over the past four weeks there have been six cases of rapes and attempted rapes committed presumably by the same person. While […]
Written on September 23, 2008 | Posted in
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And in another case of rape which is not linked to the serial rapist, a nineteen year old woman reported that between one and four Saturday morning she was outside MJ’s Club in Belize City when a man approached her and asked if she wanted a ride home. The teen accepted and got in a […]
Written on September 23, 2008 | Posted in
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But there is one criminal less off the streets as one of three inmates who escaped from Hattieville Prison earlier this month is back in jail. Twenty-two year old Guatemalan Rene Lopez Morente was surprised and captured on Wednesday near the Mopan River in Benque Viejo. Acting on information they received, police visited the area […]
Written on September 23, 2008 | Posted in
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Police in San Pedro are reporting two drug busts which both have the airstrip in common. Around three-twenty on Friday police say they were on mobile patrol in the San Pedrito area when they noticed a dark-skinned male hurl an item over the fence into the Tropic Air compound. Police found it to be a […]
Written on September 23, 2008 | Posted in
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Two men appeared in court today for separate shooting incidents. In the first case, a twenty-four year old fisherman of Rivero Street, Leon Blease, was charged in connection with the shooting of thirty-three year old Freddy Grant. Blease was charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm. Chief Magistrate Margaret […]
Written on September 23, 2008 | Posted in
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Police have charged two senior and a junior Customs officer who are suspected of conspiring to fraudulently release a container believed to be filled with the illegal drug, Pseudoephedrine. The trio is thirty-six year old Carl Augustine and thirty-two year old Aruny Perez, both Grade One Customs Examiners, and twenty-one year old Michael McKenzie, a […]
Written on September 19, 2008 | Posted in
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Police need your help in apprehending a suspected serial rapist who has been targeting women in the Saint Martin’s and Collet areas of Belize City. Police believe nineteen year old Leroy Gomez stalks women as they walk alone or in twos and pounce on them in dark areas of the city. One of the locations […]
Written on September 19, 2008 | Posted in
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Like rape, the act of engaging in sexual intercourse with a minor under the age of sixteen is a criminal offence under Belizean laws. But judging from the frequency with which we report such cases on our newscast, we’re not sure if residents are not aware or just don’t care. Tonight there are several cases […]
Written on September 19, 2008 | Posted in
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Police are looking for a man in connection with a stabbing that occurred on Thursday night in a Cayo village. According to police, they received reports of the incident and when they visited the San Ignacio hospital, found eighteen year old Joshua Montero of Bullet Tree Village with wounds to his back. Montero reported to […]
Written on September 19, 2008 | Posted in
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Sometime between five p.m. on Wednesday and early Thursday morning Fabro’s Glass Limited was burglarized. The business, which is located on Victoria Street, was robbed of just over nine thousand dollars worth of computer equipment, twelve hundred Belize dollars, and three hundred dollars in U.S. currency. Businessman, Daniel Fabro, reported the incident to police on […]
Written on September 19, 2008 | Posted in
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A man is in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a shooting last night in Belize City. Thirty-four year old Freddy Grant was shot three times in the face and once in the back. The bullet exited through his abdomen, ripping through his intestines and rendering him critically wounded. Grant, a resident of Mile two […]
Written on September 18, 2008 | Posted in
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On Monday night, a group of people became target practice for a couple of gunmen. A Belize City woman reported to police that herself and nine other persons were walking home on New Road, shortly after midnight. They encountered two men known to her as ‘Tweety’ and ‘Kashief’ pointing a firearm at one of the […]
Written on September 18, 2008 | Posted in
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And in other crime news, police are tonight looking for a man who threatened to kill his step-daughter if she told anyone that he had sex with her. On Wednesday, a social officer accompanied a twelve year old student of Roaring Creek Village to the police station where the minor reported her step-father’s threat. She […]
Written on September 18, 2008 | Posted in
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Up to news time police had still brought no charges against the Belize Defence Force private in custody for the carnival day grenade scare on Princess Margaret Drive. And when we last checked, Police Press officer Clement Palacio says that if charges were to be brought against the soldier, it is not clear if they […]
Written on September 18, 2008 | Posted in
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It’s beginning to look a lot like a sieve; we refer to the compound of the Port Authority where another container has gone missing and this time with the help of veteran customs officers. The container labeled “Pharmaceuticals”, is believed to be loaded with a shipment of the illegal drug Pseudoephedrine which is used for […]
Written on September 17, 2008 | Posted in
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Police and customs have moved swiftly and detained two custom officers who are implicated in the missing container. Aruny Perez, a Grade two officer of ten years, and Carl Augustine, a Grade one officer of sixteen years, are in police custody. The duo was on duty when the container left the port compound and investigations […]
Written on September 17, 2008 | Posted in
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Nineteen year old Richard Flores of Belize City was charged with Attempted Murder and other offences relating to the September sixth carnival day grenade scare and today there is another man in custody for the same incident … a B.D.F. soldier. Police are investigating the soldier for his possible involvement in facilitating the release of […]
Written on September 17, 2008 | Posted in
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