Police in San Pedro are investigating a report by a hotel manager that almost six thousand dollars was stolen from the island company. According to the manager of Pheonix Hotel, on August seventh she tasked employee Carlos Perez with purchasing some lumber. She says Perez then gave her an account number in which to deposit […]
And in more news of robbery, police report that around four-forty-five on Monday evening forty-six year old Jose Abelino Ramos was walking towards a farm at mile one and a half on the Southern Highway when the incident occurred. Ramos says he was seventy-five yards away from the farm when he was approached by two […]
Another home invasion has been reported; this time in Gales Point. Thirty-five year old Francisco Perez told police that he was at home on Sunday night when just before midnight someone knocked on his door. Perez says that upon opening it, three masked men wearing dark clothing forced their way inside. A struggle ensued during […]
A seventeen year old has been charged for the carnal knowledge of a thirteen year old. The female minor visited police in the company of her mother and reported that she went to see her seventeen year old boyfriend in Dangriga Town on Saturday and had sex with him. Police have since arrested and charged […]
The shooting incident occurred in August, but the long arms of the law today caught up with twenty-one year old Aaron Brooks who appeared in Magistrates’ Court and was charged with Attempted Murder, Wounding and Use of Deadly Means of Harm. The shooting incident took place shortly before eight o’clock on August fourteenth when twenty-three […]
You better sit down for the next story because the names you are about to hear may be that of your relatives. How would you feel if you found out that your loved ones who have passed away were now applying for Social Security cards? Sounds strange, but that’s what happened yesterday when the names […]
Two tertiary level students won’t be in class this week as they have been locked up for their involvement in a violent burglary at the Belize Foam Factory at mile two on the Western Highway. Forty-three year old Richmon Gillett, the factory’s watchman, reported to the police that about ten-forty-five Sunday night he was at […]
News Five has confirmed with Commissioner of Income Tax, Eric Eusey, that both an internal and police investigation are ongoing to determine how income tax funds went missing. According to a source close to News Five, an audit completed between June and July of this year showed that over six thousand five hundred dollars were […]
We reported last week on a robbery in which a thief jacked a woman on Cemetery Road shortly after she withdrew money from an automatic teller machine and then ran in the vicinity of Logwood Street. And on Monday yet another woman was targeted in a similar fashion when a jacker, who is believed to […]
We’ve reported many strange thefts over the years on this newscast ranging from cheese to energy drinks … but tonight we’ve got a new one: recado. According to thirty-four year old market vendor Jose Lopez, on June eighth, he arrived at the Queen Square Market around five in the morning and began unloading his vehicle […]
A B.D.F. private this morning pleaded not guilty to Theft. Twenty-five year old Hubert Cacho is accused of stealing his ex-common-law wife’s cell phone, valued at nineteen hundred dollars and is additionally charged with using threatening words for using the stolen phone to threaten his ex. The private pleaded not guilty to the charges and […]
There are two incidents of sexual crimes to report tonight. In the first case, thirty year old Ethan Grant, a fork lift operator, was charged with Unlawful Carnal Knowledge of a fifteen year old girl when he appeared in Court before Magistrate Roberto Ordonez today. Grant was additionally slapped with a charge of grievous harm […]
It is a major bust by law enforcement agents which involves the confiscation of illegal drugs fake whiskey and cigarettes. And today’s haul, the fourth for this year suggests that Belize is a transshipment point for illicit drugs heading north. What triggered the find by authorities was an attempt by a group of men, believed […]
And in other news from the dangerous Belize City streets, a man is recovering at the Karl Heusner tonight from gunshot wounds. At about nine-thirty p.m. last night thirty-eight year old Phillip Lightburn, a resident of Cemetery Road, was sitting at the corner of Fullers Alley and Cemetery Road, when a man came up behind […]
Children at Saint John’s Anglican Primary on Amara Avenue in Belize City returned to school today after a long summer break, but the first day of classes was frightening when a lone gunman attacked the school principal while administrators conducted late registrations. School counselor, Caroline Westby, was in the Resource Centre next door and heard […]
Belizean law enforcement authorities believe there may be a breakthrough in the murder of Mennonite contractor, Wilhelm Braun, who was gunned down execution style at the Commercial Free Zone. Sources close to News Five say that at around seven o’clock on Friday night, authorities detained a man who was trying to enter Mexico at the […]
And in an update to last Tuesday’s murder in Sarteneja, the results of an autopsy conducted on the charred remains of Ronnie Alamilla are inconclusive because of the degree of burns on Alamilla’s remains. The twenty-eight year old Sarteneja Hotel Manager was last seen in the company of twenty-two year old Cristino Verde around eleven […]
On Friday, we reported on the mysterious death of eighteen year old U.B. student, Juan Baeza and tonight police have made an arrest. On Saturday police formally arrested and charged eighteen year old Izra Zetina, with Baeza’s murder. On Thursday, Baeza, Zetina, and nineteen year old Gaspar Vasquez, all students of U.B., hitched a ride […]
And in a story we aired last Thursday fourteen persons who were intercepted by police for illegal entry into Belize, the group remains in police custody in Belmopan. The fourteen nationals of Taiwanese, Guatemalan and Salvadoran nationality, were fined a thousand dollars each on charges of Illegal Entry when they appeared in the Belmopan Magistrates’ […]
Police are trying to track down a rapist who attempted to assault his second victim in two weeks. The perpetrator first struck last Sunday morning when he allegedly raped one of two women whom he held up with a knife between Antelope Street and Iguana Street Extension, in Belize City. Now police believe that the […]
Less than two months after a Belize City paraplegic was busted with crack cocaine, today he was back in court for the same offence. This morning fifty-five year old Barrington William Carr pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking in Magistrates’ Court number three. He was offered bail of three thousand dollars and ordered to reappear […]
An eighteen year old university student is dead and tonight police and his family are trying to piece together how it happened. Police reports are that on Thursday afternoon, eighteen year old Juan Baeza was travelling home with two other U.B. students when they hitched a ride with Leroy Jacobs of Orange Walk Town in […]
A sanitation worker has been sentenced to three years for the Aggravated Assault of a twelve year old girl. When the child appeared in court today she testified that in September 2007, she was alone with Francis Gonzalez at her uncle’s house, when Gonzalez kissed her on the side of her face, ran his hands […]
A robber was reportedly stopped smack in his tracks minutes after he stole a knapsack this morning. The incident occurred just after eleven on Cemetery Road when the thief followed a woman who had just made a withdrawal from an A.T.M. at Shell One Stop Gas Station at the corner of Central American Boulevard and […]
A twenty-three year old young man has been hospitalized since Wednesday with severe cut wounds. When police visited the Western Regional Hospital they found Devon Meighan of Blackman Eddy Village suffering from three cuts to the head and one to the left foot. According to Meighan, he was attacked by two men who appeared to […]
