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There may be a break in the illegal smuggling of persons into Belize who eventually make their way to the United States via Mexico. Fifteen Central Americans and Taiwanese nationals are in police custody tonight after police intercepted them just after one o’clock this morning. The group is believed to have entered the country illegally […]
Written on August 28, 2008 | Posted in
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The man who was picked up Wednesday afternoon for the disappearance of twenty-eight year old Sarteneja Hotel Manager, Ronnie Alamilla, has now been charged with his Murder. But the motive for the gruesome murder is yet to be established. Alamilla was reportedly last seen alive around eleven on Tuesday night with the accused, twenty-two year […]
Written on August 28, 2008 | Posted in
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Earlier this month former coach of the national football team, Palmiro Salas, was in our newscast lamenting that he was shortchanged by the FFB for the training of the Belize National Team. Salas’s money problems got worst last Thursday when he was robbed by two young men in Belize City. On Wednesday police detained the […]
Written on August 28, 2008 | Posted in
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On August twenty-first, twenty-six year old Kevin Young was charged with Aggravated Burglary. His case exposed major loopholes in the newly amended firearm act when Young’s attorney Dickie Bradley made a submission to the court that his client was eligible for bail because the specific charge of Aggravated Burglary was not listed as an offense […]
Written on August 28, 2008 | Posted in
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A man who shot another man on his arm on Wednesday afternoon was today charged with Attempted Murder for the incident. Nineteen year-old Wilworth Williams of Mayflower Street was also slapped with Dangerous Harm, Grievous Harm, Use of Deadly Means of Harm, Possession of a Firearm without a gun license, and Possession of Ammunition without […]
Written on August 28, 2008 | Posted in
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It is murder victim number seventy-two for this year in our records and this latest victim was apparently hacked to death and then set on fire. Police are still trying to piece together the evidence of this grizzly murder in a quiet fishing community on the northern tip of Belize that occurred sometime between last […]
Written on August 27, 2008 | Posted in
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And in other news on violent crimes, there is some development in the slaughter of Wilhelm Braun, Mennonite Contractor that occurred in the afternoon of August twentieth at the Commercial Free Zone. Police told News Five that three Belizean and one Mexican passport were found by a tree located in bushes adjacent to the Mexico/Belize […]
Written on August 27, 2008 | Posted in
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And twenty-three year old Nigeymon Bevans Junior walked out of Magistrates’ Court a free man today after his case was struck out for keeping his ex-common-law wife under lock and key for three days. The reason for that move was because the case file was not available despite several requests for it by the prosecutor. […]
Written on August 27, 2008 | Posted in
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An eighteen year old girl has been fined three hundred dollars for her part in beating a woman and child. On August twelfth, a thirteen year old girl and her guardian, twenty-eight year old Michelle Johnson, reported that they were attacked by Nicole Ortiz, Ortiz’s sisters and her mother. The incident is said to have […]
Written on August 27, 2008 | Posted in
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Police say they will not press any charges against the three Taiwanese employees of North America Company in the Commercial Free Zone. That’s because their boss, Kevin Singh, who is in China, indicated to cops that he has no interest in pursuing the charges. The three employees: Kan Shi Kun, who is the store manager, […]
Written on August 27, 2008 | Posted in
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Robbers struck close to home this afternoon when they hit Price Premier Products just a few yards away from this station. According to reports to News Five, two assailants walked into the store pretending to be customers at around three o’clock today. Two employees, sixty-two year old Gilda Schmidt and fifty-eight year old Robert Simplis […]
Written on August 27, 2008 | Posted in
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Three Taiwanese businessmen who were being sought by police handed themselves to Corozal police after they saw their pictures on the television in the newscast last evening. Kan Shi Kun, a manager of North America Company in the Corozal Free Zone, along with the cashier, Li Ting and another employee, Liang Jun, were wanted in […]
Written on August 26, 2008 | Posted in
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San Ignacio police have more than just a murder to solve. That’s because a gas station in that municipality was also targeted by thieves. According to the manager of C.P. Gas Station on Carillo Puerto Avenue in Santa Elena, thirty-six year old Nolberto Rancharan, he locked up the station around ten-thirty on Sunday night and […]
Written on August 26, 2008 | Posted in
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Police are investigating what appears to be a murder over the weekend in Valley of Peace in the Cayo District. On Saturday evening, the body of twenty-three year old Pedro Kus Junior was discovered behind the village reservoir. There were no signs of violence to the body, but it is believed that either Kus suffocated […]
Written on August 25, 2008 | Posted in
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There are frequent reports of extortion of Chinese businessmen and today police have one culprit in hand, a health inspector, who was arrested and charged for the crime of Extortion on Friday. Forty-four year old Jerome Gill of the Indianville Area, Punta Gorda Town is accused of extorting money from Chinese businessman, twenty-nine year old […]
Written on August 25, 2008 | Posted in
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In the wee hours of Saturday morning, three men were taken into custody by police following a high speed chase in downtown Belize City. And now twenty-seven year old, Tyrone Broaster, twenty-four year old Michael Young, and twenty-three year old Godfrey Hemsley are claiming that they were beaten by police while in custody. Broaster, a […]
Written on August 25, 2008 | Posted in
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Police finally caught up with one of two jackers who are accused of robbing the Celina’s Nightclub in Ladyville back in mid-July. Forty-eight year old Hubert Young a.k.a. “Rock” was charged with burglary today when he appeared in Magistrates’ Court. The incident occurred on Sunday, July thirteenth around two-thirty in the morning. Thirty-one year old […]
Written on August 25, 2008 | Posted in
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A sixty-six year old man was jacked by three men in Belize City last Friday. Miguel Alberto, a Honduran national, was riding his bicycle on Mapp Street just after ten p.m. when he was attacked by three robbers. Alberto says the men surrounded him and one of them knocked him off his bicycle. When he […]
Written on August 25, 2008 | Posted in
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In other news from the courts, a man was charged and remanded in custody for Keeping a Firearm without a Gun License when he appeared in Magistrates’ Court today. Eighteen year old, Kendall Sanchez, a construction worker of Antelope Street Extension was charged for the possession of a point twenty-two pistol. At around nine-fifteen Saturday […]
Written on August 25, 2008 | Posted in
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A Chinese businessman at the Commercial Free Zone has been jacked of a large sum of money. Twenty-eight year old, Zhung Jun reports that following a report by his cashier, Yue He, on Saturday, he checked the safe at his office located on the upper flat of Yabra Plaza in the Zone, where he discovered […]
Written on August 25, 2008 | Posted in
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In more bad news, two women who were heading home were robbed and one was raped in the early hours of Sunday morning on Antelope Street. The incident occurred around three-thirty in the morning, when a twenty-two year old woman was walking home accompanied by a female friend. According to the woman, a man approached […]
Written on August 25, 2008 | Posted in
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And in other court news, a businessman and three of his female employees were charged today with the sale of illegal lottery. The owner of Garden Shop on Freetown Road, Dennis Chow, and his employees Jin Jian Zhan, Wei Ling Huang and Zhen Deng appeared in Magistrates’ Court this morning where they faced the charges […]
Written on August 22, 2008 | Posted in
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It is not usual that we report on crime at the Commercial Free Zone in Corozal, which is considered a safe place for businessmen, employees and shoppers generally from Mexico who frequent the zone. But at around four on Wednesday afternoon that safety was breached when two gunmen, believed to be Mexicans, pulled up at […]
Written on August 21, 2008 | Posted in
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On Monday, Michelle Baltazar, was the first person to be convicted and sentenced under the newly amended firearm act. The revised legislation came into effect two months ago as a response to the spiraling increase in crime, specifically gun related offenses. And today a loophole in the same legislation may allow twenty-six year old Kevin […]
Written on August 21, 2008 | Posted in
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A student of Belmopan will not have to go back to school anytime soon. That’s because today nineteen year old Wayne Harris was remanded to Hattieville Prison after police busted him with an unlicensed nine millimetre pistol and five rounds of ammunition around ten his morning. Harris was nabbed on Albert Street after he allegedly […]
Written on August 21, 2008 | Posted in
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