It is one of the more unpleasant reports in our newscast … and now seemingly on a daily basis. Whether there is an increase in occurrences or due to an increase in reporting, the frequency of incidents of carnal knowledge that come to pubic light, is of serious concern. Tonight there are two incidents to […]
A very trusting Corozal Town man is thousands of dollars short. Forty year old, Dean Marchand reported to police that he was stiffed of eight thousand six hundred dollars to thirty-eight year old Roberto Castellanos. Marchand reportedly gave Castellanos the cash to purchase cement and steel rods in Merida on his behalf. The money was […]
News Five has confirmed that at least one man is dead following a shooting at the Commercial Free Zone in Corozal. The incident occurred this afternoon inside the compounds of the Free Zone. The victim, forty one year old Wilhelm Braun, was reportedly shot nine times in the chest, hands, feet and behind the ear. […]
A university student is in the lock up tonight for firearm and ammunition offences. Twenty-two year old Lattania Choc, who is a student with the University of Belize, is the second woman in two days to go to prison for these offences. Choc appeared in court this morning and was charged with keeping a nine […]
And in other news from the courts, a woman appeared in the Magistrates’ Court this morning on forgery charges that had been previously dismissed. Accounts Executive, Beverly Burke, is accused of altering Scotia Bank withdrawal slips amounting to four thousand dollars on August ninth and tenth, 2005. On the instructions of the D.P.P., the charges […]
A former police officer is in custody tonight after he was found guilty of Obtaining Property by Deception. In this case, the officer was accused of taking money from a woman to secure the release of her son from prison. Thirty-nine year old Javier Mendez was fined one thousand dollars by Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie […]
And in an update to a story we aired last night, nineteen year old Winfield Dennison a.k.a. “Cucu” appeared in court today to face charges relating to the shooting of fifteen year old high school student, Randy August. Dennison was charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm, and Use of Deadly Means of Harm. He was […]
You may have heard of new legislation in the form of the Firearm Act, and today thirty-three year old Michelle Baltazar became the first person to be convicted and sentenced under the new policy. Baltazar appeared in court today and pleaded guilty to keeping a point twenty caliber round of ammunition and to possession of […]
Thieves made away with two firearms when they broke into the house of a watchman from the Cayo District. Thirty-one year old Honario Tun of Red Creek area in Santa Elena reported that between six and eight-thirty Sunday night, his house was burglarized and his sixteen gauge single action Stevens shotgun and air rifle were […]
People’s property and belongings have been going missing frequently nowadays and today was no different. This time a vehicle was stolen from in front of its owner’s house. Yesterday, at four fifteen in the afternoon, Taxi driver, twenty-three year old, Andy Cruz of East Canal, Belize City reported that between the hours of twelve twenty […]
In other news from the police blotter, twenty-five year old Lenny Benguche of Marage Road in Ladyville was found with a white transparent plastic bag containing fifteen pieces of crack cocaine. The drugs were unearthed during a search of Benguche by police patrolling the Compassion area of Ladyville. As result, he was arrested and charged […]
Two women were taken to court this morning in connection with the ongoing investigation into the rape and brutal murder of a Belize City single mother Sandra Ruiz, on August tenth. The two are related to Darrel Grant, who has already been arrested and charged with Ruiz’s murder. Police had the two women in custody […]
Domestic abuse is often reported to the police and then regularly dismissed in Court. And today at Magistrate Court number one, twenty-eight year old Claudia Saunders told Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie that she does not want any further court action against her alleged attacker and husband, thirty-five year old Brian Saunders. On Friday, nightclub owner […]
There is no end to reports of crime and violence, and over the weekend, two more persons were injured in separate shootings, one of them critically. Police investigations reveal that the first victim, twenty-eight year old Angel Dorado, who is an agent at Ready Call Center on Newtown Barracks, was riding with a woman on […]
A Guatemalan waitress has reported to police that she was raped at around one o’clock on Sunday morning. According to the thirty-three year old woman, she left her workplace with a male customer who she knew only as ‘Castillo’ and went to the man’s house on Water Lane. The woman says Castillo then dragged her […]
Robbers took advantage of the absence of a car dealer and emptied the man’s house presumably between July twenty-fourth and August seventeenth. On his return from a trip abroad yesterday, forty-year old Marvin Williams of Neal Pen Road, reported to the police that his house had been burglarized. Williams was robbed of forty-six thousand, three […]
A twenty year old man has been charged with Suppression of Evidence, not a charge we hear of often. Police arrested and charged Michael ‘Quacky’ Foreman of Louise Bevans Street in Belize City for attempting to get a sixteen year old minor to drop a charge of Aggravated Assault. The young man, along with his […]
Police have detained a man pending charges of kidnapping after he reportedly took his own wife hostage today. The incident unfolded just after eleven this morning when Brian Saunders visited his wife, Claudia Saunders, a senior employee at the Belize Zoo. The couple became embroiled in an argument during which Brian began to choke Claudia. […]
A Benque resident has been charged with Drug Trafficking. On Thursday, police stopped twenty-two year old Jose Antonio Mis at the western border and searched him. In the left side of his pants waist, they found four black plastic bags with a beige substance inside, suspected of being crack cocaine and weighing in at three […]
This morning, Cecil Castillo, also known as ‘Saddest’, was charged with four offences: Robbery, Burglary, Damage to Property, and a Mischievous Act. And the complainant is none other than his girlfriend. Thirty-two year old Leonora Stevens reported that around two-fifteen p.m. on Thursday, she was in her yard when Castillo stole her beach cruiser bicycle. […]
Two sixteen year old students appeared in the Family Court this morning to answer to firearm charges in separate incidents. The first youngster was busted on Thursday with a pen gun in his back pocket when police stopped to search him on the corner of Berkley and Plues Street. He was charged with keeping a […]
The increase in violent crimes has threatened the personal and commercial security of residents across the country, but tonight News Five’s Marion Ali discovered that it is also posing serious challenges to Belize’s tertiary referral centre: the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Marion Ali, Reporting According to Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital’s Director Medical Services, Doctor Khalid […]
Two women who were found to be in possession of jewelry belonging to murdered victim, thirty-nine year old Sandra Ruiz are tonight in police custody. News Five understands that the women led police to the stolen items at a Belize City pawnshop. While we cannot yet release their names, they have been identified as the […]
There is ongoing investigation about suspect cargo coming through Belize and today two men were taken to court and slapped with charges of importing prohibited goods. This past Monday, Lennox Bowman went to the Customs Department with a DHL airway bill to clear a package that he claimed contained dialysis fluid for a kidney ailment. […]
In other court news, today twenty-two year old Jarett Crawford was found guilty of two counts of robbery. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers sentenced Crawford to five years for each count with the stipulation that the sentences run concurrently. On December twentieth, Crawford entered the Underground Music Store on Barrack Road and quickly put up a sign […]
