And in news from the Magistrates’ Court, an outing for a nurse turned ugly in the early hours of this morning. Thirty-two year old Leah Stevens, a nurse at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, reported to police that around one fifteen this morning she met her twenty-three year old boyfriend, Emerson Neal, on her way […]
And police are looking for a suspect who fired several shots at a taxi driver in the wee hours of this morning on Water Lane. The taxi driver, Shawn Ortiz, reported to the police that he was driving his Toyota Corolla car when he noticed that a Jetta car, behind him was advancing recklessly. According […]
In an update to the fatal shooting of forty-nine year old Alexander Herrera on Sunday afternoon, today News Five learnt that the Director of Public Prosecutions, Sheryl-Lynn Branker-Tait, has requested that police conduct further interviews with civilians who witnessed the incident around noon that day. Police submitted a file to the D.P.P’s office that contained […]
And in more news from police, the peace in Esperanza village was disrupted when someone from a passing vehicle unleashed a series of gunshots at twenty-six year old Ruben Echavarria, a driver of Santa Elena, Cayo, hitting him in the right side of the back. Echavarria told police that the incident occurred around seven-thirty on […]
An inmate at the Hattieville Prison is in more trouble tonight after a routine search of his cell unearthed a stash of weed. Police report that the search on Tuesday night inside the cell of eighteen year old Clarence Hemmans yielded two black plastic bags containing about quarter pound of marijuana. Hemmans has been charged […]
It was a busy time on Albert Street today in the height of commercial activity, when two robbers brazenly jacked Doony’s Store. Police responded soon enough after reports of the heist, but up to news time, no arrests have been made in this latest City jacking. News Five’s Marion Ali has more on this story. […]
In robberies reported by police, burglars had their eyes over the weekend on the law offices of an attorney and former Minister of Government. Sixty-four year old Hubert Elrington told police that sometime between six on Sunday evening and eight Monday morning thieves broke into his law office on the upper flat at the corner […]
Twenty year old Warren Dominguez appeared in Magistrate’s Court today to answer charges of Aggravated Assault. The alleged victim, Heather Foreman, reported that between the hours of nine and nine-thirty on the night of the thirteenth of July she was shot at several times as she stood on the corner of Vernon and Mayflower Streets. […]
A Ladyville man, who pleaded guilty last week to uncustomed goods comprising tomatoes and sweet peppers, faced additional charges today in Magistrates’ Court, this time from the Belize Agricultural Health Authority. On July twenty-second Jose Quintero was fined thirty-five thousand dollars after he pleaded guilty for the possession of over eleven thousand dollars worth of […]
A Ladyville construction worker is dead tonight following a shooting on Regent Street just before noon on Sunday. Forty-nine year old Alexander Herrera died around four-thirty this afternoon and it was cops who fired the fatal shots. But there are contradictory reports on this incident, the official version and the account from the family. The […]
There were two other shooting incidents over the weekend. The first victim was twenty-seven year old Richard Russell, who received gunshot wounds to the buttocks and shoulder. Around six-forty-five on Friday evening Russell was on Central American Boulevard near the roundabout talking to a friend when he says a man came up to him, took […]
And a housewife from the Caledonia Village and her daughter received quite a scare on Friday when they were unexpectedly attacked by hitchhikers. Thirty-four year old Elizabeth Chan reported that on Friday around midday she and her fourteen year old daughter were making their way from Santa Clara Village to Caledonia when they pulled over […]
Dangriga police are tonight still trying to solve the murder of Guatemalan labourer, Jose Angel Calate, whose remains were found last Friday morning near the Stann Creek Valley Road at the junction with the Coastal Road. Police have found what they believe was the murder weapon not far away from the body … a machete. […]
The number of cases involving sexual crimes against minors is growing by leaps and bounds. The latest report is from a thirteen year old girl who, while visiting her aunt in Seine Bight Village, was sexually molested by her uncle. The girl told police that around ten p.m. on July twenty-ninth, she was sleeping when […]
In other news from the police, an anti-drug operation on Wednesday resulted in the discovery of a marijuana plantation. The illegal farm was located four miles southwest of Santa Martha Village in Orange Walk District. Police say it housed three thousand marijuana plants ranging from two to four feet in height and five hundred marijuana […]
The organisation was revitalised in April to help at-risk and underprivileged youths stay away from a troublesome future. But the Conscious Youth Development Programme became the target of a vicious attack by one of the same youths it endeavored to help. Deputy Director of C.Y.D.P., Kevin Cadle, told News Five today that their main suspect […]
Tonight a businessman is reporting that his employees robbed him over forty thousand dollars in cash and goods. Owner of Xtra House on Cemetery Road, Jitendra Chawla, told News Five today that three employees hired as salesmen reportedly collected over forty thousand dollars in cash and cheques from customers in the Belize, Corozal, and Stann […]
The bloodshed on the streets of the old capital continued today with an early morning shooting. The latest victim is twenty-three year old Jermaine Jones of Banak Street. Police investigations reveal that around one-fifteen this morning Jones and a female friend were talking on Johnson Street when a man came from behind and fired several […]
Police have charged twenty-five year old Robert Taylor with the Wednesday evening murder of twenty-six year old Leslie “Footy” Gentle. Gentle was stabbed several times in the abdomen and chest after he became embroiled in a fight with Taylor. He died later that night while receiving treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Taylor, who […]
Two Guatemalans are in police lockup tonight after they were discovered illegally armed. According to police reports, on Thursday night Cayo cops visited the Douglas Da Silva camp where seventeen year old Arturo Carcaal and a twelve year old minor were being held. In their possession were a point thirty-eight revolver with six live rounds, […]
He had been on the run evading the long arms of the law for some time and has had the dubious reputation as one of Belize’s most notorious criminals. Most recently he was wanted for the March fourteenth murder of restaurant owner Samuel Ortiz and the Valentine’s Day murder of Shannon “Shaggy” Henderson, both in […]
The month of July ends with a record breaking number of murders in one night. Police have been unable to solve the four murders of the weekend and now they have their hands full with Wednesday night’s triple murders. The first murder evolved out of a stabbing between two men, twenty-five year old Robert Taylor […]
The second deadly incident occurred around eight-thirty last night while the victim was at his girlfriend’s house on Lavender Street in the Saint Martin de Porres area. Twenty-one year old Travis Westby, a printer with the Amandala Newspaper, was riddled with bullets when his lifeless body arrived at the K.H.M.H. Police have no clues to […]
Wednesday night was deadly. A third victim was murdered as he rode his bicycle on Holy Emmanuel Street. For the family of twenty-three year old Kenton Lewis, it is difficult to understand what led to his murder, but they say they hold no animosity towards his killer. Inspector Julio Valdez “One Kenton Lewis of a […]
Three persons are detained for separate drugs busts on the island of San Pedro. Around one this morning police conducted a search at the home of twenty-three year old Jermaine Jacobs and discovered a plastic bag with just over eight ounces of cannabis. Another five pounds of weed was found in a suitcase. Police have […]
