A woman who went missing over the weekend was found dead on Tuesday morning off the Branch Mouth Road in San Ignacio, Cayo. Police found the body of forty-five year-old Bertulia Juarez lying face up at the Саѕtіllо Ѕаndріt. There were no obvious signs of foul play, but police say they are waiting for the […]
Brothers, Ellis and Tyrone Meighan are behind bars again, this time for breaching the conditions of their bail, while their brother, Shaquille who is also in violation of his bail, is nowhere to be found. The two brothers, who were out on bail on a charge of ‘Being a Member of a Gang’ that was […]
A twenty-nine-year-old woman, an Indian national, was shot and killed on Friday night in San Ignacio Town. It happened on Buena Vista Street while her husband, thirty-four-year-old Gurmeet Mangat, was a short distance away purchasing tacos from food vendors in the area. Mangat reported to police that he parked his pickup truck near the intersection […]
A man’s body was discovered on the Cristo Rey Road in the Cayo District over the weekend. The discovery was made by a passerby who then called the police. The victim was identified as Henry Baptist, who had been attending a wake before he disappeared. Fitzroy Yearwood tells us more. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications […]
Reputed gang members, Tyrone and Ellis Meighan, were detained over the weekend in Mexico. Reports suggest that the men were caught attempting to illegally enter the United States. Suspicions they may have fled were raised after they failed to appear for court hearings in Belize. There are also reports, as yet unconfirmed, that the Meighan […]
A shooting incident in Hatieville has left one woman injured. Janet Arnold told police that she was inside her house on Sunday night when she heard gunshots. Moments later she discovered that she had been hit by a bullet. Police were on the ground this morning canvassing the area. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, […]
The Financial Intelligence Unit is issuing an alert following a recent spike in online “phishing.” This time, the scammers are contacting people electronically trying to get them to provide private information in order to carry out fraudulent transfers of funds via online banking. News Five spoke with Kent Clare, the Director at F.I.U. Kent […]
Other Belizeans are also being recruited as ‘money mules’ to harvest the proceeds of these crimes and to transfer the value to third parties. F.I.U.’s Kent Clare says account holders who permit their accounts to be used in this manner will have their assets frozen. In fact, several suspects are currently being questioned. Kent […]
It has been almost eight years since Ramon Cervantes Senior was killed in the Honey Camp area of Orange Walk District. The murder of the seventy-one-year-old in July 2014 devastated his family, including his son, Orange Walk North Area Representative Ramon ‘Monchi’ Cervantes Junior. The elderly man was found in a shallow grave in an […]
Cervantes appeals to Interpol to see how a fourth suspect, Manuel Castillo, can be arrested and brought to justice. Castillo absconded from Belize shortly after participating in the murder of Monchi Cervantes’ father. On the phone: Ramon ‘Monchi’ Cervantes Jr., Son of Deceased “The judgment has provided some comfort to us and we see […]
It has been there for decades offering confidential international services to solve crime and now Crime Stoppers Belize is embarking on new initiatives and is appealing to the public to use a new app to report crime. Lauren Smith of Crime Stoppers Belize explained to us how the service works. Lauren Smith, Coordinator, Crime […]
While it is trying to make solving crime easier, Crime Stoppers gives rewards as incentives and now it is asking the public for help to keep the rewards fund open. Lauren Smith, Coordinator, Crime Stoppers “Once an arrest is made you’ll see that we’ll put in an arrest on the posters, so you’ll see […]
On Friday, twenty-year-old Earl Baptist was among several persons who were injured when a team of law enforcement officers raided their home in Belize City. Not only did the operation yield a prohibited firearm and ammunition, it also resulted in his arrest and subsequent arraignment on a charge of murder. It’s part of a crackdown […]
Police are investigating an armed robbery in Northern Belize. The victim, however, did not want to tell police how much money was stolen. Police are looking for a red four door car whose occupants are reported to have held up Alexis Canton on Saturday. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, Belize Police Department “We can’t […]
A crackdown by as many as two specialized teams of police officers at the home of Brandon and Hubert Baptist on Police Street Extension in Belize City Thursday evening resulted in utter chaos when gunfire erupted inside the property. The Baptist brothers are well-known members of the B.L.C. gang and, notwithstanding their involvement with the […]
Police have recovered three unlicensed guns stashed away in public spaces, two of them in San Pedro Town. Police conducted searches at around ten on Wednesday in the D.F.C. area and found a loaded nine millimeter pistol. No one was in the area. The next night, police searched an abandoned lot in the San Pedrito […]
Belizeans were outraged today when not one, but two, videos surfaced of a little boy apparently being encouraged to drink rum by two adults. The Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams, got personally involved, asking for help in locating the little one who is clearly drinking just to please the very people who should be protecting […]
The landing of an executive jet carrying an undetermined payload of narcotics last Friday in the vicinity of Monkey River is still being investigated by the Belize Police Department. It is believed that several individuals, known to law enforcement, acted in concert to land the aircraft, discharge its illicit cargo and facilitated the movement of […]
According to ComPol Williams, the Joint Intelligence Operations Center, J.I.O.C., was following several tracks on Tuesday night. Fortunately, none of those airplanes landed in Belize. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police, Belize Police Department “These drug plane landings are really and truly annoying, it’s a nightly occurrence. Last night we had two tracks that were […]
A foiled attempt at carrying out an assignment in an extremely hostile neighborhood has left the body of an alleged gunman inside the morgue at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Since the beginning of the week, a group of men have reportedly been focusing on an apartment building in Locke’s Alley. It is not clear […]
A recent flare-up of gang warfare in various areas of Belize City, including George Street, Wagner’s Lane, P.I.V., and Mayflower Street, has prompted the Belize Police Department to take decisive action in quelling what is believed to be an outbreak of deadly violence. On Tuesday night, a group of men from the P.I.V. gang was […]
As a result of the recent spate of gang-related shootings, instructions have been given to the respective Operations Commanders to come down hard on feuding gangs. Notwithstanding a late afternoon meeting at Old Belize, Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams did not join the Leadership Intervention Unit in dialoguing with gang members. Instead, he is reverting […]
Accused of manslaughter by negligence in the death of Senior Superintendent of Police, Henry Jemmoth, Jasmine Hartin appeared before the San Pedro Magistrate Court this morning. There, the prosecution submitted additional pages of disclosure and several D.V.D.’s related to the allegation against her. The question is: will all this be enough to convince the court […]
Twenty-six-year-old Gilroy Thomas and twenty-four-year-old Tyrique Swaso have been arrested and charged for the weekend murder of Emroy Tracey. Tracey was fatally stabbed during an altercation near the corners of Curassow and Iguana streets in Belize City on Saturday. During the scuffle, a knife was produced by one of the men who proceeded to stab […]
An alleged burglar lost his life over the weekend when he was attacked by a property owner in Santa Rosa Village. Jeremiah Ack was found motionless when police arrived on the scene; his purported killer was the one who led the responding officers to the location. According to Manuel Bo, his home was burglarized by […]
