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Two Americans and a Belizean have been arrested for ammunition-related charges. Sixty-seven year old Marion Cunningham Jr., twenty-three year old Simon Sisco and a fifteen year old minor of Benque Viejo Town were jointly charged with eight counts of Kept Unlicensed Ammunition and two counts of Kept Prohibited Ammunition. According to police reports, on Monday […]
Written on July 31, 2008 | Posted in
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A twenty-two year old was remanded to Hattieville prison today after holding up a Chinese grocer twice. Delroy Chaplin of West Collet Canal was charged with six counts of Burglary and Unlicensed Ammunition when he appeared in court this afternoon. Xaio Hua Zhu reported to police that on July twenty-first she was sweeping her Meighan […]
Written on July 31, 2008 | Posted in
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A sting operation by the police to bring control to the sale of illegal lottery has yielded five arrests in the course of this week of persons who sold the lottery to undercover agents. Two vendors were arraigned this morning in the Magistrate Court; fifty year old Wai Ming Cheng and twenty-three year old Melanie […]
Written on July 31, 2008 | Posted in
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A police prosecutor is in the hot seat for missing evidence in the sensational case involving businessman, Jose Shoman. The Belize City businessman was freed of charges on July eleventh but the case is far from over and the prosecutor, Sergeant Ludwig Castillo, is on interdiction while a police tribunal decides his fate. Shoman was […]
Written on July 30, 2008 | Posted in
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Meanwhile in Dangriga, a police sergeant felt the full brunt of the law and has been demoted to the rank of corporal. The officer was additionally fined three hundred dollars after a tribunal of his peers found him guilty of Neglect of Duty. Sergeant Reymundo Reyes was placed on interdiction in mid-May of this year […]
Written on July 30, 2008 | Posted in
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And in Belize City, this morning police stopped a robber dead in his tracks as he struggled with the owner of a Chinese store on Meighan Avenue in the King’s Park area. The police caught twenty-two year old Leroy Chaplin armed with a point twenty-five pistol struggling with Zhu Hua Xino, the proprietor of the […]
Written on July 30, 2008 | Posted in
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And in another part of the city a delivery man was not so lucky. Just before noon Tuesday, forty-three year old Cirilo Ical was robbed at gunpoint while making a delivery of sugar on Mahogany Street. Ical was apparently being trailed by robbers who jacked him as he parked his delivery truck in front of […]
Written on July 30, 2008 | Posted in
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And in news from the Magistrate Court, a U.B. student is behind bars today for keeping an unlicensed firearm and ammunition. He is twenty-seven year old Giovanni Remijio Duran. Police report that they busted Duran with a nine millimeter pistol with fourteen rounds in its magazine around two-thirty a.m. this morning. According to the cops, […]
Written on July 30, 2008 | Posted in
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And a charge of Attempted Murder and six other offences were placed on eighteen year old Cameron Blease when he appeared in Court today. The other charges include Dangerous Harm, Use of Deadly Means of Harm and four counts of Aggravated Assault. Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie explained to Blease that she cannot take a plea […]
Written on July 30, 2008 | Posted in
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Just before this newscast, a stabbing was reported at the Pound Yard Bridge, in front of a hotdog vendor and in an area in close proximity of the Pound Yard stop. While police have not released the names of the individuals involved in this latest stabbing in Belize City, we did get an interview with […]
Written on July 30, 2008 | Posted in
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Two minors have reported being sexually assaulted and threatened. The first is a sixteen year old from the Cayo District who visited police in the company of her mother. According to the teen, in May of this year she was at home when her step father had sex with her against her will. She says […]
Written on July 29, 2008 | Posted in
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Four tourists who came to enjoy a week of vacations in Belize, got a rude awakening this morning when a thief entered the cabin they were occupying. One of the tourists, who requested anonymity, told News Five this evening that the incident occurred at Ignacio Cabins near the airstrip at Caye Caulker. She said that […]
Written on July 29, 2008 | Posted in
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Police are pressing ahead with investigations into the missing truckload of medicines that was destined for Guatemala last Wednesday and according to Police Press Officer, Clement Palacio, they are now processing the empty truck which was discovered near Camp Oakley in Burrel Boom on Friday. Clement Palacio, Police Press Officer “The owner has identified the […]
Written on July 29, 2008 | Posted in
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The incessant number of murders by gunfire has reached a new high with four more fatal killings over one weekend alone—three of them in Belize City! The first murder occurred around seven-thirty on Friday night at the corner of Partridge and Vernon Streets in Belize City as twenty-four year old Leon Sutherland rode to his […]
Written on July 28, 2008 | Posted in
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But the killings were not confined to the deadly streets of Belize City, cops in the nation’s capital also have a murder mystery to solve tonight. Head of the National C.I.B. office in Belmopan, Senior Superintendent James Magdaleno, explained the bizarre discovery they made on Sunday morning. Sr. Supt. James Magdaleno, Head, Nat’l C.I.B. “About […]
Written on July 28, 2008 | Posted in
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And in the Cayo District, police came across what is believed to be yet another murder this morning. The victim, twenty-four year old Pedro Guzman, recently got out of prison after the charge of the July 2004 murder of Hershel Brown was dismissed against him. Today Guzman’s mother, Loraine Guzman, told News Five that her […]
Written on July 28, 2008 | Posted in
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And from murders to suicide, a Belize Defence Force soldier is dead after he reportedly took his own life with a shotgun. The eighteen year old private, Samuel Carrias, reportedly made two attempts before he ended his life. Sr. Supt. James Magdaleno, Head, Nat’l C.I.B. “Yesterday at seven-thirty p.m. police in San Ignacio visited the […]
Written on July 28, 2008 | Posted in
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There is more crime news to report. Two Belize City shootings did not result in fatalities, but did send three persons to the emergency room. Around one-ten Sunday morning police were called to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital trauma room where twenty-nine year old Albert Pollard was being treated for a gunshot wound to the […]
Written on July 28, 2008 | Posted in
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Any taxi driver who works especially late in the night will tell you that they are very discriminate when choosing passengers. But over the weekend, fifty-four Michael Hemmans erred in judgment and as a result was jacked. The taxi-driver reported to police that just after three o’clock on Saturday morning he was parked at the […]
Written on July 28, 2008 | Posted in
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In an update to a story in our newscast last night about a shipment of medicine that was jacked at Mile forty-two, police have detained customs officer, Julio Martinez, who Customs officials claim failed to abide by the new standard operating procedures applied when medicines are imported into Belize. This new procedure, according to the […]
Written on July 25, 2008 | Posted in
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For the third time this week gun violence exploded in the southside of Belize City. At around seven last night, nineteen year old Kenroy Humes, also known as “Beelie” was hanging out with friends at the residence of Darren Banks on Oleander Street when the shots rang out. Humes, who was inside the yard, was […]
Written on July 25, 2008 | Posted in
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In news from the Magistrates’ Court, two men were slapped with offenses of a sexual nature. The first is thirty four-year old Guatemalan, Jose Ramos, who was charged with unlawful carnal knowledge of a fifteen year old girl. The girl reported to police that Ramos had sex with her at a security booth at the […]
Written on July 25, 2008 | Posted in
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It was a terrorizing moment for forty-five year old Herman Reyes when early this morning, a man entered his premises on West Canal, inflicted three cuts on him, including one to his throat and stole his money and cell phone. Bleeding and in terror, Reyes escaped from his assailant by running through the corridor of […]
Written on July 25, 2008 | Posted in
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Police have their hands full with the recent spate of shootings, but tonight they have two burglaries to solve. Seventy-seven year old Nigel Price, a British National who resides on Gabourel Lane in Belize City, told police that someone broke into his house between five Wednesday evening and seven-thirty Thursday morning. The thief helped himself […]
Written on July 25, 2008 | Posted in
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It has been targeted by robbers five times in one month and in two instances thieves managed to gain access to the accounting firm of Castillo, Sanchez and Burrell on Central American Boulevard. And to ward off any further robbery attempts, the firm has undergone renovations to secure the building. Shawn Mahler, Audit Manager, Castillo […]
Written on July 24, 2008 | Posted in
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