One day after police found the body of forty-five year old Dorla Pitterson in Sand Hill Village, police have arrested and charged thirty year old Orlando Wade with the Murder. Wade, who was found hiding inside the attic of his family’s home in SandHill, was detained for questioning soon after the killing. Police tell News […]
There are two allegations of carnal knowledge coming out of the Cayo District tonight. The first involves a fourteen year old Esperanza Village resident who alleges that a father and son had sex with her. According to the teen, who is now pregnant, the encounters occurred between October and December 2007. As a result, police […]
Belize City police are investigating a burglary that occurred at a home in Driftwood Bay between nine Monday night and six-thirty Tuesday morning. According to forty-four year old Joycelyn Codd, someone entered her home on Seashore Drive through a window on the second floor. The thief or thieves made off with over four thousand dollars […]
For weeks the nation held its collective breath as the number of murders appeared to have subsided. The peace was shattered last week with the murder of Emigdio Gomez off the Coastal Road and this morning the quiet community of Sand Hill was the venue for murder number forty-three of 2008. News Five’s Marion Ali […]
In an update to last night’s story on the sensational discovery of explosives at a house at the corner of Plues and Berkley Streets, two men and a woman appeared in court twice today to face charges relating to the incident. The three were at the house in question when police made a search of […]
Less than a week after police discovered the tortured body of twenty-two year old Emigdio Gomez hanging from a tree on a feeder road two miles off the Coastal Road, some inroads have been made into the case. Gomez and twenty-seven year old Cornelius Schmitt were shot after three men pretending to be plain clothes […]
A few months ago police in Seine Bight discovered a set of explosive devices at the home of an American businessman. Today such deadly devices were found, not far from downtown Belize City. Newly appointed O.C. at the Gang and Explosive Unit, Sergeant Oscar Tzib, explained how they closed in on the find. Sgt. Oscar […]
Tonight police are investigating an armed robbery that has deprived a Belize City resident of more than six thousand dollars in cash. According to twenty-two year old Armick Escobar and twenty-three year old Dario Cruickshank, they along with two friends were in front of Meg’s Body Shop on South Creek around five-thirty on Friday when […]
Following a brazen car jacking and subsequent high speed chase on Thursday afternoon, police have arrested and charged a gas station attendant for the crimes. Today nineteen year old Mansa Obi pled not guilty to charges of Robbery, Driving a Motor Vehicle without Due Care and Attention, Keeping a Firearm and Ammunition without a License, […]
Police investigations into a case of possible human trafficking have resulted in the arrest of a Belize City businessman. According to court reports, forty-three year old Kamal Nandrani has been charged with five counts of Unlawfully Withholding the Identification Papers of his employees. He pled not guilty to the offences and the accused has been […]
There is a disturbing report tonight that an armed robber attacked a Belize City woman and then held her mother hostage until she returned with money. According to thirty-five year old radiologist Silvia Parales, around nine on Thursday night, she and her mother had just walked up to their car in the parking lot of […]
Four days after he knocked down and killed two people, Orange Walk Town Mayor Ravei Gonzalez was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrates’ Court on two counts of Causing Death by Careless Conduct. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers did not take any pleas from Gonzalez because the matter will be tried in the Supreme Court following a […]
High speed police chases are the kind of stuff you normally see on North American news channels but that’s exactly the scene that played out in Belize City this afternoon. Details are sketchy but reports to News Five are that around three this afternoon a woman was getting out of her car when two armed […]
Meanwhile, police still have not made any arrests following Monday evening’s kidnapping, robbery and murder. Official investigations have spanned several communities in Belize and Guatemala. However, police say that all three of the suspects are believed to be Belizeans who had been following the movements of their victims for some time. On Monday evening twenty-two […]
There is little to new to report in the ongoing investigations into Monday evening’s kidnapping, robbery and murder off the Coastal Road. Investigators have recovered the missing Caterpillar bulldozer and tow head that twenty-two year old Emigdio Gomez and twenty-seven year old Cornelius Schmitt were in charge of when they were ambushed by three armed […]
Three separate reports of molestation of young girls have resulted in the detention of two men and the arrest of a third. The youngest complainant, who is only seven years old, has reported that on May twenty-fourth she was at her aunt’s house when her uncle called her into a room and pushed his hands […]
Tonight Police are trying to piece together what appears to be a case of kidnapping, robbery and murder which occurred on Monday evening on a feeder road two miles into the Coastal Highway. And as News Five’s Marion Ali reports, the details are gruesome. Marion Ali, Reporting Investigations could offer very little information to the […]
Tonight a woman accused of stealing a bicycle is behind bars following court proceedings in Magistrates’ Court. This morning twenty-three year old Ebony Flowers was formally arraigned for the Theft of construction worker Jose Hernandez’s beach cruiser. According to the victim, around seven-thirty on Wednesday night, he was riding the bike on Lakeview Street when […]
Stronging someone’s bicycle is a common crime in Belize but what puts this particular incident on the news is that last night it was a group of young ladies that relieved a man of his bike. According to police, twenty-two year old Jose Hernandez was riding on Lakeview Street around seven-thirty when he stopped because […]
A Belize City man is tonight cooling his heels in prison after being busted for burglary. On Tuesday police responded to reports of a break-in at a home on Thomas Vincent Ramos Street in Belama Phase Two. According to police and court records, between eight twenty-five a.m. and eleven twenty-five, someone entered the home of […]
Two men who were on remand on a joint murder charge were today freed … and then rearrested. The case against sixty-seven year old Belizean Adrian Ascencio and Guatemalan, twenty-seven year old Ostilio Garcia, arose from the killing of Jose Armando Perez whose body was discovered buried in a shallow grave on January sixteenth, 2006. […]
Police have formally charged a suspect in Sunday’s armed robbery on Freetown Road. Twenty year old Steven Chuc was arraigned on a count of Robbery when he appeared in Magistrate’s Court this morning and has been remanded to Hattieville Prison until July ninth. His alleged accomplice, twenty-one year old Marvin Bradley, will be charged later […]
For many people, in-laws are a pain in the neck, but on Monday one such relative took the term literally. According to a police report filed by nineteen year old Dennis Mai, around eight o’clock on Monday night his brother-in-law, Nelson Diaz, came to their house. Mai says when Diaz began arguing with his mother, […]
Two months after he was gunned down on Castle Street, police have charged a fisherman for the murder of Christino Madrill. Today twenty-one year old Marvin Bradley was formally arraigned in Magistrate’s Court and has been remanded to Hattieville Prison until July ninth. As we reported on Monday night, investigators say the break in the […]
She was a rising star on the local music scene who sought fame and fortune abroad. Instead, Cayo’s Maria Reimer finds herself in a Canadian jail, charged with the armed robbery of six Winnipeg Credit Unions. Reimer, who sang under the single name of Maria, moved from San Ignacio to Canada where she married and […]
