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Twenty years: that’s how long a convicted child rapist will spend behind bars. Before handing down his ruling this morning to thirty-eight year old Rene Chavez Ramos, Justice Herbert Lord heard a mitigation plea from the prisoner, who continued to maintain his innocence. On the victim’s side, an impact statement from Dr. Melhem Ayala was […]
Written on April 25, 2008 | Posted in
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It’s a crime we are having to report with frightening regularity: grown men having sexual relations with little girls. But when the mother gives her consent to such abuse, it makes the situation twice as sickening. That was exactly what a ten year old girl told police happened to her two separate times in less […]
Written on April 25, 2008 | Posted in
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In other news from the courts, today the man accused of entering a student’s home, beating him and then chopping him with a machete was formally charged for the crime. Twenty-seven year old Steven Lemoine pled not guilty to Aggravated Burglary, Conspiracy to Commit Burglary and Wounding. Magistrate Sharon Fraser denied him bail and ordered […]
Written on April 25, 2008 | Posted in
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Two men are dead but for a change the homicides were not committed on the streets of Belize City. The latest incident occurred shortly after midnight on Wednesday morning in Santa Elena, Cayo where a brawl had broken out among four men at the Cinco Banderas Bar. The owner of the bar, forty-six year old […]
Written on April 24, 2008 | Posted in
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It may not have been a case of murder, but a Belize City youth came close last night when he was shot three times on Victoria Street. Twenty year old Leon Bainton was reportedly standing alone on the sidewalk around six-thirty at number nine Victoria Street when two men came from the direction of North […]
Written on April 24, 2008 | Posted in
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A student was viciously attacked at his home around three on Wednesday afternoon by a group of six thugs looking for a gun which one of them either lost or discarded while running away from police the day before. Police say the lead suspect in the assault, Steven Lemoine, accompanied by five accomplices, including two […]
Written on April 24, 2008 | Posted in
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Two more suspects have been charged in connection with the high stakes break in at the penthouse apartment of businessman Luke Espat. Twenty-nine year old Kent Skeete of Mahogany Street and eighteen year old Michael Plunkett of Supal Street in Belize City were arraigned today for Burglary and Conspiracy to Commit Burglary in the court […]
Written on April 23, 2008 | Posted in
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The nation’s thirty-second murder of 2008 took place last evening, just after the sun set over Belize City. By all accounts it was just one more senseless execution style shooting. But as News Five’s Marion Ali reports, every murder leaves behind a large and tragic measure of collateral damage. Glenda Madrill, Mother of Murder Victim […]
Written on April 22, 2008 | Posted in
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After almost two weeks of relative peace from the scourge of deadly violence that has rocked the streets of the old capital, over the weekend yet another young man fell victim to a hail of bullets. And as News Five’s Marion Ali reports, the motive of the execution style killing amounts to little more than […]
Written on April 21, 2008 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, police investigations into the death of a Stann Creek mother have led to the arrest of her husband. It is alleged that on March twenty-fourth, twenty-two year old Avette Augustine and her common-law husband twenty-eight year old Alvin Guzman were in their Georgetown Village home when the two became embroiled in an argument. The […]
Written on April 21, 2008 | Posted in
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It could have been the perfect crime but the perpetrators stuck around long enough to get caught. Sometime between April eleventh and April fourteenth, Belize City businessman Luke Espat’s penthouse apartment in the Renaissance Towers was burglarised and police now believe it was the work of three conspirators. First there’s the building’s security guard, twenty-four […]
Written on April 21, 2008 | Posted in
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The villages of the Toledo district are not often the scene of gun violence but an armed robbery in the usually quiet community of San Pedro Columbia has left residents concerned about their safety. According to police, around eight last night husband and wife Alumberto and Petrona Cal were around their dinner table when three […]
Written on April 21, 2008 | Posted in
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Police were in the right place at the right time on Sunday afternoon to make a significant drug bust along the Stann Creek Valley road. According to Dangriga police, a mobile patrol was near mile six when officers spotted a silver Isuzu Trooper emerging from a farm road. The cops say when they searched the […]
Written on April 21, 2008 | Posted in
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Two years ago, the violent details of the rape of a ten year old girl stunned the society. Today a jury convicted thirty-eight year old farm worker Rene Chavez Ramos of the crime. During the trial, the young victim testified that on August second, she was at home taking care of her younger brothers and […]
Written on April 18, 2008 | Posted in
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In other court news, tonight an eighteen year old is behind bars, accused of threatening to kill two people. According to thirty-two year old Lillian McCullock, around six on March third she was on Haulze Street when she saw two men beating her daughter. McCullock says she ran to her offspring’s aid but one of […]
Written on April 18, 2008 | Posted in
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At first glance authorities didn’t suspect foul play but new evidence has surfaced in the death of a university student and reopened the case as a possible homicide. Two days ago, the body of University of Belize student, Armin Medina, was retrieved from the Mopan River about a hundred yards from the Bullet Tree Bridge. […]
Written on April 18, 2008 | Posted in
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A man who set out to donate blood, instead stole the nurse’s purse … and got caught. Thirty-eight year old Jefferson Dawson of Ladyville entered the Central Medical Lab adjacent to the K.H.M.H. Wednesday morning and told Nurse Doreen Madrill he wanted to give blood. While Dawson was waiting his turn in the interview room […]
Written on April 17, 2008 | Posted in
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An off-duty police officer was in the right place at the right time to stop a crime in the making, but he was not so lucky as to avoid taking a bullet in the process. Police Constable Shannon Garbutt was walking on Euphrates Avenue in the direction from Orange Street to King Street just after […]
Written on April 16, 2008 | Posted in
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On Monday morning students of Christ the King Primary in Dangriga were set to begin long awaited computer classes, their new curriculum facilitated by a generous donation of computers from the Rotaract Club of Spokane, Washington in the U.S.A. Unfortunately, the children never got to boot up their machines as over the weekend thieves broke […]
Written on April 16, 2008 | Posted in
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It never made it to the weekend police blotter but a Belize City teenager has died due to injuries he sustained when he fell out the back of a pick-up truck. According to court reports, around nine on Sunday morning seventeen year old student Marcel Harris was travelling in the pan of a Ford Ranger […]
Written on April 16, 2008 | Posted in
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They patrol with police to protect our streets but on Saturday night an off duty Belize Defence Force solider was beaten and robbed by two assailants. According to Refino Pop, he left Price Barracks around one on Saturday morning on foot in the direction of a local bar but as he neared the gas station […]
Written on April 16, 2008 | Posted in
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A teenager continues to recover from gunshot injuries at the K.H.M.H. tonight after he was shot by police around one on Saturday morning south of Independence Village. But fifteen year old Isaac Santos was not a random victim; he’s implicated in the theft of thousands of dollars worth of copper wiring from the Aqua Mar […]
Written on April 15, 2008 | Posted in
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The theft of copper wire and fittings have become a highly profitable business for criminals but tonight a teenager is hospitalized following a shootout between police and suspected thieves in the Stann Creek District. According to Independence police, around one on Saturday morning, officers were tipped off that a burglary was in progress at the […]
Written on April 14, 2008 | Posted in
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The weekend’s second shooting was a ride-by on one of the old capital’s busiest streets. According to police, twenty-six year old Maurice Slusher, his brother John and fifteen year old Akeem Smith were hanging out at the corner of Mahogany and Sarstoon Streets with friends around eight on Saturday night when a man wearing a […]
Written on April 14, 2008 | Posted in
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He’s been on the run for two months but tonight an Orange Walk man wanted for kidnapping is behind bars. According to Orange Walk police, on Sunday officers on patrol spotted Alfredo Urbina in town and immediately detained him. Urbina is wanted for the kidnapping of Alden Hall, a man still missing and who is […]
Written on April 14, 2008 | Posted in
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