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A ten thousand dollar reward has been offered for information leading to the arrest of Gregory Casildo. Casildo is wanted for the February fourteenth murder of Shannon “Shaggy” Henderson and is also a suspect in last Friday’s killing of restaurant owner Samuel Ortiz. Both homicides occurred in Placencia Village. Casildo is thirty years old, five […]
Written on March 18, 2008 | Posted in
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It’s the same story…gunshots, another man dead and grieving relatives begging for justice. And as News Five’s Marion Ali reports again, even the police are stumped for clues to the shooter. Marion Ali, Reporting The year’s twenty-first murder occurred in front of one of Belize City’s oldest night spots on Regent Street West. Just after […]
Written on March 17, 2008 | Posted in
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Alcohol is believed to have played a role in a police shooting in Belmopan over the weekend. According to the officers involved, at midnight on Saturday they were on mobile patrol in Las Flores but as they neared La Cabana Restaurant and Bar, they spotted a disturbance at the corner. Police say subsequent investigations have […]
Written on March 17, 2008 | Posted in
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While the attacks on local business houses continue unabated, it’s no surprise that citizens are starting to fight back. That’s what a trio of thieves figured out the hard way on Saturday night when they held up the Galaxy Supermarket on Gwen Lizarraga Street in Belama Phase Two. According to Guihe Denge, he was at […]
Written on March 17, 2008 | Posted in
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While that shooter is still at large, two thieves who targeted a home off Coney Drive have been arrested and charged with the crime. According to forty-one year old Rosinele Craig, she left her Park Avenue home at nine fifty-five and was gone for less than an hour but that’s all the time it took […]
Written on March 17, 2008 | Posted in
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A Dangriga resident has been charged with attempted murder after he assaulted a shop owner in a drunken rage. According to twenty-two year old Frank Lui, at nine on Friday night, he was closing his store on Pen Road when his neighbour, thirty-two year old Francis Sampson showed up wanting to buy brandy. But Lui […]
Written on March 17, 2008 | Posted in
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During this morning’s ceremonial house meeting, the new Government emphasized that they’ll tackle crime and violence with a special gang unit in the police department, youth and adult empowerment and education initiatives and even a gun court. But those plans are of little comfort to yet another Belize City family whose loved one was callously […]
Written on March 14, 2008 | Posted in
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The second murder occurred on the Placencia peninsula around twelve-thirty this morning. The crime scene was at the Amigos Restaurant and Internet Café in the heart of the village. Police reports are that the owner of the business, thirty-six year old Samuel De Jesus Ortiz had closed for the night and was counting the proceeds […]
Written on March 14, 2008 | Posted in
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There is a disturbing report of rape coming out of Toledo tonight as a student is saying she was raped by her teacher. According to the thirteen year old girl, between ten-thirty and eleven on the morning of March seventh, her twenty-one year old instructor forcibly had sex with her in a classroom. The victim […]
Written on March 14, 2008 | Posted in
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When we last left Kevin Dawson, a.k.a. Possum, he was on the run after he swapped identities to trick the court into thinking he was someone else and getting an early release. But the long arm of the law caught up with the fugitive in Corozal on Thursday and this morning he finally had his […]
Written on March 14, 2008 | Posted in
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Tonight two top police officers are feuding after one reportedly threatened the other, and that alleged victim filed a report with the Internal Affairs Unit. Just what led to the bad blood is not clear but this evening, Assistant Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie told us the matter is under investigation. Street talk is that […]
Written on March 12, 2008 | Posted in
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A Belize City man who came to the aid of a neighbour in trouble has been rewarded with a bullet to the head. News Five’s Marion Ali reports on the nation’s latest homicide. Marion Ali, Reporting As if the January murder of her brother, Norman Reyes Junior, was not bad enough, two months later a […]
Written on March 11, 2008 | Posted in
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In other crime news, two young men—one a teenaged bystander—were injured in a shooting in Belize City over the weekend. According to police, around nine on Monday night the intended victim, twenty-five year old Denver Skeet, was hanging out at the corner of Logwood and Lake View Streets when two armed men on bicycles pulled […]
Written on March 11, 2008 | Posted in
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A man from the Stann Creek District has been arrested for the rape of his eight year old daughter. On March eighth the child and her mother reported to Independence police that on February twenty-seventh the father took the girl into a bushy area near a farm where he forcibly had sex with her. A […]
Written on March 11, 2008 | Posted in
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Over the holiday weekend following the dramatic landing of a drug plane on the Northern Highway, police have arrested eight men and are looking for three others. According to investigators, Orange Walk residents forty-four year old Anthony Thurton, fifty year old Ricardo Rivera, twenty-two year old Luis Novelo, eighteen year old Irvin Cantun, nineteen year […]
Written on March 11, 2008 | Posted in
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When it comes to the transshipment of drugs, “wet drops” are traditionally the transportation mode of choice in Belize. But as News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports, traffickers will risk life, limb and a million dollar plane in their bid to get their product north. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This was the scene between miles forty and […]
Written on March 7, 2008 | Posted in
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An accused bomb maker living in the Stann Creek district has been deported to the United States. According to police, fifty year old Dean De Marks was put on TACA’s ten-fifteen flight to Houston where he was handed over to U.S. Marshals. De Marks is an insurance agent in New Jersey and was looking to […]
Written on March 7, 2008 | Posted in
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The shooting murders of Eugene Flores and Roberto Torres as they rode home with friends on Valentine’s Day made big headlines. Police were quick to arrest four people, including one of their own, Constable Gilbert Hyde, Jr. But today Hyde is a free man as the Director of Public Prosecutions, Lutchman Sooknandan, directed that the […]
Written on March 6, 2008 | Posted in
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Police in the far west have apprehended a suspect wanted in the far north. Twenty-four year old Enrique Gonzalez, wanted for a burglary in Corozal that netted over ten thousand dollars in cash and jewelry, was spotted by cops from Benque Viejo Wednesday afternoon in the vicinity of the Guatemalan border. He was detained and, […]
Written on March 6, 2008 | Posted in
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A man whose sentence was originally life imprisonment will now get a chance to live a normal life, that is after he serves eighteen years behind bars. Thirty-one year old Jesus Olivarez, whose appeal was allowed yesterday, had his murder conviction reduced to manslaughter by the Court of Appeal. The sentence will take effect as […]
Written on March 6, 2008 | Posted in
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The last few days in Belize City have not seen a homicide but that doesn’t mean the bullets have stopped flying. Two families escaped serious injuries Tuesday morning when a barrage of lead penetrated the walls of their houses, missing a three year old boy by inches. The gunshots rang out around seven-thirty on Haulze […]
Written on March 5, 2008 | Posted in
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A farmer from the Stann Creek district is tonight on remand at Hattieville Prison following a shooting incident last week in the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary. In a press release issued by the sanctuary’s co-manager, the Belize Audubon Society, on February twenty-sixth their rangers accompanied by police officers from Hopkins Village, conducted a joint patrol […]
Written on March 5, 2008 | Posted in
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The unidentified skeletal remains of a human have been unearthed off the Coastal Road. Details are in short supply but police report that acting on information brought to their attention, on Monday afternoon they visited a site between the road and Runaway Creek, where the decomposed body was discovered in a shallow grave. A post […]
Written on March 5, 2008 | Posted in
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A suspect has been arrested in the weekend rape of a San Ignacio woman. He is forty-three year Rolando Castillo of George Price Avenue in Santa Elena. The victim told police that at around two-thirty Sunday morning she got into what she thought was a taxi outside a nightclub. The driver, however, is alleged to […]
Written on March 5, 2008 | Posted in
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His nickname is “Possum” but tonight twenty-three year old prison inmate Kevin Dawson isn’t out of jail because he played dead; it’s because he pretended he was someone else. According to court reports, Dawson, who is serving a five year sentence for burglary, was to appear in court this morning on a charge of Drug […]
Written on March 5, 2008 | Posted in
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