Three more police officers are in trouble tonight, accused of planting drugs on a businessman and trying to shake him down for a bribe. The man who blew the whistle is a Taiwanese Belizean of St. Mark Street in Caribbean Shores. He reported to the police Internal Affairs Department that around five a.m. on February […]
A man who stole a safe containing forty-three thousand dollars has been sentenced to five years in jail. Thirty-four year old Ernest Gladden pleaded guilty to the burglary, which occurred in May of last year at the office of Hugh Parkey’s Dive Connection at seventy-one North Front Street in Belize City. Gladden also pled guilty […]
It’s a common sight on Belizean streets… “sales-children” carrying containers of food door to door to help their families make ends meet. But over the weekend, one little girl selling Johnny cakes in Corozal Town was kidnapped and raped while making her daily rounds. According to the thirteen year old victim, she was in the […]
A convicted child molester has been sentenced to spend the next twenty years behind bars. According to court reports, when thirty-two year old Raul Rivero appeared before Justice Herbert Lord today, the judge said he took into account Rivero’s sixteen previous convictions and the fact that he has not shown any remorse for what he […]
Two men who were charged earlier this week with serious offences have been granted bail in the Dangriga Magistrate’s Court. Fifty year old Dean De Marks, a New Jersey insurance agent planning to construct condominiums in Seine Bight Village, was granted and met bail of ten thousand dollars on charges of possession of C-4 explosives, […]
Three men have been arrested and charged for firearm offences in separate cases. In Belize City, officers on patrol on Plues Street say around six on Thursday evening, they stopped twenty-one year old Jason Gillett and found a thirty-eight special revolver and four live rounds of accompanying ammunition in the right front pocket of his […]
A bike jacking is hardly newsworthy these days because it happens so often but when thieves make off with a thirteen thousand dollar machine, it’s big news. According to Marlon Castillo, around seven on Thursday evening he was riding his beach cruiser while pulling his Scott racing bike. But while on George Street, Castillo says […]
The dark hand of homicide has descended on a village not far from the nation’s capital and a tiny baby will now grow up without the love of his mother. News Five’s Marion Ali reports from the scene. Marion Ali, Reporting When forty-eight year old Horacio Sanabria and his family opened their grocery shop yesterday […]
A man from Dangriga will appear in Magistrates’ Court on Friday after he allegedly robbed a tourist and sodomised him at a residence north of Seine Bight Village. Twenty-three year old Jerris Martinez allegedly held up his victim by surprise with a knife as he was on his verandah using his computer around four-thirty Wednesday […]
While Jerris Martinez was allegedly committing those reprehensible crimes early Monday morning, police were not far away busting a U.S. citizen just down the beach. Fifty year old Dean DeMarks, a New Jersey insurance agent looking to build condominiums in Seine Bight, may have to put his plans on hold, as when police searched his […]
A man posing as a good samaritan is accused of being nothing more than a common thief. Twenty-seven year old prison officer Jonathan Santos has been charged with Theft following a report by a woman involved in a traffic accident on December twenty-sixth. Twenty-nine year old Denise Westby was injured in the collision which occurred […]
According to U.S. media reports a Belizean woman has a lot of explaining to do after she was found carrying over three hundred thousand dollars in cash. The woman, thirty-nine year old Karen Anderson, was driving a 2008 Mustang when she was stopped by Arizona police Sunday near the California state line for having broken […]
San Pedro police are questioning the common-law wife of a man who was stabbed to death last Friday night or early Saturday morning inside his yard. Twenty-six year old Rafael Canti was found dead around five Saturday morning by the same woman who told police that she found his body when she opened her door […]
On Friday he was featured in the San Pedro Sun as one the island’s up and coming businessmen but tonight twenty-six year old Rafael Canti is dead. According to investigators, the manager of the newly established Segway of Belize Company was killed by a long, sharp object, quite possibly an ice pick, which penetrated his […]
A security guard is lucky to be alive tonight after he was shot three times in a drive-by shooting. Twenty-four year old Albert Foreman told police that he was riding his bicycle in Buttonwood Bay around four on Saturday morning when he was attacked. According to the victim, a maroon Ford Escort pulled up behind […]
More than a month after a traffic accident claimed the lives of two people, police have arrested and charged one of the drivers involved. Fifty-seven year old Hopkins resident Charles Rubio has been charged with two counts of Manslaughter by Negligence, two counts of Causing Death by Careless Conduct, Drove Motor Vehicle without Due Care […]
A Cayo man who pled guilty to Incest has been sentenced to spend six years behind bars. To protect the victim, the forty year old’s name is being withheld but when the Camalote villager appeared before Justice Herbert Lord he said he turned to drugs and drink when he found out his wife was having […]
Following the discovering of a large quantity of prohibited ammunition at a home in Corozal, one man has been charged while investigators look for two others. Forty-two year old Hector Itzab was the only person at the Flamboyant Street residence when a police search turned up two hundred and seventy rounds of AK47 ammunition and […]
A police raid at a Corozal home has resulted in the seizure of drugs and prohibited ammunition. According to police, around seven-thirty on Thursday night their search of the home of James and Jason Quan on Flamboyant Street turned up a cassette pouch with marijuana seeds, weed, three nine millimetre bullets, a sixteen gauge cartridge […]
Orange Walk police have made some inroads into last week’s double murder of Jose Ricalde and Nazim Romero. Investigators had initially fingered eighteen year old Luis Cardenas as a prime suspect but at a press conference this afternoon, Senior Superintendent Robert Mariano says new evidence is now pointing in an entirely different direction. Sr. Supt. […]
Meanwhile, Corozal police have charged a Belize City man with that district’s first murder for the year. Nineteen year old Ian Haylock of Water Lane in Belize City is accused of shooting fifty year old taxi driver Eduardo Samos to death and then stealing his taxi and cellular phone. Police believe Haylock travelled to Corozal […]
Sexual crimes against the country’s children continue unabated and tonight a police officer has been added to the list of accused offenders. According to investigators in San Ignacio, on Wednesday a fourteen year old reported that last September she was at the home of Police Corporal Joel Grinage when he asked her to iron one […]
Fifty year old Alejandro Ical of Forest Home, Punta Gorda, who was charged with murder, was acquitted by a jury of five men and seven women today in Dangriga Supreme Court. The jury deliberated for about three hours. Ical was represented by attorney Antonette Moore and Crown Counsel Nadine Palacio presented the case for the […]
A police constable from the Traffic Section has been interdicted from duty and placed on half pay following a charge of Prejudice to Good Order and Discipline. The case against P.C. Elroy Sanchez is in connection with a complaint by a motorcyclist who reported to the Internal Affairs Unit that last week Sanchez solicited one […]
A forty year old man from the Cayo District has pleaded guilty to incest. Court testimony revealed that the defendant had engaged in sex with his sixteen year old daughter on at least two occasions between March first and April thirtieth, 2005. The teenager gave birth to a premature baby girl in December of that […]
