Thirty-two year old business man Ellington Ottley Sr., who was charged with Drug Trafficking on Monday, was back in court today for a similar offence. Ottley and a sixteen year old minor were charged in connection with four hundred and sixty-seven grams of cannabis that police reported they found at Buy Low Fashion Boutique on […]
Another businessman was reportedly swindled out of a large amount of cash and police are looking for the perpetrator. According to thirty-five year old Yuan Qing Situ, sometime around three on Tuesday afternoon he was at Atlantic Restaurant on the Northern Highway when a man he knew only as “Ali” offered to change Belize currency […]
Two men await charges in Dangriga following a robbery and stabbing that left a deliveryman for Belize Western Energy injured. Fifty-one year old Marino Lucas reported to police that around ten on Monday morning he was on George Price Drive when a youth stopped him and said he needed gas in the Lakeland Area. The […]
An eighteen year old Orange Walk man finds himself in trouble after police caught him red-handed cutting through the burglar bars of a building early this morning. Police say that sometime around one this morning, they were summoned to a report of a burglary at the Sky Pure water purifying plant on Progress Street. When […]
A Lord’s Bank man will spend five years in prison for Burglary. On January fourth, twenty-four year old David Castellanos broke into the home of Alvan Haynes at Mile Twelve on the Northern Highway. When he exited the residence, it was with over fifteen thousand dollars in jewellery and household items. Police picked up Castellanos […]
We ended last year with an overall drop in crime but a record number of ninety-seven murders. This year it is a real pleasure to report that the first week of 2008 has not seen a single homicide in Belize and we can only pray that it stays that way. Meanwhile, in Trinidad and Tobago […]
Two men were denied bail and remanded to Her Majesty’s Prison until February seventh on possession of high powered prohibited weapons. The two were nabbed with an AK 47 assault rifle and a forty-five caliber handgun during a Coast Guard operation on Sunday afternoon at Northern Ambergris Caye. Coast Guard Search Mission Coordinator, Lt. Col. […]
Separate incidents in Punta Gorda on Sunday have resulted in the detention of four people. In the first case, around four that afternoon investigators were tipped off that there was a burglary in progress at the Wildlife Conservation Society on Black Orchid Street. The cops dispatched to the scene immediately noticed that a window had […]
Used car salesmen are notorious for their ability to stretch the truth, but tonight Belize City police are looking for a man who sold vehicles that didn’t even exist. According to investigators, in September a smooth talking hustler identified himself as Robert Villanueva to Farmers’ Market businesswoman Kim Wai Chee and agreed to sell her […]
A second suspect wanted in connection with the armed hold-up of Tomza Gas has been arrested and charged. This morning twenty-three year old Albert Clother was arraigned in Magistrate’s Court on three counts of Robbery and three counts of Conspiracy to Commit Robbery. Clother pled not guilty and was remanded to Hattieville prison until January […]
A Belize City man will spend two years in prison for punching his sister in the mouth. The sentence was handed down today to twenty-four year old Glenford Grant by Magistrate Roberto Ordonez. On December thirty-first, Grant pled guilty to Wounding his thirty-two year old sibling, Shelmadine Sanchez. The incident in question occurred on December […]
Three days into the New Year and still not a single murder … but it’s not for lack of trying. Sometime around seven last night, a lone gunman on a bike shot eighteen year old Enrique Alvarez as he stood in a yard at the corner of Curl Thompson and Man-o-war Streets in the Port […]
A Corozal woman is traumatized tonight after she was kidnapped, punched, raped and left stranded on the roadside. The twenty two year old housewife reported to police that sometime around six thirty yesterday evening she was walking on the Santa Rita Road when a green car with tinted windows pulled up. The woman said three […]
The first reported robbery for the New Year occurred in the Belize District. Fifty year old Alfonso PineIo reported to police that around three o’clock yesterday afternoon he was at his business named Seidy’s Shopping Centre in Burrell Boom Village when two men entered the store. Pinelo said he left the counter to fill an […]
The Police Department has released its crime statistics for 2007 and although murders are up, the overall crime rate has dropped significantly. According to a release issued today, a total of three thousand two hundred and four crimes were reported during the year in comparison to three thousand eight hundred fifty three in 2006, a […]
The homicide count for 2007 was almost raised by one when shots rang out in Belize City just before the year expired. Fortunately, twenty-one year old Marlon Foreman survived the gunshots. The incident occurred as Foreman was riding a bicycle on Iguana Street around eleven forty-five on Monday night. His mother, Geraldine Usher, says she […]
A homicide over the weekend in Corozal town has left cops with more questions than answers. According to investigating officers, around eight on Sunday morning, they were called out to a home on 9th Street where they found the lifeless body of its nineteen year old tenant, Keddy Ramirez, lying face up on the floor […]
Tonight four men are charged with Attempted Murder and related offences following a shooting at a Belize City nightclub over the weekend. The accused are twenty-nine year old Darren Banks, twenty-one year old Austin Roland, twenty-two year old Dillon Bennett and twenty-three year old Steve Zelaya. Police believe that the foursome was trying to get […]
Charges against a Belize City teenager have been upgraded to murder after the man he shot during an armed robbery died. According to police, sixteen year old Freedom Street resident Inmar Welch, originally charged with Robbery, was rearrested and charged with Murder after Punta Gorda money collector Darwin Pate succumbed to his wounds on Saturday […]
It’s every homeowner’s worst nightmare: to open the front door and find a house emptied by thieves. But according to court reports, thanks to a concerned neighbour, a Mahogany Heights resident was saved from that experience and tonight the accused burglars are behind bars. On Friday night, Belize City investigators were tipped off that the […]
Separate assaults on women have left one man behind bars and another on the run. According to police, around eleven on Wednesday morning, San Pedro residents Josela Panti and her common law husband Christopher Matura started to quarrel. But the argument turned physical and Panti is now accusing Matura of beating her into unconsciousness. But […]
A purse snatching rarely makes the headlines, but when Belize City residents band together to catch the thief, it’s time to stop the press. Police reports are that twenty-seven year old Billa Marquina was shopping at a boutique on Cemetery Road when a man grabbed her bag and took off. But pedestrians on the street […]
In the last month, we’ve reported that armed robbers have been targeting delivery crews around the country. Tonight, yet another hold-up has deprived a Belize City business of more than six thousand dollars in cash. According to twenty-two year old Madisco employee, Joel Young, around three-thirty on Thursday afternoon, he was on Goldson Avenue in […]
An escaped convict who turned himself into prison officials has been sentenced to an additional year behind bars. When thirty-five year old Gilbert Requeña appeared in court this morning, Magistrate Dorothy Flowers specified that the extra twelve months will run consecutively, which means instead of just serving eighteen years for manslaughter, Requeña is now facing […]
While the holidays were relatively crime free in the old capital, separate shootings involving police officers in Caye Caulker and in the Cayo district have prompted internal investigations into both incidents. News Five’s Marion Ali has the story from Bullet Tree. Corporal Mateo Carillo, Gunshot Victim “I just have to consider myself lucky and thanks […]
