A murder in San Vicente Village in the Toledo District also kept police busy early on Christmas morning. The motive is familiar: the affections of a woman, but in this case a piece of firewood was the deadly weapon of choice. According to investigators, around two o’clock on Christmas morning, fifty-five year old Basilio Calderon […]
In an update to Thursday night’s violent armed robbery in Punta Gorda, police have arrested the suspected gunman. According to authorities, a sixteen year old boy from Belize City is the person who attacked and shot money collector Darwin Pate at the corner of North and Main Streets. The assailant then stole Pate’s knapsack containing […]
Walking home drunk is a better idea than driving home drunk, but a Belize City resident is tonight hospitalised after two attackers took advantage of his inebriation on Boxing Day. According to police, an intoxicated John Loredo was at the corner of Poinsetta and Jasmine streets around eleven-thirty that night when two men jumped him. […]
While two police men were taking flak on the job on Christmas Day, others were hard at work breaking up a robbery ring in Orange Walk Town. According to cops in the north, a series of break-ins had deprived businesses and homeowners of thousands of dollars in property. The most recent incident occurred on December […]
It was never reported to us but News Five has confirmed that customs officials made a major bust in San Pedro earlier this month. Details are still sketchy but information is that approximately two weeks ago a tip led officers to an area in San Pedro Town where they found a container with ninety cartons […]
Police have yet to make an arrest in the beating murder of a farmer from the Stann Creek District. The incident occurred on Friday afternoon at the home of thirty-seven year old Jose Rodriguez while the family prepared for lunch at their home at mile one and a half on the Southern Highway. Rodriguez’s wife, […]
A popular seaweed vendor escaped death when he was shot in the back of the head on Friday night. Police say Clement Palacio, also known as “Papa Roots”, was shot while driving from Belize City on the Western Highway around midnight on Friday. It is believed that the gunshot was fired following an argument between […]
A suspect who was wanted in connection with a string of robberies over the past few weeks is in stable condition after he was shot by cops after he drew a gun on the officers. Police say that at around three forty-five on Saturday afternoon they responded to a report of a shooting in front […]
A third suspect has been arrested and charged in the home invasion that occurred in Santana Village earlier this month. Twenty-three year old Hubert “Kid” Velasquez was picked up by police on Friday in Ladyville and was today charged with Aggravated Burglary and Conspiracy to Commit Aggravated Burglary. He was remanded to Hattieville prison until […]
Police also had good luck in Dangriga when they captured escaped prisoner Gilbert Requena. The thirty-two year old, who busted out of Hattieville in October with three other inmates, has been returned to his cell and charged with Escape. Of the original four escaped cons, only Allan Cal remains at large.
Tonight the Punta Gorda community is still in shock following the violent armed robbery of a local man. Reports are that around seven last night, twenty-nine year old money collector Darwin Pate returned from delivering soft drinks and beer for P.G.’s Bowen and Bowen distributor, Arthur Johnson. Apparently around this time last year, an attack […]
Meanwhile, in an update to Thursday afternoon’s fatal shooting in Dangriga, tonight there are disturbing reports that the robbery may have been an inside job. According to police, in one of the gunman’s pockets they found a page torn from an exercise book. Listed on the paper was a full description of the truck, including […]
Too many times in this newscast, we report that business owners have been shot during brazen armed robberies. But tonight word out of Dangriga is that this time around, two thieves picked the wrong man to jack. Just after three this afternoon, money collector for Santiago Castillo Limited, Melvin Torres, had just been paid by […]
While delivery trucks have been this season’s target of convenience, last night it was a National Transport bus with passengers onboard that was hit by armed robbers. The bus was en route from Belize City up the Northern Highway when the two masked culprits took the bus driver, twenty-seven year old Jose Dera, by surprise […]
The trail of forged government cheques keeps getting longer and the amount of money a Dangriga con man and his accomplices allegedly scammed keeps growing … all proving the old adage that you can steal far more with a pen than with a gun. News Five’s Marion Ali has more. Marion Ali, Reporting Twenty-nine year […]
Before this morning’s press conference, the police tribunal dealing with three officers accused of perjury met in one of its regular sessions. The officers being investigated, Inspector Clement Cacho, Constable Darius Ramos and Sergeant Anthony Polonio, were placed on interdiction back in October after the Manslaughter case against Ben Bou-nahra crumbled when they testified that […]
Twenty-one year old Francis Petillo, one of two men freed of the charge of murder of Hilberto Aragon when a motion of nolle prosequi was entered, was today charged with Conspiracy to Commit Robbery in connection with the same incident when he appeared in Magistrates’ Court. It is alleged that on May eleventh, 2004, Petillo […]
Three more people, including two brothers, have been arrested and charged by police in connection with the use of forged government cheques. Twenty-five year old Kenton Serrano is detained in Dangriga along with his common-law wife, twenty-four year old Marion Lucas. The couple have been charged with Handling Stolen Property, namely a laptop computer that […]
A sixteen year old boy lies critically wounded in the Southern Regional Hospital tonight after he was attacked with a knife. Police say twenty-three year old George Higinio of the Lakeland Area in Dangriga approached the youth, Kenrick Martinez, and stabbed him in the right side of his chest. Martinez was reportedly with friends watching […]
On yesterday’s newscast we reported on a purse snatching committed against one of our staff members. Apparently that wasn’t the only jacking to occur on Tuesday. According to police the driver of a Grace Kennedy delivery truck was held up around eleven-thirty in the morning on Jasmine Street. The assailant, armed with a handgun, escaped […]
Further investigations into the scam in which forged government cheques were used to purchase over a hundred thousand dollars worth of outboard engines, has resulted in the detention of two more suspects. The persons being held by police in Dangriga are both government employees, one from the Medical Department and the other from Labour. Already […]
She is best known as the tireless producer of the hit television show “Ultimate K.T.V.” But this morning Channel Five’s Mary Mangar hit a sour note courtesy of a purse snatcher. Mangar had just stepped out of a store on Freetown Road when an unidentified attacker pounced on her from behind. The brazen thief, who […]
Tonight two of the three men police believe attacked a woman and her two young sons are behind bars while a third is still at large. Today twenty-eight year old Delbert Hinds and seventeen year old Ryan Neal appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers where they were arraigned on charges of Aggravated Burglary and Conspiracy to […]
The Director of Public Prosecutions has opted to drop another murder charge against an accused killer. According to court reports, seventeen year old Ervin Franklin, arrested for the murder of twenty-year-old Cruz Sho, will not stand trial for the crime. On March fifteenth, the partially nude body of the young Ladyville resident was found on […]
Most of us are prepared for the thief in the night or the purse snatcher but for several months, local businesses have been schooled by a well-dressed crook with a gift for forging signatures. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This afternoon twenty-nine year old Lino Herrera was formally charged with three counts […]
