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And while charges are amounting against the accused con-artist, Belmopan police are also investigating the country’s latest homicide. The victim is thirty-six year old David Santos, a resident of Camalote Village. According to authorities, on Saturday, Santos and another man were working on his farm located off the Prayer Mountain Road in Ontario Village. But […]
Written on December 17, 2007 | Posted in
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Rounding out the weekend crime are reports that a Bella Vista couple have been charged for Keeping a Prohibited Firearm and Unlicensed Ammunition. On Friday, police say that when they searched a pickup truck at an Independence checkpoint, they found eight rounds of point three-five-seven ammunition hidden under the driver’s seat. Cops immediately arrested the […]
Written on December 17, 2007 | Posted in
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He was jointly charged with Conspiracy, Aggravated Burglary, and Theft in connection with a terrifying home invasion against businessman Derek Nisbet and his son back in July. Late last week, however, on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions, all charges were withdrawn against Hilberto Gallego. Gallego told News Five that he never had […]
Written on December 17, 2007 | Posted in
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Today one local business is looking into the possibility of one of its own being involved in a hold-up that relieved the company of thousands of dollars on one of its busiest days. Manager of Advance Advertising Ideas’ branch at the Tourism Village, thirty-three year-old Cennie Muschamp, reported to police that she was robbed of […]
Written on December 14, 2007 | Posted in
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A forty-seven year old resident of the Stann Creek District has been detained by police following accusations by his two daughters that he has been engaging in sex with them. The fourteen year old, in the company of her mother, told police that she was molested from age eight right up to present. Her older […]
Written on December 14, 2007 | Posted in
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Twenty-eight year old Jason “Pussycat” Gentle and seventeen year old Norman McKenzie were charged with the murder of sixteen year old Faron Felix when they appeared today in Magistrates’ Court. Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie remanded them into custody until December twenty-first. Felix, a resident of Gill Street, was shot and killed on the night of […]
Written on December 13, 2007 | Posted in
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The situation of the homeless population in Belize City is frequently cited as a serious societal problem, most often as an example of urban blight. But the old capital’s latest homicide demonstrates that lack of shelter is not the only challenge facing street people. News Five’s Marion Ali has the story. Marion Ali, Reporting The […]
Written on December 12, 2007 | Posted in
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Police have arrested a man for threatening a witness in a murder trial. Hilberto Ruiz has been charged with Attempted Suppression of Evidence following a complaint by a twenty-nine year old female resident of Belize City. According to the woman, she was outside the Supreme Court, waiting to testify in the trial of Alex Bautista, […]
Written on December 12, 2007 | Posted in
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A Belize City man has been arrested in Dangriga following a string of thefts from vehicles. Eighteen year old Ezekiel Fernandez of Marigold Lane was stopped by a mobile patrol in the town’s New Site Area around two this morning. Inside his backpack cops found four car stereos. One of them had earlier that night […]
Written on December 12, 2007 | Posted in
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It’s not the kind of crime that makes the news everyday, but we are told that the trade in ancient Mayan artefacts is a regular occurrence. Two people caught in possession of millennium-old pieces over the weekend now face charges that could put them behind bars. News Five’s Marion Ali reports from Belmopan. Marion Ali, […]
Written on December 11, 2007 | Posted in
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The peace and tranquillity normally associated with village life has been shattered for one Belize District family as tonight one man is in police custody while as many as seven more are being sought for questioning in connection with an armed robbery and kidnapping that occurred over the weekend. News Five’s Janelle Chanona has the […]
Written on December 10, 2007 | Posted in
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It was last June that reports first broke involving former Police Constable, Leroy Kerr, accused of purchasing nineteen thousand gallons of fuel worth over a hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars under the Department’s name for his own personal gain. This time a civilian employee of the police department, head of the Scenes of Crimes Unit, […]
Written on December 10, 2007 | Posted in
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The D.P.P. did have enough evidence to charge another man in connection with a murder that occurred five years ago. According to court reports, tonight twenty-eight year old Calbert Budd Junior is charged with the murder of Jason Avila. No plea was taken from Budd when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Margaret Mckenzie and the […]
Written on December 10, 2007 | Posted in
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An assault on a Cayo man has resulted in his death. According to police reports, just before midnight on Sunday, thirty-two year old construction worker Karim Zaiden was sitting in front of his home on the Bullet Tree Road when three men jumped him. Apparently one of his attackers kicked Zaiden and the blow caused […]
Written on December 10, 2007 | Posted in
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Police have announced arrests in two recent major crimes. Thirty-five year old Guatemalan Alejandro Hernandez has been charged with Murder in the death of Clementine Enriquez Jr. of St. Margaret’s Village on the Hummingbird Highway. According to police, Enriquez was asleep early Monday morning following a night of socializing when Hernandez dropped a large stone […]
Written on December 6, 2007 | Posted in
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Belize’s dubious distinction as one of the most homicidal nations on the planet continues to be reinforced, as tonight we have two new murders to report. The first occurred sometime over the weekend in Ladyville. News Five’s Marion Ali has the details. Marion Ali, Reporting Ladyville police have a new murder to solve tonight after […]
Written on December 4, 2007 | Posted in
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While investigators are trying to piece the puzzle together in Ladyville, their colleagues in Belmopan are working to solve another homicide that occurred along on the Hummingbird Highway in the early morning hours of Monday. Reports are that around three-thirty a.m., the body of St. Margaret’s villager Clementine Enriquez Junior was discovered lying in a […]
Written on December 4, 2007 | Posted in
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Tonight two residents of the Cayo district are charged with Drug Trafficking after more than a hundred pounds of marijuana was found in their car. According to police reports, around twelve-thirty Monday afternoon, customs officials were working a checkpoint in the Central Farm area when they stopped a vehicle that was emitting a very distinctive […]
Written on December 4, 2007 | Posted in
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There was another murder over the weekend–according to our records number eighty for the year–but for one Belize City woman the death of sixteen year old Faron Felix is a loss beyond any statistic. News Five’s Marion Ali has the story. Therese Felix, Second Son Murdered “This year we were preparing for our Christmas. We […]
Written on December 3, 2007 | Posted in
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Police meanwhile believe they will make an arrest shortly for another shooting that occurred on Friday night. The victim in this case is fifty year-old Lincoln Jones, a taxi driver of Tibruce Street. Jones told police that he made a stop at the corner of Raccoon Street and Central American Boulevard where a man on […]
Written on December 3, 2007 | Posted in
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Another set of carjackers were not quite so lucky when they stole a van on Saturday night. The driver, forty-four year old Glenford Morgan, told police that around nine forty-five, five men entered his taxi and asked to be taken to Faber’s Road. When they reached their destination three of the passengers pulled guns. One […]
Written on December 3, 2007 | Posted in
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In Belize City, investigators are tonight looking for two men who held up a delivery truck driver in the middle of the afternoon. According to Western Diaries employee Clarence Young, he and his two side men were in front of the Ah Wing Restaurant on Mahogany Street around three on Wednesday afternoon when two men […]
Written on November 30, 2007 | Posted in
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The embarrassing arrest of a senior prison official over the weekend has cost him his job. According to Chairman of the Kolbe Foundation John Woods, on Wednesday morning thirty-two year old Oscar Puga showed up at Hattieville Prison where he was paid off and terminated as the facility’s Deputy Chief of Security. Over the weekend, […]
Written on November 29, 2007 | Posted in
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Separate cases of theft this week have been keeping investigators busy. In the first incident, joy riders appear to be the culprits behind the disappearance of a Nissan Pathfinder on Wednesday night. According to owner Melissa Gonzalez, between six and six-thirty she parked her SUV at the corner of Queen Street and New Road. But […]
Written on November 29, 2007 | Posted in
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Tonight two accused rapists are out on bail while a third has yet to be detained. Reports out of Magistrates’ Court are that this morning twenty-year old Roman Petzold and twenty-six year old Francis Lopez were formally charged with rape in connection to an incident on April thirteenth 2005. It was on that day the […]
Written on November 29, 2007 | Posted in
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