While the Deputy Chief of Security at Hattieville Prison, Oscar Puga, awaits his day in court, public indignation mounts over his personal escorting of three inmates for a night out in Belize City. With the Kolbe Foundation under pressure to put Puga under manners, the focus now turns to who else may have been involved […]
A pair of armed robberies have police in Belize City and Belmopan looking hard for leads. On Monday morning around eleven thirty-two, two men were jacked while patronising a grocery shop on George Street. They were confronted by a pair of assailants, one of whom pointed a nine millimetre pistol at them and demanded their […]
It’s no secret that in Belize and many other countries around the world some prison inmates are more equal than others. Those with money or influence can usually score a less crowded cell, perhaps a TV…even a cell phone. But tonight the foundation that runs Hattieville Prison is facing some acute embarrassment. The reason? One […]
In other police news, murder suspect Arthur Young remains on the run tonight. According to investigators, the rumours that Young had been taken into custody in the United States are not true. Supt. Aaron Guzman, O.C. Crimes Investigation Branch “Officially as far as we know Mr. Young is not in the custody of the U.S. […]
Police say he is the jealous lover who Thursday afternoon pulled up next to Raquel Requena’s taxi and fired a shotgun point blank to her head. Today thirty-six year old security guard Glenford “Bucket” Bermudez, a resident of Vernon Street, was formally charged for the murder, as well as the theft of the sixteen gauge […]
She did not suffer as bad a fate as Raquel Requena but another woman, a twenty-seven year old waitress of Belize City, has reported that her ex-common law husband broke into her house, sexually fondled her and threatened her with a knife. The incident occurred on the night of November twentieth and two days later […]
They have been accused of cracking down on small timers and letting the big fish get away, but this week Customs Officers put some hurt on the contraband trade in cigarettes. Based on a tip, they raided the Vernon Street warehouse of Chung Loong Shop where they found a quantity of Winstons with a market […]
A little less than a year ago Belize was rocked by a string of murders committed by jealous men against women they ostensibly loved. Today history repeated itself on the lonely road between Hattieville and Burrell Boom. News Five’s Marion Ali has the tragic story. Marion Ali, Reporting Police have another brutal murder upon their […]
Ever think about what it would be like to catch a burglar in the act? A Burrell Boom man not only caught a thief in his house, but he also subdued him with a well-placed stroke of the machete. Thirty-four year old Derrick Davis told police that around two-thirty on the morning of November eighteenth […]
Police have charged two teenagers from San Joaquin, Corozal, with the savage murder of a fellow villager. When they were summoned to the scene at the home of forty-seven year old Gregorio Tzul around six on Sunday morning, police made the gruesome discovery. They found the partially nude body of his brother, forty-nine year old […]
Although there were no signs of violence on the body of a man from San Jose Succotz, tonight Cayo police are not ruling out that foul play may have been involved in his death. That’s because the post-mortem on the body of thirty-two year old Rudy Alfredo Bautista was inconclusive due to the advanced state […]
The manager of a Belize City gas station was wounded in a robbery attempt on Saturday morning. Cops were called out to the Buca Shell Service Station at mile two and a half on the Northern Highway where they found thirty-three year old Herbert Parham lying on the floor outside the back door of his […]
Thirty-six year-old Alexander “Lexus” Tesecum was remanded to prison today for allegedly pointing a pistol at a police constable. Tesecum was charged with Aggravated Assault on P.C. James Jones when he appeared before Magistrate Roberto Ordonez. He was remanded into custody until December twenty-first. The incident occurred about two forty-five a.m. on November second, but […]
Following the fiasco on Freetown Road earlier this week over a political sign, a chainsaw operator working for the Belize City Council has been charged with a crime. According to court reports, this morning thirty-three year old James Suazo pleaded not guilty to five counts of Aggravated Assault. Suazo was offered and met bail of […]
Earlier this week in reporting on the double murder of Said and Daniel Sewell in Ladyville we referred to that village as a quiet sort of place. Actually the record show it’s not, and last night another incident proved the point. News Five’s Marion Ali has the details. Marion Ali, Reporting It was not business […]
Two men are lucky to be alive tonight after they were shot as they stood at the corner of Victoria Street and New Road in Belize City. Police say Michael Hemmans and Ken Gough, both twenty-six, were in front of an internet café at the intersection sometime around nine last night when they heard gunshots […]
Another U.S fugitive has been sent back to Uncle Sam, this time as part of that country’s system of military justice. Thirty-seven year old Matthew Anderson, working in Belize as a physical therapist at the K.H.M.H. was this morning taken into custody by police on the strength of a warrant issued by the U.S government. […]
As investigators will tell you, many robberies like chain snatching and purse grabbing are never reported to the police. But in the latest incident to occur in Belize City, the victim has come forward. She is thirty-four year old Martha Garcia, a fruit vendor stationed at the corner of Church and Albert Streets. According to […]
It’s the kind of homicide that we more often see on the violence-prone streets of Belize City. But the latest double murder unfolded on a quiet lane in Ladyville. News Five’s Marion Ali reports from the scene. Marion Ali, Reporting The bloodstains inside this pickup truck tell the violent story and tonight police have two […]
A forty-two year old Toledo business woman is recovering from serious head injuries after she was attacked and robbed by three men. The assault occurred around one on Friday afternoon at Johnson’s store in Big Falls Village. Amelia Johnson reported to police that she was alone in her shop when a white vehicle carrying four […]
While Belmopan police say they do not suspect foul play in the death of Baby Indira Chiquin, they have charged a San Pedro mother for neglect after her three young children were found home alone. According to authorities, around seven on Friday night after they received information they visited the home of twenty-seven year old […]
In crime news, murder suspect Arthur Young is still on the loose. Young is the target of investigations into the stabbing death of twenty-four year old Calvin Young. Sources to News Five indicate that the wanted man was seen in the Belize Rural area last night and tonight residents are asked to be careful as […]
Meanwhile, investigations also continue into an armed robbery earlier this week that left a Belize City businessman hospitalized. According to forty-seven year old Jian Zhi Huang, he was at his game shop Kent Market at the corner of Water Lane and West Street when two male customers entered the establishment. But after playing a few […]
Twenty-five year old prison inmate, Deon Slusher, was today formally arraigned before Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie for the murder of fellow prisoner, Gilroy “Hootie” Wade. Wade was shot dead inside the Kolbe Prison compound last Thursday while on recreational break. Today in court, Slusher accused prison authorities of beating him in order to make him […]
Today police have another murder on their hands. The incident occurred sometime after ten on Friday night at a house on Juliet Soberanis Street in the Belama Phase One area. When police arrived on the scene, they found twenty-four year old Calvin Young, also known as Kelvin Young, dead, with knife wounds to the back, […]
