Another cop is in trouble tonight after he barrelled through a police checkpoint on the Northern Highway carrying a cargo of uncustomed liquor and cigarettes. Off duty police constable thirty year old Andres Hernandez sped through the checkpoint at the Boom cut-off around five-thirty this morning, was chased by Ladyville cops, turned around at mile […]
The death was shrouded in mystery from the initial discovery of the body … but little by little information is emerging on the death of a young man that increasingly points in a direction that has made many people uncomfortable. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting The family and friends of twenty-eight year old Rennick Ryan Reneau strongly […]
The second of four escaped prisoners is back behind bars at Hattieville Prison. Kolbe Foundation officials have confirmed that Rupert Manzanero turned himself in to police in the Cayo district this morning in the company of one of his brothers. Manzanero had been on the run since he and three other prisoners escaped from the […]
Tonight, police are still looking for the two men who brazenly held up a passenger bus and made off with several hundred dollars. Twenty year old Keran Rocke, a conductor for National Transport Service, told authorities that, the bus, on its way from Benque Viejo to Belize City, on Monday evening stopped by the Mile […]
Seven year old Shawn Flores is home tonight recovering from a pellet wound he received after the young boy was accidentally shot by a twelve year old friend. The children, who reside in Dangriga, were at the residence of twenty-five year old Aaron Nolberto. Police report that the older child, who is mentally challenged, took […]
Details remain sketchy but police have made plans to exhume the remains of a Corozal resident so investigators can determine whether he was murdered. For four days, seventy-seven year old security guard Enrique Lino had been hospitalized, first in Corozal, then at the K.H.M.H. in Belize City. When he died last Friday, the body was […]
It is always disturbing to report attacks against children and older persons, but on Sunday morning an elderly woman was viciously assaulted and raped in the Cayo District. According to the sixty-seven year old victim, she was at her home in San Ignacio around six a.m. when she was attacked by an intruder. The perpetrator […]
Two men are wanted by police in connection with reports filed by separate pregnant girls in Belmopan. In the company of a social worker, a twelve year old girl told cops in the capital that over the summer she met a Corozal man named “Luis”. The two became friends and then in June, the child […]
Two months after a Belize City businessman was shot during a botched robbery, police have made an arrest in the case. On Friday, twenty year old Marlon Jones was charged with Attempted Murder, Use of Deadly Means of Harm and Grievous Harm. The accused was remanded to Hattieville Prison until December eleventh. Apparently Jones had […]
Separate cases of burglary have resulted in one man being sentenced to jail and two others imprisoned on remand. According to court reports, on Saturday night police were tipped off that there was an intruder near the Romac’s warehouse on Albert Street. The security guard was subsequently able to detain the individual who was later […]
Police are looking for a suspected arsonist who torched a school building in the Toledo district over the weekend. Around two on Sunday morning, villagers of the Bladen community woke up to the smell of smoke and when they looked outside, they were horrified to see four classrooms of the Fabian Cayetano R.C. School engulfed […]
In other news from the courts, today a third man was accused of the murder of Kurlin Felix. This afternoon, nineteen year old Wabala Noralez appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers were he was formally charged with Murder and two counts each of Attempted Murder, Use of Deadly Means of Harm, and Grievous Harm. Noralez was […]
And while arrests have been made in Kurlin’s murder, tonight Belize City police are no closer to solving an early morning shooting on Thursday that left Felix’s cousin injured. Twenty-two year old Ryan Felix was rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital around seven-thirty that morning with a gunshot wound to his left foot. But […]
Meanwhile, authorities are advising motorists travelling in the Stann Creek District not to pick up anyone acting suspiciously along the road. That’s because investigators have received reports that escaped prisoner Terry Bainton was spotted in the Hope Creek area earlier today. The convicted burglar was one of four men who escaped from the multi-max section […]
If you’ve ever been the victim of a crime, you’re familiar with the feelings of violation and fear that takes hold. But tonight, a Belize City woman has come forward in the hope that by sharing her story of torture and trauma, her assailants will be brought to justice. Marion Ali, Reporting Investigators believe that […]
Police in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye are being accused of using excessive force in making an arrest. Thirty-eight year old Calvin Young visited our studios this morning with a police medico-legal form that certifies he received injuries classified as wounding. Young gave us his story and showed us the bruises on his legs, back, head, […]
Acting Police Press Officer, Assistant Superintendent Bart Jones, says even though police have an entirely different version, an investigation has already begun into the report filed by Young. A.S.P. Bart Jones, Acting Police Press Officer ”The police officers in San Pedro are saying that sometime after five on Monday evening they received information about a […]
Few people in Belize still sleep with their doors open, but this evening it’s worth making double sure that your home is secure. The reason is a jailbreak at Hattieville … and more than thirty-six hours after they busted out, none of the four escaped cons have been caught. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Tonight prisoners Rupert […]
This morning police had an unidentified body on their hands, but even after they learned the man’s name, the mystery of how he came to die was just beginning. News Five’s Marion Ali reports from Ladyville. Marion Ali, Reporting Authorities are still trying to figure out how twenty-eight year old Rennick Reneau met his death […]
Belize’s police officers are increasingly becoming the targets of deadly violence and today in a press briefing, law enforcement officers expressed their concern over the continued attacks. The commanding officer of Eastern Division, Senior Superintendent Allen Whylie, says the latest incident unfolded around ten on Monday night when one of their mobile units came under […]
It was a frightening attack on a Belize City woman and her seven year old son and police have yet to apprehend any suspects. According to the twenty-eight year old victim, she and her son were home sleeping around one on Friday morning when they were awakened by a noise and confronted two men inside […]
In crime news, a fight between two banana workers in the Stann Creek district has left both men hospitalised. According to police, around six-thirty Thursday morning, work gang captains Santiago Centeno and Jose Hernandez showed up at Green Grove, also known as Farm Fifteen, to organise their crews. But before long, the men started to […]
Police are investigating a brazen scam perpetrated on the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital by one or more of its employees. Sources indicate to News Five that the racket, which was uncovered around three months ago, involved the diversion of Social Security cheques from the account of the K.H.M.H. into the personal custody of a clerk […]
A man lies wounded in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with a stab wound inflicted by a man he reportedly assaulted. Ellison Lewis told police that around ten-fifteen last night, he was at his home on North Creek Road when thirty-seven year old Ruben Cox, a construction worker who lives on the same street, attacked […]
Two illegal immigrants, including a fifteen year old boy, will spend the next five years behind bars after they pleaded guilty to Theft and Damage to Property. Forty year old Willy Nunez and the minor today received prison sentences of three years for the theft charge and two years for the property damage. Both sentences […]
