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While homicide detectives are working overtime following the spate of shootings in the old capital, their colleagues at the Anti-Drug Unit are also keeping busy. Last Thursday, a mobile unit detained thirty-three year old Arthur Young with a nine millimetre pistol loaded with twelve rounds of ammunition. However before Young could be taken into custody, […]
Written on August 28, 2007 | Posted in
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Tonight Belize City police are investigating yet another homicide that has claimed the life of a teenager. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Tonight family and friends continue to mourn the death of eighteen year old Gerald Duhanney. The young man was fatally shot in the abdomen around three-thirty on Saturday morning on […]
Written on August 27, 2007 | Posted in
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And while cops are looking for Duhanney’s killer, three men have been arrested and charged in connection to the stabbing murder of twenty-five year old Mark Emmanuel Flowers. This morning, twenty-one year old Tyrone Tillet and brothers Jermaine and Jaime Villanueva appeared in Magistrate Court where they were formally arraigned on charges of murder and […]
Written on August 27, 2007 | Posted in
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Tonight a Belize City man is recovering from gunshot wounds and his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend is accused of pulling the trigger. According to police reports, around five on Sunday morning, twenty four year old Kareem Wright, his girlfriend and a mutual friend were walking on Sarstoon Street when an ex-boyfriend approached the couple. The former lover […]
Written on August 27, 2007 | Posted in
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The weekend’s violence continued on Sunday as three men were injured as they hung out near the corner of West Canal and Rocky Road. Cops say around seven thirty that night twenty year old Jermaine Cattouse, thirty-eight year old Jerry Graham and sixty year old Bernard Bradley were all injured when two men walked up […]
Written on August 27, 2007 | Posted in
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In news just in from Belmopan, authorities are asking for the public’s assistance in locating a suspect in connection to the gruesome killing of a Belmopan woman. According to investigators, twenty-one year old Efrian Santiago is the man responsible for the murder of twenty three year old Velma Copo. Copo was stabbed twenty nine times […]
Written on August 27, 2007 | Posted in
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A Belize City man was fatally stabbed in the wee hours of this morning. Around two forty-five police were called to the Newtown Barracks where they found twenty-five year old Mark Flowers suffering from a stab wound to the abdomen. Flowers died shortly after reaching the K.H.M.H. Police reports indicate that Flowers was standing outside […]
Written on August 24, 2007 | Posted in
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Details are sketchy but we can confirm a murder that has been reported in the nation’s capital. The body of twenty-three year old Honduran Zilma Copo was found by neighbors at her home on St. Matthew Street around four-thirty Wednesday afternoon. She had been stabbed numerous times in the chest. Present at the time were […]
Written on August 23, 2007 | Posted in
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This afternoon the Belize Police Department held a press briefing to give an account of their performance during Hurricane Dean. According to Acting O.C. of the Eastern Division, Senior Superintendent Chester Williams, the eight p.m. to nine a.m. curfew, along with vigorous patrols kept crime to a minimum in the old capital, with only three […]
Written on August 21, 2007 | Posted in
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Around eight forty-five this morning, the partly decomposed body of twenty six year old Jermaine Orosco was pulled from the upper Macal River. The corpse was found three hundred yards away from where a search team had discovered Orosco’s boat On Monday with its engine still running. The discovery was made four days after Orosco, […]
Written on August 17, 2007 | Posted in
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Three days after twenty-six year old Jeramine Orosco mysteriously disappeared somewhere along the banks of the upper Macal River there is still no word of his whereabouts. Orosco, a boat captain, is an employee of David Penner, a contractor hired by BECOL to clean the Chalillo reservoir impoundment area. Reports are that around seven on […]
Written on August 15, 2007 | Posted in
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Belize City police say shortly after one this afternoon, two brazen young men walked into the compound of Wesley Junior College, went upstairs and robbed acting dean Winsome Arana and college principal Brenda Armstrong of thousands of dollars. The money had been collected from students who had gone to the institution to register. According to […]
Written on August 15, 2007 | Posted in
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There are more questions than answers in a pair of shooting incidents that sent two young men to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital on Tuesday night. Police say they do not have much to go on but believe the assaults on twenty-three year old Andrew West and twenty-eight year old Edwin Rivera are related. It […]
Written on August 15, 2007 | Posted in
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Fifty-four murders have been committed since the first of the year and while police have chalked up some success in solving many of the killings, the perpetrators in two of 2007’s most high profile homicides remain undiscovered and unpunished. We asked Eastern Division Deputy Commander Chester Williams for an update on the deaths of businessman […]
Written on August 14, 2007 | Posted in
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Seven hundred dollars for a stick of weed seems like a pretty drastic penalty but that’s what thirty year old Albert Chaparro, a painter of Neal Penn Road, must pay between now and September fourteenth or he will spend seven months behind bars. That court ruling followed Chaparro’s guilty plea this morning before Magistrate Aretha […]
Written on August 14, 2007 | Posted in
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Two murders occurred over the weekend, one in Belize City by gunshot and the other in the rural Stann Creek District by machete. To say they are examples of senseless violence is to state the obvious. Not so obvious is how to stop the bloodshed. Jacqueline Godwin Twenty-seven year old Simon Alexander Montes, better known […]
Written on August 13, 2007 | Posted in
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Police in the Stann Creek District are on the lookout for a Honduran national who not only killed one man but left another to die. According to authorities, around six-thirty on Friday evening, the suspect, who remains unidentified, was in Middlesex Village when he reportedly got into an argument concerning a woman with another Honduran, […]
Written on August 13, 2007 | Posted in
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But while police continue to look for their murder suspect, they have made progress in another stabbing incident that also occurred last Friday in the Stann Creek Valley village of Pomona. Twenty six-year old Julian Polanco of the Hummingbird Community has been arrested and charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means […]
Written on August 13, 2007 | Posted in
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This morning, thirty three year old Lionel Castillo, the investigator at the Ombudsman’s Office, appeared in Belize City Magistrates’ Court where he was arraigned on the charge of Extortion following a sting operation by police. Authorities say Castillo received an initial payment of five thousand dollars after he purportedly helped an inmate serving time at […]
Written on August 13, 2007 | Posted in
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While most of us were sleeping this morning a burglar or burglars were working hard to break into the Ladyville branch of Atlantic Bank. According to the manager, sometime between four and six a.m. the steel shutters at the back of the building on the Northern Highway were broken and the building entered. Unfortunately for […]
Written on August 13, 2007 | Posted in
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Earlier this month, missing monies created chaos at the Christian Workers Union as accusations of misappropriation were levied at the organisation’s leadership. But tonight, the C.W.U. bosses have been vindicated as a police investigation into the matter has resulted in the arrest of a former employee. This afternoon it took over an hour for nineteen […]
Written on August 10, 2007 | Posted in
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Tonight a well known criminal is under police guard at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital pending charges in connection with an assault on a Belize City businesswoman. According to police, around twelve-thirty this afternoon a lone assailant approached Kim Shop at the corner of South Street and West Canal, forced his way inside, and started […]
Written on August 10, 2007 | Posted in
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Tonight residents in the Corozal district are asked to be on the lookout for funny money. According to authorities in the north, over the past week businesses have reported counterfeit Belize bills in fifty and hundred dollar denominations, as well as fake fifty dollar greenbacks. The counterfeit cash carry the serial numbers DB544458, DC 139009, […]
Written on August 10, 2007 | Posted in
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Police continue to pursue leads in the execution style murder of businessman Richard Hoare. Sources tell News Five that the young woman whose cell phone was found in Hoare’s S.U.V. the night of his death, has once again been detained for questioning. The list of others pulled in by investigators includes some prominent names in […]
Written on August 9, 2007 | Posted in
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He was buried today following a well attended funeral service at St. John’s Cathedral … and while police have yet to identify businessman Richard Hoare’s killer, they have been pursuing some promising leads. Sources close to the investigation inform News Five that one important link is a cell phone found in Hoare’s car the night […]
Written on August 8, 2007 | Posted in
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