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Meanwhile, police have responded to vocal accusations made by residents that their neighbourhood is being targeted for harassment. Sr. Supt Chester Williams “We continue to receive complaints from residents in the George Street area of the random sound of gunshots being fired within the George Street area.” Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting But it was not the […]
Written on June 19, 2007 | Posted in
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A teenager has been charged with murder following the death of a fellow prisoner in the Orange Walk police station. According to authorities, on Saturday afternoon, seventeen year old Eric Castillo and thirty year old Nelson Castellanos were two of six men detained in the station’s communal holding cell, but within hours, the older prisoner […]
Written on June 19, 2007 | Posted in
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Did a police officer overreact or did he genuinely feel threatened when he shot a suspect in the leg? That is the question authorities are trying to answer in an investigation ordered by Police Commissioner Gerald Westby. The incident unfolded this morning around twelve-fifteen in a dimly lit area of Benque Viejo del Carmen. Authorities […]
Written on June 19, 2007 | Posted in
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Tonight tensions are running high in the old capital as clashes between armed adversaries have resulted in yet another murder, the arrest of at least three young men, and threats of additional violence. This latest incident also has an added sense of drama because as I found out this morning, two of the eyewitnesses are […]
Written on June 18, 2007 | Posted in
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A bar fight in Independence village has left one man without an eye and another behind bars. Around eighty-thirty on Friday night, forty-two year old Jose Gallardo and thirty year old Juan Velliz, were drinking at a village bar when Gallardo got into an altercation with another man known only as Bol. Velliz was standing […]
Written on June 18, 2007 | Posted in
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An official investigation has been launched by police following the death of an prisoner in the Orange Walk jail. According to authorities, around one on Sunday morning, officers on duty discovered the lifeless body of thirty year old Nelson Castellanos in one of the station’s cells. The cops immediately noticed that the left side of […]
Written on June 18, 2007 | Posted in
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A tailor living in San Pedro has been arrested and charged after a ten year old girl reported he sexually assaulted her. The child has told police that while walking home from school on June ninth, fifty-eight year old Jacinto Hector Castillo grabbed her, threatened her, and then forced her into his house. The girl […]
Written on June 18, 2007 | Posted in
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Following a sixteen year old girl’s report that she was sexually assaulted, Corozal police have arrested the accused rapist. The thirty-one year old suspect cannot be named as he is the young woman’s brother-in-law, but we can tell you that he has been charged with Rape and Aggravated Assault. The victim told police that on […]
Written on June 15, 2007 | Posted in
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A watchman is in police custody tonight after the building he was hired to guard was burglarised. Sometime between six-fifteen on Monday evening and nine Wednesday night, a thief or thieves broke into Enrique Martinez and Sons Limited at mile two on the Northern Highway and stole more than ten thousand dollars worth of air […]
Written on June 15, 2007 | Posted in
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A vicious and fatal stabbing has resulted in the arrest of a resident of Independence village. According to police, just after midnight on Sunday, authorities were informed that there was a man with a bad cut to his stomach lying on the street in front of the Bang Chinese Restaurant. When the cops showed up, […]
Written on June 14, 2007 | Posted in
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Tonight police investigations continue into a strange case of arson that took place on the Customs compound in Belize City last week. Reports to News Five are that around three a.m. on June sixth, someone cut through the fence surrounding the Port Authority, busted a hole into a forty-foot container and–instead of stealing the contents–set […]
Written on June 14, 2007 | Posted in
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For the fourth time in less than a week, we have the depressing duty to report the rape of a young woman. The latest assault occurred on Wednesday in the Corozal District. According to the report filed with police, a sixteen year old girl went to work at the house of her thirty-one year old […]
Written on June 14, 2007 | Posted in
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Police today reported some major progress in efforts to reduce the number of heavy weapons on the streets of Belize City. This afternoon they held a press conference to display the lethal collection. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting The guns, ammunition, and drugs were all confiscated in separate operations conducted in Belize City over the past twenty […]
Written on June 13, 2007 | Posted in
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But as city police continue to look for those two suspects, they are investigating yet another reported sexual assault. This time the victim is only thirteen years old. The primary school student has told authorities that around nine forty-five on Sunday night, a neighbour initiated sexual intercourse with her against her will. That neighbour has […]
Written on June 13, 2007 | Posted in
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Violence against women is a common theme running through crime reports, but the story we lead with tonight is more disturbing than most in that it is not the first, nor second time the victim has been targeted. Voice of Victim “It is the third attempt on my life and my children are very traumatised, […]
Written on June 12, 2007 | Posted in
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Tonight two escapees are back behind bars thanks to the public’s assistance. Shortly after our story about the three inmates who escaped over the weekend from Hattieville Prison ran last night, authorities received reports that two of the wanted men were spotted boarding a barge bound for Caye Caulker. The information was relayed to cops […]
Written on June 12, 2007 | Posted in
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In related news out of Hattieville Prison, officials are also asking for the public’s help in locating five men who have escaped from the facility within the last two years. They are Alejandro Itzab, Dennis Quilter, Gian Guerra, Herman Mejia and Orlando Estrada. Quilter made his run while being transported to court. The other four […]
Written on June 12, 2007 | Posted in
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One man is in police custody tonight and another is being sought by authorities following the violent death of a San Pedro resident over the weekend. This morning, News Five’s Kendra Griffith travelled to the island and joined investigators looking for answers. Kendra Griffith, Reporting A blood stain on concrete marks the spot where police […]
Written on June 11, 2007 | Posted in
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Gunshots rang out again on Sunday night and in the aftermath nervous residents emerged from their homes to discover that yet another young man had been fatally wounded. And as I found out today, the motive behind the cold-blooded killing may be a son’s revenge for an assault on his father. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting This […]
Written on June 11, 2007 | Posted in
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A teenager is tonight recovering after he was stabbed in the back during a fight. According to police, around six on Friday evening officers on mobile patrol found fifteen year old Elmer Martinez and a fourteen year old boy scuffling on Bishop Street. By that time, Martinez was already bleeding from three wounds in his […]
Written on June 11, 2007 | Posted in
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Tonight authorities need your help in locating a suspected sex offender. Jorge Castellanos of Benque Viejo del Carmen is being sought by police after he allegedly entered a home in that town and assaulted a teenage girl. Reports to our newsroom indicate that around three-thirty on Saturday morning, forty year old Isidro Alvarado woke up […]
Written on June 11, 2007 | Posted in
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Tonight prison officials are investigating the brazen escape of three inmates from the young offenders section over the weekend. According to Chief Executive Officer Marlon Skeen, around two-thirty on Sunday morning, guard Charles Galvez reported that sixteen year old Francisco Martinez and his seventeen year old brother Sergio of San Pedro, and sixteen year old […]
Written on June 11, 2007 | Posted in
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Two weeks after the bizarre kidnapping of Derek Aikman, tonight investigators tell News Five that the Director of Public Prosecutions will be handed all the evidence early next week. According to Commissioner of Police Gerald Westby, their next step will be to follow the D.P.P.’s advice. Gerald Westby, Commissioner of Police “As I have said, […]
Written on June 8, 2007 | Posted in
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We are always hearing stories of how the police can’t respond to emergency calls because there’s no fuel for their vehicles. Now we know why. Police constable Leroy Kerr, the man given the responsibility to authorise fuel orders for the department, is being accused tonight of operating a monumental scam that defrauded government of over […]
Written on June 7, 2007 | Posted in
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Belize City police say they are still trying to find out how twenty-eight year old Lyjon Franklin may have broken into the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts, but that has not stopped them from charging him with the crimes of Aggravated Burglary and Handling Stolen property. The break in the case came after authorities […]
Written on June 7, 2007 | Posted in
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