Less than six weeks after a sanitation worker found the body of a newborn baby boy floating in the North Creek Canal, tonight Belize City police have yet another case of infanticide on their hands. This time, the foetus, believed to be between sixteen and twenty weeks old, was found wrapped in a plastic bag […]
Her assailant may not have remembered what she looked like, but one Belize City crime victim says she recognised the guy who jacked her chain … and now he’s under arrest. According to police, the young lady was walking down Regent Street on February first when a man of East Indian appearance rode up on […]
Belize City police came under fire last night after officers asked the driver of a vehicle to stop. The brazen attack unfolded in the Port Loyola Area around ten on Wednesday night. According to authorities, their officers were on mobile patrol when upon reaching an area on Caesar Ridge Road they saw a white Isuzu […]
A couple of armed burglars may have thought they had picked an easy target, but little did they know their victim was armed and dangerous. According to Belize City police, Jian Zhi Huang was inside his shop at the corner of West Street and Water Lane when around three yesterday afternoon two men walked into […]
Meanwhile, a Santa Elena man has been arrested and charged with attempted murder following a stabbing in that municipality. Police reports indicate that around eight thirty on Saturday night, twenty two year old Pedro Melendez was at a shop in Santa Elena when he was attacked by a man armed with a knife. During the […]
In other police news, a teenager has been arrested for joyriding after cops found him driving a stolen car. According to court reports, around twelve thirty on Saturday morning, Bernardo Bay Junior was leaving the Shooter’s Nightclub located on Amara Avenue when three men asked him for a cigarette. Bay says as he looked down […]
The recent spate of deadly violence against women at the hands of their significant others has placed the issues surrounding domestic abuse on the forefront of public concern. But tonight there is yet another disturbing case to report because over the weekend two women were attacked because they tried to help a neighbour who was […]
Gunshots; the wail of an ambulance; police sirens; the screams of mourning relatives. Sadly, these are the succession of sounds that have become commonplace on the streets of Belize City. That scene played out again on Amara Avenue last night and now yet another family is in the grips of grief. And as News Five’s […]
A young Belize City man has pled guilty to the armed robbery of a Cemetery Road restaurant. According to court reports, this afternoon seventeen year old Julian Willoughby and eighteen year old Kareem Arnold appeared before Magistrate Roberto Ordonez on a charge of robbery. But before the matter could proceed, Willoughby told Ordonez that he […]
Last week we ran a story following up on a murder investigation in which a Belize City family complained that overzealous police ransacked their home in search of a weapon that wasn’t there. This morning police returned to the house on Arlington Drive … with a different result. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Belize City police are […]
Viewers of this newscast will notice that the age of violent criminals appears to be reaching ever lower. And while not all perpetrators are convicted, when a minor is found guilty of murder the mandatory sentence is a minimum of life imprisonment. For a teenager that’s a long time behind bars. Too long, according to […]
Police have arrested and charged the man detained following a deadly bar fight in San Narciso Village on Sunday night. Twenty-nine year old Ricardo Pott has been charged with murder in connection with the death of Nolberto Martinez. Both men were at a local nightspot when they started to quarrel, but as the two scuffled, […]
A Belize City businessman who was victimized by robbers earlier this month has offered a reward for the return of his property. According to Dean Fuller, sometime between April thirteenth and April sixteenth, a thief or thieves broke into his Buttonwood Bay home and stole jewellery, household items, and a safe. The culprits then appropriated […]
In police news, a twenty-nine year old man remains in custody at the Corozal police station tonight following a fatal fight that claimed the life of another man. According to the authorities, around ten on Sunday night thirty-nine year old Nolberto Martinez was out socializing at a bar in San Narcisso Village, when he started […]
Seven weeks after a sixteen year old girl was raped and her throat slashed, police have arrested and charged three persons with the crimes. Twenty-six year old Norman Oliva Peters aka “Ras Moz”, twenty-one year old Leonard Anthony Godoy aka “Ticky” and a fifteen year old minor have all been charged with attempted murder, dangerous […]
Police made a big drug bust over the weekend, confiscating nineteen kilos of cocaine. According to police reports, acting on a tip, officers from the Crimes Investigation Unit, Crimes Investigation Branch and Anti-Drug Unit visited the Novelo’s Bus terminal on West Canal and proceeded to search a bus that had just come in from Orange […]
A shooting in Belize City over the weekend has left one man hospitalized. Eighteen year old Wayne Matthews of a Faber’s Road Extension address remains at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight, suffering from a gunshot wound to the neck. Police reports are that around one on Saturday morning neighbours in the area of Iguana […]
As a society we’ve come to accept the news of another murder on the streets of Belize City with frightening ease. But when the victim is only a child, even the jaded are reminded of the senseless violence that dominates our streets. News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin reports on the latest atrocity. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Fifteen […]
And while the victim’s family mourn his passing, relatives of the young teenagers that police detained in connection with the murder are crying foul. This morning News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin followed the trail of investigators looking for the killer. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Lisa Matura’s fifteen year old son was one of the first suspects picked […]
News Five sources have identified sixteen year old Kareem Francis aka “Yankee” as the young man charged with the murder of fifteen year old Jomo Lamb. This afternoon Head of Crimes Investigation Branch, Superintendent Chester Williams refused to confirm the identity of the accused and would only say that their suspect had been picked up […]
Corozal cops are patting themselves on the back tonight following a cocaine bust on Thursday. According to police, around seven forty-five last night officers on mobile patrol spotted two vehicles parked on South End road. As the cops got closer the cars sped off in different directions. The police decided to follow one of the […]
An eighteen year old man from the Corozal District has been arrested for the rape of his eight year old male cousin. On Sunday the pair were found naked together by a family member who reported it to the boys’ grandmother. She confronted the victim who confirmed the sodomy and that it was not the […]
A man suspected of committing several burglaries in the areas around Placencia and Independence is finally in the hands of police. Authorities say the arrest of twenty-one year old Christopher Rodriguez has brought closure to at least two major cases that occurred in June 2006 and March 2007. In the first incident, Rodriguez is believed […]
Sheldon Burgess, the man police believe held up a delivery truck in Dangriga on Saturday, is tonight behind bars. The twenty-one year old resident of Isla Road in that Southern town turned himself in to police Tuesday evening in the company of his attorney, Antoinette Moore. Burgess had been identified when one of the victims […]
A taxi driver out on a very early run on Monday morning is lucky to be alive after being held up at gunpoint and taken hostage. Police say that according to Luis Navarro, around two-thirty on Monday morning he had just finished a job and was heading back to his base. But at the corner […]
