A violent weekend on the streets of Belize City shows no signs of letting up as the most recent shooting has put three people in the hospital, including a ten year old boy. News 5’s Janelle Chanona has more. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Just after nine last night neighbours twenty-six year old Sigmund Trapp and nineteen […]
Belize City lived up to its violent reputation this weekend with two residents dead and another four recovering from stab wounds. The pair of homicides occurred within three hours of each other on Friday night. Ernest Smith, Cousin of Murder Victim “Because my lee cousin he give trouble right, he gives trouble. I noh wah […]
It was a busy weekend at the K.H.M.H. emergency room as four persons were hospitalised with stab wounds that occurred in two separate incidents on Friday night and early Saturday morning. In the first, sixteen year old Christen Usher and thirty year old Henry Flowers were involved in an altercation around ten and by the […]
An armed robber in Dangriga managed to jack a delivery truck for over three thousand dollars in cash but not without being identified. According to police, on Saturday morning someone called in an order to Quality Poultry’s Dangriga branch for a delivery of two hundred chickens to an address near the town’s airstrip. When driver […]
The second suspect accused of shooting a man in front of the police has been arrested. According to authorities, twenty-three year old Andrew West was picked up in Belize City on Wednesday evening. This afternoon West appeared before Magistrate Albert Hoare where he was arraigned on the charges of attempted murder, dangerous harm, and use […]
On Tuesday we reported the outcome of a love triangle gone wrong in the Stann Creek district. Tonight there is news that a similar situation has left a Crooked Tree man hospitalized in serious condition. According to authorities, around eleven-thirty on Monday night, thirty-three year old Charles O’Connors was on Water Lane with a female […]
A woman accused of fatally stabbing her brother has been arrested and charged with the crime. According to Corozal police, twenty-one year old Tiffara Smith of a Second Street address has been charged with the murder of her eighteen year old sibling, Dale Anthony Lino. Investigators say around two last Thursday afternoon, the deceased and […]
In court news, a Belize City man has been arrested and charged for the armed hold-up of one of his friends. Twenty-one year old Mervin Cruz appeared before Magistrate Roberto Ordonez on Tuesday morning where he pled not guilty to a charge of robbery. According to the victim, Ian Arthurs, around noon on March thirtieth […]
While efforts to maintain law and order in Belize City were mostly successful, tonight one family continues to mourn the loss of their loved one to deadly violence. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Thirty year old John Williams is the person Belize City police believe killed fifty year old Mauricio Velasquez. According to Carlos Pinto, his brother […]
Meanwhile, authorities in Punta Gorda are asking the public’s help in solving a murder of their own. Just after noon on Easter Sunday, the lifeless body of Tito Alcarez was discovered in a building under construction on Main Middle Street. Investigators immediately observed injuries to the back of the victim’s head and over his left […]
A similar incident in Benque Viejo has left another man in critical condition. According to cops, around twelve-thirty Friday morning twenty-one year old Succotz villager Oscar Itza was drinking with his friends when a fight broke out. During the melee, two men pulled out machetes and the blades struck Itza in the head and right […]
While investigators in Succotz are still trying to determine the motive behind the chopping, their counterparts in Dangriga know exactly why a Steadfast villager was stabbed in the wee hours of Holy Saturday. Apparently, twenty-five year old Rosa Requeña and twenty-one year old Isais Larios were at home asleep when Requeña’s common-law husband, and the […]
In more crime news from the old capital, two men are tonight under guard at the K.H.M.H. following a brazen shootout in front of the police. According to authorities, around three-thirty on Monday morning, police on duty in the Yabra area heard the sound of gunfire and then saw two young men chasing another man. […]
A teenaged girl has reported being raped in Placencia. The fifteen year old victim told police that around eight-thirty on Saturday night, she was on the beach when a man of East Indian descent attacked her, pulled her into the bush, and had sex with her against her will. A medical check has since confirmed […]
He was one of the busiest fast food vendors in the city, but tonight Belizean Fry Chicken owner Fred Hornby is thousands of miles away from his business, cooling his heels in an American jail. The U.S. national was picked up by members of the Crime Intelligence Unit bright and early on Monday morning and […]
And in late news, police are reporting a homicide this afternoon in Corozal Town. Eighteen year old Dale Lino was stabbed to death around two this afternoon, allegedly following an altercation with his twenty-one year old sister. The woman has been detained pending charges and the suspected murder weapon–a kitchen knife–has been recovered.
Two stolen cars have been recovered and two suspected thieves arrested in Benque Viejo. One of those suspects was wounded by a police bullet in the course of his apprehension. According to official reports, around midnight Tuesday a police patrol observed two Toyotas travelling at high speed on the Arenal Road toward Benque. A chase […]
Meanwhile, in San Ignacio police are dealing with an unusual death. Around eight Tuesday night police and firemen were called to a house on Melhado Road where they found smoke coming from a burning pot of beans on the stove. After extinguishing the fire and searching the house they discovered in the bathroom, the partially […]
Following a brazen hold-up on Monday morning, today nineteen year old Ryan Welcome of Caesar Ridge Road and twenty-eight year old Kevin Sutherland of Faber’s Road were handcuffed and taken over to Magistrate’s Court where they were arraigned on a charge of robbery. Welcome and Sutherland are the two men police believe held up two […]
Two men who snatched a bag full of loot as it was about to be deposited in the bank are behind bars tonight, thanks to some quick thinking by police. The action unfolded in the Belama area of Belize City around eleven-thirty this morning. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting This black Honda Civic car with taxi license […]
Two years ago he was charged with the murder of Dangriga resident Michael Palacio, but when witnesses failed to show up to testify, the case against thirty year old Sherwin Baltazar evaporated and he was subsequently released from Hattieville prison. On Sunday morning, however Baltazar’s freedom came to an abrupt and vicious end. Dangriga authorities […]
Dangriga police may have arrested one alleged murderer, but they are still on a manhunt for two other suspected killers. Guatemalans twenty-nine year old Carlos Adelmito Zuniga and forty-one year old Neftali Cruz, both of Alta Vista in the Stann Creek Valley, are being sought for the murder of thirty year old Ismael Castellanos. Castellanos’ […]
Over two weeks after twenty year old Cruz Sho was brutally murdered inside her house in Lords Bank Village, this afternoon police charged their third suspect in the killing, nineteen year old Lynsdale Franklin. Franklin has been on the run since the homicide on March fifteenth, but police say last Friday he turned himself in. […]
Five days ago, Belize City was rocked by the news of four violent deaths in less than twelve hours. In one of those cases, two police officers actually witnessed the execution style killing of a man and woman. The victims were laid to rest today and tonight family members of the deceased are comforted by […]
Orange Walk police are tonight asking the public for assistance in locating the killer or killers of an Indian Church Villager. According to police, around eight on Thursday morning cops visited the home of forty-four year old Orlando Castillo and found the owner lying on the floor with chop wounds to the head and body. […]
