Today, seventeen year old Justin Emmanuel Orillana, a second form student of Gwen Lizarraga High School, was taken to Belize Family Court where he was formally charged for the murder of his father, thirty-eight year old Cecil Thompson. At around seven on Tuesday night Orillana was reportedly seen running away from the family home on […]
It has been five days since the cold bloodied murders of thirty-two year old Dorian Michael and twenty-four year old Keiva Leslie and tonight their killer or killers remain at large. Michael and Leslie were reportedly kidnapped and taken up to a feeder road just north of the Haulover Bridge where they were each shot […]
It’s a popular downtown electronic emporium, but tonight Venus Photo and Records is missing some inventory–over fifty-four thousand dollars worth. According to police reports, the Albert Street store was burgled sometime Tuesday night, with the thieves taking cameras, watches, video game consoles, cell phones, DVD players, and a whole lot more. The hot stuff is […]
A deadly weekend has turned into a murderous week as another Belizean has fallen to what appears to be an epidemic of fatal violence. The latest outbreak occurred last night in Belize City. Lavern Stephens, Sister of Murder Victim “I know my brother fi be a nice person, quiet. He dah noh wah trouble maker […]
Shortly after two this afternoon area residents of Cairo Street and Euphrates Avenue were jogged out of their routines as a series of gunshots rang out. The police quickly arrived on the scene but all they found were expended shells. Witnesses told News Five that it happened so quickly that it took them a while […]
The suspect accused of murdering a Belize City father in front of his wife and children appeared in Magistrate’s Court today. On Tuesday, relatives of thirty-one year old Stewart Sutherland accompanied him to the Queen Street Police station where he turned himself over to investigators. He has since been charged with the murder of forty-one […]
The murder is nowhere near being solved, but tonight police at least have a body and identity. Jacqueline Godwin Today the family of fifty-six year old Janet Rivers Myvette visited the Orange Walk police station where they positively identified the jewellery found near the remains of a woman as the property of their mother who […]
A second suspect has been arrested and charged with murder four days after the shooting death of a Belize City man. According to police, twenty-two year old Lincoln Sabido was an accomplice in the killing of Sherwin Locke. Sabido appeared before Magistrate Albert Hoare this morning and was formally charged with the crime and has […]
Police usually show up just after a crime has been committed but on Sunday evening two constables actually witnessed a double murder. Around five thirty that day, cops were called out to an area near the Haulover Creek Bridge and on a lonely feeder road, authorities found the decaying body of a murdered man. Six […]
As we said, Sunday night’s double homicide was the second time detectives had to be dispatched to the Haulover Creek area as earlier in the evening a partly decomposed body was also found on the same feeder road. The victim is described as a man of slim built dressed in long jeans, a black t-shirt […]
The weekend’s killing spree was not confined to the Belize district as on Saturday a stabbing resulted in the death of an Orange Walk man. According to police, around five in the evening, twenty-eight year old Roberto Patt had just gotten off a bus near his home in Guinea Grass Village when he and another […]
The weekend’s fourth murder occurred around eight-thirty on Sunday morning. Forty one year old Gary Gabourel and his common law wife Topaz Smith and children were on one of their weekend retreats at the family farm in Willow’s Bank Village in the Belize District when the peaceful atmosphere was shattered by a fight followed by […]
While the burglary of a school may have once been considered a rare event, these days it appears to be commonplace. The latest institution to suffer the injustice and indignity is Living Hope, located on the ground floor of the Belize City Centre. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports. Natalie Lino, School Manager “Those people did […]
There are disturbing reports of child abuse emerging from the Ladyville area tonight as three girls have made allegations of sexual assault against an elderly security guard. The victims, aged six, eleven, and fourteen have told authorities that seventy year old Francisco Ortega molested them and then threatened to kill their parents if they told […]
A Belizean drug trafficker has been sentenced to spend the next three decades behind bars in the United States. According to international news reports, on Thursday, New York district court judge Naomi Reice Buchwald ordered that thirty-six year old Robert Hertular be locked up for the next thirty-three years and four months and pay a […]
Thursday morning’s shooting is officially a murder investigation as the critically wounded victim succumbed to his injuries earlier today. According to doctors at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, around three forty-five this morning twenty year old Sherwin Locke died as a result of his gunshot wounds. Locke had been rushed to the emergency room just […]
Tonight a young man hovers on the edge of life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, the victim of a late morning shooting near Mahogany Street. The victim has been identified as twenty year old Sherwin Locke. According to an eyewitness, around eleven this morning, Locke emerged from this path and ran onto Electric Avenue […]
Quick police work has led to the arrest of two men following a jewellery heist in Independence Village. According to the victim, Walter Panting, sometime between six on Wednesday night and seven on Thursday morning, a thief or thieves broke into his store and stole more than ten thousand dollars worth of chains, bracelets, earrings […]
Meanwhile, persistent efforts by Belize City police have resulted in the arrest of the second suspect in a burglary that occurred in February. According to court reports, on Wednesday morning investigators tracked down Jason Clark near his Frederick Street home and immediately detained him. Clark appeared before Magistrate Sharon Fraser this morning where he pled […]
It was a good day for police all around today as officers in Belmopan are also reporting that they have arrested seven people in connection with separate crimes. In the first incident, Evergreen Primary School principal Pamela Neal reported to police that over the weekend, three computers were stolen from the institution’s computer lab. Police […]
An accused bike thief out on bail has been charged once more for a similar crime. According to court reports, this morning thirty year old Welta Usher appeared before Magistrate Aretha Ford where he was arraigned on one count of robbery. Usher was arrested after Andrew Barnett reported to police that around noon on Sunday […]
The Police Department is asking the public’s help tonight, not to catch a criminal, but to locate a crime victim whose court testimony may be crucial in the case against his alleged assailant. In 2004, David Melendez was shot and lost the use of an eye in an attack at his home in Trinidad Village […]
Residents of the Lord’s Bank community will sleep a little easier tonight knowing that two men have been arrested and charged for the cruel killing of Cruz Sho inside her home last Thursday. But perhaps what is equally disturbing about Sho’s murder is the fact that the accused murderers are teenagers. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Today […]
Homicide detectives in the south are tonight investigating the murder of a banana worker that occurred over the weekend. According to authorities, around ten on Saturday morning, officers were notified that the body of a man had been found near the Placencia junction with the Southern Highway. Multiple chop wounds to the head and body […]
Meanwhile Belize City police are also searching for the parents of a baby discovered dead in a canal off Central American Boulevard. According to sixty-three year old sanitation worker Noel Ebanks, around nine-thirty on Saturday morning he was cleaning the side of the North Creek Canal when he spotted the body of a newborn baby […]
