A drug bust in the Belize district has resulted in the arrest of two people. According to police, officers from the Crimes Investigation Unit and the Anti-Drug Unit were on patrol in the Vista Del Mar area when they stopped a white four door Crown Victoria. During the subsequent search of the vehicle, the cops […]
It was the kind of murder that is exceedingly rare and particularly disturbing. Not a gangbang, no lover’s quarrel, not even a hold-up in which the victim fights back and the gunman shoots in panic. The killing that took place Thursday afternoon at the Old Well Road in Ladyville was a simple act of unspeakable […]
A fifty-three year old man has been detained by police in Punta Gorda following reports that he has been sexually abusing his twelve year old stepdaughter. The child reported to police, in the presence of a social worker, that at the age of nine she had engaged in sexual intercourse with a neighbour and since […]
Viewers will recall the tragic incident several weeks ago in Dangriga when police constable Ever Morales was stabbed to death by a mentally ill assailant, twenty-five year old Giovanni Tasher. Tasher was subsequently shot in the leg by cops and put under guard in the hospital. He is now apparently well enough to stand trial […]
A Belize City man has been arrested following a bizarre incident in which he allegedly engaged in a shootout with law enforcement authorities. According to police, around eleven-thirty Thursday night eighteen year old Lincoln Sinclair, a resident of Logwood Street, was driving a gold coloured Cadillac Escalade on Princess Margaret Drive. But when he saw […]
Two days ago, the murder case against a Belize City man came to an abrupt end when the main witness changed his testimony on the stand. But tonight that witness is himself charged with the crime. According to court reports, this morning the capital offence of murder was levied against thirty year old Bruce Willacey […]
Belize City police are asking anyone with information on a shooting that occurred this morning to call them or Crime Stoppers. At this time, authorities say they do not know who shot forty-two year old Orlando Novelo, but investigations reveal that the incident may be the result of a robbery gone awry. According to reports, […]
And on Monday while Belizeans were marking the opening of Women’s Week, a female resident of San Pedro was feeling the pain of a violent attack. According to police, sixty year old Phillipa Rosalez reported to authorities that on Monday evening her common-law husband, fifty-two year old David Cruz, came home drunk. Something apparently displeased […]
A Placencia girl is lucky to be alive after a shocking attack on the peninsula last night. According to police, around nine on Monday night sixteen year old Haidy Nunez was home alone when an unknown assailant or assailants attacked her with a knife. The teenager was struck three times in her throat and left […]
It seems like not a week goes by that a gunshot victim doesn’t tell police that he doesn’t know why someone would shoot him. For one Belize City family, that feeling is multiplied by three. Dora Doniz, Aunt of shooting victim “It is not only for one person, I’m talking for the whole city that […]
One of two men who robbed a King’s Park shop has been arrested leaving the scene of the crime. Twenty-two year old Jion Bernard, a resident of Lovely Lane, has been charged with robbery after police chased him down following a report of a hold-up at Tang’s Store on Vasquez Avenue. Proprietor Zan Chee Chen […]
Two men attending a wake in Belize City on Sunday night were wounded when a lone gunman used the event to retaliate against his enemies. Sources indicate to News Five that around eleven on Sunday night, family and friends had gathered at a home on Castle Street to mourn the passing of Michael “Papa’ Gladden […]
A suspect accused of stealing a taxi man’s possessions in Ladyville has been arrested and charged. According to the victim, David McKenzie, when he pulled up to his Dawn Road home around three-thirty on Sunday morning he was surprised to see a young man in his yard carrying a V.C.R. and other household goods. Realising […]
On Saturday evening an off duty police constable from Dangriga, twenty-five year old Ever Morales, lost his life after he was attacked and stabbed numerous times to the chest and back. The perpetrator has been identified as twenty-five year old Giovanni Tasher. According to a police press release, after Tasher killed Morales, the man then […]
The killing of Ever Morales is not the only anti police violence we have to report. Authorities tell News Five that this morning officers had to shoot twenty-two year old Oscar Videz in the ankle when he attacked them with a large knife. Police were called in response to a domestic dispute on Curl Thompson […]
On Sunday morning, ten days after he was brutally beaten in the head, twenty-five year old Earl Bonner succumbed to his injuries at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. According to family members, Bonner never regained consciousness. Today the police arrested twenty-six year old Wyatt Anderson, the young man they believe inflicted the fatal blows, and […]
On February twenty-third she appeared on this newscast seeking assistance in connection with an emergency operation desperately needed by her baby … and the public responded generously. Today, however, Claudette Haylock reports that on Friday a hard-hearted robber handed her another setback. It seems that near the intersection of Church Street and Duck Lane a […]
It appears that the dry season is upon us … and along with that bright sun and steady breeze comes the danger of fire. But the blaze that destroyed a small home this morning in Belize City had nothing to do with weather and everything to do with anger over a family dispute. Jacqueline Godwin, […]
The man accused in Wednesday afternoon’s fatal shooting was this morning charged for his crime. Twenty-four year old Keon Myvette Williams, also known as “Duppy”, appeared with his attorney Simeon Sampson where he was arraigned in Belize City Magistrate’s Court for murder. Myvette was arrested shortly after thirty-two year old Michael “Papa” Gladden was shot […]
And in Dangriga police are hot on the trail of two men who robbed a shop in that town. On Wednesday evening, proprietor Wei Bin Cao told police that while he was inside his shop two men entered and held him up at gunpoint. They got away with five hundred dollars in cash and a […]
A Belize City man lost his life today when an argument escalated to a fistfight and then climaxed when a shot was fired. Janelle Chanona reports. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Around one thirty this afternoon, thirty-two year old Michael Gladden, also known as “Papa”, was shot in the head by a lone gunman on Lovely Lane. […]
Another man has been arrested and charged following Monday evening’s armed hold-up of former prison superintendent turned security consultant, Bernard Adolphus. Twenty-five year old Richard Russell joins twenty-one-year old Herman Elijio as the two men accused of pointing an Uzi at Adolphus as he exited the offices of Belize Unit Trust on Central American Boulevard […]
Two armed robbers received a shock on Monday evening when the man they attacked fought back. That should not be any surprise to people who know the victim. He’s Bernard Adolphus, former Superintendent of Prisons and current owner of Big Bird Security. The drama unfolded around four just outside of Belize Unit Trust on Central […]
Tonight the Belize Police Department is reeling from the arrest of three officers accused in a sordid story of human trafficking and sexual assault. The drama unfolded in the early morning hours of Saturday at a lonely checkpoint on the Northern Highway, but as I found out today, this case could have far reaching implications […]
Four days after seventy year old Juan Tot was brutally murdered police have yet to determine a clear motive behind the crime. The victim’s body was discovered around nine last Thursday night in an orange orchard belonging to the Citrus Company of Belize in La Democracia Village. Several severe chop wounds had been inflicted to […]
