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Contrary to earlier police reports, tonight a twenty-eight year old man has been charged with the shooting of a fourteen year old boy. According to court reports, today Jermaine Arnold was arraigned on charges of Attempted Murder, Use of Deadly Means of Harm and Wounding. No plea was taken and the matter has been adjourned […]
Written on December 1, 2006 | Posted in
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An argument between a man and a woman has left one hospitalized. According to Orange Walk Police twenty-two year old Mariana Buddan was at home when her boyfriend, twenty-eight year old Heriberto Jesus Rejon, went to the residence around nine this morning. Investigations reveal that the couple was eating when Rejon accused Buddan of having […]
Written on November 30, 2006 | Posted in
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The long simmering conflict between the police and Director of Public Prosecutions has once again boiled over. Credible reports reaching News Five indicate that a Police Internal Affairs investigation of alleged brutality against a murder suspect in Dangriga has resulted in a memo from the Director of Public Prosecutions instructing the Police Department to arrest […]
Written on November 29, 2006 | Posted in
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The man at the wheel of a pick-up truck involved in a fatal accident in Toledo has been hit with a mountain of criminal charges. Fifty-two year old Ignacio Avila of Belmopan yesterday was charged with Manslaughter by Negligence, Causing Death by Careless Conduct, Driving a Motor Vehicle Without Due Care and Attention, Driving a […]
Written on November 29, 2006 | Posted in
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It was a vacation tragedy even more dramatic than that chronicled in the film “Open Water.” And like that dive disaster, the events that unfolded in October 2005 off Belize’s coast resulted in unnecessary death. At that time, authorities made a great effort to show their concern and commitment to punishing those responsible. This week […]
Written on November 28, 2006 | Posted in
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Tonight a fourteen-year-old boy is charged with trying to take the life of another teenager. According to police reports, fourteen year old Diondre McKoy told them that he was playing basketball on the court on Albert Street West around nine on Friday night when two other boys he knew walked up to him. McKoy says […]
Written on November 27, 2006 | Posted in
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In the hours following Thursday’s cold blooded killing of a young Belize City father, investigators pounded the pavement for the perpetrator. And tonight police believe they have their man. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting It took Belize City cops only twenty-four hours to charge twenty-six year old Carlos Escalante for the execution style of twenty-eight year old […]
Written on November 24, 2006 | Posted in
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Tonight Belize City police need your help in locating a fugitive from justice. Twenty-one year Ernest Hinds escaped from a prison bus enroute to Hattieville between four and five on Thursday evening. Authorities say they believe Hinds is hiding out somewhere in Belize City but caution the public to be careful as the wanted man […]
Written on November 24, 2006 | Posted in
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A large percentage of the many murders we chronicle in this newscast are the result of drug deals gone sour, drunken bar brawls, family feuds or jealous rages … all cases where the victim is somehow tied to the killer. But the homicide that occurred in Belize City earlier today was of a different variety: […]
Written on November 23, 2006 | Posted in
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While police investigate the city’s latest murder, they claim to have solved the one before. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Five days after twenty-one year old Damion Gordon was killed, Belize City police escorted to Magistrate?s Court the two young men they believe are responsible for the murder. Twenty-two year olds Alfred Conorquie and Callum Sutherland have […]
Written on November 23, 2006 | Posted in
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There was a time many, many years ago that accusations of police brutality were so rare as to actually be newsworthy. Today, to qualify for airtime an alleged victim needs to be shot by a cop, preferably in front of multiple witnesses. And that’s exactly what happened this morning in Roaring Creek. News Five’s Janelle […]
Written on November 23, 2006 | Posted in
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It has been a long time since the Police Department has made any crime statistics public but at a presentation last week to a tourism industry seminar Assistant Commissioner Edwardo Wade ran down the numbers … and they make for interesting reading. In a snapshot, the figures from 2002 to the present for the major […]
Written on November 22, 2006 | Posted in
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Another Belize City family is in mourning tonight following a fatal shooting incident on the streets of the old capital. And as I found out today, while there are more questions than answers about the motive of this latest murder, a mother’s grief is heartbreaking. Jacienta Gordon, Mother of Deceased ?If he is out there […]
Written on November 21, 2006 | Posted in
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While a mother mourns her son, tonight six children are at their mother’s bedside after the woman was shot in the head on Sunday night. Dejon Tucker, Son of shooting victim ?That just goes to show that the streets of Belize City is not safe anymore. It just reinforces that fact.? Fifty-five year old Cleopatra […]
Written on November 21, 2006 | Posted in
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A police shooting in the Orange Walk district has led to an internal investigation to determine whether the officers involved used excessive force. During an operation on around seven thirty on Sunday night officers and Custom officials went to Yo Creek Village where they visited the residence of Bartolo Novelo. Authorities were there to conduct […]
Written on November 21, 2006 | Posted in
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A legal dispute over a fence escalated to gun violence over the weekend at the Fort Street Tourism Village. According to court reports on Saturday, employees of the Ministry of Natural Resources were dispatched to the area along the Haulover Creek to dismantle the fence that separates the Village from the Harbour View Restaurant. We […]
Written on November 21, 2006 | Posted in
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The second suspect in Monday’s execution style killing has been arrested and charged. He is twenty year old Brandon Tillett. Tillett and twenty-one year old James Escarpeta now stand jointly accused of murder, attempted murder and use of deadly means of harm in connection with the death of Kevin Parks and injuries to Parks’ uncle […]
Written on November 17, 2006 | Posted in
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A suspect has been arrested in Monday’s execution style killing in Belize City. Twenty-one year old James Escarpeta of Aloe Vera Street has been charged with the murder of recently returned deportee Kevin Parks, who was gunned down on Euphrates Avenue in broad daylight. Police are seeking another man, Brandon Tillett, whom they believe can […]
Written on November 16, 2006 | Posted in
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Another daytime shooting–this time not fatal–rocked Belize City just as most of us were heading to work or school. News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin has the story. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Sixteen year old Norman McKenzie has been identified by a witness as the young man who shot twenty-one year old Hubert Faber in his back and […]
Written on November 16, 2006 | Posted in
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Following a stabbing incident in Belize City over the weekend, police have arrested and charged two men for the crime. Seventeen year old Anibal Lemus and eighteen year old Maricio Lemus, brothers from Banak Street, have been charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm. The duo were detained following […]
Written on November 15, 2006 | Posted in
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He was wounded by gunmen in yesterday’s execution style killing of Kevin Parks. Today, from his bed at the K.H.M.H., Charlie Moss told us what went down on Euphrates Avenue. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Thirty-eight year old Charlie Moss is paralyzed on the left side of his body after the bullet entered under Moss?s left arm, […]
Written on November 14, 2006 | Posted in
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Observers in both the criminal and law enforcement communities will tell you that there is an ebb and flow to the pace of violent crime in the city … and today what has been a period of tension on the streets was punctuated by a burst of gunfire that has left one man dead and […]
Written on November 13, 2006 | Posted in
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As we have already seen, fatal violence comes in many different varieties. On Friday night it was a simple argument that resulted in death of a Belize City youth. Arlene Sentimento, Family Friend of the Deceased ?I couldn?t handle hearing it on a hold, so I had to come home and find out if it […]
Written on November 13, 2006 | Posted in
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Murder and vehicular homicide were not the only crimes faced by city police over the weekend and at a press briefing this morning the top man on Queen Street elaborated. Asst. Supt Crispin Jeffries, O.C. Eastern Division ?We are making an effort to appeal to the friends and family of these people to encourage them […]
Written on November 13, 2006 | Posted in
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Three men have been arrested for Wednesday night’s armed jacking of Bluebird Ice Cream Parlour. Twenty-eight year old Marlon Budran, twenty-four year old Philip McKenzie and twenty-one year old Eleuterio McKenzie were jointly charged with Robbery, Deadly Means of Harm and two counts of Wounding, for the attack on two employees and subsequent theft of […]
Written on November 13, 2006 | Posted in
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