There are some drug dealers in Corozal who are not too happy tonight. Acting on a tip, police visited a swampy area in the Pueblo Nuevo area of the town where they discovered a green cooler filled with over twenty-nine pounds of cocaine. No arrests were made and the drugs are being treated as found […]
On Wednesday, masked men hit two Belize City businesses in separate attacks. The first incident occurred in downtown Belize City on Wednesday night and left the two store owners injured. According to police, around nine last night the Blue Bird Ice Cream Parlour on Albert Street was ambushed by three masked men brandishing handguns. Proprietors […]
An American tourist visiting Belize has been deported home after local authorities found out she was a wanted fugitive. According to Caye Caulker police, on Monday they raided a hotel room on the island and found a small quantity of weed. The two men in the room at the time were immediately detained but as […]
A resident of Santa Familia in the Cayo District has died, apparently of drowning. According to an eyewitness, on Friday evening, twenty-four year old Ronaldo Landero jumped in the Belize River and began to swim across. He reached halfway but then went under and did not resurface. Despite a weekend of searching, Landero’s corpse was […]
The best thing that could be said about a shooting spree this weekend in Belize City is that nobody was killed and a suspect has been arrested. Otherwise it was a pretty scary piece of work. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Exactly what caused twenty-seven year old Jason Williams better known as ?soup? and two other young […]
Twenty-seven year old Henry Rodriguez had only relocated to Teakettle Village five days ago when police say he was stabbed in the chest and killed. Authorities say their investigation reveals that shortly after Rodriguez moved to the Cayo District he met and began dating a young lady from the village. Police say early Saturday morning […]
For most Belizeans, travelling to the U.S.A., even with a pure heart and a valid visa, can be an intimidating experience … and since September eleventh, 2001 it has–quite understandingly–become more so. But picture yourself about to display your passport to the U.S. immigration officer at the airport. You’re nervous but not worried, because you’ve […]
Another Belize City primary school has been broken into. This time it was the turn of Saint Luke Methodist on Mahogany Street. According to police, the thieves took seven hundred dollars in cash and eight cell phones being held for students. They entered by prying out a set of burglar bars and breaking an aluminium […]
Allegations of theft against hired housekeepers are not unusual but it is rare that evidence is found to confirm the suspicion. In this case thirty-five year old Dawn Myers has some questions to answer, as when her employer noticed a gold chain and set of earrings missing from her home, she made the rounds of […]
Police have arrested and charged a Ladyville duo for two separate robberies. According to police reports, thirty-year old Dennis Quilter and seventeen year old Kareem Arnold, both of Mitchell Estate in Ladyville, are believed to be the men responsible for burglarising the home of Ronnel Berges. Berges reported that sometime between October twenty-seventh and November […]
Two residents of Orange Walk have been arrested for keeping counterfeit currency. Fifty-six year old Daniel Lopez and twenty-five year old Laurieni Melgar were busted when, acting on a tip, police found nine thousand five hundred dollars in bogus blue notes at their residence on Custard Apple Street. Interestingly, hidden under the mattress along with […]
The Police Department has established a new presence in one of Belize City’s busiest areas. The new booth, located at San Cas Plaza near the flag monument, will serve the surrounding commercial areas as well as the thousands of students who attend nearby schools. The twelve thousand dollar cost of the wooden building and furnishings […]
A short ceremony was also held this afternoon at the Queen Street Police Station where twelve business people were honoured for their part in funding the renovation of the city’s Patrol Branch headquarters. The seventy thousand dollar project was completed over the last eight months and was led by Patrol Branch head Superintendent Edward Broaster. […]
Police have made an identification and arrest in the weekend murder in Ladyville. According to police press officer, G. Michael Reid, this morning friends of the deceased identified the corpse as thirty-seven year old Alberto Jaime Serrano, a resident of Ladyville. The cops have since charged forty-five year old Julio Che, also of Ladyville, with […]
Belize City police still do not know who stole over sixty-four thousand dollars from the Belize Seventh day Adventist Mission’s office on A Street in Kings Park. Sometime between one on Friday afternoon and eight on Sunday night a thief or thieves removed louvers from one of the windows to gain access to the two […]
Tonight many children will don their Halloween costumes for trick or treat … but early Monday morning three robbers put a real scare into a Belize City watchman. Police say they still have no suspects, who are described only as young men wearing Halloween masks and armed with a sawed off shotgun. Around three a.m., […]
Tonight police are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying a murder victim. According to the police, on Sunday night officers in Ladyville received reports of a body lying on the side of the road at mile ten on the Northern Highway. But when the investigators arrived at the scene near Ladyville Technical High, all […]
Two Corozal cops are in big trouble tonight after they were busted trying to sneak goods out of the Commercial Free Zone. According to the authorities, around eleven thirty Thursday afternoon, Corporal Leroy Hernandez and Constable Edgar Pech were dispatched to investigate a theft in the zone. But subsequent investigations have revealed that while inside […]
A Corozal man has been arrested for firing on a police officer during a drug raid last week. Forty-six year old Arnaldo Solana has been charged with Attempted Murder for allegedly firing a shotgun at Constable Joseph Gilharry. The incident took place early Friday morning as police sought to secure a marijuana plantation off the […]
Police would not say why one of their mobile units decided to stop a black pickup truck as the vehicle travelled in the vicinity of the roundabout by Pallotti High school around five on Wednesday evening, but when cops tried to intercept it, the vehicle sped off. The police then reportedly fired a warning shot […]
A man from Calcutta Village is the country’s latest road accident victim. Around eight Tuesday night twenty-one year old Brian Williams was, along with a friend, riding his bike on the Northern Highway between miles eighty-one and eighty-two when he was struck by a car. Police investigations reveal that the accident occurred when a green […]
He was busted red-handed on Tuesday exiting the Prosser fertilizer store on North Front Street, and tonight police have levied another charge against eighteen year old Sheffield Ysaguirre. According to a police press release, when Ysaguirre was taken into custody and searched, cops found gloves and bandanas in his pockets. The items, it seems, were […]
Today, Belize City police escorted to Magistrate’s court the two young men they believe severely chopped twenty-four year old watchman Luis Armando Ibanez, causing him to lose his left hand and two fingers from his right. Construction workers nineteen year old William Burgos and eighteen year old Miguel Chacon appeared before Magistrate Margaret Gabb where […]
Eighteen year old Sheffield Ysaguirre is the man caught by police at the Prosser Fertilizer shop on North Front Street. Cops say around two this morning they received a report of a burglary in progress at the historic riverside building. When a team was dispatched to the location officers observed a man exiting the establishment […]
Two men are dead tonight: one the victim of a chopping assault and the other the man who did the chopping who was shot by the police when he resisted arrest. According to authorities, their investigations reveal that last Friday around six in the morning Honduran Jose Hernandez and Heraldo Rash were involved in a […]
