A pair of suspected robbers did not have much time to savour their success Tuesday night, as their crime spree ended almost before it began. The action unfolded outside a drinking establishment situated on West Collet Canal. Twenty-four year old Richard White told authorities that he was inside the bar around four thirty on Tuesday […]
Quick police action is believed to have foiled an armed robbery and put one suspected thief behind bars. According to the cops, around ten last night, a mobile patrol was dispatched to the Shell gas station at mile one and a half on the Northern Highway after an anonymous caller alerted authorities that a robbery […]
Meanwhile, separate attacks against residents in Dangriga have resulted in arrests for rape, attempted robbery and attempted murder. The first incident took place early Sunday morning on Sharp Street in the southern municipality. According to sixty-five year old Windell Nunez, he was awakened from sleep by the sounds of two men ransacking his house. Nunez […]
In the second case, last Thursday, grocer Ciu Feng Dal was minding her counter inside Ying’s Store on George Price Boulevard when two men walked in and requested a pound of rice. As Ciu turned her back, one man grabbed her by the neck while his friend covered her mouth. Lucky for Ciu, at that […]
Following a report by a twenty-three year old woman on Sunday, thirty-seven year old Roberto Valdez has been arrested and charged with rape. According to the victim, around eleven thirty that day, Valdez offered her a job as a domestic worker at his mother’s house. But the woman says when she went inside the Valdez […]
A San Ignacio police officer continues to recover after he was attacked by several armed men. Police Constable Brent Longsworth, who was off duty at the time, was stabbed as he was waiting to buy food outside of the Blue Angels Club around three thirty on Sunday morning. Longsworth reported that as he was waiting […]
A tip-off has resulted in the arrest of two cousins over the weekend after they were caught with a significant quantity of cocaine. The incident unfolded in the area of San Roman Village between Orange Walk and Corozal Town. Corozal police report that around six on Friday evening they intercepted Teodicio and Fortunato Pott on […]
Four days after he opened fire on a residence on Periwinkle Street, wounding twenty-two year old Everett Gillett, today police arrested the man they believe is the shooter. Eighteen year old Dorian Sutherland has been charged with attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm and three counts of aggravated assault. Residents say around eight […]
Back in the seventies and eighties marijuana was a major Belizean export, but with the growing demand for cocaine in the States and development of very powerful strains of domestic weed in North America, Belize’s cannabis trade over the last two decades has become more of a local business. The quantities sold can still run […]
In August, thieves hit the Belize City PASMO office with a vengeance, stealing everything from condoms to computers in just one weekend. But in Magistrate’s court today, one man accused of the crime was arraigned on charges of Burglary and Handling Stolen Goods. Nineteen year old Alex Olivera pleaded not guilty before Magistrate Margaret Gabb […]
Jealousy: It’s an emotion that all of us feel at various times in our life. Sometime jealousy turns to anger, even to the point of violence. And once in a while that violence turns fatal, as it did over the weekend in Belize City. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Following a six year stormy relationship forty-three year […]
A B.D.F. Corporal and a Dangriga resident are tonight charged with murder following the death of forty-three year Clifford Weller. Around seven thirty on Friday night police found Weller lying unconscious at a home in Dangriga’s Benguche area. Weller was lying on a verandah with an injury to the forehead and badly swollen right foot. […]
On Monday night residents in the St. Martin De Porres area of Belize City were jarred by the sounds of gunshots. According to residents, around eight forty a blue van drove up in front of this house on Perwinkle Street. Two men got out and fired as many as eight shots into the wooden building. […]
Meanwhile police in the north were busy over the holiday weekend as three men were sent to the hospital suffering from gunshot and machete wounds following what they believe was a drunken brawl in the wee hours of Sunday morning. Authorities say the victims, identified as twenty-two year old Pablo Mendez, twenty-eight year old Cliff […]
A Belize City man has been arrested and charged with attempted murder following a stabbing incident last Sunday. According to police, twenty-one year old Israel Sanchez was formally arraigned for the crimes of Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm following an incident on Freetown Road. The victim, thirty year old […]
Details remain sketchy but this afternoon, a body was found floating in the Macal River. According to San Ignacio police, around two-thirty officers were called to an area along the riverbank between the Hawkesworth and diversion bridge. Drifting in the water was the corpse of a Hispanic man wearing blue short pants and a green […]
A third man wanted for the murder of twenty year old David Pook has been arrested. Twenty-six year old Edward Henry was turned over to authorities at the Queen Street Police Station by his uncle, Police Sergeant Percival Henry on Friday. Apparently the murder suspect was camping out in San Lazaro village in the Orange […]
Employees making company deposits at local banks have become a popular target for criminals. Late Thursday evening, another such attack took place on the Northern Highway. News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin has the details. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting According to authorities, this is the Ford Escort five robbery suspects used to stalk their victim before holding him […]
A teenager is dead tonight following a disturbing attack in the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve. According to police, twelve year old Bartimeus Tesecum has reported that he and his brother, eighteen year old Samuel, were sleeping near a shed at the Barton Creek Outpost Lodge but around three on Thursday morning they were awakened […]
While cops in Cayo continue to investigate that murder, in Belize City, investigators say one of their most wanted men is tonight in the custody of law enforcement officials in California. Five days after twenty-four Ronell Gonzalez fled the country en route to Los Angeles, tonight the murder suspect is in detention pending extradition to […]
Authorities have released a picture of the third man wanted for the weekend murder of David Pook. The wanted poster for twenty-four year old Ronell Gonzalez. Tonight we understand that Gonzalez has fled local jurisdiction and is somewhere in the Los Angeles area. Earlier this week, Head of the Criminal Investigation Branch A.S.P. Chester Williams […]
A local nightclub won’t be beating out this weekend after a thief or thieves helped themselves to several pieces of sound equipment. According to police, manager John Curly has reported that between seven Tuesday night and three on Wednesday afternoon someone broke into the Palm Island Night Club on the Northern Highway and stole a […]
Wanted posters have been circulated across the country for two suspects being sought for the murder of David Pook. According to the cops, four men brutally tortured and then stabbed the twenty year old to death in the swamp near the Bingo King apartments on Faber’s Road. Head of the Criminal Investigations Branch, A.S.P. Chester […]
Police have disclosed the identity of two of the men believed to be responsible for a disturbing A.T.M. hold-up in the capital city over the weekend. Investigators have charged twenty-two year old Solomon Marin Jr., a resident of Dangriga and his cousin, seventeen year old Oliver Rodriguez of Belize City for the crimes of Kidnapping, […]
A Belize City teen has been arrested for attempted murder following a stabbing on Tuesday afternoon. According to police, nineteen year old Marvin Sheron has reported that as he was riding his bike along Newtown Barracks around three thirty, a man with a machete attacked him. The assailant’s blade struck Sheron on both hands and […]
