Two men are in police custody tonight in connection with last weekend’s brazen armed hold-up at a Belmopan A.T.M. According to police, the men are cousins but one lives in Belize City and the other in Dangriga. The duo was picked up earlier today during official investigations into the incident. We understand that the victim’s […]
Every day, missing persons reports are filed with the Police Department. But tonight one such case has become a murder investigation. News Five’s Alyssa Noble reports. Alyssa Noble, Reporting Just after dawn today, the lifeless body of twenty year old David Pook was discovered lying in the bushes near the Bingo King Apartments on Faber?s […]
People send weird things in the mail everyday but tonight one man is behind bars because someone mailed him a gun. On Thursday, sixty-six year old Roland Flam showed up to collect a parcel at the Corozal Post Office. As part of the procedure, Flam had to open the box in the presence of an […]
In other news from the north, a woman is tonight recovering from a gunshot wound after she was shot by police for trying to escape their custody. That’s the word out of Sarteneja as investigators report that on Friday they detained thirty-nine year old Anne Marie Jones for questioning in connection with a number of […]
Separate robberies in Belize City and Belmopan have netted thieves more than sixteen thousand dollars in loot and more disturbingly, left one victim tied to a tree. According to twenty year old Leon Castillo, around three on Saturday afternoon, he went to use the First Caribbean Bank A.T.M. But when Castillo was walking back to […]
Tonight four people are charged with drug trafficking following a major bust in the Cayo District. San Ignacio police say on Thursday they found seven kilos of crack cocaine buried in the back yard of a home in the Kontiki area of the town. Everyone inside the house was immediately detained and subsequently charged in […]
In other news from the west, a Santa Elena woman has been arrested and charged after she was found with a stack of funny money. According to police, forty-one year old Cruz Garnett was this afternoon charged with possession of counterfeit currency in connection with twenty-two fake U.S. hundred dollar bills. A town grocer took […]
He was detained yesterday pending a charge of rape, but today forty-four year old Curtis Arnold was arrested and charged with that crime and a lot more following allegations made by a sixteen year old girl. On August seventh the complainant reported to police that earlier that day she was at a beach party when […]
A suspect is in police detention following a chopping incident that has left one man dead and another hospitalised. According to police reports, twenty-four year old Marvin Ramirez of Blackman Eddy was at home with his wife and his friend, Hipolito Choco, on Tuesday night when around eleven a man wielding a machete entered the […]
A Corozal businessman remains in police custody tonight pending a charge of rape. According to investigators, a sixteen year old girl has reported that Free Zone businessman Curtis Arnold had sex with her against her will on August thirteenth at a beach party in Corozal Town. Attorney Michael Peyrefitte told us this afternoon that his […]
They were nabbed by police for filling up their gas tank and driving off without paying, but tonight those three men may face additional charges in connection with as many as seven weekend robberies. According to police, shortly after noon on Sunday, a black Isuzu Trooper drove up to a gas pump at the ESSO […]
An NGO working to prevent the spread of AIDS in Belize has become the latest victim of burglary. The Pan American Social Marketing Organisation, PASMO, located at number nine Princess Margaret Drive, wasn’t hit just once this weekend, but twice. And according to Elisa Castellanos, PASMO’s Programmes Coordinator, the losses were major. Elisa Castellanos, Programs […]
A teacher from the Cayo district has been found dead in his home, the victim of an apparent crime of passion. According to San Ignacio police, on Thursday afternoon, concerned neighbours asked them to check on forty-five year old Timothy Matheny because they hadn’t seen him for several days. Cops say when they got into […]
Hit and run accidents are committed with frightening frequency in Belize, but tonight one mother is refusing to let the driver who hurt her daughter get away with the crime. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting ?Why do you strongly believe that this is the person who hit your daughter?? Floreth Requena, Mother ?I don?t think that this […]
Belize boasts a growing corps of media workers … but despite its steady expansion over the last decade the number of journalists, editors, cameramen and other technicians is still small enough to fit on a single bus. Tonight unfortunately, one long-time member of that crew, instead of covering the story, is its subject. Jacqueline Godwin, […]
Tonight, Orange Walk police are asking the public’s help in finding a man in connection with the rape of a thirteen year old girl. He is Jason Audinette Bull. According to what the victim told police, around four on Monday evening, the minor left home on an errand for her mother, when she was pulled […]
A Belize City woman has been arrested on drug charges in San Pedro Town. On Tuesday evening twenty-four year old Pauline Flowers was searched by police who found two parcels of cocaine, weighing almost three pounds, in her backpack. Flowers has been charged with Drug Trafficking.
A boledo vendor from the Corozal District has been murdered in what appears to have been an attempted robbery. According to police reports, sometime after six Monday evening Silvestre Loza Jr. of San Andres Village was heading home on his bike on the San Roque Road when he was attacked by two men, who chopped […]
Meanwhile police in the west believe revenge is the motive for the shooting death of forty-six year old Igancio Nix Toj of El Naranjo, Guatemala. Police say the murder occurred at a farm in the Water Hole area south of Benque Viejo. Upon arrival at the scene police found the farmer’s body lying on a […]
Maybe it’s just coincidence, maybe its a case of copycat crime or just maybe the same pair of thugs is preying on elderly residents of the Southern Foreshore. Whatever the reason, less than a week after an eighty-two year old woman was robbed on Palm Lane, it happened again. This afternoon, eighty-five year old Robert […]
Three suspects have been arrested in connection with Monday night’s armed robbery of a shop on Central American Boulevard. Thirty-four year old Elvis Bevans, twenty year old Keith Middleton and twenty-one year old Robert Garnett were charged with Robbery and Conspiracy to Commit Robbery. Middleton was also hit with the serious charge of Keeping a […]
Yes, there have been more heartless crimes committed in Belize … and no, this particular incident did not leave its victim injured or dead … but tell me: what kind of cowardly dog would snatch the purse of an eighty-two year old woman. This morning I arrived upon the scene shortly after the robbery occurred. […]
There is no shortage of efforts being made–both public and private–to bring down the level of fatal violence in Belize, particularly in the old capital. But it is becoming more apparent that until the massive northbound trade in cocaine is curbed, there is little chance of ending the bloodshed that inevitably accompanies that lucrative commerce. […]
A robbery last night in Belize City has left a shopkeeper five thousand dollars poorer. According to police reports, around nine p.m. three men with guns held up thirty-two year old Jimbo Chen as he stood in the doorway of his establishment, Bobo Shop, on Central American Boulevard. Chen was forced into the store and […]
A brutal chopping incident in the Toledo District has left one man dead and another behind bars. According to police they were told by forty-six year old Alejandro Ical that around four thirty Friday evening, Ical was walking home from his farm near Forest Home when he was attacked by a man armed with a […]
