It appeared to be a suicide, but police are having second thoughts. On Sunday night authorities were called to a house in St. Margaret’s Village on the Hummingbird Highway, where they found the body of Luis Hernandez. Hernandez was lying on the ground with a rope tied around his neck. Although the obvious conclusion was […]
Police have made three arrests in connection with the shooting of a businessman last week Thursday. Twenty-four year old Ricky Valencia of Queen Charlotte Street along with twenty-eight year old Marlon Budran and twenty-two year old Lancelot Flowers, both of Wagner’s Lane in Belize City, appeared before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord this morning. They have […]
Over the past fifteen years we have reported what seems like countless instances of sexual assault … but the case filed today in Belize City Magistrate’s Court is–as far as we know–a first. It involves an attack on a tourist, but not by crazed bandits … or even a drunken tour guide. This attempted rape […]
A Corozal businessman is tonight behind bars after police found three kilos of cocaine in his water dispenser. Forty-eight year old Shyam Ararani has been charged with Drug Trafficking following a raid at his business, the Yash Trading Company Limited in the Corozal Free Zone. Around two on Thursday afternoon, officers from the anti-drug unit […]
A Belize City businessman is lucky to be alive tonight after armed thugs ambushed him in front of his house. Forty-three year old Hoa Min Huang has reported that around midnight on Thursday, he and his wife got to their Queen Charlotte Street home only to be greeted by five masked and armed men. The […]
Meanwhile Belize City police are also investigating a break in that occurred last night at the office of Tropic Air Cargo Service. According to company officials, the thief or thieves gained access to the building by punching a hole in the concrete wall in the rear of the structure. Once inside, the burglars made off […]
If your only knowledge of life in Belize came from the news media and our crime coverage you would probably come to the conclusion that Belize is a sick society. And, sad as it seems, that conclusion might not be far off the mark. It is bolstered today by two separate incidents of forcible rape, […]
Another fugitive from U.S. Justice has been captured in Belize and put on an airplane back to the States. Fifty-nine year old Roger Huskey was wanted by the D.E.A. and U.S. Marshals Service for Conspiracy to Distribute Marijuana as well as Bank Fraud. It is alleged that he operated a major weed distribution ring in […]
First they hit American Airlines, then Bottom Dollar and now Brodies. And while all these robberies are not necessarily related, they do have one striking similarity: impeccable timing. Around ten o’clock this morning, Brodies’ messenger Alfred Clarke, was crossing from the main downtown store to the company’s headquarters on Regent Street to make a deposit […]
A suspect has been arrested in the harrowing abduction of a Belmopan woman. Thirty-seven year old Roy Neal was positively identified by his victim as one of the men who at gunpoint forced her and her two children into her car and after driving to a rural area raped her twice, took her money and […]
A prison officer might be spending a lot more time at his workplace after he was busted for drugs. According to court reports, on Monday thirty-six year old Rene Young was detained by his co-workers at the Hattieville Prison after they discovered what looked like marijuana in his knapsack. The police were called in and […]
An argument over liquor is believed to be the cause of a murder today in the Orange Walk District. Initial investigations reveal that around nine forty five a.m. forty-two year old Rosalio Cal went to a shop in the village of Yo Creek when he got into an argument with two men he knew. One […]
Not a week goes by that we don’t receive a report of someone being shot or stabbed, with the victim having “absolutely no idea” who did the deed. Such testimony, of course, is usually a convenient lie to keep the police out of the private conflict. But the bulletin we received today–referring to unknown assailants–actually […]
Stories of sexual assault are hardly unusual on this newscast but the case recounted today by police is one of the most disturbing we have ever seen. Basically it involves a fifteen year old girl in Orange Walk who alleges that she was raped by her father. This was not the first time the charge […]
In another incident of sexual assault–this time in the nation’s capital–one of the two suspects have been detained for the rape of a Belmopan woman. It is alleged that the assailants, armed with a shotgun and machete, accosted the victim as she got out of her vehicle at her home. She, along with her three […]
Earlier this month we ran a story about the growing number of motorists reporting the theft of gasoline from their vehicles. Well tonight we are happy to report that an alleged fuel snatcher has been arrested. Police say that at two Sunday morning a mobile patrol on Mosul Street saw fifty year old Frank Thompson […]
As Belize continues to try to prove to the United States that we are taking measures to stop human trafficking, tonight there is word that a relative of the Director of Immigration has been arrested for the crime. On Friday, forty-two year old Amparo Zetina, the owner of the Caracol Bar was formally arraigned on […]
It won’t show up in Belize’s official crime statistics, but the murder of a popular San Pedro disc jockey in Guatemala has left Ambergis Caye in a state of shock. Today I visited the island to dig deeper into the tragedy. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Today a candle remains lit inside the studio where twenty-one year […]
Benque police are once again joining forces with Guatemalan law enforcement … this time to investigate a murder. Around seven o’clock this morning, Belize police were contacted by Guatemalan authorities who informed them that the body of a young woman, believed to be a Belizean, was discovered in Melchor de Mencos. The corpse displayed two […]
San Ignacio police are looking for two men they believe are responsible for shooting a seventeen year old Belize City resident. According to a police press release, sometime around eight last night Zuahn Stewart was walking along Coconut Street in Santa Elena Town when he was approached by two men on bicycles, one of whom […]
Police say all they have to go on are tattoos to identify a body found floating face down in the Belize River. The discovery was made in an area near Young’s Bank not far from Belmopan. Authorities say when the corpse was retrieved from the waters around nine on Monday night it was badly decomposed […]
A Belize City cable company has been touched for seven thousand dollars … but the jacking may not be all that it seems. A spokesperson for Baymen Cable told News Five that they strongly believe a Monday night robbery at their Baymen Avenue Headquarters was the result of an inside job. According to the spokesperson, […]
People residing in the Stann Creek District are being asked to be careful not to buy stolen goods. In this case, a fully equipped computer system, that was taken from the Seine Bight Health Centre. Authorities believe the burglary occurred sometime between Saturday night and early Sunday morning. The rural nurse, Jacqueline Nembhard, told police […]
Life is cheap in Belize–at least that’s the way it seemed this weekend–as no less than four people found themselves on the wrong end of fatal violence. The most gruesome killings occurred in the Stann Creek District where a father and son were brutally butchered. A.S.P. Russell Blackett, O.C. Dangriga Police Station ?To tell you […]
The weekend’s third homicide occurred on Saturday night in Ladyville. News Five’s Alyssa Noble reports. Alyssa Noble, Reporting Police, tonight, are still investigating a shooting that has left thirty-nine year old Emerson Elijio of Ladyville, dead. I.S.P. Chris Noble, Ladyville Police Department ?The information that we have is that Saturday sometime after eight p.m., there […]
