And in Roaring Creek police are investigating what appears to be a case of murder in which the victim was beaten to death. The fatal assault took place Saturday night at a tire shop in that roadside village near Belmopan. The dead man has been identified as forty-four year old Hollis Alexander Lopez. One suspect […]
Anyone who has ever purchased an airline ticket knows the rising costs of air travel can hurt. But this weekend, it was the airline company hurting. Sometime early Sunday morning, the American Airlines office at San Cas Plaza, was broken into. According to police reports, the security supervisor for the airline stopped by the office […]
Last week we brought you the story of eighteen year old Tyrone Teck, the young man injured by a hit and run driver on Currasow Street in Belize City. Today police arrested and charged the man they believe knocked Teck down and sped away. He is Sergio Rivera, a resident of Warrie Street and the […]
Armed robbers knocked off a shop in San Ignacio last night but police say they’re hot on the trail of the jackers. Fifty-four year old Zhou Xiang Li, proprietor of Chen’s Store on Joseph Andrews Drive, told police that around seven-thirty a man entered the establishment brandishing a sawed off shotgun and demanding money. Zhou […]
Are you familiar with the phrase: “adding insult to injury?” Well, it’s a perfect description of what happened to one unfortunate Belize City resident last week. I spoke to the young man this morning. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting In 2005 eighteen year old Tyrone Teck graduated from the Tubal Trade and Vocational Institution and up until […]
A second suspect has been arrested in the series of tourist focussed robberies in the Cayo District. He is Henry Gonzalez, a Guatemalan residing in the Belmopan neighbourhood of Salvapan. Police say that on February seventeenth it was Gonzalez who drove a gang of armed men to the Banana Bank Road, after which they went […]
Police are crediting the media with the arrest of a shooting suspect in Dangriga. On last night’s newscast we published the photo of Darren Chiu, wanted by authorities for the shooting of businessman Orlando Habet last Thursday night. This morning Chiu, accompanied by lawyer Dickie Bradley, turned himself in to the Dangriga Police. He was […]
Police have been pursuing him ever since the Thursday night shooting of Dangriga businessman Orlando Habet. Now they want the public’s help. Shooting suspect Darren Chiu is accused of attempted murder and is considered armed and dangerous. If you see Chiu, also known as “Dala Coin,” please contact the nearest police station.
Police have arrested one of a gang of men they believe has been terrorizing tourists in the Cayo District. The break in the case came on Monday when police say thirty six year old Guatemalan Marcus Chiquin Molina was detained by local authorities after he had crossed the border into Belize. Today police commissioner Gerald […]
The arrest of a suspect in the Cayo robberies will go a long way toward easing the fears of visitors to Belize who want to experience the wonders of the west. And while authorities are doing all they can to minimize crimes against tourists, occasionally a tourist is the one committing the crime. That’s what […]
In the new reality of fuel prices inching uncomfortably close to eleven dollars a gallon, a disturbing trend has been affecting an increasing number of Belizean motorists: stolen gasoline. According to the Police Department, the crime is a persistent problem as victims often fail to report the crime and simply repair their vehicles, keeping fingers […]
It has been over three weeks since anyone has been brought to the morgue due to homicide … and that’s about as close to murder free as it gets in Belize these days. The latest incident to shatter the tenuous peace occurred over the weekend in Hattieville. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Family and friends still cannot […]
Details remain sketchy tonight but police reports to News Five are that this afternoon a badly decomposing corpse was discovered on a small caye within the Turneffe Atoll. The deceased has since been identified as thirty-eight year old Francis Longsworth of Castle Street in Belize City, employed as a watchman on Hog Island. Cause of […]
A drug deal gone wrong in Dangriga has left one resident suffering from bullet wounds and the gunman on the run. The official version, according to the police, tells a tale of businessman Orlando Habet being lured out of his St. Vincent Street home late Thursday night, taken by car to Gumagarugu Road and then […]
Tonight a Belize City man remains hospitalised following a hit and run incident on Saturday afternoon. According to police, around one Tyrone Teck was riding a bike down Currasow Street when he was knocked down at the intersection of Raccoon Street. The driver didn’t stop and when police showed up, they found the victim bleeding […]
In more disturbing news from Belmopan, this week a sergeant of police was charged with the molestation of a child. In Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, sergeant of police James Cayetano, a member of Belmopan’s Special Branch was formally charged with the sexual offence following a report by a twelve year old girl. The police officer […]
After months of living at the mercy of armed bandits, tonight Cayo hoteliers and tour operators are breathing a little easier after reports that the primary suspects in a series of armed robberies are now in the custody of Guatemalan law enforcement authorities. But the question has now become: will they ever face justice in […]
Three men might be feeling like they walked away clean from a store robbery because they broke the surveillance camera … but they forgot to take the tape. That’s right; police have pictures of the perpetrators of an armed hold-up at M and M’s Boutique on Euphrates Avenue. According to the store manager, around eleven […]
Authorities are tonight searching for three suspects following an attack on Calabash Caye over the weekend. In his statement to police, fifty-one year old caretaker William Ysaguirre reported that around eight thirty on Saturday night, three masked men arrived at his house and held everyone inside hostage. The men immediately tied up his son, Devon […]
A string of burglaries in the capital city has left investigators with their hands full and three men behind bars. The first call came from three Belmopan residents who returned from vacation to find their possessions missing and their homes gutted by fire. Subsequent investigations have led to the arrest of eighteen year old Hildibrant […]
Belize City police are tonight on the lookout for one suspect involved in a shooting in the downtown area around noon today. According to reports, twenty year old Chris Hernandez was on his way to buy lunch when he was shot once in his lower right abdomen at the corner of Rocky Road and West […]
An accused kidnapper and rapist is tonight in custody following a disturbing report from the Cayo district. According to a sixteen year old girl, on Sunday she was walking in Benque Viejo when a black taxi drove up alongside her. The driver was someone she knew but the girl says without warning, he jumped out […]
The suspected parents who abandoned their newborn a week ago have both been charged for the crime. Belmopan police say twenty-eight year old Gary Young of Santa Elena, Cayo and twenty year old Lloydia Martinez of Roaring Creek delivered a baby girl last weekend but decided to leave the infant on the veranda of Martinez’s […]
A cocaine bust on Ambergris Caye has put two men behind bars. According to San Pedro police, around six on Saturday morning officers conducted a raid at a residence in the San Marcos area and found seven wrapped parcels of suspected cocaine hidden in the attic. When cops weighed the white powder, it totalled eighteen […]
A shooting incident over the weekend in San Ignacio has left one man injured and his brother accused of the crime. Cops out west tell News Five that around seven on Sunday night, Carmen Vasquez arrived home drunk and apparently he and his brother, thirty-six year old Rafael Vasquez, got into a quarrel. The exchange […]
