Burglars in the village of Sarteneja hit pay dirt this weekend. According to police, sometime Sunday night thieves broke open the steel bars on the front door of the St. Francis Xavier Credit Union Office. Inside, they managed to force the lock on an iron chest and made off with fifty-one thousand dollars in Belize […]
Five people are in police custody tonight following the confiscation of several high powered weapons from the streets of Belize City. According to authorities, on Monday an anonymous tip led them to an area in St. Martin’s de Porres, where officers found an AK47 hidden in an abandoned lot. While no one was arrested in […]
Police investigation and community support was what led police to the home of the young mother who left her newborn on the doorsteps of another resident’s home in Roaring Creek Village. Today authorities say their investigation has led them to arrest twenty year old Loydia Martinez. Martinez, who is a student, was charged for the […]
Tonight Belmopan police need your help in finding a suspect they say not only set his dogs after two of their own but tried to run over one of the officers. The drama unfolded around two on Wednesday afternoon. Police officers Daniel Teck and Sheridan Lemoth were on bicycle patrol when they responded to a […]
A Mennonite father is tonight charged with harm after he severely beat his sixteen year old daughter. According to police, around midday on Tuesday, forty-seven year old Jacobo Weins was at home in Little Belize Village when he picked up a battery cable and began to whip his daughter across her back, arms and legs. […]
A Corozal courtroom became a crime scene on Tuesday after a woman attacked a police officer with a razor blade right in front of the judge. Reports to News Five are that thirty-three year old Pauline Gibson and Police Constable Jason Shaw were in court to settle a civil matter but during the proceedings, Gibson […]
It’s one of the strongest players in efforts to put our country’s young people on the right path, but today the Scout Association of Belize is suffering. Over the weekend thieves broke into their headquarters at the Belize City Centre and made off with a TV, VCR and small safe holding two thousand five hundred […]
Belmopan police are tonight investigating a homicide following the discovery of a body in Roaring Creek Village. The victim has been identified as thirty year old Selvin Santos, a taxi driver from Benque Viejo Del Carmen. According to investigators, the gruesome discovery was made around eight thirty last night in an area on the My […]
An official investigation is underway tonight after police shot a man just outside the Belize City Magistrate’s Court. We are not sure if thirty-two year old Gareth Humes knew that the police were looking for him but when he showed up to sign in as part of his bail for a burglary charge, an officer […]
In more crime news, police have arrested two brothers in connection with the armed robbery of a store in the Stann Creek valley. According to the cops, twenty-three year old Robert Chavarria and twenty-five year old Alray Chavarria were two of the four men who conspired to rob a grocery shop in Pomona village on […]
While education held the spotlight today, not all the news was inspiring. At the same time the nation’s top primary students were enjoying well deserved congratulations, two gunmen were delivering a crippling blow to one of the city’s major secondary schools. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting This black stocking mask is all the robbers left behind as […]
Dangriga police are tonight hot on the trail of armed bandits who attacked a shop in the Stann Creek Valley on Tuesday night. According to investigating officers, around eight thirty, two customers, Wayne Perriott and a minor were shopping in the Ziaona store in Pomona when two men, one wearing a white handkerchief over his […]
The “M” in Monday could just as easily stand for murder as this is the day the nation usually receives the tragic details of whatever homicides occurred over the weekend. And today is no exception. Alyssa Noble reports on the latest fatal shooting on Belize City’s Central American Boulevard. Shakira Jones, Sister of the deceased […]
Tonight Orange Walk police are tonight awaiting the results of forensic tests following the discovery of human remains found scattered over a large area approximately ten miles along the Honey Camp Road. The gruesome find was made around six thirty on Thursday evening by people living in the area. Authorities tell News Five that among […]
Two men remain in police custody tonight after authorities in Dangriga foiled an attempted robbery on Tuesday night. According to investigators, a mobile patrol travelling on Ecumenical Drive was alerted to a robbery in progress at the Holiday Store. When the cops pulled up, they saw one man fighting with the shop owner while his […]
They broke out of the San Ignacio jail, but one by one the five young men have all made their way back behind bars. The latest to return are thirteen year old Jodine Vidal and fourteen year old Jose Guzman, who were apprehended this morning by a mobile police patrol in San Ignacio. Yesterday eighteen […]
On Thursday, News Five brought you the story of accused San Ignacio burglar eighteen year old Victor Castellanos following his latest break-in at the Santa Elena primary school snack shop. Among the stolen items police also discovered a small bottle of oil and a written prayer that Castellanos told the cops he uses to protect […]
Sometime between seven Friday night and midday Saturday there was a break-in at one of Belize City’s most treasured landmarks. And while nothing appears to have been stolen, the intrusion into historic St. John’s Cathedral has not been well received. Fr. Lloyd Neal, Dean of St. John?s Anglican Cathedral ?Just after one o?clock on Saturday, […]
School break-ins are not a particularly unusual crime … but the one that occurred last night in Cayo came with a special twist. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Around three this morning, police were informed that someone had broken into the snack shop at the Santa Elena Primary School. When the officers arrived on the scene, the […]
Four years ago twenty-three year old Jermaine Usher, a resident of Punta Gorda Town, went missing. And while at the time authorities suspected that his disappearance was no accident, there was no evidence to substantiate their suspicions. Today there is. Police would not go into the specifics of the ongoing investigation but in a press […]
He has been on the run for three weeks but the long arm of the law has finally caught up with seventeen year old Rolando Lisbey. Lisbey, who is wanted in San Ignacio for the brutal beating of eighty year old Celestino Salas, was apprehended by immigration officers as he tried to cross the border […]
It appears to have no connection with a series of recent crimes against tourists in the Cayo District. But that’s about the only good thing that can be said about a gut-wrenching triple murder that was discovered on Saturday in the otherwise peaceful village of Ontario. News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin is just back from the […]
Details are sketchy at this hour but reports to News Five late tonight indicate that Black Rock Lodge, located near Benque Viejo del Carmen was attacked by armed bandits around five thirty this evening. Sources in the area indicate that the group of seven men stole cash, valuables and weapons but there is no word […]
Tonight another body lies in the Belize City morgue, another victim of deadly gun violence. According to the survivor of latest incident, he became a target the second he agreed to testify in another criminal case. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Around nine thirty on Thursday night, thirty-one year old Raymond Gentle, also known as ?Killa?, was […]
Tonight two young men are behind bars, arrested for the shocking murder of security guard Oliver Blanco on Wednesday morning. News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin has the disturbing details of the case. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Eight hours after the cold blooded murder of fifty-eight year old Oliver Blanco the Belize City Crimes Investigation Branch arrested the […]
