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Belize City police have arrested and charged a sixty-nine year old man for having sex with and taking pornographic pictures of a twelve year old girl. This morning Henry Stein was handcuffed and taken over to Magistrate’s Court where he was arraigned on two counts of trafficking in persons, and one count each of carnal […]
Written on April 10, 2006 | Posted in
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He has been linked to several major crimes in the past, but tonight twenty-six year old Aniver Palacio is in the news as the victim of a shooting. Authorities say around seven on Sunday night Palacio was shot at least six times, including one shot at close range to the head, as he sat on […]
Written on April 10, 2006 | Posted in
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It’s a scenario that plays out daily in offices across Belize … grown men and women begging for a handout. But in Magistrate’s court today, one such hustler found himself on the wrong side of the law after he jacked a woman’s purse. Reports are that nineteen year old Akeem Tillett had routinely gone into […]
Written on April 7, 2006 | Posted in
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San Ignacio police are no closer in finding the persons responsible for the double homicide that occurred over the weekend on a ranch in the Lower Barton Creek area in the Cayo District. Today, however, the police did release the name of the second person killed in the incident. According to authorities the body they […]
Written on April 4, 2006 | Posted in
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A double homicide in the Cayo district has left police with more questions than answers. According to San Ignacio Police around five-thirty on Sunday morning they were called out to a ranch situated off the lower Barton Creek Road. Authorities say as they approached the compound they came across the first body, lying face down […]
Written on April 3, 2006 | Posted in
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It’s been a playground of sports fishermen looking for action on the flats, but tonight it’s clear that Deer Caye, west of San Pedro Town, has also been used as a hideout for some serious criminals. Over the weekend a joint operation between the Belize Defence Force and Belize National Coast Guard unearthed on the […]
Written on April 3, 2006 | Posted in
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The Commissioner of Police has ordered an investigation into a shooting incident that took place at the Benque Viejo border on Thursday night. According to the authorities, around eight that night they were on mobile patrol along the banks of the Mopan River when they saw a man with a backpack walking in the bush. […]
Written on March 31, 2006 | Posted in
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Tonight a shooting victim who survived a gunshot wound to the head is talking to the press. From his hospital bed at the K.H.M.H., Anthony Lewis says all he wants is to go home … this, even though he continues to claim that he has no idea why he was attacked. This afternoon attending physician […]
Written on March 31, 2006 | Posted in
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A botched burglary has landed a Belize City man in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. According to Lyndon Gentle, around midnight on Thursday he went to check on his house on Hyde’s Lane, which is under construction. But when he got to the site, he found a man removing building materials. Gentle told police that […]
Written on March 31, 2006 | Posted in
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Police have made an arrest in connection with a shooting in Dangriga that left a businessman clinging to life. According to officers of the southern formation, twenty year old Nicholas Swaso of Independence Village is the man who shot Xue Ming Luo in the face last Saturday night. Following police investigations into the incident, Swaso […]
Written on March 30, 2006 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, cops in the Cayo district have arrested and charged two men following the seizure of two high powered weapons. Twenty-eight year old Eric Salazar and twenty-two year old Linsbert Bahadur of Linda Vista Street have been jointly accused of a keeping prohibited firearm and ammunition. The duo were detained after police searched two empty […]
Written on March 30, 2006 | Posted in
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A Belize City woman and two minors were today arraigned for drug trafficking in Magistrate’s Court. This afternoon Lavern Meighan, a sixteen year old, and a seventeen year old appeared before Magistrate Margaret Gabb-McKenzie and pleaded not guilty to the charge. All three were granted and met bail of three thousand, five hundred dollars and […]
Written on March 30, 2006 | Posted in
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In an update to a story from Wednesday night’s newscast, the driver of Ambassador for Women and Children Dolores Balderamos Garcia, has been released from custody after the complaint against him was dropped late yesterday evening. Jason Weatherburn had initially been remanded to Hattieville Prison for aggravated assault after a resident of Majestic Alley reported […]
Written on March 30, 2006 | Posted in
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In less than three weeks, the Belize Chinese Association has had to deal with a murder in San Joaquin Village and an attempted murder in Dangriga. And as Xue Min Lou lies in a coma at the Belize Medical Associates, there came word today that yet another Chinese national might have been the victim of […]
Written on March 29, 2006 | Posted in
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Police in Santa Elena have detained one man and recovered two unlicensed firearms. Acting on a tip, officers searched some bushes in the Linda Vista area and located a nine millimetre Luger brand Tec-nine loaded with six rounds of ammunition and a nine millimeter pistol with four live rounds. As a result of the find, […]
Written on March 29, 2006 | Posted in
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Tonight the Chinese community–not to mention Belizeans nationwide–is once again shaken following the shooting of yet another shopkeeper. Thirty two year old Xue Ming Luo, proprietor of Ming’s mini supermarket in Dangriga, remains in an induced coma at Belize Medical Associates. Xue was shot in the right eye by an armed masked man who entered […]
Written on March 27, 2006 | Posted in
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If you are among the many Belizean fans of the Oprah Winfrey Show, then you know all too well the story of Niles Scott, the accused child molester turned over to U.S. authorities by two Belize City women. They got a fifty thousand U.S. dollar reward for their trouble, and this week, Scott got his […]
Written on March 24, 2006 | Posted in
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The downtown streets were crowded with students of SJC extension waiting for classes to start … but that didn’t stop a trio of gunmen from shooting up a popular King Street restaurant, leaving its proprietor in the hospital. Jacqueline Woods Forty-five year old Garnet Brown, well known chef and proprietor of Jambel?s Jerk Pit on […]
Written on March 23, 2006 | Posted in
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A Belize City man was today arrested for trying to burn down his grandmother’s house. This morning twenty-seven year old Glenroy McLeary of East Canal appeared before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord where he was charged with attempted arson. No plea was taken because the crime is an indictable offence, and despite objection from the prosecution, […]
Written on March 23, 2006 | Posted in
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Police have arrested four men for Wednesday night’s home invasion and shooting at Sunset Park. Eighteen year old Jovan Tillett, twenty-two year old Kevin Graham, eighteen year old Dwayne Almendarez, and a sixteen year old will be charged with attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, wounding, dangerous harm, aggravated burglary, and use of deadly means […]
Written on March 22, 2006 | Posted in
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Police are also reporting more success in their effort to take guns off the streets. The latest yield includes a twelve gauge sawed-off shotgun, the result of a house search on Victoria Street, and a tec-nine submachine gun, discovered at a vacant lot on Faber’s Road. Following the shotgun seizure, police arrested nineteen year old […]
Written on March 22, 2006 | Posted in
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It was at best a freak occurrence but at worst a crime with frightening implications. On Saturday afternoon around one-thirty Senator Godwin Hulse arrived for a meeting at the Belize City law office of Lois Young-Barrow on New Road. He parked his truck, a 1993 Dodge Ram turbo diesel, in the lot at the back […]
Written on March 22, 2006 | Posted in
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A home invasion by armed intruders: It’s a nightmarish crime that fortunately seldom occurs–at least not without a good reason. And it’s that motive that has both police and the victim’s family thinking deeply tonight. News five’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Forty-three year old Anthony Lewis better known as Bobby remains […]
Written on March 21, 2006 | Posted in
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The efforts of Corozal cops and their Chetumal counterparts investigating last week’s murder in San Joaquin Village have produced enough evidence to make two arrests. According to police, twenty-seven year old Edmund Crawford Sanka of Carolina Village and twenty-five year old William Wade of Calcutta Village were arrested in connection with the murder of Chinese […]
Written on March 20, 2006 | Posted in
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In police news, Belize City cops have arrested a man after he opened fire on his former girlfriend, her child, and a male companion. Reports are that around three-thirty on Thursday evening, thirty year old Aloma Ashon, her five year old son, and her boyfriend were walking in the Water Hole area near Wagner?s Lane […]
Written on March 17, 2006 | Posted in
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