With the scandal in City Hall dominating the past week’s headlines, the work of Belize’s criminals has gone relatively unnoticed … that is until last night. Once more armed thugs invaded a Chinese owned grocery … and once more, a businessman lay dead. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports from Corozal. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Ji Chen […]
This morning in a pre-dawn raid, Belize City police acting on a tip, visited a residence on George Street. A search was conducted and on the house’s rooftop authorities discovered several high powered assault weapons and a quantity of ammunition. Police say they strongly suspect the guns were recently used and are investigating to see […]
There are new developments in the parental kidnapping of a Belize City boy. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Today the boys and girls at Sister Clara Muhammed School continued with their daily activities … all hoping that eleven year old Lexy Dickson, Jr. will soon return to class. The boy?s mother […]
Two Mexican men were arraigned in court today, charged with attempting to kidnap and kill a resident of Orange Walk. Thirty-three year old David Rendon and twenty-seven year old Jesus Araujo were jointly charged before Magistrate Herbert Lord this afternoon with preparation for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to commit kidnapping. Special prosecutor […]
Parents kidnapping their own children is not all that uncommon, particularly in an environment so full of broken families. But a case of child snatching brought to our attention today carries an added sense of urgency. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Rose Williams, Mother of Missing Boy ?Alex, all I am asking right now, I […]
Yesterday it was a father accused of raping his son; today police have detained a fifteen year old boy for having sexual relations with his ten year old sister. The initial report was made by the children’s mother, a resident of the Stann Creek District, who noticed a vamp on the ten year old’s neck. […]
Police have arrested a Punta Gorda man in connection with a weekend shooting in that southern town. Twenty-two year old Eric Foster of Punta Gorda’s Water Supply Area has been charged with attempted murder, dangerous harm, use of deadly means of harm, and aggravated assault. It is alleged that on Friday night Foster entered the […]
In the Orange Walk District, a seventeen year old has been arrested after chopping off a man’s thumb and index finger in a fight. According to police reports, early Sunday morning in Trinidad Village seventeen year old Ventura Garcia became involved in an altercation with forty-seven year old Belemo Cowo. Cowo wielded a machete and […]
A thirty-five year old Belize City man is behind bars tonight accused of raping his son. According to the police, the nine year old told his mother that on March fifth, he was at home with his father when he was taken to a bedroom and raped. Medical examinations have certified that the child was […]
A brazen shooting in the Toledo district over the weekend has left a man suffering from gunshot wounds. Police reports out of Punta Gorda are that around eight-thirty on Friday night, forty-three year old Eric Flowers was walking into his yard on West Street when someone he knew walked up to him, pointed a shotgun […]
A high school teacher is charged with burglary tonight after an incident in Belize City over the weekend. Court reports are that thirty-one year old Denroy Tillett, a teacher at Saint John’s College pleaded not guilty to the charge and is now out on five thousand dollars bail. According to the victim, Rhondine Tillett, around […]
A thief busted by school children and an alert police officer was today charged in Belize City Magistrate’s Court. Forty-seven year old Nicaraguan Luis Saquaira appeared before Magistrate Margaret Gabb McKenzie where he was formally arraigned on one count of theft. Saquaira pled not guilty, but when the court found out that he was also […]
A Mexican national arrested on Friday for firearm offences has been fined. Thirty-four year old David Rendon appeared in Corozal Magistrate’s Court today where he pled guilty to two counts each of possession of unlicensed firearm and ammunition. He was fined ten thousand dollars on each count or in default four years in jail. Acting […]
In Belize City, police continue to investigate the disturbing discovery of two hand grenades in an abandoned lot. Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid declined to identify the area where the hand-held explosives were found, citing the sensitivity of the ongoing investigation. Along with the grenades, police also recovered a nine millimetre pistol. It is […]
A Mexican national has been arrested in Corozal after police found guns in his hotel room. Acting on a tip, on Thursday evening police searched the room of thirty-four year old David Rendon and found two unlicensed nine millimetre Beretta pistols and one nine-millimetre Sig Sauer. All the guns were loaded and additional rounds were […]
A purse snatcher who thought a Belize City teacher was an easy target could not have been further off the mark. This afternoon Tricia Reneau, a teacher of Calvary Temple School was on her way back to work when as she got near to the Salvador Habet Store a man identified as forty-seven year old […]
A Belizean teen kidnapped in Los Angeles earlier this week may not have been the intended target. According to media reports out of California, police believe thirteen year old Kalan Dapson was mistaken for someone else by the two men who took him at gunpoint from his uncle’s Inglewood home. The boy told police he […]
A man who told police six men tried to steal his boat and threatened to shoot him, has dropped all the charges, except against one man. Dwayne Tillett reported that around ten-thirty on Wednesday morning a group of men tried to tow away his skiff with their boat. He yelled at them, but one of […]
Three men accused of having a shootout with a prominent businessman have been granted bail. This morning Kenrick Reneau, Giovanni Lauriano, and Egbert Vernon appeared before Magistrate Sharon Fraser where they met bail of five thousand dollars each and were ordered to reappear in court on April eleventh. The men are charged jointly for attempted […]
Police have arrested a second suspect in connection with the killing of a Guatemalan resident of the Orange Walk district. Twenty-three year old Ostillio Garcia was yesterday charged with murder for the death of Jose Armando Perez. Perez’s body was found on January eighteenth in a shallow grave near the boundary of the Belize and […]
A Faber’s Road man has been remanded to jail for the sexual abuse of a minor. Fifty-three year old Hilton Guy was today formally arraigned for aggravated assault before Magistrate Harry Hulett. This is the second complaint filed against Guy by the same teenaged girl. In the first instance, the fourteen year old victim reported […]
A Belizean teenager abducted in California has been found unharmed. Thirteen year old Kalan Dapson was picked up Wednesday at the Greyhound bus station in Los Angeles following a tip phoned in to the Inglewood Police Department. Dapson had been dragged away from his uncle’s car by two armed assailants Tuesday night as he was […]
There is a major anti-drug operation underway in the Orange Walk district, but disturbing reports from Belizeans stopped at a checkpoint on the Northern Highway indicate that it is being operated and directed by agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Two separate accounts to News Five by extremely reliable witnesses say that at a […]
And while the operation of the Carmelita checkpoint may be of dubious legality, its presence has resulted in several arrests. In one case police arrested two men in a pickup truck carrying a sawed-off sixteen gauge shotgun with a single cartridge. David Middleton of Carmelita and Abel Camara of Guinea Grass were charged with keeping […]
Details are in short supply, but news outlets in the United States are reporting that a Belizean teenager has been kidnapped in California. According to television stations in Los Angeles, thirteen year old Kalan Dapson was abducted from his home in Inglewood on Tuesday night around nine. According to police, the boy was with his […]
