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Today there are still far more questions than answers over events in San Pedro town that has left thirty-nine year old caretaker Danielo Villatoro dead and his boss, sixty-six year old William Douglas Campbell fighting for his life. Investigators tell News Five that because it is believed that the two men were the only witnesses […]
Written on February 3, 2006 | Posted in
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Tonight Belize City police continue to investigate a booze burglary that occurred at the Brodie’s branch on the Northern Highway. According to authorities, sometime between eight on Wednesday night and eight on Thursday morning, a thief or thieves broke into the building and stole more than seven thousand dollars worth of liquor. A check by […]
Written on February 3, 2006 | Posted in
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San Pedro police are investigating a shooting incident that has left one resident dead and another seriously injured. Authorities are still not sure how the case will be treated because just what led up to the drama is shrouded in mystery. According to reports, around midday sixty-six year old William Douglas Campbell, a U.S. citizen, […]
Written on February 2, 2006 | Posted in
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A police officer from Corozal town has found himself on the other side of the law after being charged with rape. According to the alleged victim, around three a.m. on Sunday she was about to get into her vehicle when Police Corporal Edgar Tapia forced her into the car, drove her to an isolated area […]
Written on February 1, 2006 | Posted in
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A coroner’s inquest has been ordered into the death of Leslie Rogers Junior. Rogers was shot and killed by police officer Aldo Ayuso on the night of February twelfth, 2005, in the course of his duties on Euphrates Avenue. The inquest has been assigned to Magistrate Margaret McKenzie, who has set a date of February […]
Written on February 1, 2006 | Posted in
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It was a crime of extreme brutality, but police have acted quickly to arrest and charge two young men for the Friday night murder of businessman Michael Burns. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods was at Magistrate’s Court today as the duo were walked up those familiar steps. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Eighteen year old Keith Lewis and […]
Written on January 31, 2006 | Posted in
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A Belize City man is behind bars tonight, accused of sexually assaulting a ten year old girl. Twenty year old Basilio Bolon appeared before Magistrate Margaret McKenzie where he was charged with two counts of aggravated assault and one count of threatening words. Police allege that Bolon first made advances on the child on January […]
Written on January 31, 2006 | Posted in
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In our years of broadcasting the daily news, we’ve used words such as heartless, cold-blooded, and merciless. But there were no words we could think of to describe what a nine year old boy endured on Friday night on the streets of Belize City. Around eight p.m., the child watched in absolute terror as a […]
Written on January 30, 2006 | Posted in
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He fled the country in August of last year following allegations that he raped three British teenagers during a night of drinking. Today, after almost six months on the lam, Aaron Juan turned himself in to police in San Ignacio. The twenty-four year old tour guide was immediately arraigned in Magistrate’s Court on two counts […]
Written on January 30, 2006 | Posted in
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Two men have been arrested and charged for the Tuesday night killing of a Chinese grocer in Ladyville. Twenty-one year old Dwayne Cruz and seventeen year old Akeem Lord were arrested and charged with murder today in Magistrate’s Court. Contrary to earlier reports, the two men who shot Weng Ger Zheng at his shop on […]
Written on January 26, 2006 | Posted in
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Belize City police say they do not know if twenty-one year old Stephen Yearwood was the intended victim of a shooting incident on Wednesday night, but the young man lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with a bullet wound to the right side of his neck. According to police, they strongly believe this man, […]
Written on January 26, 2006 | Posted in
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A Guatemalan has been arrested in connection with a number of marijuana plantations discovered on the Old Northern Highway. Twenty-six year old Ostilo Garcia of Trial Farm in Orange Walk has been charged with cultivation of marijuana in Magistrate’s Court after he was found in the area of the illegal farms several miles from Santa […]
Written on January 26, 2006 | Posted in
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In other police updates, a post-mortem on the body of David Gallego has proved inconclusive. Gallego died in his cell at the Ladyville police station early Tuesday morning where he had been detained for handling stolen goods. According to the police press officer, G. Michael Reid, pathologist Dr. Hugh Sanchez found no signs of violence […]
Written on January 26, 2006 | Posted in
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It’s a familiar Belizean crime: gunman enters shop, gunman shoots proprietor, gunman runs away. The latest fatal robbery attempt occurred last night in Ladyville and News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has the tragic story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Thirty-one year old Weng Ger Zheng, better known as Alex, came to Belize five years ago and started doing […]
Written on January 25, 2006 | Posted in
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Forty-six year old Marvin Nunez, a Honduran national, is recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot several times while seated inside a Belize City bar. Nunez, who did not wish to appear on camera, told police that around seven-thirty Tuesday night he was drinking beer inside the River Bottom Lounge on […]
Written on January 25, 2006 | Posted in
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In news just in, police report a man is missing at sea. On Friday, sixty-seven year old Raymond Elijio was en route from Placencia to Gladden Caye, some twenty miles away, accompanied by William Faux and Brian Leslie. Faux reported to police that about a mile from the caye the boat ran aground, but the […]
Written on January 25, 2006 | Posted in
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The police officer involved in a traffic accident on New Year’s Eve which left a horse dead and eleven children injured now stands accused of drunk driving. Court reports today indicate that thirty year old Clement Cacho appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers on Tuesday where he was formally arraigned for driving with alcohol concentration above […]
Written on January 25, 2006 | Posted in
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A Sandhill resident has been arrested and charged with arson following an incident at a local grocery shop. Around three on Monday afternoon, forty year old Barry Rosalez began arguing with Yung Fa He, the proprietor of a store between miles eighteen and nineteen on the Northern Highway. Yung says after the exchange of words, […]
Written on January 25, 2006 | Posted in
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Thirty-five year old Charles Grant, a special constable attached to the Tourism Police Unit, remains in a very critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he tried to kill himself. The suicide attempt followed Grant’s shooting of police constable Ian Geban in the head. Luckily, the bullet lodged just under the skin below […]
Written on January 24, 2006 | Posted in
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A suspect has died while in police custody. Forty-five year old David Gallego of Ladyville had been detained on Monday pending charges of handling stolen goods. On Tuesday morning around six-thirty his three cellmates at the Ladyville Police Station alerted an officer that Gallego was not moving. By seven he was declared dead by Dr. […]
Written on January 24, 2006 | Posted in
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An Orange Walk resident is tonight pleading for the public’s assistance following a home invasion that netted intruders more than thirty thousand dollars in jewellery and household items. According to Antoinette Young, sometime between five-thirty and eight-thirty on Friday evening, a thief or thieves used a butcher knife to pry open the kitchen window of […]
Written on January 23, 2006 | Posted in
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A charge of rape dismissed against a Belize City man earlier this week has been reinstated. According to court reports, forty-four year old Lindon Jeffrey appeared in court on Monday to answer to charges of rape and aggravated assault in connection with an incident in July 2004. But the matter was struck out entirely as […]
Written on January 20, 2006 | Posted in
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Police say they suspect foul play in the discovery of the remains of a man found in a shallow grave two miles off the Northern Highway. The badly decomposed corpse was recovered from the site situated near the boundary between the Belize and Orange Walk districts. Today police would not say why they strongly believe […]
Written on January 19, 2006 | Posted in
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A Guatemalan national has been arrested and charged with carnal knowledge after an eleven year old girl reported that the man has engaged in sexual intercourse with her on two different occasions. The minor told Belmopan police that thirty-two year old Jose Hueso had sex with her on January thirteenth and fourteenth. A medical examination […]
Written on January 19, 2006 | Posted in
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Two men have been arrested and charged for the killing of Bruce Cocom on Saturday night in Belize City. Seventeen year old Alfred Tillett and twenty year old Albert Allen appeared this afternoon before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers where they were formally arraigned and remanded to prison until February fifteenth. Cocom was shot twice as he […]
Written on January 18, 2006 | Posted in
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