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This afternoon charges were dropped against a man arrested in connection with an attack against a well-known businessman. Twenty-seven year old Giovanni Lauriano appeared today before Magistrate Sharon Fraser where two counts of attempted murder, one count of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary and one count of aggravated burglary were all withdrawn against him. Other […]
Written on January 18, 2006 | Posted in
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It’s Tourism Week and whether we like it or not, one of the biggest problems for the nation’s major industry is crime. The latest incident occurred on January seventh when a group of four visitors from Wisconsin were robbed while walking through Guanacaste Park near Belmopan. According to Sonia Slemrod, she, her husband, and another […]
Written on January 18, 2006 | Posted in
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His discovery in Belize by a number of alert viewers, subsequent arrest by local police, and expulsion into the arms of U.S. law enforcement authorities was amply chronicled on this station last year. Now, fugitive sexual predator Niles Scott has been convicted. He was tried in Cleveland, Ohio and found guilty on four counts of […]
Written on January 18, 2006 | Posted in
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And in news just in, police report that they have found a body near mile thirty-eight on the Northern Highway. The unidentified corpse, believed to be an adult male, was discovered in a shallow grave some distance from the road. We’ll have more on this story in tomorrow’s newscast.
Written on January 18, 2006 | Posted in
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A construction worker from Burrell Boom is cooling his heels in Hattieville prison tonight after he was charged with the indecent assault of a minor. The twelve year old girl complained to her mother that forty-eight year old Edmond Lewis squeezed her private parts while taking a baby from her arms and had previously made […]
Written on January 17, 2006 | Posted in
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Police have had success in solving the recent burglary of two tourists in Belize City. Seventeen year old Sheffield Ysaguirre has been arrested for allegedly breaking into the room of a pair of U.S. visitors staying at a Barrack Road guest house late Friday night or early Saturday morning. The couple reported losing a camera, […]
Written on January 17, 2006 | Posted in
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The neighbourhood became well-known to Belizeans in December when Lisa Garoy, her baby, and a neighbour were wounded by a spray of bullets that left the young mother paralysed. Today that same area, not far from downtown Belize City, is once again back in the news…for the same reason. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twenty-three year old […]
Written on January 16, 2006 | Posted in
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Sixty year old Irma Cocom of Jane Usher Boulevard said she had just told her son goodbye when twenty minutes later she received the news that he had been shot. Twenty-five year old Bruce Cocom lay dead on Central American Boulevard by a shop where he had stopped to buy a drink. According to Belize […]
Written on January 16, 2006 | Posted in
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Police held a press conference today to report on the conclusions of forensic experts in three high profile cases. The evidence, all involving firearms, was sent to the crime lab in Chetumal and this afternoon Mexican officials formally handed over the files. The results, as explained by Belize’s chief forensic analyst, Genoveva Marin, indicated that […]
Written on January 16, 2006 | Posted in
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There has been a major bust in the illegal harvesting of xate leaves in Belize. But most disturbingly, the latest arrest did not take place in the Chiquibul Forest Reserve. Tonight authorities are reporting that the discovery occurred deep inland, in the mountains near St. Margaret’s Village on the Hummingbird Highway. According to spokespersons in […]
Written on January 13, 2006 | Posted in
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A Belize City teenager has been arrested and charged for murder following police investigations into the death of twenty-five year old Dennis “Ticky” Gladden. Ronlee Petillo, who turned eighteen on the day of the murder, was this afternoon taken to Belize City’s Magistrate Court where he was formally arraigned for the crime. He appeared before […]
Written on January 13, 2006 | Posted in
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A Cayo businessman is lucky to be alive after he was shot in the head, twice. Unbelievable as it sounds, tonight authorities in San Ignacio tell News Five that just before midnight on Thursday, fifty-six year old Bing Run Lui was at his shop on Far West Street when two men, one armed with a […]
Written on January 13, 2006 | Posted in
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It’s the Ombudsman’s job to hear complaints… and as annual reports reveal, the majority of those cases involve police brutality. But as the Ombudsman will tell you himself, not every report warrants an investigation and the matter is eventually dismissed. However, with that reality comes consequences from unhappy “victims.” On Thursday, the office of the […]
Written on January 13, 2006 | Posted in
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Two children are orphans tonight as their father–still in mourning over their mom’s death in a traffic accident–became the year’s third homicide victim. The shooting occurred Tuesday night around nine in Belize City. Today, News Five’s Jacqueline Woods spoke to the family. Dennis Gladden Sr., Father of the Deceased ?Every time that happen, a lot […]
Written on January 11, 2006 | Posted in
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It was just one more shocking incident in December’s violent crime wave… but the New Year’s Eve assault and robbery of an eighty-five year old Belize City woman made even the most hardened observers hang their heads in shame. Today we are happy to report a break in the case as a suspect has been […]
Written on January 10, 2006 | Posted in
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Also charged in Magistrate’s Court today was a man accused of burglary. And while the arraignment of thirty-six year old David Sosa involved just another Belize City housebreaking, what made Sosa special is that this is the forty-third time that he has been brought up on criminal charges. With twenty-two convictions, his batting averages hovers […]
Written on January 10, 2006 | Posted in
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Another cruise ship tourist has died while snorkelling in Belizean waters. According to police, the unnamed sixty-five year old U.S. national was with a group of nine other visitors, all passengers from the Carnival Legend, who were snorkelling with a tour guide near the barrier reef in front of Caye Caulker. He experienced problems while […]
Written on January 10, 2006 | Posted in
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The boys may all be between the ages of thirteen and fifteen, but that did not prevent them from being charged for the armed hold-up of a seventeen year old. According to Errol Villanueva, a sales clerk, around seven-thirty on Friday night he was walking along Central American Boulevard when upon reaching the intersection with […]
Written on January 9, 2006 | Posted in
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A stabbing in San Ignacio has left one man critically injured and another facing an attempted murder charge. According to authorities, around seven-thirty Sunday night twenty-five year old Peter August was walking near the corner of Orchard and Bishop Martin streets in Santa Elena when he was attacked by a man armed with a knife. […]
Written on January 9, 2006 | Posted in
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Belize City police are investigating a disturbing report that involves a hold-up and an attack on one of their women police constables. The uniformed W.P.C., who has not been identified by authorities, was on her way to work around one this morning on her bicycle when upon nearing a bridge in the Yabra area, a […]
Written on January 9, 2006 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, a Belize City teenager is tonight in police custody pending a charge of attempted murder following an attack against a fifteen year old. According to Markel Barrera, on Thursday evening he got into an argument with a sixteen year old. The war of words ended when the older teen left the area only to […]
Written on January 6, 2006 | Posted in
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Belize City police are tonight on the lookout for two men following an armed hold up at a south side nightclub. Reports are that around nine last night, patrons at the Touch of Class Bar on Amara Avenue were ambushed by two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun. The gunman hit proprietor […]
Written on January 6, 2006 | Posted in
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A Belize District deejay has been arrested and charged with carnal knowledge following a report by a thirteen year old girl. According to court reports, the minor, accompanied by her mother told police that between November and December of 2005 she had sex with eighteen year old Shane Vargas. A medical examination has confirmed that […]
Written on January 6, 2006 | Posted in
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Police have made another arrest following the execution style murders of two brothers over the Christmas holidays. Thirty-six year old Levi Jackson of Hattieville was today arraigned on two counts of murder before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers. Jackson was employed as a security guard at Belize Refrigeration on the Western Highway on the night of December […]
Written on January 5, 2006 | Posted in
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A security guard who reported his gun stolen was today himself charged with the theft. David Meighan, an employee of J & B’s Security Service was arraigned before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers. According to the owner of J & B’s, Joseph Meighan, a thirty-eight calibre revolver was issued to David Meighan on January second and he […]
Written on January 5, 2006 | Posted in
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