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A missing laptop has been recovered and a nineteen year old youth from Belize City has been charged with handling stolen goods. The Dell computer worth over five thousand dollars and belonging to Frederick Sandiford was jacked during a break-in at a house in Buttonwood Bay sometime between December twenty-third and twenty-fourth. Subsequent investigations into […]
Written on January 5, 2006 | Posted in
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One hundred and eight thousand dollars. That’s the amount of money taken by a lone gunman this morning from Save-U Supermarket, one of Belize City’s major shopping emporiums. The jacking occurred around nine this morning as a Save-U employee, Patrick Roches, was carrying the company’s deposit bag from the store to the branch of FirstCaribbean […]
Written on January 4, 2006 | Posted in
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He is accused of leading a Boxing Day shooting spree in Gales Point and today twenty-five year old Elvis Myers was formally arraigned for murder and a number of other crimes. The murder rap stems from the death of Winfield Slusher Junior at a village bram on the night of December twenty-sixth. Myers is also […]
Written on January 4, 2006 | Posted in
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The avalanche of violence that ended 2005 has continued in the new year. Two murders at opposite ends of the country have already marked the first week of 2006. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods reports on one homicide investigated this morning on Belize City’s north side. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Belize City police say they do not […]
Written on January 3, 2006 | Posted in
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It’s been a busy holiday season for the nation’s police officers and it doesn’t look like they’ll get some rest any time soon. Today the high command shared their burdens with the press. A.C.P. Crispin Jeffries, O.C. Eastern Division ?The media and the police have a lot to do in relation to what happens in […]
Written on January 3, 2006 | Posted in
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It’s not certain whether he was the year’s first or second murder victim, but that matters little to the family of forty-seven year old Ortencio Quintero of Benque Viejo del Carmen. Quintero was found unconscious around three a.m. on New Year’s morning lying on the roadside in that westernmost town. He was taken by police […]
Written on January 3, 2006 | Posted in
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Also turning himself in to police today was Alex Myers, the suspect sought in connection with the fatal shooting of Winfield Slusher and wounding of Constable Keith Cruz on Boxing Day in Gales Point Village. Myers was accompanied by his lawyer, Michael Peyrefitte.
Written on January 3, 2006 | Posted in
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A Belize City man appeared in court today to answer to charges that he robbed a store on Wednesday and was later found with unlicensed weapons and ammunition. Maxwell Anderson of North Creek in Belize City appeared before Magistrate Sharon Fraser where he pleaded not guilty to all the charges. He was remanded to custody […]
Written on December 23, 2005 | Posted in
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A taxi driver arrested after a fight on Thursday night is claiming his car was stolen because police refused to let him bring it to the station. Edwin Haylock of East Canal appeared before Magistrate Sharon Frazer today where he was arraigned on charges of aggravated assault and wounding. He pleaded not guilty and met […]
Written on December 23, 2005 | Posted in
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A man with only one leg appeared in Magistrate’s Court today accused of stealing a bicycle. Alex Lopez was charged before Magistrate Sharon Fraser for burglary and granted two thousand five hundred dollars bail. In November, Michelle Willoughby of Amara Avenue reported that Lopez went to her home and shortly after he left she realised […]
Written on December 22, 2005 | Posted in
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Two arrests have been made in the murder of an American man in San Pedro and police believe a third person may have been involved. Seventy-one year old Leston Langdon of Coconut Drive was found dead on Sunday morning at his home on the island. According to autopsy reports, he suffered a ruptured skull due […]
Written on December 21, 2005 | Posted in
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Tonight, San Ignacio police are asking for your help in locating a three month old baby and the child’s father after he reportedly took the child without the mother’s consent. Belize City resident twenty-two year old Shawnice Young told police that around eight-thirty on Monday night the child’s father, Samuel August Sr. who lives in […]
Written on December 21, 2005 | Posted in
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Police have filed additional charges tonight in connection with Saturday night’s grisly shootings in Belize City. According to authorities, twenty-seven year old Leroy Rhaburn, eighteen year old Brent Garoy, and twenty year old Burton Garoy have all been charged with two counts of attempted murder, two counts of aggravated assault, and one count of conspiracy […]
Written on December 20, 2005 | Posted in
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In the hustle and bustle of Christmas shopping, thieves are also making their presence felt in the city. According to police reports today, petty criminals have been hard at work, lifting cell phones, purses, and jewellery. The latest incidents include a report by fifteen year old Henry Thomas that as he neared the intersection of […]
Written on December 20, 2005 | Posted in
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We might all be jaded by the sound of gunshots on the streets of Belize City, but when brutal thugs leave children bleeding on the ground all in the name of revenge and petty arguments, it’s time to be outraged. And that is exactly what the country is feeling tonight following reports of an incident […]
Written on December 19, 2005 | Posted in
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An American man has been murdered in San Pedro and tonight the prime suspects are his maid and property caretaker. According to authorities, around one on Sunday morning Caye cops visited the home of seventy-one year old Leston Langdon in the Beachfront area of the town. There they found Langdon sitting up in a chair […]
Written on December 19, 2005 | Posted in
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Another shooting, this time less than a block away from the city’s main police station, has left a second young man in critical condition. Police reports are that around four on Sunday morning, Danny Dais and another man got into a fight at the corner of Handyside and Queen Street. The dispute ended when the […]
Written on December 19, 2005 | Posted in
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A D.P.P. memo sent to Belize City Magistrate’s Court today has resulted in charges being dropped against two men in connection with a brazen robbery at the Income Tax Department. While no official reason has been given for the move by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, tonight we understand that both defendants, […]
Written on December 16, 2005 | Posted in
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A charge has also been withdrawn against a Belize City man, this time for murder in connection with the deadly shooting of a local mechanic. According to court reports, Roger Anthony and Mark Alamilla were both initially charged in the death of Lloyd Bodden. Bodden was killed on February tenth as he was working on […]
Written on December 16, 2005 | Posted in
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Tonight Belize City police are actively seeking a husband who hacked up his wife and left her bleeding in their home. According to the authorities, around nine-thirty last night cops responded to reports of a domestic abuse on Kelly Street. When officers arrived at the scene, they found Julia Amaya with a number of her […]
Written on December 16, 2005 | Posted in
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A tour guide involved in the disappearance of an American cruise ship passenger has been fined for not having a valid license. According to court reports, this morning forty year old Bernard Mortis pleaded guilty to the charge of operating as a tour guide without first obtaining a license. Magistrate Harry Hulett then ordered Mortis […]
Written on December 15, 2005 | Posted in
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A husband and wife from Teakettle Village who took the law into their hands after their home was burglarised is tonight facing prosecution. According to Lorenzo Vanegas, around eight on Wednesday morning, his wife Melony Bardalez, returned from an errand only to catch a thief red-handed trying to steal the family’s Christmas ham, apples, a […]
Written on December 15, 2005 | Posted in
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Belize City police have arrested and charged four men in connection with the murder of twenty year old Sherwin Yarwood. This afternoon twenty-eight year old Terrence Bailey, twenty-eight year old Jerry Bush, twenty-nine year old Shinette Staine, and sixteen year old Erwin Adolphus appeared in Belize City Magistrate’s Court were they were formally arraigned for […]
Written on December 14, 2005 | Posted in
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A brazen morning robbery in Belama has netted thieves more than two thousand dollars in cash and goods. According to police reports, around eleven-thirty on Tuesday morning, two men, masked and armed with a handgun, entered Julie’s Supermarket on Albert Hoy Street and held up employees. One robber pointed the weapon at the victims, while […]
Written on December 14, 2005 | Posted in
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In a dramatic turn of events, a couple charged with selling a young girl into sexual slavery has changed their plea…from guilty to not guilty. Latest reports out of Belmopan indicate that twenty-one year old Celia Garcia and her common-law husband Walter Swazo appeared in Magistrate’s Court this afternoon as scheduled, but as the judge […]
Written on December 13, 2005 | Posted in
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