Two Belize City men appeared in Magistrate’s Court this morning after being arrested and charged for stealing a child’s bicycle. Twelve year old Neville Armstrong reported to police that on Wednesday, while doing an errand for his mother, he was stopped by two men at the corner of Pen Road and Raccoon Street Extension. The […]
Police have arrested and charged a security guard with attempted rape following a report by a twelve year old. According to the minor, while playing in her yard in March of this year, thirty-six year old Lindel Gibson pulled her into a bedroom, locked the door, stripped her naked, and attempted to have sex with […]
Meanwhile, two more people have been charged in connection with an attack against a child, but this time the offence was committed by a dog. Julian Reid reported to police that while in her neighbour’s yard around noon on Monday, she was shocked to hear the screams of her five year old son Corbin, who […]
Twenty days of peace on the streets of Belize City were shattered last night by a single gunshot, as shortly after dawn this morning police would discover the body of yet another young man lying in a pool of his own blood. Today I joined investigators at the scene as they searched for a motive […]
Tonight after much speculation regarding the status of the official investigation into the death of Leslie Rogers Jr., the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has commented on the matter to the media. D.P.P. Kirk Anderson told News Five that approximately two weeks ago he informed the Police Department in writing that he did […]
A brazen hold up in the Cayo District on Monday ended with seven people being robbed at gunpoint, one of them a police officer. Tonight we understand that around nine that morning, two vehicles travelling to the ancient Mayan site of Caracol were ambushed by seven men carrying M16s and a short-firearm. In the first […]
Police have made arrests in connection with Saturday’s destructive fire. According to court reports, today thirty-one year old Kevin Kelly, thirty-two year old Lincoln Allen, thirty year old Anthony Major, and fifty-five year old Michael Cain, who all live in the neighbourhood, were arraigned on a charge of burglary before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord. The […]
Meanwhile, Ladyville police have arrested and charged a young woman after they found her neighbour?s stolen property in her living room. Twenty-one year old Elena Kerr appeared in Magistrate’s Court today where she was formally charged for handling stolen goods. Kerr has pleaded not guilty to the offence and was granted bail in the sum […]
In August, it was the last thing the Immigration Department needed…a robbery within the very confines of it offices. Authorities would later discover some two hundred passports missing. In the aftermath of the incident, the investigation led police to search the homes of ranking members of the department, but tonight, almost three months after the […]
A man accused of shooting in the direction of three police officers on Friday night near the Princess Hotel was charged today in Magistrate?s Court. Deshawn White was arraigned before Magistrate Sharon Fraser on three counts of attempted murder, three counts of aggravated assault, one count of carrying an unlicensed firearm, and one count of […]
A young woman is in police custody tonight in connection with a home fire in the Maxboro community on the Northern Highway. According to police, one person has been detained pending charges of burglary and arson. Reports to News Five are that the woman, who lives next door to the victim, was ratted out by […]
The family of the late twenty-one year old Leslie Rogers is in shock tonight following reports that the man accused of shooting their loved one will not be brought up on charges. According to Patricia Bennett, the family has yet to be officially informed by the Director of Public Prosecutions that the charges against police […]
It was a story that blazed into the headlines: two men who called the streets of Belize City home viciously fighting to a deadly end. Tonight, the sole survivor of that brutal incident, forty-one year old Stanford Franklin is on remand at the Hattieville prison after being formally arraigned for the charge of manslaughter. Franklin […]
Tonight authorities in the Belize District are investigating a suspected case of arson in the Maxboro community near Sandhill Village. According to fire officials, shortly after ten this morning a neighbour called fire and police to report that flames were coming out of the windows of a house located at number three-twenty-three Maxboro Street. A […]
There is another crime story emerging from the Belize City Commercial Centre tonight as a female taxi driver has been charged with breaking into at least two booths and stealing more than fifty wooden carvings. According to court reports, thirty-five year old Antoinette Usher, a resident of Berry Street, appeared before Magistrate Margaret Gabb McKenzie […]
Tonight more bad checks are coming out of the woodwork. During our coverage of a brazen con artist ripping off local businesses in the city this week, yet another store owner has come forward with a bogus cheque, allegedly written by a member of the Safa family, this time in the name Yasser Safa. According […]
Human Trafficking. The very words evoke fear in most who realise the scary and deadly consequences of this depraved and illegal activity. And tonight, authorities in the west are investigating a possible incident of human trafficking that involves newborn babies and the staff of the San Ignacio Hospital. News Five understands that in mid-October a […]
A farmer from Crooked Tree Village has been arrested and charged for stealing food and drinks from the children of that community. According to court reports, thirty-five year old Curtis Flowers has been formally arraigned on charges of burglary, keeping unlicensed ammunition, and handling stolen goods. Flowers is the man police believe broke into the […]
The case against a Belize City conman who has been writing phoney cheques to unsuspecting businesses is mounting as tonight there is yet another accusation; this time for a whopping forty thousand dollars. According to Belize City businessman Haisam El Bathish, on December first 2004, a man identifying himself as Ali Safa bought a forty […]
On Sunday, there was the shocking report of a six year old boy molested by two men in an Orange Walk Village, and now it seems that less than twenty-four hours later in Belize City, a ten year old girl was also victimised. The child, accompanied by her mother told police that a security guard […]
A woman deported from the United States after serving time for burglary, stands accused here at home of the same crime. Fifty-two year old Glenda Neal was picked up by police on Tuesday in the vicinity of a home that was burglarised on November tenth in Port Loyola. When Neal was arrested she had a […]
A U.S. citizen living in Belize has been fined twenty thousand dollars for keeping an unlicensed weapon and ammunition. Donald Richard Cook appeared before Magistrate Margaret Gabb-McKenzie today where he pleaded guilty and was fined ten thousand dollars for the twenty-gauge double barrelled shotgun and ten thousand for the cartridges. He was ordered to pay […]
Today, nineteen year old Tyrone Harris appeared in Magistrate Court where he was formally arraigned for murder. The charge arose out of an incident March sixth, 2004 in which Mark Tingling was shot on the left side of his chest on Neal Pen Road and later died at the K.H.M.H. An investigation led to the […]
Also in Magistrate’s Court today, twenty-four year old Frank Tejeda of Lord’s Bank was formally arraigned following an incident at his ex-girlfriend’s house in Belize City. According to Lisa Wright, sometime around seven on the night of November thirteenth Tejeda forced his way inside her home and punched her in the face. Wright reported the […]
With so many business establishments refusing to accept personal cheques these days, it seems incredible that one Belize City man was able to buy thousands of dollars worth of goods by bouncing worthless paper from three different banks. That’s right, the name Safa has surfaced yet again in connection with bad cheques. This time, the […]
