Tonight police in the north are investigating a sexual attack against a young child that has traumatised the victim and shocked his community. According to authorities, on Sunday afternoon the cries of a child and the sounds of a commotion sent several concerned residents of San Jose in the Orange Walk District rushing to a […]
Belize City police are tonight on the lookout for a man who bought a six thousand dollar T.V. with a bogus check. According to police, a sales representative for furniture and appliance emporium Courts has reported that a man claiming to be Samer Safa walked into the store on Wednesday and bought a forty-two inch […]
Late this evening News Five received a call from a concerned citizen in Ladyville who reported the discovery of human remains. Jacqueline Woods visited the site and files this report. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The human skull along with other remains was found approximately fifteen feet off one of the main roads into Vista Del Mar. […]
Last week we reported on eighteen year old Kareem Smith being charged with a slew of robberies. Well, he now has one more to add to that list. Smith appeared in Magistrate’s Court on Thursday where he was arraigned for robbery. The new charge arose out of an incident on September eighth in which Tyrone […]
Tonight Belize City police are investigating a bizarre break-in and burglary at the municipal airport. According to police, around ten-thirty last night, three masked men armed with handguns drove up to the offices of Maya Island Air Express Freight and Tropic Air in a blue Mazda pickup. Sources tell News Five the bandits immediately tied […]
A B.D.F. solider sentenced this week in absentia for ammunition offences has turned himself in to authorities. Former Belize Defence Force soldier, thirty-seven year old Eloy Hemmans was thought to have fled the country after he failed to appear in Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday to face a charge of prohibited ammunition. Hemmans was found guilty […]
A teenager has been arrested and charged following a beat-down in Belize City that sent another youth to the hospital. Seventeen year old Miguel Angel Chacon, is described by police as the ring leader of a group of men who beat and robbed two young men at the Belize City Centre. According to the authorities, […]
With one allegation of police brutality after the next and perceived corruption throughout the ranks, the Belize Police Department has had a tough time establishing and maintaining good community relations, especially in hotspots like Belize City. But as I found out this morning, there are pockets of cooperation scattered across the country whose efforts have […]
It was only last week that Belize City police were called out to investigate a break-in at Wesley Primary School on Albert Street. Today authorities are relying on public assistance to solve yet another burglary in the neighbourhood. This time, Wesley preschool was the target. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Sarah Vaughan, Teacher, Wesley Preschool […]
Tonight a suspect has been charged with murder in the death of a young American backpacker in the Toledo District. Reports to News Five indicate that twenty year old Julia Armstrong Minard, a native of California, had entered Belize through the western border with Guatemala on Thursday, November tenth. Originally travelling with a group, Minard […]
Tonight police are investigating a shooting incident that occurred over the weekend in the Corozal District. Around six on Sunday morning, authorities say they found Feliciano Novelo at the Northern Regional hospital with a gunshot wound to his back. According to Novelo, sometime earlier he was at a dance in San Narciso Village when he […]
Meanwhile, a young mother from Orange Walk town has been arrested and charged with child neglect following a visit to her home over the weekend. According to police reports, when officers went to the residence of twenty-nine year old Estela Aldana on Otro Benque road, they found her two children, ages one month and three […]
A Belize City man caught red handed stealing a car radio has been charged in Magistrate’s Court. According to reports, around six on Saturday evening police responded to a tip that someone was breaking into a vehicle on Doris Brooks Street. When the cops arrived at the scene, they found a Chevy Blazer with a […]
And if you thought that was embarrassing, within hours, a man attempting to walk off with nothing less than a washing machine was busted by some very unhappy homeowners. According to police reports, around two-thirty on Sunday morning, Sharon Cardinez of Sarstoon Street awoke to strange sounds coming from the area near her back door. […]
The country’s three-week respite from murder ended today when two men stabbed each other early this morning in Belize City. And while the police say it was not the first time forty-three year old Victor Avilez and forty-two year Franklyn Stanford clashed, it was their last as Avilez died on the way to the hospital. […]
A tour guide from the Belize District and his wood carver cousin were charged with incest today following allegations that they both had sexual relations with a fourteen year old female relative. The pair appeared before Magistrate Margaret McKenzie and were remanded to Hattieville Prison until trial on December ninth. One of the men was […]
The man accused of the burglary of Novelo’s Bus Company has pleaded guilty. Twenty year old Leon Cain, a cashier at the company, was accused of burglary but copped a guilty plea to the lesser charge of handling stolen goods. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers sentenced Cain to a two thousand dollar fine or in default a […]
A young Belize City man has been charged with a string of violent robberies against women. Eighteen year old Kareem Smith appeared Tuesday before Magistrate Margaret McKenzie where he pled not guilty to three separate allegations of robbery, one count of burglary, and one count of wounding. The accusations against Smith date back to August […]
As if they didn’t have enough to worry about, over the weekend Novelo’s Bus Company was the victim of a burglary. According to police reports, sometime Sunday night or early Monday morning the company’s safe was broken into and twelve thousand dollars was removed. Cops suspected an inside job and they searched the residence of […]
A vehicle stolen from Belize City has showed up sixty-five miles away on the Western Highway, along with the man accused of stealing it. It was the first big catch for the four day old police checkpoint at Red Creek in the Cayo District. The drama unfolded around three this morning when according to authorities, […]
In weekend crime the big news is that… there isn’t much news… and yes, it’s a pleasure to report. According to police there was an incident in which a sixteen year old suffered a knife wound during a fight with her boyfriend, and another teenager was arrested for an unlicensed firearm… but that’s about it. […]
In other courts news, this week a treasury official from Punta Gorda was formally arraigned in connection with more than twenty-three thousand dollars of missing money. According to police, in September authorities were tipped off that a person or persons were skimming money from accounts. An investigation was immediately launched, which led to the arrest […]
Tonight a senior police officer is under internal investigation by the Belize City department following reports of missing money. This afternoon Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid would only say that Inspector Oscar Puga of the Patrol Branch is the subject of an official probe following the allegations made against him. According to published reports […]
Police are urging business establishments to be on the lookout for an individual who has already forged and cashed one cheque and has three more in his possession. A man identifying himself as Michael Robert Brown cashed a cheque for five hundred and forty dollars at J.L.’s Quick Loan earlier this week and it is […]
A Belize City woman has reported being held up in her home on Tibruce Street. Sylvia Vernon told police two men came to her house around nine-thirty Thursday night pretending to be delivering a package. However, one of them came inside, pulled a handgun, and began searching the house. Vernon says they stole her licensed […]
