A security guard who was just about to pay for his fried chicken order on Wednesday night had his money snatched out his hand by a man with a knife. Roy Zelaya told police that Ellis Meighan, someone he has known for five years, came up to him at the window of Belizean Fried Chicken […]
A Centre for Employment Training student is accused of burglarising a home on the Western Highway and then going on a spending spree with the cash. Jovan Tillett pleaded not guilty to burglary and handling stolen goods charges before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord today, but was remanded to prison until the trial later this month. […]
Meanwhile, a farmer from Burrell Boom has pleaded guilty to firearm charges and was fined twenty thousand dollars. Thirty-seven year old Clifford Nicholson was stopped by police on February fifteenth of this year as he rode his bicycle through the village with his sixteen gauge shotgun slung across his back. Nicholson could not produce a […]
Recently reported cases of rape involving young Belizean women have heightened police concern. The latest incident occurred around six-thirty on Thursday evening and involves a sixteen year old student and a thirty-four year old suspect identified as Aris Cacho. One disturbing aspect to the case is that at the time of the alleged incident, Cacho […]
San Ignacio police are tonight claiming a victory after they foiled a blackmailing plot and arrested one of the suspects. According to a police press release, on October twenty-seventh a San Ignacio businessman had just arrived home when two men approached, entered his vehicle, and forced him to drive away. However, when the victim neared […]
Four men have been arrested following a robbery and kidnapping in the Riverwalk area of the Cayo District. The frightening ordeal occurred at the home of sixty-three year old Oscar Chapeau. Chapeau told police that he was drinking at home in the company of his secretary and another man when three armed masked intruders entered […]
A young man has been detained while Orange Walk police investigate a report that he raped a student on Friday night. According to the sixteen year old girl, she was buying food from a vendor around eleven forty-five that night when she was approached by a man who offered to take her home. The police […]
A youth who described himself as a “break dance instructor” has been charged with dangerous harm, use of deadly means of harm, and robbery following a fight between two men on Freetown Road in Belize City during the September Celebrations. However, when asked by Magistrate Harry Hewlett what the fight was about, Demetrious Martinez said […]
Police have made another arrest following a burglary at a shop on King Street in Belize City. Seventeen year old Germaine Gomez appeared in Magistrate Court on Thursday where he was charged with the burglary for the October twenty-fourth incident at Rekha’s Store. Police received a call early that morning that a burglary was in […]
Yet another vendor has been held up at the Queen Square Market. William Garcia told police he was taking pineapples out of his pickup truck on Monday night when a man pointed a handgun at his face and robbed him of nine dollars. Police say they are doing what they can to stop the recent […]
It’s something women walking through any town in Belize may have to contend with: men using obscene language and even gestures. But what many people do not know is that both acts are not only annoyances, they are criminal offences. On Sunday, Carlos Sandoval was picked up by police in Trial Farm Village and charged […]
Tonight Belize City police continue to look for a man who held up a family by their vending stand and stole their day’s sales. Santos Zabaleta told police that around four on Tuesday evening she was along with her husband Fermin Zabaleta and other family members at the Queen Square Market when a man approached […]
Small marijuana busts are hardly big news in Belize, but you’ve got to wonder about the two guys caught Tuesday at Hattieville Prison. Thirty year old Dorian Michael and thirty-two year old Max Williams were arraigned today for drug trafficking after they allegedly tried to smuggle around four ounces of the herb into the facility […]
It was a serious burglary… but the story has a happy ending as city police recovered the goods…and made a collar. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Chester Williams, Officer Commanding, C.I.B. ?From our investigation, the burglars gained entry into the store by breaking the locks off the shutters and that is how they entered […]
Three men have been charged in connection with the robbery of a Corozal money changer last week. Eric Savery, Keith Nunez, and Edward Gonzalez have all been charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, while Savery and Nunez have been additionally charged with robbery. Jorge Margarito Sima reported the men robbed him of fifty thousand dollars […]
Tonight there are far more questions than answers surrounding the death of fifty-two year old Juan Dorado. Police strongly suspect Dorado killed his girlfriend, thirty-two year old Delia Cruz on October tenth, but what happened next is what authorities are trying to determine. Initial reports are that after Dorado shot Cruz, he then turned the […]
We’ve reported all kinds of homicides over the last fourteen years and the vast majority–although committed for a variety of reasons–at least had some kind of motive, be it robbery, revenge or passion. But the two brutal murders that occurred last night in Belize City seem to have been perpetrated against innocent citizens for no […]
According to its founders, since CrimeStoppers Belize was launched last year the non-profit organisation has made significant achievements. This morning they hosted a press conference to update the media on its current status and future plans. According to Chief Operations Officer, Chris Garcia, to date CrimeStoppers Belize has received a total of two hundred and […]
The wait is over… Belize City police have finally decided which people to credit with the arrest of American fugitive Niles Scott. But in addition to helping rid Belize of a wanted criminal, the three are in line to collect the sizeable reward being offered by talk show host Oprah Winfrey. Today I tracked down […]
If it seems like there are more cases of domestic violence and abuse than ever before, you are right. But there are also more spouses fighting back against their abusers and a tougher crack down on those who violate restraining orders. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods investigated one such case today and spoke with the Women’s […]
And in another similar case, three people accused of kidnapping the ex-girlfriend of one of the men and robbing her, appeared before Magistrate Margaret McKenzie today. The trio, Anthony Gabourel, Eldon Bevans, and Kimberly Brown, were arrested following a report by nineteen year old Emily Rhaburn. She told police that on the night of October […]
A young man’s death in Orange Walk has police looking hard for an explanation. The body of eighteen year old Shawn Cal was found hanging from a mango tree on Monday morning in a yard off the San Estevan Road. Reports indicate that Cal and several friends had been drinking heavily into the night on […]
Between U.S. sex offenders and Belizean bail jumpers, there has been no shortage of fugitives in the news these days… and tonight we have an update out of the Cayo District on Aaron Juan. Viewers may recall that Juan is wanted in connection with reports of rape by three British schoolgirls vacationing in Belize on […]
Residents of Cayo’s twin towns are still in shock tonight following a deadly shooting incident that has claimed the life of a young mother. It appears to be a case of murder followed by attempted suicide. Neighbours tell News Five that around seven on Monday night two gunshots shattered the silence, then came a scream. […]
A second homicide occurred on Sunday night around midnight in the Newtown Barracks area of Belize City. According to police, forty-five year old Reno Castillo was stabbed to death by a group of assailants after he resisted their attempts to take his hat and sunglasses. Castillo was part of a group of two men and […]
