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Five men who tried to rob a seventy-five year old fisherman were remanded to Hattieville Prison today pending charges of wounding, attempted robbery, abetment to commit robbery, and conspiracy to commit robbery. According to court reports, around nine on Monday night, Enrique Alamina was standing in front of the People’s Restaurant on North Front Street […]
Written on September 22, 2005 | Posted in
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A Belize District man has been remanded to jail following a report of sexual abuse by a thirteen-year-old girl. According to the victim, from March to September of this year, twenty-seven year old Vicente Myvett, also known as Bobby Gongora, sexually molested her. As a result of their investigations and a medical examination, police have […]
Written on September 20, 2005 | Posted in
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In news from the prison itself, last Friday guards detained a visitor after he tried to smuggle a plastic container filled with weed into the facility. On Monday, twenty-five year old Kirk Pollard appeared before Magistrate Emerson Banner where he pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking. According to court reports, just after one on Friday […]
Written on September 20, 2005 | Posted in
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The next case on the News Five court docket didn’t involve weed, but it does include cigarette smoke, noise and a landlord who tried to evict his tenants using a shotgun. Sixty-seven year old Jesus Aldana rents out part of his home on T Street in Belize City, but on Monday he told the court […]
Written on September 20, 2005 | Posted in
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Still on the crime beat, two men have been arrested and charged with burglary for breaking into a church building. News Five understands that when officials of the Methodist Church visited the Berham Manse Building on Albert Street, they were greeted by broken padlocks and doors. Initial inspection of the site showed that a person […]
Written on September 20, 2005 | Posted in
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A police checkpoint near the Northern border has netted law enforcement officials a container load of uncustomed goods. According to customs officials, an anonymous tip called in to the department and their police counterparts led to a trap being set up at the checkpoint a short distance south of the border. Sure enough, when the […]
Written on September 20, 2005 | Posted in
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Meanwhile the legally beleaguered Belize Telecommunications Limited will once again come under intense scrutiny as a police investigation into missing millions at the company has been initiated, with Senior Superintendent Mario Vernon appointed as lead investigator. In a press release issued today, police findings so far simply confirm facts widely reported in the local media: […]
Written on September 19, 2005 | Posted in
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With a society that appears to be growing ever more violent it was only a matter of time until a suspected criminal himself became a victim. And that’s what happened over the weekend with fatal results. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Carolyn Copious, Mother of the Deceased “I feel terrible because he dah my […]
Written on September 19, 2005 | Posted in
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Two days after fifty-three year old meatpie vendor Efrain Heraso was held up and shot during an attempted robbery, Belize City police have arrested three young men they believe were involved in the crime. This afternoon twenty-three year old Martin Duran, twenty-six year old Alvin Marin, and twenty-seven year old Ewart Andrews Jones were escorted […]
Written on September 16, 2005 | Posted in
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A man has been re-arrested and charged once more for the murder of Belize City shopkeeper, Hilberto Aragon. Although charges against nineteen-year-old Francis Petillo had been withdrawn in July, apparently new evidence or new developments in the case has led to him appearing in the Supreme Court this week where the charge was reinstated. Petillo […]
Written on September 16, 2005 | Posted in
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There is a tendency in some segments of our community to write off much of the violent crime now plaguing Belize as an urban phenomenon in which ghetto youths simply slaughter each other over minor drug deals and “old beefs.” But whether you hold that view or not, the cold-blooded shooting that occurred this morning […]
Written on September 14, 2005 | Posted in
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The police have finally finished weighing those ninety-nine bales of cocaine seized on Monday and indeed, the bust is by far the biggest on record. The official tally is two thousand, three hundred and seventy-six kilograms or five thousand, two hundred and thirty-eight pounds. No arrests have been made and police remain tight-lipped about their […]
Written on September 14, 2005 | Posted in
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At news time police were still unable to provide an exact weight, but with estimates suggesting more than two and a half tons of cocaine, it is by far Belize’s biggest drug bust ever. This morning the police were taking a well-deserved bow… and News Five’s Jacqueline Woods was on hand for the show. A.S.P. […]
Written on September 13, 2005 | Posted in
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Sometime after one this afternoon, Belize City police received a report about a woman’s body floating in the waters off the Belize City Port. The corpse was retrieved and identified as thirty-four year old Yvonne Tillett. Authorities are not certain what may have led to the woman’s death, believed to be by drowning, but say […]
Written on September 13, 2005 | Posted in
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Three young men have been arrested after a seventeen year old girl reported that she was raped by the trio. The young woman told police that while she was standing in front of a hotel in Dangriga around two on Monday morning, she was forced inside a vehicle by three young men she knew and […]
Written on September 13, 2005 | Posted in
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Police are asking for the public’s help in solving what appears to be the murder of a watchman in Belmopan over the weekend. Fifty-seven year old Santa Anna Mercado of Cotton Tree Village was found dead on Saturday morning in a sparsely populated area in University Heights in the capital city. The body had chop […]
Written on September 12, 2005 | Posted in
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A police forensic team was able to identify the body of a man found in San Pedro on Friday by his distinctive dental work. He is Ramon Andres Ramirez, a Mexican who was last seen on Wednesday when he left home to go jogging. There were no signs of violence on the body when it […]
Written on September 12, 2005 | Posted in
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A Corozal man who said he was the victim of a violent attack while walking home from a club may face charges that he stabbed someone else first. Twenty-year old Emmanuel Villanueva told police he was ambushed by some guys early Sunday morning and stabbed in the stomach, recounting that shortly after midnight he had […]
Written on September 12, 2005 | Posted in
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Two Belize City women and a ten year old boy are accused of burning down the home of a romantic rival. Eighteen-year-old Joanna Usher was charged with arson in Magistrate’s Court today after a fire on Tibruce Street destroyed a small wooden house belonging to twenty-four year old Edna Young on Saturday afternoon. Young told […]
Written on September 12, 2005 | Posted in
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Last week the office of the Alliance Against AIDS was broken into and computers and other equipment valued at over eighteen thousand dollars were stolen. Tonight there is some good news for the organisation as police got a tip over the weekend and they were able to recover the items and arrest four people, one […]
Written on September 12, 2005 | Posted in
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A taxi driver from Biscayne Village whose eye was shot out by a neighbour in 2004 says he is still trying to collect restitution ordered by the Supreme Court. Laurencio Smith told News Five that in April, Alpheus Gillette was convicted of attempted murder. Instead of being given prison time, Justice Troadio Gonzalez ordered that […]
Written on September 12, 2005 | Posted in
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A caretaker from the Tres Cocos area of San Pedro made a gruesome discovery around nine-thirty this morning when he came across the body of a man lying in the lagoon. The corpse was completely nude and badly decomposed. Police say because of its condition, they have been unable to determine its identity and all […]
Written on September 9, 2005 | Posted in
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Bike thefts seem to be on the rise, but one Belize City man abandoned his bike in fear when a robber approached him wielding a machete. Carl Parham told police he was riding his beach cruiser on West Canal around seven-thirty Monday morning when Steven Arnold began chasing him with a machete, making chopping motions. […]
Written on September 9, 2005 | Posted in
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A Ladyville resident pleaded not guilty to burglary and handling stolen goods today in Magistrate’s Court. Stanley Hilton of Mitchell Estate was granted bail of five thousand dollars, but was remanded due to other unpaid court fines. He is accused of breaking into the home of his neighbour Alfred Hislop sometime between August twenty-seventh and […]
Written on September 9, 2005 | Posted in
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A Ladyville resident who had been badly beaten and stabbed found his way to the Ladyville police station on Wednesday morning to report the crime. What makes this story different, however, is that Godfrey Coote says he was attacked by two women. While their motive was not revealed when they appeared in Magistrate court today, […]
Written on September 8, 2005 | Posted in
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