In other court news, a former employee of the Belize Water Services Limited pleaded not guilty today to four counts of theft. B.W.S.L. is accusing Tanisia Emmanuel of dishonestly appropriating almost eight hundred dollars in four separate transactions on August eighth. Emmanuel was granted bail of two thousand five hundred dollars, which she met. She […]
While public perception is that a great many burglars get away and the stolen property is never recovered, today one member of the public did his or her part to ensure a thief was caught red-handed BEFORE he got anything. Police say a call to 911 alerted them to a break-in at a house on […]
On Wednesday night, the Alliance Against AIDS was once again burglarised. Sometime during the night, a thief or thieves cut through the locks of an attic window. Once inside, the perpetrators stole three computers and other electronic equipment valued at eighteen thousand dollars and left by breaking the locks on the back door. This morning, […]
Police have made more arrests today in connection with several weekend homicides. While the authorities have already fingered Leroy Henry as the triggerman in the Jason Hill murder, tonight they have charged a second man with murder: eighteen year old Erwin James. During a press briefing at the Queen Street police station this afternoon, authorities […]
He’s been nursing his wounds in the hospital ever since an intended robbery victim returned fire with a vengeance, but now twenty-three year old Darren Waight is well enough to face a judge for his alleged crimes. Waight, of Allan Pitts Crescent, was formally arraigned today in the court of Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord. The […]
After a weekend of bullets and bloodshed, police have made at least one arrest, in connection with the Friday night murder of Jason Hill. Eighteen-year-old Leroy Henry has been picked up by police on Mayflower Street in an area known as “Ghost Town”. Tonight Henry remains in police custody pending a charge of murder. Law […]
In crime news from the west, an eighteen-year old man from San Ignacio has been detained pending a charge of attempted murder in connection with an attack on his teenaged girlfriend. According to police and media reports, around seven on Saturday night, the sixteen year old girl was in the Hillview area of the town […]
According to our records, the nation’s last murder occurred back on August twentieth, a veritable lifetime ago by current standards. Well, that nearly two weeks of relative peace was broken in a big way this weekend by three homicides: two by gunfire and one by machete. The first shots rang out on Friday night. Jacqueline […]
The weekend’s second murder occurred on Sunday night, also on the south side of Belize City. Again, it was the victim’s relatives left with more questions than answers. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Members of his family are having a very tough time dealing with the shooting death of twenty-seven year old Sherwin Requeña. Requeña, who was […]
The country’s third murder of the weekend is believed to have occurred sometime late Sunday night. According to authorities in the Corozal District, at around six this morning, police were notified that the body of a Hispanic man was lying on the road in Caledonia Village. Investigators tell News Five that the victim, identified as […]
If you just read the police report you’d think the failed robbery in the nation’s capital was just another routine jacking. But even though no money was taken, nor lives lost, the videotapes in this next story tell a frightening tale of what might have been. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Today, it was business as usual […]
A fifteen year old Belize City teen has told police he has no idea who shot him and why. Sherick Trapp reported that on Thursday night he was leaving the basketball court on Kut Avenue when a man approached him and fired a single shot, which hit him in his left palm. Police are seeking […]
Four men are being sought for a robbery on Partridge Street in which a shopkeeper and two customers were held up. Norman Usher told police that around three-thirty Thursday afternoon the robbers entered Linda’s Grocery and held him up at gunpoint. The men took one hundred dollars from the cash register then proceeded to rob […]
A Honduran living in Belize City was arrested after he stole a bike from a young woman in King’s Park. Around ten-thirty Thursday morning a police patrol saw Rene Castillo riding up stop near St. Thomas Street and at the same time noticed Nellie Velasquez shouting for help. Velasquez told police she had just leaned […]
An arrest has been made in a ride-by shooting in Belize City on Thursday morning. Leon Soberanis of Raccoon Street Extension was identified by two men, Jason Crawford and Elroy Grey, who told police that around eight a.m. they were sitting in Crawford’s yard on Faber’s Road when a man they knew as “Tunu” passed […]
An eighteen year old girl has been charged with stabbing another woman over a man. Lisa Lauriano of Belize City was arraigned today for attempted murder, grievous harm, and use of deadly means of harm for an incident on Monday night which sent twenty year old Priscilla Hope to the hospital. Hope reported that she […]
In a follow-up to a story last week about a thirteen year old who reported having sex with two men, they have both been arrested and charged with carnal knowledge. Thirty-year old Antonio Pauu, a bus conductor from Forrest Home Toledo, and thirty-nine year old Max Tillett, a taxi driver from Belize City were arraigned […]
A robbery in downtown Belize City has been foiled and three suspects quickly apprehended and charged. Police say around eleven on Tuesday morning, thirty-two year old Mexican national Lisbet Lagos was standing outside of Brodies Pharmacy on Regent Street when two young men approached and snatched two gold chains from her neck. Lagos quickly alerted […]
A case of attempted murder was thrown out of court on Tuesday after the perpetrator’s alleged victim failed to testify. According to court reports, after deferring the matter seven times, this week Magistrate Harry Hulett was forced to dismiss the case against nineteen-year-old Maurice Felix of Sanker Street in Belize City. In December 2003 Felix […]
It’s another black eye for a government department that has already suffered more than its share of embarrassment. Sometime over the weekend a thief or thieves broke into the Immigration Department in Belmopan and made off with two hundred blank passports. The theft was not discovered until around midday on Monday and at first it […]
Police are taking a closer look at activities in Belize’s growing private security industry… and as a result, the proprietors of two companies have been charged with firearm offences. Pleading guilty yesterday in Magistrate’s Court to possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition was forty-two year old Gilbert Garcia, the manager of Security Oriented Services […]
A Belize City businessman has posted a thousand dollar reward for information leading to the arrest of three suspected arsonists who hit his property last night. According to Archie Lee, sketchy eyewitness reports indicate that sometime after dark last night, three men alighted from a white vehicle and set several piles of bush on fire […]
On Friday’s newscast we reported on the apprehension of a suspected burglar who made the mistake of breaking into the house of the Commander of the Belize Defence Force. Today we are informed that the accused also made the error of giving police a phoney name. Today, the man originally known as Mike Godoy of […]
A couple living at mile sixteen on the Northern Highway had a traumatic morning when thieves invaded their property and attacked the husband. News Five went to Sandhill and spoke with the wife, who believes they may have been set up by their domestic help. Fabita Bachelor, Burglary Victim “I am sick, but I thank […]
While the Bachelors fell prey to their attackers, a thief who made the mistake of breaking into the B.D.F. Commandant’s house, at Price Barracks will be charged for his crime… after he gets out of the hospital, that is. Brigadier General Lloyd Gillett reported to police that he woke up around four this morning and […]
