A bus conductor and a taxi driver are being sought by police following a report by a thirteen year old girl that she had sex with them. The teen, accompanied by her mother, made the report on Thursday. She says the encounters took place on Saturday and Monday. The Police Department reminds the public that […]
A resident of West Street in Belize City has been charged with possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition. Twenty year old Bernard Felix was taken into custody after a police patrol in the area this morning saw him drop a black plastic bag. A search by police revealed it contained a twenty-five calibre Beretta […]
A fourteen year old successfully fought off two men who were trying to steal his bicycle on Tuesday. Michael Heredia told police he was near the Lopez Mateo Park in King’s Park when two males came up to him and grabbed onto his bicycle. When Heredia refused to let go, one of the men hit […]
A youth from Sandhill has been charged following an attack on a Belize City teen that might have been fatal if not for sheer luck. Eighteen year old Edward King of Electric Avenue told police that on Monday night he was in his yard when four men he knew rode up to him on bikes. […]
Forty-one year old Hubert Bennett hid his face today as he was taken across to Magistrate’s Court on charges that he stabbed an eighteen-year-ld to death. On Friday night, Tiquan Emmanuel was outside a club on Western Avenue when it is alleged that Bennett stabbed him numerous times to his chest and arm. It is […]
A youth accused of shooting a man, over another bicycle, was charged with attempted murder this week and remanded to Hattieville. In addition, eighteen-year-old Owen McFoy appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers on Monday and was also arraigned on charges of use of deadly means of harm, grievous harm, and aggravated assault for the incident on […]
Another youth has been charged in the hold-up at St. John’s College last week. Twenty-three year old Kenroy Gentle of Mopan Street was today charged with five counts of robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery. He joins three others, Paul Rubio, Teddy Reyes, and Herman “Yagga” Morris now sitting in Hattieville Prison awaiting trial for […]
Belize City police have charged a fifteen-year-old minor in connection with the attempted murder of another fifteen-year-old. Police say their investigations have led them to strongly believe their young suspect was along with thirteen-year-old Andrew Wallace, who they alleged shot after the teenager. Wallace was later killed by a policeman’s bullet after he pointed his […]
Three men have been charged for a robbery in Bermudian Landing and a subsequent shootout with police. Surprisingly, one of them, Ernie Miranda, is a teacher and instructor at the Hattieville Correctional Facility. Miranda, Frank Elijio, and Erleon Garbutt appeared before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord today where they pleaded not guilty to robbery, aggravated assault, […]
The weekend was filled with crime and tonight’s broadcast is likely to read more like a police sitrep than a normal newscast. But the incident which has caused the most concern, public speculation, and in many cases outrage, was the death of a thirteen year old boy who was shot to death by a police […]
Orange Walk police are on the look out for two men they believed killed a co-worker and then dumped his body at the worksite. The deceased has been identified as twenty-four year old Roman Cisuentes, a Guatemalan resident of the Honey Camp Area. Authorities say Cisuentes’s body was found on a farm with several chop […]
Police in Punta Gorda have made an arrest in the death of escaped burglar Colin Mangar. Heminio Ical of Forest Home Village in the Toledo District has been charged with murder, as well as handling stolen property. Police believe that Ical and Mangar were partners and probably had an argument over items that they had […]
Police in Belmopan have identified the body of a man discovered last week. According to authorities in the capital city, the badly decomposed body is that of thirty year old Enrique Doroteo. A post-mortem has since certified that Doroteo died of massive brain trauma due to a gunshot wound to the head. Doroteo’s body was […]
On Saturday, Belize City and Ladyville police responding to a robbery in Bermudian Landing soon became involved in a high speed chase that ended in a shootout between the cops and the robbers. According to Assistant Commissioner of Police and Head of the Central and Eastern Divisions, Crispin Jeffries, the police were on their way […]
Tonight police are appealing to anyone who can assist them in their investigation into the death of forty-three year old William Arnold, the watchman for Cavalry Temple Primary School. Sometime on Saturday, Arnold, who lives on the premises, was taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, but died from injuries police believe he may have […]
Two Belize City thieves definitely got more than they bargained for during a late night robbery attempt at a home off the Northern Highway. According to fifty-six year old Charles McKintosh, around eleven last night he and his nephew arrived at their shrimp farm on Marage Road in Ladyville, but as they were locking up […]
He may not have had the backup of a firearm, but a twelve year old boy displayed a whole lot of courage when he stood up to a robber on Thursday afternoon. The child, Leon Lamb, told police that as he was riding near Gwen Liz High a man attacked him and threw him off […]
It may have taken them a few days, but tonight police have arrested and charged three men in connection with the brazen afternoon robbery on the campus of Saint John’s College Junior College. They are thirty year old Paul Rubio, eighteen year old Teddy Reyes and twenty-five year old Herman “Yagga” Morris. All three have […]
On Tuesday we reported on the arrest, for rape, of forty-eight year old Hilberto Perez of mile two and a half on the Western Highway. It is alleged that Perez forced his ex-common-law wife to drive him to his home where he forced her to engage in sex. Now it seems that Perez, who was […]
Tonight’s rundown of crime and court news is fairly typical and if anything, more tame than most of our broadcasts. But while crime is a constant concern to Belizeans, it tends to be geographically random with victims spread across a wide range of urban and rural areas. In this next story, however, I visited one […]
There is troubling news out of the Toledo District tonight and it involves the murder of a long sought criminal. Viewers may recall that a week ago police announced the arrest of twenty-two year old Colin Mangar. Charged with five counts of burglary and handling stolen property, Mangar was also suspected in a number of […]
Meanwhile, in Belmopan, another dead body has police genuinely baffled. The badly decomposed corpse, brought to the attention of authorities Wednesday night, was found in an abandoned well near a house off George Price Boulevard. It was clad in blue cargo pants, white t-shirt and black tennis shoes. Police are asking anyone with information on […]
A fourth suspect has been charged with the murder of San Pedro watchman Antonio Almendarez. He is twenty year old Shandoy Jeffords of Freedom Street in Belize City. Jeffords had previously been charged with robbery in connection with the same incident. On the night of July twenty-sixth, Fido’s Bar and Restaurant was robbed and in […]
A third suspect has been charged in the killing of a San Pedro watchman. Seventeen year old Austin Mungia was formally arraigned on a charge of murder today in the court of Magistrate Margaret Gabb McKenzie. Mungia, a student residing in the San Pedrito area of the town, was remanded in custody until the twenty-third […]
Tonight Belize City police are investigating a rape report made by a woman against her ex-common-law husband. According to the forty year old victim, she arrived at her home around midnight, but as she was attempting to park, her ex, Hilberto Perez, appeared and got into the front passenger seat. The woman has told authorities […]
