Investigations continue tonight into a break-in that has left a school without its computers. Officials of the Central Christian School on Freetown Road in Belize City reported that between ten on Monday morning and eight Tuesday night, a thief or thieves forced their way into the building and stole four computers used for classroom instruction. […]
It’s an annoying reality that most big businesses must deal with on a daily basis: shoplifting. But this morning alert eyes and quick police response have landed one habitual offender behind bars. According to Rosendo Urbina, owner of A&R on the Northern Highway, just after nine this morning, a man, who on several prior occasions […]
Another defendant yesterday found herself in familiar surroundings; she’s the former cashier at Magistrate’s Court. Deborah Beaton has been arraigned on four separate counts of theft that took place between January and May of this year. It is alleged that on those occasions she dipped into the cash pan for amounts ranging from seventy-five to […]
Almost one month after the murder of fifty year old Antonio Almendarez, a watchman at Fido’s restaurant and bar, seventeen year old Elvis Williams and twenty-three year old Luis Lalin were today formally arraigned in Magistrate’s Court. According to officer in charge of the Criminal Investigation Branch, Assistant Superintendent Chester Williams, he credits the arrest […]
Tonight Belize City police are on the lookout for a trio of thieves who sought to capitalise on registration fees being paid into Saint John’s College Junior College. Reports to news Five indicate that around three this afternoon three men with handguns walked into the Landivar campus. One of the bandits attacked the main office […]
Tonight two brothers have been arrested and charged with murder in connection with the stabbing death of a Placencia man. According to authorities, twenty-two year old Anthony Moody and twenty-three year old Andre Moody stabbed their brother-in-law, twenty-six year old Robert Cabral, a number of times late Friday night after several hours of socializing together. […]
It is one of Belize’s most magnificent tourist destinations, but on Saturday a trip to Caracol proved to be a frightening experience for a dozen visitors to our country after armed bandits attacked them on the Chiquibul road and held them hostage for more than four hours. According to tour guide Everald Tut, he was […]
Details remain sketchy tonight, but police reports to News Five indicate that a stabbing incident at the Princess Hotel and Casino has left one man recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and another in police custody. The victim has been identified to us as thirty-year-old Ernesto Graham also known as Ernesto Perez. According to […]
There have been intermittent reports of counterfeit greenbacks in circulation, but this week police in Orange Walk hit the jackpot. Hidden in an open lot on Cocoplum Street they found one hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars in fake U.S. hundred dollar bills. They also detained four people in connection with their ongoing investigation. Authorities caution […]
Police have announced a break in last month’s robbery of the Scotiabank branch in Dangriga. According to a press release late this evening, twenty-six year old Andy Pryor of Steadfast Village and forty-seven year old John Faux of Placencia have been charged, not in connection with the July twelfth heist which netted over one hundred […]
Aaron Juan, a suspect in the alleged rape of three British teenagers earlier this month, has still not returned home to San Ignacio where he is wanted for questioning. Family members tell News Five that they are urging him to turn himself in and expect to see him shortly. Sources indicate that, contrary to reports […]
The relationship between a landlord and tenant is sometimes a rocky one, but rarely do things get as bad as the case heard today in the court of Magistrate Margaret Gabb. It seems that on the night of July twenty-eighth the residence of Alida Chan was burglarised, the major item stolen being a stereo set […]
He is being sought by police in connection with the sexual assault of three teenaged tourists, but even while the suspect remains on the lam, his family is speaking out with their version of a story–that if you saw it on a T.V. soap opera–you’d say it was over the top. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Tonight […]
A second suspect has been arrested and charged in connection with last month’s robbery of the Princess Hotel. He is twenty-five year old Aniver Palacio of Waight Street in Belize City. Palacio joins twenty-five year old Egbert Vernon, who was arrested on August third in connection with the same crime. Both men have been charged […]
Police have made an arrest for another crime, this one a shooting, also committed on July twenty-seventh. Twenty-six year old Eldon Bevans of Conch Shell Bay in Belize City was arraigned before Magistrate Margaret McKenzie today, charged with aggravated assault, use of deadly means of harm, and wounding. The charges arise from the shooting of […]
It’s a report out of the Cayo District that is in the process of making the transition from local rumour to international news story. Here’s what we actually know. Three British teenagers on a class trip to Belize from their school outside London have filed a report with police that they were sexually assaulted, allegedly […]
A notorious burglary suspect has been nabbed by authorities in the southern town of Punta Gorda after police caught him red-handed with several stolen items. According to investigating officers, residents of P.G. and surrounding villages have been the victims of numerous burglaries, but they were unable to pin the crime on their main suspect. The […]
Police investigations into a hit and run incident on the Northern Highway have resulted in charges being levied against a Corozal man. According to authorities, forty-three year old Rafael Alonzo Lanza of Libertad has been arrested and faces the offences of causing death by careless conduct, failure to report an accident, driving without due care […]
A Belize City businessman is lucky to be alive tonight after narrowly dodging a gunman’s bullet. According to fifty-four year old Modesto Madrill, he was manning the counter of his Magazine Road shop around nine Monday night when a man on a bicycle rode up to him. But instead of looking into the eyes of […]
Another businessman wasn’t so lucky though as an attack on his establishment has netted the culprits some fourteen thousand dollars in cash. According to reports, around one yesterday afternoon, seventy-four year old Ramon Gongora, owner of Ramon’s Esso on the Northern Highway, had just left the gas station and was about to turn onto Coney […]
A Belize City fight that ended in gunfire has put one man in the hospital and the other behind bars. Mark Godoy, a twenty-one year old prison officer will be spending some time at a familiar location, having been remanded on charges of attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm, and wounding. It is […]
A Belize City man, previously charged on a number of occasions, has finally been convicted of theft. Twenty-nine year old Rudolph Smith, A.K.A. “Tuba” was charged for ripping a gold chain off an eleven year old girl on March fifth at a shop at the corner of King Street and Amara Avenue in Belize City. […]
Almost every day we refer citizens disgruntled at the police or government officials to the Ombudsman’s office for mediation. But who do you turn to when you have a complaint against the Ombudsman or in this case, his deputy? That’s the predicament faced tonight by thirty-five year old Jorge Estrada, a resident of Pelican Street […]
Four days after twenty-two year old Edwin Javier Vanegas made a break for freedom, the prisoner is still at large. Police say they have no idea where Vanegas may be hiding, but are hoping that over the weekend he will be recaptured. On Thursday, authorities reported that the fugitive might have been making efforts to […]
The goods he stole was worth six hundred and thirty-five dollars, but twenty-two year old Christian Eck may very well spend the next five years in jail wondering if his actions were worth all that time. Eck appeared before Magistrate Earl Jones this morning, to answer charges that he burglarized a home on Cemetery Road […]
