Meanwhile, a robbery in the Toledo District resulted in the guilty party being sent to jail for eight years. Twenty-six year old Pedro Botz of Jacinto Village admitted in court to stealing a total of twenty-two thousand dollars from businessman, Victor Hernandez. According to Hernandez, sometime on July thirty-first someone broke into his home and […]
Another escaped prisoner has been apprehended. He is twenty-seven year old Robert Hill. The fugitive was caught by police around four this morning in an area off Mahogany Street in the St. Martin De Porres Area of Belize City. Now with Hill safely behind bars, police are concentrating their efforts on apprehending the last inmate […]
Call it a copycat crime, but today there was another jailbreak, this time from the detention area at the Queen Street Police Station. At two-fifteen this afternoon four prisoners broke for freedom after it is believed their cell door was accidentally left open. The four are Jeffrey Flowers, Leonel Sampson, Ronald Reyes, and Francis Petillo. […]
Local residents chased off three hold-up men on Wednesday night as they were shaking down a man who had just come out of the Ebenezer Church on Antelope Street in Belize City. The victim, Marvin Dales, told police that around nine p.m., three men on bicycles came up to him as he was walking to […]
As the manhunt continues for the prisoners who escaped on Wednesday, police report that they have apprehended a fourth inmate this afternoon. Carlton Lord Jr. was discovered hiding out in an abandoned house on Plues Street in Belize City. Police were led to the location by a call from a concerned citizen. Two men, Robert […]
Police have been successful in apprehending one of the men they believe drove the getaway car following a robbery at the Princess Hotel and Casino last month. Twenty-six year old tour guide, Egbert Vernon was charged with robbery today in Magistrate’s Court. Although he pleaded not guilty, under the Crimes Control Act, bail cannot be […]
If you live on the south side of Belize City be careful who you let in your house tonight and if you’re driving don’t pick up any hitchhikers. The reason? Some dangerous men are on the loose. Sometime around two-thirty this afternoon seven inmates being transported from Belize City to the prison in Hattieville made […]
There is no shortage of missing persons in Belize, but most eventually find their way home to a concerned family. A tiny minority of the missing, however, are never found–and as we know too well–a tragic few are added to our growing list of murder victims. Fortunately, the missing person described in our next story […]
And in a much bigger drug case closer to home, four Belizeans and a Honduran remain in custody in Cozumel, Mexico tonight after they were caught in a boat with nearly three thousand pounds of cocaine. According to reports from the Mexican press, special agents of the anti-drug squad arrived in Cozumel from Mexico City […]
A resident of San Jose is dead following a bar fight in that Orange Walk village. According to police, twenty-five year old Dalito Herrera bled to death Friday night after a pint bottle thrown in his direction broke against a wall and a piece ricocheted and cut him severely. Herrera was taken to the Northern […]
A fifth suspect has been charged with murder in the kidnapping and death of Celestino Zetina. He is nineteen-year-old Daniel Anderson of Sixth Street in Belize City. Zetina’s body was found just off the Western Highway outside Belize City on July nineteenth.
He moves only with the aid of a walker, but that did not stop police from arresting a Belize City invalid in connection with the sexual assault of an eleven-year-old girl. Fifty-six year old Gerald Bahadur of Police Street was arraigned on four counts of carnal knowledge in the court of Magistrate Dorothy Flowers this […]
A three-country operation foiled a cocaine run worth some sixteen million Belize dollars on Thursday evening in international waters off Belize’s coast. Police tell News Five that five Belizeans and a Honduran were intercepted in a boat some twenty-five miles east of Caye Caulker after being chased by personnel from the Belize Police Department, B.D.F. […]
The murder of unarmed watchman Antonio Almendarez at a club in San Pedro this week prompted islanders to hold a peace rally on Thursday night. Organized by Reef Radio, those who turned out discussed rising crime in San Pedro and made suggestions on how residents can assist in policing their community. Among the speakers was […]
Today Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid responded to the concerns of the San Pedranos. He told News Five this afternoon that community policing is necessary, but that even San Pedro cannot be an island unto itself, refusing to admit strangers out of fear. G. Michael Reid, Police Press Officer ?I think it?s more than […]
As investigations continue into the July twelfth Scotia Bank robbery, police are asking anyone who has seen this man, Andy Anthony Dyer, to please contact the nearest station. Authorities believe that Dyer has information vital to their investigation of the Dangriga bank robbery.
The Police Department has issued a warning about counterfeit money being circulated around the country. Usually, the concern is over fake blue notes, but this time it appears someone is manufacturing his or her own twenty dollar bills… a smaller payday, but far easier to pass. Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid spoke about the […]
Authorities in Mexico have confirmed that a Belizean who died in the Rio Hondo on Monday was a victim of drowning. According to reports, eighteen-year-old Jorge Cantun of Santa Clara Village in the Corozal District was swimming with his girlfriend when a patrol boat of the Mexican Navy passed close to them. It is speculated […]
Another post-mortem, this one conducted in Belize, has revealed that San Pedro security guard Francisco Almendarez suffocated to death. It is recalled that Almendarez, watchman at Fido’s Bar and Restaurant, was bound and gagged by thieves who entered the premises early Tuesday morning. It appears that whatever they put around his face to keep him […]
Today Belize City police are investigating a report made by a deliveryman who claims he was held up and robbed of several thousand dollars. The incident occurred around eleven-thirty on Wednesday morning just in front of Tommy’s Store on Central American Boulevard. According to twenty-nine year old Kenrick DeShield, an employee of Karl H. Menzies, […]
Police have detained one suspect and are looking for two more after a shooting on Jane Usher Boulevard in Belize City Tuesday night. Thirty-nine year old John Augustine reported he was walking towards his home on the Boulevard and had just approached the intersection with Levi Slusher Street when he was attacked by three men […]
Almost two weeks after a pair of robbers entered the Income Tax Department and made off with fourteen thousand dollars, police have arrested Belize City residents nineteen year old Kenroy Espinoza of Hibiscus Street and twenty-three year old David Longsworth of Sittee Street and charged them with the crime. Espinoza has been charged for robbery […]
Investigations into two other Belize City shootings earlier this week have led to the arrest of a pair of suspects. Sixteen-year-old James Tucker was charged with attempted murder, dangerous harm, and deadly means of harm after he was identified as being the person who fired at shopkeeper Shi Xian Mei during a robbery attempt Saturday […]
In the two weeks since the brazen one hundred and fifty-eight thousand dollar hold-up of the Dangriga branch of Scotia Bank, there have still been no arrests. But police have picked up a number of people for questioning. Among those detained, but never charged are three members of the Faux family, each of whom lives […]
Four men have been detained in San Pedro for what appears to be a burglary that degenerated into murder. Fifty-year-old Antonio Almendarez, a watchman at Fido’s Restaurant and Bar, was found dead at the establishment around dawn this morning. He was gagged and tied to a chair and displayed injuries to the head. Last seen […]
