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We don’t know whether to classify tonight’s lead story as crime, politics, or international relations… but whatever you call it, be sure that something very fishy went on Monday evening on the southside of Belize City. The barebones story, as released by police is that around six in the evening a vehicle with three occupants […]
Written on July 12, 2005 | Posted in
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Details remain sketchy, but the buzz this afternoon was all about a big bank robbery in Dangriga. Between one-thirty and two, a group of armed thieves entered the Bank of Nova Scotia and left with what unconfirmed reports say may have been over a hundred thousand dollars. Eyewitness accounts differ, but people say the robbers […]
Written on July 12, 2005 | Posted in
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Cops in Cayo have their hands full with a murder and attempted murder that occurred Monday night in San Ignacio. The body of eighteen-year-old Quinn Waight of Santa Elena was found at dawn this morning in the Macal River Park with bullet wounds to the head, chest, and arm. Last night, thirty-year-old Jonathan Smith told […]
Written on July 12, 2005 | Posted in
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He came in the same police car as Mark Jones, and like his seat-mate, twenty-one year old Russel Dougal is also charged in connection with a shooting; that of Cyril Jones on July eighth on Kraal Road. Dougal has been charged with attempted murder, dangerous harm, and use of deadly means of harm. Jones lies […]
Written on July 12, 2005 | Posted in
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He has successfully defended some of the baddest of Belize’s criminals, but early this morning well known attorney Simeon Sampson himself became a victim of crime. According to police, Sampson was fast asleep at his home on Allenby Street in Belize City when around two this morning he was awakened by something pressing down on […]
Written on July 12, 2005 | Posted in
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This Sunday will mark one month since four year old Rudy Misael Lopez disappeared without a trace from his parent’s home at Trinidad Farm. Today Rosalina Lopez says while they may have called off the search for her son, she has not given up hope of finding him. Rosalina Lopez, Mother of Missing Boy ?I […]
Written on July 12, 2005 | Posted in
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Belize City police are still trying to determine the cause of a shooting that occurred at the Texaco gas station at the corner of Cemetery Road and Central American Boulevard. At the time of the incident there were at least three persons on the compound including twenty-two year old Paul Lopez, the gas attendant; forty-one […]
Written on July 11, 2005 | Posted in
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A morning robbery inside a downtown store has left one traumatized young woman appealing to the public to help her recover her stolen documents. According to Michelle Hoy, she had just arrived in the city from her home in Cotton Tree. After going to the bank to cash her paycheque, she headed to Brodies with […]
Written on July 11, 2005 | Posted in
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In October of 2003, it was headline news. We were treated to lurid tales of child molestation involving indecent assault and carnal knowledge… all part of a sinister international ring of child pornography that had its headquarters in the bucolic town of Punta Gorda. Various criminal charges rained down on three U.S. residents of P.G.: […]
Written on July 11, 2005 | Posted in
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He was charged with murder after shooting his common-law-wife squarely in the chest with a three-five-seven Magnum revolver, but today Lloyd Brakeman is out on bail following a reduction in charges. On the evening of November twenty-first, 2004, Brakeman and his girlfriend of two years, Irene Gibson, were at their home at the corner of […]
Written on July 11, 2005 | Posted in
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Just two days after he was shot to death, police picked up two youths they believe are responsible for the killing of Alberto Saragoza Jr. Today Kyle Edwards of Reggae Street and Roger Batty of Kraal Road, both eighteen, were jointly charged with murder. They were remanded to Hattieville to await trial on August eleventh. […]
Written on July 8, 2005 | Posted in
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In an update to a storied aired Wednesday night, we regret to announce that forty-three year old Gilberto Pat has died. Pat, who was found on June eighteenth, lying unconscious near the Tower Hill Bridge in Orange Walk, had a fractured skull, broken hand, and damaged lung. Police say Pat was also extremely intoxicated. Authorities […]
Written on July 8, 2005 | Posted in
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Police have also arrested one man and are seeking another in connection with the robbery of two Running W Meats employees in Belize City on Tuesday. Twenty-one year old Raymond Allen was today charged with attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm, dangerous harm, and robbery when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord. […]
Written on July 8, 2005 | Posted in
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Three men accused of stealing everything but the kitchen sink from a Belize district resident are tonight enjoying the comforts of the Hattieville Correctional Facility. Twenty-one year old Brian Yorke, nineteen year old Aaron Arnold, and twenty-one year Darrel Grey appeared before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord today where they were formally arraigned on charges of […]
Written on July 8, 2005 | Posted in
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As they have done dozens of times this year, the police were busy last night securing another Belize City crime scene. The offence: homicide. The location: Yabra. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Angelina Allen, Mother of the Deceased ?I just always pray for them, I pray for my two sons every night. And I say […]
Written on July 7, 2005 | Posted in
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Hit and run: the name of the crime says it all. Tonight a child lies in intensive care at the K.H.M.H. while the coward who knocked her to the pavement is a free man or woman… who may even be watching this newscast. Today I visited the hospital and discovered a family focussed on one […]
Written on July 5, 2005 | Posted in
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Police in San Ignacio have arrested a suspect in a fatal bar stabbing. Twenty-year-old Guatemalan Yanira Escobar, a resident of San Ignacio, has been charged with murder in the killing of twenty-three year old Jessica Saldero. Saldero was stabbed to death at a San Ignacio club on Sunday night. The women were allegedly involved in […]
Written on July 5, 2005 | Posted in
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Tonight two people are in police custody for questioning following an armed robbery in Belize City that has left one man suffering from gunshot wounds to the head. According to police, around one this afternoon, sixty-two year old Jose Martinez, a delivery truck driver for Running W Meats, was making a stop at Ying Ying […]
Written on July 5, 2005 | Posted in
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An alleged drunken brawl has left a twenty-three year old woman dead and another woman behind bars. San Ignacio police report that the killing took place around eleven-thirty on Sunday night at a bar on Domingo Cruz Street. It is there Jessica Saldero, a Guatemalan resident of San Ignacio, reportedly got into an altercation with […]
Written on July 4, 2005 | Posted in
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Belize City police are looking for two men who robbed a bar and wounded one of its patrons. The incident occurred around eight on Sunday morning when the suspects entered the River Bottom Bar on Regent Street West, one armed with a handgun and the other a shotgun. Several persons were in the bar drinking […]
Written on July 4, 2005 | Posted in
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Andrea Elrington may have become a household name when she represented the country in the Miss Universe Pageant last month… but all that recognition did not stop two armed robbers from holding up the beauty queen on Friday night. Elrington was assisting her brother, who is the manager of Putt Putt Bar and Grill on […]
Written on July 4, 2005 | Posted in
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Armed robbers were also active in Cayo’s Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve over the weekend as a local family and van full of tourists were victimized near the Rio Frio Cave. According to police reports, four men, believed to be Guatemalans, and armed with an automatic rifle, handgun, and machete, accosted the visitors to the […]
Written on July 4, 2005 | Posted in
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A Belize City man has been charged for engaging in sex with a fourteen-year-old. Thirty-five year old Bert Abraham has been charged with four counts of carnal knowledge. Abraham was arrested following a report by the teenage girl who claims that on January sixteenth, February twenty-first, and March nineteenth and twenty-second of this year, she […]
Written on July 4, 2005 | Posted in
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Police have located a man accused by a Belize City youth of sodomizing him earlier this week. On Wednesday, a fourteen-year-old Belize City boy told police the driver of a red van with taxi plates induced him and a friend to get in his vehicle by pretending to be the youth’s uncle. The friend panicked […]
Written on July 1, 2005 | Posted in
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Two youths, one of whom is only fourteen, have been arrested in connection with the murder of Cleofo Lambey. Nineteen-year-old Leroy Ramsey and the minor appeared in court today and were remanded to Hattieville pending trial by jury in the Supreme Court. On June twenty-sixth, Lambey, better known as “Kerob” had just exited Lion King […]
Written on July 1, 2005 | Posted in
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