Police are asking for the public’s help in catching the culprit who stabbed a Belmopan businessman at his home. On Thursday, friends discovered Ming Kuo Hung critically wounded at his house on Haulover Street and rushed him to the hospital. Police were unable to get a statement from Ming that afternoon because he was unconscious. […]
An apparent hunting accident has sent one man to the hospital with gunshot wounds to his face and has led police to detain his companion. Leonardo Ortiz told Dangriga police that early Thursday morning he and Gabriel Cho went hunting in an area off the Coastal Road. Ortiz reports hearing a shot and then realized […]
Police are looking for the owners of a red van bearing taxi plates following a report by a Belize City youth that he was sodomized by the driver. The fifteen-year-old boy, accompanied by his father, told police he and a friend were walking on Partridge Street around three on Wednesday afternoon when a van stopped […]
Thousands of dollars in merchandise was reported stolen from a store in San Pedro on Tuesday. Lizando Gonzalez was inside his business, Three Brothers Boutique on Pelican Street, around four-thirty p.m. when he says a man came in and put a knife to his throat. A second man then showed up and the two tied […]
A Belize City resident who police believe is the man who beat and robbed a woman on Monday has been arrested and charged. Twenty-year-old Leon Walford of Amara Avenue has been charged with the crimes of robbery and harm in connection with the incident, which occurred on Basra Street. Lucelia Marin told police that she […]
Another policeman has been sent to prison, this time on remand in connection with charges involving sex with a minor. Twenty-five year old Gilroy Ramirez, formerly posted at the Caye Caulker station, was arraigned yesterday in Magistrate’s Court on two counts of carnal knowledge. A thirteen-year-old girl of that village alleges that on two occasions–in […]
How many times have you heard on this newscast that criminals have been sentenced to five, ten, or twenty years in prison and wondered whether they actually serve their full time behind bars? It’s a good question…and if you had a sneaking suspicion that most convicted felons seemed to be prematurely walking the streets… you’d […]
A Belize City man was shot to death over the weekend, the victim of an apparent robbery. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Forty-three year old Cleophus Lambey had just left the Lion King Club on King Street and was making his way home sometime after midnight on Friday night when it […]
The Police Department has destroyed over one thousand exhibits from concluded cases. The exhibits, which date back over five years, include sacks full of marijuana, several bags of cocaine, over one hundred crack pipes, and parcels of white marl disguised as cocaine. All were burned in a furnace in the Cayo District this morning. Witnessing […]
Today Ladyville police released Jesus Aguirre, the farm worker from a cattle ranch where four-year-old Rudy Misael Lopez disappeared five days ago. Aguirre had reported receiving a phone call sometime on Monday night from a man who claimed to be holding the child and saying the boy was still alive. This information led police to […]
If you follow news from the United States of America you know that the big story of the week was the miraculous rescue of eleven year old Brennan Hawkins, found by searchers in a Utah forest some four days after he wandered away from Boy Scout Camp. While that against-the-odds outcome should bring some measure […]
Three days after he disappeared from a ranch north of Ladyville, there is still no sign of four year old Rudy Lopez. It’s a strange case with no shortage of theories. But while police, family, and friends try to sort through a tangled mess of often conflicting clues, one thing remains certain: an innocent child […]
The disturbing trend of sexual abuse of young girls continues, with two offenders pleading guilty in separate cases. In the Court of Magistrate Harrison Hulett, thirty-one year old Feliciano Novelo of Jane Usher Boulevard was sentenced to a year in jail for indecent assault. He had fondled a ten-year-old, unaware that his acts were being […]
Missing persons are reported to the police and media every day. Most are teenage runaways who soon return home or people with mental problems who are eventually reunited with loved ones. But tonight at a ranch north of Ladyville, the family of a missing four-year-old boy is running out of hope. It has been over […]
Two men have been arrested in the killing of taxi driver Rodrick Todd. Twenty-three year old Roland Small of Pelican Street and twenty-one year old Michael Young of a West Canal address were today taken to Magistrate’s Court where they were charged with the crime of murder. Todd’s body, suffering from gunshot wounds, was found […]
Charges against a police officer accused of killing a suspect in San Pedro have been upgraded from manslaughter to murder. Constable Burton Caliz appeared today before Justice Michelle Arana to offer a plea to the original manslaughter charge arising from the death of Leroy Pilgrim, but was informed by the prosecution that the charge had […]
Tonight Belize City police are actively seeking a suspect they believe can assist in their investigation of the murder of a taxi driver early Wednesday morning. According to authorities, around ten o’clock Wednesday night, an anonymous tip led officers to an area near Neal’s Pen Road where they discovered the grey Chevy Caprice that the […]
A Caye Caulker resident has been remanded to jail after being accused of biting off a piece of another man’s finger. Water taxi employee Marlon Arnold, otherwise known as “Popcorn”, appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers on Wednesday and was charged with maim. He was unable to meet the five thousand dollar bail and was sent […]
From the very start, lead investigator Mario Vernon said the brutal rape and murder of Lord’s Bank housekeeper Mara Garcia began as a routine amateur robbery by local youths–not some mysterious drug-related retaliation directed against her employer. Today the dramatic arrests and confessions of two teenagers has proved that the soft-spoken Vernon knew what he […]
But no sooner had police cracked one major case than another appeared to take its place–that’s right, the fourth murder in less than a week. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Around seven forty-five this morning, Belize City police had the gruesome task of collecting the body of thirty-nine year old Roderick Todd from an area near mile […]
Another young man from Belize City, wanted on charges of murder and attempted murder in two separate incidents, has been taken into custody. After police put out the word that Edward Barahona was wanted for questioning at a press conference on Monday, the following day he handed himself into San Pedro police. This morning after […]
He was singled out as one of Belize’s most wanted by the police high command at their Monday press briefing…and less than twenty-four hours later Michael Faux was behind bars. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has the latest from an increasingly violent city. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Around ten this morning, eighteen-year-old Michael Faux in the company […]
Four days after twenty-year-old Mara Noemi Garcia was found brutally murdered inside the home where she worked as a housekeeper, police have yet to make an arrest. However, on Monday night authorities conducted a special operation in Ladyville where they believe their suspects, perhaps as many as three young men, may reside. As a result, […]
He escaped from lockdown at the Hattieville prison, but Owen Parham’s flight to freedom was short-lived. Around seven this morning, shift supervisors who had just reported for duty, discovered Parham missing while making routine checks. It is not known how the twenty-seven year old managed to walk away from the facility undetected, but late this […]
It was as gruesome and brutal a crime as we ever see in this country, perpetrated with the kind of cruelty more closely associated with Baghdad than the quiet community of Lord’s Bank. And to make matters worse, the depraved men who raped and murdered a young woman on Friday are still on the loose […]
