A shooting on Sunday night has left a Belize City man hospitalised with a bullet wound to the leg. Thirty-three year old Carl Bradley told police that around ten, two guys on bikes rode up to where he was standing on West Canal and one fired several shots at him with a handgun. No arrests […]
He walked into the forest, chopped down some mahogany trees, cut them into blocks, and was hauling them to Orange Walk Town. But Forestry Department officials disrupted forty-year-old Andrew Adolphus’s illegal logging operation late last week when they confiscated his trailer full of timber at the Tower Hill Bridge. Around six on Thursday evening, Adolphus […]
Belize City gangs have once more turned portions of the city into their own private war zone with two men killed and three others injured during shootings on Cemetery Road, Police Street, and West Canal between Thursday night and this afternoon. We begin tonight with the latest incident around one-forty-five this afternoon when the meeting […]
Belize City police believe another murder may be related to the incident at Olympic Restaurant and are seeking a suspect. On Thursday night, the shooting victim was standing near an alley on West Canal talking to a woman when a young man rode up on a bicycle and fired several shots. This morning a relative […]
Tonight two men from the Belize District are behind bars, charged with sexual offences against a seven-year-old boy. Those men have been identified to News Five as twenty-one year old Alder Ulloa and twenty-five year old Ricardo de Jesus Mendez, both from an area of Ladyville called Japan. According to the child, on May thirty-first, […]
The sexual abuse of a child is always disturbing, but when the accused abuser is someone you’re supposed to trust, like a police officer, the act is downright tragic. According to reports, this morning in Belize City Magistrate’s Court, twenty-five year old police officer Wilbert Lanza, attached to the San Pedro formation, was formally arraigned […]
This next story is a cautionary tale for anyone considering posting bail for a friend. Tonight one Belize City resident, Napoleon Vicente, is behind bars after his “good buddy” skipped town. According to Vicente, two years ago he agreed to sign a twenty-five hundred dollar bail for Santos Armando Arzu after Arzu was charged with […]
A father is behind bars tonight, accused of raping two of his own children. According to court reports, the girls, ages twelve and thirteen, told their mother that on several occasions over the last eight months, their thirty-six year old father had sexual intercourse with them. The twelve-year-old says he had sex with her in […]
Police have intercepted a cache of weapons large enough to outfit a small platoon. On Saturday night, officers of the Crimes Investigation Unit stopped a vehicle at the Burrel Boom-Northern junction and a search of the three men on board resulted in the discovery of six hundred and fifty dollars hidden in the socks of […]
Orange Walk police have nabbed two suspects wanted in connection with an armed robbery that occurred on Saturday night. Twenty-eight year old Manuel Vega of August Pine Ridge in the Orange Walk District told police that two men whom he was able to identify held him up at gunpoint around ten-thirty that night and stole […]
In San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, two tourists have died, but police do not suspect foul play in either case. On Saturday, the body of fifty-one year old U.S. citizen Kevin Riley was discovered floating in the sea near Banana Beach Resort. Riley had last been seen by the resort’s security personnel around two a.m. when […]
Three men from San Narciso Village in the Corozal District have been arrested for the murder of a young Guatemalan woman. Vivien Ysenia Mendez Cruz, age thirty-four, was last seen by a female travelling companion who got off a bus with her around nine on Monday night at the junction of the Northern Highway and […]
A Stann Creek businessman is in the Southern Regional Hospital tonight after being shot during a hold-up. Mathem Kallukalam of Sagitun Farm reported that three Hispanic men entered his store, Riverdale Supermarket, around nine Thursday morning carrying a shotgun and small firearms and robbed him of four hundred and fifty dollars. Despite the fact that […]
Corozal Police remain tight-lipped tonight following the discovery of a woman’s body on Tuesday evening. The deceased, apparently the victim of murder, has been identified as thirty-four year old Guatemalan, Vivian Ysenia Mendez Cruz, a resident of Buena Vista Village. Sources indicate to News Five that Mendez was an itinerant commercial sex worker who operated […]
Three Belize City men were today brought before Magistrate’s Court, accused of the execution style killing of twenty-four year old Arleigh Guild on Monday night. Twenty-two year old Dwayne Saldano, eighteen-year-old Richard Wallace, and seventeen-year-old Ryan Welcome are jointly charged with the single count of murder and have been remanded to Hattieville prison. Police believe […]
Police in Orange Walk have picked up two people for questioning following an unusual attack on a businesswoman in Guinea Grass village. According to thirty four year old King Pint Li, she was inside the Dragon Entertainment Centre on the Belize Corozal Road when two of her patrons attacked and robbed her of two hundred […]
A Belize City man was killed execution style on Monday night as he socialized with a female companion near the seaside in Port Loyola. According to police reports, twenty-four year old Arleigh Guild and twenty-three year old Nicole McKay were in a car on the Old College Road around ten o’clock when three masked men […]
There is another report of rape tonight, this time involving a twenty-two year old woman. According to court reports, the victim told the cops that on Saturday night she was partying, along with her sister and her sister’s husband, identified as twenty-six year old Honduran Sandro Rojas of Belize City. But we understand that around […]
Just two weeks ago, the neighbourhood was the scene of a cold-blooded murder, and on Monday morning, the corner of St. Matthew Street and Princess Margaret Drive became the site of another violent crime. According to the victim, sixty-six year old former Fire Chief Boisrand Panton, he had just pulled up to the corner when […]
Since opening its doors, the staff and students of Ladyville Technical High have been the victims of numerous break-ins, resulting in thousands of dollars in damage and lost equipment. Over the weekend, the school’s resources were taxed yet again. According to officials, sometime between six on Friday evening and eleven on Sunday morning, a thief […]
Mark Medina, the murder suspect and shooting victim who gave the cops the slip at the K.H.M.H., finally made it to court today after he turned himself into police. The twenty-one year old resident of Berkeley Street was charged with the offence of escape in the courtroom of Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord. Medina pleaded not […]
For the second time in the last seven days, a Belize City businessman stands accused of molesting a little girl. The latest incident finds forty-five year old Bernard Williams accused of one count of carnal knowledge and five counts of indecent assault. According to court reports, a thirteen-year-old primary school girl is alleging that on […]
A thirty-four year old Benque Viejo woman is behind bars tonight accused of blackmailing a Cayo businessman. Maria Dominguez was arrested and charged early on Monday morning for the seldom heard of crime of blackmail. According to San Ignacio police, during the nationwide blackout last Monday night, Dominguez tried to extort money from Nelson Tillett, […]
Belize City Police this Sunday captured a man who was wanted in connection with the death of Wasani Belgrave, which occurred on May nineteenth and have charged him with murder. Police followed up on a tip that led them to a house on Iguana Street in Belize City where they found Alex Palacio, who did […]
Belize City police were left with egg on their faces this weekend after a murder suspect pulled a Houdini act. Twenty-one year old Mark Medina was spotted by police as he showed up for a concert on Saturday night at the Belize City Centre. When cops identified him as the man wanted for questioning in […]
