Two men were shot today while sitting at a food stand on Vernon Street, just yards from a police booth in a neighbourhood designated as a “special police area.” Reports are that just before noon a man drove up on a blue and white Honda Supercab motorcycle and opened fire on Kelvin Jones and Dion […]
A man who reportedly refused medical attention or assistance from police early this morning was found dead just a couple of hours later. Police say Francisco Che’s body was discovered lying on Amara Avenue around four a.m. Two hours before, police and BERT had responded to a call for help for the same individual. They […]
A man was stabbed on Thursday night because he refused to buy a beggar a beer. Antonio Alfaro told police he was walking along Central American Boulevard around eleven p.m. when a tall, slim man asked him for a dollar. Alfaro gave him the coin, but the man then asked for a beer. When Alfaro […]
A quiet Cayo community was stunned today to discover an elderly resident had been brutally murdered. News Five visited the scene of the crime and spoke with the victim’s brother who is still reeling from the terrible scene that met him this morning. Patrick Jones, Reporting The blood stains on his bedroom wall are mute […]
Cayo police are not the only ones searching for a killer. The Belize City department needs your assistance in tracking down the prime suspect in last week’s murder of twenty-one year old Wasani Belgrave. Twenty-one year old Alex Palacio is being sought by police who believe that he is heading south to Punta Gorda where […]
A delivery truck driver has reported being held up on Caesar Ridge Road in Belize City. Hugo Delgado, a driver for Femagra Limited, told police that on Wednesday evening he was in the middle of delivering goods to the Port Loyola Shopping Centre when a man put a gun to his head and demanded money. […]
An employee of the Treasury Department has been charged for stealing vehicle license stickers from the Treasury vault. Kenrick Sanchez appeared before Magistrate Harrison Hewlett today, pleaded not guilty to three charges of theft, and was granted three thousand dollars bail. The charges follow an investigation which began on May nineteenth when Accountant General Carmen […]
A Belize City businessman has moved from behind the counter to behind bars following accusations that he molested a nine-year-old girl. Forty-five year old Charles Vellair was arraigned today on a charge of aggravated assault when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord. The girl, accompanied by a social worker, reported to police that on […]
They call it La Isla Carinosa… but the Caye Caulker police were anything but loving this weekend to one island resident who alleges that cops beat him so mercilessly that he came close to death. Luis Alcoser, Alleges Police Brutality ?I bawl and bawl, and the more I bawl they work (beat) me because they […]
Police have yet to come up with a motive for the death of a Guatemalan national discovered on Saturday, but they strongly believe that someone murdered Andres Lopez. Lopez’s body was found lying on the side of the Hummingbird Highway in St. Margaret’s Village in the Cayo District around six in the evening. He had […]
Police have identified a man who was found dead, slumped over the side of his boat, on the Haulover Creek early this morning. Forty-six year old Redford Everett, a fisherman from Ladyville, was discovered by authorities shortly after midnight. He was found inside his skiff near the Bowen and Bowen compound with the engine still […]
It’s been a while, but police have added another notch to their anti-narcotics belt. The latest bust occurred at the checkpoint at the Burrell Boom cut-off on the Northern Highway. Around eleven forty-five on Saturday morning a routine search of a red four door Chevy Lumina yielded close to nine pounds of cocaine. The drugs […]
Two more foreign criminals on the run in Belize have had their stay in paradise cut short. According to local police, fifty-two year old Arthur Schuh and his brother thirty-six year old Thomas Schuh were arrested on Monday after a police raid in Ladyville. With the help of an informant, U.S. officials have been working […]
On Friday, we reported on the arrest of two men for burglary after they were caught by police inside a Belize City house. One of the pair, Archibald Leslie, has pleaded not guilty and has been remanded until June twenty-seventh. The other, however, Eugene Ramirez, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eight years in prison […]
A Belize City man is dead and his killer is on the run. The victim is twenty-one year old Wasani Belgrave, a resident of Freetown Road in Belize City. According to Belgrave’s mother, Cecilia Lewis, her son had just finished working on a delivery truck and was heading home; but instead of proceeding to Freetown […]
Another Belize City man has also died as a result of being attacked earlier this week. Today the K.H.M.H. reported that Loren Dale Augustus died after battling for his life since he was shot on Tuesday near the Municipal Airstrip. Augustus, an employee of Tropic Air, was shot in the head as he rode home […]
In crime news from the Stann Creek District, a boledo vendor was injured when a group of would-be robbers tried to stop his vehicle and probably hold him up. The victim told police he was returning to Santa Cruz Village from Placencia around five-thirty Thursday evening when upon approaching the Sagitun Farm, two men came […]
An alert neighbour’s report has led to the arrest of two Belize City men who broke into a house just after midnight on Wednesday. Police responded to the call and discovered thirty-seven year old Eugene Ramirez and thirty-eight year old Archibald Leslie still inside the house on Woods Street. Both men have been charged with […]
A Belize City man was chopped in the head and had his wallet stolen during an argument over a bicycle. Twenty-four year old Darren Arzu of Antelope Street Extension told police he got into an argument with another man around seven-thirty Wednesday morning when the man picked up a machete and attacked him. He says […]
In an update to the shooting of a Tropic Air employee on Tuesday, Loren Dale Augustus has been transferred to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital from Universal Health Services and no improvement in his condition is being reported. Augustus was shot in the head as he rode home from work Tuesday evening and despite surgical […]
Police were on the scene well into last night and today they’ve been busy trying to piece together a motive and the physical evidence to find the man who shot a Tropic Air employee. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods today visited Universal Health Services where Loren Augustus clings to life with a bullet lodged in his […]
Tonight investigations continue at the Immigration Department following sensational reports in the international media that a notorious smuggler of illegal immigrants into the United States had been arrested carrying a Belizean passport. Latest information to News Five is that this woman, Cheng Chui Ping a.k.a. Big Sister Ping, was holding Belizean nationality documents in the […]
It is news just in. Around six this evening Lauren Augustine, a ramp supervisor for Tropic Air at the Municipal Airstrip, was shot as he rode his bicycle home from work. According to witnesses, Augustine was approaching the corner of St. Matthew and St. Charles Street when a young man riding in the opposite direction […]
All hopes of rescuing a missing toddler in Toledo were dashed early this afternoon when the child’s skeletal remains were found in the general vicinity of where he was last seen five days ago. According to police, two-year-old Rosendo Coy’s bones were found today in the bush near Sunday Wood Village. At this time, however, […]
She’s called the “mother of all snakeheads”, a wholesale smuggler of illegal Chinese immigrants into the United States and the target of an intense law enforcement investigation spanning the globe for more than two decades. And when she was finally arrested, guess what she had in her pocket? A Belize passport. That’s right, when this […]
