The exact details may be sketchy, but the result could not be more conclusive. A dead body in the middle of a downtown street in the wee hours just before dawn. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Around four Saturday morning twenty-eight year old Michael Pou was shot and killed at the […]
There is no evidence to indicate foul play but hopes are growing dim in the search for a missing toddler in rural Toledo. Two year old Rosendo Coy has been missing since around five-thirty Thursday evening when his mother, twenty-eight year old Amelia Coy, told police that she left the child with her in-laws in […]
Two U.S. citizens are behind bars tonight awaiting extradition to their homeland. Forty-nine year old Michael Mendenhall was arrested in San Pedro on April twenty-ninth on charges of using indecent words and obtaining property by deception following an altercation with the manager of a shop in that island town. Subsequent investigations by the Belize Police […]
A sixteen-year-old boy underwent surgery today for chop wounds to his head, inflicted early this morning. The youth told police he had left his grandmother’s house around two a.m. and was on his way to his own home on West Collet Canal when it began to rain and he ducked into a yard to shelter. […]
It used to be that playground squabbles would end in a black eye or busted lip. But times have changed, and a misunderstanding at a sporting venue in Belize City on Tuesday afternoon has left a thirteen year old boy hospitalised and a twelve year old in police custody. Police say that around three-thirty Tuesday […]
Police have arrested and charged four men in connection with the Monday jacking of a grocery store on Faber’s Road in Belize City. Twenty-Five year old Kirk Baird, nineteen-year-old Shane Morgan, nineteen-year-old Jordine Jergenson, and eighteen-year-old Aaron Adolphus have been charged with four counts each of robbery. Fifty-year-old Fu Hung reported to Police that sometime […]
A mysterious gunshot in Cayo has resulted in the death of one man and left police searching for clues. Around eight on Monday night, forty-two year old Miguel Angel Guevara was with friends in his yard playing cards, when the peace and quiet of the Seven Miles community on the Mountain Pine Ridge Road, was […]
He was shot in the neck as he walked on West Collet Canal in Belize City on April eighteenth, and tonight police believe they have caught the guys who tried to kill twenty-year-old Deon Blease. Authorities have arrested and charged nineteen year old Giovanni Gentle and–get this–the victim’s own fourteen-year-old brother. The youths have been […]
Two weeks ago, a bizarre crime turned up on the police blotter. As described by the authorities, it was a case of a naive American woman being conned out of thousands of dollars through the trickery of a local man she thought was her friend. But tonight Lois Ann Chandler and Vincent Omar Rodriguez are […]
A Belize City mechanic is dead after he was crushed to death by a vehicle he was repairing. Forty-nine year old George Lewis was fixing a cargo truck belonging to Jose Novelo on Saturday morning when the tragedy occurred. According to police reports, after Lewis had been working on the vehicle, he asked Novelo to […]
A robbery in Toledo over the weekend has left the quiet Punta Gorda community shaken and police checking out a number of possible angles, including inside collusion. The assistant manager of Maya Island Air in Punta Gorda reported to police that around eleven on Friday night there was knock on his door and when he […]
It was a shocking and brutal end for an elderly watchman of St. Matthews Village, but today the four men police believe are responsible for the murder of sixty-eight year old Wilford Requeña were charged in Belmopan Magistrate Court. The four individuals: Rudolph Young, Leroy Arnold, William Rubio, and Alfonso Juarez, who range in age […]
An immigration raid this morning on one of the busiest streets of Belize City has resulted in a number of people being detained for possible deportation. When News Five arrived at the scene just before noon, a number of vendors were packing up their wares from stalls set up along Fort Street, located just outside […]
It’s a good thing that a twenty-one year old Belize City woman decided to call the police instead of walking into her house after noticing something amiss with her front door. The woman, a B.D.F. soldier, had just returned from work around four this morning when she made the discovery. Police arrived shortly after her […]
If the following story doesn’t make you lock your door, then I don’t know what will. Police report that around four Tuesday afternoon a thirteen-year-old student of Kraal Road was confronted by a man standing inside her house wearing not so much as a stitch of clothing. The teenager told police that she was watching […]
An old beef. That’s the familiar motive for the nation’s most recent homicide. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports from Lord’s bank Village. Khadijah Castillo, Sister of the Deceased ?I wouldn?t want to wish bad for the family. I no have no problem with the family, because I would never, ever want that. Nobody else have […]
A freak accident in the Stann Creek district has left one man dead and investigating officers scratching their heads. According to police, around nine on Saturday night, nineteen-year-old Hipolito Gonzalez was riding his bicycle on the Stann Creek Valley Road when he crashed into a pedestrian near mile thirteen. One eyewitness told police that he […]
In more news from the crime beat, police have arrested and charged a Belize City resident in connection with a shooting incident last week. According to the cops, twenty-two year old Brian Herrera of George Street stands accused of attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm, and dangerous harm. It is alleged that Herrera […]
A Saturday morning robbery attempt has left one perpetrator recovering from gunshot wounds. According to the authorities, a Ladyville businessman of Marage Road was manning his counter on Saturday morning when two would be thieves burst in and tried to get into the money drawer. But the shopkeeper took out his licensed nine-millimetre handgun and […]
Today marks the seventh anniversary of one of the most audacious crimes ever committed on Belizean soil. On May second 1998, more than two hundred men women and children were held hostage for several hours just outside the capital city of Belmopan on the Hummingbird Highway and robbed of their jewellery, cash and sense of […]
Meanwhile, Collet Area Representative Patrick Faber was today formally arraigned in Belmopan Magistrate’s Court on two counts of aggravated assault. The charges arose out of an incident in the nation’s capital on Thursday afternoon when Faber scuffled with police as he tried to gain entrance to a forum hosted by students of the University of […]
San Ignacio police are tonight working with their Guatemalan counterparts in connection with the discovery of the body of a man in the Mopan River on Thursday. According to authorities, around two-thirty on Thursday afternoon, officers visited an area of Riverbank near the village of Succotz, where they retrieved the corpse of a Hispanic man […]
It is left to our imagination to determine exactly what happened on a bus travelling through the Stann Creek District, but tonight a U.S. resident of Hopkins is missing a whole lot of money. Lois Chandler told police that she was conned out of fifty-five thousand dollars in cheques, four thousand five hundred dollars in […]
In related news, the Director of Public Prosecutions today dropped charges against B.T.L.’s Human Resources Manager, Dale Trujeque. According to D.P.P. Kirk Anderson, he was never notified or consulted by the police prior to their levying the charge against Trujeque, namely “taking part in a strike in connection with a trade dispute without the dispute […]
In days gone by, the adjective best used to describe the political inclinations of Belizean university students was…apathetic. Today that word no longer applies as students from U.B. and S.J.C. Junior College have been at the forefront of the effort to affect a change of government. This afternoon the nation’s most recognizable student leader went […]
