In news just in, a woman’s body was retrieved from the waters off the Newtown Barracks this evening in front of the Mexican Cultural Institute. News Five was on the scene and spoke with Police Press Officer, G. Michael Reid. G. Michael Reid, Police Press Officer ?We got a call sometime after five o?clock from […]
The police holding cells were packed this week as scores of looters were processed through the Queen Street station. We’re not sure whether it was because of or in spite of the overcrowding, but word is that nineteen of the men arrested during the looting Wednesday night somehow escaped this morning before they were to […]
Amid all the excitement surrounding the looting, protests and B.T.L. dispute, you might start longing for the peace and quiet of the countryside. But as our next story shows, sometimes life in a village can be just as hazardous as life on Belize City streets. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Five-year-old James Ford, student of St. Edmond […]
A Belize City man who was critically wounded in a Monday night shooting has succumbed to his injuries. Twenty-two year old Ordel Duncan died on Tuesday morning after being hospitalised with a gunshot wound to the lower part of his abdomen. Police say Duncan was walking alone through the Pickstock hutments on Monday night when […]
The crime occurred far enough off the beaten path that even under the best conditions, details would have been slow to surface. But thanks to the lack of phone service the story of two deaths in the old Cayo logging village of Augustine is only now beginning to emerge. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline […]
Tonight Belize City police are investigating three separate shooting incidents that have left four men hospitalized. According to police, the first shots were fired around eight on Friday night near Pen Road. The victim, sixteen year old Leon Usher, told authorities that he was walking in an alley near Pen Road and Fairweather Street when […]
Five days after she was brutally stabbed during a robbery at her family store in Orange Walk, services were held today for the young businesswoman, wife, and mother. A large crowd gathered to say farewell. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Following funeral services for twenty-six year old Lou Xiao Yue, better known as Susan, there was a […]
To protest the killing, Chinese shops shut nationwide. In Belize City, Chinese businesses from Barrack Road to Mahogany Street to Cemetery Road and beyond were closed. A sign posted outside the shops and restaurants from the Belize Chinese Association read in part, “This is to mourn the violent murder of Mrs. Lou Xiao Yue…in Orange […]
In related news, police say they have caught a notorious chain-snatcher. According to the authorities, this man, twenty-seven year old Rudolph Smith of Plues Street in Belize City is the person responsible for several robberies of jewellery, cell phones, and purses. Smith was positively identified by at least three of his victims and as a […]
Murder: that’s the charge facing a Cayo resident after a man he hit with a two-by-four succumbed to his injuries. George Requena of Georgeville died this morning at the K.H.M.H. following an altercation at a bar around two Sunday morning in his village. Requena and Nelson Lopez, a twenty-five year old described as mentally unstable, […]
Belize City police say they have no leads into a hold up and robbery at the New World Store on Barrack Road. Authorities say three armed men entered the establishment and pulled the shutters. Once securely inside the building, authorities say the men tied up five of the store’s employees and stole an undisclosed amount […]
It was a murder that shocked the close-knit towns of San Ignacio and Santa Elena… but exactly one month after the body of U.S. national Donald Kostecki was found shot to death outside his home, three men have been charged for the brutal crime. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was on hand for the arraignment. Jacqueline […]
Police in Orange Walk are taking another look at the death of a Trial Farm man. On Saturday, police recovered the body of forty-three year old Carlos Puerto from the bottom of a well near his house. He was last seen heavily intoxicated and it was believed that he accidentally fell to his death. New […]
The death of Carlos Puerto was not the only occurrence that had police working overtime in Trial Farm. Acting on a phone tip, cops searched an area near Blackwater Creek and unearthed a sack containing seven hundred and thirty-six rounds of 5.56 calibre ammunition. Also in the bag were two magazines and fourteen expanded shells. […]
And still in Orange Walk, police continue to search for the killer of shopkeeper Lou Xiao Yue. The twenty-six year old–better known as Susan–was a popular figure in the community and today friends and neighbours set up a shrine in her memory. News 5 understands that a number of citizens who confronted the murderer and […]
It was a typical crime–the jacking of a Chinese owned shop–but with a fatal result. Belize’s latest murder took place in Orange Walk on Sunday afternoon. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports from the scene. Tony Lee, Chair, Belize Chinese Assn., O.W. ?Well everybody right now is sympathising. It?s mourning, because Susan is a very nice […]
He was interdicted from duty in February four days after he shot Leslie Rogers Junior during a controversial arrest in Belize City. Today, police constable Aldo Ayuso was charged with aggravated assault and wounding following an incident early Sunday morning at the Lion King Club on King Street. According to twenty-five year old Alex Tillett, […]
A Benque Viejo man is under investigation for possibly creating false immigration documents. According to a police press release, a twenty-two year old woman showed up at the S.S.B. Office in Santa Elena on Thursday to apply for her Social Security Card, but her Permanent Residency Card turned out to be a fake. Investigations led […]
An arrest has been made in a city shop robbery one month after the crime. Eighteen-year-old Francis Petillo, a resident of Flamboyant Street, has been arrested and charged for the March eighth robbery of Tow Tow grocery. Police believe Petillo was the man who entered the Mahogany Street store, hit proprietor Lai Wei Dong in […]
Belize City lawyer Hubert Elrington was taken into police custody this afternoon after he allegedly tried to prevent police from searching a home in San Ignacio. Police at the station confirmed that they detained Elrington pending charges of obstruction. Officers arrived at the house of Bobby Vasquez around one-thirty to look for a laptop computer, […]
In crime news, the Novelo’s Bus Terminal in Belize City was robbed of over eight thousand dollars on Tuesday night. Two men wearing masks and carrying handguns burst into the office around ten-thirty and held up a cashier and two other employees. Geayon Davis told police one of the men put a gun to her […]
Corozal police are questioning three people who were detained after the discovery of suspicious drugs in their vehicle. A blue van was pulled over Tuesday evening near mile eighty-five on the Northern Highway and a search revealed eighty bags containing pills. Preliminary analysis by the police’s chief forensic officer confirmed the pills contained large quantities […]
A twenty-nine year old taxi driver from Succotz Village has been arrested after police caught him with a thirteen-year-old minor. Authorities say police patrol discovered Hipolito Itza and the young girl on the banks of the Mopan River around two on Monday morning. The girl claimed he had forced her to have intercourse against her […]
Tonight there is another report of rape, this time involving a member of the Belize Police Department. According to the authorities, forty-nine year old P.C. Evan Reynolds, attached to the Benque Viejo station was arrested and charged on Monday with two counts of rape. The alleged victim, a fourteen-year-old girl, told police that Reynolds raped […]
Residents of the Cayo District are still in shock following a disturbing report made to police regarding a local doctor. According to San Ignacio police, fifty-eight year old physician Dr. Jorge Garcia has been arrested and charged with indecent assault as a result of allegations made by a female patient. News Five understands that the […]
