Belmopan police have charged Josephat Choc with murder in connection with the death of her common-law husband twenty-six year old police constable Benedicto Salam. Authorities say the couple were involved in a domestic dispute on Sunday at their home in Las Flores, which ended with Choc shooting Salam with his own service revolver. Salam, a […]
It was a busy weekend for police in Dangriga as they collaborated with their Belize City counterparts to nab five more suspects in connection with last week’s burglary of Brad’s store on Vernon Street. Aldorae Flowers, Edwin Flowers, Joseph Conorque, Lawrence Longsworth, and Brian Smith, all twenty-two, and a fifteen-year-old boy were marched to Belize […]
A police officer is dead and his common-law-wife is in custody, accused of shooting him in the back. According to Belmopan police, they responded to reports of a shooting incident in the Las Flores area around seven on Sunday night. Constable Benedicto Salam was found wounded on the veranda of his home on Amapola Street […]
Police in Independence Village have detained one person following a violent incident that has left a Toledo man hospitalized in a critical condition. Around ten-fifteen on Saturday night, police were called to the home of Rufino Tush in San Roman Village, Toledo where they found him with chop wounds to his arms and chest. Investigations […]
Domestic violence usually takes the form of a fight between a man and a woman, but often a situation develops in which the squabble is extended to other participants, in this case with disastrous results. Cairin Reid, Stabbing Victim ?I was telling her to stop because she no have to do that and she just […]
A would be cat burglar is tonight enjoying the comforts of the Hattieville prison, thanks to the bravery of a Belize City resident and his alert neighbours. Around three on Thursday morning, fifty-one-year-old Henry Benguche told police that he was awakened by the sound of noise from the upper flat of his split level house […]
They received nine years in jail for crimes committed in Orange Walk and today Robert Hill and Mark Massam received more bad news. Pleading guilty to charges arising out of three robberies in Corozal on March twentieth, twenty-second and twenty-fifth, Hill received a total of twenty-seven additional consecutive years in prison while Massam was given […]
Police have arrested and charged one person and are looking for three others, following an early Tuesday morning burglary in Belize City that netted thieves in the vicinity of thirty thousand dollars. Officer commanding C.I.B., Assistant Superintendent Chester Williams, says investigations indicate that around two on Tuesday morning, eighteen-year-old Sherwin Locke and three other men […]
Justice was swift for three guys who held up a store in Orange Walk on Easter Monday. Twenty-eight-year-old Robert Hill of Cotton Tree, eighteen-year-old Mark Massam of Belize City and a sixteen-year-old minor today pled guilty to robbery and aggravated assault in Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court. The three were captured on Tuesday while walking down […]
A fight between two teenagers from the Boca del Rio area of San Pedro has left one dead and another facing a charge of murder. Police say that around four thirty on Thursday afternoon, seventeen-year-old Lloyd Swazo and eighteen-year-old Jason Joseph got into argument, apparently an old beef that flared up again. The dispute came […]
Two cases of suspected arson over the weekend have destroyed thousands of dollars worth of property in Belize City and Orange Walk. According to police, the first incident happened shortly after two on Holy Saturday morning. Twenty-seven-year-old Shirley Lambey told police that she and her common law husband Travis Olivera were at the couple’s Jane […]
The search for the driver of a vehicle that knocked down a cyclist near San Estevan Village, fatally injuring him last week Sunday night has ended. Orange Walk police today reported that they have arrested thirty-one-year-old Udelmir Patt of San Estevan and charged him for the offences of manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless […]
Nearly every time we report a sensational crime we note that the Belizean public can no longer be shocked by the extent of deadly violence that has come to pervade our society. But more than five years after a string of unsolved killings of young girls, it remains difficult for Belizeans not to be shocked […]
“If I can’t live with you, then nobody will.” That is what twenty-seven-year-old Shirley Lambey claims her live-in boyfriend twenty-five-year-old Travis Olivera told her just before he allegedly tried to burn down their house with her inside the building. The incident occurred following a domestic dispute early Sunday morning. Lambey has told police that sometime […]
A seventeen-year-old has been charged and two other people are being sought after a security officer was robbed at a Belize City shop over the weekend. Keith Franklin told police he was leaving the store in the St. Martin de Porres area around 8:45 pm when three men, one armed with a pistol forced him […]
Three people have been arrested and charged for what police say is the crime of attempting to suppress evidence and harm. Eighteen-year-old Joshua Lewis along with a sixteen-year-old and a seventeen-year-old were arrested following a report that they threatened to kill forty-three-year old Hilbert Cutkelvin. Police say Cutkelvin was in front of the Marine Terminal […]
While today’s protests outside the National Assembly were peaceful, an act of sabotage last night had the entire nation on edge. At approximately 8:35 p.m. the country was plunged into darkness when a fault on the one hundred and fifteen kilovolt line between Orange Walk and Maskall caused it to trip, cutting off the supply […]
Belize Western Energy Limited would not comment on just how much money was stolen on Thursday morning but sources tell News 5 it was a sizeable payroll snatched from an employee who was held up at gunpoint just outside of the company’s office on Central American Boulevard. The robber, described only as a clear complexioned […]
If you’ve ever been involved in a domestic relationship you know that two lives merged into one household does not always result in bliss. But while most marital disputes eventually end with a make-up kiss, this morning an argument in Belize City was cut short by a deadly weapon. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was at […]
Meanwhile Belize City police continue to seek a runaway robber who jacked more than five thousand dollars from members of the Human Development Department. According to the authorities, just after nine on Wednesday morning, H.D.D. social worker Jeanette Griffith and security guard Margaret Pratt were walking from their main office in the Commercial Centre to […]
Police in Ladyville say that thanks to the community’s help, a suspected burglar is behind bars. Reports are that on Wednesday, residents of the area called in to the station regarding a robbery in progress at a house at mile ten on the Northern Highway. When officers arrived at the scene they found a broken […]
Anaphylactic Shock due to a massive overdose of controlled drugs. That’s the official cause of death given by pathologist Dr. Mario Estradabran, following autopsies conducted on the bodies of two men who died within hours of each other on Saturday at the Karl Heusner Memorial hospital. According to police press officer G. Michael Reid, the […]
We’ve seen it in the movies and heard accounts from places like Colombia…but the death of a drug mule by the rupturing of plastic bags in his stomach is a new phenomenon for Belize. Tonight we report not one, but two such tragedies. News 5?s Jacqueline Woods has more. Natalie UH, Mother ?He called me […]
Police have arrested and charged an eighteen-year-old Belize City man in connection with the armed robbery of a Bowen and Bowen delivery truck over the weekend. According to the driver of the soft drink truck, he was making deliveries in the St. Martin de Porres area on Saturday morning when two men held him up […]
San Ignacio police have still not yet charged anyone in connection with the murder of sixty-three-year-old U.S. national Donald Kostecki. Kostecki, a deacon with the Sacred Heart Parish in San Ignacio, was found around eight Friday morning, lying near his pickup truck at his home in the Kontiki Extension Area of the town. The body […]
