Belize City police have arrested and charged two men following the robbery of a restaurant on Friday night. Twenty-four-year-old Jian Quang Chen of a West street address told police that shortly before midnight on Friday he was inside his establishment, the Sunshine Restaurant, when two men entered and robbed him of cash and jewellery. Police […]
Another criminal suspect has found himself on the receiving end of police bullets, this time in Roaring Creek. Around twelve this afternoon, police cornered two men wanted in connection with a series of crimes in the Belmopan area, but taking them into custody has left one man hospitalized with gunshot wounds, another receiving treatment for […]
Police in Belize City have arrested and charged two suspects following a shooting on Tuesday night, which injured two people. Seventeen-year-old Deon Williams has been charged with four counts of attempted murder, four counts of aggravated assault, two counts of the use of deadly means of harm, and one count each of wounding and causing […]
Two Belize City men have been detained following a report of a robbery in Orange Walk town. Thirty three year old Shao Hau Zhen of Happy Valley Restaurant told police that around eight on Thursday night, he and his wife were inside the business establishment when two men entered, one armed with a knife and […]
In the best of times the running of Excelsior High School in eblize City is a touch and go position. But these are not good times for the institution…as News 5?s Jacqueline Woods discovered this morning. Gayle Thompson, Principal, Excelsior High School ?It is very frustrating. We are a poor school operating in a poor […]
Another civilian involved in a confrontation with police has been fatally shot. The latest incident occurred Wednesday evening in the Western Cayo District near Macaw Bank. According to police reports, a two-man police patrol encountered a man who had just crossed the Macal River. He was armed with a machete and carried a large sack. […]
A resident of Dangriga has been re-arrested and charged with murder following the death of a Placencia businessman. According to police, twenty-three-year-old Darren Chiu of an Oak Street address now stands accused of murder, in addition to his pending charge of robbery. The charges stem from an incident in Placencia Village in late February in […]
Tonight Belize City police continue to investigate a shooting on the southside that has left two people recovering from bullet wounds. Reports are that around eight thirty last night sixty-seven-year-old Marie Olivera was inside her house, near the intersection of Kraal Road and Fabers Road when she heard a sharp noise…but it would take a […]
A second suspect has been arrested and charged in the murder of four-year-old Oscar Velasquez. That person is a fourteen-year-old, and he joins a thirteen-year-old previously charged with the crime. Police believe the pair of youths acted together to kill the boy who had been left unattended in the Antelope Street Extension area of Belize […]
Belize City police arrested two men they strongly believe were the triggermen in a shootout that left four men injured in the Port Loyola Area on Thursday afternoon. Authorities say based on information they received, they suspect that twenty-three-year-old Arden Smith-Robinson and eighteen-year-old Orin Michael were the duo who rode up on bicycles and opened […]
And while still in the arena of the legal profession we have a correction to make. In last night’s newscast we reported that a thirteen-year-old defendant could, if convicted, still be sentenced to death by hanging. This is not true. We were referred to section one forty-six of the Indictable Procedures Act which clearly states […]
Thieves in Corozal have swiped equipment from a school in Santa Clara village, leaving the institution short of assets worth twelve thousand dollars. Principal of the Adventist School, Anna Roberts, told police that sometime between one and eight on Saturday morning someone broke into the building and stole two computers and a photocopier. No one […]
When the decomposing body of four-year-old Oscar Velasquez was found on Thursday evening not far from his house in Belize City, it was assumed that a monster was loose in the southside neighbourhood; a deranged predator who perhaps lured the child into his confidence and then brutally ended his life. Tonight that description may indeed […]
A late Friday night fight in Belize City came to a deadly end when one of two men introduced a knife to the altercation. According to police reports, twenty-one year old Trevor Gill and forty-four year old Anthony Flowers became involved in a misunderstanding some time around ten Friday night on Lovely Lane. Shortly after, […]
The disappearance and death of a four-year-old Belize City boy has the whole nation talking, and shaking their heads. Was he murdered or was it a case of rough play that went too far? Tonight, we still do not know, but the police are checking every possible lead and hoping someone who knows something will […]
Three weeks ago, Marlon Fisher was shot in the chest. He survived, but had to have one lung removed. Tonight he is in the hospital again, with more gunshot wounds, this time to his back. Police report that twenty-five year old Marlon Fisher was on Baghdad Street around eight Thursday night when two men began […]
The search for four year old Oscar Velasquez came to a dramatic and tragic end late this afternoon when his decomposing body was found inside a house within sight of where he disappeared on Monday. Residents of the Antelope Street Extension area who just one day earlier had joined in a neighbourhood search for the […]
When first discovered on February fourteenth speculation on the identity of a set of bones found near Gracie Rock ranged far and wide. But tonight a growing body of evidence suggests that the remains are those of a Belize City man, who may be one more victim of drug related violence. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods […]
Separate robberies in Belize City have left one man suffering from gunshot wounds to the head and another in police custody. According to authorities, the first incident took place on Tuesday morning at grocery store on Caesar Ridge Road. News 5 understands that thirty-five year old Wayne Rowland and a friend were outside Ming’s Shop […]
Police in Independence have arrested and charged a resident of that village in connection with the sexual assault of a fourteen year old girl. Twenty-seven year old Rolando Hernandez Andrade is accused of raping the child late on Saturday night. The girl told police that she was home alone, when someone she knew well raped […]
In Belmopan, an overnight robbery has left a Chinese businessman short of thousands of dollars and the culprits dodging the cops. According to thirty-two year old Charlie Cao of Everyday Supermarket in Belmopan, around nine on Monday night he was collecting the day’s Boledo sales from a number of vendors when two men, one armed […]
Imagine going away for ten days only to return home to find that someone had broken into your residence and stolen sixteen thousand dollars worth of household items. Well that’s exactly what happened to Glenstine Martinez of Central American Boulevard in Belize City. Martinez says he has been working hard on his dream house and […]
Two men from the capital city have been charged with murder following the death of a Salvapan resident. According to police, twenty-nine year old David Aguilar, involved in an altercation outside a bar on Saturday night, succumbed to his injuries at the Western Regional Hospital on Wednesday night. Aguilar had been recovering from chop wounds […]
A brutal attack on a prominent member of the Corozal community has left residents shocked, and police hot on the trail of the attacker. Doctor Glanda Major, a dentist practicing at the Corozal Hospital, was badly beaten and left unconscious in her home in the South End area of Corozal Town on Monday afternoon after […]
The storm of deadly violence that has hovered over the south side of Belize City since the new year claimed another life over the weekend. And while this latest shooting did not involve gangbangers on bicycles, there are indications that an “old beef” may have played a role. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. […]
