Belize City police have arrested three men from Belize City in connection with a robbery over the weekend at Universal Health Services. Police investigations now reveal that they believe it was an inside job and one of the men charged, twenty-year-old Kelvin Meighan, was working at UHS as a messenger. Authorities suspect that Meighan gave […]
In an update to a story we ran on last night’s newscast, San Ignacio police have now confirmed to News 5 that there are two bullet holes on the back of a car that was being driven by Taxi man Jose Tejeda on Sunday night when he was wounded. The forty seven year old resident […]
A fatal shooting that took place in Belize City over the weekend may have taken place in a shop, but it was definitely not your usual homicide. Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Fifty-one year old Norman Ferguson better known as ?butta? was an employee of Prime Cut Meats, a popular establishment at number […]
Police have detained two people and are looking for another in connection with the holdup of Universal Health Services over the weekend. According to the institution’s manager of supplies, on Saturday he was in his office when two men wearing masks and brandishing handguns walked in and demanded money. The manager says he opened the […]
With many of the nation’s police officers doing special duty in Belmopan there was a risk that crime could run rampant elsewhere. Fortunately it didn’t, but that doesn’t mean all was totally quiet in Belize City. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting For the past thirty years, Julian Chell has been selling fruits and vegetables at number two […]
In Dangriga, police have charged twenty eight year old Sherwin Baltazar for the murder of Michael Palacio, who was shot and killed in the Back a Town area of the town on Tuesday morning. Police continue to seek for two other persons for questioning. In Belize City, police have charged sixty-year-old Francis Orellana, a Guatemalan […]
Belize City Police are investigating a murder on Tuesday night that claimed the life of twenty-four year old Marlon Salazar. According to police, they responded to reports of shots being fired on T-Street in the Port Loyola area around seven thirty last night but upon arrival they were told that the injured man had been […]
Murders number five and six for 2005 were recorded today in Dangriga and Belize City respectively. In the City homicide, which occurred this afternoon, it is not only a case of “whodunnit”, but also “who got it”. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The deceased is described only as a young Hispanic […]
The peace and quiet of the coastal town of Dangriga was interrupted by gunfire early this morning and when the dust had cleared one man lay dead. Dangriga police say that around eight thirty this morning they responded to reports of shots being fired in the back-a-town area. But when the cops got to the […]
Another incident involving gunshots, this time in Belize City, thankfully did not result in a fatality. Around six thirty on Monday night fourteen year old Rochelle Hemsley was shot in the leg as she walked on Dickenson Street. Police say Hemsley was in the company of her brother when a man on a bicycle rode […]
He is no stranger to allegations of sexual assault, and today Albert Guy stands accused of another attack. Police in Orange Walk have charged the thirty-eight year old food vendor for the crimes of rape, indecent assault, aggravated assault and harm. The charges are the result of a report made over the weekend by an […]
Police appear to have made a major break in a rash of armed robberies in the Stann Creek Valley. On Sunday they detained two Honduran nationals who were found in possession of an Ak-47 assault rifle and military style camouflage clothing. According to police reports, one of their patrols near mile twenty-five on the Hummingbird […]
Tonight police investigations continue into the death of a government employee who was shot and killed on Thursday night in a Guatemalan Town. Gregory Gibson, Ag Comptroller of Customs ?I would say that the Department has already been deeply distressed and sadden by his death and we hope that it could spare us on to […]
In an update to a story we ran on Thursday night’s newscast, today twenty one year old Maria Concepcion Tiul and her thirteen-year-old brother appeared in Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court following charges brought against them in connection with the death of Tiul’s three-year-old son Axcel Castillo. The minor, who was charged with murder, was remanded […]
A former government employee has been arrested and charged in connection with a series of thefts using forged documents over the last six months. According to police reports, twenty-six year old Gabriel Mai worked as a clerk at the Orange Walk office of the Ministry of Works up until November of last year. As part […]
A different kind of hold-up at another gas station has led to one man’s arrest for robbery. According to authorities, around nine on January seventh, a Texaco gas station attendant reported that while at the BelChina bridge facility, a yellow Crown Victoria car drove up and ordered ten dollars worth of gas. But just as […]
In a follow to a story we reported yesterday about a woman raped at her place of employment on the Western Highway, police have arrested forty-three year old Kent Francis of Far West Street in Belize City. Francis has been charged with rape.
A thirteen year old boy has been arrested and charged with murder in connection with the death of his three year old nephew. According to Orange Walk police, the baby’s mother, twenty-one year old Maria Concepcion Tiul, had gone out on a night of socializing with her friends and left the toddler, three year old […]
There is another report of rape today as a woman from the Belize District has told police she was attacked while at work. According to the thirty-nine year old, she was employed as a live-in maid for a company on the Western Highway but around nine thirty last Friday night, the woman says a male […]
It began as a typical case of theft but tonight investigators in Belmopan say a strange sexual twist has left them scratching their heads. According to police, this person, identified as twenty-eight year old Polan Santos, was arrested and charged with theft after a young woman, Santos’s roommate, claimed that he had racked up as […]
A post mortem has been conducted on the body of twenty-one year old Yesenia Vasquez, the Santa Elena woman who was murdered on Saturday. The examination revealed that not only was she strangled to death, but was also raped. Police have detained and questioned a number of persons but as of newstime no one had […]
Belize City may have a reputation as the nation’s violent crime capital but a look at recent killings in Corozal, Orange Walk, Dangriga, San Pedro, Benque Viejo and other far flung locations demonstrates that the nation’s murder epidemic is not tied to any single location. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports from Santa Elena, Cayo, on […]
A fourth man has been arrested and charged in connection with the murder of police constable Morris Martinez. According to the authorities, fifty-five year old Cesario Balam of Corozal Town stands accused of murder, kidnapping, rape, robbery, threat of death and taking a motor vehicle without authority. In addition to arresting Balam, Corozal police also […]
If you thought last week’s arrest of a grown man for sexually molesting his five year old stepdaughter was more than you could take, this week we have an equally disturbing story coming out of Georgeville in the Cayo District. San Ignacio police on Saturday arrested and charged twenty year old Kareem Gongora of the […]
Coming off one of the deadliest years in recent memory it has taken less than a week to chalk up the year’s first act of homicide. The venue? Where else but Belize City. The weapon of choice? Handgun. News 5’s Patrick Jones has more. Patrick Jones, Reporting The bloodstains on the shoulder of the Northern […]
