It wasn’t long before the year’s second fatal gunshot rang out, this time in the Orange Walk District. According to police reports, fifty-eight year old Ramon Flota, a cane farmer of San Lazaro Village, left his home around six Thursday morning to go to his field situated seven miles south of Trinidad Village. But when […]
He was caught with a stolen weed whopper and for the next five months, Belize City resident Juan Jesus Vega will have more than enough time to consider the error of his ways. Vega was sentence to jail on Thursday when he appeared in Belize City Magistrate’s Court, charged with the crime of handling stolen […]
It was not the way he planned on bringing in the new year, but a night of partying came to an abrupt end in the wee hours of January First when a fight broke out at Charisma, a new nightclub that opened over the holidays at the Princess Hotel. Twenty-two year old Eder Alamilla tells […]
It would have taken a miracle to find that police constable Morris Martinez, missing since December twenty-second, was alive…but miracles are in short supply in Belize these days. Today the heavily decomposed body of Martinez was discovered by police off a cane feeder road between Corozal Town and Consejo. Investigators believe that Martinez, last seen […]
Today the public got to put a human face on a crime that has outraged the nation. Accused child rapist Rayford Sanchez was brought to Magistrate’s Court this afternoon where he was charged with committing an unnatural crime, carnal knowledge and indecent assault. The twenty-eight year old was denied bail and remanded to Hattieville prison […]
Rayford Sanchez is not the only Belizean accused of sexually abusing a minor. Today police have arrested twenty-six year old Sheldon Baptist of Burrel Boom following an incident on Tuesday night in which a fifteen-year-old female from the village claims she was forcibly raped. The young woman told police that she was home alone and […]
It is, unfortunately, not an unusual crime…but the report of a sadistic child rape in Belize City today sent a shockwave of revulsion through the community. Whether heard on the radio talk shows or around the office water cooler, the question persisted: why? Jacqueline Woods, Reporting ?He hurt me and made me cry? That?s what […]
Three more suspects have been arrested and charged in the Christmas Eve killing of Police Constable Nedi Reymundo. They are twenty-five year old Glen Jordan, twenty-six year old Winston Jones and twenty-two year old Wendel Vernon, all charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. They join twenty-three year old Chadrick DeBride who was charged […]
In other crime news, the office of All Saints Anglican Church in Kings Park has been burglarised. The break-in occurred sometime between Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning after the burglar bars were pried off. The inventory of stolen items has not been completed but among the missing goods are a quantity of used clothing valued […]
It’s almost a rite of passage for boys growing up in Belize City. That is…having your bicycle jacked. Well, tonight two suspected bike jackers are being asked to account for their actions. Following a report that a young man was forced off his wheels around mile two on the Northern Highway on Sunday afternoon police […]
The case of missing police constable Morris Martinez has taken what looks like a dramatic turn since our last report from Corozal yesterday. Sources close to the investigation tell News 5 that a second vehicle is now believed to have been involved in Martinez’s disappearance and possible murder. That vehicle, a car with Corozal license […]
Police and fire investigators are taking a fresh look at Friday night’s fatal blaze in San Pedro, following a post mortem conducted on the victim’s corpse. That examination, while determining that Mauricio Rodriguez died of smoke inhalation, also revealed bruises on his body that were not consistent with fire. That finding bolsters claims by family […]
Police are also asking your help to catch another criminal…but this one shouldn’t be hard to find as he sports two cigarette burns on his left cheek. According to police, the unidentified young man tried to jack a tourist Monday afternoon as she walked down Bishop Street near downtown. Lynda VanOmmeren told investigators that she […]
One accused jacker who didn’t get away is twenty-eight year old Michael Usher. Usher, of a Faber’s Road address, has been charged with theft after he was identified by a sixty-two year old man as the guy who snatched a gold chain off his neck. The incident took place on Sunday night in a grocery […]
On last Wednesday’s newscast we reported on the injuries suffered by forty-five year old Hugo Silva who was found beaten and unconscious on Marine Parade on Boxing Day morning. No one was arrested for that crime, which has now been upgraded to murder. Silva succumbed to his injuries on Monday at the KHMH and thus […]
It may not be the kind of news the Tourism Board wants to hear, let alone publicize, but it appears that a well-armed gang is spreading fear along what has always been considered one of Belize’s favourite areas for visitors. New 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The Stann Creek Valley is one […]
The case of missing police officer Morris Martinez has become a homicide investigation…and while no body has yet been found, three suspects have been charged with robbery and are expected to eventually face charges of murder. I’ve just returned from Corozal with the latest developments. Superintendent David Henderson, O.I.C., Corozal Police ?Based on what we […]
The Police Department is holding its collective breath as tonight one of their own has disappeared without a trace, and foul play may be involved. Thirty-seven year old Morris Martinez, a constable attached to the Orange Walk police station went missing last Wednesday evening after going off duty. In a press release today, the department […]
It was a bizarre and frightening incident. There they were, parishioners attending midnight mass on Christmas Eve. But then an uninvited guest, a bullet, threatened the lives of worshippers as they sat in the pews. News 5’s Patrick Jones has more. Rev?d Noel Leslie, Parish Priest, St. Ignatius ?A few minutes before midnight while I […]
Police have identified the body of a Guatemalan man shot and killed by Belize police near Bullet Tree Falls village over the Christmas holidays. An unnamed individual from Guatemala showed up at the San Ignacio hospital morgue and positively identified the dead man as Guillermo Garcia Esquivel. Garcia’s mother is believed to be living in […]
Tonight a Belize City family is keeping vigil at their loved one’s bedside at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, the victim of a violent attack on Christmas Day. News 5’s Patrick Jones has the details. Patrick Jones Reporting Tonight forty-five year old Hugo Silva lies critically injured at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, the victim […]
He was the second police officer killed in two months. And tonight the man who police believe shot Nedi Reymundo in the head is behind bars. News 5’s Patrick Jones has the dramatic details. Patrick Jones Reporting Twenty-three year old Charick DeBride was arrested at his home on Sunday and marched to Magistrate?s Court this […]
Cops in the Cayo District were also caught in the line of fire this weekend as a mobile patrol was attacked by armed bandits near Bullet Tree village. According to the authorities shortly after midnight on Christmas day, villagers reported that mixed in with the celebratory gunshots, suspicious men were in the area also firing […]
A Canadian man arrested after more than a thousand photographs of nude Belizean women were found in his home has been charged in Cayo’s Magistrate?s Court. Police tell News 5 fifty-one year old Arthur Wager pled guilty to possession of obscene objects and was fined eight hundred dollars. We understand that his computer has been […]
The driver involved in last Thursday’s fatal traffic accident on the Southern Highway has been charged. Twenty-one year old Clifford Calam from Placencia village has been charged with manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct, and driving without due care and attention. At the scene Calam told police that he was driving south on […]
