Around twelve forty five this afternoon several gunshots rang out on Newtown Barrack just in front of the Princess Hotel and Casino as armed men tried to hijack the casino cash pan. Belize City police say two unidentified suspects tried to steal the money shortly after the establishment’s security courier service left the compound with […]
It’s not the kind of crime you’d expect on Christmas Eve but by now we know that when it comes to violence in Belize, there are no longer any rules. This morning a bustling downtown Belize City paused in shock while another police officer was gunned down on the street. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has […]
Two men have been wounded in a shooting early Thursday morning in Belize City. Police say Ernest Faber and Eugene Wallace were standing near the BTL Park on Newtown Barracks when they got into an argument with another man. The hard talk ended when that guy pulled out a nine millimetre pistol and started shooting. […]
Cayo police have detained a fifty-one year old Canadian man after over a thousand photographs of nude Belizean women including allegedly underage girls, were found on the suspect’s computer, diskettes, DVD’s and paper. Authorities say they will not release the man’s name until he is formally charged, saying only that he has been living in […]
Two men have been detained for the murder of a Cayo youth that occurred late last night. Around nine this morning, San Ignacio police came upon the body of eighteen year old Maxidonio Castellanos lying on the ground behind Santa Elena’s library. The body had what appeared to be several stab wounds to the neck […]
A robbery reported in Corozal has been exposed as an inside set up. According to police, twenty-nine year old Ada Palomo, a supervisor at Bethesda Medical Centre, conspired with her fiancé, nineteen year old Julio Novelo, to rip off her employer by staging a robbery of the establishment. On Tuesday night around nine Palomo was […]
Police have arrested one of two men involved in an armed robbery early this morning in Belize City. Just after midnight twenty-two year old Mark Orozco was entering his yard on Zericote Street when two men, one with a handgun, tried to jack him. He reports that one attacker grabbed his neck while the other […]
The driver of a car that veered onto an Orange Walk sidewalk on Sunday, injuring four children, has been arrested and charged. Forty-five year old Carlos Roberto Cruz, a logger from Trial Farm, today pled guilty to driving without due care and attention, failure to report an accident, four counts of negligent wounding, four counts […]
He is accused of chopping his drinking partner to death four days ago. Now San Ignacio police are asking the public’s assistance in their efforts to recapture accused murderer Melvin Salazar who managed to escape over the weekend. On Thursday Salazar of Santa Elena was arrested and charged for the crime of murder following investigations […]
Four children from Orange Walk Town are recovering after being knocked down Sunday by a drunken driver. Authorities say the children, ages six, nine, ten and twelve years old, were walking on the sidewalk on the main road through town when a white Chevy Nova ran off the pavement onto the sidewalk, hitting the children […]
The suspect detained for Thursday morning’s killing in Cayo has been arrested and charged with murder. Twenty-three year old Melvin Salazar of Santa Elena is the man police believe chopped Ermindo “Chakiste” Coc to death at a logging camp near Barton Creek. The crime occurred following a late night drinking session.
If this week’s news had a theme, it would be Drinking with Friends is Dangerous to Your Health. In the last seven days, three men in separate cases have all died after an evening of serious drinking with buddies. The latest death occurred Wednesday night near Barton Creek in the Cayo District. Reports are that […]
She has gone from Ladyville housewife to Belize’s most wanted, as police have issued an all points bulletin for the arrest of Miriam Aguilar Lopez. The thirty-five year old Honduran is wanted for the murder of her common law husband, thirty-nine year old Luis Foreman. According to police, Aguilar went to Foreman’s house on Tuesday […]
Another Belize City business establishment has been hit up for cash by armed thieves. Employees of HL’s Burger on Freetown Road reported to police that around six thirty on Wednesday evening two men walked into the building, one pulling out a handgun and cranking it. The message was clear and the staff was forced to […]
A man from the Orange Walk district has been arrested and charged with harm following a domestic dispute with his wife. According to police, thirty year old Evertt Tzac came home on Tuesday night and in front of the couple’s children, started to accuse her of having an affair. Concepcion Tzac says her husband started […]
Shakespeare’s adage about scorned women was amply demonstrated in the Ladyville suburb of Lord’s Bank last night as a jilted lover’s hellish fury has left her ex-boyfriend dead. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports from the scene of the crime. Patrick Jones, Reporting The domestic dispute erupted around ten thirty on Tuesday night inside this house […]
An armed robbery near Benque Viejo has resulted in a shootout with police. Around eight Tuesday night police responded to a report of a robbery in progress at the Casa Maya Resort near mile sixty-eight on the Western Highway. The proprietor reports that he was held up by two masked men, one holding a shotgun […]
Belizean George Herbert, who was kidnapped by Belizean police officers and turned over to the U.S. government, has been convicted on four counts of conspiracy to import cocaine. The verdict on the federal drug charges came Tuesday afternoon in a Manhattan courtroom. Just to make it official I will read verbatim from the U.S. prosecutor’s […]
A twenty-year-old man from Georgeville in the Cayo District is dead, the victim of an apparent hit and run accident over the weekend. The body of Leonard Waight Junior was discovered around ten thirty Friday night along the side of the Western Highway just outside his village with severe injuries to the head and body. […]
The death of a Toledo man is being investigated and may be a case of murder. On Sunday afternoon, the body of forty-nine year old Alfonso Che was discovered near a bus stop in San Antonio Village. Reports are that Che had been drinking heavily with friends earlier in the day and had left the […]
Tonight, police believe the mastermind of an elaborate land fraud scheme is safely behind bars. Thirty-seven year old William Burke was spotted by one of his victims this morning just as he was about to board a water taxi at the Marine Terminal on North Front Street. The police were called in and within minutes, […]
Police have detained a suspect in last weekend’s armed robbery on the Hummingbird Highway and in the process managed to shoot him in the leg. As we reported on Tuesday, three masked men with guns jacked the occupants of a house near Sibun Bridge and escaped with money and jewelry. According to police, their investigations […]
A ride by shooting in Belize City last night has left one man hospitalized. According to the victim, twenty-four year old Glenn Swazo, around seven Tuesday night he was standing in front of his house on Gill Street when a man on a bike rode by, pulled out a gun and started pulling the trigger. […]
Meanwhile, armed bandits have hit another business in Belize City, this time making off with cash and phone cards. Around eight last night, Hung Wai Chan, proprietor of Ah Konk restaurant, located at the corner of Cemetery Road and Lakeview Street, says two men, one brandishing a 9mm pistol, walked into the building and ordered […]
Who would want to kill a disabled man? And why? Those are just two questions that Belmopan police are trying to answer as what appears to be a murder in Roaring Creek over the weekend has shocked residents of the village and outraged the victim’s family. Twenty-four year old Sherman Herrera, a resident of Teakettle, […]
