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In Corozal, police have charged an eighteen-year-old resident of Xaibe Village with rape and unlawful carnal knowledge. A thirteen-year-old girl reported to police that around five Tuesday afternoon she visited a neighbour?s house where she met Apolonio Catch. Catch allegedly pulled her into the bedroom where he had sexual intercourse with her against her will.
Written on November 26, 2004 | Posted in
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In crime news, four people have been arrested on drug charges in the Cayo District. The Anti Drug Unit, acting on information received, raided a house in Santa Elena town on Tuesday afternoon. The search turned up just under three pounds of cocaine. Twenty-year-old Adrian August, twenty-five year old Fernando Montero and twenty-six year old […]
Written on November 25, 2004 | Posted in
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It’s about as disturbing as a crime scene can get…a young mother, her unborn child still in her womb, lying on the floor of her own house, blood pouring from a gunshot wound to her chest. Standing over her dying body are three of her children, the youngest just five years old. And the man […]
Written on November 22, 2004 | Posted in
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Another murder, this time in the village of La Democracia, has left a community in shock, after one of their own was attacked on Thursday night. According to authorities, forty-nine year old Hansel Smith was shot to death during an armed robbery at his house around eight thirty on Thursday night. According to the victim’s […]
Written on November 22, 2004 | Posted in
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Separate drive-by shootings in Belize City over the weekend have sent two people to hospital. According to police, the first occurred on Friday night. Twenty-six year old Darren Gillett told police that he was standing at the corner of Lakeview and Logwood Streets when a grey car drove up to him. Seconds later someone from […]
Written on November 22, 2004 | Posted in
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A Belize City man lies hospitalized tonight, recovering from stab wounds he suffered in an incident that occurred on Wednesday evening. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods got the victim’s side of the story from his bedside at the KHMH. John Tillet, stabbing victim ?He stab me like out off ear like he want to kill me […]
Written on November 18, 2004 | Posted in
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On October twenty-third, twenty-two year old Jorge Alberto Vidal, a resident of Succotz Village, travelled across the border to neighbouring Melchor de Mencos to buy a pair of boots. He also decided to do some socializing at one of that town’s many bars. It is there that he apparently became involved in an argument over […]
Written on November 18, 2004 | Posted in
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Authorities are looking for the driver of a vehicle involved in a hit and run just east of Belmopan. Sometime after midnight this morning police discovered the dead body of a Hispanic man lying in the middle of the Western Highway between miles forty-five and forty-six. A badly damaged bicycle was found nearby. Thus far, […]
Written on November 17, 2004 | Posted in
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The Christmas jacking season appears to have started early this year as another Belize City business establishment has been hit by armed robbers. Two men entered the Highway Grocery at mile two and a half on the Northern Highway around eight Tuesday night and one pulled a gun on proprietor Mia Tag Lui. The crooks […]
Written on November 17, 2004 | Posted in
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Police in Cayo had better luck in capturing two of four people who held up the Three Flags Service Station in Unitedville last week Friday. Investigations have led to the arrest of Arleigh Guild and Germaine Smart, both twenty-four years old and residents of Belize City. They have each been charged with three counts of […]
Written on November 17, 2004 | Posted in
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Two women were rescued from a burning house early this morning by a policeman. Around three A.M., police received reports of a fire at this small wooden house behind the Zoe Ministries World Outreach Centre on Vernon Street. Police Constable Lazaro Catch, who was working at the Mayflower police booth, was dispatched to the scene […]
Written on November 17, 2004 | Posted in
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Police in San Ignacio have charged twenty-seven year old Santa Elena resident Henry Baptist in connection with a double shooting on Sunday morning. Authorities say nineteen year old Kevin Diaz and twenty four year old Victor Olivera were walking on Orange Street in Santa Elena Town around two thirty Sunday morning when they were shot […]
Written on November 16, 2004 | Posted in
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The M.O. is identical, only the victim’s employer is different. Tonight, following a report of a second armed hold up in seven days, police are investigating the possibility that a duo of criminals is targeting delivery trucks in the Yabra area of Belize City. According to police press officer G. Michael Reid a salesman for […]
Written on November 16, 2004 | Posted in
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Somebody’s in big trouble tonight…but we’re not sure who. A release from the U.S. embassy reports that on October twenty-eighth, following a month long investigation, two containers destined for the Corozal Free Zone were closely inspected by Customs officers. Instead of slippers, as stated on the customs entry, what they found was one thousand six […]
Written on November 15, 2004 | Posted in
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Three people caught in the act of robbing a Dangriga business establishment over the weekend appeared in Magistrate’s court this afternoon. Twenty-year-old Ryan Valerio, twenty-two year old Gary White and thirty-one year old Luis Castillo were arrested on Saturday evening after a shootout and chase by police. According to press officer G. Michael Reid, officers […]
Written on November 15, 2004 | Posted in
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He was assaulted in July 2003 at his home in Dangriga and died in August of that same year. On Thursday a fourth suspect was arrested and charged for the murder of Solomon Pike. He is twenty-eight year old Mark Ramos of Dangriga and he joins Dennis Nunez, Albert Castro and Eldon Leslie, all previously […]
Written on November 12, 2004 | Posted in
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Two men have been detained following an armed robbery in the Cayo District. The proprietor of the Three Flags gas station and shop reported to police that around seven Thursday night four men in a black Toyota pulled up, three armed with handguns and the fourth brandishing a knife. They stole six hundred and forty-nine […]
Written on November 12, 2004 | Posted in
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On last night’s newscast, we reported on the arrest of a U.S. fugitive from justice arrested by Belize Police at San Pedro, where he had apparently been living for a number of years. While James Robert Harold, who took the name of Samuel Foster when he came to Belize, awaits extradition in Hattieville prison to […]
Written on November 12, 2004 | Posted in
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He is a retired consultant who has been enjoying the good life in San Pedro for the last three years, but tonight James Robert Harold is a guest at Her Majesty’s hotel. Harold, who has been living under the name Samuel Foster, was arrested on Wednesday by Belize police, acting on a request from U.S. […]
Written on November 11, 2004 | Posted in
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A routine patrol near Yo Creek Village by officers of the Customs Department ended in a tense confrontation over contraband goods. According to police reports, the customs patrol attempted to stop two vehicles, a van and a car that were travelling along the road. While the car sped off, the van pulled over and its […]
Written on November 11, 2004 | Posted in
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Three people from the Belmopan area have been arrested on charges of forgery, following a report by Minister of Cooperatives and Fisheries Mike Espat. According to Espat, sometime between September twenty-eighth and November fourth, twenty-four leaves went missing from his checkbook. Police press officer G. Michael Reid says about seven of the checks were cashed, […]
Written on November 10, 2004 | Posted in
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A salesman for Cayo Tropical Fruits was the victim of an armed robbery in Belize City around midday on Tuesday. Police reports say Hector Cob was making a delivery to a shop on Caesar Ridge Road when two men held him up at gunpoint. Cob told police that the robbers relieved him of six hundred […]
Written on November 10, 2004 | Posted in
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Tonight, San Ignacio police are investigating an armed robbery on a commuter bus, which involved the use of some serious firepower. According to the cops, just after one Monday afternoon, a bus travelling from Spanish Lookout bound for San Ignacio made a routine stop in Santa Familia. Police sources tell News 5 that the conductor […]
Written on November 9, 2004 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, Belmopan police have arrested and charged several residents of Dangriga who are believed to be the perpetrators of a number of burglaries in the capital city. Twenty-two year old Ian Carr, twenty-eight year old Abraham Ponce and twenty-eight year old Eaton Carr have been charged with burglary and handling stolen property while twenty-five year […]
Written on November 9, 2004 | Posted in
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An Orange Walk man has been arrested and charged with rape following a report over the weekend. Police say twenty-nine year old Ismael Jimenez of Palm Lane in Trial Farm Village is the man who attacked a twenty-four year old woman as she was walking down the San Lorenzo road. Reports are that when the […]
Written on November 9, 2004 | Posted in
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