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Police have made arrests in two recent crimes in the Cayo District. Eighteen-year-old Usiel Orellano and seventeen-year-old Bryen Orellano, both Guatemalans, are believed to be part of a gang from across the border responsible for several recent hold-ups. In this instance, they have been charged with the robbery of a bar in Bullet Tree Village […]
Written on November 8, 2004 | Posted in
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Meanwhile in Belmopan three men have been detained for last week’s burglary of the Small Farmers and Business Bank. Close to three thousand five hundred dollars in cash and cheques, plus a gun and other items were stolen sometime between the night of November third and the following morning. Everything but the money has now […]
Written on November 8, 2004 | Posted in
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In crime news there was an overnight burglary in Belize City…and while that is hardly an unusual occurrence, the fact that this particular venue has been hit five times has the victim concerned. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Belize City police still have no leads into who broke into the offices […]
Written on November 4, 2004 | Posted in
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As crimes go it was neither the most violent nor costly…but the deliberate assault on a female senior citizen still hurts like a punch to society’s gut. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Seventy-year-old Idorine Hyde was home watching television around three on Monday evening when she was called outside by […]
Written on November 2, 2004 | Posted in
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Belmopan police are investigating the biggest bank heist in the city’s history following a reported hold-up Friday night. But as Patrick Jones found out today, among those being questioned are two KBH security guards who were making a nighttime deposit. Patrick Jones, Reports ?The two security guards had come here to First Caribbean International Bank […]
Written on November 1, 2004 | Posted in
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Police may have foiled a sinister Halloween outing on Saturday night when a mobile patrol responded to a report of gunfire near the Lord’s Ridge Cemetery. When they arrived at the Antelope Street Extension they stopped a brown Toyota they believed might contain the culprits and discovered some serious arms, ammunition and Halloween masks. Sgt. […]
Written on November 1, 2004 | Posted in
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Police are issuing a warning about accepting drinks from strangers after a thirteen year old girl was raped in Orange Walk on Friday evening. Authorities say the victim was discovered semiconscious and a medical examination has indicated she was carnally known. The girl told police she was with some friends and was offered a soft […]
Written on November 1, 2004 | Posted in
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In a strange and shocking incident in the Corozal District, a four month old baby is in a critical condition after being struck in the head by a rock. His mother, Amanda Sho of Libertad Village, told police she was walking through the village around ten Saturday night with her baby and younger brother when […]
Written on November 1, 2004 | Posted in
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Although police say they have been on the lookout for escaped prisoner Darrington Lauriano, he wasn’t exactly on the run, more like hiding out in plain view, at almost the exact same place they picked him up the first time. Today, Lauriano was taken into custody from a house in the North Creek area of […]
Written on October 29, 2004 | Posted in
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They say when ?trouble ketch yo, pickney shut fit you.? But a Seine Bight resident probably never heard of that old saying and his lack of better judgment earned him a swift meeting with the judge. Around two o?clock on Tuesday morning, Placencia police stopped a Ford Ranger, found that it was uninsured and unlicensed. […]
Written on October 29, 2004 | Posted in
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Still in the south, Placencia police have secured another conviction, this one a Belize City man charged for the crimes of burglary and handling stolen goods. Thirty-one year old Ian Staine was charged after a report made by an American national that his room at a resort in the village was burglarized. Fifty-year-old Hae Sun […]
Written on October 29, 2004 | Posted in
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Tonight members of the crimes investigation branch continue to investigate two major cases of fraud in the Belize District that are suspected to have earned two con artists more than seventy-two thousand dollars. In the first case, a Belize City family reported to authorities that they were at home when a man approached them with […]
Written on October 28, 2004 | Posted in
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Belize City police are still trying to find out why a young man tried to burn down a house on the Southside of the city early Wednesday morning. According to police, Justo Suazo, who lives on Jane Usher Boulevard was at home around three that morning when he started to smell gasoline. Suazo told police […]
Written on October 28, 2004 | Posted in
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A trio of burglars plying their trade early this morning in Punta Gorda town found themselves face to face with the police. Around two this morning a concerned citizen called PG’s police station after they observed suspicious activity inside Mel’s Store on Main Street. Quick response by the cops nabbed two men who were seen […]
Written on October 27, 2004 | Posted in
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In crime news, a shooting incident in Belize City on Monday evening has left one man injured and a series of unanswered questions for which the police are trying to find answers. Around five o clock Monday evening, twenty-seven year old Kevin Garcia says he was standing in a yard on Antelope Street when he […]
Written on October 26, 2004 | Posted in
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A concerned caller who used the 922 Crimestoppers hotline to voice his concerns has led police in Cayo to solve two crimes in one. According to authorities, the complainant informed them that two children, one of them a fourteen year old were being neglected by their parents in a village in the Cayo District. When […]
Written on October 26, 2004 | Posted in
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In crime news police have charged a Belize City man with burglary and handling stolen property. Forty-two year old Joseph Bevans is accused of stealing a computer and accessories from the offices of the Wesley Healing Centre on Albert Street in Belize City. A doctor working at the facility reported the equipment missing and told […]
Written on October 25, 2004 | Posted in
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Naked and trying to hide in his victim’s yard. That’s how police say they found twenty-six year old Steven Castillo early on Sunday morning after he attempted to rape a nineteen-year-old Belize City woman. The woman told police that she was awakened around four on Sunday morning by the presence of a man in her […]
Written on October 25, 2004 | Posted in
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Today, police brought charges against thirty-three year old Lincoln Robinson. Shortly after ten on Thursday morning, Robinson tried to get away from a police patrol by running into the grounds of Queen’s Square Anglican School. Despite the fact that there were children in the vicinity, Robinson is alleged to have pulled out his firearm, a […]
Written on October 22, 2004 | Posted in
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While fire had residents worked up on the northside, it was gunfire that spread fear to some of our youngest citizens across the river. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods visited the yard of one southside school that was the scene of a mid morning shootout. Nelma Mortis, Principal, Queen?s Square Anglican Primary School ?After the incident […]
Written on October 21, 2004 | Posted in
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In other crime news a Belize City man was shot in the chest and buttocks Wednesday night. Twenty-four year old Mark Gardiner told police that around eight o’clock he opened the door of his house on Jane Usher Boulevard, only to be the target of several shots fired by a man on a bicycle. Gardiner […]
Written on October 21, 2004 | Posted in
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Fifty-seven year old Gabriel Pinelo, the victim of a brutal murder in his home last weekend, was today buried in San Ignacio Town. Two men were detained by police, pending the outcome of investigations and today a single charge of murder was brought against twenty-five year old Darwin Soberanis, a resident of the Sabido Juan […]
Written on October 19, 2004 | Posted in
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Twenty-four hours after they collared two suspects believed to have robbed a Belize City shopkeeper, police have brought charges against one of the youths. Twenty one year old Kyle Blades was today charged for the crime of keeping an unlicensed firearm and ammunition. Blades and another man fitting the description given to police by the […]
Written on October 19, 2004 | Posted in
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A San Ignacio man met a violent death over the weekend but three days after the brutal act police have few details to report. Around four-thirty on Friday evening, police discovered the body of fifty-seven year old Gabriel Pinelo lying under his bed at his house on Eighteenth Street. It had a large wound to […]
Written on October 18, 2004 | Posted in
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Sometime after one this afternoon three armed men walked into Quang Singh 23 supermarket on Racecourse Street and held up the proprietors. According to the police, the owner was relieved of three hundred dollars in cash while one of the robbers held a gun to his wife’s head. The men then ran out of the […]
Written on October 18, 2004 | Posted in
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