And in a final crime story, two corporals in the Belize Defence Force have been arrested and charged in connection with the theft of an M-16 rifle and ammunition. Thirty-seven year old Elroy Hemmons and thirty-three year old Hansel Petillo were taken in after the search of a house in the West Landivar area of […]
If you happened to pass the Cemetery on the outskirts of Belize City tonight and see a large number of people lurking in the shadows, don’t be scared into thoughts about the night of the living dead. No, these zombies are more likely to be motivated by profit than any thirst for blood. News 5’s […]
We all know that the miraculous forensic solutions so neatly wrapped up in an hour on C.S.I. and its many spin-offs, are–to put in mildly–works of fiction. But while TV drama may not be reality, the fact is that the Belize Police Department’s ability to investigate a crime scene has been less than spectacular. Hopefully, […]
Police are tonight looking for two people who held up an employee of Grace Kennedy this evening. According to financial controller Bernard Pickwood, the company’s messenger was on his way to deposit the proceeds of the day’s sales at the nearby branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia on the Northern Highway. But before the […]
While News 5 was at the Karl Heusner Memorial hospital this morning, our crew decided to check in on thirteen-year-old Stanwell Arana. The boy, who was severely beaten and left to die almost two weeks ago, was being tended by his fifteen-year-old sister. Conscious but tired, he managed to smile with his visitors and eat […]
A fifth person has been arrested and charged with murder in connection with the death of twenty-five year old Nadir Husman. According to authorities, their ongoing investigations into Husman’s death have led them to twenty-nine year old Elrington Ottley of Marble Cone Avenue in Buttonwood Bay. Ottley has been charged with murder and remanded to […]
Investigations continue tonight into a series of shootings in the area of Kraal Road that have left two people recovering from gunshot wounds. According to police, the first call reporting gunfire came in at seven Wednesday night at a snack shop. No one was injured but officers noted that the glass door on a refrigerator […]
Details are sketchy but an altercation between acquaintances in the Corozal District has left one man dead and another in police custody. According to police reports, on Tuesday night sixty-four year old Edward L. Guck, a resident of Consejo Shores, was involved in a fight with another man, identified by witnesses as forty-two year old […]
A shooting at a popular nightspot on the Southside of the city has left a teenager dead and his killer on the loose. Witnesses tell News 5 that around one thirty on Saturday morning, during a private party at the Bismark Club, a single shot was fired at sixteen year old Dual Ernest Wagner. The […]
Meanwhile police in Orange Walk have charged one man with murder after a fight with a pair of brothers in the bus terminal led to a fatal stabbing. According to police reports, around eight thirty on Friday night, Oscar and Elmer Pech got onto the last bus bound for Corozal Town. But within minutes, the […]
Cops in the Cayo District are tonight appealing to area residents to help them solve a robbery turned murder in the border town that left an elderly man dead. According to the authorities, seventy-two year old Walton Usher had been working as a watchman for a local business on Monday night. But sometime during his […]
A man listed as one of Florida’s top ten fugitives has been apprehended in Belize. Reinaldo Silvestre, wanted in Miami for posing as a doctor and performing cosmetic surgery among other charges was apprehended by a coordinated effort between US and Belizean authorities this week and has been remanded to Hattieville prison pending extradition. He […]
Police are tonight looking for two men involved in separate incidents of forgery. According to authorities, for an unspecified period of time, checks in the name of Allan Lucario, valued at more than three thousand dollars were cashed through the Bank of Nova Scotia. It wasn’t until last Saturday that the unlucky customer, area representative […]
Tonight a twenty-one year old Belize City woman is hospitalised after she was shot in front of her home. Kareema Robinson told News 5 that around eleven thirty last night, she was about to enter her yard on Morning Glory Street when a bullet, apparently not intended for her, found its mark in her right […]
Tonight, Cayo police are on a manhunt for five bandits who robbed a store and its customers in Bullet Tree Village. According to the authorities, just after seven on Tuesday night, thirty-six year old Guo Lian Wu was behind his counter at Max’s Store when suddenly, five men armed with handguns burst into the building […]
Police investigations also continue into Tuesday morning’s shooting and while police have found the van used in the incident, no arrests have been made. Additional details revealed to the media today indicate that just after ten that morning, a taxi van picked up three men on Orange Street and believing he was on a normal […]
It is one of those subjects that many people don’t like to talk about, which could be why domestic violence is on the increase in Belize. In 2003, one thousand two hundred and forty cases were reported. Of that number fifty point five percent or six hundred and twenty-six of those incidents took place in […]
Armed with a physical description, Belize City Police continue to look for the prime suspect in the vicious attack of thirteen year old Stanwell Arana. The teenager was found unconscious lying in a grassy area behind the Church of Christ building on Elston Kerr Street. Today Arana remains in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and […]
Police are tonight searching the city for a van and three people believed to be involved in a mid morning armed hold up and shooting near Lord Ridge Cemetery on the Western Highway. According to police Press Officer G. Michael Reid, two men identified as Ernesto Granedos and Daniel Moreno were on their way to […]
In the north, detectives continue to investigate the mysterious death of eighteen year old Mary Enns. Enns, eight months pregnant at the time, had been reported missing on September third by her husband Jacob. But five days later, her badly decomposed body was found floating in the Rio Verde River in the Orange Walk District. […]
An attempted robbery on Ambergris Caye has left the victim hospitalized but the bad guy is in police custody. According to officers stationed in San Pedro, thirty-nine year old Said Juan was in the San Juan area of the town on Sunday night with friends and family but sometime after ten, he was attacked by […]
The constant stream of reports of crimes against children has done little to erase the shock value of brutal attacks on the nation’s most helpless citizens. Tonight, a thirteen-year-old boy slips in and out consciousness as he fights to recover from a violent assault near his home on the Southside of the city. Today News […]
A shooting in the Stann Creek District has left a police officer suffering from chop wounds and his assailant recovering from gunshots to the leg. Reports are that on Saturday night, a mobile police unit was travelling on Fadden Avenue in Independence Village, but the officers say when two men standing on the street saw […]
Meanwhile, police in Belize City has charged a man in connection with a shooting at the corner of Gibnut Street and Central American Boulevard last Friday. Twenty-two year old Rowland Smalls of a Mayflower Street address have been charged with dangerous harm, use of deadly means of harm and discharging a firearm in public. Smalls […]
And still on the crime beat, police have arrested and charged one of their own for sex offences against a thirteen year old girl from the Orange Walk District. According to the minor, thirty-four year old Corporal Sebastian Coc has been having sex with her since July. Medical examinations of the child confirmed that she […]
