Not long after Keisha Gordon succumbed to her wounds in one of the City’s most affluent neighbourhoods, across town another victim was drawing his last breath, this time as a result of multiple gunshots. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twenty-four year old Kenrick Johnson was no stranger to the police and his troubled past actions apparently made […]
While Belize City police try to bring closure to Saturday night’s fatalities, their colleagues in Cayo have detained one person for questioning in the weekend’s third homicide. On Sunday just before midnight they were called to Carillo Puerto Avenue in Santa Elena where they confronted the lifeless body of thirty-two year old Ernest Kemp. According […]
Last week Belize City police were alerted to a racket in which forged government cheques were used to purchase thousands of dollars in goods from unsuspecting business houses. Today police report that many of those items have been recovered. They were discovered in Sand Hill, with one man being arrested and another sought. Thirty-seven year […]
The man who police believe stabbed Otilio Pacheco to death has been formally charged. Forty-two year old Francis Bennett has been remanded to Hattieville prison and will face trial for murder. He is alleged to have stabbed the fifty-seven year old Pacheco in his chest a number of times early Thursday morning during an altercation […]
There was news other than the presidential visit taking place today and, unfortunately, it involves crime. Belize City police are still investigating to see what led to the murder of fifty-seven year old Otelio Pacheco. Pacheco was stabbed to death inside his house at twenty-eight St. Thomas Street around twelve thirty this morning. Authorities believe […]
For the last several weeks the Belizean political cauldron has been bubbling at a full boil while, perhaps coincidentally, the wave of criminal violence that threatened to overwhelm the nation seemed to subside in response. This weekend it returned, however, and as activists prepared to hit the streets of the old capital, a hand gun […]
The three homicides in Belize City were not the only murders over the weekend. One man was killed on Friday in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, after a fight ended in a stabbing. Twenty-three year old Holberto Crawford died at the KHMH while receiving treatment for a knife wound to the chest. Around ten thirty he […]
Another man who has been charged with murder is Francisco Arquijo. The twenty-two year old Honduran resident of Belize City had already been charged with robbery in connection with Thursday’s bank heist in Pomona. In the course of that robbery taxi driver Carlos Quintero was shot dead, apparently by one of the three robbers, when […]
Police have charged the man detained in Thursday’s robbery of the Alliance Bank in Pomona. He is twenty-two year old Francisco Ruben Arguijon, a citizen of Honduras. Arguijon has at this time only been charged with robbery, but it is possible that charges may be lodged in the future for the murder of taxi driver […]
The Social Security scandal stayed hot today, as the unions pointed fingers, and the S.S.B.’s General Manager bobbed and weaved. But long after the financial foibles, real and imagined, have been forgotten, the problem of violent crime will remain with us. And that’s where we begin tonight…with a bank robbery in the Stann Creek District […]
Two burglaries and what appears to be a case of con artistry have relieved victims in Belize City, San Pedro and Seine Bight of thousands of dollars in cash and property, and also landed a number of people in police custody. We’ll start in the old capital, where businessman Richard Price reported to police on […]
Thanks to a joint effort by the community and police of Benque Viejo Del Carmen, authorities have arrested two young men they suspect were the culprits who held up the Clarissa Falls Resort. According to police, around eleven on Friday night the manager of the resort, which lies along the Mopan River between Benque and […]
In crime news, there was a shooting late Saturday night in Belize City, and while that occurrence can hardly be described as unusual, there are indications that a new element may be creeping into the mix of urban street violence. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. G. Micheal Reid, Police Press Officer “We do have […]
Meanwhile, another shooting victim wounded last Tuesday is being slowly nursed back to health at the KHMH. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Fourteen year old Ryan Alvarez has been making steady progress at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he almost lost his life from a gunshot wound he received to the stomach. Dr. Fernando Cuellar, Medical […]
Police have detained two people and continue to investigate a weekend shooting incident that has left a teenager wounded. Around eight thirty on Saturday night, police say a green Ford Explorer pulled up on a trio of young men standing in front of a panades shop on Yarborough road. A man, described only as slim […]
After several weeks of relative calm on city streets the familiar sound of gunshots has returned. And once more a heartbroken family seeks justice as their loved one lies in the hospital. Janelle Chanona Tonight fourteen-year-old Ryan Alvarez continues to fight for his life in the Intensive Care Unit at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital […]
It looks like Belize City police have another murder to investigate; their only problem is putting a name on the corpse. News 5?s Patrick Jones has the story. Patrick Jones, Reporting The remains found in the swamps at the end of Malcom Street in the Port Loyola Area have not been positively identified. One area […]
Believe it or not there were other events making news today, including an old media staple called crime. Jacqueline Woods chronicles the latest murder in the old capital. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twenty-five year old Andrew Kelly Young better known as Pancho was only a stones throw away from his house when he was gunned down […]
In Police news, a third suspect has been arrested and charged in the shooting of businessman Phillip Gallaty. Twenty-four year old Aniver Palacio of Neal’s Pen Road in Belize City has been charged with Attempted Murder, Conspiracy to Commit Murder, Robbery, Conspiracy to Commit Robbery, Harm, Use of Deadly Means of Harm and Grievous Harm. […]
It was the original cash for information initiative…and while the 922 hotline has now merged into the Crimestoppers programme, the effort to specifically target illegal firearms is very much alive and well. Mark Lizarraga, Chairman, Cash for Information Programme “This fund goes specifically to the cash for information programme and it’s going to assist us […]
An Orange Walk man has been arrested and charged with rape. On Saturday, a seventeen-year-old domestic reported to police that on Thursday morning twenty-eight year old Leonardo Patt of Trial Farm forced her into his pickup at gunpoint, drove to a deserted area and engaged in sex against her will.
Two men have been detained after trying to pass a pair of bogus blue notes at a Belize City gas station. According to an attendant at Pound Yard Esso, on Monday morning, a Dodge Ram van pulled up and its driver ordered two hundred dollars worth of gasoline. After handing the attendant two rolled up […]
In crime news, a Belize City man has been shot after allegedly threatening a shopkeeper with a machete. According to police, forty-four year old businessman Mario Ayuso was inside his establishment, Aisha’s Supermarket in Kings Park, when a young man he recognized walked into the building around eight on Friday night and begged for cigarettes. […]
Police in San Ignacio have arrested and charged a thirty seven year old man from Calla Creek village, following a violent chopping incident on Thursday that left three people wounded. Jesus Carillo, identified by police as being mentally ill, has been charged with the crimes of attempted murder, dangerous harm, use of deadly means of […]
In more news involving Belize Transportation Agencies Limited, BTALCO, tonight News 5 understands that the company, remains under investigation, this time by the Financial Investigation Unit. According to the Unit?s Director, former Central Bank Governor, Keith Arnold, Western Union, and other companies operated by BTALCO are under inquiry for possible financial crimes. Arnold told News […]
