A vicious attack in the Cayo district has left an elderly man hospitalized. According to police reports, around seven thirty on Wednesday morning, eighty-six year old Alejandro Itzab was in his yard working when he was physically assaulted by a man with a machete. Itzab received chop wounds to his face, left arm, chest and […]
A Belize City police officer is under investigation tonight following a shooting incident on Tuesday. Reports are that police constable Geovanni Denis was on duty around nine that night at the Queen Street Police Station, when he approached a man sitting in the pan of a parked truck in the vicinity of the station. Denis […]
Tonight, authorities are asking for your help in locating an American citizen wanted for a string of offences, including child pornography. According to the America?s Most Wanted website, this man, fifty-eight year old David Creamer could be in Belize as he flees from a twenty-three count indictment for distribution of child pornography, transportation of obscene […]
A Corozal man has been arrested and charged as a sexual offender following a report made by a teenager?s mother in that town. According to the cops, around ten thirty on Sunday morning, a thirty-five year old woman arrived home only to find that her fourteen-year-old daughter was not inside the house. But whatever the […]
Intense investigations continue in the north tonight as authorities search for more clues in connection with the discovery of an aircraft filled with cocaine near the Belize/Mexico border just after midnight on Friday. Police tell News 5 the aircraft has since been moved to a secure location as officers investigate its origin and the identities […]
A man from the Belize district has been arrested and charged for attempted murder in connection with an armed robbery in Orange Walk town on Thursday night. Police say it was twenty-three year old Roger Bradley of Biscayne Village, who approached security guard Marcelino Tun Sr. while on duty at the Shell 1-Stop service station […]
Meanwhile, two men will also answer charges of attempted murder in Dangriga?s Magistrates Court following a shooting in that town over the weekend. According to authorities, just after midnight on Saturday, twenty-two-year-old Ryan Valerio got involved in a physical altercation with two other men near the riverbank. Sometime during the scuffle, one of the men […]
After a long string of near misses stretching literally from Hondo to Sarstoon, law enforcement authorities have finally stopped a drug plane with its cargo intact. The drama unfolded in the skies above the Orange Walk District around eleven Thursday night when residents alerted the police to the sound of a circling aircraft. Members of […]
Calls to the Attorney General?s Ministry this afternoon revealed that Solicitor General Elson Kaseke wasn?t in office today, and in fact, won?t be back until Monday morning. As for additional information on the in-flight incident over Washington, D.C. that landed the SolGen in jail, government sources tell News 5 that Kaseke will write a comprehensive […]
Orange Walk police are tonight investigating a robbery report made late last night that has left officers highly suspicious of the alleged victim. According to nineteen-year-old Hilberto Guerra, a trucker working in the north, he was on his way to his home in Indian Creek village around midnight on Wednesday but stopped in Guinea Grass […]
The case of Amir Frutos, the Cayo businessman arrested and charged for production, possession and distribution of illicit material is set to go before the Magistrate?s Court on September thirteenth. And the result of the trial could either prove an embarrassment for the police or a precedent setting judgment, as this could well represent the […]
As details of the in-flight fiasco and subsequent arrest of Solicitor General Elson Kaseke continued to emerge today, the man himself returned to Belize this morning. Arriving on the early American Airlines flight from Miami, Kaseke made his way through the Phillip Goldson International Airport where he cleared customs and immigration. As he exited the […]
Quick police work has led to the arrest of two men for the brutal murder of Mary Blondell. Eighteen-year-old Guatemalan Walter Lopez and thirty-five year old Salvadoran Carlos Rene Granillos have been arrested and charged with murder and burglary. Blondell?s body was found Monday morning buried in a shallow grave not far from her farm […]
It?s an embarrassment that?s sure to sting Belmopan–not to mention the rest of us–for months to come: a high ranking official of the judiciary led away in handcuffs by Uncle Sam. That?s right. On Sunday afternoon, Solicitor General Elson Kaseke was on an American Airlines flight from Miami to Reagan National Airport in Washington DC […]
He may not hold the office of Solicitor General, but another well-known Belizean has gone before a U.S. court. Robert Hertular, extradited last week to New York on drug charges, made his first court appearance on Monday before U.S. magistrate, Judge Theodore Katz. Hertular pleaded not guilty and Katz ordered him held without bail pending […]
The case of a Cayo businessman busted on Monday for selling pornographic DVD?s today got more interesting as information on what led to the arrest of twenty-seven year old Amir Frutos became public. While cops out west get the credit for cuffing the suspect, secretary of the Board of directors for the Rotary Club, Laura […]
She was known as a fiesty but lovable woman who for over three decades led the life of a trailblazing pioneer in the rugged limestone hills of central Belize. As police investigate her brutal murder, News 5?s Jacqueline Woods travelled south to find out more about the circumstances of her death. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Seventy-three […]
She was reported missing on Sunday night, but indications are that she was missing days earlier. At around eleven this morning, police found the body of seventy-three year old Mary Jane Blondell partially buried in a shallow grave off the Hummingbird Highway near mile twenty-five. Blondell, a naturalized Belizean, was a long-time resident of the […]
It took them almost four months, but police have finally caught up with the man they believe stabbed thirty-three year old William Staine to death back in March of this year. Twenty-two year old Jeffrey Flowers has been charged with murder and remanded to Hattieville Prison. Police say Flowers is also being investigated for a […]
Police over the weekend received two crisp blue notes from business proprietors in Punta Gorda, but the currency was not worth the paper it was printed on. That?s right: more funny money. On Friday night, a P.G businesswoman reported that she sold stouts to a man who paid with a hundred dollar bill. While the […]
Last week it was the obeah man, today San Ignacio police have busted another local businessman on a seldom used charge. Twenty seven year old Amir Frutos, proprietor of Dalia?s store on Hudson Street, was arrested and charged today for the crime of displaying obscene articles. This follows a raid of his used clothing and […]
While Frutos will most likely not spend the night in jail, the same cannot be said about another Santa Elena resident. Twenty-seven year old Nicholas Flores has been charged for several counts of arson and assault, after a dispute with his common-law relatives turned violent. San Ignacio police say that Flores was involved in a […]
He may have made headline news on television, radio and in the newspapers, but it was not until several hours after Robert Hertular was put on a plane at the Philip Goldson International Airport and flown to the United States, that the media via a press release from the Government Press Office, found out that […]
Another day, another murder to report–this time in the Stann Creek District, and the police need your help in catching the culprit. The victim is a Guatemalan national, identified as Miguel Antonio Gregorio, believed to be in his mid thirties. Gregorio?s body was recovered from the side of the Southern Highway around six-thirty this morning, […]
They are as useful as a cardboard box in a dory race on the Belize River…but fake blue notes continue to make the rounds in Belize City and Orange Walk. While one thousand four hundred dollars in phony Queen Betties were taken out of circulation this week, police have issued a public advisory: be on […]
