When little more than her bones were found on July twelfth just inside Belizean territory near the Guatemalan border, it was assumed that the victim was killed in Guatemala and the body was dumped in Belize, probably to make solution of the crime more difficult. And while that scenario may yet prove true, evidence gathered […]
He?s wanted by the Feds on serious drug charges and tonight Robert Hertular is one-step closer to taking up residence on Rikers Island. On June fourth, Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord upheld the U.S. extradition request and today Acting Justice Denys Barrow dismissed Hertular?s application for a writ of Habeas Corpus, which alleged that the prisoner?s […]
Another drug case is making headlines tonight although the narcotic in question is not cocaine. Three men are wanted for questioning in connection with thousands of illegal tablets found earlier this month at the Data Pro compound on the Northern Highway. According to official reports issued this morning, police chemists have determined that the substances […]
On yesterday?s newscast, we chronicled the story of Jason Fitzgibbon, a man nabbed by Police and charged for the burglary of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission in King?s Park. Tonight Fitzgibbon is being investigated once again, this time for a remarkably similar burglary committed just around the corner at the headquarters of the National AIDS […]
And speaking of 922, today was the day, as promised, that the Crimestoppers hotline for anonymous tips to police was rerouted to Miami. The idea of having the calls answered in Florida and the information then passed to Belize is to ensure the anonymity of those calling in with tips, in that their voices could […]
They say that luck favours the well prepared…and that adage proved true this morning for law enforcement authorities on mobile patrol. News 5?s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Belize City police say twenty-seven year old Jason Fitzgibbon acted alone when he used this steel cutter to gain access into a downstairs window and […]
A Belize City man has been arrested for rape. Police received a report from a twenty-year old woman that on Thursday night forty-four year old Lindon Jeffries invited her into his house where they drank a couple bottles of Guinness. When it was time to leave, however, it is alleged that Jeffries pulled out a […]
Several weeks ago we reported on the commission of the previously unknown crime of ?attempting to leave Belize with more than the prescribed amount without first having reported the matter to the supervisory authority.? Today we are treated to another instalment in the series ?odd offences?, which comes courtesy of the San Ignacio police. Jacqueline […]
The police thought that he was bitten by a snake. Relatives told News 5 they believe he died of natural causes as he had complained of stomach pains prior to his death. Today the mystery deepened as police pathologist Doctor Mario Estradabran released the findings an autopsy performed on the body of Jose Luis Mario […]
While cops in the north pursue a killer or killers, their counterparts in Belize City are trying to get a straight story from a group of youths involved in a shooting incident on Eve Street. Police responded to a call about a domestic dispute around one o’clock this morning, but when they showed up, they […]
A Belize City man is recovering from gunshot wounds after a shooting incident on Vernon Street last night. According to police reports, twenty-seven year old Michael Welch was playing pool with his friends at the Red House Bar, at the corner of Vernon Street and East Collect Canal just after seven, but unbeknownst to the […]
Another Belize registered ship has been busted for drugs on the high seas. On Wednesday, Spanish police boarded the vessel “Africa 1” one hundred and forty kilometres off that country’s port of Cadiz and seized four point five tons of cocaine. Four Greeks and an Italian were arrested. The seventy-foot fishing trawler, which has been […]
Shortly before noon today, San Ignacio police were alerted to the discovery of human remains found in Belizean territory just this side of the Guatemala border. Authorities say from information they have gathered from bits of a tattered passport found near the set of bones, they believe the remains are those of a Guatemalan woman. […]
Apart from those bones at the border, we are happy to report that there were no murders or shootings over the weekend…but one man was badly beaten during a robbery. The attack took place in Dangriga around ten-thirty on Friday night. According to police, around eleven that night they were called out to Southern Regional […]
Authorities in Punta Gorda have detained two people in connection with a break in that occurred at one of that town’s business establishments. Police say sometime between Thursday night and early Friday morning thieves broke into the store on Main Middle Street owned by twenty-four year old Frank Madrid. He reported missing from his store […]
San Ignacio police say four men who decided to visit their municipality for the purpose of crime will think twice before they come again. They report that early Saturday evening thirty-eight year old Leonard Augustine of Seine Bight, forty-six year old Ansel Welch of Gales Point and Belize City residents twenty-seven year old Wayne Castillo […]
The Police have brought formal charges in connection with two recent robberies that occurred at sea. For the jacking of the fishing boat Yanise, which occurred on June twenty-first, at Tobacco Range, the police charged Lincoln “Kilo Boy” Allen, Leonardo Cassanova, and Owen Parham, a.k.a. Oscar Seguro. Parham/Seguro was charged in absentia because he is […]
If you’ve ever travelled internationally by air you know that on the customs form you fill out upon entry into most countries, including Belize, there’s a box you must check if you’re bringing in more than ten thousand U.S. dollars in cash. Well today one passenger discovered that the need to declare your liquid assets […]
On March thirty-first from his bed at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, twenty-two year old Pedro Guzman Junior, a resident of San Ignacio, alleged that Police Constable Julio Shal shot him in his hands after Shal and three other men pulled him into a car. P.C. Shal was charged with attempted murder, use of deadly […]
Belize City police remain on the lookout for two suspects involved in a shooting incident on Wednesday evening. According to police, twenty-nine year old Daniel Zuniga reported that he was riding his bicycle on Jasmine Street around six twenty five when two men, one of whom he recognized, approached him. Zuniga told authorities the man […]
It’s not everyday that the police on mobile patrol come across a crime in progress, but that is exactly what happened to a team of officers on duty on Wednesday night. Sometime between nine and ten, they were on patrol on Arlington Drive in Belize City when they saw two men attempting to rob another. […]
An Orange Walk man is a thousand dollars poorer tonight, thanks to an observant bank teller. According to police, on Wednesday morning Jason Banner entered the Belize Bank branch in Sugar City to cash a cheque made out to him for four thousand dollars. While the cheque was apparently good, a piece of I.D. he […]
Police have detained a suspect they believe murdered a man Tuesday night in San Ignacio. The deceased, twenty-two year old labourer Hershel Brown, was found around seven p.m. lying in the Savannah area of the town with a deep cut to his throat. Police were called and Brown was taken to the hospital where he […]
Just over a week after sensational high seas jackings in the area of Rendezvous and Alligator cayes, Belize City police have netted a group of men they believe were responsible. The five suspects were rounded up this morning by police in a pre-dawn operation in different parts of the old capital. While the investigation is […]
Despite a record pace of violent crime, the double killing known as murder/suicide is still a rarity in Belize. On Monday night, however, that senseless tragedy struck the tightly knit Southern town of Punta Gorda. Police there are still trying to find out what caused forty-four year old Adrian Genus to murder his twenty-seven year […]
