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Thirty-eight-year-old Adela Ifield was found dead inside her home in San Pedro Town on Saturday morning. According to Ifield’s boyfriend, he had initially left her at their residence on Friday night in the San Pedrito area while he went out with his brothers. He returned with food at around ten o’clock before leaving once more. […]
Written on December 18, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-five-year-old Leopold Solomon Wade met bail earlier today, after being accused of sexually assaulting a sixteen-year-old girl twice in one day. When the laborer appeared in the lower court this morning, he was read two charges related to separate incidents during which he allegedly kissed the teenager on her cheek without her consent. On another […]
Written on December 18, 2023 | Posted in
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A forty-eight-year-old Chinese national remains on remand at the Belize Central Prison, pending a speedy trial in early 2024. Jun Yu was provided with disclosure when he appeared unrepresented before a Senior Magistrate earlier today. However, he was denied bail when the lower court judge was not satisfied the two sureties that accompanied his bail. […]
Written on December 18, 2023 | Posted in
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Nineteen-year-old Leslie Young Junior lost his mother and younger brother a year ago, and just welcomed his first child a few months ago. Tonight, his body is at the morgue at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The teenager was shot and killed on Thursday night near the Mexican Institute here in Belize City. It is […]
Written on December 15, 2023 | Posted in
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Today, two men who were convicted last month of the 2018 murder of Bowen and Bowen employee, Shawn Menzies were sentenced to life in prison. Eric Miranda and Jeffery Contreras listened as Justice Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft sentenced them to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole until they have served thirty years. The men have […]
Written on December 15, 2023 | Posted in
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During the course of the last few months, News Five has taken a deeper look at what happens with cases involving missing persons and murders that remain unsolved. We’ve covered the aspect of the families of those persons who are either still hoping for closure in the case of the unsolved murders. We’ve also covered […]
Written on December 15, 2023 | Posted in
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A young man who was reported missing on Thursday morning has returned home to his family safely, but not without a horrendous couple of hours at the hands of alleged kidnappers. Sixteen-year-old Jason Parham told News Five this evening that he was heading to a shop on Holy Emmanuel Street on Thursday morning when a […]
Written on December 15, 2023 | Posted in
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Hildebrandt Codd is due to return to court on December twenty-first to learn his fate following the murder of Densmore Bowman in 2019. As we reported, last Tuesday, the thirty-six-year-old inmate absconded by climbing out of a window in the High Court and making good his escape. Codd was before Justice Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft where […]
Written on December 14, 2023 | Posted in
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On Tuesday morning, here in Belize City, a deadly shooting claimed the life of twenty-nine-year-old Albert Valentine. The victim was no stranger to the law and has a record of involvement in gang activity. Tonight, police are looking for two suspects whom they believe perpetrated the violent act on Valentine as he left from a […]
Written on December 13, 2023 | Posted in
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Eighty-two-year-old William Watson was butchered inside his home near the corners of Zericote and Banak streets on December fifth, before the upper flat of the two-storey residence was set on fire. It’s a heinous crime, one that the police and fire departments missed when they were investigating the incident last week. It has since been […]
Written on December 13, 2023 | Posted in
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An internal feud within the BLC gang in Lake Independence resulted in a residence coming under gunfire on Tuesday night. We understand that as many as six children were inside their home on M&M Street when a pair of men approached the property and let loose a hail of bullets at the structure. Luckily, no […]
Written on December 13, 2023 | Posted in
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According to ComPol Williams, the men who are actively involved in the infighting have been removed from the Leadership Intervention Unit’s program. He also says that the police department is keeping a close eye on developments in that neighborhood. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “We are monitoring it very closely. We are trying to […]
Written on December 13, 2023 | Posted in
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As it stands, the number of homicides accounted for so far in 2023, is eighty. It’s a figure that is well below the murder count in previous years and will go down as a record achievement for the Belize Police Department. Nonetheless, the men and women in uniform aren’t taking a victory lap just yet. […]
Written on December 13, 2023 | Posted in
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We begin tonight’s newscast with the first reported murder for the month of December. The incident happened this morning in the Collet area of Belize City around seven-thirty. Twenty-nine-year-old Albert Valentine was walking on Elston Kerr Street and as he reached the corner with Iguana Street, a gunman shot him. He did not live for […]
Written on December 12, 2023 | Posted in
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When the fire was reported early last Tuesday morning and the body of eighty-two-year-old William Watson was discovered inside, it was a tragedy for the family. But that tragedy has now turned to rage when the post mortem report revealed that Watson did not die in the fire, nor did he die a natural death. […]
Written on December 12, 2023 | Posted in
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Last Tuesday, we reported on the escape of a pair of prisoners from the High Court here in Belize City. While accused murderer Hildebrandt Codd remains a fugitive of the law, his accomplice Jessie Mejia was captured later that same day. It’s undoubtedly a black eye for the Belize Police Department, two inmates showing up […]
Written on December 11, 2023 | Posted in
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Eighteen-year-old Jeremy Westby was reported missing last week and, since then, his loved ones have been searching for him to no avail. It is reported that the laborer of a Belize City address was last seen on December fifth, around six-thirty p.m. when he left home to visit a friend nearby. Brown stands five feet, […]
Written on December 11, 2023 | Posted in
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There was a stabbing incident in Caye Caulker yesterday evening involving two individuals who were socializing at a bar on the island. According to police, the men got into an altercation during which one broke a glass bottle and proceeded to inflict stab wounds on the other, before making good his escape. Here’s more from […]
Written on December 11, 2023 | Posted in
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A sixteen-year-old minor has been arrested and charged, along with another suspect, for the murder of Denver Montero back in April. Montero, along with several other persons, was socializing near the hammock Bridge in Gracie Rock when they came under gunfire while being robbed of their belongings. During the incident, Montero suffered gunshot injuries to […]
Written on December 11, 2023 | Posted in
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On Wednesday, we reported on a stabbing incident in San Pedro that left two policemen wounded. The initial story was that the policemen, Edwin Reid and Kieran Mena were walking shortly after midnight near the corner of Laguna Drive and Spider Lily Street in the vicinity of the San Pedro High School when the incident […]
Written on December 8, 2023 | Posted in
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Accused murderer, Hildebrandt Codd remains at large after he escaped along with Jesse Mejia through a window in an adjoining room to the Courtroom Number Three where they were scheduled to appear on Tuesday. Codd, who was supposed to hear his verdict for the 2019 murder of Densmore Bowman, and Mejia, who is to face […]
Written on December 8, 2023 | Posted in
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Earlier today, the Chief Magistrate granted a warrant of apprehension for the arrest of Nimrod Tillett, as well as an application for his extradition proceedings to begin. Tillett, who has been accused of committing two murders in Belize, is also wanted in Mexico for a similar capital offense. It is alleged that he killed a […]
Written on December 8, 2023 | Posted in
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Collin Francis, an inmate at the Belize Central Prison, appeared before the High Court today for a competency hearing. Francis, a mental patient, is accused of attempting to kill a psychiatric nurse by stabbing her. He is also accused of the deadly beat down of Nestor Vasquez Junior. That incident occurred inside the Queen Street […]
Written on December 8, 2023 | Posted in
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Forty-six-year-old Owen Pollard Senior has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison after being arraigned on a single charge of abetment to murder. His son, Owen Pollard Junior, is on the run and is wanted in connection with the attempted murder of twenty-seven-year-old Zane Pott, a resident of mile two on the George Price Highway. […]
Written on December 8, 2023 | Posted in
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As the hustle and bustle of the season takes us into shopping areas to buy gifts and Christmas grocery, so too do thieves step up their game to see who they can pounce on to rob or steal from. But the police department has a number of operations going on in Belize City, and is […]
Written on December 8, 2023 | Posted in
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