Police and the victim’s family have been tight lipped about a possible motive and other details, but tonight three men and one woman are behind bars, formally accused of murdering twenty-five year old Nadir Husman on the twentieth of last month. This morning I joined a large and boisterous crowd on Bishop Street as the […]
Eighteen-year-old Fernando Middleton, a Belize City resident, is lucky to be alive after he was sprayed with bullets on Saturday Night. Middleton told police that around eight, he was walking on Baracat Street, when a gold four door car with three men inside, pulled up next to him. According to Middleton, one of the passengers […]
Tonight the police need your help to find the perpetrator of a hit and run accident that occurred just after midnight on Saturday Morning. Authorities say they discovered a young man, later identified as twenty-two year old Leopoldo Moralez, lying in the middle of the Northern Highway between miles eighteen and nineteen. Moralez had a […]
Almost a week after two Guatemalan youths were busted for illegally harvesting Xate leaves in the Chiquibul Forest Reserve, on Sunday, seven more Guatemalan nationals were arrested after they were found doing the same thing. Authorities say around eight thirty that morning, the police and BDF were on a joint jungle patrol in the Caracol […]
Over the last few months we’ve seen homicides claim victims of all shapes and sizes, sexes and ages. So while tonight’s report on the murder of a Belize City teenager may not be unusual, it is still disturbing Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Andrew Fuentes was only fifteen years old when he was gunned down and killed […]
A fisherman from Sarteneja Village is tonight recovering from gunshot wounds after he was attacked and robbed at sea. Twenty-five year old Julian Santiago Ricalde told News Five this afternoon that he and his crew were moored near Rendezvous Caye, around sixteen miles southeast of Belize City, around one o’clock on Tuesday evening. Suddenly a […]
The death of a Belize City man whose decomposing body was found on the banks of the Mopan River in Benque Viejo appears to be a case of accidental drowning. According to police press officer G. Michael Reid, thirty-three-year-old Jahlarud Sankey, was apprehended by Guatemalan authorities in Melchor on Tuesday morning, where he was apparently […]
It was the single most deadly month in recent memory…and we can only give thanks that the calendar has turned a page. Beginning with Rubita Oroman Hernandez on the first and ending with Rodney August on the twenty-eighth, a total of sixteen people were victims of homicide during June. The tally included seven in the […]
Police have arrested the man they believe is responsible for Monday’s killing on the banks of the Macal River. Dionysio Salazar Jr. was today charged with the murder of Rodney August. August, while in the company of a female companion, was fatally attacked with a machete. According to police, before he died, August was able […]
Police in San Ignacio have detained a man believed to be the machete-wielding murderer who chopped a man to death on Monday afternoon. According to police, twenty-two year old Rodney August was on the banks of the Macal River in Santa Elena Town along with an unnamed female companion, when he was attacked. August, who […]
Whether by extradition or kidnapping, they have been plucking their high value criminal suspects from Belize with regularity…but in a very short time the United States government will be shipping home one of Belize’s most wanted. His name is Jason Flores. In January of 1999 the then twenty-six year Flores allegedly abducted a ten-year-old girl […]
Two Guatemalan youths, one a sixteen year old, will spend time in Hattieville Prison, after they were busted for illegally harvesting Xate leaves in the Chiquibul Forest Reserve. Sixteen-year-old Mauricio Mota and nineteen-year-old Erwin Juarez were arrested and charged on Saturday after a joint police-Belize Defence Force patrol caught them harvesting the exotic leaves in […]
Nine days after his bullet ridden body was discovered at the Salt Creek shooting range, authorities appear to have made little progress in finding the killer of Nadir Husman. Today his mother, Yvonne Moore, appealed to the public for any information that might produce a break in the case. Yvonne Moore, Mother of Murder Victim […]
Corozal police have charged three young men, one of them a minor, following the stabbing death of twenty-two-year-old Miguel Angel Lin. According to police, Lin was at the Miramontes Bar in Santa Elena around eleven-thirty on Saturday night when he apparently became involved in an argument with sixteen-year-old Jose Omar Machado, eighteen-year-old Antonio Anderson and […]
Belize City resident Crystal Woodye, believed to be in her early twenties, lies in a critical condition tonight at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The young woman was inside her house on Neal’s Pen Road around eight this morning when she was shot in the face. The bullet entered Woodye’s left cheek and she has […]
A two-year-old Dangriga boy has died tragically from electrocution. According to police, the child, identified as Cory Rosa, was playing in a yard with his siblings when he touched the live wire that the family used to get current from a neighbour. According to the mother, Patricia Rosa, she was sleeping around eight-thirty on Saturday […]
Police in Belmopan are investigating the circumstances behind the discovery of a dead body found Sunday in the Belize River. The corpse, found behind the Warrie Head Lodge, has been identified as twenty-eight-year-old Felix Jimenez of Ontario Village. A post mortem is scheduled at Western Regional Hospital.
A man is fighting for his life tonight in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was gunned down early this morning in Belize City. Responding to reports of a shooting on North Front Street around twelve-thirty this morning, police found forty-one year old Herbert Wiltshire suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. While investigators were unable […]
The shooting of Herbert Wiltshire was not the only incident of bloodshed to take place in the old capital since sundown on Thursday. Around nine-thirty last night a sixteen-year-old student was attacked on Central American Boulevard. The victim told police that he was approached by a man of East Indian descent who asked for money. […]
With barely enough time to gather evidence in the mounting backlog of murders committed over the last three weeks, Police forensic investigators were at it again this morning, this time in Ladyville. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Therese Plunkett, Family Friend “I would ah really wah find out right now why this really […]
The shooting took place almost a year ago on what is normally one of the most festive days of the year. On the morning of September tenth, in sight of the Queen Street Police Station, twenty-one year old Aaron Mariano was shot dead by B.D.F. soldier Giovanni Gutierrez with his M-16 rifle. It was a […]
In the midst of a wave of violent crime that has lasted far too long for comfort the police high command has finally gotten around to exercising some common sense. In a memo from Eastern Division Commander Maureen Leslie, the officers have been instructed to lay off busting street people for ridiculously small amounts of […]
As the family of slain Belize City businessman, Nadir Husman prepare to lay him to rest on Sunday, police are still looking for a break in the case that will lead to the arrest of the person or persons responsible. Today News 5 understands that while the police and family hotlines are receiving tidbits of […]
There is better news to report in another murder case in Belize City. The police press office tells News 5 that a break in the investigation into the murder of Steve “Monster” Thompson is imminent. The thirty-three year old man was found dead outside the house he was taking care of in the Belama Phase […]
It is often said that with our wide open spaces and live and let live attitude, our country is the ideal place for a fugitive from justice to hide out…and to be sure, we know of more than one foreign criminal on the run who, with the blessing of either or both ruling parties, have […]
