In an unusual case out of Cayo District, a mother has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, and harm after she allegedly laid a merciless beating on her twelve-year-old daughter. According to police, the girl, in the company of a social worker, reported that after returning home from school last Thursday her mom, thirty-eight […]
Police in Punta Gorda chalked up a success early this morning when, following a shootout, they foiled a burglary. Around one forty-five this morning police responded to a call from P.G. businessman Victor Hernandez who reported hearing a gunshot and his two daughters screaming. Hernandez exited his bedroom to find two men, armed with his […]
The case of a high powered helicopter found abandoned in the Toledo District has morphed from the mysterious to the contentious as law enforcement agencies from two countries lay claim to the valuable aircraft. Whereas yesterday there was only speculation concerning the Bell 206 LongRanger discovered on the north bank of the Sarstoon River, today […]
Around seven-thirty on Tuesday morning, twenty year old Rubita Oroman Hernandez left her house to do laundry at the nearby Roaring Creek. However, when she did not return home, the family became concerned. It was not until five this morning that a relative came upon the young woman’s body lying face up behind some bushes […]
It has been a record year for government confiscations of suspiciously abandoned airplanes, with a couple of Beechcraft King Airs and a well maintained Russian Antonov 26 leading the illicit air show. This week, however, Belmopan’s growing fleet has gone to the next level with the addition of a high performance helicopter. This Bell 206 […]
While some of the Toledo District’s police officers were detailed to Black Creek, another was being arrested for disgraceful conduct. Thirty-five year old constable Cesar Tzib, based in Punta Gorda, has been charged with aggravated assault and discharging a firearm in public. The arrest is the result of an incident on Sunday night in the […]
There was no bloodstain on the street, no hysterical witnesses, no signs of violence on her body–in fact, there is no body…and thirty-seven year old Astrid Perera is not legally dead. But the Belize City businesswoman, who disappeared almost a year ago, is widely believed to have been murdered. The question is: by whom? News […]
Officially, he is a resident of Melchor de Mencos, Guatemala, but fifty-year-old Belizean Edgar Catalan had family ties on both sides of the border. But no matter where he resided, tonight he is dead, the victim of murder. On Saturday morning, just after midnight police came across his taxicab parked suspiciously at the side of […]
As expected, more charges have been filed against an alleged European con artist. Thirty-five year old Robertino Oprescu, a citizen of Romania, has been charged with theft along with nine counts each of possession of forged documents. The charges arise out of a scam in which Oprescu is accused of stealing over two hundred thousand […]
Some idle residents of Belize’s coastal communities will spend a lifetime of beach combing without ever encountering that highly prized specie known as “Square Grouper.? Well on Sunday, it was the police who were blessed with fisherman’s luck. A maritime patrol operating some ten miles south of Belize City spied a suspicious package floating in […]
Dangriga police have detained one man and are looking for another following a report from a minor that she was raped by both. The incident reportedly occurred sometime last month. The complainant, a fourteen-year-old student from the town, alleges that while she was walking on Yampa Street a red car driven by someone she knew […]
No news is bad news in the case of Jose Coyoc as police are still on the hunt for the thirty-two year old, wanted for murder and attempted rape. Coyoc, a resident of Xaibe Village in the Corozal District, is accused of breaking into the home of forty-three year old Apolonio Tun on Wednesday and […]
A man believed to be a criminal mastermind is behind bars tonight, the prime suspect in a forgery which allegedly netted him more than two hundred thousand dollars. This man, thirty-five year old Robertino Oprescu, a Romanian national, is the man police believe set up a cobweb of fake companies, forged corporate checks from the […]
A massive manhunt on both sides of the Northern border is underway tonight for a man accused of murder and attempted rape in Xaibe Village in the Corozal District. Police report that just after midnight this morning, thirty-two year old Jose Coyoc, armed with a sixteen gauge shotgun, broke into the home of forty-three year […]
A watchman is dead and his employer wounded in what can only be described as a bizarre incident in the nation’s capital. Today I visited the scene. Corina Godinez, Daughter of the Deceased “It hurt we because he dah the head ah fu we home.” Janelle Chanona, Reporting The family of fifty-five year old Manuel […]
Two Belize City men have been arrested and charged for a killing that occurred at the beginning of the year. Eighteen-year-old Carlton Tasher and nineteen-year-old Brandon Taylor, both of Faber’s Road, were charged with the murder of twenty-five year old Michael Skeet. Skeet was fatally shot as he rode his bike down Central American Boulevard […]
Two more men–this time police officers–were arrested over the weekend and we’re not sure whether to be angry that those sworn to protect us may be robbing us, or to be happy that the system of justice actually worked. Police constables Aurelio Cajon and Marlon Martinez have been charged with extortion following their arrest on […]
It was a horrible crime that spanned two neighbouring countries and has the respective police forces working overtime. Today I travelled across the border to find out why anyone would want to torture and murder a Belizean businesswoman trying to make a living in Melchor de Mencos. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Fifty-five year old Carlota Yacab, […]
In crime news, the big story is that…there isn’t any…at least not any cases of murder or life threatening violence. There were also no fatal traffic accidents, despite the Agricultural Show weekend. While we are thankful for the respite from what often seems like a daily dose of criminal mayhem and carnage on the nation’s […]
While the morgue may be empty, it doesn’t mean that police were lamping up over the weekend. On the contrary, one officer in Bella Vista Village in Stann Creek was forced to shoot a disorderly bar patron in the foot. According to police reports, Jeremy Turcios was hit by a single bullet from the service […]
One man has been detained in connection with a gas station robbery over the weekend. Around five on Saturday evening, a lone gunman held up the cashier at the Texaco station at the Bel-China Bridge. He escaped with a bag containing an undisclosed amount of cash. Later that night in Dangriga, twenty-six year old Patricio […]
And in Belmopan, police may have prevented a future violent crime when they confiscated a prohibited firearm and detained its owner. On Sunday morning, a police patrol in Roaring Creek saw a man run after he noticed their vehicle. He was then observed throwing a white bag into a yard. Police caught up with him, […]
While we previously mentioned the weekend’s lack of violence, it must be noted that police in Benque Viejo did find a dead body today on the banks of the Mopan River just inside Belizean territory. It will not be counted in our official statistics, however, as it is all but certain that the death occurred […]
The accusations, made today in Dangriga, sound eerily similar to those filed back in October of last year in Punta Gorda: a U.S. resident residing in a small town involved in the sexual exploitation of children. But unlike last year’s drama, which has yet to be resolved in the courts, the latest case has been […]
Two well-known businessmen have been arrested and charged following a search of their establishments in Belize City. Authorities report that between six and ten last night, they conducted an operation at Brad’s Stores on Vernon Street and at the Farmers Market. The search led police to a large sum of money, firearms, ammunition and forged […]
