Sixty-six year old Hilberto Aragon was gunned down on Tuesday on Mahogany Street in Belize City. Today, two men were charged with his murder. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was on hand for the arraignment. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This afternoon eighteen year old Francisco Petillo of Flamboyant Street and Thirty seven year old Basil Willis of […]
Three days, three murders, one city. And it’s not Kingston, Jamaica; Medellin, Colombia; or South Central, L.A.. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the latest. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting There were no blood stains to indicate that a major crime had just occurred but the shooting death of sixty-six year old Hilberto Aragon, a resident of Lake […]
While police look for suspects in the latest city murder, they have arrested and charged a man who seemed bent on a shooting spree…the weapon of choice, however, was a toy gun. According to police, twenty-three year old Dwayne Gentle, an employee of Belize Waste Control, has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault. […]
It’s a story we’ve had to tell too many times this year: shot at close range; rushed to the K.H.M.H.; died while undergoing treatment; police seeking suspects… Yet another victim has succumbed to gunshot injuries in Belize City, this latest incident unfolding in the Port Loyola area of Belize City around ten-thirty Sunday night. News […]
But just as the Criminal Investigation Branch continues its investigations into the Flowers murder, another homicide on the south side of Belize City was being reported. Around six this morning police officers found the body of an elderly man lying near Kut Avenue on East Collet Canal. And as Jacqueline Woods discovered, the violence has […]
The Commissioner of Police has ordered a full investigation into the stabbing of a prisoner at the Eastern Street police station on Thursday. Twenty year old Jermaine Pascasio was stabbed numerous times to the chest and back with a sharp object that was somehow smuggled into the holding cell. So far, neither the victim nor […]
He was accused of killing a Belize City businessman, but today he didn’t get his day in court…not because of a mix up or problem with the justice system, but because he was attacked at the Queen Street police station. Jacqueline Woods has the details of this startling incident. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This afternoon twenty […]
A key piece of evidence in this week’s Belize Bank robbery has surfaced and authorities hope it will be the lead they need to crack the case. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This is the blue Ford Taurus car authorities believe was the getaway vehicle in the Belize Bank robbery on Tuesday at mile […]
His arrest in Belize three years ago rocked the drug trade in three countries, netted law enforcement authorities a ton and a half of cocaine, and resulted in multiple arrests of major players in the illegal trade. And tonight, forty-one year old Jorge Manuel Torres Teyer, described as a member of one of Mexico’s most […]
An elderly man has been arrested in the Cayo District following a report by a toddler of molestation. The five year old girl told police she was in the home of seventy eight year old Felix Hob in San Martin Village when the incident took place. Luckily, her seven year old brother heard her cries […]
This afternoon, at around the same time school children would normally be stopping by for a treat, two men held up the popular Scoop’s Ice Cream shop in Belize City. A clerk reported that the pair came in wearing only shorts and ordered rum raisin ice cream. When she started to fill their order, they […]
A woman has been hospitalized after being shot while on her veranda on Yarborough Road in Belize City. On Tuesday night Jacklyn Williams and her nephew, nineteen year old Godfrey Hemsley, were outside around eight when two men approached the house. One of the men raised a handgun and fired a total of nine shots, […]
With the assistance of the public, Orange Walk police have arrested a man in connection with a fatal hit and run accident on the Northern Highway. Twenty-six year old Henry Garcia of Sarteneja Village was charged today with manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct, driving without due care and attention, failure to stop […]
The Novelo’s Bus company and its multi-million dollar fiasco with D.F.C. has largely faded from the public spotlight, but a recent incident which took a number of the company’s buses out of commission is a stark reminder that the Novelo’s bankruptcy has not been forgotten–at least not by one malicious person, or persons. Patrick Jones […]
There was a time when bank robberies were things we watched happen in movies… but today, more than twenty Belizeans watched it happen right in front of their eyes. In broad daylight, a well planned attack was executed at the Belize Bank at mile one and a half on the Northern Highway. And although no […]
In related crime news, police have detained three men in connection with a gas station hold-up on Monday night. Reports are that just after eight-thirty that night, a tinted, four-door maroon van pulled into the Ladyville Shell gas station at the airport junction on the Northern Highway. But instead of gas, the occupants were after […]
A teenager faces charges of murder following an incident at the mile eight on the Western Highway on Monday evening. According to police, around five p.m. nineteen year old Jason Encalada got into a fight with another young man, who also lives at the mile eight community. When the dust cleared, Encalada had been stabbed […]
In an update to the strange death of a young man in Belize City on Friday, post mortem results indicate that twenty-eight year old Fred Petillo died from cerebral oedema aspiration. Through medical research, News 5 understands the condition to be the result of untreated insulin dependent diabetes. Petillo, described as a mental patient, attacked […]
Police are investigating the death of a man who is alleged to have attacked his mother with a hammer. According to reports, on Friday, twenty-eight year old Fred Petillo, who is described as a mental patient, went after his mother, Judith Petillo, with a hammer and began hitting her. When Judith’s husband, Ortin Coleman, tried […]
Police are seeking a suspect in a fatal stabbing during a fight at a fair in August Pine Ridge on Saturday night. During the incident which involved a number of patrons, seventeen year old Trinidad Sanchez was stabbed in the chest and later died from the wound. Another man, twenty-four year old Rene Murillo, was […]
A Belize City youth was wounded after he and two friends were fired on while walking on Central American Boulevard early Saturday morning. Seventeen year old Jermaine Grant of Baracat Street was hit twice in the back, once in the buttocks, and once in the left knee when a man the trio recognized rode up […]
It’s a story that’s been kicking around in the media for several weeks, and today, it’s official. Twenty-three year old Immigration Officer, April Parchue, daughter of the department’s director, Colonel Peter Parchue, appeared in Magistrate’s Court this afternoon to answer ten charges of theft and false accounting. The charges stem from an investigation by auditors […]
A brazen afternoon break-in in Belize City has left the suspected burglar suffering from gunshot wounds and the defiant homeowner lucky to be alive. According to police, around three Wednesday afternoon, twenty year old Bert Vasquez was at home on Raccoon Street Extension when he heard suspicious sounds coming from the back of the house. […]
Intent on keeping bad cops off the line, a sting operation launched by the Internal Affairs Unit of the Police Department has resulted in the arrest of another officer. Police Constable Brentford Longsworth has been charged with extortion after he “charged” a local businessman eight hundred dollars in exchange for the recovery of a stolen […]
It’s a growing problem that police say they have no intention of ignoring. And tonight they’ve got an arrest to prove it. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the story from the Queen Street station. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Sometime after ten on Monday night someone gained access into this pickup truck by prying open the back […]
