And in an update to last night’s story on the shooting and robbery of business executive Phil Gallaty in Ladyville, we are informed that Gallaty regained consciousness following surgery at Universal Health Services and around two-thirty this afternoon was sent in an air ambulance to Miami for further treatment. Gallaty was shot in the stomach […]
You can call it brazen, bold, audacious, or just plain facey. Whatever words you choose, it appears the dictionary is rapidly running out of adjectives to describe the nature of violent crime in Belize. The latest outrage occurred in Ladyville on one of the country’s busiest thoroughfares. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports from the scene. […]
A watchman from a Dangriga gas station was fatally wounded after being shot in the chest on Sunday. Reports are that on around four p.m., David Gilbert Lopez approached a resort in the Riverdale area saying he was looking for a thief who stole his money. According to reports, he appeared to be under the […]
In a follow up to a story on our newscast on Friday, a man from Independence was charged with murder following the fatal stabbing of twenty-nine year old Larry August on Thursday. Today police said twenty-two year old Clayton Foreman of a Disco Street address was apprehended and charged with the crime.
Police are looking for a suspect following a report by a woman from Rock Stone Pond Village that she was attacked by a man wielding a broken bottle. Tanya Wallace told police she was on her way home around eleven Saturday night when the man, whom she knows, stabbed her in the neck and left […]
A twenty-two year old man has been charged with murder following an incident in Independence Village on Thursday night. According to police, twenty-nine year old Larry August and twenty-two year old Clayton Forman got into a misunderstanding on Disco Street around eleven-thirty that night. During the dispute authorities say Forman pulled out a pen knife […]
A fourteen year old girl has been arrested and charged for attempted murder, maim, and use of deadly means of harm after she chopped off a woman’s finger. Information is sketchy, but News 5 understands that on Thursday evening Celia James was at a home on Freetown Road speaking with another woman when the young […]
He made a bold run for freedom by loosening the bars over his cell door, but twenty three year old Luis Urbina Junior could not evade the long arm of the law for long. Around two-thirty this afternoon Urbina was captured in a cane field near Xaibe Village, but he didn’t go quietly. According to […]
In police news, a weekend swim in the Mopan River on Sunday claimed the life of a nineteen year old Benque Viejo man. Police say Kelvin Mis went swimming around six o’clock on Sunday evening during which he disappeared under the water. Mis body was retrieved from the river on Monday morning. Police say it […]
In Belize City police have made an arrest in connection with a murder that took place earlier this year on Central American Boulevard. Nineteen year old Maurice Felix has been charged with murder in connection with the death of Levi Slusher which occurred in the early morning of January third. While cops in the City […]
The violence in Belize City continues with two more young men killed over the weekend. The first murder took place on Johnson Street early Sunday morning. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Less than forty-eight hours after an attempted murder charge was dropped against twenty three year old Dalton Douglas Reneau, he himself was gunned down and killed […]
In another incident, also in Belize City, on Sunday a youth was killed around eight p.m. as he headed to a neighbourhood shop. News 5 spoke with his mother today. Irene Wallace, Mother of Deceased “It was pretty close range, pretty close range cause like nobody expect that.” Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Irene Wallace remains in […]
A man who attacked and attempted to kidnap a fourteen year old girl in Caye Caulker is being sought by police. The girl arrived at the Caye Caulker clinic early Sunday morning and reported that she was home sleeping when a man she knows, but whose name is being withheld by police, woke her up […]
The Police Department has issued a statement regarding an incident at a checkpoint involving a bus carrying Kulture Yabra football players and fans to a game in Cayo on Saturday. According to police, an officer at a checkpoint near Red Creek Village boarded the bus with the intention of carrying out a routine inspection. However, […]
A man from San Jose Succotz has been arrested for shooting his two sons. Diego Cocom Sr. reportedly went home drunk on Thursday evening and got into an argument with his two sons, aged twenty-three and sixteen. According to witnesses, Cocom picked up a sixteen gauge shotgun and threatened to kill them both. When they […]
The body of a man feared drowned over the weekend has been recovered. Around two on Tuesday afternoon, a search team including police and relatives of nineteen year old Andrew Castro came upon the young man’s corpse floating in the water just off Caye Chapel. Castro, who was reportedly intoxicated at the time of his […]
The first conviction has been achieved under the recently enacted trafficking in persons legislation. According to a police press release, fifty year old Mildred Villanueva appeared today in Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court and pleaded guilty. She was fined one thousand dollars or in default a year in prison. The charges stem from the discovery of […]
He claims he was the victim of a beating at the hands of the police. And while Asban Gordon had the bruises and blood stains to prove he’s been roughed up, he maintains he did nothing to provoke the cops. According to Gordon, the incident happened around midday today in front of Mars Spicy Kitchen […]
Caye Caulker police and the Castro family of Belize City have still not recovered the body of nineteen-year-old Andrew Castro, presumed drowned after he fell off his boat over the weekend. According to the family, Castro who is the captain of the vessel named Liz was chartered by a group of friends to go to […]
Police in Corozal have charged a man in connection with the brutal murder of seventeen-year-old Sheila Hall over a week ago in San Antonio Village; he is twenty-seven year old Shane Morgan. Hall’s decomposing body was discovered last Tuesday morning by a man who had gone to cut bush on a piece of land situated […]
A woman is reported to have attacked a fisherman with a hatchet on Wednesday night. Daniel Lanza, sixty-two, was admitted to the K.H.M.H. with wounds to his neck, left ear, and shoulder. Lanza told police that he was at the fish market on Vernon Street when he got into an argument with a woman and […]
A Guatemalan has been detained after police on patrol in the Chiquibul Forest Reserve reported being fired at. The officers were on patrol in the Las Cuevas area on April seventh and say four shots were fired at them from persons in the bush. They fired back and saw three people running away. The officers […]
For the second time in less than two weeks we regret to report the murder of a teenaged girl in the Corozal District. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods hit the road early and has just returned with her story. Amparita Sanker, Sister “Well, we never believe that mi wah happen, we never believe that mi wah […]
The recent crash landing and abandonment of a suspected drug plane has resulted in the arrest of three men, two of whom have pleaded guilty. The plane, a twin engine Cessna, was discovered by police on Friday on a side road near mile thirty-eight on the Northern Highway. Although no drugs, pilot, or passengers were […]
Dangriga police acted quickly to apprehend two men believed to have carried out a robbery at Tackles Gas Station on Saturday evening. The station manager reported that two dark complexioned men held them up and took an undisclosed amount of cash. Police immediately searched a residence on St. Berry’s Alley and picked up Allen Jones […]
