Another police officer has been arrested, and the venue once again is Punta Gorda. Forty-one year old Corporal Mateo Cab was charged with keeping an unlicensed firearm and ammunition as well as discharging a firearm in public. According to police reports, around one this morning they visited the Indianville area of P.G. where shooting had […]
A man detained for the sexual assault of a Benque Viejo woman has been charged. Twenty-year old Israel Contreras of Church Street in Benque is accused by a thirty-one year old of grabbing her from behind, taking her to an empty lot and having sex with her against her will. The incident occurred on March […]
If the murder had occurred in Belize City or one of the major towns, it may have received more news coverage. But Gales Point Village is one of those quiet out-of-the-way places that–however beautiful–is easy to ignore. But last month a woman was murdered there, her body found floating in the lagoon, anchored to a […]
Seven months after the senseless shooting of a tacos vendor for apparently no other reason than she did not have enough money to satisfy her attackers, police on Monday arrested a second person in connection with the incident. Eighteen-year-old Saddick Cecil Castillo joins Frank Smith, charged for the crimes of attempted murder, dangerous harm and […]
Reports of sexual assault continue to pour into police stations countrywide. In Corozal, a man has been arrested and charged for the rape and carnal knowledge of his twelve year old stepdaughter. The incident occurred in December. In Dangriga another step-dad was booked on the same two charges following a report filed by a fourteen-year-old […]
The Belize Police Department had to arrest yet another member of its ranks this weekend after a young woman reported being raped. Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid says it received a report that three couples had been partying in Hattieville on Friday night and checked into a Ladyville hotel early Saturday morning. But things […]
The results of the post-mortem on Eustace Vernon, found dead at his business on Central American Boulevard, are indicating that he was strangled. However, almost a week after the eighty-four year old businessman was discovered bound and gagged, police have yet to make any arrests. They are asking anyone with information who could assist in […]
Police in San Ignacio have moved quickly to charge one person in connection with the shooting death of a Georgeville resident on Wednesday night. Thirty-seven year old Sergio Castaneda is charged with manslaughter by negligence and causing the death of Pablo Darimple Loague by careless conduct. Castaneda, Loague and another Georgeville resident, Clive Alford, were […]
Police have detained a man after he allegedly collected over twenty thousand dollars by posing as a surveyor. Carmine Tedeschi a businessman visiting San Ignacio, told police he was making arrangements to purchase a piece of land in San Antonio Village and that a man charged him and his partner, Rudolph Melter, eight hundred dollars […]
For as long as there have been hunters, there have been hunting accidents. Last night in the Cayo District a man lost his life after a colleague mistook his movements for those of a wild animal. Today, News 5’s Patrick Jones travelled out west and found that while the killing appears to have been an […]
While the death in Cayo may still lack some evidence, at least all those involved are present and accounted for. Not so in the case of the eighty-four year old businessman found bound, gagged, and dead yesterday in Belize City. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has an update. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It is hard to imagine […]
Chalk it up as another as-yet-unsolved mystery. Almost two weeks after the body of U.S. National Jovanna Poe was found floating in the lagoon in Gales Point, Dangriga police are no closer to solving the brutal murder. It is believed that Poe, who was scheduled to leave the country on Friday, February twenty-seventh, was killed […]
Two more suspects have been arrested for their involvement in last week’s bank robbery in Orange Walk. They are thirty-three year old Rafael Campos, a naturalised Belizean originally from El Salvador who resides in San Jose Village, and thirty-one year old Benjamin Orellano. Police believe that Campos is the leader of the gang that robbed […]
An eighty-four year old is supposed to die of natural causes, not murder. But one elderly Belizean never got the chance to expire peacefully among loved ones. Instead, he met a violent death at the hands of a twisted assailant who is still on the loose. Patrick Jones has the story. G. Michael Reid, Police […]
It doesn’t always turn out like this, but police today are taking some well deserved praise for the apprehension of five suspects they believe were involved in last Tuesday’s robbery of the Belize Bank in Orange Walk. News 5’s Patrick Jones was on hand in that town this morning as the accused were booked. Patrick […]
The long holiday weekend was not without its share of deadly violence. The first murder occurred around nine Friday night in Belize City. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twenty-seven year old Mark Anthony Tingling was standing in this yard on Neal’s Penn Road with a group of young men when he was fatally shot in his upper […]
Five men from the Stann Creek District are in custody tonight pending charges of murder. According to police, on Sunday they were called out to an area off the Melinda Road were they saw the partly decomposed body of a man laying the bushes. The body has since been identified as twenty-year-old Miguel Jose Ovidio, […]
Corozal police are tonight trying to find out who landed this aircraft and left it abandoned on a dirt road in that northern district. Acting on a tip, on Sunday authorities visited the location in the Santa Cruz area and found the twin engine Beechcraft King Air. Although there was no one in the area, […]
A police constable has been arrested and faces charges of committing an “unnatural act.” According to a police press release, a woman reported that her fifteen year old son told her he had sexual intercourse with the constable numerous times beginning in October. The P.C. has been interdicted from duty pending a full criminal investigation.
While Belize is certainly no stranger to violent crime, the grisly murder discovered yesterday in Gales Point was unusual, both in its location and nationality of its victim: a frequent visitor from the United States. Today, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods visited the gruesome scene in search of answers. Elaine Perez, Friend “Suppose it was somebody […]
A day after one of the most violent bank robberies in the nation’s history, police seem no closer to catching any of the five remaining criminals believed to be involved…but Commissioner Carmen Zetina did speak to the press this morning to offer details of what went down in the town of Orange Walk. Jose Carmen […]
And in police news of a happier nature, P.C. Kevin Jacobs has returned to Belize after receiving treatment in Merida for wounds suffered at the hands of gunmen in Cayo. Jacobs, who left the country on February sixteenth, arrived back on Monday. According to police, he remains in serious but stable condition at Belmopan hospital.
Crime doesn’t get much more brazen than a daylight bank heist…and that’s exactly what happened today in Orange Walk. At news time one of the robbers, believed to be part of a gang of six, lay dead, while his accomplices remain on the loose, the subject of a massive manhunt. Patrick Jones has just returned […]
This afternoon, police retrieved the dead body of an American woman found floating in a lagoon near Gales Point Village. The woman, described as Caucasian, appears to be in her fifties and is believed to be from New Orleans but has been residing in the village. According to reports from the community, the woman, known […]
It was a series of brazen crimes that shocked residents of the Cayo District… but tonight police in San Ignacio have arrested and charged four men they believe are responsible for the February twelfth shooting of a police officer and robbery of several other people including the town’s mayor. Thirty-six year old Perfidio del Cid, […]
