The strange death of Denfield Williams is no closer to resolution tonight as tests on the body remain inconclusive and a man who entered William’s hospital room impersonating a doctor has been released from police custody for lack of evidence. The release of Allen Garbutt Bol was made on the understanding that if further forensic […]
While the forty-eight hour deadline may have sprung Allan Garbutt Bol, it looks like a pair of immigration officers detained in the Benque Viejo jail will not be so lucky. Sources tell News 5 that the man and woman, believed to be involved in taking bribes to allow foreign sex trade workers to enter Belize, […]
On Friday, News 5 aired a story on a man who regained consciousness after three days in a coma at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Denfield Williams’ mother told News 5 that she had received reports that her son had been beaten by a police officer and tourism police officer in San Pedro. Police Press […]
Three men were apprehended by police after a robbery at a shop in Coral Grove on Friday afternoon. Businessman Samir Hamzi reported that around two-thirty, four men entered his store: one wearing a black ski mask and the other carrying a black handgun. When threatened with the weapon, Hamzi handed over one thousand dollars, his […]
Police have arrested a twenty-seven year old man after a shooting on Caesar Ridge Road over the weekend. Jason Paulino was picked up after the incident in which Nikoli Lewis was shot in the neck while he and friend were standing outside a club around one on Saturday morning. Paulino has been charged with attempted […]
In crime news, an investigation has been launched into allegations that two San Pedro police officers beat a resident almost to death. After lying unconscious in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, Denfield Williams woke up this morning, but has still not been able to tell anyone what happened to him. News 5 spoke with his […]
Another minor has reported being rape. The sixteen-year-old female told police that sometime around one on Wednesday morning, twenty-seven year old Jason Warrior of Bullet Tree Village in the Cayo District came to her house. She reports that shortly after opening the door, Warrior grabbed her hands, threw her on the bed, and proceeded to […]
“Our integrity is not for sale.” That was the strong message sent out to two persons after they tried to bride police officers to get out of trouble. The first incident occurred in San Pedro Town following a search of a hotel room. According to authorities, after they found a metal pipe use for smoking […]
In police news, authorities have reported the arrest of a suspect in a recent stabbing in Belize City. Twenty-six year old Kenneth Daniels, a resident of West Street, was charged for the January thirtieth wounding of Elton Arana which followed an altercation between the two men. Arana had eluded the police for four days before […]
The initial police report said, “foul play is suspected.” Today that verdict was confirmed by a post-mortem, and an eighteen-year-old resident of the Orange Walk District has been charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Heidi Itza, in Benque Viejo del Carmen. News 5’s Patrick Jones travelled west to find out how what appeared to […]
The body of a young woman lies in the San Ignacio morgue tonight while police try to determine the circumstances of her death. According to police reports, employees of a hotel on George Street in Benque Viejo were alerted to the presence of a dead body in one of their rooms and the authorities were […]
As expected, eighteen-year-old Jeremy Rhaburn has been charged in the shooting of his fifteen year old brother. Rhaburn was arraigned for attempted murder, dangerous harm and use of deadly means of harm for the shooting of Edwin Flores, which occurred in Belize City early Sunday morning. He also was charged with handling stolen goods, namely […]
A fifteen-year-old boy has been hospitalised after he was shot in the chest at a house in Eden’s Alley over the weekend. The incident occurred right behind the Queen’s Street police station just after midnight on Sunday morning. Upon hearing the shot, officers on duty jumped the fence, entered the house, and discovered Edwin Flores […]
Police are investigating two deaths over the weekend, one in San Pedro and the other in San Narciso in which alcohol consumption may have played a role. On Sunday, San Pedro police pulled the body of forty-year-old Paul Young from the sea. Initial investigations indicate that Young had visited a bar the night before and […]
A toddler died in a tragic accident in Spanish Lookout this weekend. Thirty-four year old John Thiessen told police he was operating a large tractor in his yard on Saturday when he accidentally ran over his daughter, Chrystifer, crushing her skull. Chrystifer was only fifteen months old.
Corozal police are investigating an alleged case of suicide in Patchakan Village on Saturday. Veronica Campos told police that she and her husband Humberto were at her father’s home when Humberto put a sixteen gauge shotgun to his chest and pulled the trigger. He was taken to the Corozal Hospital, but pronounced dead on arrival. […]
A family in the village of Maskall in the Belize District woke up to a horrific scene this morning. Ten of their sheep had been stabbed or had their throats slashed sometime during the night and many of them were still writhing in pain and slowly dying. Today News 5 journeyed to the Castro farm […]
Police report the discovery of human remains today in a bushy area of the Linda Vista neighbourhood at mile two on the Western Highway. What’s left of the totally decomposed corpse has been taken to the forensic lab for analysis. Initial impressions indicate that foul play was involved.
The long arm of the law has finally reached out and touched Darrington Lauriano. Lauriano is the man police believe shot and killed twenty-three year old Kareem Broaster as he sat in front of a house on North Creek on January fifteenth. Lauriano, who lives in the area, managed to elude police until Thursday morning […]
He’s awaiting trial along with his brother Hadrian for a May 2001 drug bust that netted over a ton and a quarter of cocaine. But tonight Robert Hertular has another fight on his hands: extradition to the United States. Robert, he’s the one wearing a grey shirt in this 2001 file shot, was picked up […]
They were accused in the jacking of a pair of Dutch tourists near the Maya site of Xunantunich. But while on their way from Hattieville prison to court this morning in Benque Viejo, what had been a textbook example of good police work turned into a scene from The Keystone Cops. The three Guatemalan suspects: […]
Two weeks after twenty-three year old Kareem Broaster was gunned down and killed in the North Creek area of Belize City, the police have still not been able to bring in the one man they believe can help them solve the murder. Tonight police are looking for this man, Darrington Lauriano, in connection with the […]
Drivers in the northern districts have been under the gun recently, the speed gun that is. The police and transport departments joined forces over the weekend for a special operation that resulted in forty-four drivers receiving court summons for speeding, fifty-four tickets were given out for poor vehicle maintenance, insurance violations, and overcrowding, while thirty […]
Two police officers were treated at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital today after a detainee reportedly attacked them with a broken light fixture. According to a release from the Police Department, around nine this morning twenty-five year old Albert Middleton, who was in a holding cell, asked to be taken to the restroom. On the […]
Three residents of Paraiso Village in the Corozal District have been arrested for transporting persons for the purpose of exploitation as prostitutes. Police say last Thursday a police constable riding a bus en route to Belize City from Benque became suspicious of a young man in the company of five Hispanic women. He began to […]
