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By Belizean standards, the latest shooting to rock the city was unusual only in the time of its occurrence: seven-thirty this morning. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports on the crime and the broader implications of violence for one particular neighbourhood. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Today, as Kenrick Johnson got ready to celebrate his twenty-fourth birthday, he […]
Written on January 22, 2004 | Posted in
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It took a few weeks to make the collar, but an Orange Walk man has been arrested for the sexual assault of a thirteen-year-old girl. Thirty-two year old Alejandro Perez has been charged with rape in connection with an incident reported on January second. The minor claims she was walking on the Palmar Road when […]
Written on January 21, 2004 | Posted in
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It took even longer to arrest two cops who allegedly shook down a motorist, but tonight they are behind bars pending charges in court. Police constables twenty-seven year old Andres Hernandez and thirty-three year old Demian Tzul are accused of stopping a motorist at a checkpoint near Corozal Town on August seventh and shaking him […]
Written on January 21, 2004 | Posted in
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And not far away from the scene of the December robbery, this morning an altercation took place that has left one man in the hospital. As usual, News 5’s Patrick Jones discovered that every story has at least two sides. Patrick Jones, Reporting The attack on forty-year-old Manuel de Jesus Varela happened at his stall […]
Written on January 21, 2004 | Posted in
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Two men have been charged with rape in separate incidents in the Corozal District. Twenty-eight year old Higinio Canto of Caledonia Village was arrested following a report by a fifteen-year-old girl who told police that on Sunday evening a drunken Canto called for her at her house and entered. He then proceeded to tear off […]
Written on January 20, 2004 | Posted in
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We’ll call him the Happy Cow Bandit. Yesterday morning a man walked into a shop on Marage Road in Ladyville, picked up a pack of the popular processed cheese, carried it to the counter, and asked the proprietor for some crackers. When that shopkeeper, Hi Wengin Zheng, informed him that there were no crackers, the […]
Written on January 20, 2004 | Posted in
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We first told his story last week…and while the critically injured young man is showing some signs of recovery, the case against his assailants is going nowhere. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has an update. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Thirty-six year old Maria Cawich has remained vigilant in her fight to help save her son’s life. Sixteen-year-old […]
Written on January 20, 2004 | Posted in
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An attack in the Orange Walk District has left a shopkeeper fighting for her life. According to police, sixty-three year old Catarina Teck was stabbed in the back around 9:30 this morning at her shop in San Jose Village. Police apprehended eighteen-year-old Kevin Rodriguez after villagers responded to Teck’s screams and detained him. He allegedly […]
Written on January 19, 2004 | Posted in
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He was on the run for over three weeks, but eighteen-year old Godfrey Hemsley could not elude the long arm of the law. The teenager has been arrested and charged for the attempted murder and use of deadly means of harm against twenty-three year old Clive Arnold Junior on December twenty-eighth. According to police, Arnold […]
Written on January 19, 2004 | Posted in
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A fifty-five year old Belize City Boledo vendor was robbed at gunpoint on Sunday. Police say Michael Theus was selling lottery tickets at his home on West Street when two young men brandishing handguns entered and held him up. One of the robbers emptied Theus’s pockets of three hundred and thirty-five dollars. Not satisfied, the […]
Written on January 19, 2004 | Posted in
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A twenty-three year old Belize City man was gunned down this afternoon as he sat in front of a house in the North Creek area. Police say Kareem Broaster, a resident of Belama Phase One, was shot in the head and also sustained injuries to his body from the weapon of the gunman who police […]
Written on January 15, 2004 | Posted in
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In other crime news, a shop on Kraal Road was the victim of an armed robbery on Wednesday. Forty year old proprietor Li Lian He told police that while she was closing shortly after one in the afternoon a man described as being of Creole descent stuck a handgun in her face, whereupon she gave […]
Written on January 15, 2004 | Posted in
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And in case you were wondering how things were going with those new speed guns, traffic police report just fine, thank you. They have confirmed that two violators were successfully prosecuted Wednesday in Magistrate’s Court. The speeders were fined one hundred and seventy-five dollars respectively by two different magistrates. Drivers outside of the Belize District […]
Written on January 15, 2004 | Posted in
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It was one of those rare days in the news business when even the most hard-bitten pundit would be forced to admit the possibility that some form of justice may indeed exist in Belize. The evidence of today’s near miraculous revelation took the form of three unrelated events: the arrest of a key figure in […]
Written on January 14, 2004 | Posted in
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Five days after three police officers from the Criminal Investigation Unit entered the premises of sixty-seven year old Douglas Gill and conducted an aggressive and fruitless search, today the police admitted that the operation was executed unprofessionally. But the acknowledgement did not come by way of any police press release. Instead, Gill was paid a […]
Written on January 14, 2004 | Posted in
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But no one can be more relieved with the surprise turn of events than Douglas Gill. Gill, who has been shaken by the treatment he received from the police who conducted the search, says he is grateful to Commissioner Zetina for being humble enough to apologize for the incident. Gill is not sure if he […]
Written on January 14, 2004 | Posted in
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While the commissioner’s bold initiative could be viewed cynically as a mere public relations ploy, the department’s next move could not be so easily dismissed. Making good on the high command’s promise of an impartial investigation, officers today arrested police constable Pedro Teck and charged him with driving without due care and attention and negligent […]
Written on January 14, 2004 | Posted in
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A sixteen-year-old boy from the Trial Farm area of Orange Walk Town clings to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight while police try to piece together the sequence of events that has left him in a coma. Francisco Cawich was hit in the head by a piece of concrete survey marker that was […]
Written on January 13, 2004 | Posted in
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He disappeared from the scene of an accident that left two children injured, but today that driver, twenty-nine year old Freddy Grant Junior, has been arrested and charged. A total of six charges have been brought against Grant, including driving without due care and attention, failure to report an accident, failure to confirm to a […]
Written on January 13, 2004 | Posted in
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He is charged for the crime of theft, but if police have their way, a twenty-two year old businessman will have a lot more questions to answer. Brian Humes, manager of Mike’s Spare Parts in Dangriga for the last year and a half, was arrested and charged on Monday after an audit of the accounts […]
Written on January 13, 2004 | Posted in
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The weekend’s other allegation of police impropriety involves a tactic that authorities have been using for years: that is the entering and ransacking of private premises without the benefit of a search warrant. The cops say it’s both legal and necessary…but for one man hassled in the wee hours of Saturday morning, it’s a practice […]
Written on January 12, 2004 | Posted in
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An elderly Corozal man is dead and two young men are detained pending a charge for murder. Police say seventy six year old Alfonso Santos was chopped in the back of his head during an attack by a pair of assailants as he rode his bicycle on Corozo Street, a newly constructed road that links […]
Written on January 12, 2004 | Posted in
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While an edged tool was the weapon of choice in the Corozal murder, in Orange Walk a senseless act involving a chunk of concrete has left a sixteen-year old boy hospitalised in critical condition. Police say that on Sunday night, Francisco Cawich and a group of friends were hanging out on the side of the […]
Written on January 12, 2004 | Posted in
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He’s no stranger to police and tonight thirty-three year old Kenrick Domingo, also known as Buck Dougal is in lockdown, accused not only of thieving a young woman’s bicycle, but also attempting to attack the victim when she identified the thief. Emily Lopez reported the bicycle theft on Saturday and while police could not locate […]
Written on January 12, 2004 | Posted in
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A trio of workers from a Belize City warehouse got the day off from work today, but their appointment with a Magistrate could severely interrupt their employment status. Twenty-three year old Freddy Calderon, twenty-one year old Abdulio Calderon, both of Saint Matthews Village, and twenty-five year old Minol Ventura of Melchor de Mencos, Guatemala, are […]
Written on January 12, 2004 | Posted in
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