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Three men have been arrested and charged in connection with Sunday’s attack on two tourists at the ancient Maya site of Xunantunich. Twenty-year old Angel Mejia, Jose Teul, also twenty, and a seventeen year old minor, have been charged with aggravated assault, attempted robbery, grievous harm, and various firearm offences. The three are all Guatemalans […]
Written on December 23, 2003 | Posted in
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The body of a Dangriga man was discovered Monday floating in the Havana Creek in that southern town. The corpse has been identified as thirty-six year old Eddy Sebastian. According to Sebastian’s family, he was last seen around three p.m. on the previous day. Sebastian was known to have mental problems and thus far police […]
Written on December 23, 2003 | Posted in
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Police continue to investigate Monday’s armed robbery of two employees of Novelo’s Bus Line. The pair were on their way to the bank with the company’s deposit totalling over ten thousand dollars. At this point authorities have not identified a suspect, but they are asking one Anever Palacio to please contact them, as police believe […]
Written on December 23, 2003 | Posted in
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In other police news, U.S. citizen Donna Reishus today appeared in Punta Gorda Magistrate’s Court to answer charges of committing a mischievous act. The case was adjourned until March second and Reishus, a volunteer nurse, posted the required five hundred dollars bail plus a surety for the same amount. Magistrate Eric Fairweather ordered the police […]
Written on December 23, 2003 | Posted in
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It seems like for every step forward made by the Police Department, at least two are taken in the opposite direction. The latest blow to the image of law enforcement came this weekend in the form of an accusation of attempted rape–allegedly perpetrated by an officer who used his official position to gain his victim’s […]
Written on December 22, 2003 | Posted in
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While the alleged victim of the attempted rape was able to escape unharmed, such was not the case for a pair of tourists who were assaulted near the ancient Maya site of Xunantunich on Sunday morning. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods caught up with the pair this morning at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Jacqueline Woods, […]
Written on December 22, 2003 | Posted in
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Belize city police are still trying to identify the robber who held up two employees of the Novelos Bus Line as they were stuck in a traffic jam sometime after ten this morning. Reports are that the company’s senior cashier, thirty-one year old Lewis Robinson and an office assistant, were on their way to the […]
Written on December 22, 2003 | Posted in
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In other crime news, quick police action led to the arrest of a suspected chain snatcher in Belize City this morning, while two men have been detained in separate armed robberies on Friday. Police are still investigating a hold-up that occurred on Friday afternoon at the offices of U.S. COM on Baymen Avenue. The lone […]
Written on December 22, 2003 | Posted in
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After two nights as a guest at the Punta Gorda police station, a U.S. nurse was finally released from custody this evening. In the end, fifty-four year old Donna Reishus was charged with the crime of “committing a mischievous act” when police and prosecutors could not find a more specific charge. A police press release […]
Written on December 18, 2003 | Posted in
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In another case of sexual exploitation, a suspect has been detained pending charges of carnal knowledge. A fifteen year old girl, accompanied by her father, told police on Tuesday that for the past five months she has regularly engaged in sexual intercourse with the man in question, who has been paying her a stipend of […]
Written on December 18, 2003 | Posted in
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Four days after armed robbers hit the Radisson Fort George Hotel, police have charged a trio of Belize City youths they believe were the perpetrators. Twenty-two year old Chadrick DeBride, twenty-year-old William Vasquez, and twenty year old Shane Budran appeared in Belize City Magistrate’s court this afternoon to answer to joint charges of robbery and […]
Written on December 18, 2003 | Posted in
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Just when we thought things were getting back to normal in Punta Gorda another event has taken place which suggests that the ancient practice of witch hunting is alive and well. Tuesday night around seven, Donna Reishus, an American volunteer nurse based in P.G. was detained by police and will remain in custody tonight. According […]
Written on December 17, 2003 | Posted in
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This weekend two Belizeans lost their lives to stab wounds almost simultaneously in different parts of the country. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods examined the circumstances behind the homicide that occurred just after midnight Saturday in Belize City. Dawn Anderson, Mother of Deceased “God give me Jermaine as a gift and I think that dah time […]
Written on December 15, 2003 | Posted in
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Fortunately, no one was hurt in an incident that occurred twenty-four hours later in Belize City, but the armed robbery had all the ingredients for disaster. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The management of the Radisson Fort George Hotel say at this time they are not willing to give us an on camera interview about the incident. […]
Written on December 15, 2003 | Posted in
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It’s that time of year for new curtains and linoleum, exchanging gifts, and putting up the Christmas tree. But it is also the time of year when Belize’s resilient corps of robbers, burglars, and all-purpose thieves grow aggressive in their quest for holiday cheer of their own. Today police in Belize City used the example […]
Written on December 12, 2003 | Posted in
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As predicted by police yesterday, a suspect detained for the shooting of a Belize City man has been formally charged. Mark Medina was slapped with charges of attempted murder, dangerous harm, and use of deadly means of harm for the shooting of Alex O’Brien on Wednesday afternoon on Dean Street near West Collet Canal. O’Brien […]
Written on December 12, 2003 | Posted in
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Police have detained a Belize City man accused of shooting twenty-seven year old Alex O’Brien on Wednesday afternoon. The motive for the shooting is not altogether clear, but it appears to have been the result of an old beef. The shooter, a man in his early twenties, is expected to be charged with the crime […]
Written on December 11, 2003 | Posted in
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While police appear to have solved the O’Brien shooting, they are trying to catch up with the perpetrators of a series of armed robberies last night. The spree started on Church Street around six-thirty when police say two men held up sixteen year old Ceferino Salam. The teenager told police that one of the men […]
Written on December 11, 2003 | Posted in
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And finally in crime news, police have taken two more deadly weapons out of circulation. A search of the home of fifty-five year old boxing instructor David Dakers on Tuesday evening yielded a point three-eighty automatic pistol along with six live rounds. On Wednesday morning a similar operation at the home of forty-seven year old […]
Written on December 11, 2003 | Posted in
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A shooting near the popular fried chicken stand “kick down fence” has left one man hospitalised and police searching for a suspect. Twenty-seven year old Alex O’Brien was at the corner of Dean Street and West Collet Canal shortly after one this afternoon when a man he recognized pulled out a gun and opened fire. […]
Written on December 10, 2003 | Posted in
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It is one of those tricky cases sure to spark public comment: a thirteen-year-old boy has been charged with the unlawful carnal knowledge of a thirteen-year-old girl. The case was brought to the attention of police by the girl’s mother after she discovered the boy in her daughter’s room early Tuesday morning. The Police Department […]
Written on December 10, 2003 | Posted in
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Two stolen vehicles have been recovered and a young man arrested, thanks to information supplied by members of the public. Police say a fourteen year old of Matron Roberts Street was charged today with theft, handling stolen goods, driving without a license, and driving a vehicle not covered by third party insurance following the theft […]
Written on December 10, 2003 | Posted in
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Their devotion to their faith drove them to lock themselves inside the Evangelical Mennonite Church in Hopkins on Friday night, but tonight that place of worship stands isolated. Police have confirmed to News 5 that the doors to the Evangelical Mennonite Church have been ordered closed because the facility was being operated without a license. […]
Written on December 9, 2003 | Posted in
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We hear the stories in the news almost everyday: a woman or a child raped. But if you think most of the perpetrators are strangers, think again… and not every reported case is legitimate either. Tonight Jacqueline Woods looks at the reporting and investigating of rape, and the increasing problem of women who make false […]
Written on December 9, 2003 | Posted in
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Chain snatchers and petty thieves may be heightening their activity as Christmas approaches, but so are the police. On Sunday morning, an Orange Street businessman flagged down a patrol unit and reported the theft of two clocks from his shop just moments before. Police promptly caught twenty-one year old Kenton Harvey as he was fleeing […]
Written on December 8, 2003 | Posted in
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