Additional charges have been filed against a senior police official. Superintendent Ewart Itza now has two counts each of false imprisonment and threat of death, along with one count each of aggravated assault, and using insulting and indecent words added to the list of charges against him. In September, Itza was arrested and charged with […]
He was killed Wednesday night and his body found Thursday morning, but Punta Gorda police today arrested three men they believe abducted Juan Chiac from his Toledo home and shot him to death. Brothers Secundino and Arcenio Garcia, age forty-eight and fifty-four respectively, along with their nineteen-year-old nephew, Jery Garcia, have been charged with murder. […]
Two cases of rape in Belize City have the police sexual offence unit working overtime. A nineteen-year-old woman reports that in the wee hours of Saturday morning while walking home on McKay Boulevard she was approached by a Hispanic man who at knifepoint forced her into a nearby house under construction where she was raped. […]
On Friday he was in top form on the floor of the National Assembly, but this afternoon Collet Area Representative Patrick Faber was in another Belmopan forum, this time in the role of the accused. Cops in the nation’s capital hauled Faber before the Magistrate’s Court to answer to charges of two counts each of […]
They may still be looking for the killer, but Cayo police today announced the arrest of a man for abetment in an independence eve murder. Fifty-five year old Armino Figueroa has been charged in San Ignacio for his alleged involvement in the fatal stabbing of Guatemalan Mario Antonio Hernandez during a holiday drinking session on […]
Police in the village of Independence continue to focus on the sexual exploitation of children, with two new arrests in a single day. On Thursday morning twenty-six year old Kevin Cadle was arrested and charged with rape and unlawful carnal knowledge after a mother reported that her fourteen-year-old daughter could not explain what she was […]
At around this same time last night shots rang out on the south side of Belize City and within minutes word was out that a young man, no stranger to police and the press, was dead. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twenty-six year old Marlon Budd has had his problems […]
At virtually the same time the life of Marlon Budd was coming to a violent end, another young Belizean was dying of a gunshot wounds over a hundred miles away. Police report that the body of eighteen year old Juan Chiac of Midway Village in the Toledo District was found early this morning about eight […]
Shermaine Budd, the woman interviewed in an earlier story, not only had to mourn the loss of her brother, but this morning she was a key witness in a case of police brutality. This morning tour guide Mark Pollard was on his way to the tourism village, but as he drove on Mahogany Street, he […]
Three police officers stationed in Punta Gorda have been interdicted from duty and charged with the crime of unlawful carnal knowledge. The charges against Corporals Alfaro Bol, Matius Chalom, and Everon Teck arose out of a complaint by a thirteen and fourteen year old girl that the officers had sex with them over the course […]
Last month Punta Gorda achieved the dubious distinction of being ground zero in what was feverishly described by authorities as an international child porno ring. Well, tonight it seems that not all accused child molesters in Toledo are middle aged Americans. Police have confirmed to News 5 that three police officers stationed in Punta Gorda […]
In news that reflects somewhat better on the department, police in Caye Caulker this morning made a quick arrest following a burglary on the island last night. Thirty-year-old Clifton Williams was arrested and charged this morning after he was seen leaving the area of the crime late last night. After questioning by cops, he led […]
He was murdered in September of 2002 and now, over a year later, the people accused of killing Claudio Cardinez have been charged with the crime. Twenty-year-old Enrique Cruz, thirty-three year old Javier Ramirez, and fifty-four year old Theodora Ramirez have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Cardinez’s common law wife told […]
Three teenagers are tonight safely locked down at the Hattieville Prison after their run for freedom was short lived. Around five-thirty on Saturday morning John Cadle, Carl Thompson, and Martin Matura convinced the guard at the boot camp section of the prison to let them go for a walk outside. Reports are that shortly after, […]
In crime news, the weekend passed without any deadly violence and police made a number of arrests and detentions for incidents nationwide. These include two men detained for a Belize City robbery, two more for a chopping in Orange Walk and a trio who have been charged with preparing to commit a robbery. Two accused […]
As much as we have grown used to violent death, particularly on the mean streets of Belize City, no murder that takes place in our midst is really typical. That’s what News 5’s Jacqueline Woods discovered today as she tried to make sense out of the latest killing in the old capital. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting […]
A man detained last week in connection with the discovery of five illegal guns has been arrested and charged. Thirty-year-old Ewert Roberts Junior of Belmopan has been charged with four counts of keeping an unlicensed firearm, three counts of unlicensed ammunition, and one count of possession of a prohibited firearm. Four of the guns, along […]
While police in the nation’s capital are taking credit for solving the case of the missing guns, cops in Corozal are expressing dismay at a lack of cooperation in a child rape case. A ten-year-old girl claims that while at the Corozal Free Zone she was sexually assaulted by a man. Although intercourse was confirmed […]
A Belize City man can count himself lucky to be among the living tonight after he picked the wrong woman to jack. That woman, forty-three year old Debbie Vasquez, a member of the Belize City Council, told police that around ten Friday night as she was walking home from work on North Front Street, an […]
And in a final piece of crime news, the court martial of three British soldiers accused in the killing of fourteen-year-old David Zabaneh opens tomorrow, more than two years after he was beaten to death. By agreement with the Belize Government, the trial will be held under British Military law. The original charge of murder […]
Law enforcement may have suffered a setback on Wednesday when four guns were stolen from the offices of Anchor Security Company in Belize City. But today police more than made up for it when an early morning raid near Roaring Creek turned up the four filched firearms plus a bonus in the form of a […]
Roaring Creek was not the only hot spot for police as on Thursday they hit double paydirt during a search of a house in Belize City. Forty-four year old Brassel Cattouse Senior and his twenty-five year old son, Brassel Cattouse Junior of Pike’s Crescent, have been charged with drug trafficking and keeping an unlicensed firearm […]
On last night’s newscast we reported on a Belize City woman’s complaint that she was bilked out of fourteen hundred dollars by a cop who took her down payment for a boat and failed to deliver. Today police caught up with the missing constable and put him in bangles and a pickup truck in a […]
The court martial of three British soldiers implicated in the May 2001 death of fourteen-year-old David Zabaneh opened today in the United Kingdom. The three Gurkhas, riflemen Durgahang Limbu, twenty-seven; Yograj Rai, twenty-three; and twenty-four year old Ramesh Rai were originally charged with murder, but today pled not guilty to reduced charges of violent disorder. […]
If crime takes a nosedive this week it may be due to the presence of the region’s top police brass. The two-day tour by the Central American Commission of Chiefs of Police is the first leg of a junket that includes Panama, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica. The focus of the trip […]
