A police officer is accused of pulling a costly whap on a Belize City woman. Forty-one year old Brenda Maheia told cops that last Thursday she negotiated with Police Constable Marvin Locke to purchase a boat from him for a price of two thousand, eight hundred dollars. Maheia alleges that she gave Locke fourteen hundred […]
For the second time in less than a week, a citizen armed with a licensed handgun has stepped forward to thwart a crime. The latest incident involving a gun toting Good Samaritan occurred on Friday in Belize City. Lorraine Broaster, Victim of Break-in “He violated my privacy, and at the early, early, early hours of […]
In other police news, two very lethal weapons have been taken off the streets. On Friday night in Belize City a young man fled on seeing a police patrol and was seen throwing an object away. It turned out to be a Tech nine automatic with eight bullets. Eighteen-year-old Emerson Young of Mahogany Street has […]
On Saturday police confiscated another firearm, but only after it allegedly was used to shoot at somebody. Forty-two year old Honduran Marciano Gonzalez has been charged with attempted murder, discharging a firearm in public and keeping an unlicensed firearm and ammo. Gonzalez is accused of using his nine-millimetre pistol to take two shots at twenty-year-old […]
They worked in the Cayo courthouse and police station…but today two government employees found themselves in the role of accused. The women, both of San Ignacio, have been charged with numerous offences surrounding the misappropriation of funds. Forty-one year old Antonia Lourdes Castellanos, a clerk and interpreter at San Ignacio Magistrate’s Court, has been charged […]
Police in Belmopan are looking for a pair of armed robbers. The two men, described only as of Hispanic descent, struck a shop on Hummingbird Avenue around six-thirty Thursday evening. They pulled a nine-millimetre pistol on the proprietors and made off with over three thousand dollars in cash and another two thousand worth of jewellery […]
Marijuana smokers hoping to see an end to an alleged weed shortage will not be happy tonight as two busts, one in Orange Walk and the other in Belize City, may put a crimp in the supply of the popular herb. On Wednesday morning cops raided two pot plantations five miles southeast of Guinea Grass […]
In crime news police report that they have arrested two men in Monday’s sexual assault of a woman in the Stann Creek District. Twenty-six year old Hector Cohouj of Indian Creek and thirty-four year old Oscar Mejia of Santa Cruz Village have both been charged with the crime of rape. The victim, a forty-nine year […]
And if police have their way, the pair from the south will be joined by another accused rapist from Cayo. On Wednesday a twelve-year-old girl, accompanied by her mother, told Belmopan cops that two years ago, when she was ten, her stepfather had sexual intercourse with her. Police are now looking for the offending family […]
Police have another mystery on their hands tonight as family members insist that a corpse removed this morning from a Belize City home is a victim of murder and did not die of natural causes. News 5’s Patrick Jones has more. Patrick Jones, Reporting The body of thirty-eight year old Ernesto Garbutt was found under […]
Around the same time Patrick Jones was investigating the report of that dead body, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was responding to a call about a violent incident not far away. In this case, while the motive may be cloudy, there is no mystery over who was responsible. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The police wasted no time […]
Belmopan police are tonight hot on the trail of a murderous duo that tried to shoot their way to some quick cash on Monday morning. Thirty-nine year old Valley of Peace businessman Samuel Najarro told police he was heading home after making sales in the Belmopan area. On the way, Najarro says he picked up […]
While the Valley of Peace murderers escaped empty handed, in Orange Walk two thieves befriended a sixty-six year old man, only to rob him at gunpoint. Hilario Howe told police that on Monday morning two men showed up at his house seeking rooms for rent. Howe invited the men into his house and one of […]
And finally on the crime beat, police in Stann Creek are looking for two men after a woman reported being raped and robbed. The forty-nine year old told police that she was awakened around three o’clock on Monday morning by two men she knew who asked her for a drink of water. When she produced […]
It was the kind of ruthless act of violence that used to be unheard of in the laid-back town of Punta Gorda: a man gunned down in his home and his family terrorised by intruders brandishing a gun and a knife. But that’s the fate that met thirty-year-old Ravidio Yat last week Tuesday night, and […]
Residents of the usually peaceful community of Gales Point remain shaken after someone opened fire on a village Justice of the Peace. Around two Saturday morning, fifty-six year old Iyonnie Swift Samuels was in bed sleeping when she was awakened by the sound of gunshots. According to family reports, someone had fired six times at […]
There are new developments in the case against three British soldiers accused of killing fourteen-year old David Zabaneh in May of 2001. News 5 has confirmed statements made by David’s mother, Maria Zetina, who revealed on last night’s newscast that British prosecutors told her the murder charges would be reduced to “violent disorder.” A British […]
Police in Toledo have a suspect in custody following the fatal shooting of a man in Punta Gorda last night. Thirty-year-old Rovidio Yat was shot once in the head as he was bathing at his house in the Indianville neighbourhood of P.G.. His common-law wife, eighteen-year-old Nereyda Martinez, told police that she heard Yat scream […]
In the wee hours of May eleventh, 2001, four young men–all high schools students at St. John’s College–entered the strip club and brothel known as Raul’s Rose Garden on the Northern Highway. The four: Said Musa, Jr.; Ryan Edwards; Eugene Zabaneh, Jr.; and his cousin, fourteen year old David Zabaneh, Jr. somehow got caught in […]
Almost as soon as residents of San Pedro awoke to the smell of smoke on Thursday morning, speculation began as to how a fire could start within the concrete confines of the town’s largest supermarket. That’s exactly what fire investigators have been wondering… and while they have yet to come to a conclusion, the evidence […]
Meanwhile, in Benque Viejo, police have acted quickly to charge a resident of that town with arson. To make matters worse, the house he is accused of torching is that of his mother. It is alleged that in the wee hours of Monday morning thirty-three year old Alvin Mendez set fire to the upper flat […]
It was a bad weekend for security guards as two were shot while on duty in separate incidents in Belize City. The good news is that both men lived to tell the tale. Ernest Alarcon, Shooting Victim “So he shoot me inna my leg right here so. Well the doctor claims the bullet gone in–according […]
In other city crime news, a Chinese owned grocery in West Landivar was robbed on Saturday night. Proprietors Qias Na Guan and Zhi Xin Lin told police that as they were closing shop around nine p.m. four armed men emerged from a car parked nearby, entered the store and took fifteen hundred dollars from them, […]
Another case of incest has been reported, this time in the Cayo District. A sixteen year old girl, accompanied by her sister, told San Ignacio police that on the morning of October sixteenth, her father forced her to have sexual intercourse with him. Police are looking for the alleged perpetrator.
Earlier this week we reported on the discovery of a few counterfeit hundred dollar notes, which has been successfully passed to business houses in Belize City and Dangriga. Now it seems that police have found the mother load–along with three suspected counterfeiters. Eighteen-year-old Devin Simmons, nineteen year old Darryl Gideon and eighteen year old Levon […]
