Police report that a series of jackings were committed in Belize City on Wednesday, all of which appear remarkably similar in nature. At around six-thirty p.m. on Gibnut Street an eighteen-year-old woman was accosted by two men, with one of them grabbing her neck while the other took away her cell phone. On Water Lane […]
He was detained last week in Punta Gorda at the same time as accused paedophiles Dennis Bruce and Amos Capps, but Harry Lee Jones was release by police after seventy-two hours when they could not assemble sufficient evidence against him. Now the cops say they are ready…but Jones is nowhere to be found. An all […]
Two men have been detained for questioning following the discovery of a body in the Stann Creek District. On Tuesday morning police were called to Banana farm number fifteen where they found the badly decomposed corpse, which displayed chop wounds to the neck, face and hands. It was later identified as fifty-year-old Domingo Ordoñez, a […]
Troubles continue to mount for two U.S. citizens accused of the sexual exploitation of children in Punta Gorda. Not content with charges of unlawful carnal knowledge and two counts of indecent assault against Dennis Bruce and a single charge of indecent assault against Amos Capps, authorities have dug deep into their quiver of prosecutorial arrows […]
In other police news, two armed robbers have absconded with over a thousand dollars from a Cayo tourist resort. Around six Monday evening the pair, armed with a shotgun and handgun, entered Maya Mountain Lodge on the Cristo Rey Road and ordered employee Melvin Ayala to lie on the ground, while they ran off with […]
It may not be the most serious of crimes, but don’t tell that to the folks at Port Loyola Preschool, who since the opening of the academic year have been plagued by burglars. And that plague has struck yet again, only this time with a somewhat different outcome. Gwendolyn Jones, Principal, Port Loyola Preschool “We […]
Three days after the tragedy, there are more questions than answers surrounding the shooting death of nineteen-year-old Albert Hoy The Third. On Friday evening the S.J.C. Junior College student’s body was found lying in the corridor of his house at the corner of Slaughter House Road and Cleghorn Street in Belize City. Hoy had suffered […]
By all accounts it was a pretty fierce beating, and after spending three days in the hospital, the victim is talking to the press. Jennifer Phill today told News 5’s Jacqueline Woods that she didn’t deserve what she got. Jennifer Phill, Stabbing Victim “I need justice, I need real justice for this because I noh […]
The nation’s largest broadcasting company, R.S.V. Ltd. suffered a blow in July when its Cahal Pech entertainment complex in San Ignacio was set ablaze by a disgruntled patron. This weekend disaster struck again in Cayo as the proceeds from a Love FM sponsored event were jacked at gunpoint. According to police reports, entertainment coordinator Edith […]
Counterfeit currency is back in circulation and citizens are once again urged to be careful. Bogus hundred dollar Belizean notes were reported over the weekend at a Belize City gas station and a Dangriga nightspot. In each case a man made a relatively small purchase with the counterfeit blue note and received good money as […]
With the pressure building against the possession of illegal firearms it appears that some gunmen are keeping the tools of their trade out of harm’s way. But police are catching on. Today a team led by Sergeant Ervin Munoz, searched an abandoned house at number twenty-eight West Street. What they found, while hardly constituting an […]
They say when it rains, it pours. But for U.S. national Dennis Bruce, the weather outside his prison cell in Punta Gorda is the least of his worries, as a second charge of indecent assault has been brought against him. Already in custody after he could not post ten thousand dollars bail plus a surety […]
In recent months reports of sex crimes against children have mushroomed across the nation, largely it is believed, because of an increased willingness of victims to come forward with their allegations. And nowhere has that trend been more evident than in the Toledo District. Tonight there are more reports of sex crimes from Punta Gorda, […]
This afternoon twenty year old Marvin Nunez and forty-nine year old Osbourne Carr were escorted to Magistrate’s Court in Belize City where they were both charged for separate crimes. Nunez, who wasted no time hiding his face from the media, is believed to be one of the two men who fired shots inside the St. […]
Murders in Belize come in many varieties and under differing circumstances, but the killing that occurred over the long holiday weekend in Belize City still has investigators shaking their heads. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was on the scene this morning and stayed with the story as it grew stranger over the course of the day. […]
A Belize City man is in custody following a shootout with police. Twenty-four year old Moses Gonguez of Yorke Street in Belize City was riding on a bicycle when he approached three police officers. One of the officers noticed that Gonguez was armed with a thirty-eight-calibre handgun and tried to take it away. A struggle […]
A police officer has been arrested for beating up his ex-girlfriend. Twenty-eight year old Wilhelm Young was charged with aggravated assault and harm following a complaint by thirty-year-old Janice Jacobs of Louise Bevans Street in Belize City. Jacobs told police that on Sunday evening around six she was awakened by the presence of Young, her […]
Meanwhile, what appeared to be a cold case in the files of Belmopan police has apparently been solved. Over the weekend three people in the Stann Creek District were arrested following the recovery of an M-16 rifle and twenty-eight rounds of ammunition stolen two years ago from the Police Training Academy. A pair of nineteen […]
It was a bad weekend for weed farmers as on Sunday police raided a major plantation in the Orange Walk District. When the last tree was chopped, the tally totalled over twenty-five thousand plants, located near the village of Gallon Jug. Four men were sighted in the area, but three managed to escape. The one […]
This week had been a relatively quiet one for violent crime. But on the eve of a three-day weekend, two Belize City men apparently couldn’t resist the urge for some holiday cash. And while they were ultimately unsuccessful in their hunt for money, two security guards are recovering from gunshot wounds that could have easily […]
It may not have had an impact on this morning’s shootout, but police report that their 922 anti-gun hotline has resulted in another weapons seizure. A pre-dawn raid on a house in Burrell Boom has resulted in the discovery of two illegal weapons and ammo for each. The residence belonged to Anthony Thompson, who was […]
Three Gurkhas accused of killing a fourteen-year-old Belizean in a barroom brawl will face a court martial next month in Belize. According to reports by the British Broadcasting Corporation, the three soldiers, charged in the beating death of David Zabaneh in May 2001, will be tried at the headquarters of BATSUB in Ladyville. The proceedings […]
In crime news of more recent vintage, two Chinese residents of Belize have complained to police that they were swindled by a man offering to sell them Belize passports. No, we’re not talking about Gabby Affif. Unlike Affif, this salesman couldn’t deliver. Tan Meng Ming, of Mahogany Street in Belize City, told police that he […]
Residents of the Lake Independence area of Belize City who are concerned about crime have a chance tonight to make their voices heard. Beginning at seven, Assistant Commissioner of Police Maureen Leslie, Officer in Charge of Eastern Division, will chair a community meeting at which citizens can share their worries and offer suggestions to make […]
In crime news, the crackdown on illegal firearms continues as police confiscated an unlicensed handgun in Belize City. The nine-millimetre Glock nineteen pistol, along with nine bullets, was found Monday night around nine-thirty at a house on Unity Street. Thirty-six year old Alexander Torres, twenty-seven year old Sheryl Brown and forty-three year old Egbert Brown […]
