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Jealous lover? Mistaken identity? Or none of the above. Orange Walk police are tonight trying to figure out the motive for the late night execution style murder of a Crooked Tree man on Sunday. According to reports, eighteen-year-old electrician Russell Tillett and his girlfriend from Orange Walk were hanging out in the couple’s car around […]
Written on September 23, 2003 | Posted in
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Four prisoners at Hattieville used the Independence Day weekend to make a run for their own freedom…but only one succeeded. Twenty year old Pablo Martinez was one of four inmates in the remand section who, at around two-thirty Saturday morning, broke through a window of their cell, overpowered a guard and relieved him of his […]
Written on September 23, 2003 | Posted in
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And just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse, they did. A police officer, already on interdiction for fatally shooting a Caye Caulker resident earlier this year, has shot and wounded another man, this time in Independence Village. According to police reports, twenty-year-old Robert Young told cops that around two on the morning of […]
Written on September 23, 2003 | Posted in
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The Police Department reports success in the early weeks of their programme that offers cash rewards for information leading to the seizure of firearms. So far sixteen illegal guns have been confiscated as the result of phone tips, and arrests have been made in fifteen of those busts. According to police press officer G. Michael […]
Written on September 20, 2003 | Posted in
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In crime news police have yet to apprehend the woman who fatally stabbed Mark Peters on Tuesday night near B.T.L. Park on the Barracks… But they have charged another female for a similar–though not deadly–attack on Sunday morning. According to police reports, twenty-five year old Denmark Casimiro was in a bar in Ladyville when he […]
Written on September 18, 2003 | Posted in
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A Belize City man is dead, stabbed during a fight between two women. According to police reports, thirty-four year old Mark Peters of Neal Pen Road was walking near the Princess Hotel late Tuesday night with his girlfriend when she became involved in an argument with another female. When Peters tried to intervene the woman […]
Written on September 17, 2003 | Posted in
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In other crime news, the driver of a vehicle that killed a pedestrian on the Western Highway has been arrested and charged. Thirty-four year old Honduran Jose Monterosso has been charged with failure to stop and report an accident, driving without due care and attention, manslaughter by negligence and causing death by careless conduct. On […]
Written on September 17, 2003 | Posted in
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Another mysteriously empty cargo plane has landed and been abandoned in Belize…and if these unscheduled visits continue, the B.D.F. may soon have the biggest air force in the region. It is not certain when the latest landing took place, but law enforcement officials speculate that it was around the fourth or fifth of September that […]
Written on September 16, 2003 | Posted in
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Gentleman–and I use the term very loosely–if you are thinking about sexually assaulting your daughter, niece, neighbour or any other child…beware, because you will get busted. Another victim of incest has come forward, this time in the Cayo District, and her father has been detained. The thirteen year old, accompanied by her mother, told police […]
Written on September 16, 2003 | Posted in
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It is one of our society’s dirty little secrets that you won’t find in any tourist brochure. Like incest, rape and sexual abuse of children, domestic violence is a criminal act that occurs often, but is seldom reported, let alone discussed in the press. But today one badly battered woman decided that she couldn’t take […]
Written on September 15, 2003 | Posted in
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The amnesty for illegally held firearms is over…but one Belize City couple may wish they turned in their guns and ammo when they had the chance. On Thursday police searched a residence on Moho Caye and discovered two pump twelve shotguns, a twelve gauge double barrel shotgun, two thirty-eight handguns, forty-four shotgun shells, sixty-eight bullets […]
Written on September 15, 2003 | Posted in
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Busts for crack cocaine are usually measured in grams, but police in Dangriga seem to have found a mother lode of the life destroying rocks. On Thursday they searched a home on Sabal Street and found thirteen parcels of the drug. Back at the station, the haul weighed in at one point three kilograms or […]
Written on September 12, 2003 | Posted in
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A late night Belize City robbery has one businesswoman a grand short and the perpetrators living large for the weekend. Reports are that around eleven on Thursday night two armed men walked into an establishment owned by Yu Qiong Liu on Cemetery Road and demanded she give them money. Yu complied, and handed over one […]
Written on September 12, 2003 | Posted in
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Staying up all night to bring in the tenth is a time honoured Belizean tradition…but dawn on St. George’s Caye Day is supposed to bring echoes of patriotism, not the sound of deadly gunfire. Around five on Wednesday morning an allegedly rowdy young man attempted to run from a law enforcement patrol not far from […]
Written on September 11, 2003 | Posted in
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It was not expected to be anything, but a perfunctory prelude to a crackdown on illegal firearms, the last chance for criminals to come clean before the legal hammer dropped. And so today officials marked the formal end to the one-month gun amnesty, calling it a modest success, with the real test to follow. Jacqueline […]
Written on September 9, 2003 | Posted in
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The body of a man found in the Orange Walk District on Friday has been identified. He is twenty-eight year old Machelo Melendez, a resident of San Francisco Street in Orange Walk Town. Melendez’s body was found clothed in black pants, a brown shirt, black shoes and had been wrapped in a sheet. A post […]
Written on September 9, 2003 | Posted in
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It was a weekend of deadly violence in the nation’s commercial capital. What all three of the weekend murders appear to have in common is that they occurred on Friday night and the killers and killed were well acquainted. Theodora Pop, Sister “She tell we that if she ever left the man, the man wah […]
Written on September 8, 2003 | Posted in
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Before the sun dawned on Saturday morning two more people would die on the streets of the city. Patrick Jones, Reporting The murder of twenty-two year old Mark Anthony Matthews, also known as Mark Saragosa, at the junction of Mahogany Street and Western Avenue on Saturday morning, did not take long for the police to […]
Written on September 8, 2003 | Posted in
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Police are looking at all the angles tonight in the wake of what appears to be a major bank robbery. Neither the police nor officials of the Belize Bank are saying much, but it is alleged that on Saturday morning a lone gunman accosted an employee of the bank’s northside Belize City branch around eight […]
Written on September 8, 2003 | Posted in
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In crime news a forty-one year old Belize City man has been arrested and charged with incest. The complaint was brought on Monday by an eleven-year-old girl who told police that since the age of four she has been sexually molested by her father. Reports to police of incest and child rape have increased dramatically […]
Written on September 4, 2003 | Posted in
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His name is Ari Curtis Vanzie and tonight he’s one Belizean in a whole lot of trouble. Vanzie, a Customs Officer, was one of four men picked up at sea by a U.S. Coast Guard cutter on August twenty-third, approximately fifty-five miles south of Jamaica. On board Vanzie’s vessel was a whopping three thousand, six […]
Written on September 3, 2003 | Posted in
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And turning from the sea to the air, we are informed that the mysterious cargo plane that landed on a farm road near Blue Creek last Friday has finally been moved. Authorities engaged two big tractors from the Mennonite community to tow the twin-engine aircraft a distance of about a half-mile up the road and […]
Written on September 3, 2003 | Posted in
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Police are asking your help tonight to identify the body of a man found today in the Mopan River near Benque Viejo del Carmen. The corpse is that of a Hispanic in his mid twenties around five feet, six inches tall. The partially decomposed body was clad in green pants and a striped T-shirt. It […]
Written on September 3, 2003 | Posted in
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A Belizean official is in the United States tonight, charged with a crime. Details are still sketchy, but late this evening, Public Relations Officer for the U.S. Embassy, Edgar Embrey, confirmed that a Belizean Customs Officer is being held in Miami by U.S. authorities. But that’s about as much as we know. We were unable […]
Written on September 2, 2003 | Posted in
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It began innocently enough…the hum of an engine piercing the silence of sunset in the Mennonite community of Blue Creek in the Orange Walk District. But within minutes, the noise increased and then villagers watched in surprise as a sixty-foot cargo plane used their farm road as a runway. Strange vehicles bearing Mexican license plates […]
Written on September 1, 2003 | Posted in
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