A second suspect has been arrested in last month’s hold-up of a San Ignacio nightspot. Seventeen-year-old Daniel Anderson of the New Area in Santa Elena has been charged with attempted murder, robbery, deadly means of harm and wounding in addition to several firearm offences.
And in Belize City a Good Samaritan has made the police department’s work easier by single-handedly detaining a thief. On Wednesday Rojelia Choc and her daughter of Toledo’s San Pedro Columbia Village were walking down Orange Street when a man grabbed two gold chains from Rojelia’s neck. The daughter and some passers-by gave chase, with […]
It has been almost a month since thirty-seven year old Astrid Perrera-Cheng, co-owner of the local technology shop, U.S. COM, was last seen in Belize. She was supposed to board a July nineteenth flight to Miami on company business, but never showed up at the airport. When a fellow employee, twenty-two year old technician Luis […]
You don’t have to be a member of the clergy to be concerned about the proliferation of nightspots that call themselves bars but are in fact nothing more than brothels. But you do have to be a little bit suspicious of government’s sudden concern with protecting the nation’s morals, especially when it appears that their […]
In other crime news, a suspect has been arrested in last week’s shooting of a Belize City taco vendor. Nineteen-year-old Frank Smith of Raccoon Street has been charged with attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm and dangerous harm. One other suspect is still being sought. Food seller Gabriela Garcia was seriously wounded on […]
Belize City police say they still do not know what caused four persons to be shot at the corner of King Street and Amara Avenue around midnight on Saturday. The shooting victims, identified as twenty-five year old Ronald Crawford, thirty-one year old Wilhelm Elliott, twenty-two year old Eleno Requeña and thirty-one year old Denbert Jones, […]
An undisclosed amount of money was stolen Sunday night during a hold-up at the Novelo’s Bus terminal. Authorities believe the robber may have been watching the place for a while and waited for the last bus to pull in before he made his move. That bus from Chetumal came in around ten last night, the […]
Early this morning, a watchman working for the Bellevue Hotel came across the body of a dead man floating in the hotel’s pool. The deceased, identified as thirty-year-old Clive Richards Rivers, was not a guest at the hotel, but an electrician who frequently visited the establishment to socialize. The last time Rivers was seen alive […]
In crime news there was another shooting in Belize City…but instead of the forensic pathologist, this one was a case for the Humane Society. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Around twelve-thirty this afternoon police arrived at the home of Shane Meighan to search the premises. Shortly after, residents living along East Collet Canal suddenly […]
One high-powered firearm, not shown by Reid, is nonetheless off the street–not the result of any gun amnesty–just aggressive police work. On Thursday cops found a loaded tech nine automatic along with a half-ounce of crack cocaine during a vehicle search. The driver of the Nissan Stanza, twenty-three year old Trevor Smith, was taken into […]
And just because there’s an amnesty in effect it doesn’t mean the cops won’t be enforcing gun laws. A police press release today announced that as the result of a search of a house in Ladyville three people have been charged with weapons and drug offences. Eighteen year old Steve Arnold, twenty-five year old Rafael […]
Police have also been successful in solving a type of crime that not long ago was virtually unknown in Belize: that is car theft. On Saturday night Michael Congers of Sittee River reported that two men entered his home, beat him, robbed him, took his keys and then drove off in his pickup. Today police […]
With official statistics either non-existent or a closely guarded secret, we cannot say with certainty whether crime in Belize is up or down. What we can say, however, is that years of observation indicate that violent criminal activity runs in streaks…and unfortunately, Belize City appears to be in the middle of a pretty bad one. […]
Police have arrested and charged a Belize City man in connection with the death of his roommate. According to the cops, twenty-three year old Israel Mendez Orellano is the machete man who fatally chopped twenty year old Saul Montejo in the head and back following an altercation at the house they shared with three other […]
Meanwhile, police in the south are still searching for clues in their investigation into the death of a man who was also chopped to death. The authorities say that on Sunday they were called out to an area outside Trio Village, just off the Southern Highway. There, they found the body of a man with […]
Popular Belize City businessman Arturo Francisco, proprietor of Pou’s Meat Pies, today underwent surgery for knife wounds after a daylight jacking at his shop on New Road. According to his common-law wife Rosalia Pou, around twelve-forty-five this afternoon she was at the back of the building when she heard a commotion out front and went […]
And rounding out what can only be described as a victorious day for the forces of evil, is news of a burglary that has left one neighbourhood institution in major distress. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The Port Loyola Day Care Centre was left in shambles after a thief or thieves broke into the establishment sometime on […]
It’s about as senseless as crime gets. This morning around eleven a woman selling tacos near the western entrance to Belize City was shot at point blank range, apparently because she did not have enough money to satisfy her attackers. News 5’s Patrick Jones has the disturbing details. Patrick Jones, Reporting The blood stains on […]
A game of cards ended in deadly violence on Saturday night in the Belize City riverside neighbourhood of Lindo’s Alley. Police say they were called to the area following an altercation and upon arrival, found twenty-year-old Honduran Saul Montejo fatally wounded in the kitchen of the house he occupied with four other people. Police Press […]
An Orange Walk teenager is dead, shot by a watchman in the wee hours of Saturday morning. According to police, seventeen year old Javier Blanco, an employee of New River Enterprise in Orange Walk Town, entered the yard of his worksite around two a.m. He was challenged by the night watchman, fifty-seven year old Rosalio […]
It took over two years, but word from the U.K. is that three British Army soldiers will face a military court martial in connection with the death of fourteen year old David Zabaneh. Zabaneh was killed by the Gurkhas as the result of a brawl that occurred on the night of May tenth, 2001 at […]
It’s certainly not the arrest we were expecting…after all we had been led to believe that a big fish would be the first charged in what has been dubbed “the immigration scandal”. But an arrest is an arrest and today, forty-seven year old Therese Cabral of number fifty-six Vernon Street in Belize City was escorted […]
Occasionally we receive comments from civil libertarians complaining that the practice of showing accused criminals on television is a violation of their constitutional right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. The question is a legitimate one…but there is another side of the story. On Monday we ran footage of a man accused of a […]
Two young men of St. Matthew’s Village on the Western Highway have been arrested and charged with aggravated assault and burglary. Police say that seventeen year old Rudolph Young and nineteen year old Richard Trapp are the men who earlier this month entered the home of nineteen year old Bing Chen and robbed the occupants […]
Their names are not exactly unfamiliar and tonight three young guys from Ladyville are spending the first of what might be many nights in Hattieville. Sixteen year old Shane Bahadur, twenty year old Levi Bahadur and twenty-seven year old Michael Arnold were today arrested and charged with the murder of shopkeeper Kong Yi. The twenty-eight […]
