He may be eighty-one years old, but it seems his lungs are in pretty good shape. They’d have to be… because when San Ignacio police busted Archibald Walford with sixteen and a half pounds of marijuana he told the cops that the massive haul was his personal stash. Needless to say, what amounted to more […]
If you’ve ever wondered why insurance companies don’t like to write policies on thatched roofed buildings, tonight’s lead story should provide convincing proof. The fire at the Cahal Pech Entertainment Centre overlooking the twin towns of Cayo was nothing short of spectacular. Patrick Jones reports from the scene. Patrick Jones, Reporting The building erupted in […]
A Belize City man, accused of travelling seventy-two miles to rob a jewellery store, today found himself in silver bangles in front of a San Ignacio Magistrate. Twenty-five year old Frank Flowers is accused of robbing J & J Jewellery Shop at the Plaza Del Rio Mall on June twentieth. He and another man are […]
A sixteen-year-old Belize City boy was found dead in Cayo this morning and the police are asking for the public’s assistance in solving the murder. The body of Abel Gonzalez was found on the Pilgrimage Valley Road, just outside of Santa Elena. It had a large cut wound to the back of the head. At […]
He gained notoriety as Belize’s busiest burglar…but tonight John Bartley is dead. The career criminal was apparently stabbed in the chest this morning by a fellow inmate at Hattieville prison. Officials at the K.H.M.H. tell News 5 that he reached the hospital around one-thirty this afternoon, but by two-oh-seven he was dead. Police from Belize […]
A shootout between a policeman and a robbery suspect in Cayo has sent both men to the hospital. According to police, around ten-thirty Wednesday night two men robbed a bar owner and six patrons at a club on Peter August Street in Santa Elena. When the cops arrived on the scene they saw a man […]
Today Corozal police made two arrests in connection with the murder of Wilfredo Baeza. They are thirty-six year old Tomasita Villanueva and her twenty-two year old brother, Giovanni Villanueva. It was strongly suspected that Tomasita, who was home at the time of the killing on Saturday evening, may have been involved, and investigators believe that […]
Justice was swift for five Colombians busted last Friday in Ladyville on weapons charges. The group, believed to be part of a major cocaine smuggling operation, have pled guilty to possession of a prohibited firearm, namely an AK47 assault rifle, as well as unlicensed radio equipment and a small amount of marijuana. They each received […]
Corozal police have still not made any arrests in connection with the brutal murder of thirty-four year old Wilfrido Baeza. Around six on Saturday evening, authorities responded to a call that led them to Baeza’s house at Fourth Street North. Upstairs of the two storey building they found Baeza’s body inside his bathtub with what […]
A refugee from Africa has been murdered in the nation’s capital. Alfonso Lufa, a twenty-nine year old Angolan, had been living in Belize for three years and has been accorded refugee status. Lufa had been living at a house used for refugees in the Salvapan area of Belmopan and that is where he met his […]
Acting on a tip, police visited a house in the Mitchell Estate area of Ladyville on Friday afternoon. According to Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid, a search of the house turned up enough firepower and equipment to outfit a small commando unit. But if the five Colombians and one Belizean arrested are in fact […]
And in another arrest, police have collared one more suspect in the July twelfth kidnapping of Percy Flowers in St. Paul’s Bank. He is twenty-two year old Marlon Sutherland of Orange Walk Town. Sutherland has been charged with robbery, possession of a prohibited firearm, possession of an unlicensed firearm and aggravated assault. Four people have […]
Big guns to steal a little bit of money…that seems to be the trend in a spate of robberies to hit Belize City. The latest incident happened on Thursday afternoon at the Amandala press on the Kremandala compound on Partridge Street. Police say that according to manager Jason Barrera, around one-thirty that day, a man […]
And a correction to a crime story we broadcast yesterday… In reporting on the arrest and charging of Mark “T-Dog” Stuart for the murder of Dean Belisle, we offered a brief history of Stuart’s previous run-ins with the law. Regarding his trial for the killing of his Hattieville cellmate, Husmani Guerra, we said charges were […]
Police investigations into the murder of Dean Belisle, better known as “Magic”, have led authorities to arrest Belize City residents twenty-eight year old Mark “T-Dog” Stuart and twenty-four year old Fabian Baine, also known as Carlos Escalante. This morning Stuart and Baine were taken over to Magistrate’s Court where they were formally charged with murder. […]
This afternoon, two suspects police believe were involved in the murder of twenty-five year old Kenneth Swazo on Tuesday night in San Pedro Town were transported by boat to Belize City. San Pedro police strongly believe twenty-three year old Nathaniel Forman of Belize City and eighteen year old Alejandro Edwards of San Pedro were the […]
Tonight Cayo police are looking for a suspect wanted for questioning in connection with a late night murder on Wednesday. According to authorities, around ten that night residents living along the road to Cristo Rey Village heard the echo of several gunshots. When police arrived the following day to investigate, they found the body of […]
A teenager accused of attacking a student along the Lord’s Bank Road has been arrested and charged. Police say eighteen-year-old Kareem Williams was the young man who walked up to a girl on Monday morning around eleven, hit her in the face with a handgun, and then stole her two gold chains. Williams was subsequently […]
Today, as four men were charged in the kidnapping of Percival Flowers, speculation increased that what went down at St. Paul’s Bank on Monday night did not take place in a vacuum. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has been working the case and finds that some widely spread dots are beginning to form a recognizable picture. […]
San Pedro police are looking for two suspects who held up an American couple inside their home and killed one of their local friends. The drama unfolded around eleven on Tuesday night. Two men wearing nylon stockings over their faces went through a window and entered the home of Daniel and Sarah Lekas, located three […]
Meanwhile, in another investigation, Cayo police have charged twenty-year-old Patrick Gordon of Belize City with the crime of robbery. Gordon was the man chased down by alert citizens after he allegedly jacked a truck driver, who had just made a delivery of chicken in Santa Elena.
They say that alls well that ends well and by that standard an early morning kidnapping and shooting has ended very well indeed. But for a while things were touch and go as some determined and well armed bad guys tried very hard to settle what appeared to be an old score. Percival Flowers, Kidnap […]
In another crime that was quickly solved, reports from the Cayo District indicate that public-spirited citizens chased after a pair of robbers and managed to send one to jail. According to police, around eleven this morning two men jumped a truck driver for Quality Poultry who had just made a delivery at a shop along […]
Yesterday they were being sought for questioning; today two men have been detained by police pending charges of murder. The pair is alleged to have shot to death Dean Belisle on Monday afternoon at his Lavender Street home. As is the usual practice, the names of the detained suspects have been withheld by police until […]
A coordinated effort by police, prison officers and B.D.F. soldiers, has turned up an ingenious assortment of jailhouse weapons. The raid on Hattieville prison at five this morning came as a surprise to inmates, who looked on as each cell was searched from top to bottom. The action comes in the wake of an increased […]
