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A quarrel over drugs or other illegal activity appears to be the motive behind the nation’s latest violent homicide. The shooting today in Belize City took place in broad daylight…and News 5’s Patrick Jones reports from the scene. Patrick Jones, Reporting The early afternoon murder has left the Riverside Community in shock, trying to figure […]
Written on July 14, 2003 | Posted in
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Police tonight are investigating another murder, but time is not on their side. This afternoon they were called out to an isolated spot on the road leading from the Southern Highway to the resort of Kanantik in the Stann Creek District. There they found a human skeleton, believed to be decomposing for at least several […]
Written on July 14, 2003 | Posted in
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Police do not suspect foul play in the death of an elderly Belize City man whose badly decomposing body was found in his house over the weekend. Neighbours were alerted that something was wrong after they detected a foul odour coming from the upstairs of this house at number sixty Racecourse Street. When a check […]
Written on July 14, 2003 | Posted in
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Tonight a Belize City man is claiming to be the lucky survivor of kidnapping, robbery and attempted murder. According to Belize City cops, twenty-five year old Winston “Babunchi” Vernon, a resident of Lizarraga Avenue, was on the street outside his home when a pair of brothers, identified to News 5 as Andrew and Hilliare Bennett, […]
Written on July 14, 2003 | Posted in
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Tonight a man is charged with murder following the death of his victim six months after the incident. According to police reports, on Thursday, thirty-one year old Benjamin Chulin of Tower Hill in the Orange Walk District was rearrested and charged with murder after the authorities were informed that forty-one year Reynaldo Roberts had died […]
Written on July 11, 2003 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, Belize City police are investigating an armed hold-up that occurred on Wednesday afternoon. According to businessman Yue Di Liu, he was at his shop on Curassow Street when just after one p.m. a man with a handgun walked up to his window and demanded money. Yue handed over approximately two hundred dollars and the […]
Written on July 10, 2003 | Posted in
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In news from the crime beat, the police investigation into the double homicide on Stake Bank Caye took a major blow as its primary witness has died. Authorities at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tell News 5 that twenty-two year old Alberto Josue Gomez died around eight on Tuesday night. Doctors say cause of death […]
Written on July 9, 2003 | Posted in
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It’s a situation that has become something of a running joke in Belizean society: “Bwai, who get shat todeh?… Gyal nobody dead yet?” But even if it is a joke, we shouldn’t be laughing. Everyday in Belize City the echo of gunshots rings through the streets, and if we’re lucky, everyone ducked in time. But […]
Written on July 8, 2003 | Posted in
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Crimes against society is not confined to gunplay…on average police report that everyday approximately two homes in the city are burglarised, sometimes while the owner is at home. That’s just what happened to an unfortunate resident of the mile eight community, who was tortured by a gang of men bent on thievery. News 5’s Jacqueline […]
Written on July 8, 2003 | Posted in
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A pair of Belize City bandits turned murderers have been captured by police. According to the cops, twenty-four year old Egbert Meyers and twenty-two year old Herman “Yagga” Morris, are the duo who murdered gas station attendant Robert Stephens Lino. Morris and Meyers did their best to conceal their faces when they were taken over […]
Written on July 7, 2003 | Posted in
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A Placencia woman has been arrested and charged in connection with a fatal hit and run in that village. Thirty-eight year old Sharon Knight has been charged with manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct, driving without due care and attention, failure to stop and render aid and failure to report an accident. The […]
Written on July 7, 2003 | Posted in
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It has all the elements of a drama you see played out on American TV cop shows. Except that the plot in this story unfolds at number forty Faber’s Road in Belize City in the early hours of Friday morning. Police went to the home of twenty-four year old Jason Crawford to search for a […]
Written on July 4, 2003 | Posted in
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In crime news, another high-powered weapon has been removed from the streets of Belize City. Police report that on Tuesday they seized an M-16 automatic rifle and seventeen rounds of ammunition during the search of a residence on Rocky Road. Arrested were twenty-seven year old Elroy Smith, twenty-three year old Kenrick Johnson and eighteen year […]
Written on July 2, 2003 | Posted in
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In an update to some recent stories, we are informed that twenty-two year old Albert Gomez, shot in his mouth by assailants at his Stake Bank fishing camp, is showing some signs of improvement. Hospital sources tell us that Gomez has been taken off the ventilator machine and is able to slowly move the left […]
Written on July 2, 2003 | Posted in
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Depending on how you classify two recent killings by policemen, the fatal shooting which occurred at the corner of Central American Boulevard and Cemetery Road at around ten-forty-five last night is either the thirty-first of thirty-third murder committed in 2003. But whatever the numbers, the incident is no less tragic. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has […]
Written on July 1, 2003 | Posted in
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A Belizean on the run from American law enforcement authorities hit a brick wall this week and tonight is enjoying the comforts of Hattieville prison. Although he is listed as number fifteen on the U.S. Marshal’s Most Wanted List and is described as a career violent criminal, the fine print reveals that thirty-one year old […]
Written on July 1, 2003 | Posted in
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At around ten Sunday night a small skiff sputtered to a halt near the Tourism Village; it’s sole occupant bleeding profusely from a bullet wound to the jaw. But the dramatic arrival of a barely alive Alberto Gomez in Belize City was only the first act in a crime of monstrous proportions. Left behind at […]
Written on June 30, 2003 | Posted in
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It is exactly what every law enforcement expert tells you not to do when confronted by an armed robber…but don’t tell that to businessman Lu Zha Gi. Thirty-two year old Lu was outside his shop on West Collet Canal Friday afternoon when an assailant approached him from behind, placed a handgun in his back and […]
Written on June 30, 2003 | Posted in
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We’re not sure what a convicted murderer was doing on a work detail miles away from his cell at Hattieville, and until prison officials decide to talk, we may never know. But what is important tonight is that a dangerous convict is on the loose. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting […]
Written on June 27, 2003 | Posted in
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In other crime news a Belize City grocer was robbed at gunpoint on Thursday afternoon. Twenty-nine year old Zhi Xin Li told police that around one p.m. two dark skinned man entered his shop on Teacher’s Street, pointed a small gun in his direction and relieved him of three hundred and fifty dollars along with […]
Written on June 27, 2003 | Posted in
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Some ambitious farmers in the Corozal District are having major headaches this weekend following the total destruction of their valuable cash crop. Their problem, of course, stems from the fact that what they were growing was marijuana. On Wednesday morning police swooped down on six weed plantations located near the settlement of Little Belize and […]
Written on June 27, 2003 | Posted in
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Also detained, this time in the Orange Walk District, were three men suspected of involvement in Wednesday’s fatal shooting of Lazaro Martinez. Under law, by Monday they will either be charged or released.
Written on June 27, 2003 | Posted in
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Police are looking for three suspects in the murder of a man in the Orange Walk District. According to reports, twenty-four year old Guatemalan Lazaro Miguel Martinez was gunned down late Wednesday night in front of his house on the Santa Marta Road. His wife, Sulema, told police that she and Lazaro were inside when […]
Written on June 26, 2003 | Posted in
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His name went public last week after an attempt to arrest him was followed by a near riot in which an innocent motorist was fatally shot by police. But today Michael Arnold had his day in court…not for what went on the night of the shooting, but for a jacking he allegedly committed last night. […]
Written on June 26, 2003 | Posted in
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Tonight a man from the Stann Creek District is charged with the attempted murder of a police officer. According to Independence Police, around two-thirty on Tuesday afternoon, Police Constable Tyler Castillo was heading home and had just gotten off a bus at the junction of the Southern Highway and the Georgetown road. Two other men […]
Written on June 25, 2003 | Posted in
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