The crime may have been a common one but the weapon of choice certainly wasn’t. According to 22-year old Christopher Pitts of a Banak Street address he was walking down Mayflower Street around 10:30 Thursday night when a man known to him only as “Mocco” held him up wielding nothing less than an AK 47 […]
While at least one bad man is roaming the streets with an AK 47, there are three others who will be chilling for a while in Hattieville. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods this morning took a look at some of their handiwork. Three young men are expected to be charged after authorities found this assortment of […]
A major case of embezzlement has been uncovered in the Cayo District. Details are still sketchy but sources in San Ignacio indicate that two employees of the Belize Marketing Board’s San Ignacio Branch have been arrested and will be formally arraigned tomorrow morning in Magistrate’s court, charged with theft and conspiracy to commit theft. The […]
And while still in the Cayo district, police report no new developments in the case of the 16-year old Belize City student who was found nude and tied up, but otherwise unharmed, Wednesday morning near Benque Viejo. Investigations continue with police looking for two suspects whom the girl claims forced her into a car as […]
A U.S. tourist is tonight recuperating from injuries he received during a robbery in Belize City on Tuesday night. Thirty-year-old Alva Caple had only arrived in the country that afternoon, checked into the Princess Hotel and later decided to take a walk along the Newtown Barracks. Around ten p.m. he was on his way back […]
Police in the Cayo District are reporting a strange occurrence that at news time has them baffled. Late this morning, alerted by a resident near Benque Viejo, officers were called to a bushy area near the border where they found a sixteen-year-old girl, naked, her hands and feet bound with duct tape. According to police, […]
A postmortem examination has been conducted on a Belize City man found dead earlier this week and it indicates that foul play was not a factor in his death. The body of Clive Lord, a mentally unstable resident of Euphrates Avenue, was discovered on the roof of his house Monday afternoon, a place where he […]
If various estimates are anywhere near accurate, then there are thousands of Belizean men who, following this broadcast, may be extremely nervous. The reason has to do with the crime of rape…and the fact that an increasing number of rape victims are coming forward to report their assaults to police…even though the crimes may have […]
Tonight police are hoping that a post mortem examination will help them discover exactly what caused the demise of a Belize City man. While foul play is not apparent, the location of the body indicates that this was not your everyday death by natural causes. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This evening Belize City police had the […]
A suspected gang of burglars in Orange Walk has been busted. The five youths arrested over the weekend are Luis Sosa, Marcelino Martinez and Greg August, all seventeen, along with eighteen year old Abram Perez and twenty-six year old Mark Cadle. All inhabit a Keyhole Alley residence in Orange Walk Town. Their arrest followed a […]
A chain snatcher got more than he bargained for, thanks to quick thinking by a pair of off-duty policemen. Twenty-three year old Chantelle Daly, an employee of the Princess Casino, was walking near the Swing Bridge in Belize City shortly after seven Thursday night when a young man grabbed the chain off her neck. The […]
The Caribbean, according to foreign myth, is supposed to be one of those stress free places where the smiling natives live happy, carefree lives. Well, we all know differently…and this morning the stress that affects the lives of most of us at one time or another reached a point where one Belize City resident could […]
Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying the victim of what appears to be a traffic accident on the Western Highway. Wednesday night around eleven police observed the body of an unidentified Hispanic man on the roadside near mile twenty-one and a half. The deceased was clad in blue jeans, a green shirt and […]
Word from Guatemala is guardedly optimistic about the chances of recovery for a grocer critically wounded last week in a robbery attempt. And here in Belize City, two young men have been arrested and charged for the crime. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Police say nineteen-year-old Louis Gillette of Oleander Street […]
Police continue to keep the city’s heavy equipment busy as this afternoon they knocked down an abandoned building on Sarstoon Street that was being used as a crack house. According to police press officer, G. Michael Reid, the action is part of the department’s plan to keep the pressure on all aspects of the drug […]
While computers may help catch criminals, they will not prevent crime. Tonight police are looking for yet another rapist, who allegedly struck in the early hours of Tuesday morning. A twenty-nine year old Honduran resident of a Dean Street apartment complex told police that she got up around four a.m. to use the common bathroom […]
In news from the crime beat, police have made arrests in at least three recent cases. Tonight, a thirty-four year old Corozal woman is behind bars, charged with abetment to commit abduction…of her sister. On Friday, the accused’s sister reported to police that she was at the Corozal market when her sibling called her over […]
Three days after Belize City businessman Alvin Godfrey was shot in his store on Sixth Street, police say they have detained one man believed to be involved in the incident. On Thursday, twenty-five year old Albert Copious, a resident of Berkeley Street, was arrested and charged for possession of an unlicensed firearm after police found […]
Police are still looking for a pair of men who robbed a downtown store in Belize City Wednesday afternoon. According to the cops, just after one p.m., a lone gunman entered Jem’s Used Clothing on Albert Street and robbed the owner and customers of jewellery and cash. The men got away with more than nine […]
Police have arrested another usual suspect in connection with several crimes. Twenty year old Jamal Betancourt has been charged with attempted murder, dangerous harm and discharging a firearm in public. The charges stem from an incident that occurred on April twenty-third at the corner of George and Basra streets in which forty year old Nelson […]
Tonight, Corozal police are investigating a disturbing case, as a twenty-nine year old woman has reported that her sister set her up to be raped! The woman claims that just after three on Wednesday afternoon, she was at the market when her sister called her over to a red van. Seconds later, two men grabbed […]
Belizeans as a society are a fairly complacent people…so while gang bangers kill each other with regularity and Chinese shopkeepers are gunned down with seeming impunity, the public takes it with hardly a shrug. But with last night’s point blank shooting of a well-known grocer in King’s Park, the forces of criminal anarchy may have […]
Under pressure for a recent wave of violent crime on one hand and accusations of state sponsored kidnapping on the other, the Police Department today sought to polish their public image with a display of their latest catch of confiscated weaponry. The haul was the result of operations conducted last week and included three M-16s, […]
It’s a club that is not particularly exclusive, with officers numbering in the dozens, ordinary members running to the hundreds and perhaps thousands more young wannabees just waiting for their big score. But those people whose life revolves around Belize’s burgeoning drug trade have not been sleeping well lately, thanks in large part to Saturday’s […]
And in a report just in, News 5 has confirmed that just after six this evening, seventy-five year old Alvin Godfrey, proprietor of Godfrey’s Store on Sixth Street, was shot in the face by a lone gunman. According to hospital authorities, doctors are at this time working frantically to save the elderly shopkeeper’s life. Anyone […]
