A suspect detained yesterday on suspicion of carrying an M-16 automatic rifle and a load of ammunition has been charged. He is well known bodybuilder and former Mr. Belize, Rushiel Bevans. Police believe that Bevans was the man who fled his vehicle after trying to evade police, a vehicle later found to contain the weapons […]
On Saturday morning a jet belonging to the United States government took off from the Philip Goldson International Airport and headed north. Aboard were two Belizeans wanted by the D.E.A. as suspects in a major cocaine smuggling case. And while few outside the men’s immediate family are shedding tears over their departure, there is strong […]
Two more young Belizean men are now counted among the dead as the rough and tumble streets of Belize City provided a bloody backdrop for separate murders over the weekend. The mayhem started on Saturday night when twenty-two year old Eugene Blades was gunned down as he drove his pickup truck along Faber’s Road. Blades, […]
A police patrol on the Northern Highway on Sunday stumbled across a small armoury and may have its owner in custody. According to police reports, the patrol observed a red car, which made an abrupt turn as the cops approached. The suspicious behaviour led the police to follow the car into a parking lot, but […]
His name is being withheld by authorities, but an eleven year old Belize City boy is in big trouble tonight, charged with the crime of attempted arson. The target? His school. Patrick Jones has the story. Patrick Jones, Reporting Central Christian School on Freetown Road is still standing, but if one of its students had […]
A Belize City man was shot on Wednesday and police are looking for the assailant. Forty year old Nelson Bowen was about to enter a shop at the corner of George and Basra streets when a man he identified as Jamaal Betancourt rode up to him on a bicycle and shot him in the lower […]
While thousands of Belizeans enjoyed the long Easter weekend, one Belize City man had his holiday cut tragically short by a hail of bullets. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The body of thirty-one year old Trevor Wiltshire was found in this clump of bushes by a pond near the Salt […]
A suspect in the robbery of a downtown Belize City store has been arrested and charged. Twenty-five year old Winston Jones of East Canal was apprehended shortly after the armed robbery of Gaylord’s on King Street Wednesday night. In that incident a security guard was beaten and a bystander wounded by a gunshot. Jones has […]
In the Toledo District a resident of Punta Gorda has been charged with rape. A twenty year old student of that town told police that on Wednesday afternoon she was invited by her cousin to an area outside the municipality where they shared some food, after which, instead of taking her home, he forced himself […]
It’s not on the same scale as the pre-Christmas crime rush, but a trio of gunmen looking for some Easter cash struck last night in downtown Belize City. By the time they were finished, a bystander lay wounded and a suspect was in custody. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Most stores on King Street were still open […]
In addition to engaging in a shootout, law enforcement authorities were also out in force seeking to recover the ill gotten gains of a rogue’s gallery of robbers, burglars and other assorted thieves. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Police seized the assorted items following searches conducted in Belize City on Wednesday night. The computers, stereo equipment, tools […]
Police are investigating the death of a Roaring Creek man. Forty-four year old Charles Peter Gallego was declared dead on arrival at the Western Regional Hospital after his brother discovered him lying motionless in his bed around ten-forty-five Wednesday morning. Richard Gallego told police that he noticed what appeared to be bruises on Charles’s face. […]
A U.S. citizen of the Stann Creek District is in trouble tonight, accused of keeping a stash of unlicensed weapons and ammo that would be more at home in Baghdad than Hopkins Village. According to police, fifty-year old Hudson Martin was arrested on Saturday after a search of his home resulted in the discovery of […]
On Sunday the Belize Police Department lost a good cop, not in the line fire, but to the death trap our nation’s highways have become. Just before eight on Sunday night, twenty-six year old Lincoln Kellyman was driving his silver Isuzu pickup from Corozal towards Orange Walk town when between miles fifty-one and fifty-two he […]
Police have arrested and charged three young Belize City men for the brutal murder of Boledo vendor Reynaldo Smith. Nineteen year old Ricky Valencia of Queen Charlotte Street, twenty year old Emilio Rivera of Waight Street, and twenty-four year old Sean Robinson of Allan Pitts Crescent, will all appear in Magistrate’s Court later this week […]
A street side gambling session turned into a shooting spree in Belize City over the weekend, leaving two men charged with several crimes. According to police, twenty-four year old Jason Williams was hanging out with friends on Kraal Road when something triggered the young man to start hitting a parked car with his fists and […]
In Belize, the Mennonite community is respected as a group of hardworking men and women, deeply religious with no inclination towards violence. Sadly, it is perhaps that very attitude towards life that makes them easy targets to those who would prey on the vulnerable. So it is even more shocking then to report on one […]
This morning Cayo’s most wanted man, escape convict Jordy Espat, was shot and killed by police in a dramatic scene in Santa Elena Town. News 5 understands that just after nine today Espat was recognized by residents, who called police and reported his whereabouts. Within minutes of the call, San Ignacio police had surrounded the […]
It’s a strange story that has far more questions than answers. But tonight, one Belize City woman is at home recovering from what she says was a brush with death at the hands of a still unidentified attacker. Twenty-seven year old Norma Serano told police she was alone at her home on Wilson Street on […]
In more police news, four days after a home break-in on the Northern Highway, cops have arrested three men from Ladyville. Authorities allege that sometime between seven a.m. and four p.m on Monday, twenty-year-old Levi Bahadur, nineteen-year-old Bruce Heron and seventeen year old Shane Bahadur, travelled to mile six and a half on the Northern […]
A scheme to extort money from a Mennonite businessman has earned three Cayo brothers an all expense paid vacation in Her Majesty’s hotel at Hattieville. Norman, Armando and Daniel Cal, ages nineteen, twenty-one and twenty-seven respectively, are reported to have threatened a neighbour, Village Council Chairman Daniel Friesen of Lower Barton Creek, that if he […]
We lead our news tonight with the subject of education–or rather the lack thereof–as two disturbing incidents, one in Belize City and the other in Belmopan, have left observers wondering who is in charge in the classroom. I’ll begin with events that occurred yesterday afternoon at St. John Vianney. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Tonight, seventeen-year-old Ryne […]
It has been the standard issue of the U.S. military since the Vietnam War…and in the ensuing years the M-16 has been adopted as the rifle of choice for scores of armies around the world, including Belize. Well tonight, two of those most lethal of weapons are in the wrong hands, as the Belize Defence […]
Police are reporting tonight that a woman was raped last night on the north side of Belize City…but that the attack could have been much worse had a good Samaritan not intervened. The incident occurred around eight when, according to the victim, she was walking along Coney Drive. A man, described as fair complexioned, approached […]
Another errant driver in Orange Walk has been charged with crimes, but not your everyday traffic offences. Police report that on Saturday thirty-one year old Leonardo Chell was involved in a traffic accident and was suspected of being drunk. He was injured in the incident, so police took him to the Northern Regional Hospital. But […]
