In more police news, a Belize City man has been arrested and charged in connection with the shooting of Michael Henry late last month. Twenty-four year old Kenneth Daniels, a resident of West Street in Belize City, will face charges of attempted murder, dangerous harm and use of deadly means of harm. It is alleged […]
So far this year we have had the grim task of reporting the murder of eleven Belizeans. While it was painful to recount the details of those crimes, tonight, murder number twelve is particularly traumatic. Just after seven p.m. on Thursday an elderly Belize City man was viciously beaten to death by a mob of […]
The Police Department is on a natural high tonight, after arresting five men and confiscating close to eighty pounds of weed in two separate incidents along the Western Highway. Police officials in San Ignacio say that around nine Thursday morning officers on patrol spotted two men walking on the highway carrying backpacks. But as the […]
His body was riddled with eleven bullets…and today police have charged a suspect in last month’s brutal killing of Alfonso Vernon. Eighteen-year-old Jamaal Henry of Racoon Street in Belize City has been charged with the murder which occurred in the area of North Creek on the morning of Saturday, March fifteenth.
It is becoming a familiar story…with even the names and locations seeming to display a touch of déjà vu. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has details of the latest shooting to echo across the city. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting A trail of blood on the sidewalk and street tell you just how seriously eighteen-year-old Leonard Arnold was […]
Police have made an arrest in a fatal shooting that rocked the city over the weekend. Twenty-one year old Kareem Cattouse of a Mahogany Street address has been charged with murder in the shooting death of Donald McKay. McKay was gunned down on Saturday night while standing in B.T.L. Park on the Newtown Barracks.
For the second weekend in a row gunshots echoed through B.T.L. Park on the Newtown Barracks…sending hundreds in panic and leaving a young Belize City man bleeding on the sidewalk. On Saturday night, eyewitnesses watched in horror as a gunman shot his victim point blank in the back. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, […]
On Thursday, the village of Valley of Peace in the Cayo District was the scene of the nation’s tenth murder for the year. According to police reports, just after four on Thursday afternoon, officers were called to an area about a quarter mile in on the main road to the village, where they found the […]
In other crime news, police have yet to make any arrests in connection with a late afternoon shooting on Thursday in Belize City. Just after three-thirty on Thursday, shots rang out at the corner of Mahogany and Flamboyant streets, leaving twenty-two year old Norris Leslie injured. Leslie told police that a small blue car with […]
One man lies wounded in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a drive by shooting in Belize City. Shortly after three this evening, two friends, Morris Leslie and Alfredo Saragoza, were standing at the corner of Mahogany and Oleander Streets when a vehicle described as a small blue Toyota car with tinted windows approached at […]
Police have arrested a Belize City man for a shooting that occurred over the weekend. Twenty-one year old Dalton Reneau of George Street has been charged with attempted murder, dangerous harm and use of deadly means of harm in connection with the Sunday night shooting of Michael Henry. Henry was shot in the thigh and […]
In crime news police have arrested a suspect in the shooting of Marlon Budd. Twenty-four year old Jerry Bush has been charged with the crimes of attempted murder, dangerous harm and deadly means of harm. Budd was wounded by a single gunshot to the neck at around three-thirty Sunday morning near B.T.L. Park on the […]
A post-mortem on the body of murder victim Alfredo Morales has concluded that he died from head trauma, the result of a blow from a blunt object. The body of Morales, a car dealer and taxi driver, was found by his family on Sunday near the Western Highway on the outskirts of Belize City. No […]
It has all the elements of a made for TV murder mystery. But the bloody corpse discovered on Sunday outside Belize City, was grim reality, not Hollywood make believe. Today News 5’s Jacqueline Woods joined the victim’s bereaved family to try to make sense out of an act that defied reason. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Forty-one […]
Separate shooting incidents on Sunday in Belize City have left two young men recovering from gunshots and the police with more questions than answers. According to the cops, around three-thirty that morning, twenty-five year old Marlon Budd was standing in the vicinity of B.T.L. Park on Newtown Barracks when a gunman walked up to him […]
A family from Dangriga is in mourning tonight, following a tragic accident over the weekend. According to police, seven-year-old Akeem Davis was swimming with friends at the mouth of the North Stann Creek on Saturday afternoon when sometime after three he disappeared beneath the waves. An intensive search was immediately launched, but just after dawn […]
For the fourth time this week, police officers have had the grim task of pulling a dead body out of the water. According to Orange Walk police, early Thursday morning they received reports that there was a corpse floating in the New River near the House of Culture. The body was transported to the Northern […]
Two men busted with forged residency papers earlier this week have been arrested and charged. Twenty-two year old Salvadoran Marlon Esequias Hernandez and twenty-seven year old Honduran Armando Salvador will answer to the crime of possession of false documents. According to Immigration officials, the arrests are part of an ongoing joint investigation by the police […]
Three people have been detained by police for what appears to be a forged document racket. On Tuesday cops busted a twenty-two year old Salvadoran resident of Victoria Street in Belize City and found him in possession of five fake permanent resident permits. The suspect claimed the bogus papers came from another Salvadoran named Hugo […]
The decomposed body found floating on Monday in the Mopan River now has an identity. It is Pablo Can Sakul, a twenty-six year old Guatemalan from Melchor de Mencos. Due to the advanced state of decay, the cause of death could not be determined. Police Departments on both sides of the border are investigating the […]
The Tillett family of mile eight on the Western Highway claims that two police officers, who frequently patrol the area, attacked and beat up their sixteen year old son, Kenan Welch, for no legitimate reason. The teenager had to be hospitalised and treated for a number of internal bruises. Following his release from the K.H.M.H., […]
Tonight, Benque Viejo police need your help in identifying a man found floating in the Mopan River. According to the cops, around three-thirty Monday afternoon, they pulled the body of a fully dressed Hispanic man from the water after receiving several reports from area residents. The deceased was wearing a pair of green jeans pants, […]
In another case of death involving water, an afternoon socializing with friends on the banks of the Macal River proved deadly for one Cayo man. Police say forty-eight year old David Waight was drinking with friends at a local bar Monday afternoon when he and a friend, forty-nine year old Donald Harris, went to the […]
In other news from the west, two Belize City men face drug trafficking charges tonight, stemming from a big weed bust. Reports are that twenty-nine year old Frank Jacobs and thirty-six year old Rolando Sanchez were stopped at a checkpoint between miles sixty-nine and seventy on the Western Highway around three o’clock Friday afternoon. But […]
Meanwhile, Orange Walk police had their hands full on Monday after a jilted lover launched an attack on her ex-boyfriend and his new sweetheart. According to the police, twenty-nine year old Denise Garbutt of a Cristock Street address didn’t take kindly to the fact that her former common-law husband found himself a new mate, so […]
