Three robbers are eight thousand dollars richer this Valentine’s weekend after they stole the payroll of Jaguar Paw Resort. The incident occurred around two on Thursday afternoon on a dirt road two miles away from the popular tourist destination, which is located about six miles off the Western Highway at mile thirty-seven. According to Victor […]
A Belize City man has been arrested in connection with an attack on his girlfriend, which left her severely burned. Twenty-year-old Jervis Valencia Diamond, a resident of Mayflower Street, has been charged with attempted murder, dangerous harm and use of deadly means of harm. It is alleged that on Tuesday afternoon, Diamond, following an argument […]
A Belize City man is dead tonight after he was shot on Tuesday. Twenty-four year old Jason Avila, who lived on Bocotora Street, was reportedly riding a bicycle on Iguana Street towards Curassow Street just before seven on Tuesday night when two youths ran up to him from behind and shot him. The bullets penetrated […]
Yesterday we reported on the wounding of P.U.P. Lake I campaign manager Evan Garnett; tonight it’s the burglary committed at the home of U.D.P. Albert Division candidate Marilyn Williams. According to police, Williams reported that sometime between 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on Monday her home in Buttonwood Bay was broken into. Stolen were a […]
A Canadian missionary working in Orange Walk drowned over the weekend at Goff’s Caye. Police reports indicate that sixty-four year old Evelyn Campbell was enjoying an outing with a group of friends at the caye on Friday, but around 10:00 that morning someone noticed she was missing. A search party was organized and around three […]
A series of unrelated attacks on Sunday has left three men recovering from gunshot wounds. According to police, around 1:00 a.m., twenty-three year old Norris Leslie and thirty-nine year old Mark McKoy were socializing in a yard on Casuarina Street in Belize City, when a car drove up and someone inside started shooting. When it […]
There’s an unsolved crime in Belmopan in which police are taking a special interest. It seems that sometime Sunday night or early Monday morning a thief of thieves broke into their Criminal Investigation Branch office in the nation’s capital and made off with at least two firearms, among them an Uzi automatic and a nine […]
The Mennonites have earned a reputation in Belize and elsewhere as people who follow the biblical advice to “turn the other cheek”. That may be true, but according to police, one resident of Spanish Lookout backed up his faith in the Lord with a loaded revolver. Forty-four year old Ben Wolfe pled guilty this morning […]
Police have charged two Belize City men in connection with a jacking last month. Seventeen year-old Raymond Heusner and twenty-two year old Elliot Heusner, both of Tigris Street, are charged with the robbery of seventeen-year-old Jevon McKenzie. McKenzie told police that around eight on the night of Friday, January seventeenth, he was about to enter […]
Police have charged one man and are looking for two others in connection with last week’s hold-up of a Chinese grocery in Belize City. Twenty-year-old Kendale Robinson of Ebony Street, Belize City, is charged with the robbery of twenty-four year old shopkeeper Jian Feng Liu of Antelope Street. The incident occurred shortly before eleven last […]
A Roaring Creek man lies in the hospital with a stab wound after he was attacked in the centre of Belmopan. Twenty-six year old Andres Garbutt told police that he was conversing with a friend near the Barclay’s Bank parking lot around ten on Tuesday morning when one Randolph Hyde attacked him from behind. Garbutt […]
A night of drinking at a Corozal club, coupled with anger over an old dispute proved to be the recipe for murder over the weekend. Police reports are that sometime around ten on Friday night, twenty-three year old Elvis Vasquez and his older brother, Victor, were socializing at El Chital Nightclub on Second Street. But […]
Today was payday for most Belizeans, but if you find yourself in a dimly lit bar this weekend, don’t be in any rush to give change for anything bigger than a twenty. That’s right, counterfeit currency is back in circulation. The police department has issued a warning to watch out for bogus fifties, two of […]
Knocking off a Chinese grocery: it’s a crime as Belizean as rice and beans–or perhaps dala chicken. But just because the modus operandi is a familiar one, it doesn’t make it any less terrifying for the victims. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Three years ago, eighteen-year-old Qian Xian Yang and twenty-four year […]
Police have made one more arrest in the December fifth murder of an Orange Walk businessman in Camalote Village. Thirty-year old Timothy Vanegas was charged on Wednesday with the crimes of robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery, murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the shooting death of Jacob Elias. Elias had reportedly travelled to Camalote […]
Three of the four men arrested at a traffic stop in Orange Walk on Sunday and charged with possession of an unlicensed shotgun and ammo have been hit with new charges related to recent crimes in Corozal. Twenty-five year old Kenrick Reneau and twenty-four year old Dwayne Bishop, along with Hubert Velasquez, were charged with […]
The Human Rights Commission of Belize today issued a strong denunciation of police for what they say is a campaign to harass those who stand up to widespread police brutality. The H.R.C.B. complaint focuses on the arrest of Michael Flores and Antoinette Moore for drug trafficking. The couple have been outspoken opponents of aggressive police […]
A Belize City man is behind bars tonight after a downtown robbery was thwarted by some brave citizens, including an off duty police officer. According to the cops, around nine this morning, an employee of Barry Lin, a businessman operating from the corner of Vernon Street and Collet Canal, was walking on Duck Lane when […]
Meanwhile, a traffic stop on the Northern Highway may have led to the prevention of some other robberies. Reports are that on Sunday, police officers stopped a white Jeep Cherokee on the Northern outskirts of Orange Walk Town. When they searched the interior, they found a pump action shotgun with three live rounds, a crowbar […]
In more crime news, another incident involving guns has been reported in the Cayo District. Police say that on Monday, thirty-five year old James Smith walked onto the compound of the Valdez shop, in Santa Elena, brandishing a sawed off shotgun. Smith demanded to see one of the employees but, not surprisingly, no one dared […]
Every story has at least two sides, and today the family of a man stabbed over the weekend in Orange Walk called News 5 to say that the version reported to the media by police was–you guessed it–totally wrong. Donnie Tun, brother of stabbing victim Marcelino Tun, who was present during the Friday night fracas […]
It only dawned on us about a week ago that the year 2003 had been remarkably quiet when it came to violent crime. There were assorted shootings to be sure, but none had proved fatal. Until Friday night that is, when around eleven o’clock the nation registered its first murder of the year. As News […]
Another incident over the weekend, this time in Orange Walk, has left a well-known football player hospitalised. Twenty-seven year old Marcelino Tun, star of the Juventus squad, was stabbed in the abdomen around 7:00 Friday night. According to police, the man who wielded the knife, fifty-year-old businessman Santiago Solis, claims that Tun was drunk and […]
Twenty-five year old Jason Brown and seventeen year old Brian Herrera, both charged in connection with a shooting last week, were today denied bail in Magistrate’s Court. Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord kept the men in prison on the grounds that at as of this morning the victim’s medical condition was not clear. The duo, charged […]
Police continue to make life miserable for Belize’s marijuana farmers. On Friday cops destroyed a plantation north of San Pedro Columbia containing almost three thousand, five hundred mature plants, while on Saturday their colleagues in Orange Walk burned a field twice that big south of San Felipe. No arrests were made in either raid. Such […]
