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Attention butcher shops everywhere…there’s a herd of cattle missing from the Cayo District, and some of it may very well turn up at your door. According to police, between January first and seventh, approximately seventy-seven head of cattle disappeared from the Negroman Farm, located off the Western Highway between San Ignacio and Benque Viejo. With […]
Written on January 8, 2003 | Posted in
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Illegal fishing is back in the news tonight as police on Monday evening intercepted a twenty-five foot skiff with four Mexicans aboard who are suspected of illegally catching conch in Belizean waters. The boat was intercepted near Bacalar Chico at the northern end of Ambergris Caye and contained ten sacks of cleaned conch weighing around […]
Written on January 7, 2003 | Posted in
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Five men are behind bars tonight after they were charged in connection with an attempted robbery that occurred last Thursday. Calbert Carcamo and Vitalino Galiano, both age twenty, were formally charged with the attempt, along with thirty-two year old Carl Westby and forty-four year old Liborio Tun after they allegedly tried to rob thirty-five year […]
Written on January 6, 2003 | Posted in
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A post-mortem has concluded that no foul play–except perhaps his own–was involved in the death of a San Ignacio man whose body was found on Thursday. Medical examinations revealed that fifty year old Santos Velasquez died of asphyxia due to alcohol intoxication. Velasquez was found Thursday morning in Santa Elena lying on the side of […]
Written on January 6, 2003 | Posted in
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San Ignacio police are tonight investigating how a man found dead on the road met his maker. According to the cops, just after 8:00 Thursday morning they received reports that a man was lying on the road near the Santa Elena side of the diversion bridge. Officers transported the man to the San Ignacio Town […]
Written on January 3, 2003 | Posted in
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Tonight, a police officer is behind bars at the Hattieville Correctional Facility, charged with murder. Twenty-six year old Police Constable Kevin “Cowboy” Alvarez and his two brothers: eighteen year old Jason Allen Hernandez and twenty-one year old Apolonio Anthony Hernandez appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers to answer to charges of murder and conspiracy to commit […]
Written on January 2, 2003 | Posted in
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A vicious attack on an elderly couple has left a husband in the hospital and a family in shock. According to police, the attack happened at the home of Norman and Ethel Young, ages eighty-seven and eight-four respectively, at number ten King Street in Belize City. Reports are that sometime around 1:00 p.m. on New […]
Written on January 2, 2003 | Posted in
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A baby has died, this time in the village of Burrell Boom in the Belize district. Details are still sketchy, but according to the cops, sixteen month old Myrna Burgess was at home, ostensibly in the care of a fourteen year old relative. The baby’s body was later found in a pool of water in […]
Written on January 2, 2003 | Posted in
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The echo of gunshots rang out in the Buttonwood Bay neighbourhood late Monday night, and in the eerie silence that followed, one family would find their loved one bleeding on the ground. Tonight, his attackers are still on the run. News 5’s Marion Ali reports. Elia Pennil, Sister of Deceased “My neighbour just come and […]
Written on December 31, 2002 | Posted in
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It seems like there’s a cop on every corner and well armed B.D.F. soldiers on every street, but it’s still not enough to completely shut down the seasonal surge in crime. Friday was a particularly popular day for robberies as three were reported. Kira Ferguson told police that she was walking with two female friends […]
Written on December 23, 2002 | Posted in
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Police in San Ignacio believe they have cracked one of the year’s major unsolved crimes in the Cayo District. Today twenty-five year old Guatemalan Alex Santos was arrested and charged with rape and robbery in connection with the September first attack on a number of tourists on the road to El Pilar. Santos, a resident […]
Written on December 20, 2002 | Posted in
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Police tonight are looking for two men whom they believe can answer some questions about a case of forgery. Alexander Reyes of Mahogany Street and Jose Torres of Barrack Road in Belize City are being sought in connection with the attempted cashing of two government vouchers made out in the names of downtown Belize City […]
Written on December 20, 2002 | Posted in
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At first we thought it was a misprint on the police press release. Three hundred thousand dollars is the amount allegedly embezzled over a six week period from the Western Union office belonging to Belize Transportation Agencies on Mapp Street in Belize City. According to the police report, a supervisor noticed something wrong in the […]
Written on December 19, 2002 | Posted in
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Four men will appear in court tomorrow to answer charges of robbery and possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition. The charges against Guatemalans Freddy and Carlos Vasquez, Honduran Porfilio del Cid, and Belizean Kenny de Paz are in connection with Monday evening’s robbery of a Quality Poultry truck near Spanish Lookout. Shortly after the incident, […]
Written on December 18, 2002 | Posted in
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San Ignacio police have captured two men and recovered the cash stolen in an armed robbery on Monday in the Cayo District. Salesman for Quality Poultry, twenty-three year-old Carlos Perez de la Rosa and his assistant, Kevin Tun, were heading from San Ignacio to Spanish Lookout around four-thirty Monday evening when about a mile north […]
Written on December 17, 2002 | Posted in
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Tonight, Independence police are looking for three men in connection with a murder investigation in that southern village. News 5 understands that late Monday night, twenty-eight year old Gilbert “Gilly” Ramclam was last seen driving in a black Suzuki with two other men. That was the last time friends saw Ramclam alive. On Friday afternoon, […]
Written on December 16, 2002 | Posted in
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Last Thursday, fifty-five year old Carmita Garcia was fatally shot after she attacked one of the men who held up her family during a robbery at the Garcia’s house in Bullet Tree Falls. Garcia reportedly chopped one of the culprits with a machete after one of the robbers fired a shot at her son. At […]
Written on December 16, 2002 | Posted in
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A crime spree in the Cayo District by a group of Guatemalan gunmen has left one woman dead and three families terrorized. Police report that the murder took place around 4:00 Thursday afternoon in the village of Bullet Tree Falls. Two masked men entered the house of Isabel and Carmita Garcia with the apparent intent […]
Written on December 13, 2002 | Posted in
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In an update on another murder, police have confirmed to News 5 that their search for the killer of Jairo Lopez is still confined to the area around the scene of the crime. Suspect Juan Manuel Dubon has been sighted on two occasions in the vicinity of Mayan King Farm on the Southern Highway since […]
Written on December 13, 2002 | Posted in
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And in a follow up to another recent death, a post-mortem examination has concluded that a twelve year old boy, who lost his life on Tuesday in a freak accident in a hammock, died of asphyxia due to strangulation. Albin Alvarez of Valley of Peace was alone when he died, but it appears that while […]
Written on December 13, 2002 | Posted in
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A German businessman who is said to have built a financial empire in Belize remains missing tonight, but there are growing doubts that his disappearance is the result of any foul play. Steve Saemmler-Klein, managing director of Butterfield Reimer and Associates, as well as a number of related businesses, has not been heard from since […]
Written on December 12, 2002 | Posted in
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A San Ignacio man has been charged in connection with a shooting and robbery that took place on Tuesday. Hershel Jimmy Brown of a Western Highway address in San Ignacio was charged with the crimes of robbery, wounding and use of deadly means of harm. It is alleged that on Tuesday night he entered the […]
Written on December 12, 2002 | Posted in
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Two more children have lost their lives, the latest in an unusual string of unrelated accidental deaths. On Tuesday night twelve year old Elbin Alvarez of Valley of Peace died suddenly at his home, apparently the victim of a freak accident. His sixty-three year old mother, Irma Alvarez, told police that Elbin was playing in […]
Written on December 11, 2002 | Posted in
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There is news to report on one of the three persons cited as missing on our broadcast of last night…some of it good and some not. The good news for the mother of thirty-nine year old Allison McField is that her son is alive and well. The bad news is that he’s in jail. In […]
Written on December 11, 2002 | Posted in
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A Cayo baker is lucky to be alive tonight after he tried to disarm a gun toting robber. Thirty-nine year old Nelson Alfaro of the Spike of Gold bakery in San Ignacio told police that around 8:00 Tuesday night a masked gunman entered the bakery, pointed his pistol at Alfaro and took three hundred dollars […]
Written on December 11, 2002 | Posted in
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