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Missing persons do not usually occupy a prominent place on this newscast, but tonight the confluence of three separate reports demands our attention. In the first, a Belize City man has reportedly vanished into thin air after he departed for an unknown destination earlier this month. Thirty year old Allison McField left his Antelope Street […]
Written on December 10, 2002 | Posted in
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Police have concentrated their search for a suspect in the chopping murder of twenty year old Guatemalan Jairo Lopez in the same area where the victim’s body was found. Authorities believe that prime suspect, Juan Manuel Dubon, is hiding in the Mayan King Farm area in the Stann Creek District, the same general location where […]
Written on December 10, 2002 | Posted in
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This morning, fifteen year old Michael Faux and his mother Sharon Augustus visited News 5 to complain about an instance of police brutality they claim was committed against the young man. According to Augustus, the police are looking for someone they say was involved in a shooting incident last month and that the person can […]
Written on December 10, 2002 | Posted in
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It is the sixth death of a Belizean child in the last two weeks. And if such tragic events can be ranked in some type of order, then the lost of life that occurred this weekend in Orange Walk, is the most disturbing yet. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This afternoon twenty-three year old Noemi Ordonez was […]
Written on December 9, 2002 | Posted in
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While police in Orange Walk had their hands full this weekend, their colleagues countrywide also experienced their share of stress. In Belize City a Saturday afternoon murder has resulted in the detention of a suspect, but the motive is still not clear. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Police are still trying […]
Written on December 9, 2002 | Posted in
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A twenty year old farmer is dead following a drunken brawl at the Mayan King Farm in the Stann Creek District. Authorities say around 6:30 on Friday evening, Jairo Lopez was allegedly under the influence of alcohol when he got into a misunderstanding with an unidentified man. During the discord, the man chopped Lopez several […]
Written on December 9, 2002 | Posted in
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Tonight, believe it or not, there is a new chapter in the continuing saga of those ten late model vehicles confiscated from John Zabaneh’s Mayan King farm last November. Earlier this year, most of the fancy rides were quietly handed over the Belize Police Department, at least one of them ending up in the hands […]
Written on December 9, 2002 | Posted in
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Police tonight have another murder on their hands. The victim has been identified as Jacob Elias, a Mennonite businessman of Shipyard in the Orange Walk District. On Thursday evening Elias was in the area of Camalote Village, on a mission to purchase some farm equipment, when he was apparently ambushed by a gang of robbers. […]
Written on December 6, 2002 | Posted in
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It’s a crime that is all too common this time of year, but unlike most burglaries, this one had a happy ending…at least for the victim. Marion Ali, Reporting Quick police response and investigation paid off when two suspects were apprehended and the stolen items recovered within twenty-four hours of the crime. Twenty-two year-old Dwayne […]
Written on December 6, 2002 | Posted in
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The request from police press officer G. Michael Reid came in mid-morning: have a cameraman ready, he said, if you want to join us on a raid. And when the call came this afternoon, we were only too happy to tag along. While the mobile dragnet did not net one of Belize’s most wanted, this […]
Written on December 6, 2002 | Posted in
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In other police news, eleven more Cubans remain in police custody after they were found on Thursday stranded in the northern Turneffe islands. Acting Commissioner of Police, Gerald Westby, says they had received reports about the men, and in conjunction with the Immigration Department, a team was dispatched to the scene and the men brought […]
Written on December 6, 2002 | Posted in
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It started as a mystery: why did baby Tiana lose her life? By nightfall, however, although an explanation was at hand, not everyone was ready to let matters rest. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was on the case from morning; her narrative begins at the morgue. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Dana Augustus and Stewart Sutherland, the parents […]
Written on December 5, 2002 | Posted in
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On Tuesday we reported on the tragic accidental death of two babies: one in San Pedro and the other in Hattieville. Today, we regret to announce number three. Few details are available, but a late afternoon release from the Police Department indicates that around 1:55 p.m. a two year old girl was brought to the […]
Written on December 4, 2002 | Posted in
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It is not an unusual story, but it’s still one that needs to be told. Jacqueline Woods reports on an alleged case of brutality on the part of Belize City police. Kimberly Bradley, Homeowner “She was inside the bedroom when the police started to beat the two boys. And I think that is really wrong […]
Written on December 4, 2002 | Posted in
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The accidental death of an infant in San Pedro has led to the suicide of the child’s father. Late Sunday night seventeen month old Osmin Rosa was eating some chicken and began to choke on a bone. His parents, nineteen year old Joycelyn Williams and twenty-five year old Luis Rosa, were unable to help the […]
Written on December 3, 2002 | Posted in
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Another infant has died, apparently of an accident, this time in Hattieville. According to police, around 7:30 Monday morning the lifeless body of one year old Julia Avila was found in a drain not far from her home at mile seventeen on the Western Highway. Julia’s mother, nineteen year old Patricia Myvette, reported that around […]
Written on December 3, 2002 | Posted in
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It doesn’t seem to occur as much as it used to, but now and then there is an escape from Hattieville prison. This morning, one of the facility’s inmates, Michell Miranda, managed to bust out of the minimum security section, but was apprehended this afternoon. Details are sketchy, but we are informed that the twenty-six […]
Written on December 3, 2002 | Posted in
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Seven Cubans who washed up on northern Ambergris Caye last month and were later charged with immigration violations will be allowed to leave Belize, exactly the way they came. The charges against Jaime Sanchez, Enrique Camacho, Ramon Rivero, Alejandro Maury, Roberto Miranda, Armando Quintana, and Luis Maquedo have been withdrawn and an Order to Leave […]
Written on December 3, 2002 | Posted in
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Belize City police are still looking for a man who held up an employee of a local computer firm and then shot him in the knee. The incident unfolded around 3:00 on Friday afternoon. Twenty year old Patrick Peyrefitte, a messenger for Business Computer Systems, told police that he had just arrived at his work […]
Written on December 2, 2002 | Posted in
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While one robber managed to get away with his stolen money, the following night, three men who attempted to hold up a gas station found out that crime is not always easy. Shortly after eight Saturday night, a black jeep Cherokee with tinted windows pulled up at the Buca Shell station at mile two and […]
Written on December 2, 2002 | Posted in
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Having recovered items stolen in a recent robbery, police today formally charged a man for the offence. Nineteen year old Kenroy Clarke has been charged with robbing a salesman of Santiago Castillo Limited on Pen Road two weeks ago. Magistrate Emerita Ascoli granted Clarke bail in the sum of five thousand dollars plus one surety […]
Written on November 28, 2002 | Posted in
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Some determined police work in Toledo has led to the arrest of a gang of armed robbers. Guatemalans Justo Martinez, Roberto Garcia and Jose Garcia are behind bars tonight after they allegedly held up a bus and robbed a gas station. Witnesses say that on Saturday morning around nine, three men–two holding a gun and […]
Written on November 25, 2002 | Posted in
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Two months ago a twenty-one year old Belize City woman, Elizabeth Williams, was shot and killed as she sat watching television in her house on Freedom Street. Today, police have arrested a suspect in that crime. Twenty-five year old security guard, Gregory Smith, of Jane Usher Boulevard, was this morning charged with murder. He appeared […]
Written on November 21, 2002 | Posted in
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Police have also rounded up a suspect in another high profile homicide, this time in Dangriga. Twenty-one year old Darren Chiu of Oak Street in that southern town was arrested on Wednesday and charged with abetment to commit murder. Businessman Wen Dong Liu was shot to death during an attempted robbery on November ninth. Leslie […]
Written on November 21, 2002 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, police today formally charged twenty-five year old Kevin Gonzalez Junior, a chef of San Pedro Town, with murder. Gonzalez was initially charged with conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to commit burglary. The new charge is in connection with the murder of sixty-three year old Justo Jairo Perez, who was bludgeoned to death at […]
Written on November 21, 2002 | Posted in
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