The evidence points to murder, and cops are on the lookout tonight for the man they think did it. The body of nineteen year old Guatemalan, Hector Medrano, was found Monday morning at a house on Police Street in Belize City. A post-mortem exam has now concluded that Medrano had been strangled to death. The […]
A Belize City man is admitted to ward at the K.H.M.H. tonight, the victim of a late night shooting. According to police, around 10:30 on Monday night, twenty-seven year old Russell Hope claims he was walking near the intersection of Kraal Road and Kut Avenue when he was ambushed by a man with a gun. […]
It’s parked properly; the problem is that there just isn’t much left of what was once presumably a car. Police tell News 5 that the vehicle burned to the ground over the weekend. While the cops and firemen arrived on the scene to put out the blaze, the owner, who was seen in the area, […]
Tonight a twelve year old boy is in guarded custody after being arrested and charged for sex crimes committed against his seven year old sister. According to police, the little girl reported that more than once during the month of September, her older brother had sexual intercourse with her. A medical officer has since examined […]
Meanwhile, police are investigating the death of a construction worker in Belize City. Reports are that around ten-thirty this morning the body of nineteen year old Hector Roberto Medrano was found inside a house at number sixty-six thirteen Police Street. Police sources tell News 5 that the cause of death is suspected as strangulation as […]
More often then not, crime news on this broadcast comes by way of a daily press release issued by the police department. This morning, however, rather than waiting by the fax machine, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods and George Tillett were invited to observe our crime fighters in action. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Around 5:30 this morning […]
Tonight, a group of Cuban men are being detained at the San Pedro police station…stranded sailors apparently in search of a more prosperous life. News 5 understands that on Wednesday, Belizean law enforcement officials, acting on a tip, visited an area near Bacalar Chico near the Mexican border and found seven men, between the ages […]
In other news on the subject of immigration, News 5 has learned that the long running criminal investigation into the illegal sale of passports is nearing a conclusion. The results of the police probe are expected shortly on the desk of D.P.P. Kirk Anderson, who will then decide how to proceed. We understand that the […]
We have a correction to a story we reported last night, concerning a shooting that occurred in Belize City. The name of the wounded victim was given to us by the police public relations officer as Glenford “Cracker” Middleton. Today we are informed that the victim was in fact one Albert Middleton. Our apologies are […]
The shooting death of a Dangriga businessman has left a family in mourning and a community up in arms. According to police, fifty-two year old Wen Dong-lui, the owner of Chen Kee Store on Commerce Street, had just opened for business around seven Saturday morning, when two customers, one armed with a gun, entered the […]
A police internal affairs investigation has been launched into the drowning death of a Belize City man. According to the cops, in the wee hours of Saturday morning, twenty-one year old Guillermo Montejo was detained on drunk driving charges. But while he was being transported to the Queen Street police station, Montejo escaped from custody. […]
Police press officer, G. Michael Reid says the department is looking into the family’s allegations, but says so far, their investigation has revealed nothing out of the ordinary. G. Michael Reid “We will do a thorough investigation to find out what exactly occurred. This man was obviously drunk, very drunk, which is the reason he […]
Meanwhile, a recreational stop at the Macal River proved deadly for one Belmopan resident over the weekend. Family members tell News 5 that on Saturday, twenty-two year old Lisani Arzu of Moho Street attended a church leadership group meeting in San Ignacio. As part of the day’s activities, the young people stopped to bathe near […]
In crime news from the city, police are looking for several thieves involved in separate robberies over the weekend. Around nine-thirty on Friday morning, two men, one brandishing a handgun, walked into the office of St. John’s Cathedral on Rectory Lane and demanded money. The cashier handed over approximately seven hundred and ninety dollars in […]
Nobody seems to be making much of an issue about it, but a Belize City man lies in the K.H.M.H. tonight with some serious gunshot wounds. Reports to News 5 indicate that shortly before noon today, Glenford “Cracker” Middleton was hit by several bullets as he hung out in the neighbourhood of King Street and […]
One set of people who are not being shy about talking to the media, live on Raccoon Street Extension in Belize City. They say that last night the only ones doing any shooting were police. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Calvin Richards says there was no reason for the police to fire […]
The Police Department said it would crack down on deportees who failed to report regularly to the cops…and now they’re making good on that threat. According to authorities, they are looking for at least eleven people who have failed to comply with the reporting requirements. Four of those pictured who served time for serious crimes […]
Police in Dangriga are investigating a robbery that occurred at a gas station in that town last night. Attendant at the Esso Havana Service Station, twenty-six year old Patricio Teul, says he was waiting for his boss to return sometime around nine o’clock in order to close up shop. He was inside the office along […]
It is the kind of justice that has become all too rare in Belize. After all, it’s not every day that less than fifty-four hours after the commission of a crime the culprit is caught, charged, convicted, sentenced and serving time at her majesty’s hotel in Hattieville. On Sunday morning the caretaker of a Caye […]
In another action by fisheries officers, four Hondurans have been arrested in connection with the theft of a boat at Glover’s Reef. Brothers Tony and Selvin Martinez, Herman Chavez and Jeraldo Alvarez, all of Tela, Honduras, are in the Queen Street lockup tonight. They are accused of making off with a twenty-five foot skiff belonging […]
In related news, three members of the Belize Police Department travelled yesterday to Poptun, Guatemala, where they got to see a suspect held in connection with last month’s murder of Jalacte Alcalde, Antigonus Garcia. According to police sources, the officers are convinced that the man being held, Edgar Aguilar Lopez, is the same man who […]
An Orange Walk man is dead as the result of a traffic accident on the Northern Highway. Augustine Castillo was crushed to death when the dump truck in which he was a passenger overturned between mile eighty-two and eighty-three. Castillo and Bartolo Mai were riding in the back of the dump truck, which was loaded […]
The search is on for a suspect in connection with the death of a Belize City man. Thirty-three year old Luis Alberto Pinelo, of a Northern Highway address, was found badly injured as the result of a fight he was involved in on Baghdad Street at around 6:00 Saturday morning. Pinelo died of his wounds […]
Meanwhile, a man finds himself in trouble with the law after he allegedly fired shots at his nephew. Fifty-seven year old Elbert Vernon of Belize City has been charged with attempted murder and damage to property. The charges follow a report by his nephew, twenty-two year old Francis Vernon, that in the wee hours of […]
It was as brutal a murder as the island town of San Pedro has ever seen: sixty-three year old Justo Jairo Perez was found bludgeoned to death around four Saturday morning. Robbery appears to have been the motive as Perez was discovered with his hands and feet tied together and his mouth taped shut. His […]
