A suspect has been charged in connection with last week’s murder of a Corozal money changer. Twenty-nine year old Jesus Tun of Patchakan Village has been charged with conspiracy to commit robbery and conspiracy to commit murder. On Wednesday morning thirty-three year old Samuel Sanker of San Antonio Village was shot as he headed home […]
In another crime update, the sideman of a Bowen and Bowen truck has been charged in that truck’s attempted robbery. Twenty-nine year old Edilberto Garcia of Ladyville has been charged with abetment to commit burglary for his role in Thursday’s robbery attempt on the old Northern Highway near Corozalito. When Garcia asked the driver to […]
Tonight a convicted murderer and rapist, on the run for more than a year, is dead. Twenty-five year old Estevan Sho was shot and killed by police today in an early morning raid in the village of Red Bank in the Stann Creek District. According to the police, on Thursday the department was tipped off […]
In crime news from the city, tonight Belize City police are looking for a man involved in a ride-by shooting. According to police, around 3:30 on Wednesday afternoon, twenty year old Jervis Valencio was riding his bike on Vernon Street when he passed another cyclist going in the opposite direction. But instead of waving hello, […]
Meanwhile, a bizarre incident on the Maskall Road has left Sandhill police with more questions than answers. According to the cops, two employees of Bowen and Bowen, and their “muscle”: a K.B.H. security guard, were the victims of an attempted robbery, which one of them may have orchestrated. The trio had just left Maskall village […]
Punta Gorda police are tonight investigating a disturbing report made by a nine-year-old girl. On Wednesday, in the presence of her mother, the child told the cops that since 1999 her stepfather had been having sex with her. The time of the abuse would have started when the girl was only six years old. Medical […]
Corozal police have charged one of their own with attempted murder, maim, and deadly use of harm. This follows a shooting yesterday in Chunox Village, which left Mexican national, thirty-eight year old Francisco Burgess, in critical condition in the K.H.M.H. with a bullet wound over his left eye. The officer, Constable Miguel Alpuche, shot Burgess […]
More details are emerging in the murder of a Toledo Alcalde and the subsequent killing of one of his alleged assailants. On October twenty-sixth thirty-three year old Antigonus Garcia, Alcalde of Jalacte Village, was shot to death and twenty-year old Marvin Cuz was wounded when two men from across the border entered Garcia’s house on […]
A Guatemalan murder suspect is dead tonight when, after fleeing the scene of the crime in Belize, his homeland did not prove to be a safe haven. According to Belize police, while their Guatemalan counterparts from San Luis Peten were investigating the murder of Jalacte Village Alcalde, Antigonus Garcia, the two suspects were identified as […]
They were caught red handed with a boatload of illegal seafood…and now the three guilty fishermen have been forced to pay. Following Thursday’s seizure of two thousand, one hundred and sixteen undersized conch, Nelson Garcia and sons Nelson Junior and Paulino have been fined a total of forty-two thousand, three hundred and twenty dollars. That’s […]
Police in Punta Gorda are trying to decide whether a shooting death in Jalacte Village near the Guatemalan border is the result of a previous misunderstanding or a spur of the moment murder in the course of a hold-up. The shooting, which occurred around 9:00 Saturday night, claimed the life of the Alcalde of Jalacte, […]
Police are investigating the motive behind a shooting that has left twenty-seven year old Raymond Gentle in the K.H.M.H. with gunshot wounds to his right chest and left leg. Gentle, who came out of jail two years ago and claims to have gone straight, says he knows his attacker, but he has not had a […]
On Friday we reported on efforts of the police department to keep tabs on Belizeans who have been deported back home after serving time for crimes committed in the U.S.A. Today the police have announced that effective November first, any deportees who fail to keep their weekly appointment with the law will be prosecuted. According […]
Tonight, San Ignacio police are investigating reports of a robbery on the Western Highway. Police sources tell News 5 that two employees of Madisco Marketing and Distribution Company Limited, based in Belize City, allege that while making a delivery on Thursday afternoon in Georgeville, three masked men ambushed the truck and kidnapped them. The driver […]
The family of a young man detained by police has strongly protested actions taken by officers as well as the way the story was reported to the media. Claude Waite with his mother, N-Zinga Barkley-Waite, appeared on KREM Radio this morning to contradict information released by police yesterday about a high speed chase that ended […]
Busting a boat full of illegal seafood is not nearly as sexy as a skiff packed with cocaine…but every day officers of the Conservation Compliance Unit cruise Belize’s waters to protect our marine resources. Today, they hit pay dirt. News 5’s Stewart Krohn reports. Stewart Krohn, Reporting It was a conch lovers dream…and whether you […]
A shootout in the streets of downtown Belize City has left two men in custody and the cops with more questions than answers. According to press officer G. Michael Reid, around 10:00 on Wednesday night a mobile patrol responded to a report of shots fired on Albert Street. When the officers pulled up to the […]
This morning forty year old Prakash Makijani, Manager of Babas Variety Store in Orange Walk Town, was taken by air ambulance to Guatemala City. Makijani was shot in the right side of his face Tuesday evening after three armed men entered the shop and held him up along with two female employees. Business was coming […]
An Orange Walk man who allegedly went on a chopping spree has been captured by police. Eighteen year old Nicholas Keme has been arrested and charged with committing grievous harm against Alex Burke and aggravated assault again Kai Yu. Burke received machete wounds to the face late Sunday, while Yu, in a separate attack, managed […]
The plot thickens in a Cayo shooting that we carried on this newscast last night. Police report that the shooting of twenty-three year old Darwin Soberanis, who was seriously wounded early Monday morning as he entered his yard in San Ignacio, is connected to his role as a key witness in a criminal trial. Thirty-five […]
When shots are fired it’s always cause for concern, but when the apparent target might be a potential witness in a major court case, it raises more than a few eyebrows. Twenty-four year old Jose Lopez reported to police that he was riding his bike on St. Thomas Street at around 9:00 Sunday night and […]
A resident of the Cayo District has been hospitalized after being attacked with a machete. Eighteen year old Thydes Blancaneaux, a resident of Cotton Tree Village, remains in a stable but critical condition at the Belmopan Hospital. Around 5:30 on Thursday evening, Blancaneaux was chopped in the head after he became involved in an argument […]
Over fifty-five thousand dollars worth of equipment and supplies have been stolen in a major heist at Spanish Lookout. Police investigations reveal that the thieves gained access into Reimer’s Feed Mill by using a heavy duty jack to break open the store’s main entrance door. They made off with a Ford pickup filled with farm […]
In crime news, Belize City police have arrested and charged a man in connection with a shooting last Thursday. Nineteen year old Dalton Reneau of a George Street address has been charged with attempted murder, dangerous harm and deadly means of harm. The charges stem from an incident on Friday night when twenty-two year old […]
It’s a scandal that has rocked the Belizean banking industry to the core: a sophisticated ring of thieves that forged cheques to embezzle huge sums of cash from unsuspecting Bank of Nova Scotia customers. Weeks into the police investigation, no one has been arrested. But according to reliable sources, the ongoing joint team of bank […]
