Two brothers, one of them a police officer, have been arrested and charged for a series of violent crimes in Ladyville. Twenty-two year old cop Alden Martinez and his twenty-four year old brother, Adoinez Martinez, both of La Democracia, are accused of firing shots and stealing the bikes of two men on Saturday night on […]
One of five men shot by police Friday in Toledo is recovering from his wounds at the K.H.M.H. Eugenio Cuk was reported in serious but stable condition while two others, Santiago and Sebastian Putul, were treated at the Punta Gorda hospital. Cyriano Chuc and Alfredo Chen were declared dead on arrival in P.G. on Friday. […]
In other crime news, Edwin Flowers has been arrested and charged with murder in the death of Ashley Smith. Fourteen-year-old Smith was killed on Wednesday night as he and Flowers struggled over a screen door at a house on Vernon Street.
Details, as we frequently say, are sketchy, but what we do know is that an armed confrontation in the Toledo village of Otoxha has resulted in the death of two villagers and the wounding of three others. The victims were all shot by police. Dead are Alfredo Teck and Seriano Choc, while the wounded–and we […]
5 young men detained yesterday for the assault and robbery of a Belize City shopkeeper have been arrested and charged. Those suspects are twenty-two year old Frank Elijio, twenty-nine year old Kenrick Reneau, twenty-three year old Gregory Casildo, Alex Goff also twenty-three, and twenty-seven year old Bruce Willacy. They have all been charged with attempted […]
While one Chinese merchant remains unconscious, several others have been able to turn the tables on their assailants. On Thursday two men ordered a bucket from twenty-eight year old Ying Kuang-mie and when he opened the burglar gate to bring it out, the men attempted to barge in. That’s when Ying grabbed a knife and […]
Sudden death by gunshot is not a particularly unusual occurrence in Belize City, but a killing last night on Vernon Street has investigators trying to decide whether the death was a tragic accident or something more sinister. But with the triggerman still in hiding, there remain more questions than answers. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has […]
There is much less mystery surrounding another shooting that occurred Wednesday in Belize City. Forty-eight year old Ming Xong-stun lies in a coma at the K.H.M.H. after being knocked in the head during the course of a robbery. According to police, around 4:15 in the afternoon a number of men entered Ming’s shop on Raccoon […]
In Corozal a suspect has been arrested and charged in connection with a shooting and robbery that occurred on Monday. Twenty year old Peter Locke of the Skeleton Town area of Corozal has been charged with two counts of attempted murder, two counts of deadly means of harm and a single count of attempted murder. […]
A man lies in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was mistakenly shot during a hunting trip. Sometime on Tuesday night, forty-one year old Rogelio Coh and thirty-one year old Jesus Pott of Guinea Grass decided to go hunting about three miles outside of the village. According to Pott, as they […]
Two persons have been arrested following a police operation in the Cayo District. Around 4:30 on Tuesday evening, officers from Belmopan went into Ontario Village and searched the home of thirty-four year old Michael Patrick Monroe. Inside the house, police discovered a number of firearms and an arsenal of ammunition including a three-five-seven Magnum pistol […]
San Ignacio police are investigating a hold-up and robbery that took place Tuesday night at Western Gas Limited in Santa Elena. Around 6:30 that evening, the company’s manager, Orlando Martinez, two co-workers and a watchman were at the premises when they were held up by three armed masked men. Martinez told the police that the […]
While those two Guatemalans await charges in Cayo, another has been handed over to authorities across the border. This morning one of Guatemala’s most wanted fugitives, Jose David Carrillo, was captured in a predawn raid in the village of San Lazaro in the Orange Walk District. Thirty-eight year old Carrillo, wanted in Guatemala on charges […]
Since it opened its doors in 1995 the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital has taken its share of criticisms, ranging from accusations of shoddy construction to substandard care…but the hit it’s taking this week hurts where the institution can least afford it: right in the pocketbook. Over the last month several hundred thousand dollars was illegally […]
A Belize City man lost his life on Independence Day when he was crushed under the wheels of a truck. According to police, the accident happened around 1:00 on Saturday afternoon. The citizen’s parade had just finished at the Yarborough Green and most of the floats that took part in the event were making their […]
The long holiday weekend saw its share of gunplay. On Saturday a young man was wounded in a scenario that is becoming all too familiar. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting “Eighteen year old Robert “Black” Jones was sitting on these steps with some friends when someone came from the back of the house and fired several shots […]
Shots rang out again in Belize City in the wee hours of this morning. According to police, three gunmen with automatic weapons sprayed two houses on West Canal with bullets leaving two people injured. The shootings, which occurred around 3:30, left twelve year old Victor McKenzie with a hip wound and in the second house […]
A man beaten unconscious, who was originally unidentified, has been I.D.’ed at the hospital. This evening a nurse at the K.H.M.H. gave the name of the mystery patient as her cousin Norman Bernard. Around nine on Saturday night the police found Bernard, who is homeless, lying on the street unconscious at the corner of Santa […]
And in a follow up to a double murder that occurred in the Corozal District on Thursday, a post-mortem has been conducted on the bodies of Enrique Sosa and Adrian Villanueva, both of Paraiso Village. The men, found with their hands and feet tied together, died as a result of fractured skulls. No arrests have […]
It once carried the nickname of Rambo Town, based on its reputation as home to ruthless gunslingers who shot first and asked questions later. The image of Orange Walk may have softened in recent years, but this morning a cold blooded murder reminded residents that old ways die hard. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports from […]
In other crime news, a Belize City man is tonight recovering from chop wounds inflicted by an angry woman. Twenty-two year old Elbert Anderson told police that around 7:30 on Wednesday night he was buying boledo at the corner of Central American Boulevard and Freedom Street when he was accosted by a woman be knew, […]
In the first breakout since Hattieville Prison came under private management, two inmates are tonight on the loose. Two seventeen year old Guatemalans, Oscar Cardosa and Miguel Angel Gregorio, were working outside the prison compound on a labour gang on Tuesday morning when they slipped away from their supervisors. Although the two men carried machetes, […]
Details are still sketchy but tonight, Corozal police are investigating the mysterious deaths of two men from Paraiso Village. According to police, the men, identified as thirty-three year old Enrique Sosa and twenty-nine year old Adrian Villanueva, were found dead with their hands and feet bound, six miles north of Corozal Town on the Northern […]
In crime news, a member of the police force has been placed under arrest and charged with theft. It is alleged that constable Robert Williams tried to wap (dupe) a fellow officer out of his share of a seven hundred and ninety-six dollar paycheck that was made out in both officers’ names. Williams will go […]
Believe it or not, there was other news in Belize today and amidst getting ready for today’s event at the Radisson we managed to gather at least some of it. In the Cayo District a man has been charged with murder arising out of an incident on Saturday night. Twenty-four year old Gilbert Martinez was […]
