In other police news, a mother from the Toledo District has been arrested and charged with the murder of her own child. In April of this year, Punta Gorda police detained twenty-four year old Juliana Choc after she gave birth to a baby in an outdoor toilet and left it there. The dead body of […]
Meanwhile, Orange Walk police have arrested and charged a villager from Orange Walk with attempted murder. According to police, on June twenty-second, Rene Miranda, a resident of Yo Creek Village got into an altercation with fellow villager Edwin Castillo. During the scuffle, Miranda was stabbed several times. Following their investigations, police have now charged twenty-three […]
The echo of gunshots on the streets of Belize City has sadly become a fact-of-life, forcing many Belizeans to become unwilling witnesses to one murder after another. In the wee hours of morning today, the residents of Jones Alley in the Conch Shell Bay area was added to that now long list. Jacqueline Woods reports. […]
They were arrested last year in the biggest drug bust in Belizean history–almost three thousand, four hundred pounds of high quality Colombian cocaine. But from the day they were remanded to prison, Mexicans Jorge Moreno, Victor Carasco and Oscar Aguirre represented a nightmare for the Belizean law enforcement system. As their trial dragged on in […]
They found the body late yesterday evening and today police are looking for a suspect in the murder of a Corozal taxi driver. Thirty-six year old Samuel Carter had been missing for almost two days when his corpse was discovered around 6:00 p.m. outside of Corozal Town on the road to the Progresso ferry. Police […]
He had been missing for forty-eight hours and this evening the worst fears have been confirmed. A short time ago Corozal police found the body of thirty-eight year old Samuel Carter on the road to Chunox Village. Carter was last seen on Tuesday night around 9:00 and the next morning his abandoned Toyota Corolla was […]
One of Belize’s most wanted is behind bars tonight. Twenty-eight year old Dean Augustine of San Ignacio was handed over to Belizean police on Wednesday by their counterparts across the border in Mexico. Augustine, who was apprehended in Chetumal, was wanted in connection with the April twenty-seventh robbery in San Ignacio of almost one hundred […]
What appeared to be a routine trip to the hospital on Sunday has resulted in the death of a Cayo youth. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods is just off the road with the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting San Ignacio police have launched an investigation into the death of thirteen-year-old Jairo Larios. Inspector Gilroy Nicholas, O.I.C., San […]
Law enforcement officers in the nation’s capital are tonight on a manhunt for two “bad men” while one of their accomplices recuperates in the hospital from gunshot wounds. According to Belmopan police, during their investigation of a series of robberies in several villages along the Western Highway and Belmopan, they found themselves at a home […]
A Caye Caulker policeman has been detained in a bizarre incident that occurred last night in Belize City. Jacqueline Woods reports from the scene on Flamboyant Street. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twenty-three year old Stephanie Francis’ left hand remains bandaged after she tried to protect her common-law husband Mark Arzu from being stabbed to death. Around […]
A man detained in the beating death of his common-law wife has been charged with murder. On Thursday night forty-one year old Gilbert Mayen allegedly got in a fight with twenty-six year old Pauline Williams after which both went to sleep. When Mayen woke up he found his wife dead. A post-mortem determined that Williams […]
Routine busts for crack cocaine don’t usually find their way to this newscast, but the one which occurred on Saturday night definitely rates a mention. When police on mobile patrol searched the premises of thirty-four year old Durant Rhaburn on Dean Street in Belize City they not only found eleven point six grams of crack, […]
In crime news, a Roaring Creek man has been detained after his common-law wife died of injuries following a beating he inflicted on her. According to police reports, forty-one year old Gilbert Mayen told them that he and his wife, twenty-six year old Pauline Williams, got into an argument on Thursday night after they had […]
A Corozal man has been charged with murder after he killed a man who had allegedly stolen from him. Twenty-one year old Roberto Sanker of Carolina Village in the Corozal District was chopped in the head Thursday afternoon and died early this morning at the K.H.M.H. His assailant, thirty-five year old Andrew Pirtu, reported to […]
Another man on remand tonight is Luis Urbina of Orange Walk. On Wednesday we reported on the twenty-two year old’s detention as a suspect in the June crime rampage by a group of men in the northern districts. Today Urbina has been charged with a list of crimes so long that it may take years […]
The case of the heavily armed Mennonites arrested last week in the Cayo District is expanding and today two more suspects were charged, one of them, a police officer. P.C. Ramon Manzanero, currently stationed at San Pedro, was charged with two counts of blackmail and conspiracy to blackmail. Also charged with the same crimes were […]
As we reported on yesterday’s newscast, twenty-two year old Luis Urbina has been detained by Orange Walk police and may face charges in connection with a rampage of murder, rape and robbery that ranged across Corozal and Orange Walk in June. Today, Urbina, who was charged on Tuesday with a long pending drug offence, was […]
A fire this morning on Neal Pen Road has left a house almost totally destroyed and its owner out on the street. Jacqueline Woods reports on a tragedy that may not have been an accident. Cecil Emmanuel, Fire Victim “No, I no save nothing, a boy just gave me this pants. I come out with […]
A man accused of terrorising a Belize City family has been charged by police. Giovanni Lauriano will answer for harm, three counts of aggravated assault, damage to property and burglary. The charges arose from a series of incidents on Saturday night in which the McFoy family alleges that Lauriano, along with two other men, sprayed […]
In another arrest, this time in Orange Walk, police have apprehended twenty-two year old Luis Urbina and expect to charge him with murder and rape. Urbina is the second suspect to be accused in the June thirteenth killing of Susanna Petkau, the attempted murder of her husband Enrique Petkau, and the rape of an Corozal […]
The incident did not end in any loss of life… but considering the amount of lead sprayed around the northside Belize City neighbourhood, it could be considered a minor miracle. Jacqueline Woods reports on a personal vendetta that grew seriously out of control. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Shortly after 8:00 on Saturday night, the McFoy family […]
Forty-nine year old Robert Moore, a U.S. citizen detained last Thursday after he fatally shot a man and wounded his common-law wife, has been charged with murder. Moore, the resident caretaker of Frank’s Caye claims to have acted in self defence after the couple, Paul Westby and Dorla Martin, trespassed on the caye and attacked […]
A thirty-six year old man has been arrested and charged with the rape and indecent assault of a seven-year-old girl. According to San Ignacio police, a man identified as Solomon Mantar, over a period of seven months regularly took the young girl from her mother’s house and had sex with her. Authorities say their investigation […]
Also appearing in San Ignacio Magistrate’s Court this morning, were Cornelio Marten, Jake Dueck Marten, Maria Marten, Judith Marten and a twelve-year old girl. The five Mennonites from the Lower Barton Creek settlement have been charged with a number of crimes including possession of a prohibited weapon, possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition, keeping […]
Forty-nine year old U.S. National Robert Moore remains in police custody at the Punta Gorda police station. Moore, a caretaker of Frank’s Caye, was detained by authorities after he shot Paul Westby and Dorla Martin around 7:30 on Wednesday morning. Westby, who received a gunshot wound to the chest, died on the spot while his […]
