The Shell One Stop Gas Station at the corner of Cemetery Road and Central American Boulevard has once again been robbed. On Thursday morning around 11:00, two men approached a pump attendant, and asked him to change a twenty. When the attendant pulled out the cash one man grabbed all his money, amounting to a […]
The victim of a shooting in the Cayo District was not so fortunate. Presentacion Chavez, proprietor of a bar in Duck Run Village near Spanish Lookout, was shot in the stomach during the course of a robbery committed by four men on Thursday night. The robbers stole an undetermined amount of money from the bar […]
Yet another Belize City security guard has had his gun stolen while on the job. According to police, Jeffrey Olivera, a K.B.H. security guard, was working at the B.E.L. compound on the Northern Highway. Olivera says he was patrolling the yard just before 5:00 on Wednesday morning when two men walked unto the property armed […]
Another Belize City security guard has been murdered, and while the latest killing appears to have a different motive than most, it does little to change the reality of what has become the nation’s most dangerous line of work. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Forty-year-old security officer Emilio Miller had just reported to duty […]
A company in the Corozal Free Zone is in big trouble tonight, accused of trying to smuggle a container of duty free goods out of the zone and into the rest of Belize where customs duties are a fact of life. According to a release from the Customs Department, Ejosmirga Limited, and a company truck […]
There is sadness associated with our lead story tonight, and it goes beyond the sadness invariably associated with sudden and violent death. Perhaps it is the suspicion that brutal gangland style killings, even a double-murder like that which occurred in Belize City this afternoon, no longer have the power to shock, offend and anger. And […]
He had been arrested forty-three times and was the subject of eight convictions, all at the tender age of twenty-two. But early Sunday morning the criminal career of Roque Rosado came to an abrupt end, when he was shot dead by residents of a house he was trying to rob. When police arrived at 88 […]
Another Chinese-owned business was robbed by armed bandits, this time in the Orange Walk District. The result, however, was different than that in Belize City. According to police reports, Chin Chen-ku and Kwok Kau-chen were inside the Hong Fua Shop just before nine on Saturday night. According to the businessmen, three masked men, one of […]
The victims of a break-in in the nation’s capital say that nothing was taken, but the mere breach of security is still frightening. According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Department of Immigration was forcibly entered sometime on Saturday, the intruders gaining entrance by tampering with the door locks. A preliminary investigation by Director […]
Today was a homecoming of sorts for two of the most notorious individuals in the annals of Belizean crime. From touchdown at the P.G.I.A. to arraignment at Magistrate’s Court, the large and boisterous crowds of onlookers made it clear that for the law enforcement community, it would not be business as usual. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting […]
As Pipersburg and Robateau bed down for their first of what may be many nights in Hattieville Prison, they find themselves in an institution that is itself the subject of controversy. News 5 has learned that as the result of alleged misconduct during an attempted escape by several prisoners at the end of May, three […]
Many Belizeans will sleep more soundly tonight, armed with the knowledge that two of the most wanted fugitives in Belizean history have been captured. The story of how accused quadruple murderers Leslie Pipersburg and Patrick Robateau wound up in the custody of Mexican authorities is only just emerging, but on the basis of information from […]
With the news of the big bust in Mexico, another capture–this time by local cops–has been pushed to page two. But it’s still a big story. On Tuesday night, Punta Gorda police with the support of the Belize Defence Force captured escaped prisoner, Mervin Reyes. Around midnight, one of the soldiers sighted Reyes walking on […]
It would have been one more headache for a law enforcement community already suffering from a massive migraine… But fortunately, disaster was averted last night as police and prison officers captured a convict who had escaped from Hattieville that afternoon. Officials from the Department of Corrections report that around 1:30 on Monday twenty-year-old Chester Norales […]
Counterfeit tens and twenties continue to show-up in Belizean cash registers at an alarming rate. Since the weekend, bogus bills have been reported showing up at B.T.L., Belize Water Services, Princess Hotel, Lands Department and a bar in Corozal. The serial numbers match those included in the list published last week, with the addition of […]
Diabetes is one of the fastest growing medical problems in Belize…and the disease doesn’t go away just because you happen to be a guest in Her Majesty’s prison. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting On Thursday, twenty-two year old Gian Godoy was remanded to Hattieville prison after he failed to make bail on […]
The question of why possession of a half ounce of marijuana leads to being remanded at Hattieville is a legitimate concern that we’ll leave for another day…but suffice to say that, like in the larger society, drugs in Hattieville prisons are a fact of life. This morning a security detail discovered three parcels of compressed […]
Belize City tallied another murder on Thursday when thirty-three year old Mark Anthony Dougal, died of injuries suffered in the wee hours of that morning. The weapon of choice was neither a gun nor a knife, as it appears that Dougal, no stranger to the law, died from a massive beating, likely at the hands […]
A post-mortem was conducted this morning on the body of a man shot by police in Corozal. While we have not yet been able to obtain the official results, a family member is satisfied that, contrary to earlier allegations, Francis Diego was indeed shot in the legs and not the back. What is still unresolved, […]
Sometime after one this morning, thieves broke into Ladyville Technical High School. This evening police were at the scene collecting evidence that may lead them to the criminals. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting At this time, the police do not have any suspects, but strongly believe that whoever broke into Ladyville Technical […]
More counterfeit currency has turned up in Belize City as police reported three incidents on Wednesday alone. The forgeries are very high quality and the counterfeiters have wisely confined their fakes to twenty and ten dollar denominations so as not to arouse the suspicions associated with blue notes. Police say that some of the serial […]
Closure in the death of Corozal’s Francis Diego is still at least a day away as a post-mortem scheduled for this morning in Belize City was postponed. The reason was the Diego family’s inability to secure transport to the K.H.M.H. to witness the procedure. Diego, a familiar figure to Corozal law enforcement authorities, died on […]
The Co-operatives Department said all along that irregularities at Corozal’s St. Francis Xavier Credit Union would result in criminal charges…and this week that prediction came true. Rafael Dominguez, a field officer with the credit union, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with forgery and claiming of a document. The charges follow an investigation by the […]
A suspect shot by police in Corozal has died of his wounds and the man’s family is contradicting the official story of his death. According to police reports, around noon on Tuesday officers in Corozal visited the home of Francis Diego in order to affect his arrest. They say that when Diego was being apprehended, […]
Meanwhile, in Belmopan a Guatemalan resident has been arrested and charged with murder. Deris Antonio Torres, who lives in the Riviera neighbourhood of the nation’s capital, is believed to be responsible for the killing of Honduran Adoli Moralez. The decomposed remains of Moralez were discovered yesterday by police buried in a shallow grave on a […]
