Violence among and between gangs is not the only type of crime ravaging Belize City. Police report that on Tuesday afternoon a pair of armed robbers knocked off a retail store in the Coral Groves area. One of the jackers pointed a sawed off shotgun at Samir Hamze, proprietor of Hamze Mart, and relieved him […]
And in a follow up to a story we reported last night, twenty-two year old Dean Cain has pleaded guilty to possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition and was fined one thousand, five hundred dollars for each of the two offences. It was Cain’s loaded gun left with his girlfriend, Kira Plunkett, that was […]
We are used to drivebys, ridebys and walkbys, so Belize City’s latest firearm fatality should not surprise us. In fact, with so many guns in so many irresponsible hands, the real surprise is that there aren’t more tragedies like the one that occurred on Sunday morning. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The point twenty-two […]
Around 7:00 on Saturday night a hail of bullets rang out along West Canal in Belize City. By the time the shooting was over, twenty-five year old Darrel Anthony “Bagga” Jones lay on the ground in a pool of blood. Witnesses in the area told News 5 that Jones was by the Quack Spot Club […]
The sighting of a man on the street who is either drunk, stoned or mentally ill is not a particularly unusual occurrence. But when the person in question is in possession of a loaded AK 47 assault rifle, things tend to get interesting. That’s the situation faced by police on Sunday in Belize City. They […]
While the man with the AK 47 may have been acting under the influence, a gang of prison inmates knew exactly what they were doing when they tried to dig their way to freedom. Ann-Marie has the story from Hattieville. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Four prisoners tried to escape from the medium security section of the […]
In recent days security guards have become a preferred target of thieves looking to rob them of their firearms. Last night another guard was attacked…and is now in the hospital with a gunshot wound. Peter Scott, a thirty-six year old Jamaican employed as security for Bowen and Bowen on King Street, told police that around […]
Burglars were also out in force this week, striking in four far-flung parts of the country. A marina in Sittee River was broken into and goods valued at over thirteen thousand dollars were taken. One suspect has been detained and another is being pursued. In Orange Walk, police are still investigating the theft of five […]
That initiative cannot get underway too soon as Belizean youths continue to attack each other on a daily basis. This morning in Belize City a driveby shooting left one man injured and another detained pending charges. James Swan Junior is in police custody after he was identified by shooting victim Alfred Conorquie as the man […]
As long as there are guns, there will be shootings…and today one more firearm is in criminal circulation. According to police reports, twenty-year-old security guard David Baptist was on duty Wednesday night at Belize Water Services when four armed men put a revolver to his head and relieved him of his Taurus brand nine millimetre […]
Mayflower Street is back in the news tonight…and not because of a politician’s visit or community cleanup campaign. It’s the vicinity where police this morning apprehended one of their most wanted, Kevin Dawson. Dawson, better known as “Possum” is the prime suspect in the shooting death of nineteen-year-old Eurdene Sterling. Sterling and another man were […]
In crime news police are looking for a suspect in what appears to be a case of arson. Evan Castellanos, a resident of Santa Elena, Cayo was living in a house owned by his sister, Jean Castellanos. She told police that she asked her brother to leave the premises, but he became angry and threatened […]
Also in the twin towns, San Ignacio police have arrested a suspect whom they believe beat and robbed a man early Monday morning. Around 2:00 a.m. twenty year old Richard Contreras allegedly approached thirty-six year old Mario Perez outside the Shining Star Bar in San Ignacio and hit him across the head with a bottle, […]
An elderly businessman from Roaring Creek has reported being robbed at gun and knifepoint. According to seventy-five year old Hsi Hong, around 11:00 on Monday night, he was inside his bar with three customers when two masked men, armed with a nine millimetre pistol and knife respectively, burst into the room. Hsi says the bandits […]
A payroll heist on Friday afternoon in Belmopan netted thieves nine thousand dollars, and has left over fifty workers out of a job. Employees of Caribbean Investors Limited, located on the Hummingbird Highway across from the agriculture show grounds, say around 3:00 p.m. two masked men emerged from the bush toting handguns. The gunmen demanded […]
Over the weekend, a group of tourists visiting a Maya ruin in the Cayo District became the terrified victims of an armed hold-up. According to the police, on Sunday a tour guide from Benque Viejo took ten visitors to Belize to the El Pilar Maya ruin near Bullet Tree Village. The guide says sometime after […]
Orange Walk police have arrested and charged two Belize City men after they threatened the life of a four year old child in order to steal from his mother. According to twenty-nine year old Hilma Chinchilla, around 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May fifteenth, two men came to her door asking for water. She decided to […]
Thieves were also busy in Belize City, as during the heavy rains of Sunday night, a downtown store was burglarised. The criminals are still on the loose and the owners have yet to determine just how much was taken. Jacqueline Woods has the details. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The hangers the thieves removed the clothes from […]
An early morning attack on Eve Street has left a tourist suffering from a gunshot wound to the head and the criminal on the loose. Twenty-one year old Scott Williams and his friend, twenty-one year old Justin Lannan, visitors to Belize from Texas, have reported to police that around 2:00 this morning, they were walking […]
This morning San Pedro police had their hands full after an early morning stabbing escalated into a shooting incident involving a police officer. Reports are that around 5:30 this morning, fifty-year-old Evelinda Lopez went to the police station to report that she had been stabbed by twenty-nine year old Rutillo Lopez during a fight in […]
In an update to a brutal attack on an elderly couple, tonight we report that while one of the victims has been discharged from the hospital, the other remains in a critical condition. Officials at the K.H.M.H. tell News 5 that fifty-eight year old Emilio Saragoza has been released from the facility, however, the woman […]
Two elderly people are tonight in the hospital after they were viciously attacked on Tuesday night in downtown Belize City by a pipe-swinging assailant. The incident took place around 10:00 p.m. at the corner of Prince and Regent Streets. According to police, fifty-eight year old Emilio Saragoza and sixty-year-old Tomasa Nah, both residents of Belize […]
Five months after the body of a former police officer was found off the Hummingbird Highway, tonight police have charged a Belize City man with murder. On Monday, twenty-one year old Jeremy Harris, a resident of Belama Phase two was charged with murder in connection with the death of forty year old Raymond Olivera, a […]
It’s every woman’s nightmare…but for one young Belize City woman, the experience was all too real. On Sunday night twenty-nine year old Lauren Ciego was sleeping inside her home on Fern Lane when she was awakened by the sound of her bedroom door being pushed open. Ciego says by the time she sat up, a […]
Exactly one year ago today, a fourteen-year-old boy lost the battle for his life after a brutal bar brawl left him in a coma. David Zabaneh Jr. had been a student at Saint John’s College at the time and was out with three friends at Raul’s Rose Garden, a bar and brothel on the Northern […]
