Gas stations continue to be a favourite target for thieves looking for a quick buck. Around 2:00 this morning a pair of armed masked men pulled up to the Texaco Star Mart at the northern entrance to Belize City. Joined by two accomplices waiting in the bushes, the gang overpowered and tied up the security […]
In crime news, police are seeking three suspects in the shooting of a man in Ladyville. Twenty-seven year old Norman Bernard of Belize City told police that while working in Ladyville on Sunday he was threatened, kidnapped and finally shot in the leg before being tossed from the back of a pickup truck. Bernard has […]
Two men from Corozal are dead, believed to have been killed by a man who chartered their boat for a trip to San Pedro. Twenty-seven year old tour operator Jose Majil and his brother in law, Alejandro Arevalo, left Corozal around midday Monday in a white skiff named “Baby Girl”. The man who chartered the […]
We don’t usually run stories about routine marijuana busts, but the latest weed case certainly fits in the category of man bites dog or perhaps bringing coals to Newcastle. It seems that employees at the parcel post were inspecting an express mail package sent to a Belize address from Las Vegas, U.S.A. Inside the parcel […]
We don’t know if San Ignacio police used their newly donated motorcycle to respond so quickly to a call last night, but around 10:45 they managed to arrive at the scene of a burglary just as two suspects were fleeing. According to police, they caught up with one of them, eighteen year old Anwar Awe, […]
This morning in Belize City a man accused of purchasing two adolescent girls as sex slaves and the mother who allegedly sold them were both arraigned in Magistrate’s Court. Seventy-four year old retired businessman John Majarrez was charged with one count of carnal knowledge, one count of indecent assault and two counts of common assault. […]
Just when you thought the sad saga of the uncustomed vehicles found on a farm in the Stann Creek District was over, tonight they’re back in the news. A press release from the Ministry of Home Affairs announced today that government’s investigation into the dramatic find is over and the late model trucks are to […]
There are few crime reports that still have the power to shock the Belizean public, but accusations being levelled against a Belize City man have even the police shaking their heads. Based on reports from sisters aged twelve and thirteen, a seventy-four year old retired businessman has been detained since Tuesday night. His alleged crime? […]
A Belize City hot dog vendor is recovering from a chop wound tonight after being attacked and robbed shortly before midnight on Tuesday. Twenty-three year old Jose Guillem told police that around eleven that night he was standing in front of his house on Cran Street selling hot dogs when two young men walked up […]
Another gas station in Belize City has reported being the victim of a break-in and robbery. Reports are that sometime between Monday night and Tuesday evening, as many as five men ambushed the night watchman of the Bel-China Texaco and tied him up. With security out the way, the men then gained access to the […]
While Placencia police try to solve one mystery, another has been resolved. The body found Saturday in a drain at the Sagitun banana farm has been identified as twenty-seven year old Salvadoran, Jose Angel Nunez. Nunez was a worker at the same farm. Two men have been arrested in connection with the death: eighteen year […]
Tonight police are still searching for a man believed to be part of a gang of thieves that stole one hundred thousand dollars from a San Ignacio resident. Police say around 3:00 a.m. on Saturday, they were tipped off that there was a robbery taking place at the home of Zane Robinson on Orange Walk […]
Placencia police are still trying to determine the identity of a man found dead in the drain near a banana plantation. Employees from Sagitun Banana Farm reported to police that on Saturday they found a man laying face up in one of the drains on the property with several injuries to his head and showing […]
Over the weekend a Belize City business, just up the street from the Queen Street police station, was held up at gunpoint and robbed. Manoj Sharma, owner of Save-A-Lot supermarket, says the incident unfolded around 7:00 that night when four men entered the establishment. Sharma says three of the men were armed with handguns and […]
A Sunday afternoon bar brawl has left a man from the Orange Walk District suffering from gunshot wounds to his face. Details from police are sketchy, but apparently Ramiro August and a man identified only as “Julio” started fighting. August says his opponent pulled out a gun, hit him over the head several times with […]
Civilians weren’t the only ones dodging bullets over the weekend, as Belize City cops were fired upon while on duty. In the early morning hours of Sunday, officers were on mobile patrol near Central American Boulevard when they heard gunshots ring out. Police turned into Sarstoon Street where they spotted a lone cyclist, who according […]
A lunchtime robbery at a Buttonwood Bay home has left one Belize City woman several thousand dollars short. According to Lavern Swift, on Thursday between 12:30 and 1:00 in the afternoon, a thief or thieves broke into her home on Park Avenue and stole her VCR, computer, and a collection of compact discs. Swift has […]
Tonight, a man remains in the custody of San Pedro Police as officers from the island investigate a report of rape, even though new information suggests it might be a mischievous act. According to police, a twenty-year old woman originally told them that she was at a hotel in town when she went to use […]
Three fishermen from across the border are tonight in police custody after they were busted plying their trade in Belizean waters. The three Hondurans, identified as Marcus Castillo, Walter Perez and a sixteen year old minor, were intercepted by a Belizean patrol off the Dangriga shore this afternoon. According to Fisheries Inspector Errol Diaz, the […]
A man from Ladyville is tonight bemoaning the loss of several of his personal items after his home was burglarised on Wednesday. Jim Duncan, a resident of Vista del Mar, says that sometime between 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., a thief or thieves broke into his house and stole clothes, jewelry and other articles valued […]
He was detained shortly after the shooting death of Mark Henry on Saturday. Today, twenty-three year old Jason “Soup” Williams was charged with the crime of murder. Henry was shot twice on Waight Street in the Yabra area of Belize City.
The proprietor of a Belmopan fried chicken emporium is recovering from a knock to the head after he tried to resist an armed robbery. Forty year old Jang Shi-fa told police that around 9:00 Sunday night, four men came into his establishment on Hummingbird Avenue and place their orders. One of them soon produced a […]
On Saturday, a Belize City man was gunned down and left to die on the street. According to police reports, twenty-nine year old Mark Henry was on Waight Street in the Yarborough Area when he was shot twice. Police have since detained two people: Henry’s ex-girlfriend and another young man. While police have yet to […]
In other crime news, a Belize City man has been found beaten and barely conscious. According to police, on Thursday officers were called to an area just off St. Joseph Street where they saw a man with injuries to his face, head and ear lying in the drain. The man was rushed to the K.H.M.H. […]
Meanwhile, police say a man found dead in San Pedro was electrocuted. According to reports, around 10:00 Thursday morning, police went to a house in an area known as Merida where they saw a man lying face up on the ground. The man has since been identified as Jimmy Wade. Police now believe that around […]
