A daring daylight robbery has left Placencia police scouring the peninsula for three bank robbers. Reports are that around 1:30 this afternoon three masked men armed with shotguns walked into the Atlantic Bank branch and demanded money. After receiving an undisclosed amount of cash, the men got away by stealing a bank vehicle from the […]
Tonight, yet another senseless murder has been added to the list of Belize City crimes. Men have died for dogs, been murdered for mangoes, and iced over an ideal. On Thursday, a storage worker was butchered for his bike. Ann-Marie Williams reports. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Russell Smith, a storage worker in his late forties, met […]
Tonight the police need your help in identifying a female body found this morning at a dumpsite off the Western Highway. Around 11:00 a.m., Hattieville police, acting on a tip, went to the Boom/ Hattieville dumpsite, where they found a woman’s body. Police say there was blood coming from her nose and marks on her […]
Tonight Belmopan police are still searching for clues after a former colleague was found murdered just off the Hummingbird Highway. On Wednesday, the body of forty year old Raymond Olivera, a retired police corporal, was found about two hundred yards off the highway near Ring Tail Village, which is located near Blue Hole National Park. […]
It seems it’s open season on Cayo businesses as yet another armed hold-up has been reported to police. According to forty-five year old Chen Weibin, around nine on Tuesday night, three masked men, one of them armed with a shotgun, entered his restaurant– First Stop in Santa Elena–and demanded money. They searched the place and […]
Meanwhile police say they have arrested and charged four young men for their involvement in a bar fight in San Ignacio that left another man in a coma. Nineteen year old Darwin Mendez, twenty-three year old Calvin Welch, twenty year old Willy Aguirre and a sixteen year old have all been charged with dangerous harm […]
A bar brawl has left a popular young man clinging to life in a coma, while his family prays for his recovery and hopes for justice. Police say they visited the Coconut Bar in the Savannah area of San Ignacio where they found blood on the floor, broken chairs and stones. Patrons at the bar […]
An inmate from Hattieville is in serious condition at the K.H.M.H. tonight after he was stabbed in a fight on the prison compound. According to Major Earl Gentle, Superintendent of Prisons, Leon Castillo, an inmate of the maximum-security block was in the yard for recreation time when he got into a fight with three other […]
A robbery over the weekend has netted three bad guys an undisclosed amount of cash and goods. Police say around 3:00 a.m. on Sunday three men ambushed twenty-seven year old Mackenson Semeranct, a security guard working at Ramon’s Gas Station in Belize City, tied him up and left him behind the building while they ransacked […]
Dangriga police are tonight looking for two men who held up patrons at a local bar in the early morning hours of Thursday. According to police reports, around 1:00 a.m. two masked men armed with a gun and a knife walked into the Malibu bar and demanded money. The four people inside at the time, […]
A San Ignacio woman has been conned out of sixty thousand dollars and has nothing to show for it. Police say forty-five year old Nora Torres, a businesswoman of a West Street address in San Ignacio reported that between September 2000 and 2001 she paid out the money to one Marchelian Stratmore Requena. According to […]
In other crime news, police report that another Chinese owned shop has been hit by robbers. This time the victim was sixty-five year old Zhang Young Sa, proprietor of a store on North Front Street. Zhang says that after 11:00 Monday morning three men entered his place and ordered beers. When one of them asked […]
A shooting incident over the weekend has resulted in a Belize City man being injured. According to police reports, forty-two year old Albert Myers of Neal Penn Road was shot in his lower back on Saturday night. Myers told police that he was in the vicinity of the Bismarck Club around 9:00 p.m. on Saturday […]
Three Guatemalans are tonight charged with drug trafficking after police busted them with almost thirty pounds of weed. According to officers on mobile patrol in Orange Walk, on Friday they spotted three men walking down the street carrying backpacks and acting highly suspicious. Police stopped and searched the men and found fifteen point eight pounds […]
In late breaking news, rumours were rife this afternoon that a dead body discovered today near the village of Maskall was that of Kirk “Psycho” Thompson. News 5’s Ann-Marie is in Maskall and while she is still not in clear cell-phone range, she has confirmed that police in Maskall have concluded that a body found […]
Yesterday she turned herself in and today she has been charged with a number of crimes. Doris “Munchie” Martinez, the Belize City woman who threw acid into a crowd of domino players was today hit with four counts of common assault and one each of maim, harm, grievous harm, wounding and damage to property. Along […]
In justice that was much longer in coming, P.C. Jacinto Roaches has been charged with manslaughter by negligence and causing death by careless conduct–for a traffic mishap that occurred over two years ago. Roaches was driving Supreme Court Justice John Rivero from Belize City to Belmopan on the evening of August twenty-third, 1999, when he […]
In other crime news, police have arrested two Belize City men suspected of breaking into Delta Store on Albert Street. Twenty-one year old Edward Neal of Mohammed Ali Street and twenty-three year old Brent Gonzalez, a resident of Berkley Street, have been charged with the burglary of the store, which occurred in the wee hours […]
Doris “Munchie” Martinez, the woman being sought by police for throwing acid in the face of a group of Belize City domino players, has turned herself in to authorities. According to her common law husband, Frank Armstrong, Martinez called him this morning and he advised her to turn herself in. She agreed and he picked […]
A man accused of beating his pregnant wife unconscious is tonight still in custody waiting to be charged. According to police, thirty-eight year old Clifton Davis will be charged tomorrow with aggravated assault for the weekend incident in which Alice Corpius, his eight-month pregnant common-law wife, was viciously beaten and left for dead in Democracia […]
A security guard has been found dead on the Southern Highway. According to police reports, seventy-seven year old Harwin White, a security guard for K and W sawmill, located near Georgetown, was last seen at his post on Sunday night at 8:00, but around 7:30 on Monday morning the relief officer found him dead on […]
Police are tonight on the lookout for a teenager who witnessed a grisly crime in which a pregnant woman was beaten senseless and left for dead near La Democracia over the weekend. According to police, on Saturday night thirty year old Alice Copus, mother of three and eight months pregnant, was travelling with her common-law […]
An acid toting bembe intent on executing a little country justice in a Belize City nightspot has left eight people suffering from multiple burns. According to police reports, Dorris Martinez, also known as Munchie, entered the Zone nightclub on Slaughterhouse Road around 5 o’clock on Sunday afternoon, armed with a bottle of acid and on […]
The Belize City man who allegedly chanced a police constable on New Year’s eve has been apprehended. Nineteen-year-old Kareem Barona of Dunn Street was arrested and charged on Thursday with the crime of robbery. P.C. Ronald Vernon claims that while off duty on Hyde’s Lane in the wee hours of January first, Barona became abusive, […]
In Belize City crime news, two men have been detained for a heist, which occurred over the weekend at a popular business establishment. Sometime between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, thieves lifted an iron safe and cash register from Dave’s Furniture World on Basra Street. The undisclosed amount of money they found inside must have […]
