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There has been a lot of controversy lately over the Corozal Free Zone and the role it plays in siphoning off Belize’s hard currency. But a police report today indicates that currency violations are not the only illegal activity taking place in the zone. Based on complaints from the Microsoft Corporation, police on Friday arrested […]
Written on December 17, 2001 | Posted in
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In violent crime news, a Chinese restaurant in Belize City was jacked on Thursday night. Chen Jian Hong, owner of Hong Mei Restaurant on Church Street, reported that after being served their food, three men pushed him down, tied him and his wife up and proceeded to help themselves to whatever they could find. They […]
Written on December 14, 2001 | Posted in
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While the three Church Street jackers are still at large, one man who’s not so lucky is twenty-eight year old Sebastian “Sabe” Nunez. Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord has sentenced Nunez to a relatively light two years behind bars for the theft of fifteen thousand dollars. It can be recalled that Nunez snatched a bag from […]
Written on December 14, 2001 | Posted in
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Forensic examinations on the bodies of two men found near the Guatemalan border in the Chiquibul National Park have determined the men were shot to death. Belizean pathologists conducted autopsies on the bodies on Tuesday and have concluded that firearm wounds, believed to be from shotguns, are the cause of death in both cases. The […]
Written on December 12, 2001 | Posted in
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A twenty-six year old man is recovering in the Southern Regional Hospital after he was shot on Wednesday night. Ian Chui of Dangriga Town told police that around 10:30 that night he was standing on the Stann Creek Valley Road when he was shot by a gunman hidden in the dark. Chui, who cannot supply […]
Written on December 6, 2001 | Posted in
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In recent weeks, the town of Dangriga has witnessed a spree of violent crime that has frustrated authorities and struck fear in the hearts of citizens. But tonight police believe that the wave of terror experienced in Dangriga was the work of one man…and he is now behind bars. Glenn Augustine was arrested on Saturday […]
Written on December 4, 2001 | Posted in
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Police in the north are tonight on the lookout for a man from Trial Farm who they believed tried to murder another villager over the weekend. According to reports, around 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, twenty-one year old Jose Luis Cocom got into an argument with another man, identified as Coperino Castro. It is believed Castro […]
Written on December 3, 2001 | Posted in
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Night or day, morning or afternoon, it seems that no time is off-limits for hold-ups. No less than six robberies over the weekend have netted the bad guys close to seven thousand dollars in cash and jewelry. We’ll start with the biggest rake. According to police reports, around 11:00 a.m. on Friday, Augustine Benjamin, driver […]
Written on December 3, 2001 | Posted in
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An early evening fight in Ladyville has left one man dead, another hospitalized and three more in police custody. According to police, eighteen year old Garett Betancourt of Flamboyant Crescent in Ladyville got into a fight with twenty-five year old Francis Bustamante of Lord’s Bank Village. Someone pulled out a knife and when the dust […]
Written on November 30, 2001 | Posted in
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With the number of armed holdups being reported to the police these days, it’s no longer a question of just where did it happen but rather, how big the guns were and how much did they get. The latest victim having a string of bad luck appears to be Southern Choice Gas Depot on the […]
Written on November 30, 2001 | Posted in
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The body of a man has been found in the Mopan River near the Western Highway. Police reports are that on Thursday, San Ignacio officers found the lifeless body of a Hispanic man partly submerged in the river bearing visible signs of violence. The body carried no means of identification, but police believe he was […]
Written on November 30, 2001 | Posted in
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In crime news, two armed men have knocked off a shop in Progresso Village in the Orange Walk District. The bandits entered Tony’s Store around seven-fifteen Wednesday night, walking off with the cash register and eleven hundred dollars. Meanwhile in Belize City, officials of St. John’s Credit Union have determined that the take in Wednesday’s […]
Written on November 29, 2001 | Posted in
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It’s a place where hardworking Belizeans come regularly to save and borrow. Today, unfortunately, it was also a place where those too lazy, crazy or desperate to work for an honest paycheque decided to strike–in broad daylight in the heart of the city. Janelle Chanona has the story. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Just after 2:00 this […]
Written on November 28, 2001 | Posted in
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While police may have been too late to foil the gunmen on Basra Street, they had better luck on the Northern Highway. The department reports that on Tuesday night just after 10:00 a bicycle patrol spotted two men donning masks and entering the Highway Grocery near the entrance to Belama. The P.C., assisted by two […]
Written on November 28, 2001 | Posted in
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A Cayo man is in prison tonight, charged with the rape of a ten-year-old girl. The child’s mother told police that on Saturday, seventeen year old Antonio Zetina of Santa Elena, a labourer hired to do yard work, entered the house and had intercourse with her daughter. A subsequent medical examination confirmed that the child […]
Written on November 27, 2001 | Posted in
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Police have made arrests in two recent armed robberies. In Orange Walk, twenty-eighth year old Javier Salazar has been charged with conspiracy to commit robbery for his role in Saturday morning’s hold up. Salazar is accused of being one of three heavily armed men who jacked Jaime Bustillo as he walked down the street. Police […]
Written on November 27, 2001 | Posted in
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In other police news Albert Haylock has been slapped with multiple charges arising from Saturday’s hit and run death in San Ignacio. In addition to manslaughter by negligence and related traffic offences, Haylock has also been charged with drunk driving. Forty-seven year old Leslie Guy was killed when Haylock ran into him at around eleven […]
Written on November 27, 2001 | Posted in
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Also in crime news, the bad guys might have used some big guns but they made off with petty cash. According to thirty year old Jaime Bustillo, he was on Guadelupe Street in Orange Walk Town at about 1:00 a.m. when he was approached by three persons in a blue car. Bustillo says two dark […]
Written on November 26, 2001 | Posted in
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Ten late model vehicles seized by police from a Stann Creek warehouse remain impounded in Belmopan, while authorities try to sort out whether or not they entered the country legally. Today, News 5 spoke to the vehicles’ owner, John Zabaneh, who told us that the whole case is a matter of miscommunication. Janelle Chanona “The […]
Written on November 23, 2001 | Posted in
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The Police Department has suspended one constable and fired another after they were found negligent in carrying out their duties as investigators in the murder of David Reyes. On November Fourth, Reyes’ decapitated body was found in the Haulover Creek. PCs Kareem Fuller and Kevin “Cowboy” Alvarez were assigned to the case, but after three […]
Written on November 23, 2001 | Posted in
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The police are investigating to see whether officers were justified in firing shots in a residential neighbourhood on Thursday night. The incident took place in the St. Martin De Porres area of Belize City following a chase between authorities and a car thief. Earlier that afternoon the suspect brazenly stole a late model Mitsubishi Montero […]
Written on November 23, 2001 | Posted in
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Police have impounded ten late model vehicles found in a Stann Creek warehouse on the suspicion that they were stolen and illegally imported. The vehicles: four Toyota Hi-Lux pickups, two Toyota Prados, two Four Runners, one Nissan Patrol and two Dodge Caravans were seized from a building at John Zabaneh’s Mayan King Farm at the […]
Written on November 22, 2001 | Posted in
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In more crime news from the south, a Dangriga bar owner lies in serious condition after he was shot last night in a robbery attempt. Police report that thirty-six year old Desidora Maldonado was shot in the left side of his chest around 10:30 after he failed to comply with an armed assailant’s demand for […]
Written on November 22, 2001 | Posted in
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Two men are hospitalised tonight after they were attacked in Sandhill just after midnight this morning. According to police, sixty-four year old U.S. citizen John Craver and forty-one year old Wayne Cattouse arrived at Craver’s house on mile seventeen on the Northern Highway, only to surprise two men who were in the process of burglarising […]
Written on November 22, 2001 | Posted in
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Police are tonight focussing on a Mexican connection in the murder of two Belize City men early Sunday morning. Investigators believe that Edward Felix and Anthony Haylock, proprietor and employee of Trends Guesthouse on Freetown Road, may have been killed by a trio of guests at the establishment who checked in but apparently left without […]
Written on November 21, 2001 | Posted in
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