Police are also looking for a group of men who armed themselves with an arsenal of weapons and robbed two Belize City residents on Tuesday night. According to twenty-seven year old Alex Jones, he was hanging out with a friend on the hood of the friend’s car around 8:30 in the North Creek area, when […]
A Belize City resident is tonight charged with attempted rape after he attacked a woman early Saturday morning. According to police, the victim, a thirty-six year old Salvadoran, was sleeping in her home located near the Haulover Bridge, when a man she knew only as “Neto” broke into her house. She reports that the man […]
Long weekends are no strangers to violent crime, but even by the steadily sliding standards of Belizean society the double murder which occurred early Sunday morning in Belize City was a shocker. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Today police were back at Trends Guesthouse scouring for clues in the brutal murders of […]
Gun toting robbers continue to ply their trade at will on the Stann Creek Valley Road. According to police, just after 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, a dark complexioned man entered the offices of the Southern Choice Gas Depot located on mile nine, armed with a handgun and demanded money. Company employee Yvette Salazar handed over […]
It was once famous as the highway that wound its way across narrow bridges and through lush fields of citrus…but in recent months the Stann Creek Valley Road could better be described as crime alley. Last night a well known businessman lost his life in the latest attack on public decency. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Forty-nine […]
In other crimes news Canadian Gary Daniel Hortch, the man accused of trying to knock off San Pedro’s Atlantic Bank, has been charged with the crime of attempted robbery. Armed only with a disguise and paper bag containing a flashlight, Hortch unsuccessfully sought to convince the bank’s manager to part with forty thousand U.S. dollars.
Forty-three year old Gary Daniel Hart, a Canadian national, remains in police custody in San Pedro after he tried to hold-up the town’s branch of the Atlantic Bank. On Tuesday the police told News 5 that they were called by the bank manager and told that a hold-up was in progress. The police ostensibly arrived […]
It may be a sign of the number of guns on the streets or the ever increasing boldness of Christmas crazed criminals, but robberies at gunpoint are these days as regular as rice and beans. On Tuesday in Dangriga, Tackle Gas station attendant Albert Nunez reported to police that a dark male walked onto the […]
In what amounts to one of the more bizarre crimes in the colourful history of Ambergris Caye, this afternoon, San Pedro police successfully foiled a hold-up attempt at the Atlantic Bank. Around 1:30, officers were informed by the bank manager that they were being robbed. The police quickly dispatched a team to the bank where […]
Police have arrested a man from Boom for the mob style murder of a security guard more than a week ago. Twenty year old Dyron Hyde, a resident of Burrell Boom, has been charged with the murder Arthur Segura, a security guard who worked for Cisco Construction. Segura’s body was found on the morning of […]
As the Christmas season approaches, the incidents of robberies and hold-ups continue to rise. On Saturday, a man only described as being of dark complexion and holding a nine-millimetre pistol entered Novelo’s bus terminal on West Collet Canal around eleven-thirty and robbed the cashiers. According to cashier Enfield Gillett, the man pointed the gun at […]
Quick action by police has led to the apprehension of two robbery suspects and the recovery of the stolen goods. According to police reports, Janel Mai of Orange Walk Town, along with a co-worker, were walking through Constitution Park in Belize City around six Tuesday evening when they were held up by two men, one […]
A Belize City man is in the hospital after he was shot in a supermarket on Tuesday night. According to police reports, twenty-nine year old Burak Baysal, a Turkish national, was in Tang’s Supermarket on Vasquez Avenue around 8:00 on Tuesday night when two men approached the store and demanded they be let in. Baysal, […]
In other crime news, a post-mortem conducted on the body of murdered businessman Abdul Sarraj reveals that death came as the result of a blow to the head with a blunt instrument. Sarraj’s decomposed body was discovered Tuesday morning near the Iguana Creek Bridge in Cayo. He had been missing for a week. No suspects […]
The body of a man missing for a week has been found in the Cayo District. Thirty-one year old Abdul Sarraj was found dead near the Iguana Creek Bridge on the outskirts of Spanish Lookout, apparently the victim of murder. The businessman was last seen on the morning of October thirtieth when he left his […]
It has all the markings of a professional hit: a puncture wound to the back of the head, the victim’s body propped up to hide the crime until daylight, and not a motive in sight. The village of Boom Burrell is still coming to terms with the fact that one of their own has been […]
Meanwhile, Three people are tonight in police custody after the decapitated body of man was recovered from the Haulover Creek. According to reports, police have detained three persons after the headless body, later identified as twenty-eight year old Enrique David Reyes, was found floating in the Haulover Creek behind Belama phase one. Reyes was last […]
A daring daylight robbery at a local construction company left four people bound and terrified while thieves made off with close to five thousand in cash, and an assortment of jewelry. According to Claudette Mejia, of Mejia Construction Supplies, she, three employees and a customer were in the company’s main building at mile three on […]
A woman from Stann Creek has been charged with child abandonment after her children were found suffering from extreme malnutrition. According to police, Human Development Officer Anthony Lino, went to the home of Dangriga resident Victor Martinez where he saw three children with open cuts, scratches and wearing extremely soiled clothing. The human development officer […]
The drugs might have already been destroyed, but the accused traffickers are still getting used the to loss of their liberties. The four men and one woman appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court this morning to plead for bail. The already sensational case has gained even more hype after local media revealed that one […]
In crime news, a shooting incident on Wednesday in San Pedro has left a man injured. According to police, twenty year old Victor Garnett, a fisherman of the San Juan area of the island told police that around midnight someone knocked on his door. He decided not to answer given the late hour, but within […]
A Belize City teenager has been arrested after he shot a woman with an airgun. According to police, the fourteen year old boy stood on his veranda on Mahogany Street and shot twenty-nine year old Melva Hyde in the abdomen with a Crossman airgun. Apparently, Hyde was in the middle of a heated argument with […]
A “ride-by” shooting on Sunday has sent a Belize City man to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Police reports are that twenty-six year old Fermin Mendez, a resident of Fuller’s Alley, was enjoying the company of friends on his veranda just after 1:00 on Sunday afternoon. It is then alleged that a dark complexioned young […]
Jealousy was apparently the cause of another shooting over the weekend, this time in the Orange Walk District. Fifty-seven year old Manuel Salazar, a Guatemalan farmer, told police that he was walking on the Northern Highway on Saturday when he met a woman, Ruth Ramirez, and began a conversation with her. Salazar says just as […]
Separate robberies in Cayo and Belize City have netted the bad guys an estimated ninety-three thousand Belize dollars. Chinese businessman Su Guo Qiang of Santa Elena, proprietor of Fuhua Restaurant, reported to police that masked men made off with fifty-eight thousand Belize dollars in cash in the early hours of Monday. The businessman claims that […]
