The police internal affairs has launched an intensive investigation into the shooting death of Brenton Sabal in Dangriga. Sabal was shot by P.C. Javier Perez, after Perez alleges that Sabal attacked him with a knife. However, family and friends say that Sabal was murdered, as he ran away. Today, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods travelled south […]
In continuing with this week’s crime spree, this afternoon robbers were at it again. This time, however, it was Northern Transport Bus Station on Magazine Road in Belize City. According to police press officer, G. Michael Reid, about 1:30 a guy rode up on bicycle, went to the cashier and put a gun in her […]
Police were not so lucky down south, however, as a Dangriga gas station was robbed early this morning. Marcos Romero, a thirty-eight year old Honduran, says he was working at the Valley Road Texaco Gas Station, when around 2:30 three dark skinned men, all armed with guns, attacked him. Romero told police that he was […]
Police have detained a suspect and the white Ford Escort used in the drive-by shooting of Mark Medina on Tuesday. Police say Medina, seventeen, was standing on Yabra Road near Wesley College when the car drove up and shots were fired by one of the passengers known only as Kareem. The bullets caught Medina in […]
It may be a bit early for the Christmas crime season, but that didn’t stop robbers and thieves from making their presence felt last night and this morning in Belize City. The criminals, who met with varying levels of success, are being pursued by police…and in one case, a suspect was chased by a very […]
Two other heists occurred last night in Belize City. Sometime after closing hours, ambitious thieves broke into the office of Bravo Motors on the Western Highway. They managed to remove the company’s safe, but apparently that’s when their luck ran out. According to Bravo manager Eddie Bouloy, that safe was recovered in the yard…unopened. According […]
A teenager is lucky to be alive after being wounded in a drive-by shooting this afternoon in Belize City. Reports are that Mark Medina, seventeen, was walking on Cemetery Lane around 2:30 when a white car with five occupants slowed down and a single shot was fired, which caught him in the back of the […]
Over three thousand, three hundred pounds of cocaine, the proceeds of Belize’s biggest drug bust, were destroyed by police early this morning. The heavily guarded operation was carried out at sea with the white powder dissolved in salt water and sent to sleep with the fishes. The drugs were confiscated on the morning of October […]
In crime news, what would normally be considered a major drug seizure, has, in the wake of the October ninth record cocaine bust, been relegated to just another police report. On Tuesday, cops stopped a taxi in Benque Viejo and found three parcels of coke weighing a total of six pounds. Arrested and charged with […]
Another suspected criminal has been shot to death by police. The incident occurred around 5:00 this morning when police in Dangriga closed in on a house in the Lakeland area where three men, believed to be involved in two armed robberies in the Stann Creek Valley, were hiding out. According to a press release from […]
Police are looking for two brothers in connection with a fatal stabbing in the Orange Walk District. Reports are that Martin Adolphus was walking on the main street in Guinea Grass Village around 8:30 Sunday night when he was stabbed in his abdomen, left leg and head. Adolphus died before reaching Orange Walk Hospital.
While Acting Prime Minister Johnny Briceno was struggling with his political conscience, a gunman was putting a big dent in the family business. Shortly before ten this morning as single armed robber entered the One-Stop gas station at the Boulevard and Cemetery Road and put a pistol to the chest of the female manager. She […]
In the Stann Creek District, a merchant tells police that he was robbed twice in the same night. At around 8:30 Saturday twenty-seven year old Ling Feng Cai was robbed at his shop on the Valley Road by two masked men armed with a nine-millimetre pistol. They made off with an undisclosed amount of cash […]
Four armed Mexicans who landed their plane at an airstrip in the Orange Walk District have been formally arraigned in court. Ricardo Ruiz, Rafael Juarez, Jesus Urino, and Oscar Ramos have all been charged with possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition. They were intercepted by police on the afternoon of October seventeenth at the Blue […]
For those righteous citizens who complain that Chinese shops selling illegal boledo are never busted, there is some good news. On Friday night police arrested two Belize City shopkeepers for that crime. They are Dennis Chow of Freetown Road and Xing Ting Li of Second Street in King’s Park. The numerous sellers of illegal lottery […]
A mid-afternoon police operation in Orange Walk has resulted in the seizure of close to twenty-five thousand U.S. dollars and several weapons. According to police reports, around 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, police received a tip that a plane would be landing at an airstrip near Blue Creek in the Orange Walk District. Police lay-waited the […]
A Belizean American, forty-six year old Mark Thompson has been found guilty of raping his goddaughter and second cousin and will now pay the price. Supreme Court Judge Christopher Blackman sentenced Thompson to twenty-eight years in prison, after a jury of four women and five men returned the verdict after deliberating for two hours in […]
Police have officially charged five people, four men and one women in connection with the trafficking of three thousand, three hundred and seventy-eight pounds of cocaine found in an apartment on the Northern Highway on Tuesday morning. They are thirty-eight year old Belizean Liston McCord, Oscar Moreno Aguirra, twenty-seven, Zulema Carrasco, twenty-five and Jorge Carlos […]
Tuesday morning’s drug bust in Belize City turns out to be a new Belizean record. The fifty-five bales of cocaine found in an apartment at mile three on the Northern Highway weighed in at three thousand, three hundred and seventy-eight pounds, over four hundred pounds more than the previous record set in March of 1997. […]
A high-speed police chase on Tuesday has left one Belmopan man dead. According to police, officers at a road block set up between mile seventy-one and seventy-two report that around 3:00 p.m., they were checking vehicles driving through the checkpoint. However, as they were doing so, they noticed that one car had stopped and was […]
In other news, a mega drug bust, which would usually be a headline, has for this week anyway, been relegated to a footnote. Details are sketchy, but at around 4:00 this morning police raided the rented apartment of a Mexican man at mile three on the Northern Highway where they found around fifty parcels of […]
It is not everyday that justice handed down in the courts is more perverted than the crime itself, but that’s apparently just what has happened today. A man who pled guilty to sexually abusing his seven-year-old stepdaughter was ordered to pay a mere seven hundred dollars and was later released! Magistrate Richard Swift of Courtroom […]
Tonight, a man is in jail for allegedly stabbing his brother to death. The brothers, who resided at the same apartment building on Cadle Alley had a history of fighting with each other, but on Wednesday night they fought for the last time. Ann-Marie Williams has the story. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting One of the many […]
Five people have been detained by police for questioning in the kidnapping of three men and a woman on Monday. Police have not identified the detainees, but News 5 understands that they are all men and were picked up from various parts of country. Apparently, the men have had various levels of involvement with the […]
It’s not often that someone who finds a bag of “white lady” turns it over to the police, but that’s just what happened on Tuesday night. According to police, workers from Macmillan Brothers on Chetumal Street in Belama were off-loading a container imported from Miami when they found a blue bag. A check of its […]
