Tonight it appears that a murder in Chetumal over the weekend is linked to the sudden disappearance of several people in the Stann Creek District. Reports to News 5 are that sometime on Sunday, a woman identified only as Juana Sheran was found strangled at her home in Chetumal in the state of Quintana Roo, […]
Neighbours fighting over the fence is hardly unusual, but it is time for concern when they start shooting each other. Reports to police are that twenty-five year old Gerald Dougal and twenty-seven year old Michael Martinez, next door neighbours on Central American Boulevard, got into an argument on Sunday afternoon. According to Dougal, Martinez walked […]
Somewhere in the city tonight, a thief or thieves are still patting themselves on the back for stealing close to thirty thousand dollars worth of jewellery. According to thirty-five year old Glenfield Dennison, a B.T.L. employee, he left his house on Tapir Street around 7:00 a.m. Friday morning, but when he got home at about […]
Following the brazen murder on Wagner’s Lane on Thursday evening, police say they now have the gunman in custody. According to police, three hours after the shooting, the prime suspect, a fourteen-year-old boy, was turned in to police by his father at the Queen St. station. Up to news time tonight, the minor had not […]
On Thursday night another argument ended in blood, this time across town. Twenty-nine year old Henry Gaynair told police that he and his brother, Clinton Robateau, were near Castle Street in Belize City around 9:00 p.m. when they got into a fight with a Hispanic male. During the scuffle, a knife was pulled and when […]
It’s been hard not to notice that the Belize City crime scene has been uncharacteristically quiet lately. But late this evening another gunshot echoed through the streets, claiming one more young life. Wagner’s Lane is the latest murder scene and News Five’s Ann-Marie Williams is just back with the story. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting “Thirty-three year […]
For months now, Toyota Camrys and Corollas have been staples for car jackers. It’s been suspected that there was a set master key changing hands for quite some time and apparently, there was. On Wednesday, twenty-three year old Kareem Fuller parked his 1984 Corolla in front of his house on Neal Pen Road, but when […]
Three high level employees of Mount Carmel Credit Union in Benque Viejo were today arrested and charged in what may be the biggest embezzlement case in the nation’s history. The credit union’s manager Rosita Rosado, assistant manager Julio Santos and loan officer Martita Duarte were all charged with theft before Magistrate Joel Genitty. The three […]
The rape of a man or a woman is a horrible crime but when an innocent child becomes the victim, we see just how much evil exists in our society. On Monday, a Belize City woman reported to police that her three-year-old child was having trouble going to the bathroom and was finding it painful […]
Employees helping themselves to company cash is not a particularly unusual occurrence, but when someone walks away with more than half a million dollars, something is wrong, very wrong. That’s apparently what has happened at the Mount Carmel Credit Union in Benque Viejo. The missing money’s whereabouts are uncertain but at least one employee has […]
Police are looking for the occupants of a white Toyota Camry, who went on a shooting spree Sunday night in Belize City. They are responsible for injuries suffered by three men in two separate locations at around nine-thirty. Elbert Belgrave and Tyrone Castillo were shot in the arm and finger respectively, while standing at the […]
It had the potential to be another massive criminal disaster, but good intelligence and swift action by police on Sunday evening stopped a carload of heavily armed Guatemalans, assisted by a Belizean accomplice, from wreaking havoc in the jewel. Today, with five gunmen on the loose, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods received an update from authorities. […]
A shootout between police and well armed gunmen Sunday night on the Western Highway has left authorities wondering just what kind of crime spree was being planned. The story unfolded early in the evening when, based on a tip, police set up a roadblock in Roaring Creek to intercept a suspicious car coming from the […]
Another police search of a vehicle in Belmopan has ended more successfully for law enforcement officers. The vehicle, a blue Chevy Cavalier with no license plates, was stopped on Thursday on Constitution Drive. A search of the three men and one woman in the car resulted in the discovery of a chrome nine millimetre Smith […]
A body has been found on Saturday in the sea off the Port Loyola section of Belize City. The largely decomposed corpse, clad only in underwear, was later identified by police as that of thirty-eight year old Rudolfo Ramos of Hyde’s Lane. A post-mortem was conducted, but due to the advanced state of decomposition, a […]
In crime news, an agency in Dangriga that accepts payments for B.E.L. has been robbed of over ten thousand dollars. At around four-thirty on Tuesday a tall masked man armed with a gun entered the agency on St. Vincent Street and relieved the cashier of eight thousand, four hundred and thirty-nine dollars in cash and […]
Thirty-one year old Clint Geban died around 6:00 this morning at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Geban was hospitalised on Tuesday after he received a gunshot wound to the right side of his abdomen. According to police, when they visited Geban in the hospital he told them that around noon on Tuesday he was standing […]
The Karl Heusner Memorial is the only public hospital in Belize City that provides a twenty-four hour accident and emergency care. However, it has become increasingly dangerous for those who must provide treatment to the injured, especially over a long holiday weekend. Shortly after three on Sunday morning, two men, Keon Williams and Hugh Thomas, […]
A San Ignacio resident was sleeping when he was woken up just in time to be robbed at gunpoint. Reports are that on Saturday, thirty-six year old Sunil Sukhlani of Church Street, woke at around 1:30 a.m. only to find two dark-complexioned men, one with a thirty-eight calibre revolver and the other with a knife, […]
Over the weekend, police destroyed almost all of the two thousand, three hundred and eleven pounds of cocaine seized last week in the nation’s fourth biggest drug bust. The coke–minus a small amount retained as legal evidence–was burned in the incinerator at New River Enterprises in Orange Walk. One suspect was captured in the bust, […]
Tonight the company that carts away the city’s garbage has had something of its own carted away. Twenty thousand dollars to be exact. According to the owner of Belize Waste Control, Tony Griffith Sr., he got a call from his manager about 12:20 this morning telling him the business had been burglarised. Griffith says when […]
At the same time that thieves in Belize City were backing away Mr. Griffith’s safe, their cousins in the nation’s capital were terrorising a pair of Chinese residents. Li Fu Sheng and his wife Qiong Zhen were attacked by two armed masked men as they arrived at their home in the Cohune Walk neighbourhood of […]
It came as a bonus to police who believed that all four drug runners who abandoned their boat full of cocaine on Monday had escaped into the night. As it turned out, one didn’t make it and he was picked up early this morning as he hid out in the mangrove forests of Hicks Caye. […]
Police made another major arrest today, this one for murder. Thirty year old Clive Geban of San Pedro, Ambergris Caye has been charged with the killing of a still unidentified woman, whose body was found in that town on Monday. According to police, Geban was seen in the company of the woman, believed to be […]
They’re not drug runners or murderers, but five Belizeans have been arrested for various violations of the nation’s fisheries laws. Morris “Big Hand” Reynolds was fined over four thousand dollars for possession of two hundred and nineteen out of season conchs. If he can’t raise the money, he’ll be fishing in the pond at Hattieville […]
