Belize Police are at this hour still engaged in tallying the haul from Monday night’s massive drug bust at Hicks Caye. While a final figure has not been released, the forty-five bales of cocaine are expected to weigh in somewhere in excess of two thousand pounds with a street value estimated by police at around […]
Lest viewers get the impression that all illegal drugs in Belize are imported, police have also been actively engaged in destroying the nation’s once thriving marijuana industry. On Friday morning an anti-drug operation in the Orange Walk District led to the discovery of a weed plantation a mile and a half east of San Felipe […]
Details are in short supply, but what is clear is that last night law enforcement officers made one of the largest drug busts in Belizean history. Around 7:30 a maritime patrol, believed to be acting in co-ordination with a helicopter from the British Frigate HMS Coventry, intercepted a large skiff, allegedly of Colombian origin. The […]
We have a follow up to a story we ran last week about the escape and recapture of two inmates from the Youth Enhancement Academy adjacent to Hattieville Prison. The two young men, Fredrick Arzu and John Elijio, were tried on Friday before a panel of visiting justices and pled guilty to the crime of […]
It is getting to be a familiar story: police confront a suspect, a row ensues and the suspect winds up dead. The police paint a picture of self-defence, while the victim’s family cries out for justice. That was the situation in Crooked Tree this weekend as a Friday night confrontation has left a resident of […]
The weekend’s resistance to police was not confined to Crooked Tree. On Sunday a resident of August Pine Ridge Village in Orange Walk was wounded when a police officer shot him in the leg. According to police reports, Mauricio Cordova was injured by a bullet fired by P.C. 569 Neal, after a disorderly crowd surrounded […]
Police in the north were not without some success, however. On Friday night, acting on a tip, they intercepted a Mexican vehicle about to cross the bridge over the Rio Hondo at Santa Elena. Hidden in a locked compartment behind the passenger seat was an assortment of shotgun shells along with two packages containing almost […]
Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a body found early this morning in San Pedro. The corpse, that of a Hispanic woman believed to be in her mid twenties, was found in the Boca del Rio area around 5:30 a.m. The body was clad in jeans and a black blouse and there is […]
Two inmates who escaped from the Youth Enhancement Academy are tonight back behind bars at the Hattieville Prison. The prisoners, twenty-one year old John Elijio and twenty-two year old Fredrick Arzu were both serving time for burglary, when they made their escape around 8:30 on Wednesday night. According to prison officials, the men were recaptured […]
Tonight, a police officer is spending the night in “lock down” after he was caught with drugs. According to reports, earlier today, police searched the home of thirty-one year old P.C. Edward Higinio, stationed with the Orange Walk formation, and found fifteen point eight grams of suspected cocaine hidden in his left sock. The constable […]
If you’re in the habit of picking up hitchhikers, be warned: two young men convicted of burglary are out on the loose. Sometime around 8:30 Wednesday night, the men, identified as twenty-one year-old John Elijio and twenty-two year-old Fredrick Arzu, both of Dangriga, broke out the youth facility of the Prison Department. They are not […]
Blood on the streets of Belize City is hardly rare nowadays but the death of two young men in the afternoon calm of a Sunday is still shocking. The silence in St. Martin de Porres was shattered as an argument escalated into a full-blown altercation and climaxed in gunfire. Eyewitnesses say two men, twenty-one year […]
Gunshots also echoed in Independence this weekend claiming the life of another young man. Twenty-year-old Rodney Cabral died as a result of a gunshot wound to his chest early Friday night near Shades Bar on Fadden Avenue. Thirty-nine year old Dean Forman, who was also injured in the incident, told police that he was standing […]
A robbery in broad daylight on a busy Belize City street has left one employee several thousand dollars short of company money and personal property. Sales representative for Grace Kennedy Limited Angel Espat Jr., says he went to Brad’s Store at the corner of Zericote and Vernon Streets to collect money for the company and […]
Three men detained for breaking into an Orange Walk gas station early Tuesday morning are now the prime suspects in the burglary of a nearby supermarket. As happened with the Shell One-Stop Gas Station, the proprietor of M and A Supermarket in Orange Walk told police that upon opening the business on Tuesday he discovered […]
Police have arrested and charged Roderick Williams, a thirty-two year old Fisherman of East Canal in Belize City with murder. Reports are that on Friday Williams tried to steal money from Glen Francis, a fifty-three year old fish scraper, who was working in the Conch Shell Bay area of the city. Francis reportedly grazed Williams […]
A Chinese couple has been robbed at gunpoint by three masked men at their place of business on Seventh Avenue in Corozal. Police say around 10:15 p.m. on Tuesday Sou Jan Gong, thirty-seven, was in his store along with his wife when the men accosted them and stole four thousand, five hundred dollars in cash, […]
Orange Walk police tonight have three men in custody who are believed to have robbed two gas stations on the Northern Highway. They are brothers Anthony McKoy Montes and Augustine Diego Montes, as well as Moises Williams, all of Belize City. Police say they received a report that sometime before daybreak this morning the Shell […]
Police have arrested and charged twenty-seven year old Wilhelm Coye, a resident of Camalote Village with manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct, driving without due care and attention, driving an unlicensed, uninsured motor vehicle and drunk driving. The charges come as the result of a traffic accident on Friday in Belmopan in which […]
We usually gather at a wake to pay respects to the dead…but on Sunday in Dangriga, it became an occasion for murder. Forty year old Davis Martinez is said to have been attending a nine night at a home in the Lakeland area when he got into a fight with another man identified as fifty-three […]
Police have busted a Belize City man they believe is a major player in the city’s drug trade. Thirty-four year old Dean Gillett was arrested on Wednesday along with his girlfriend at their house on Berry Street. A search of the premises, prompted by a tip, resulted in the discovery of almost four ounces of […]
Reports from Honduras indicate that a long-time hotel owner from Placencia has been kidnapped and perhaps killed in that Central American country. Tom Giblin, a U.S. citizen who recently sold the Serenity Resort, was snatched from a beach house he was building on the Caribbean coast near Puerto Cortez. According to Honduran authorities, the sixty-four […]
By any measure, it was a horrible crime, with one man dead and another badly injured after they were shot while driving in their car. But as dangerous a place Belize City can be, what happened to the Naj brothers last night–at least according to the survivor’s account–does not resemble any recent murder that police […]
Another shooting occurred on Tuesday in Belize City, but without fatal consequences. Thirty-two year old Harry Staine was shot Tuesday morning during a fight with his nephew. According to police, Staine and eighteen-year-old Kenyon Andrews, both residents of thirty-seven Wagner’s Lane, became embroiled in an argument around eight in the morning. Staine says Andrews went […]
Last night’s stormy weather may have been fit for neither man nor beast…but it seems to have been custom made for a daring thief. Sometime during the night, the heavy rain was used to cover a break in at Hofius on Albert Street. The burglar or burglars entered the building by removing a plate of […]
