Over the weekend a mother of five attempted to kill two of her children and then take her own life. Police report that on Saturday morning, twenty-four year old Kathleen Banner, a resident of Teakettle Village in Cayo, fed an unidentified poisonous liquid to her two year old son, Isaac Wallace, and four month old […]
Over the weekend a thief or thieves broke into the Turton Library on North Front Street and made off with a good portion of the facility’s audio visual equipment. According to library personnel, when they arrived at work this morning they discovered that the upstairs side door had been forced open. An inventory is not […]
More details have emerged in the aftermath of Wednesday’s massacre in Guatemala in which two Belizean Mennonites were killed. It turns out that in addition to the murdered David Thiessen and his son Abraham, a second Thiessen son, twenty-three year old Juan, was also riding in the vehicle when it was attacked by heavily armed […]
A mid morning jacking in Belize City has made one thief six thousand dollars richer…at least for now. The money, which was salary for fifty-six school wardens, was taken from the School Community Liaison Officer’s building on Partridge Street soon after the staff began to prepare the payroll. According to the secretary, Jane Alvarez, a […]
Police may be still looking for the Partridge Street jackers, but today they announced the landing of two much bigger fish. Twenty-six year old Joe Miralda of Red Creek and twenty-nine year old Efrain Cruz of Santa Elena, Cayo were arrested and charged with burglary and conspiracy in the daring break in at the Belize […]
Two Belizean Mennonites were killed Wednesday morning in what amounted to a massacre in Guatemala’s Peten. Fifty-two year old David Thiessen and his twenty-eight year old son, Abraham Thiessen, were among nine people murdered and seven injured when the two vehicles in which they were driving were ambushed by a group of armed men firing […]
A suspect has been arrested in a brutal robbery which occurred Tuesday night in Corozal. Nineteen year old Kirk Belisle, also known as “Small,” of Tigris Street in Belize City, has been charged with aggravated burglary for an incident in which an elderly Chinese couple were assaulted and robbed. Seventy-eight year old businessman Samuel Lowe […]
Police continue to report a steady flow of counterfeit hundred dollar bills around the country. The latest sightings on Tuesday occurred in Belmopan, Belize City and Punta Gorda, including two bogus bluenotes collected at the B.D.F. camp in that southern town. One major development in the case is the arrest of a suspect, twenty-eight year […]
The crime was a familiar one, but the reaction of the victim was not. Around 6:30 this morning taxi driver George Haylock was on duty at the stand near the Belcan Bridge when a young man hired him for a short trip. A half hour later the fifty-seven year old Haylock was lying in K.H.M.H. […]
On the counterfeit currency trail…four more bogus hundred dollar bills were reported to police over the weekend. Venues included bars in Punta Gorda and Orange Walk and a gas station and bank in Belmopan. Among the serial numbers were the familiar AC613475 and a newcomer, AC618169. While police have questioned those found holding counterfeit notes, […]
For Belize’s taxi drivers the date of Thursday, June twenty-first is one they’d like to forget. In the space of six hours on Thursday, two drivers in Belize City and one in Belmopan were the victim of violent robberies and kidnappings. The most frightening incident involved Paul Fakayode, a thirty-three year old Nigerian taximan. He […]
These days it seems that as sure as the sun rises, a counterfeit hundred dollar bill will turn up in somebody’s cash register. The latest sighting of bogus bank notes took place on Thursday night with a Peppers delivery man taking one as payment for a pizza and a San Ignacio bank teller having one […]
They keep popping up like mushrooms in a cow pasture after a rainstorm. That’s counterfeit hundred dollar bills, and in their latest appearance the funny money turned up, not in a dimly lit bar or busy gas station, but in the cash drawer of the nation’s biggest financial institution. A teller at the Orange Walk […]
It’s been almost five months since the armoury at the Police Training School in Belmopan was hit by thieves who went off with eleven high powered weapons. Today, two men who police believe were involved in the heist were finally arrested and charged. Twenty-five year old James Hyde and eighteen year old Ruben Oliva, both […]
More counterfeit money continues to show up in cash registers across the country. The latest discovery occurred in Punta Gorda where Felix Flores, the proprietor of a local sports bar, went to make a bank deposit only to be informed that one of his hundred dollar bills was a phoney. Flores reported to police that […]
The bogus blue notes first surfaced in San Ignacio and by tonight police report that counterfeit hundreds are circulating as far afield as Orange Walk in the north and Placencia in the south. While the common denominator for most of the recently discovered phoney currency is serial number AC613475, the use of high quality photocopiers […]
Belize may be experiencing an epidemic of violent crime, but an incident reported by police today reaffirms the notion that a smart criminal can steal more with a good lie than with a loaded pistol. Twenty-nine year old Santos Chan of Orange Walk has been detained pending charges after he allegedly used a sweet mouth […]
A man who has spent the better part of his life investigating and reporting crime, today became the victim of one. Veteran newspaper editor Harry Lawrence was bashed on the head with a gun during an armed robbery this morning at The Reporter press. According to Lawrence’s daughter Lisbeth Ayuso, around 7:30 a man entered […]
While Harry Lawrence was relatively lucky to be assaulted with the gun’s butt instead of its bullets, not every crime victim was so fortunate. Twenty-four hours earlier, on Thursday morning, a man was shot in the leg as he stood on Cemetery Road near Curassow Street. Twenty-three year old Albert Lewis of Partridge Street told […]
Two men are behind bars tonight, arrested for the driveby shooting of reputed gang figure Clay Monsanto and two friends on Monday night. Brothers Gerald and Sheldon Tillett ages twenty-one and twenty of George Street in Belize City, were this afternoon denied bail and charged jointly with three counts of attempted murder, dangerous harm and […]
While some suspected criminals are arrested, too many others remain in action. On Wednesday night around 11:30 a trio of robbers hit the H.L.’s Burger stand at Cemetery Road and West Canal. One man held a knife to a waitress’s throat while his brethren rifled the cash pan to the tune of five hundred and […]
Friday the fifteenth is pay-day for many Belizeans and that is one reason police are asking the public to be extra careful when they count up their cash. It seems that local counterfeiters have been running their photocopiers overtime, with bogus blue notes appearing in Belize City and Cayo. The most popular serial numbers seem […]
In crime news police are still searching for the occupants of a stolen white Toyota who shot and wounded reputed gang figure Clay Monsanto and two others on Monday night. In a related development, however, a man wanted for questioning in the incident has been arrested for another crime. Twenty-four year old Brian Brown, the […]
It was in February that twenty-seven year old Clay Monsanto got on national television to ask for peace among the nation’s gang members. That call was prompted by the brutal shooting of his baby boy in a murder attempt meant for him. Monsanto’s call went unnoticed, however, and last night the bullet with his name […]
The commotion on Central American Boulevard had barely calmed down when shots rang out again this afternoon in a neighbourhood not far away. Sherwin Nunez, believed to be in his mid 20’s, is lucky to be alive after an assailant fired three shots at him with what police say is a tech-nine. According to Leopold […]
