A small Belize City grocery store was robbed this afternoon. Two armed men entered Charro’s store on Central American Boulevard around two o’ clock and held up the store’s owner, Teodoro Blanco and two of his employees. Blanco, who remained open for business, related the incident to News 5’s Jose Sanchez. Teodoro Blanco, Proprietor, Charro’s […]
While most robberies are committed with a gun or a knife, there are some thefts at sea that make use of a speargun, net or trap. The Fisheries Department reports that its conservation compliance unit has been active over the last two months, with nine people arrested for possession of illegal marine products, either undersized […]
Reverberations from the beating death of a fourteen-year-old boy by British soldiers are being felt even stronger tonight as a joint investigation of the incident gathers steam. Thirty soldiers remain confined to their barracks at Ladyville as a team of five military police investigators and their Belizean counterparts try to unravel exactly what took place […]
In more crime news a man has been arrested in connection with a stabbing in the Corozal District. Francisco Pineda, a labourer of San Narciso Village was charged with attempted murder after an incident in San Pedro Village on May twelfth, in which he is accused of stabbing Jose Peña of Christo Rey Village. Peña, […]
A fourteen-year-old boy is dead after being beaten in what appears to be a brawl on Thursday night. The incident occurred at Raul’s Rose Garden, a popular bar and brothel located near mile eight on the Northern Highway. Details are sketchy, but the deceased, David Zabaneh Jr. is a first form student at St. John’s […]
Police are trying to find out whether Mervin Valerio, a thirty-eight year old labourer of Georgeville Village in the Cayo District, had already died when he was run over by a Novelo’s bus on Saturday. The bus driver, Albino Moh, told police that around 3:30 a.m. he was driving to Belize City and upon reaching […]
A Mother’s Day shooting incident has left a Chinese businesswoman of Orange Walk Town in a stable condition and six men on the run. Police say around 7:30 Sunday night the men entered Taisan’s Restaurant on Queen Victoria Avenue and ordered food and drink from Yu Fa Chen, the owner. After they finished eating, the […]
Taisan’s Restaurant wasn’t the only Chinese establishment robbed over the weekend. Police say they are also looking for a dark-skinned masked gunman who entered Quan Sing Supermarket on Racecourse Street in Belize City and stole four hundred dollars. Donna Lee, the thirty-year old shop owner told police that the men held a black handgun to […]
A group of tourists in Cayo got a bit more of a Belize adventure than they bargained for this weekend. On Sunday four guests and their tour guide were held up as they drove in a van on their way to Chaa Creek Resort. Guide Philip Burns, twenty-four, of Yute Expeditions, had just picked up […]
You’d never know it from today’s newscast, but the Ministry of National Security reports that in April major crimes fell by seven point two percent from a year earlier. Incidents of rape, murder, robbery and burglary all either stayed constant of dropped, while theft increased slightly over April 2000. A total of one hundred sixteen […]
Two men were formally arraigned today in connection with Wednesday’s massive drug bust. Brothers Robert and Adrian Hertular appeared before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord where they were charged with drug trafficking. Bail was denied, for now at least, and the pair will reappear in court on May thirty-first. Three other suspects detained in the raids […]
Two suspects whose proximity to drugs is not in doubt were arrested Thursday night not far from the site of Wednesday’s bust. Forty-four year old well known Orange Walk businessman Raul Pelayo and twenty-four year old Melvin Amador were charged with drug trafficking after the van in which they were riding was stopped at a […]
At two thousand, five hundred and fifty-four pounds of cocaine, it ranks third behind the March 1997 seizure of a Colombian skiff filled with two thousand nine hundred and ten pounds of the white powder and a similar bust two months later with two thousand six hundred and nine pounds. But the latest discovery occurred […]
It was not in the same league as the big cocaine bust, but police have arrested a suspect in two recent robberies of Belize City taxi drivers. Twenty-nine year old Glenford Middleton of Belama Phase One has been charged with two counts of robbery in connection with separate jackings on Monday night of taxi men […]
In a follow up to the story we reported yesterday, a post-mortem performed on fourteen year old suspected poisoning victim Elwin Flowers has been classified as inconclusive. As a result more samples were taken for further analysis. Flower’s mother says that he was given poisoned Guinness by a family friend who had grown angry over […]
A fourteen-year-old Belize City boy is dead in what appears to be a case of deliberate poisoning by an acquaintance. Elwin Flowers, a student of Anglican Cathedral College and resident of the Lake Independence area, complained to his mother of stomach pains on Saturday night, and by Sunday his condition had worsened. Muriel Jones, Mother […]
Witnesses catching up on last minute shopping at nearby Save-U Supermarket described the sound as the explosions from a long string of firecrackers. But when the noise stopped, the result was plain to see; another body on the pavement surrounded by a pool of blood. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting The trend of shootings and murders continues […]
Another taxi driver found himself on the wrong end of a crime Monday night, but in this case the result was not fatal. Twenty-nine year old Jason White picked up a fare at the Pound Yard taxi stand around 9:30. The passenger, described in police report as a Creole man, asked to be taken to […]
As crime stories go, they don’t get any stranger than this one. The drama centres around one man–a little known Chinese resident of Belize–who in one brief span of time this morning managed to commit arson and attempted murder before losing his life by drowning as he hid from police. Ann-Marie Williams tried to make […]
Two Guatemalan men are dead at opposite ends of the country, apparently the victims of foul play. The body of twenty-five year old Chichilla Polanco, was found floating in the sea in front of Dangriga, tied to a stump. Polanco, who works at Dakita’s farm on the Southern Highway, was fully clothed and displayed injuries […]
Another Chinese owned establishment in Belize City was jacked over the weekend. According to police reports, five masked men armed with handguns entered the New Garden Restaurant on Basra Street around 5:00 Sunday evening. They tied up the proprietor, Jimbo Chen and two other family members and locked them in a room. After searching the […]
A student of the Julian Cho Technical High School in Punta Gorda is recovering from stab wounds she received on Thursday. Fifteen-year old Melanie Villafranco was involved in an argument with two students at school, which turned violent. Villafranco was stabbed in the lower part of her abdomen and was quickly taken to the Southern […]
We are in the middle of Prison Awareness Week… and while these days are set aside to increase our knowledge and concern for what goes on behind the walls, our lead story tonight concerns a prisoner who went over the wall. Twenty-year old inmate Heidi Martinez apparently broke out of Hattieville on Sunday, but her […]
Police may have been left empty handed in Belize City’s Magistrate Court, but they had better luck in Burrell Boom. Two suspects in Saturday’s killing of Elvis Banner were arrested there and charged with murder. They are nineteen year old Leon Hinds and twenty-five year old Eugene Henderson, both residents of Boom. Banner was chopped […]
Monday night was a scary one for a Belize City businessman. Sixty-four year old Evan Blades of ice cream parlour fame was at his Freetown Road home watching television when just before 9:00 he heard someone opening his front door with a key. The visitor turned out to be a former employee, Jason Elijio, but […]
