A Belize City man stabbed on Sunday night is now recovering at the K.H.M.H. Albert Crawford, a twenty-six year old security guard for Northern Fishermen Co-operative, was at a bar on Newtown Barracks when he claims he was assaulted by a group of men. In the middle of the struggle he was stabbed several times […]
Two suspects in last year’s murder of a British resident in Cayo have been apprehended. On September second, David Butner, the proprietor of El Cenote bar and restaurant, was found lying in his bed in the Cahal Pech area of San Ignacio, dead of multiple stab wounds. The police were seeking several suspects known to […]
For several years now the jacking of Chinese owned shops has been a growth industry for young Belize City criminals, not to mention the news media, which faithfully follow their exploits. On Wednesday night another grocery was hit and not even its name: “Lucky” could protect it. Forty-three year old Chee Yiu Chi told police […]
There is little official progress to report on the weekend’s theft of over two hundred and seventy thousand dollars from the San Ignacio branch of the Belize Bank, but unconfirmed talk on the street is that some of the stolen notes have surfaced in the Cayo District. Police and bank officials declined to comment on […]
More concrete developments have come to light in the case of the high powered weapons stolen from the Police Training School in Belmopan on January twenty-ninth. One gun was confirmed recovered by police today, adding to the six previously found. Sources in the police force suggest that Thursday may see the collection of the four […]
A third person has been detained in the whopping weekend bank heist in San Ignacio. Sources in the Police Department declined to identify the trio brought in for questioning, except to say that they are not employees of the bank. Observers have speculated that the team of crooks who bored into the vault from a […]
The Ministry of National Security has released the latest crime statistics and according to their figures, major offences in February have dropped over seven percent from a year earlier. The decrease was not across the board, however, for while the number of rapes dropped from thirteen to seven, murders from three to one and thefts […]
It was not a rape, murder, robbery, burglary or theft, but that did not make a crime committed on Friday night any less vicious. A security guard at the Eden nightclub was stabbed when he tried to prevent a man from entering the nightspot. Harrison Walker, thirty-nine, received several knife wounds to the stomach when […]
The conventional wisdom is that there could never be a major bank robbery in Belize because the robbers wouldn’t have anywhere to unobtrusively spend such a large amount of Belize dollars. Well, times have changed and as I speak a small group of clever crooks is now trying to figure our just how to dispose […]
It may be Women’s Week, but in Belize these are not good times to be a little girl. Police today released details of a case in which an eleven year old was abducted and raped a number of times over a three day period. The girl’s mother reports that her daughter left the family’s home […]
In crime news, Minister of National Security Jorge Espat has told News 5 that investigations into the theft of high powered weapons from the BDF and police are close to completion and the case files have been delivered to the Director for Public Prosecutions. On January twenty-ninth, a pair of tech nine machine pistols, four […]
A dead body found yesterday off the Western Highway has been identified as a murder victim, but not much else has become known about the crime. What police have figured out is that thirty-two year old taxi driver Hugo Garcia, a Salvadoran living in Belize City, failed to return home on Saturday night. His fire-ravaged […]
An American resident of San Ignacio has been convicted of possession of ancient Mayan artifacts. Thirty-nine year old Eugene Patterson pleaded guilty to violating the antiquities law and was fined two hundred and fifty dollars in San Ignacio Magistrate’s Court. Police searched Patterson’s home and found three polychrome bowls along with parts of a human […]
He is now back in custody but for over a day, reputed gang leader Clay Monsanto managed to disappear from police who were holding him on a weapons charge. Details are sketchy, but somehow, in the midst of his arraignment in Belize City Magistrate’s Court on Monday, Monsanto simply walked out without making arrangements to […]
Weekend shootings in the poorer neighborhoods of Belize City are not uncommon these days, but more often than not the victim has some connection with the shooter. While one incident last night loosely fits this pattern, a second appears to have been a deadly exception. Jose Sanchez Reports. Jose Sanchez, Reporting The first incident took […]
Although Belmopan police have not been successful in making an arrest in connection with the high powered guns stolen from the training school armoury on January twenty-ninth they have had some luck in case of the break in at the station’s exhibit room. Police today confirmed that a nine millimeter pistol found in a San […]
The reputed gang leader who watched his infant son die from a bullet meant for him is once again in trouble with the law. Twenty-six year old Clay Monsanto of Mahogany Street Extension in Belize City was arraigned in Magistrate’s Court this afternoon on charges of possessing an unlicensed firearm and ammunition and going equipped […]
What appeared to have been a love triangle turned extremely ugly on Thursday. Police say Germaine Thompson Staine, a twenty-two year old domestic of Mahogany Street Extension, had a fight with her husband’s sweetheart, twenty-year old Melanie Bucknor of Aloe Vera Street in the St. Martin’s Area. Things took a bitter turn around 9:30 in […]
As a preacher, one of the first sermons you’re taught to master is that of the ten commandments. But somewhere along the way it appears that an American missionary of San Felipe Village, forgot the ninth commandment-Thou Shall Not Bear False Witness. Police say that on Thursday, Stephen Griffith apparently gave Angel Serano a ride […]
The big break that was hinted at yesterday has yet to be announced, but police investigators are apparently putting the heat on their own in an effort to crack the case of eleven high powered guns stolen from the Belmopan armoury in January. Seventeen more officers have been questioned in addition to the two detained […]
We don’t often report marijuana busts, except perhaps when large plantations are discovered and thousands of plants put to the torch. The one we report tonight is unusual, however, not for the quantity, which at five pounds of cannabis is worth only a few thousand dollars, but for the severity of the sentence. Ramon Cus […]
Police have announced the long awaited break in the case of eleven high powered weapons stolen from their Belmopan armoury on January twenty-ninth. An official release this morning cites the recovery of six of the weapons and asks the public for assistance in finding the rest. Police press officer G. Michael Reid told News 5 […]
In crime news a Western Dairies salesman was robbed of his bankroll this morning as two thieves attacked him as he made a delivery near the corner of Dean Street and East Canal. They ran off with his waist bag containing between fifteen hundred and two thousand dollars.
An arrest has been made in a shooting that occurred on Sunday. Twenty-year old Cecil Gill has been charged with attempted murder and use of deadly means of harm in the attack on James Whylie, which occurred at Whylie’s house on Tanoomah Street.
A thirty-five year old Belize City man is fighting for his life at the K.H.M.H. after being shot Sunday night. He is James Whylie of Tanoomah Street. An eyewitness told News 5 that around 10:40 p.m. on Sunday a group of young men in a black car drove up to Whylie’s home, called him out […]
