Police Detective Mark August is at the KHMH tonight, recuperating from what police say is an accidental gunshot wound in the leg he received while on duty Friday night. According to Assistant Police Commissioner Hugh Cain, a police mobile unit responded to an incident on Mopan Street in Belize City, in which two men were […]
One man is fifteen thousand dollars short while the other is on the run. Police are asking you to assist them in finding twenty-seven year old Melvin Sebastian Nunez, better known as “Sabe” of Lovely Lane in Belize City, in connection with a robbery on Friday in the city. Blue Creek businessman David Weiber told […]
Police have arrested and charged three Belizean labourers jointly with four counts of aggravated assault, burglary and robbery in connection with the jacking of a Belmopan businessman on December twelfth. They are eighteen-year old John Franklin of Plues Street and twenty-year old Frank Elijio of University Drive, both of Belize City, and Shawn Hertular, eighteen, […]
An Orange Walk educator has been charged with indecent assault. Ricardo Castillo, Vice Principal of Louisiana Government School, was charged today based on the statement of a five-year-old female student. Castillo had been detained since Wednesday evening and on Thursday a crowd of angry citizens staged a protest demanding swift punishment. Largely for his own […]
Four men were tied up and robbed inside a grocery store in the nation’s capital. Around 9:30 Tuesday night, Chinese businessman Hui Hung Chu and three friends were inside Chu’s grocery store on Garza Avenue when four men entered the store, attacked and tied them up. One of the men searched Chu and took away […]
In Spanish it?s called “sin verguenza,” the well-known Yiddish translation is “chutzpah,” while the English would term it “the height of arrogance.” In Belize, however, we just call it being “facey.” But all those words don’t even begin to describe the behaviour of two policemen who are accused of robbing a Belize City Boledo vendor. […]
Crispin Gladden, a thirty-three year old KBH security, guard lies in a critical but stable condition as he recovers from three gunshot wounds he received during an attempted robbery. Gladden, an unarmed guard at the Esso Coral Groves gas station at mile one and a half on the Northern Highway, was attacked by three men […]
One of three men who escaped police custody on September twenty seventh has been recaptured. The elusive John “Cobra” Elijio tried to slither away from law officers but he was captured in Dangriga’s Sabal community around 3:00 this morning. Elijio was initially sentenced to five years for burglarizing the Photo Plus Store in Dangriga along […]
Almost one week after a man entered a home in Dangriga and robbed a woman of all her jewelry, police have made an arrest. Joseph Castillo, Delmar Wright and a minor have all been charged with robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery. Police say that last Friday Yolanda Guerrero reported to them that around eleven-thirty […]
Belize’s most wanted criminal is tonight behind bars. Alerted by a tip from a neighbourhood resident, police descended on the area around Unity Street and Jane Usher Boulevard Tuesday night around eight. After a brief chase they finally caught up with twenty-two year old Stackle Monsanto. Monsanto, a resident of Kraal Road, had been convicted […]
One week after three men stole a safe containing forty-five thousand dollars from a super market in Santa Elena; the police have made an arrest. Thirty-four year old ex-police officer, Hart Gillett of San Ignacio, thirty-seven year old Ernest Thompson of Esperanza and thirty-one year old Kurt “Mob” Morgan of San Ignacio have been arrested […]
They were particularly grisly crimes in which five young Belize City girls were abducted and killed over a sixteen-month period. Despite vows by authorities to solve the crimes quickly and a number of high profile public campaigns to end the violence, the homicides remain unsolved and the public’s attention has drifted elsewhere. Today, with a […]
Police have arrested and charged twenty-one year old Roque Rosado of Neal’s Pen Road in Belize City with attempted murder, deadly means of harm, dangerous harm and robbery in connection with the shooting of Guatemalan vendor Ziriaco Mejia Hernandez. Rosado, who was arraigned on Monday, is on remand at Hattieville Prison until December eighteenth when […]
Charges of brutality against the police department are not unusual. In fact, in August two police officers were relieved of duty following accusations of inappropriate behaviour in Orange Walk. Today we received a visit from a young man who also claims to have been victimized at the hands of Orange Walk police. Derick Arnold says […]
Long before most of us were up this morning, a Guatemalan vendor was getting ready to go out and sell his wares. His day did not go as usual, however, as was he shot and almost killed in an attempted robbery. Ann-Marie Williams has the story. Ann-Marie Williams “Police are investigating an early morning shooting […]
A mason of Hattieville was attacked and robbed while returning home from a Chinese shop. At eleven-thirty p.m. on November sixteenth, Barry Patnett was confronted by three men who asked him about the whereabouts of a man named Anthony. Patnett told the men that he knew anyone named Anthony and the three men then became […]
On November nineteenth the police pulled up outside of Mama Noots, an eco-tourist inn located at mile six on the Southern Highway, near the Maya site of Mayflower. However, the authorities were not there to check-in, but rather to conduct a search of the premises. As a result, the police discovered a tech-nine APR with […]
Sixty-two year old Ethelbert Worrell lies in a serious condition tonight at the KHMH, after he was beaten in the course of a robbery. Worrell, the security guard at Venus Bus lines in Belize City, which also houses the Z-Line office, says he was attacked by two men around two this morning. Ethelbert Worrell, Robbery […]
Police and prison officials are still on the lookout for escaped prisoners Upston Lopez and Adrian Escobar. The inmates are two of six men who were on remand and broke out of the Hattieville prison last Wednesday night. They got away by knocking out the burglar bars covering a large section of a back window […]
Police have made an arrest in the murder of Therese Blake Ayuso. Last week we reported that a prime suspect in the murder had shaved off all the hair on his head and face including eyebrows after he was slated to appear before an I.D parade the following day. The man, now identified as twenty-six […]
It seems that not informing the media of escapes from the Hattieville Prison is becoming a regular practice of the Department of Corrections. On Wednesday, six men escaped from the prison, four of which have already been recaptured. This afternoon when News Five visited the prison to get information on the jailbreak, we were told […]
In other crime news, police are investigating an incident in which a police officer shot and killed a man. On Tuesday seventy-seven year old Julio Leal went to the Corozal police station and reported that his son, forty-three year old Claudio Leal, was threatening to kill him. Because both men lived at the same address, […]
On November twelfth, forty-eight year old Benigno Chan, a Belizean businessman of San Jose Succotz Village walked into the police station and reported that he was attacked by two men who robbed him of his sixteen gauge shotgun and cartridges. However, police claim that Chan along with the Jimenez’s brothers, were drinking when an argument […]
A seventeen year old has been charged with unlawful carnal knowledge and rape. According to a police press release, a twelve-year-old female accompanied by a human development officer, visited the Orange Walk police station on Friday and reported that she has been having sexual relations with Wilbert Cuellar. Cuellar, a labourer of San Jose Village, […]
A twenty-seven year old man lies seriously injured in the Southern Regional Hospital after being shot. According to Mark Bermudez, a laborer of one and a half mile Melinda Road, around eleven o’clock Friday night he was standing in front of Courts Belize Limited in Dangriga when a man approached him, took out a pistol […]
