During a surprise inspection on Tuesday, police confiscated over one hundred and forty pounds of illegal game meat at Joseph Wong Store. Officials from the Forest Department, accompanied by a police officer, found one hundred and seven pounds of gibnut and armadillo, twenty-nine and a half pounds of deer, and five and a half pounds […]
Police have arrested and charged three men suspected of robbing a Chinese shop. One week ago, four men entered Vin Hong Store and robbed the owners of thirty thousand dollars in cash and ten thousand more in cheques. Twenty-one year old Ronald Cox, twenty-eight year old Mark Henry and seventeen year old Kareem Williams have […]
The Police Department, badly embarrassed last week by official complicity in a murder suspect’s subverting of justice, has reacted swiftly to punish those involved. Six officers were today suspended from duty pending further investigation of an incident in which a detained suspect in the murder of Therese Blake was helped to obtain a razor. He […]
A burglary at the old Belize City hospital has left the Medical Department short of over twenty one thousand dollars. The money was left in the accounts office when some of the medical staff did not collect their salaries on October twenty-seventh. When Finance Officer Hugh Broaster returned to the office on Monday, he noticed […]
Businesses should be on the lookout for a woman shopping in Belize City with bogus checks. Police have documented two similar incidents of forgery in the past two weeks. On the sixteenth of October the unidentified woman purchased household items from Vishu Paragrani’s “V-Mart” store on Albert Street. She paid with a Scotia Bank cheque […]
A couple of years ago it was standard procedure that when a driver was arrested and charged for a traffic accident in which a person was killed, his licence was usually suspended. If the evidence indicated that the driver was drunk and the accident was a hit and run, the suspension would be automatic. On […]
A Chinese Grocery shop was robbed today in Belize City… But the amount stolen was more worthy of a Brodies or Romacs. At twelve-thirty this afternoon four men entered Vin Hong Store at five Euphrates Avenue and held up the owners at gun point. The men escaped with thirty thousand dollars in cash and ten […]
Two men arrested in the murder of Therese Blake Ayuso have been denied bail by the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Abdullah Conteh turned down the application by police corporal Rodwell “Tiger” Richards and Ernest Kemp. The pair is charged with both abetment and conspiracy to murder. Defence attorneys Simeon Sampson and Michel Chebat say there […]
While Richards and Kemp languish in Ladyville, police are running into trouble in their pursuit of the triggerman in the October twelfth murder. Last week a prime suspect in the killing was slated to appear before a witness in an I.D. parade, but on the eve of the appearance, the man managed to obtain a […]
A young woman is lucky to be alive after being abducted Tuesday night. The nineteen-year-old student was making her way towards the Palotti junction around seven o’clock when she was attacked by a man identified as Albert Guy. However, thanks to a Novelos bus driver, she escaped with only minor injuries. Fitzroy Yearwood, P.R., Police […]
It will be almost one week since the body of taxi driver Roy Geban, was found on the Western Highway with several gun shot wounds. The police so far have not arrested anyone for the crime, but say they have been following up on some leads and it won’t be long before their investigation comes […]
Last week the Police Department conducted an operation in which they recovered numerous items such as TV’s and stereos, believed to be stolen during Hurricane Keith. While some people may have denied holding stolen items in their homes, police say that the true owners are coming forward to claim their possessions. Fitzroy Yearwood, Acting Press […]
Police corporal Rodwell Richards better known as “Tiger” and Ernest Kemp are still on remand at the Hattieville prison after being formally charged with abetment to murder and conspiracy to abet the crime of murder in the case of Therese Blake Ayuso. Both men were denied bail after appearing before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord in […]
Police have finally made an arrest in the murder of Therese Blake. Twenty-nine year old police corporal Rodwell Richards and Ernest Kemp, a twenty-eight year old stevedore of Cemetery Road in Belize City are tonight at the Hattieville Prison after being denied bail this morning. Both men were arrested on Friday, October twenty-seventh, for abetment […]
Taxi drivers have become very concerned about their safety following the murder of Roy Geban. When News Five visited the taxi stands in Belize City, the drivers say they have to work the streets in order to make money, but at the same time they want to be able to feel secured while doing their […]
The body of well-known taxi driver Roy Geban was found this morning, with several gunshot wounds. Geban, usually worked his trade on Albert Street in front of Nova Scotia Bank. Last night at a quarter to seven, he left home as usual and when he did not return that night, his father assumed he was […]
An elderly man today lost his life in a hit and run accident. Early this morning sixty-six year old Owen Hughdonald Welcome was taking his usual walk when he was knocked down and killed by a speeding vehicle. News Five spoke to Welcome’s daughter, who says the suspect should have at least tried to help. […]
Since the kidnapping and murder of multi-millionaire heiress Therese Blake Ayuso on October twelfth, there has been little information coming out of the police department. Today, however, the cops were talking and say they are close to making an arrest. Officials say they have impounded a white two door Chevrolet Cavalier with California license plates […]
Police say they receive reports of at least three burglaries per day and since Hurricane Keith a total of fifty-one burglaries have been recorded in Belize City alone. Many of these crimes are being solved and today the police department invited the press to see the results. Sr. Superintendent Crispin Jeffries, O.I.C., Eastern Division “There’s […]
In crime news eleven days has passed since the murder of multimillionaire heiress Therese Blake Ayuso and police have yet to make an arrest. A number of people have been detained for questioning, but all have been released. Law enforcement authorities have been tight lipped about the case but sources close to the investigation tell […]
Police still have yet to make any arrests in the kidnapping and murder of Therese Blake Ayuso. Ayuso had just returned home from picking up her four year old daughter from school when the mother and child were abducted by two men who were apparently waiting for her by her garage. Reports are that Ayuso […]
On July twenty-eighth we ran an interview with Hattieville inmate Randolph Miller. Miller had just been taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was allegedly beaten by Carl Davis, an officer at the Department of Corrections in the presence of other officers. Miller, who had escaped from the Hattieville prison, had been recaptured […]
Police have confirmed that they have impounded a white vehicle with a Texas license plate they believe may have been used in the murder of Therese Blake Ayuso. A total of five people, not necessarily suspects, have so far been questioned in the investigation, including the victim’s estranged husband Libby Ayuso Jr. The daughter of […]
It was not your typical Belizean murder. Those usually involve gang bangers whacking each other over drugs or territorial disputes, drunken machete men fighting over women or an occasional Chinese grocer killed in a robbery attempt. Today’s tragic death occurred in broad daylight in a wealthy section of the Newtown Barracks once reserved for the […]
In crime news police have apprehended one of the three men who escaped from the Dangriga lockup on September 28th. Frederick Arzu was caught around 3:00 Saturday morning in Belize City. Fellow escapees John Elijio and Jason Flowers are still at large. Arzu was convicted and sentenced
