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Tonight Dangriga police are looking for three inmates who escaped from their detention cells at the station. Fredrick Arzu, Chan Elijio and Jason Flores escaped sometime between 11:00 and midnight Wednesday by cutting the bolt for their cell’s lock with a hacksaw blade. 21-year old Arzu, who the previous day had been sentenced to 6 […]
Written on September 28, 2000 | Posted in
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Police are investigating three separate robberies that took place in Belize City on Wednesday. The first incident unfolded at the bus shed by the Palotti High School on the Northern Highway. According to a 25-year old female student, she was sitting under the shed with another female friend waiting to catch a bus to go […]
Written on September 28, 2000 | Posted in
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In an update on another story we reported yesterday, 38-year old Armando Moh has been arrested in connection with a traffic accident that killed his sister and daughter. He has been charged with two counts of manslaughter by negligence and causing death by careless conduct, three counts of negligent grievous harm and driving a motor […]
Written on September 26, 2000 | Posted in
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Somewhere in the nation of Belize tonight there’s at least one person watching this newscast with a glass of Johnny Walker in one hand and a bottle of Chivas in the other. And if the police have their way, this burglar with a fondness for Scotch whiskey, will soon be toasting his luck in a […]
Written on September 26, 2000 | Posted in
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In crime news, the 21st did not go by without its share of violence. Thursday night at around 7:30, a man was injured by gunfire while attempting to flee from the police. Witnesses told News Five that they saw Emerson Talbert, better known as Puerto Rican, dashing into a yard on Wagner’s Lane with his […]
Written on September 22, 2000 | Posted in
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Shortly after inmate John Bartley escaped from the Hattieville prison in July, the convicted burglar called the Department of Corrections to negotiate the terms of his return. The authorities did not give in to Bartley’s request, but instead promised to intensify their efforts to bring him to justice. Well, on Monday morning those efforts finally […]
Written on September 20, 2000 | Posted in
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Though the Cash for Guns scheme might have gotten some high-powered weapons off the street, a robbery today in Belize City proves that there are still plenty of guns in the hands of criminals. At around ten o’clock this morning, Victor Matus the owner of Matus Shop at 37-B Fairweather Street, was held at pistol […]
Written on September 19, 2000 | Posted in
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It was the kind of holdup that could have ended in massive bloodshed. Instead the drama that unfolded Friday night in Roaring Creek ended shortly after it began, leaving only one man–a prospective robber–dead. At 9:15 p.m. a crowded bus was headed to Benque Viejo, having started its run an hour or so earlier at […]
Written on September 18, 2000 | Posted in
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In other crime news, escaped convict Estevan Sho has been captured. He was arrested by police Friday morning, while he visited his home village of Red Bank. Prison authorities now believe that Sho neither had a key nor did he pick the lock on his cell at Hattieville Prison. Instead investigators suspect that Sho conspired […]
Written on September 18, 2000 | Posted in
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Two years ago he brutally killed a British volunteer…and tonight Estevan Sho is on the loose. The convicted murderer escaped from the maximum-security section of Hattieville Prison Thursday night. Why the escape was not reported to the media until today is anybody’s guess–as is the location of Sho. Another disturbing aspect of the jailbreak is […]
Written on September 12, 2000 | Posted in
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The police need your help in trying to locate a number of items that were stolen sometime early this morning in Dangriga. According to Dean Joseph, the owner of Dangriga Photo Plus, the thief or thieves gained entrance into the building by prying open a back door. Once inside, the burglar took $11,570 worth of […]
Written on September 7, 2000 | Posted in
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The police have made an arrest in the killing of 20-year old Arthur Adolphus. 18-year old Jeffrey Budd has been remanded to Hattieville prison after he appeared in Magistrate’s Court this morning and was charged for the crime of murder. Following the shooting of Adolphus on Monday night, Budd was one of the first suspects […]
Written on September 6, 2000 | Posted in
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The Cash for Guns programme may be taking firearms off Belize City’s streets in record numbers, but it by no means has got them all. On Monday night a bullet ended the life of one young man as he walked on Jasmine Street. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Raquel Baptist was home with some friends when she […]
Written on September 5, 2000 | Posted in
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There are few developments to report in the death of British national David Butner. On Saturday Butner, proprietor of El Cenote bar and restaurant in San Ignacio, was found lying in his bed, dead of multiple stab wounds. Police have questioned a number of people close to Butner and while they have declined to identify […]
Written on September 5, 2000 | Posted in
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Today, the students of Sadie Vernon High School were sent home early after a man called the police to say that a bomb was planted at the school and would go off shortly. Both the staff and students were quickly evacuated as the police barricaded the immediate area. Geraldine Tillett, Principal “Well actually we didn’t […]
Written on September 5, 2000 | Posted in
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In crime news, a 54-year old British National was murdered in San Ignacio over the weekend. The last time anyone saw David Richard Butner alive, was approximately 8:00 on Friday night. On Saturday afternoon, shortly before two police entered a home in the Cahal Pech area and found Butner’s body with what appeared to be […]
Written on September 4, 2000 | Posted in
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A man has been arrested for the rape of an 11-year old girl in Belize City. The young student reported to police that while looking for her younger brother near Hunter’s Alley, a man dragged her behind a cement building and had sexual intercourse with her. She was later admitted at the KHMH. Police investigations […]
Written on September 4, 2000 | Posted in
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After nearly a month of mayhem on the streets of Belize City this week opened as quietly as a church picnic…but the peace couldn’t last forever. At news time police are looking for two men who on Thursday afternoon held up the Belama Shopping Centre. According to proprietor Adwon Assad, he was inside the store […]
Written on September 1, 2000 | Posted in
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The police have made an arrest in the killing that occurred at the Sunset disco in Caye Caulker last Friday night. On Thursday, Police arrested nineteen-year old Michael “Yellowman” Henry and twenty-year old Darren “Dar Dar” Henry of number twenty-seven West Street in Belize City. It is alleged that the brothers killed Adolfo Cruz in […]
Written on September 1, 2000 | Posted in
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In an effort to counter the growing negative publicity surrounding the beating of two star football players by police, Commissioner Hughington Williams has taken disciplinary action against four officers. Inspector James Magdaleno and Assistant Inspector Eli Salazar, officer and deputy in charge of the Orange Walk District, have been relieved of their duties and two […]
Written on August 30, 2000 | Posted in
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One firearm that never made it to the cash for guns depot has been found in–of all places–a cell at Hattieville Prison. The thirty-eight special and two rounds of ammunition were discovered on Monday during a routine search of the medium/max section. The weapon was found in a cell occupied by Andrew Kelly and Jason […]
Written on August 29, 2000 | Posted in
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On last night’s newscast we spoke to a relative who described the beating given by Orange Walk police to football stars Norman “Tilliman” Nunez and Charlie Slusher. Immediately after our newscast the two athletes showed up in person, having been released earlier in the day from the Orange Walk jail. The pair had indeed suffered […]
Written on August 29, 2000 | Posted in
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Police and citizens were at odds Friday night over an incident in which one policeman was shot by another and a drug suspect escaped. An angry crowd gathered when police fired on the suspect his friends claimed was unarmed. Eyewitness #1 “We were in the house sitting down. They just came in and just burst […]
Written on August 28, 2000 | Posted in
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A fight at a disco in Caye Caulker has left one man dead and three others with stab wounds. At approximately 11:45 p.m. on Friday, Adolfo Cruz and a minor attempted to enter the Sunset View disco, without paying the entrance fee. Royden Cain and Nathan McKenzie, security guards for the disco, refused to let […]
Written on August 28, 2000 | Posted in
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Two well-known football players did not spend the past weekend kicking ball, but were instead locked down at the Orange Walk Police Station. On Saturday, Norman “Tilliman” Nunez and Charlie Slusher were arrested following a fight, which erupted outside of a nightclub. Today, Linda Nunez, mother of Norman Nunez, told News Five that her son […]
Written on August 28, 2000 | Posted in
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