Around three o’clock this afternoon, News Five got a call informing us that William Young, a well known furniture maker on Cemetery Road, had just been stabbed. Our crew immediately rushed to the scene, and what we found was not pretty. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting When News Five arrived on the scene there was broken glass […]
The search for Stackle Monsanto is over. Monsanto, who was wanted for a robbery, was picked up by police last night at a house on Vasquez Avenue in Belize City. On Tuesday morning authorities were informed that a robbery was taking place in the area of the Queen’s Square Market. When police arrived on the […]
A minor is today in police custody after a robbery early Tuesday morning. The victim, Chinese businessman Lee Quan of Gibnut Street was robbed of two hundred Belize dollars at gunpoint. According to a police press release, they received a call about seven o’clock that morning, informing them that a robbery was taking place in […]
Almost one week after a police corporal knocked down a twelve-year old boy in Belmopan, police have finally issued a report surrounding the incident. According to the press release, on August seventeenth, the officer, whose name has not been released because he has not been formally charged, was driving the department’s green Ford Explorer on […]
Police are investigating a shooting incident, which took place in Belize City over the weekend. Twenty-one year old Brian Acosta reported to police that around midnight Sunday, he was riding his bicycle in the area of Dean and Plues Streets, when a dark complexioned man fired at him. Acosta received a gunshot wound to the […]
Les “Mobley” Smith is no stranger to the police but residents of East Collet Canal said there was no reason for the police to shoot him. Smith died early Saturday morning after he was chased by police officers and then shot as he hid in the attic of an abandoned building. Today the police have […]
Police Internal Affairs is also investigating another shooting incident that took place over the weekend in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye involving a tourism police officer. According to a police press release, around 2:45 Sunday morning, eighteen-year old Lewis Ciego of Dangriga and three of his friends were walking down Coconut Drive after leaving a nightclub. […]
Meanwhile, further up North, Orange Walk police are investigating an alleged rape that took place over the weekend. A nineteen-year old woman reported to police that around eight o’clock Saturday night she and her boyfriend were sitting in his pickup truck in the Marcus Canul Area, when they were approached by four masked men dressed […]
Hattieville prison lies to the north of the Western Highway, so its inmates will not receive the benefits of the NHI pilot project. Pity, because on Wednesday the population of that institution increased by three when a trio of muggers were convicted of jacking a pair of tourists, who were walking by the Princess Hotel […]
Police continue to make times tough for the nation’s weed smokers. A raid in the Corozal District on Wednesday morning resulted in the destruction of a plantation with three thousand mature marijuana plants averaging six feet tall. Forty-four year old Marcelino Gilharry and fifty-year old Cecilio Villanueva of San Antonio Village were found on the […]
Residents of San Ignacio are once again wondering what happened to their once peaceful town. Early Sunday morning, just after midnight, two masked men, armed with a pistol and sawed-off shotgun, robbed the Texaco gas station on the Benque Road. When the crime was over, security guard Julio Perez was dead, shot to the face […]
The nationwide weekend crime wave also washed over the south. On Saturday night around 10:00, two armed masked men held up a restaurant in the resort community of Maya Beach on the Placencia peninsula. Christine Duffy, the proprietor of Mangoes, told News Five that the pair, one armed with a knife and the other wielding […]
A series of muggings on Friday night in Belize City has apparently been solved and the suspected perpetrators arrested and charged. Between the hours of eight and nine p.m. a group of four men carrying at least one gun managed to rob two tourists walking on the Newtown Barracks, a bicyclist at Lopez Mateo’s Park […]
Police put another suspected criminal behind bars this weekend, this time for attempting to export drugs. Twenty-year old Moradeke Andanike Olateju a British National residing in Nigeria, was stopped by security personnel on Saturday at the Philip Goldson International Airport as she was about to board a Continental Airlines flight for Houston. A search revealed […]
Almost one month after fifteen-year old Delene Loria was allegedly abducted, this afternoon she presented herself to Corozal Police. Loria’s family had reported to authorities that the young girl was kidnapped by eighteen-year old Jacobo Correa as she and a relative walked to a store on Sarstoon Street in Belize City. While the girl’s family […]
There’s a new Belizean twist on the old adage that the only inevitable occurrences are death and taxes. We’d like to add to the list: the nightly robbery of a Chinese grocery and the pollution of the North Stann Creek after a rainstorm. The shopkeeper of choice on Thursday night was thirty-four year old Zhao […]
There are robberies that occur outside of Belize City and sometimes the perpetrators are actually caught. That’s what happened in Orange Walk in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. Sixty-year old Thomas Arzu told police that he was walking down Staine’s Alley around 4:25 when he was grabbed and choked by twenty-four year old Deon […]
Two Belize City men detained on Wednesday and one picked up on Thursday for weapons violations have been charged. Twenty-three year old William Usher, twenty-year old Roque Rosado and twenty-five year old Errol Leslie were charged with the keeping of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition. A loaded thirty-eight revolver was found after a search of […]
The body of a forty-four year old Guatemalan missing from his home in Belize since Wednesday, has been found by Guatemalan authorities in the Mopan River. Jose Cristobal Arias was last seen by a friend around 1:00 p.m. heading to Melchor via a “back door” route across the border to avoid detection. When he was […]
The nation’s violent crime wave may be centred in Belize City, but now and then the districts get to make the news as well. Today the police spotlight shone on Punta Gorda, as shortly after midnight a mobile patrol spotted a solitary figure inside the local branch of the Belize Bank. When the man spotted […]
Police were once again on the offensive today following a serious eruption of armed robberies and assaults in Belize City. This morning I was on the scene as officers collared two men and a weapon they believe figure prominently in the recent crime wave. Two more suspects in the recent robberies against Chinese establishments were […]
It just wouldn’t be another news day in paradise if we didn’t report on the armed robbery of a Chinese owned shop. The latest outrage occurred Tuesday at Sunlight Grocery on Queen Charlotte Street. According to police reports two dark complexioned men wearing masks and wielding guns walked into the store and confronted forty-two year […]
An acute crime wave, like the one being experienced by Belize City and other urban areas, at some point will prompt an equally acute official response. That happened this morning when law enforcement officers were out in force. When our news team caught up with them during a raid on one southside neighbourhood…the reception was […]
It seems that almost every night a local Chinese owned store is subjected to criminal attack. So it should come as no surprise that “Everyday” grocery shop on Euphrates Avenue was finally robbed on Monday. Cao Chao Qee, proprietor of “Everyday”, was standing in front of his store around 9:30 p.m. when two men, armed […]
The suspect detained by police in the killing of security guard Kingsford Obeng has been charged with murder. Glenford Logan was formally arraigned today in Belize City Magistrate’s Court and remanded to Hattieville until a hearing on September eighth. Obeng, who was guarding a grocery store on Saturday night, was attacked by a man who […]
