In an update to a story we first reported on Wednesday regarding a police raid at a home on West Collet Canal, tonight four men who were detained following the search have been charged. On Tuesday night police went to #51 West Collet Canal and detained 27-year old Sidney Ellis, his brother 33-year old Richard […]
It’s the 3rd major bust for Maya artifacts in as many weeks and it’s keeping the police and Archaeology Department busy. The latest raid involved Abraham Wolfe of Spanish Lookout, who was found in possession of a hoard of 150 ancient pieces including clay pots, flints and jade beads. Wolfe was charged in San Ignacio […]
In recent years there has never been any shortage of police brutality to report in Belize. But as the pressure mounts for authorities to produce results in the war against drugs and guns it seems that some officers forget that the rule of law applies to criminals both in and out of uniform. Janelle Chanona, […]
Two of the four prisoners who made a bid for their freedom early Friday morning are tonight back behind bars. 27-year old Michael Woods was recaptured by officers of the Patrol Branch on Friday afternoon in the Pine Street area. When the police officers found Woods, he was suffering from gunshot wounds to his right […]
While the profilers were on parade at the National Agriculture and Trade Show on Saturday morning, one man was reportedly picking a fight with the cops. According to police reports, around 10:00 am on Saturday, a police officer on the grounds was informed that one Thomas Hill of Camalote Village was carrying a weapon. The […]
There seems to be no shortage of stories coming from behind the walls of the Hattieville Correctional Facility and today is no exception. It seems a well-planned, early morning escape earned four prisoners their freedom and has left one prison guard under suspicion. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Four prisoners are still on the run after they […]
A prison warden has been dismissed after he was found stealing a handgun at Hattieville prison. Noel Sedacy was questioned about the missing weapon after it could not be accounted for. After questioning by Executive Governor Bernard Adolphus Sedacy then led prison authorities to a spot behind the maximum security section where they dug up […]
A countrywide police anti-crime operation ended on Saturday after 12 days of surprise raids, body searches, and street corner security checks. Today, police officers from the Eastern Division proudly displayed a portion of their catch for the press. The Belize City raid netted over 4 pounds of weed and 23 crack pipes and led to […]
The police may be taking guns and drugs off the streets but over the weekend, city jackers were busy taking cars off the street. On Saturday, two unsuspecting Belize City women lost their Toyota vehicles in separate incidents. 21-year old Gracilia Kuylen reported to police that early Saturday evening she parked her maroon Toyota Camry […]
Last week we reported on a theft of Maya artifacts from the visitor’s centre at the Cahal Pech Maya site. A total of 19 pieces were stolen, mostly jade, and the haul was valued at around a half million Belize dollars. Three men are in custody for the crime, a fourth is being sought and […]
It was an audacious crime but tonight police in San Ignacio have 3 of the 4 suspects in custody. A 16-year old student and a 20-year old man, Dennis Castillo, have been charged with burglary while 18-year old Shane Espat has been charged with handling stolen goods. The charges arise out of a break in […]
Police have detained two men in connection with a brutal abduction which occurred on Sunday. Around 7:00 in the evening a 36-year old Ladyville woman was hitchhiking back home from the Crooked Tree cutoff on the Northern Highway. She told police that a car pulled up to offer her a ride, she recognized two of […]
A man from Roaring Creek is in the hospital tonight after he threatened a police officer with a knife on Sunday morning. According to police reports, a police officer working at a softball game saw 19-year old Nigel Neal, a suspect in a burglary, and decided to approach him. It is alleged that Neal got […]
The weekend which has just passed may one day be looked back on as the point at which Chinese merchants in Belize stopped being victimized…and started taking the law into their own hands. The result is that a 22-year old man is dead following an attempted robbery on Saturday night. The incident took place at […]
Meanwhile, a remarkably similar incident occurred in the Stann Creek District. 52-year old Martin Tzu, of Dangriga, who is not Chinese, told police that on Saturday morning he went to his farm at mile 2 on the Stann Creek Valley Road. However, Tzu says when he got to the farm he saw a sack of […]
It was an audacious crime but it now appears that the thieves may have had more guts than brains. On Wednesday night a gang of burglars broke into the small museum building at the Maya site of Cahal Pech overlooking San Ignacio. They entered by tearing off a piece of the roof and made off […]
Nearly three months after a daylight heist on North Front Street netted one thief $20,000, a Belize City man has been arrested and charged with the crime. This morning Jermaine Williams appeared in Magistrate’s Court to answer charges of robbery in connection with an incident that occurred in February of this year. According to police […]
“Mike” April 26th, 2000 “They beat me. They had sex with me, They rape me.” Viewers may recall a story we ran last week in which an unnamed security guard told a hair raising tale of being kidnapped from his job and repeatedly raped and tortured by his abductors over a 24-hour period. Needless to […]
In other crime news of a less frivolous nature Morris Fuller, the man accused of fatally stabbing Troy Gill on the morning of May first, has been charged with murder. Fuller himself was seriously injured in that same incident which involved a fight with a number of young men whom Fuller claims had attempted to […]
A Belize City man remains at the KHMH in critical condition tonight after he was shot twice on Thursday night. Police say 18-year-old George Matthews was at Libby’s Restaurant on Gibnut Street around 8 o’clock Thursday night when he got into a fight with another man. It is alleged the man pulled out a gun […]
In last night’s newscast we asked the question of who was safeguarding the rights of 18-month old Santos Alvarez, the baby who was killed when, through no fault of his own, he wound up in the middle of a street fight. Tonight we can report that at least someone values human life as the charges […]
He was shot in the back of the head and lived to tell about it. 18-year old Keon Williams told police he was on Fairweather Street Tuesday afternoon when he noticed a man behind him on a bicycle. Williams claims the man pointed a gun at him and fired once. Williams was grazed in the […]
About the only thing everyone involved agrees on is that in the wee hours of Labour Day morning a major altercation occurred on Caesar Ridge Road. When it was over one man was dead and another badly beaten. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Bloodstains still remain on the pavement where 18-year-old Troy Gill was stabbed. Gill was […]
A man has been arrested in connection with last Friday’s bizarre death of an 18-month old baby in Belize City. 34-year old Julian Velasquez has been charged with manslaughter by negligence and causing death by careless conduct in the killing of Santos Alvarez. Velasquez is the man who allegedly picked up a stick with a […]
This week may have been a short one but there was no shortage of unbelievably senseless slaughter in Belize City. The latest outrage involves what can only be described as fatal idiocy. Two men on Lakeview Street, one of whom was minding a baby, apparently got into some kind of argument. One picked up a […]
