Police have detained five men for questioning and are looking for one more Marlon Budd in connection with the murder of twenty-six year old Oscar Perez. Perez was shot twice in front of his wife and brother near the Salvation Army Primary School on Saturday night. Perez’s common-law wife, Glenda Castro, told News Five that […]
In October News Five accompanied a BDF police patrol about eight miles from the Caracol Ruins near the Guatemalan border as they went to destroy marijuana plantations. On this trip we were told the area is considered dangerous and that the soldier often encounter illegal marijuana cultivators, who are sometimes armed. On Tuesday one of […]
Opponents of Belize’s policy of selling passports have long criticized the practice as an open invitation for tax dodgers, drug dealers, money launderers and even terrorists to find a safe haven on these all too friendly shores. Tonight it appears more certain than ever that those criticisms are well founded. A News Five investigation has […]
Police are investigating a murder in Belize City over the weekend which bears a striking resemblance to the murder of Punta Gorda teacher Pio Coc in August. On Saturday night, a wife watched as five men chased her husband and his brother before shooting her husband twice. Like Pio Coc, he also bled to death […]
While the friends and family of Oscar Perez try to deal with his brutal slaying, residents of Orange Walk were stunned this weekend by the equally shocking and senseless murder of two employees of the Ministry of Health. On Friday night, just after ten o?clock, Hipolito Muy and Orlando Reyes were beaten to death by […]
And finally in crime news, police have detained one man and are looking for another in connection with a burglary in Independence Village. Abdul Sarraj of Savannah Road reported that someone broke into his house sometime between January twentieth and twenty-second and stole sixty-one thousand dollars worth of cash and jewelry.
A man wanted in connection with a shooting on Central American Boulevard has been arrested. Deshawn Nunez has been charged with attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm and grievous harm in connection with the shooting of Mark Banner on the seventeenth of January. Banner alleges that Nunez approached him at the corner of […]
On Tuesday, the fisheries vessel Lutjanus set out on its first operation since the boat was refurbished. The vessel, with a special multi-agency force including members of the Fisheries Department, Immigration and the police, ventured down south to Gladden Split about nineteen miles from Placencia. The four-day operation was a major success as it resulted […]
In crime news, a fifteen-year-old has been arrested and charged with the murder of a Dangriga teen over the weekend. Police charged the youth from the Sabal Community on Tuesday. The young man alleges however that fifteen-year-old Godwin Dawson accosted him on Canal Street around eleven thirty p.m. on January fourteenth and started the fight. […]
In criminal circles, how creative you get trying to hide your drugs might mean the difference between life on the streets or time behind bars. While some have tried to hide drugs under rocks in the front yard and swallowing substances to escape the long arm of the law, one man from the Cayo District, […]
Twenty-one year old Jason Williams, who was on remand at Hattieville Prison, was scheduled to appear in Magistrate’s Court today, for a shooting incident in 1999. Instead he was escorted to the court and charged with the murder of his cellmate Raymond Flowers on Saturday. Flowers received a deep knife wound to his right armpit […]
Streetside shootings seem to be the headlines again with one over the weekend and another on Monday evening. Coincidentally both were sparked by disputes over women. The latest incident has left twenty-two year old Mark Derrick Banner in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with a bullet wound to the back. Banner was shot around six […]
A resident of King’s Park has been charged with a stabbing at a Belize City nightclub. Thirty-six year old Joseph Robateau of Sixth Street has been charged with dangerous harm after twenty-three year old Jason Adolphus was stabbed in the abdomen during a fight at Miami Nites on Central American Boulevard early Sunday morning.
He was serving time at the Hattieville Prison for the shooting death of a security guard at the Gourmet Restaurant in 1995. Most recently Raymond Flowers was in the news when his presence at a football game in Belize City prompted the so-called “weekend pass” scandal at the Hattieville Prison. But now, Flowers is dead, […]
In crime news, a fifteen-year-old Dangriga student has died after being stabbed in the abdomen during a fight on Friday. Police say Godwin Dawson of Yampa Street died this morning after he got into an altercation on Canal Street around eleven thirty Friday night. He was first taken to the Southern Regional Hospital and then […]
One person has been detained in connection with a stabbing at the Miami Nights Club in Belize City early Sunday morning. Around three a.m. twenty-year-old Jason Adolphus was stabbed in the abdomen during a fight at the club on Central American Boulevard. So far no charges have been filed against the person detained.
In another incident in Belize City, a maintenance worker from Belama Phase One has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly fired three shots at a man walking on Raccoon Street extension early Saturday morning. Egbert Flowers told police around five thirty a.m. a man on a bike road by and shot him in […]
A man from El Salvador has been arrested and charged with rape and unlawful carnal knowledge after two runaway girls returned home. On Wednesday January twelfth, we reported two girls age fifteen and fourteen had gone missing and had told their families they were on their way to Canada. Two days later, however, on the […]
The Fisheries Department would like to remind restaurant owners, shopkeepers and consumers that even though conch season is open, they are checking for undersized conch and making arrests. Last week the department conducted operations in the Belize Harbor, Belize River, Market Square, Stann Creek, Caye Caulker and San Pedro, Ambergris Caye and searched several restaurants. […]
The father of two children burned to death in a fire Wednesday has been charged with causing death by careless conduct. George Rowland Sr. was charged today after an investigation revealed he left his sons, four-year-old George Rowland Jr. and two-year-old Deon Allen alone in the house on Electric Avenue. Banner told police he went […]
The body of a watchman missing since December twenty-sixth has been found at a cemetery in Hopkins Village. The decayed body was found on Thursday morning wrapped in a blue and white blanket. Police say the remains were identified today as those of Justino Maldonado who disappeared the day after Christmas. Dr. Mario Estradabran performed […]
A Belize City man has been arrested and charged after a shooting on Tuesday. Thirty-year-old Philip Lightburn, an auto dealer on Cemetery Road, has been charged with attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm and grievous harm after twenty-one year old David Williams reported to police that Lightburn shot him. According to Williams, he […]
Turning to crime, a young man in Belize City says he was shot after accidentally knocking into another man with his bicycle. Twenty-one year old David Williams says he was riding his bike on Rhaburn’s Alley Tuesday night when he bumped into another young man. Williams says when they met again later, before he had […]
Shortly after David Williams was shot, police received another call, this time from Kiss Restaurant on the corner of Mapp Street and Freetown Road. According to reports, just after nine Tuesday night, the security guard for the restaurant, twenty-five year old Oscar Campos, was on patrol when two Creole men attacked him and tried to […]
In every workplace, employers and employees may not get along all the time, but what happens when a disagreement gets physical? According to Guy Tillett, an employee for over eighteen years at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, right after he signed in to work this morning, he and his immediate supervisor got into a verbal […]
