The discovery of a body in the Mopan River was initially called a drowning but as of this evening police suspect murder. Around four p.m. December twenty-seventh, San Ignacio Police went to the temporary bridge that connects the Santa Elena and San Ignacio sides of the town. There they saw the body of a woman […]
It appears that jealously may be the motive behind a weekend stabbing in Belize City. Twenty year old Emerson Arnold says that around seven p.m. on December twenty-sixth, he and a lady friend were hanging out in an apartment near the Bel-China Bridge when he heard a warning from outside that someone named Denver was […]
A Punta Gorda man has been arrested and charged with rape. According to a police release, twenty-three year old farmer Edzel Lopez visited the home of a twenty-eight year old Guatemalan woman at around five on Boxing Day morning and asked to borrow a hammer and a blanket. She reported to police that when she […]
And while most Belizeans were huddled under the covers early Sunday morning trying to sleep off their overindulgences the night before, Corozal police were busy taking down some Christmas trees. These green seedlings, however, were not traditional pines; they were part of a plantation of some one thousand marijuana plants. The field was discovered between […]
If you were watching television news over the weekend you may have noticed a celebrity crime story featuring rap music giant Sean “Puffy” Combs and his girlfriend, hotter than hot actress/singer Jennifer Lopez. It seems the two celebrities were arrested in the wee hours of Monday morning as they sped away from the scene of […]
One day after Oscar Rosado was shot inside his hardware store on Cemetery Road, the fifty-one year old construction supply merchant remains in a stable condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. He underwent surgery yesterday. Rosado and his wife Elena were inside the store when shortly after one Thursday afternoon, two men wearing stocking […]
With Christmas less than two days away, the criminals are getting desperate. Despite heavy police presence downtown to protect shoppers, two men shot a Belizean businessman at his store this afternoon. They shot him even though they got a hefty amount of cash. According to Elena Rosado, she and her husband, Oscar were in their […]
The ride home to Dangriga turned frightening for three men Wednesday night. Dean Bennett and two friends were on the Hummingbird Highway around seven p.m. As they reached a series of curves between miles thirty-six and thirty-seven, just before the Hershey compound, Bennett says gunshots were fired from the bushes on the passenger side of […]
In other crime news two men have been arrested in connection with an armed robbery in Corozal. Twenty-five year old Donavan Franzua of Paraiso Village and twenty-three year old Honduran Rolando Arzu allegedly used a sawed off shotgun to threaten two employees of Majil’s Mexican Products in Corozal Town. According to police reports Clari and […]
A fight in the Cayo District has resulted in one man being stabbed and two others arrested. According to police reports shortly after midnight on Saturday twenty-five year old Glenford Jones of Cotton Tree attempted to break up a fight between Matias Bolon and Phillip Myvette. In so doing he managed to get stabbed in […]
Police are looking for two men in one of those all too familiar cases in which the victim claims he has been shot for no apparent reason by people he never saw and does not know. Twenty-one year old Marlon Hyde of George Street in Belize City reported to authorities that while he was standing […]
The facts are sketchy but unconfirmed reports reaching News Five indicate that a disturbance at Hattieville Prison on Friday evening has resulted in a prisoner being shot in the leg by a guard. Clarence Gentle was shot by one of a number of guards who tried to restrain him as he was being transferred from […]
In police news, another man has been arrested for an alleged kidnapping in November at the D-Victoria Hotel. Orange Walk police have charged Erlin White with three counts of kidnapping, conspiracy and threat of death as well as grevious harm and harm against Hudrick Usher, Addy Leslie and Karina Lopez. Just days after the incident […]
This morning a heavy police presence at the Hattieville Prison lead to rumors that a guard had been taken hostage. Fortunately this was not the case, but police were there for a different reason: to do another intensive search for drugs and weapons. The search started at six a.m. and included all one thousand and […]
A man was shot in the neck Tuesday afternoon in Belize City. Delrick Sankey told police he and his cousin were at the corner of Partridge and Vernon Streets when a youth known only to him as Jamir approached. He says the teenager pulled out a small chrome gun and started firing. While the first […]
Everyone wants a little extra money this time of year, but three people are under suspicion following allegations they tried to get that cash from someone else’s bank account. An alert member of staff at the Bank of Nova Scotia’s Belama division realized something was wrong when someone came into the branch Monday morning and […]
A tourist was shot in the arm in front of the Princess Hotel on Princess Margaret Drive Sunday night. Police report that hotel guest Jose Igea Ruiz of Navarra, Spain was with four friends around eight p.m. when a man came up and pointed a gun in his face and said something in English. But […]
An Orange Walk man has been charged with attempted murder after a chopping incident which left another resident in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Carlos Reyes of Gravel Lane was arrested on Sunday after Transito Arevalo Martinez of Riverside Street was found by the side of the road with multiple chop wounds […]
The Belize Police Department announced today they have received the final shipment of a generous donation of communications equipment from Mr. and Mrs. Erwin D. Eisenberg. The Eisenbergs promised they would give the Ministry of National Security one hundred handheld radios almost a year ago and have been steadily supplying the department since then. In […]
Lobster season may be open, but that doesn’t mean the Fisheries Department is not doing spot checks for size. Last week the department arrested five fishermen: Alfredo Cal, Roberto Cal Teul, Elodio Lara, Martin Almoro and Apolo Rivero for possession of undersized lobster in southern waters. All are licensed fishermen, but they now face fines […]
A private citizen is offering a reward for information leading to the prosecution and conviction of those responsible for damaging a number of young palm trees on St. Thomas Street in King’s Park. Stephen Heusner told News Five he decided to offer a three hundred dollar reward after he drove down the street this weekend. […]
The police high command has moved swiftly in response to a complaint from a Punta Gorda man detained by police on Thursday that he was beaten by three officers. Today the three men he accused, Sergeant Oscar Tzib, and Constables Timothy Bo and Jose Sierra were interdicted from duty while the matter is investigated. The […]
At the same time that the Prison Superintendent was live on “One on One” with Dickie Bradley, one of her officers encountered a dangerous situation behind the maximum-security section of the prison. Three armed men dressed in black were near the outer fence, perhaps waiting for an inmate to try and come out, or maybe […]
Two Salvadorans heading into Guatemala had a close encounter with some armed men of their own, near the Western Border on Thursday morning. Berta Sorto and her brother Ma Sorto who live in Orange Walk Town told police they were walking along the western bank of the Mopan River near Benque when four Hispanic men […]
In police news, at around seven this morning, Caye Caulker police received a phone call telling them that a body was hanging from a tree near the cemetery. When police arrived on the scene they found the body of twenty-eight year old Mike Diego. The tour guide operator from a Front Street address was suspended […]
