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A twenty-year-old laborer from Jane Usher Boulevard has been charged in connection with the stabbing of two brothers and one of their friends shortly after midnight on September twenty-six. Police say Leroy Cocom faces two counts of wounding and aggravated assault for the attack on seventeen year old Michael Quan and his fifteen year old […]
Written on October 21, 1999 | Posted in
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One week after forty-four year old Winston Burgess was gunned down outside the Caribbean Shipping Agency on Albert Street, the Criminal Investigations Branch says they are about to bring charges against two young men. Eric Savery and Gregory Goff are in custody and should be charged sometime Thursday. Inspector Mario Vernon, Head of C.I.B. says […]
Written on October 20, 1999 | Posted in
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An Orange Walk man has reported being held up by the man who was supposed to sell him a car. Carlos Reyes told police he was on Fifth Avenue in Corozal Town on Monday morning when a man he knew only as “Mark” stopped in a black LTD car with tinted windows and asked him […]
Written on October 19, 1999 | Posted in
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Smuggling is a recurrent problem at all of Belize’s ports and borders. As the smugglers of contraband goods get more creative in their methods, law enforcement personnel have to get more aggressive. This week those who police the borders are learning some tricks of the smuggling trade from their counterparts in the United States. The […]
Written on October 18, 1999 | Posted in
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She was robbed several months ago on her way to the bank which is why her co-workers got her a taxi today, but the precaution didn’t prevent a thief from getting away with all their pay anyway. Around ten thirty this morning, an assistant from the Belize Pathology Lab on Eve Street was held up […]
Written on October 15, 1999 | Posted in
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The police have launched an internal investigation to determine if two police officers were justified in shooting a man in the shoulder. While the police claim they thought the suspect was armed, the victim has a very different story to tell. News Five spoke with Curtis Flowers and his mother at the Karl Heusner Memorial […]
Written on October 15, 1999 | Posted in
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Late last week a joint B.D.F./police unit thought they were on a routine patrol in Toledo but a tip from villagers led to an unusual find. They also apprehended a man wanted for murder in another country. On October seventh, Guatemalan brothers Jesus, Virgilio, Otoniel and Roberto Ramirez were found on a farm near San […]
Written on October 14, 1999 | Posted in
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The internal affairs division of the Police Department is looking into an incident in Belize City in which a citizen was shot by police. The officers, who were in plain clothes, reported that around eight thirty Tuesday night they were walking through Constitution Park when they observed Curtis Flowers behaving in a suspicious manner. The […]
Written on October 14, 1999 | Posted in
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Although no one has been arrested yet for the brutal sidewalk slaying of moneylender Winston Burgess on Tuesday in downtown Belize City, police say members of the public have been a great help in the investigation. Public Relations Officer Christy Castillo says area residents are coming forward to give very detailed descriptions of the assailants. […]
Written on October 13, 1999 | Posted in
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In other police news, three men have been charged with various offenses in connection with an alleged kidnapping in Orange Walk earlier this month. Hudrick Usher a fisherman from Belize City reported that on the seventh of October he and a friend were at the D-Victoria Hotel in Orange Walk with a cousin, Adie Leslie, […]
Written on October 13, 1999 | Posted in
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It was the middle of the morning on a typical day. A service was underway at St. John’s Cathedral and those who live and work at the end of Albert Street were going about their daily routine. Suddenly the stillness of the morning was shattered and in full view of all a man was gunned […]
Written on October 12, 1999 | Posted in
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A young girl who took a chance and broke the curfew to purchase some items for her mother on Saturday night has reported being raped by two youths. The thirteen year old girl told police she was on her way home from a shop around eight thirty p.m. when nineteen year old Gary Yearwood and […]
Written on October 12, 1999 | Posted in
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Although witnesses say at least six men were involved in a holdup in Orange Walk on October fifth, so far only one man has been arrested. Twenty year old Salvadoran Moises Minros has been charged with five counts of robbery, five counts of harm, five counts of conspiracy to commit robbery and eight counts of […]
Written on October 12, 1999 | Posted in
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Something strange happened in Trinidad Village on the night of October sixth and police are trying to determine why one of the men involved was killed. Police say Eduardo Tillett has been detained after the death of Pluterio Hamilton around eight thirty p.m. Hamilton is alleged to have knocked on Tillett’s door armed with a […]
Written on October 7, 1999 | Posted in
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It was rumored that he was heading for the States, but he didn’t get far. The seventeen-year-old messenger for the Belize City Magistrate’s Court was picked up by Mexican police at Villa Hermosa and handed over to Corozal police this morning. Kenroy Humes is wanted in connection with the disappearance of over six thousand dollars […]
Written on October 7, 1999 | Posted in
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Twelve people at a house in Orange Walk were held up by six armed men on Tuesday night. Jose Trepaz reported that around seven p.m. six men entered his house in Trial Farm and robbed the occupants of over seven thousand dollars in cash and jewelry and a cell phone. The robbers then fled in […]
Written on October 7, 1999 | Posted in
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The driver of a trailer truck involved in an accident on the Western Highway yesterday which claimed the life of cyclist John “Shambah” Dominguez Sr. has been charged with manslaughter by negligence. Israel Chi of Ranchito Village Corozal also faces charges of causing death by careless conduct, and driving without due care and attention. Dominguez […]
Written on October 6, 1999 | Posted in
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Five days after he reportedly knocked down a four-year-old boy and then fled the scene, Independence police picked up Carlos Muschamp at his home in the village. Muschamp was charged with failure to stop and render aid, Driving without due care and attention, wounding, failure to report an accident and driving a motor vehicle while […]
Written on October 6, 1999 | Posted in
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A twenty-eight year old bartender from Orange Walk has been charged with drug trafficking after cocaine was reportedly found in his vehicle. Police say acting on a tip, at midday a roadblock was set up at mile eighty-nine on the Northern Highway. There the police stopped Mark Usher as he approached in a gray Nissan […]
Written on October 6, 1999 | Posted in
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In March the Mennonite Community of Belize was shocked by the kidnapping of Menno Penner from his farm in Belmopan. Although a ransom note demanding a million dollars U.S. was sent to the family, they cannot — and will not — pay because such a negotiation goes against their beliefs and community policies. Penner’s family […]
Written on October 6, 1999 | Posted in
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Police are investigating the death of an Orange Walk man whose body was found floating in the Rio Hondo on Monday afternoon. Thirty-year-old Macario Coba of San Lazaro Village disappeared on October second although no report was made to police. His body was brought ashore at Bottes Village in Quintana Roo, Mexico. There were no […]
Written on October 5, 1999 | Posted in
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Police are looking for the messenger for the Belize City Magistrate’s Court and almost six thousand dollars which was supposed to be deposited in the bank on Monday. Seventeen year old Kenny Humes was given six thousand, one hundred and ninety five dollars to take to the Atlantic Bank that morning, but failed to return […]
Written on October 5, 1999 | Posted in
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A skiff belonging to the Belize Western Energy Company has been reported stolen. The ten-foot white skiff disappeared from its moorings in some mangroves at mile four on the Western Highway on October third. The skiff and its Yamaha engine are valued at two thousand six hundred dollars.
Written on October 5, 1999 | Posted in
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The Belize Police Force has been criticized for their lack of evidence in key cases and the way evidence is collected. It is a problem the Ministry of National Security is addressing. Through a joint sponsorship with the US Embassy and the government of Belize, a one-week forensic course is underway at the Police Training […]
Written on October 4, 1999 | Posted in
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Whoever they were, they’ve vanished without a trace with a bundle of money. Tenants of the Belize International Airport were stunned to show up to work today only to find that their establishments had been broken into during the night. This despite the fact that around five a.m. today, security officers on duty called their […]
Written on October 1, 1999 | Posted in
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