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Another arrest has been made in connection with the shooting of a University College of Belize student. This time the charge is bribery. Thirty year old David Sosa has been charged with the crime of doing an act intended to pervert the course of public justice after he reportedly approached the victim, Trenton Green at […]
Written on September 16, 1999 | Posted in
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A San Ignacio police officer has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting at his superior. Around two a.m. on Sunday September twelfth, twenty-six year old Police Constable Denfield Augustine reportedly aimed a nine millimeter pistol at Corporal Lawrence Lopez through a window at the San Ignacio Police Station. He allegedly swore at the […]
Written on September 15, 1999 | Posted in
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In Belize City a security guard was stunned to learn that he was a little too late to stop a burglary from taking place at the TACA Airlines warehouse on the boulevard. Eighteen year old Jeremy Romero told police that when he showed up for work at seven p.m. on Tuesday he was met by […]
Written on September 15, 1999 | Posted in
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Today Trenton Green, the U.C.B. student who received a gunshot wound to his abdomen on Saturday, September eleventh denied he was acquainted with his assailant, Jerome Goff. Viewers may recall that during a police press conference, Inspector Mario Vernon, Head of C.I.B. told the media he does not believe Green was shot simply because he […]
Written on September 15, 1999 | Posted in
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And finally, police report that they have charged three in connection with a burglary at the home of Davidas Sukhlani in Punta Gorda over the holiday weekend. Estuardo Castellanos, seventeen, Westly Emmanuel, twenty-two, and Edwin Henry, sixteen, all of Punta Gorda Town were picked up earlier this week.
Written on September 15, 1999 | Posted in
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A Punta Gorda businessman reported being robbed on the ninth of September of seventy thousand dollars worth of cash and jewelry during a burglary. Davidas Sukhlani told police fifteen thousand Belize dollars and twenty thousand in U.S. currency and an assortment of jewelry was stolen from the house on West Street. Police have detained six […]
Written on September 14, 1999 | Posted in
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The destruction of a marijuana plantation by the police and B.D.F. may seem like a routine event since it is so frequently reported. But if you are imagining a group of soldiers jumping out of a truck, running to a field just off the highway, counting and burning the plants and then getting back to […]
Written on September 14, 1999 | Posted in
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It wasn’t all revelry this weekend, but more like rivalry when William Garcia was killed over a stolen bicycle. Police say the incident may have been the result of a dispute between two gangs. On Sunday, September eleventh around twelve fifteen a.m., Garcia’s nephew Glenford Gillette was riding his bicycle by the corner of Mopan […]
Written on September 13, 1999 | Posted in
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On Saturday night a U.C.B. student Trenton Green was shot in his abdomen by an assailant in a shop. Today the twenty-one year old youth was still in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in a critical but stable condition. According to police, contrary to initial reports, Green was not shot because he refused to buy […]
Written on September 13, 1999 | Posted in
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Police have detained a sixteen-year-old and are looking for another person in connection with another shooting on Saturday night. According to the police two young men stopped in front of forty East Canal and started shooting at the house. As a result, twenty-one year old Paul Welsh was shot under his left arm. However, the […]
Written on September 13, 1999 | Posted in
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An armed robbery in Belize City has netted three men two hundred dollars. A witness to the incident says around eight thirty p.m., on September eighth, three men entered Golden Triangle Shop on West Canal. One of the men had a pump action shotgun and demanded money. The owner retreated to the back of the […]
Written on September 9, 1999 | Posted in
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A police anti-crime operation has resulted in a major bust at a residence in the Cayo District. On September seventh, the police with a search warrant in hand, went to the home of Francisco Figueroa, a farmer of Red Creek Village in the New Pilgrimage Valley near Santa Elena, Cayo. Hidden under some rocks in […]
Written on September 9, 1999 | Posted in
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Police have arrested a Femagra Industries Limited employee pending charges of theft. Miguel Cal of Belize City was taken into custody by Orange Walk police on September eighth, three days after a company delivery truck was stolen from the Belize City office. It was found abandoned in Orange Walk the next day.
Written on September 9, 1999 | Posted in
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A delivery truck stolen from Femagra Company Limited in Belize City has been found abandoned in Orange Walk Town. Police informed manager Vivian Molina that the vehicle was discovered Monday night on Aurora Street. It disappeared from Femagra’s Eve Street office on Sunday evening. According to Molina, the driver, Miguel Cal of Belize City failed […]
Written on September 7, 1999 | Posted in
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A sixty-four year old man has been arrested for the rape of an eight-year-old girl in La Democracia Village in the Belize District. Philip Nado, also known as “Bo-Rat” was charged on Saturday with unlawful carnal knowledge following the child’s report to police that she was raped at her grandmother’s home on the twenty-second of […]
Written on September 6, 1999 | Posted in
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A Belize City drinking water company is asking residents of Orange Walk to help locate one of their delivery trucks which was stolen from in front of their Belize City office on Eve Street Sunday evening. Manager of Femagra Industries Limited Vivian Molina told News Five the truck is a blue 1987 Mazda pick-up with […]
Written on September 6, 1999 | Posted in
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With the anniversary of the death of Sherilee Nicholas fast approaching and the three subsequent child murders still unsolved, most parents are keeping a close eye on their children, especially the girls. However, today the Amandala newspaper reported that a ten-year-old girl claims she was almost abducted Thursday evening. She managed to get away by […]
Written on September 3, 1999 | Posted in
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While police are looking into a possible abduction attempt in Belize City, they are also investigating a claim by an eight-year-old of La Democracia that she was raped at her grandmother’s house. The child reported that on August twenty-second around one thirty p.m. a man known to her only as “Bo-Rat” came into the house […]
Written on September 3, 1999 | Posted in
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A taxi driver is being questioned following a shooting on Mahogany Street on Thursday. Michael Miguel was shot in the back around eleven thirty a.m. allegedly during a dispute with the taxi man who is also a linesman for B.E.L. Miguel told police three shots were fired. He was taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial […]
Written on September 3, 1999 | Posted in
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Last week the Director of Public Prosecutions Adolph Lucas appeared on “One on One” with Dickie Bradley. Among the topics was the D.P.P.’s dismissal of the Samantha Gordon and Jackie Malic murder cases for a lack of arguable evidence. He criticized the police for going on national TV and radio when they make an arrest […]
Written on September 3, 1999 | Posted in
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And in spite of continued armed robberies at Belize City businesses — three this week alone — the prevalence of street hold-ups and the rape of an eighty-two year old woman a week ago the Commissioner says Belizeans have nothing to fear because the Police Department has things under control. Q: “You will bring crime […]
Written on September 3, 1999 | Posted in
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There has been another robbery in Belize City, the third this week. Around eight thirty Wednesday night three Creole men entered the Jackpot Gaming House on Baymen Avenue, held a gun to a sixteen year old employee’s head and demanded money. She handed over sixty dollars and the men fled on bicycles. Police have detained […]
Written on September 2, 1999 | Posted in
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We often hear of liquor or foodstuff being smuggled across the borders, but toilet paper? On Tuesday customs officials at the Santa Elena border in Corozal intercepted a truck carrying one thousand bails of Mexican toilet paper. It seems duty had only been paid on half of the cargo. Police say the driver faces charges […]
Written on September 2, 1999 | Posted in
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The carnival road march is on the eleventh, and while most groups are putting the finishing touches on their costumes, one junior band has to start over from scratch. The reason? Some malicious person stole all of their costumes, and the art supplies that Georgette Staine and her band members had worked so hard to […]
Written on September 2, 1999 | Posted in
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On Monday night three men robbed a shop on Amara Avenue and today a shopkeeper was shot in broad daylight just a few blocks away. So far the police have no suspects in either case. News Five was called to the scene just moments after thirty year old Zhang Yong Li was taken to the […]
Written on September 1, 1999 | Posted in
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