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While it admits patrolling our waters is difficult, the Fisheries Department has netted itself a nice haul. Around nine fifteen yesterday morning, four Hondurans were found drop fishing in Grouper’s Bank in the Glovers Reef atoll. The Fisheries Department says it is common to find illegal fishermen in the area and has increased its patrols. […]
Written on September 1, 1999 | Posted in
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They may not be able to prosecute the case in the courts, but the police can still air it in the court of public opinion. Today the police issued a statement expressing their disappointment that a major kidnapping case has been dismissed and the five accused have walked away free men. Police say Lionel Kelly, […]
Written on September 1, 1999 | Posted in
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While police are disappointed on one front, they are commending the villagers of Concepcion, Corozal for helping to apprehend four suspects in a series of robberies. Police say on August twenty-seventh Florencio Aban of Concepcion reported that three Hispanic men went to his house and tried to hold him up at gunpoint. Villagers, however, came […]
Written on September 1, 1999 | Posted in
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Police say a forty-six year old man hanged himself on Monday night at the Belmopan Police Station. Police say they found Justace Lemott, a Belizean from Ontario Village with his dread belt around his neck hanging from a window bar. According to police around nine thirty that night, prisoners who were in a cell next […]
Written on August 31, 1999 | Posted in
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A thirty-seven year old man has been charged with breaking into an elderly woman’s home, raping, torturing and robbing her. The eighty-two year old woman of Lemonal told police her ordeal on the night of August twenty-third when the man knocked on her door and pretended to be a young relative. When she refused to […]
Written on August 31, 1999 | Posted in
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Acting on a tip the police received on Saturday, August twenty-eighth, a unit was sent out to number seventy Regent Street. There in an upstairs apartment, the police found nine and a half pounds of marijuana, a scale, cigarette paper and sixty dollars in cash. Inside the room were forty-three year old Horace McClaren and […]
Written on August 31, 1999 | Posted in
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Tonight the police are looking for three men who held up a man and his wife inside their shop around nine Monday night. According to police three Creole men, two masked and one armed with a handgun entered Robert’s Shop at one twenty one Amara Avenue and held up the owner and his wife and […]
Written on August 31, 1999 | Posted in
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A suspect in a drive-by shooting was himself shot by police officers attempting to take him to the station. Twenty-one year old Marlon Budd, who has already appeared in Magistrate’s Court and was released on bail today, was wanted in connection with the shooting of a sixteen year old on Central American Boulevard around four […]
Written on August 30, 1999 | Posted in
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In April, Harold Bradshaw Ringold on behalf of his employer Larry Addington, owner of Caye Chapel Ventures Resort, gave the Police Department sixteen brand new Ford pickups worth one point two million dollars to help them fight crime. Recently Ringold was back at the police station, not to give another donation but to report a […]
Written on August 27, 1999 | Posted in
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A boat stolen in Dangriga is believed to be heading towards Honduras and its owner has launched a media blitz to try and recover it. Since the theft occurred in front of Jungle Huts Resort early Thursday morning, Arthur Usher has asked radio and TV stations to alert the public. So far several fishermen have […]
Written on August 27, 1999 | Posted in
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The controversy over the dismissal of two high profile murder cases earlier this month continues. Last night on “One on One with Dickie Bradley,” guests Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord and Director of Public Prosecutions, Adolph Lucas said it was not uncommon for cases prepared by the police be thrown out for lack of evidence. The […]
Written on August 27, 1999 | Posted in
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One day after the remains of a male newborn were found in a pit latrine in Dangriga, police have arrested twenty-seven year old Terene Gonzales. Gonzales is suspected of giving birth at her home on Eleventh Street in Dangriga on Saturday August twenty-first. On Wednesday she was picked up by police who say she confessed […]
Written on August 26, 1999 | Posted in
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A twenty-one year old man told police he was beaten and robbed and when he regained consciousness he was beaten again, this time by seven men. So far police have only detained one man in connection with the incident and are seeking the others. Kemanie Lacayo told police he was walking on Flamboyant Street on […]
Written on August 26, 1999 | Posted in
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A boat has been reported stolen in Dangriga. Arthur Usher told police around five o’clock this morning, he couldn’t find his boat which he had moored in front of Jungle Huts Resort on Wednesday night. A watchman in the area told Usher that he had seen the boat around one a.m. being driven towards the […]
Written on August 26, 1999 | Posted in
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On Tuesday August twenty-fourth, Police Commissioner Ornel Brooks held a press conference to state he believed the police did have strong evidence in the murders of Jackie Malic and Samantha Gordon and criticized the Director of Public Prosecutions Adolph Lucas for ordering that charges be dropped against the men accused of the murders. Today Simeon […]
Written on August 26, 1999 | Posted in
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Dangriga police are looking for the woman who abandoned her baby in a latrine. On August twenty-fourth, Phyllis Palacio of Tenth Street reported that she had found the decomposed body of a male newborn in a pit latrine in her yard. So far police have no leads and are asking the public for assistance.
Written on August 25, 1999 | Posted in
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On Tuesday concerned citizens of Benque Viejo del Carmen told police they suspected a Guatemalan mason was molesting a five year old girl. Tomorrow forty-year-old Edgar Rene Hernandez Diaz will be charged in Magistrate’s Court with rape, indecent assault and wounding. Police and a social worker took the child, who was still bleeding, to the […]
Written on August 25, 1999 | Posted in
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Last Week the Director of Public Prosecutions directed that four men accused of murdering fifteen year old Samantha Gordon and another man accused of the murder of ten year old Jackie Fern Malic be released and the charges against them dropped. Adolph Lucas said there simply was not enough evidence in either case, in effect […]
Written on August 24, 1999 | Posted in
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While no one seems to be able to stop the persistent sexual abuse of children, people do seem more likely now to step in when they see something wrong. Concerned citizens of Benque Viejo del Carmen called police to report that a Guatemalan mason was molesting a five year old child. Police and a social […]
Written on August 24, 1999 | Posted in
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A young girl from the Cayo District was kidnapped and terrorized on Saturday by three men in a pick-up truck. The twelve year old told police she was walking with her seven year old brother on Hudson Street in San Ignacio around 6:30 a.m. when a blue pick-up stopped. A Creole man forced her into […]
Written on August 23, 1999 | Posted in
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Despite the fact that young Belizeans, especially girls, are being told to be careful following the recent child murders and the numerous reports of sexual molestation, there are still some teenagers taking dangerous chances. Today a fourteen year old minor told News Five she accepted a ride from a man on Thursday evening, but instead […]
Written on August 23, 1999 | Posted in
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A young man was shot as he walked into a dance hall early Sunday morning. According to reports, around two forty five, Raymond Williams was entering Lodge Hall on Regent Street West when someone in a dark blue Chevrolet car shot him in his right hip. Williams was taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital […]
Written on August 23, 1999 | Posted in
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The disintegration of two of Belize’s highest profile murder cases in the same day has left the nation in shock and law enforcement authorities with their biggest headache since last year’s killing and mass jacking on the Hummingbird Highway. With Commissioner Ornel Brooks out of the country until Monday and National Security Minister Jorge Espat […]
Written on August 20, 1999 | Posted in
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Somewhere between the 6th of April and the 19th of August all of Brooks’ evidence apparently developed dry rot as when the case was finally called the D.P.P. said the police file had nothing worth bringing to court. Likewise in the case of four men accused in the killing of Samantha Gordon last November. On […]
Written on August 20, 1999 | Posted in
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Again, the case that Salazar described so confidently in June had by August evaporated as quickly as yesterday’s rain. Today News Five canvassed the legal community and found few attorneys surprised. Bar Association President Fred Lumor says that at a recent meeting with the Acting Chief Justice, the D.P.P., Solicitor General and Deputy Police Commissioner […]
Written on August 20, 1999 | Posted in
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