A daylight heist at a Belize City bus station has netted two armed robbers just over $600. According to the sales clerk at the Z-Line bus service on Magazine Road, just before 1 p.m. this afternoon, two young Creole men walked into the office and one of them pulled out a gun. The men demanded […]
Two men have been arrested and charged in connection with the sexual abuse of children. Fifty eight year old Leyland Tillett, a fisherman from Crooked Tree, has been charged with indecent assault after his daughter reported that Tillett had molested his eleven year old granddaughter. According to the report, the incident took place around 2 […]
After allegedly losing his gun in a tousle with a 66 year old taxi driver Tuesday morning, 23 year old Ryan Horne was charged today with robbery, possession of an illegal firearm and handling stolen goods. Ryan is accused of hiring Lionel Tillett to take him to Neal Pen Road and then pulling a gun […]
One of the Hattieville prisoners who escaped while on an outing in Belize City August 14 has been recaptured. Prison officials say Clarence Gentle was under surveillance on Neal Pen Road Tuesday night. When they tried to take him into custody he jumped over a fence. The Department of Corrections officers called for police back […]
A robber in Belize City chose the wrong taxi this morning when he approached the Pound Yard Taxi Stand. 66 year old Lionel Tillett told News Five that the man asked to go to Neal Pen Road, but when they got there the youth pulled a gun. Tillett says he was forced to “get down […]
This morning as a young woman stepped out of Barclays Bank with a deposit bag in hand, two young men snatched the bag and ran down the street. What the thieves didn’t know was that she had already made the deposit and had picked up an empty bag. Unfortunately most businesses targeted by criminals are […]
Two prison inmates took advantage of an outing to Belize City to escape. On Saturday night Gilbert Humphrey and Clarence Gentle who play on the prison basketball team were with the group taken to the Lake Independence Basketball Court for a game. However, sometime between nine fifty and ten thirty, the duo decided to make […]
It may have taken a while, but police have got their men. Two Belizeans accused of a holdup on the Coastal Road in May have been brought back from Guatemala for trial. Since May 17th when the payroll for the Paradise Shrimp Farm was taken at gunpoint and several people in the vehicle fired upon, […]
A week after the murder of taxi driver Mariano Gomez in San Ignacio, Cayo police have charged a Guatemalan with the killing. Gomez’s son told police a Hispanic man hired his father to take him to Branch Mouth on the night of August 5th. When Mariano Gomez failed to return, his son went looking for […]
A man who turned himself into police following the beating and subsequent death of Talbert Lamb earlier this week was charged with murder today. Virgil Batty went to police on Wednesday in the company of his lawyer Lutchman Sooknandan. Police are still seeking several other suspects in connection with the incident on the night of […]
The body of a man identified as Luis Alberto Coh, a thirty year old laborer of the Louiville area of Corozal was found in the New River near Orange Walk Town on Tuesday. Police say there were no signs of violence on the body which was clad only in a pair of jeans. They are […]
A man has turned himself into police in connection with the beating death of Talbert Lamb, otherwise known as “Baby Brains”. Virgil Batty went to police on Wednesday accompanied by his lawyer Lutchman Sooknandan. Police are looking for three more suspects. Lamb was found at the corner of Pickstock Street and New Road on the […]
Despite allegations from area residents that George Murphy was unarmed and severely beaten by police on Sunday night in King’s Park, today he was taken across to Magistrate’s Court to face charges. Murphy, a recent deportee from the United States, was charged with aggravated assault, resisting arrest and harm of a police officer after two […]
An 18 year old from Teakettle Village in the Cayo District has been arrested for the indecent assault of a 12 year old. The girl’s mother told police she had sent her two daughters to wash some clothes by the river on August eighth. A short while later the younger girl aged four came running […]
It sounds like a case of self-defense. An officer and his partner approach a suspect, he flees, they chase him. He turns around wielding a knife, and injures one of the officers. The officers fire a warning shot and are then forced to shoot the suspect to bring him down. But while this is the […]
A man who was found beaten in Belize City on August 4th died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital this morning. Talbert Lamb, also known as “Baby Brains” or “Tall Boy” was found by a police patrol at the corner of Pickstock Street and New Road with a swollen head. He was incoherent and slipped […]
Another Belizean taxi driver has been taken down a fatal road. On Thursday August 5th, around 9:30 p.m., 46 year old Mariano Gomez agreed to take a Hispanic male to Branch Mouth, San Ignacio. When the taxi man failed to return home, his son, Denfield Gomez, also a taxi driver, decided to go look for […]
Some residents of the Otro Benque Area of Orange Walk are circulating a petition asking the police and Minister of National Security Jorge Espat to take action against two men they allege have been arrested for molesting a child and continue to harass female children in the area. The complaints seem to have begun in […]
A late evening walk on West Canal turned deadly last night. Husband and wife, Carlos and Albina Jackson and Carlos’ nephew, Pio Coc all from San Pedro Colombia, Toledo had been shopping for materials for their courses at the Belize Teacher’s Training College and decided to stay downtown for dinner. The trio were laughing and […]
While it is not known at this time if the West Canal shooting is an isolated incident, it bears a frightening resemblance to two hold-ups earlier this week on the other side of town. On Wednesday afternoon two men on bicycles put a gun to a German tourist’s head and took his gold chain on […]
While police have yet to determine whether robbery was also the motive for another incident last night, the victim is in a coma at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Officers from the Belize City Police Department reported that while they were on patrol around 10 on Wednesday night, August 4th they found a man lying […]
The Police Department now has two more able bodies to help take a bite out of crime. These European imports, and their handlers, have been trained to poke their noses into everybody’s business; everybody involved in the drug trade that is. Janelle Chanona reports. P.C. Cesar Franco, Canine Handler “I’m P.C. Franco from San Ignacio. […]
Orange Walk and Mexican police are investigating a murder which may have occurred on the Belizean bank of the Rio Hondo River near the Mexican Border. On Tuesday a badly decomposed corpse was found wearing only a pair of blue shorts. It had multiple chop wounds. No one from the nearby village of Santa Cruz […]
A wet drop worth over a half a million dollars was picked up this weekend, not by the intended drug traffickers, or an anti-drug patrol, but by a concerned citizen. On Sunday, August 1st, a civilian, who police declined to identify for his own safety, was near Caye Caulker when he found fifteen packets of […]
While Belize City residents anxiously await any break in the murder case of little Erica Wills, her remains have been sent to the FBI in Washington in the hopes that forensic specialists there can provide some clues about the cause of death. The nine year old girl’s bones were found on a feeder road behind […]
