About one month ago, an Orange Walk family told police that two young men had cut through their pimento house in an attempt to rape their 12 year old daughter. The parents heard the commotion and the two men ran from the house, one of them leaving his pants behind. The parents immediately reported the […]
Earlier this week the common-law wife of former S.J.C. teacher Carlos Milan, accused of molesting her seven-year-old daughter, filed an affidavit with the Magistrate’s Court to drop all charges. Today relatives say the woman attempted to remove the girl and her brother from their grandmother’s home, where they have been staying since the May 4th […]
Orange Walk police have discovered fifty two thousand dollars in counterfeit U.S. currency at an Orange Walk Town hotel room. As a result of the discovery, three men have been detained pending the outcome of the investigation. They are Colombian Onasis Daniel Melo Garcia, Venezuelan Silvio DeJesus Salinas Santamaria, and Belizean Matthew Williams of Orange […]
An eighteen year old has been charged with raping his twelve year old niece. Reports are that Martin Chen, a laborer of Poppy Show Road in the Toledo District went by the minor’s house around eight Wednesday night. The girl was home alone while her mother had gone to church. Chen allegedly had sexual intercourse […]
Contrary to reports this week that child molestation charges have been dropped against former S.J.C. teacher Carlos Milan, the case is still before the courts. Although the child’s mother, who is living with Milan, has submitted an affidavit requesting that the charges be withdrawn, the Magistrate’s Court tells News Five that the matter will have […]
Also in Belmopan, the Commission of Inquiry into last month’s fatal shooting of a Guatemalan by B.D.F. soldiers in Arenal Village has completed its third day. Ten year old Jerson Ramirez, son of the deceased, after being cleared by a psychiatrist to testify, told the court that he could not see if his dad was […]
In other police news, eighteen year old Theodore Parchue has been charged with dangerous harm, use of deadly means of harm and attempted murder. On Tuesday July 27th, Parchue was in the bleachers of the M.C.C. Grounds with Matthew and Egbert Flowers when it is alleged he took out a gun and began playing with […]
On Monday night, city residents attended a vigil for the four Belize City girls who have been murdered. Among the concerns were the lack of leads in three of the deaths and the inexperience of the police in dealing with what might be the work of a serial killer. Members of the police force have […]
But today’s press conference was not called to discuss the Belize City child murders, that was incidental, but to announce the apprehension of seven Mexicans and a Honduran for reportedly trying to steal liquor from the Corozal Free Zone. Around 5:30 yesterday evening police observed three men putting cases of whiskey onto a bicycle cart […]
In other police news, as a result of a report filed with the Ombudsman Paul Rodriguez, two police officers have been interdicted from duty pending investigations of allegations of police brutality. On Sunday July 25th, Rodriguez was told of an incident which reportedly occurred on Caesar Ridge Road involving a citizen, Deon Ferguson, two police […]
Meanwhile in Belmopan the Commission of Inquiry investigating the killing of Guatemalan Mateo Ramirez by a B.D.F. patrol has concluded its second day of deliberations. Six witnesses were called including pathologist Dr. Mario Estradabran. In painstaking detail Estradabran testified that the fatal bullet entered Ramirez’s head just under his right eye and exited from the […]
The Commission of Inquiry into last month’s shooting death of a Guatemalan began today in Belmopan. The proceeding, which is similar to a coroner’s inquest, will determine whether excessive force was used in the June twelfth incident, in which Mateo Ramirez was fatally shot by a B.D.F. patrol in Arenal Village, Cayo, along the Guatemalan […]
It’s being called a burglary but it is not clear just what the thieves managed to get away with. According to Roger Reyes, general manager of the Brodies store on the Northern Highway, when the store was opened this morning, employees saw that two cash registers had been broken into and the empty cash pans […]
Open season on Chinese grocery stores continues. On Sunday, four men walked into Jack Lee’s Grocery Store on the corner of Pickstock Street and New Road where they ordered beer. According to Police reports, one of the men produced a gun and ordered the store’s owner, Lou Xiyuan, to hand over the key for the […]
Several weeks ago the Ministry of National Security issued an alert about date rape drugs which could be administered in beverages. However, a young woman has reported to police that she believes she was drugged by something in a piece of candy. The 16-year-old girl from Toledo told the Reporter Newspaper that on the 29th […]
Several weeks after they allegedly broke into the police national exhibit room, the five men accused of stealing seven guns and thirty six rounds of ammunition were handcuffed and escorted over to magistrate court this afternoon. James Hyde, Kareem Young, Norman Reyes Junior, Earl Bodden and Wayne Webster were taken into custody on Sunday, July […]
Police may have nipped one potential cry of police brutality in the bud, but another allegation made it to the papers last week. The Reporter carried the story of Blanca Chinchilla of New Road who claimed Corporal Navarette punched her in the face at the Raccoon street station on July 9th. Today the police refuted […]
Five men have been charged in connection with the theft of a number of weapons from the Eastern Division police Station. Late this evening news five was informed that James Hyde of Fabers Road has been charged with handling stolen goods, and Kareem Young has been charged with possession of an unlicensed firearm. Three construction […]
Monday, when we first ran the story of a stabbing on Victoria Street in Belize City, a young man claimed to have seen an East Indian man creep up to the bed where Desiree Flowers was lying and stab her repeatedly. Now the victim is saying there was no stranger that it was this same […]
On Monday night, two men wearing stockings over their faces stormed into Luis store on Lizarraga Avenue in King’s Park and robbed Tie Lin Liang of seven hundred dollars. What they didn’t know was the owner who has been through this before was videotaping them. Liang who did not wish to appear on camera, says […]
One week after the police reported the theft of seven guns and ammunition from the National Exhibit Room on Queen Street, CIB has detained five men. Although the police would not comment on the identities of those being held, News Five understands they were among the crew doing construction work on the Eastern Division police […]
The Commission of Inquiry appointed by the Prime Minister, Said Musa to investigate the death of a Guatemalan, Mateo Ramirez in the border village of Arenal in June, will be convened in Belmopan next week. The inquiry will be held in the Belmopan Magistrate Court on Wednesday and Thursday, July 28 and 29 beginning at […]
The mystery surrounding the death of nine year old Erica Wills continues to deepen. The child’s remains were found on Saturday, exactly three weeks after she disappeared near her home on Cemetary Road in Belize City. Who she went with and why, is still unknown, and now the medical examiner says it may be impossible […]
First there was Sherilee Nicholas, then Jackie Fern Malic and maybe–after unidentified remains found– Jay Blades. Now there is Erica Wills. Her bones were found this weekend, exactly three weeks after she disappeared. For such a small country, Belize has had more than its share of child murders in the last ten months. Despite the […]
Over a year ago the largest armed robbery in Belize’s history took place just three miles outside of Belmopan. A BDF soldier was killed and dozens of citizens held at gunpoint and robbed by at least eight men in fatigues who jumped the border to Guatemala. Two citrus workers were arrested, but later released. This […]
