The assistant receptionist of the Pathology Lab on Eve Street who was detained for questioning in connection with the robbery of five hundred in cash and seven hundred dollars in cheques has been released. Police say the receptionist reported she was on her way to Barclays Bank on Tuesday morning when a man ran up […]
Today, family members of Sherilee Nicholas and Jay Blades visited the police forensic lab where we understand they viewed items that were found with the remains discovered on Sunday on a feeder road by three and half miles on the western highway. Although police will not say at this point if the school bag, books […]
An Assistant Receptionist at the Pathology Lab on Eve Street reported she was robbed of five hundred dollars cash and seven hundred dollars in cheques on Tuesday morning. According to CIB, the woman said she left the lab to go and deposit the money at Barclays Bank and as she walked on Daly street, a […]
On June third, forty year old Alcine Eudithia, from Ghana, who was arrested and charged with two counts of obtaining property by deception was remanded to Hattieville prison after he fail to meet bail of five thousand dollars. Today an additional charge of obtaining services by deception was levied against him after it was discovered […]
The Ministry of National Security announced today that no crimes were reported over the past forty-eight hours due to the continued efforts of the police and BDF. But while they claim there was no new crime, the specter of an old one reared its fearsome head this weekend when a man who went to cut […]
A young man was violently attacked by five men in Santa Elena, Cayo on Saturday night. Edward Peters has been hospitalized and five men Allan, Denis and Aaron Castillo, Lindburg Bahador and Denis Castellanos are in police custody. Police say nineteen-year-old Edward Peters was escorting a young lady in the New Area of Santa Elena, […]
A dispute between two residents of the same village in the Cayo district has led to a stabbing death near the Guatemalan border. Benque Viejo Police says about one thirty Sunday afternoon, fifty years old Jesus Aldana, was crossing the Mopan River near the Water pump area when he was attacked and stabbed in the […]
Eleven pounds of marijuana was seized in separate incidents in San Pedro Ambergris Caye over the weekend. San Pedro Police visited Ruby’s Hotel on Saturday night and searched the rooms of Guatemalan Mario Annibal Reymundo and Salvadoran David Orlando Revello. About nine pounds of marijuana was found wrapped in plastic bags under a bed. The […]
A twenty year old Dangriga man has been arrested after he allegedly had sexual intercourse with a thirteen year old girl. According to Dangriga police, the minor reported she was sleeping at a neighbor’s house around four in the morning when Theodore Arzu entered the bedroom through a window and had sex with her. Police […]
Perhaps an African man who got in trouble for getting a cash advance for five thousand dollars using a fake credit card should have stowed some of that money away because today he was unable to meet his three thousand dollar bail and was remanded to Hattieville. Forty year old Alcine Eudithia from Ghana, who […]
Ten special constables have been sworn in as part of the Belize Police Force’s village crimes committee in Placencia Village. The special constables were tutored by Inspector Leslie Logan of the National Police Training School and the program was conducted under the leadership of the Village Council Chairman Glenford Eiley. The Placencia Crimes Committee is […]
Police are investigating a strange case which has left a primary school student dead in the village of Guinea Grass. According to Orange Walk police, Jose Moralez reported that at nine fifteen Monday night his family was watching television in their house when he and his wife decided to go to bed leaving their fourteen […]
In crime news tonight, forty year old African Alcine Eudithia is in police custody after allegedly trying to use someone else’s Visa Gold card. According to police Eudithia visited the Barclays Bank Branch Office near the Belcan Bridge on Monday morning and requested a cash advance of two thousand five hundred dollars U.S. He gave […]
Police still have no suspects in a brazen robbery at Belize Cable Vision’s downtown office on Friday afternoon. Arwin Arana reported that around 1:30 p.m. three men entered the office on Albert Street and one of them put a small handgun to his head and forced him to lie on the floor. They then ransacked […]
It was supposed to have been a pleasurable fishing trip from Turneffe Lodge but on Wednesday shortly after the group left the lodge with their guide, seventy three year old American William Arnold Jenkins, is reported to have suddenly collapsed. The elderly man was rushed back to the lodge and then transported to the Karl […]
In other police news, the Criminal Investigations Branch has reported that on Wednesday, Hector Castellanos, a former employee of the Western Union branch at Belinsco turned himself in to police. Castellanos was wanted for the alleged embezzlement of over nineteen thousand dollars in April. Shortly after the incident is reported to have taken place, Castellanos […]
The Belize Police Department has once again been forced to arrest two in their ranks following separate incidents over the weekend. Constable Barrington Montero, attached to the Belize City Patrol Branch, was charged with two counts of theft in connection with allegations of embezzlement at the law offices of Barrow and Williams. Montero, his sister […]
Police have detained four men in connection with a case of arson in San Miguel Village, Toledo over the weekend. Hubert Cus the owner of the home and vehicle, which were set on fire, told News Five today he believes the incident early Monday morning was prompted by jealousy over the success of his small […]
A person drowned over the holiday weekend in More Tomorrow Village. According to Police Bernaby Pitts and an eleven year old of Cotton Tree Village were bathing in the Belize Old River when Pitts went under and didn’t resurface. A search was launched by the villagers and the body was found nearby. Police are still […]
The integrity of the Police Department is once again under question tonight as a policeman has been accused of using the fear surrounding the kidnapping of Menno Penner to extort money from a Mennonite businessman. P.C. Leonard Williams, who was detained on Friday night, was this morning charged in Belmopan Magistrate’s Court with extortion and […]
Two former employees of Barrow and Williams Law Firm were arrested and charged today after over fifty thousand dollars was found missing. France Moguel and Dorla Pickwood were jointly charged with embezzling over nine thousand dollars while Pickwood alone faced the charges for over forty thousand dollars. According to Head of C.I.B. Simeon Alvarez, the […]
Income Tax Department employee twenty-six year old Richard Staine was today charged with theft after allegedly embezzling almost three thousand dollars. According to police, last week Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax Eric Eusey, became suspicious of a voucher made for an employee of Central Bank. When the department staff checked, Central Bank told them he […]
In other crime news, the former principal of the School for the Deaf Calbert Linares was arrested and charged today with indecent assault. A couple of months ago allegations surfaced that several past students had reported he sexually molested them ten years ago. No charges were filed, but according to A.I.P. Simeon Alvarez, they have […]
Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord apparently felt enough was enough today when he denied bail to two men who are accused of committing an armed robbery while on bail for another incident. Ronald Cox and Jeffrey Flowers were handcuffed and escorted over to Magistrate’s Court, and charged with the theft of over two thousand dollars worth […]
Earlier this week News Five broke the story about an investigation at the Income Tax Department into fake forms for refunds amounting to over 40 thousand dollars. Today police released details of at least one incident in which it is believed a voucher was falsified, allegedly by an Income Tax Inspector. It is not clear […]
