Reports reaching News Five late this evening are that the Criminal Investigations Branch is on the look out for one Carlos Milan. Reports are that Milan, who is a Biology teacher of St. John’s College and proprietor of Belama Fruits and Vegetables, was caught naked in bed with his seven year old stepdaughter. According to […]
In police news, twenty-two year old Rodwell “Granny” Tasher lies in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after allegedly being shot by a B.D.F. corporal on police patrol Thursday night. Police tell News Five that Tasher was stopped at the corner of Monroe and Boots Crescent and when the officers began searching […]
Additional details have finally been released by police about the two men arrested on Monday after they transported explosives on a Novelo’s Bus. According to police the two men from El Salvador, 19 year old Jose Antonio Peña Chacon and 34 year old Serafin Jorge Alejandro Sanchez entered Belize illegally by wading across the Mopan […]
Reports reaching News Five are that a man in his twenties is in police custody after he molested a little girl at her school in Maskall. The child reported that around 9 a.m. yesterday she saw a man peeping at her while she was in the lavatory. He then came inside and began to stroke […]
A Queen’s Square Primary School student who skipped school yesterday and made her way to Ladyville is in the care of the Social Services Department. A school truant officer noted the twelve year old’s absence around 11:30 and she was found this morning at her aunt’s home in the Boston area of Ladyville. Family members […]
A former employee of Lauren Duty Free Shop at the Philip Goldson International Airport has been charged with false accounting and theft. Police allege that over a period of almost a year Charles Solis Jr. stole over four thousand dollars by altering customer credit card receipts. He reportedly added an extra one in front of […]
A man lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot last night on West Street. Reports are that shortly after nine p.m. twenty-four year old Jason Cain was standing in front of his house when he was confronted by a man known to police only by the name, “Desho”. The two had […]
On Monday two men boarded a Novelo’s Bus bound for Belize City. They would have reached their destination without incident and gone about their business, if it hadn’t been for two police officers who felt something was wrong. It’s not clear at this point what tipped off the observant officers but they took the men […]
The Fisheries Department has made an arrest for illegal lobster fishing. On Monday evening the fisheries patrol encountered Rodrigo Allen and his boat near Caye Caulker. Three hundred and fifty lobster tails were found in an ice chest aboard the boat. Today Allen was taken to court and fined over 8 thousand dollars. The Fisheries […]
It was a robbery at a location that is no stranger to criminal violence, so when 18 year old gas station attendant Darian Timmons told police last Thursday night that he was held up while working at A & R Texaco on North Front Street and relieved of over seven hundred dollars of his employer’s […]
The rapid rise in sex offenses means either that Belize is experiencing a sudden epidemic of perversity or that the public outcry against child rape and murder has prompted an increased reporting of incidents that were until now either ignored or hushed up. The latest charges come from San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, where a fifty […]
Six days after they warned taxi drivers to be careful about being taken for a ride by thieves, Belize City police are reporting another holdup on the road. According to C.I.B., thirty four year old Daniel Logan reported to them that while he was driving his red Toyota on Lakeview Street after nine on Sunday […]
A gas station was robbed Thursday night around 8:30. An attendant of A and R Gas Station on North Front Street, Dorian Simmons reports he was approached by two masked men on bicycles who were armed. They demanded money and Simmons handed over seven hundred dollars and the culprits fled. Police say they have two […]
While lawmakers look towards regulating gaming in Belize and perhaps even casino gambling in some parts of the country, it’s not legal yet. But eighteen people who already have gambling fever were arrested in Dangriga Thursday afternoon. Although they had not actually started to play any game or won or lost any money, police busted […]
Nineteen year old Niguel Card is in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he took a big chance and reportedly tried to steel a game machine at Huang’s Vista Mart Grocery Shop in Ladyville. Owner Cuoiui Huang told News Five Card has been hanging around the shop quite sometime before he made his bold attempt […]
Well-known businessman from Orange Walk Armando Warren Gomez has died from injuries sustained during a shooting a week ago. According to reliable reports he died at six o’clock this morning in the Orange Walk Hospital. He had been taken to Chetumal but doctors apparently felt there was nothing to be done. Gomez was reportedly shot […]
You would think Corozal Police would have had Rocky William Matura under heavy guard knowing he had only recently escaped from Hattieville Prison, but on Tuesday night Matura broke out of jail again. This time in Corozal he was accompanied by fellow inmate Corozaleño Ernesto Cervera. Matura escaped from Hattieville on March 30 in the […]
In recent years, prison breaks have become almost as common as Chinese shop jackings. Most of the time the prisoners are caught hours later and hustled back to their cells. But dangerous criminals have gone on to murder innocent people — people who would be alive today if security had been better. No one will […]
While our news team was at the Hattieville Prison this morning they were stopped by an inmate of the maximum security section, Edwardo Martinez. Martinez has been accused of killing sixty-two year old businessman Fredrick Hopkins. Hopkins’ decomposed body was found last Thursday after his vehicle was discovered on April first. Martinez claims he is […]
The police, who are at times somewhat reluctant to release information to the media, today sent out a special bulletin devoted entirely to charges being filed against U.D.P. Senator Audrey Matura Tillett. Matura is being charged in causing a three-vehicle accident at the foot of the BelChina Bridge on April 13 as well as harm […]
Most of us take taxi drivers for granted; you call them, they come and pick you up. It is this very responsiveness that makes them vulnerable to criminal attacks. Tonight police are warning taxi drivers to be careful after two recent incidents in which drivers were abducted and robbed. On Monday night, police say that […]
While taxi drivers are the latest targets of criminals, police have picked up the former driver of one of the Government Ministers: Dickie Bradley. Clay Monsanto has been arrested for aggravated assault. On Sunday night Monsanto reportedly fired shots at a house on Euphrates Avenue while looking for Darrel Jones. Monsanto then is reported to […]
Winston Dennison, wanted by police for the murder of Darren Sutherland earlier this month, was escorted to police by his lawyer Dean Barrow over the weekend. He was being sought in connection with the murder of Darren Sutherland on April ninth on Jane Usher Boulevard. Sutherland was shot in the face near his home around […]
Two years ago Patrick Reyes of Teakettle Village reportedly took out his shotgun and killed his next door neighbors Wayne and Evelyn Garbutt over a small strip of land which divided their homes. Reyes and Garbutt were cousins. Last Friday after almost seven hours of deliberation, a twelve-member jury found Reyes guilty of the double […]
Despite radio reports today that fifty-three year old Warren Gomez died after receiving a gunshot wound to his head on Thursday afternoon, Police tell News Five that as far as they know the well known Orange Walk businessman is alive but remains in a critical condition in a Chetumal hospital. Police also say that at […]
