The man, who led C.I.B. officials to the remains of sixty-two year old Fredrick Hopkins, the U.S. veteran who was reported missing since April first, was today handcuffed and escorted over to Magistrate’s Court where he was officially charged with the murder of the elderly man. Edwardo Martinez, who is known as “Jeffrey Son” is […]
Earlier this week the police asked for the public’s help in locating Fredrick Hopkins a retired U.S. Army veteran. Today they made the sad discovery of his remains about seven and a half miles from where his car was found vandalized last Wednesday. News Five’s Hyacinth Latchman was on the scene this morning. The decomposed […]
Reports reaching News Five late this evening say that well known Orange Walk resident Warren Gomez was shot and seriously injured around three forty five this evening. According to reports, Gomez received a single shot to the forehead that has left him unconscious. Gomez has been transported to Chetumal. When we contacted Orange Walk police […]
Escaped convict Marcel Gabourel wanted by police for the murder of taxi driver Peter Novelo and other offenses he reportedly committed while on a crime spree with fellow escapees is back in custody. Gabourel was brought back to Belize from Honduras on Wednesday. It is believed Gabourel jumped the border early last year after he […]
Cases of unlawful carnal knowledge and indecent assault are so frequent these days they are beginning to seem like commonplace occurrences. But police have not lessened their attack on offenders and today a twenty-five year old teacher from Ladyville was taken to court. Police allege that Valan Hendy has been having sex with a fifteen […]
In other weekend crime news, police are still searching for Winston Dennison who they believe shot and killed Darren Sutherland around ten Friday night. According to reports Sutherland, who was shot in the face, died instantly at the corner of Central American and Jane Usher Boulevards. The motive for the killing is not yet known.
Corozal police are looking for two Hispanic men in connection with the murder of an elderly woman. They say that seventy-three year old Viona Magaña, a resident of Corozal Town, was found in her bed Friday morning in a pool of blood. There were wounds to her neck and back of the head. A pair […]
Nineteen year old Percival Torres will be taken to Magistrate’s Court tomorrow to answer to a charge of indecent assault. According to the police the twelve year old revealed to them that she had been having sexual intercourse with Torres since 1998. Her last sexual encounter with him was on April first. Police say that […]
Police say they need the public’s help in locating sixty-two year old Fredrick Hopkins, a retired U.S. army veteran who has been residing in Belize. Police report that Hopkins left his home on April first and has not been seen since. However, his vehicle was found April seventh in the Mosul Creek area near Bermudian […]
Seventeen year old Andres Moreno was today charged with two counts of unlawful carnal knowledge and indecent assault of a twelve year old girl. According to police the minor reported that whilst at her sister’s house on March twenty-third at mile fourteen on the Northern Highway Moreno had sexual intercourse with her against her will. […]
A man is in police custody after he assaulted a young woman yesterday. Police say that twenty-six year old Lyndon Dawson had a misunderstanding with Perline Williams on Faber’s Road. As a result Dawson picked up a piece of board and hit Williams in her head. She was admitted to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital […]
It was described by many as a case of “Good Cops Gone Bad”. In June of 1997 police claimed that two police officers posted in Corozal ran a road block in Ladyville and tossed five kilos of cocaine and 34 thousand dollars in U.S. currency out of their pickup truck. The truck was later found […]
The death of a child is never easy to bear, and if that child was plucked from her family in a brutal, inexplicable way, the sorrow is even greater. But the relatives of young Jackie Fern Malic whose story by now is familiar to everyone are not only dealing with her death, but the widespread […]
There’s more in the case of William Willitts, the naturalized Belizean doctor who was allegedly kidnapped last Thursday by local police and unceremoniously put on a plane to Miami. In a press release the Ministry of National Security has announced that Willitts was in fact a Belizean citizen and should not have been deported. The […]
The eighth man wanted in connection with the shooting death of businessman Lee Yun Chong on Jasmin Street has been caught. Twenty year old Kenrick Reneau was sitting behind a house in the Junn’s Ville area when police detectives picked him up this morning. Police told News Five that they were conducting raids at various […]
Yesterday police announced at their press conference into the murder of twelve year old Jackie Malic that they are now investigating attorney Kirk Anderson for possible obstruction of justice. Police claim Julie Staine, the girlfriend of the man accused of the murder has alleged she was instructed by Anderson to dispose of some clothing Mike […]
She was murdered on March twenty second and today the man who was a suspect from the day she disappeared was charged with her death. Michael Williams was formally charged this afternoon with the murder of twelve year old Jackie Fern Malic. At a press conference at the Raccoon Street Police Station, Commissioner Ornel Brooks […]
Of course the case cannot rest on circumstantial evidence alone and Commissioner Brooks indicated that tests on Jackie’s body indicate she was immobilized at the time of her torture and murdered by a combination of alcohol and drugs. Ornel Brooks, Commissioner of Police “From our forensic laboratory findings the laboratory scientist has established that the […]
Hours before the police press conference rumors were flying that the attorney for Mike Williams, Kirk Anderson, might himself be arrested. According to Assistant Inspector Eli Salazar, who went to Anderson’s office this morning, William’s common-law wife Julie Staine claims that Anderson told her to get rid of clothing Williams was wearing when first detained […]
While today’s press conference was called primarily to announce the break in the Jackie Malic murder case, Commissioner Brooks was also grilled by the press on other subjects. One was an allegation that two of Brooks’ most aggressive investigators, Simeon Alvarez and Eli Salazar, on Thursday afternoon detained a naturalized Belizean, Dr. William Willitts and […]
When confronted with Lumor’s allegation at the press conference Commissioner Brooks defended the actions of his men and the process left many in the audience wondering how far the credibility of the police force could be stretched. Dr. Willitts, he said, never bothered to mention that he was a Belizean. Ornel Brooks, Commissioner of Police […]
Yesterday morning while everyone was returning home from a long Easter vacation a twenty-two year old mother of two boys Sheryl Barrow was almost killed by her former common-law husband Louie Gentle. According to a family member and an eyewitness Gentle had previously threatened Barrow and was ordering her to go home with him that […]
Seven men have been arrested and charged with the murder of Chinese businessman Lee Yun Chong which occurred last Monday night on Jasmin Street. This morning David Sutherland, Carlos Escalante, Alex Goff, Elvis Rosado, Ashton Belgrave, Jerry Usher and Francis Pollard Jr. were formally charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, grevious harm, […]
A man met bail today after being charged with the indecent assault of a twelve year old. The girl reported to police that around seven o’clock Good Friday she was at her aunt’s house when Roberto Cardinez Lozano who lives in Conch Shell Bay touched her on her leg close to her vaginal area. The […]
A man was shot to death and his wife chopped with a machete in their shop on Monday night. Today police made several arrests and say they are bent on dismantling a ring of criminals which planned and executed the terror on Jasmin Street. Ashton Belgrave, Arrested “They put me against him innocently. I no […]
