Last Week News Five reported on two separate incidents in which police forced their way into Belize City residences, ransacked the premises and then left. In one case, seven small homes were searched by nine officers who claimed they were looking for drugs. Residents claimed that not only did the police turn their homes upside […]
Everyone was alarmed when it was discovered that two convicted criminals Earl Ramos and Lucius Myers had escaped from Hattieville Prison last night. C.I.B. officials say prison officer Sebastian Wewe reported a female officer had seen two men running from the boot camp around 9:45. Wewe says he discovered the padlock of the booth camp […]
Two days after twenty one year old Andrew “Outlaw” or “Sweetie Law” Kelly escaped from police lock up at the Raccoon Street Police Station, the alleged killer of businesswoman, Yang Li Chan, was handcuffed and escorted over to the Magistrate’s Court. According to Ornel Brooks, the Commissioner of Police, Kelly managed to escape due to […]
During a police press briefing held this afternoon, the media was also informed that investigations continue into the disappearance and alleged kidnapping of Meno Penner, the Mennonite businessman from Belmopan. Although Jorge Espat, Minister of National Security would not go into detail, he said the police are working diligently on the case. Jorge Espat, Minister […]
In related news, rumors were rampant over the weekend that Penner had been found dead when a partially decomposed body was found on the Coastal Road. But according to reports reaching News Five, the body has been identified as forty-six year old Honduran national Jose Luis Ramos. Ramos was a caretaker of a farm located […]
A stabbing incident in Salvapan over the weekend has also resulted in death. Belmopan police received a phone call around two Sunday morning. When they reached an area outside of Salvapan, they found Freddie Marroquin lying on the ground apparently suffering from stab wounds. Eyewitnesses told police that twenty year old Niglas Montejo and seventeen […]
During the press conference this afternoon Minister of National Security Jorge Espat announced ongoing efforts to prevent and stop widespread crime and violence. Espat spoke about the successes of two recently launched operations: Brimstone Three and Ides Of March. Jorge Espat, Minister of National Security “Drugs: 78 persons arrested, 76,724 marijuana plants destroyed, 134,205.3 grams […]
It was almost time for lunch and our news reporter Jacqueline Woods, cameraman George Tillett and driver Stephen Ferguson were out on assignment. But when they drove past the bus stop near the Pallotti junction they saw a man throw a woman to the ground and begin stabbing her. Our news crew stepped in, but […]
She was gunned down in her shop on Freetown Road on Tuesday and tonight police have charged one man with Yang Li Chan’s murder. Unfortunately, their other suspect has managed to disappear from right under their noses. Three days after the hold up and shooting death of Chinese businesswoman, twenty-eight year old Yang Li Chan […]
Even if you didn’t know him personally like his neighbors in Port Loyola, you couldn’t help but be shocked at the brutal murder of seventy-one year old shopkeeper Miguel Aguilar. He was tied up and beaten to death at his home at number ten Barnett Street on Wednesday night. Today police charged nineteen year old […]
Just two days after a Chinese woman was fatally injured by a robber’s bullet, a seventy-one year old shopkeeper was tied up and beaten to death with a blunt instrument. According to police after a report from an area resident shortly before eleven p.m. last night they dispatched a team to number ten Barnett Street […]
Belize City was shocked at the daytime shooting of Yang Lee Chan as she stood behind the counter of De He Li Grocery Shop on Tuesday. But today residents of a well-known hot spot are furious at the way police have been conducting the search for the weapon used in the crime. What News Five […]
A Belize City woman who should have been able to concentrate on burying her mother has instead spent the last two days dealing with this tragedy and the vandalism of her home. Jean Williams told News Five today that while she was tending to funeral arrangements police officers ransacked her home on Racecourse Street looking […]
She clung to life for twenty-four hours, but today Yang Lee Chan died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital from the gunshot wound inflicted by a cold-blooded killer. Lee Chan was shot in the forehead during a robbery at her family’s shop on Freetown Road just before noon yesterday. Area residents say they only heard […]
Charges have been dismissed against a man whose stepdaughter reported he tried to have sex with her. News Five was told yesterday by the Criminal Investigations Branch that thirty-four year old Jose Martin Flores, had been charged in connection with the incident on March 19th. However, in Magistrate’s Court yesterday Magistrate Herbert Lord dismissed the […]
Earlier this month two Guatemalans were deported after illegally cultivating land in the Chiquibul National Park. This week the Ministry of National Security has announced another incident of cultivation on Belizean territory, this time near the Sarstoon River. The Ministry says on March ninth a B.D.F. patrol discovered two plantations of beans and corn, which […]
While most of the housewives on Freetown Road were preparing their midday meal, two women in a shop were about to be terrorized and injured by a young man armed with a gun. The incident has left one woman in critical condition. Neighbors say they don’t recall hearing any gunshot but they’ll never forget a […]
Her mother wouldn’t listen to her, so she went straight to police to report her stepfather. Yesterday Jose Martin Flores, was arrested and charged for attempting to have sexual intercourse with his eleven year old stepdaughter. The girl told police her stepfather had tried to molest her on March fourth, but when she told her […]
Information reaching News Five today is that employees of the Belize Telecommunications Limited Corozal branch are being questioned after a recent audit revealed that over eleven thousand dollars is missing from the company funds. News Five contacted B.T.L. office this afternoon and it was confirmed that indeed there are missing funds from the Corozal branch […]
A man was found hanging from the ceiling of his home early Saturday morning. According to police reports, they received a call around seven thirty and immediately went to number twenty-nine Banak Street where they found the lifeless body of thirty-five year old Francis Dougall hanging from a rope. Police say Dougall’s common-law wife Irma […]
A young man was shot at while taking a bath at his home on Neal Pen Road over the weekend. Twenty-four year old Cecil Gill who resides at sixty-one Neal Pen Road told police that he was in his bathroom around seven thirty Saturday night when a man entered his yard and fired three shots […]
A police operation yesterday has netted two men police believe are responsible for robberies at a number of Chinese establishments. Eighteen year old Aristole Monsanto was reportedly involved in at least one robbery and police say Romel Middleton has confessed to robbing five Chinese establishments. A.I.P. Simeon Alvarez, Head of C.I.B. “The Monsantos were placed […]
In other police news, a police constable says a car attempted to run him down Wednesday evening on Mosul Street. Fortunato Noble told police he was riding his bicycle towards Cemetery Road when a black Mercedes Benz came up from behind and swerved at him. Noble says he was corned by a parked vehicle and […]
Thirty-five year old Raymond Allen will be spending time in Hattievlle Prison for allegedly sexually molesting his twelve year old niece. Police say on Thursday Evadney Allen of St. Ann’s Village in the Belize District accompanied her twelve year old granddaughter to the police station where the minor reported that her uncle Raymond Allen had […]
The Ministry of National Security is tightening up on criminals deported from the United States and other countries. The Ministry announced today that it will be enforcing a 1998 law which places certain restrictions on their movements and that the Police Department will be monitoring these individuals. Under the Law Reform Act deportees may be […]
