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Almost one week after twenty-two year old Jeffrey Bradley was found hanging in a punishment cell at the Youth Enhancement Academy, today the Criminal Investigation Branch announced their investigation suggests that the young man was not murdered, but committed suicide. According to A.I.P. Simeon Alvarez, Head of C.I.B., police took into consideration the postmortem which […]
Written on January 11, 1999 | Posted in
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Every year in January the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Board meets to approve liquor licenses and review the major problems over the year. The board, which has the participation of the police, health officials and other members of the community, says some shop owners make it easy for their license to be approved while others make […]
Written on January 11, 1999 | Posted in
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A forty-six year old Salvadoran man has been arrested for rape in connection with an incident last month in Corozal but which was only reported this week. According to Corozal police, the man, Lazaro Amaya was working inside a shop when a young girl entered. The girl alleges Amaya grabbed her and then knocked her […]
Written on January 8, 1999 | Posted in
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A number of people have been detained in connection with an abduction and subsequent robbery that took place in Corozal on Wednesday night and early Thursday morning. The police say that sometime Wednesday night taxi driver Armando Carbañas and a female companion were parked in the Finca Solana area in Carbañas’ white station wagon. Suddenly […]
Written on January 8, 1999 | Posted in
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After much speculation, especially from the family about the hanging death of Y.E.A. inmate Jeffrey Bradley Wednesday afternoon, the postmortem results have been released. According to police, forensic pathologist Dr. Mario Estradabran says Bradley died from asphyxia due to hanging. Police tell News Five there were no bruises or cuts found on Bradley’s body that […]
Written on January 8, 1999 | Posted in
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A money changer of San Joaquin Village in the Corozal District was robbed this morning by four men. John Teul reported that around 6:54 he was held up at gunpoint by masked men dressed in full black. Even though Teul handed over two thousand dollars, the robbers reportedly fired shots at him but missed. The […]
Written on January 7, 1999 | Posted in
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Because there have been incidents in which prisoners have been murdered in their cells in the Hattieville Prison, one of the most infamous just this past November, people are naturally skeptical when they hear a prisoner has been found dead. Yesterday, another inmate died and for the first time it was an inmate of the […]
Written on January 7, 1999 | Posted in
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This afternoon around one thirty police received a call from the Youth Enhancement Academy about an alleged suicide. When they arrived at the scene they say twenty-two year old inmate Jeffery Bradley with a sheet tied around his neck and hanging from an iron bar inside cell number three. Police say the discovery was made […]
Written on January 6, 1999 | Posted in
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While we noted with relief the very visible presence of the Belize Defense Force during the Hurricane Mitch threat, it seems there were a few police officers missing in action during those tense days. The Ministry of National Security has announced that disciplinary action is being taken against eleven officers found guilty of being absent […]
Written on January 6, 1999 | Posted in
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Although this afternoon’s press conference was mainly to highlight the equipment donation, the media took the opportunity to ask Minister Espat about his recent directive to the police that press releases on criminal activity only be issued on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Jorge Espat, Minister of National Security “I believe we have the most open Ministry […]
Written on January 6, 1999 | Posted in
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A ten year old student was reportedly raped after being offered a ride home by a friend. According to Dangriga police, around twelve, Saturday morning, the young student of Dangriga Town was walking in front of the market, when she was approached by Jason Flores who offered to drop her home. But after the young […]
Written on January 5, 1999 | Posted in
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A Dangriga policeman who wanted to make fast and easy money has found himself in a heap of trouble. According to the police, on New Year’s Eve, an American resident of Dangriga Town reported to them that while his car was parked on Commerce Street, he was given a traffic violation ticket. The following day, […]
Written on January 5, 1999 | Posted in
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It appears as if the case of the missing Belizean flag has been solved. According to police it was a little girl who observed the theft and alerted her father, who happens to be a police officer. According to Assistant Superintendent of Police, David Henderson, he and his young daughter, Fiona were coming from a […]
Written on January 5, 1999 | Posted in
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An incident on Friday in Burrell Boom allegedly sparked by the unwanted advances by a Belize City man and his police corporal companion led to a shot being fired and a vehicle overturned. Four men from Boom have been charged with attempted murder and another with common assault. Villagers are sending a petition to the […]
Written on January 4, 1999 | Posted in
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Well, it appears nothing is sacred, not even the Belizean flag. Just before Christmas the Scout Association of Belize was proud to announce that they had been asked by the Ministry of National Security to do the honors of raising the flag at the Pallotti Roundabout every morning at 6:30. Today the scouts are asking […]
Written on January 4, 1999 | Posted in
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A routine road check by customs officials in Orange Walk ended in a high-speed chase and the arrest of two Belize City men. According to Orange Walk police, around eight Tuesday night, customs officers were conducting checks on the Yo Creek/San Antonio Road when they noticed a brown car coming towards them. The men ordered […]
Written on December 31, 1998 | Posted in
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The Belize Port Authority is offering a reward of five thousand dollars for any information which will help in locating Charles Garbutt and his family who disappeared at sea two weeks ago. Garbutt is a lighthouse keeper at English Caye and has been an employee of the Port Authority for over nine years. He and […]
Written on December 31, 1998 | Posted in
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The May second murder of a B.D.F. volunteer and mass holdup of nearly two hundred Belizeans on the Hummingbird Highway by a band of heavily armed Guatemalans is probably the most audacious crime ever committed on Belizean soil. At the time the police suffered tremendous embarrassment at their inability to apprehend the killers even though […]
Written on December 30, 1998 | Posted in
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It was obvious that Commissioner of Police Ornel Brooks either didn’t believe or didn’t want to believe the witnesses who came forward to support the two suspects’ alibis. He preferred instead to rely on the testimony of witnesses whom he claimed positively identified the men as the killers. At a press conference shortly after the […]
Written on December 30, 1998 | Posted in
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The United Democratic Party is asking the Ministry of National Security to reverse its decision to issue police reports to the media on a twice weekly basis. The U.D.P., led by former Minister of National Security Dean Barrow, characterizes the move as an attempt to manipulate and control what is fed to the public. The […]
Written on December 30, 1998 | Posted in
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A young man is hospitalized after being hit by a car on Monday night on Plues Street. Police say two officers, Assistant Inspector Eli Salazar and Corporal Fitzroy Yearwood observed four youths on Church Street approach another youth and demand money. When they were refused, one of the men hit the youth, later identified as […]
Written on December 29, 1998 | Posted in
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Stann Creek police are looking for a man they believe was involved in the murder of a Guatemalan woman in San Juan Village on Boxing Day. Luis Roches is wanted in connection with the death of Norma Juarez whose body was found on the night of the twenty-sixth just yards from her home with a […]
Written on December 29, 1998 | Posted in
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Police have made another arrest in connection with the series of robberies that occurred over the Christmas Holiday. According to A.I.P. Simeon Alvarez, Head of C.I.B., fifteen year old Anthony Crawford, a student of C.E.T., will be charged along with Steven Terry for two counts of robbery committed upon Dawn Sampson and Erwin Jones on […]
Written on December 29, 1998 | Posted in
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A youth from the King’s Park area is in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he received several chop wounds to his body. According to police Paul Anthony Jex was walking down Euphrates Avenue around six Monday evening when Anthony Peña and two other men began to pursue him. Jex is reported to have run […]
Written on December 29, 1998 | Posted in
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Immigration and customs violations are not the only concerns for law enforcement officials at Belize’s borders, nor are they the sole focus of officials on the other side, in neighboring countries. Today the Police Chief from Melchor de Mencos, Guatemala and the Sub-Commissioner for the department of the Peten paid a special visit to Belize. […]
Written on December 29, 1998 | Posted in
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