It was more than just a disappointment to the Cardona family and the police of San Pedro that three Hondurans arrested for kidnapping had walked free when their police file could not be presented at court at the end of November. But today, prompted perhaps by a visit to San Pedro police, the Minister of […]
It was not a good day for soft drink truck drivers yesterday. In Belize City a coke truck was held up on New Road during the lunch hour and the driver slashed in the arm with a machete. About eight hundred dollars was taken in the incident and police say they are looking for Edmond […]
San Pedro police will be getting some assistance in their crime fighting efforts if an initiative to re-establish special constables is successful. Today Minister of National Security Jorge Espat, Permanent Secretary Allan Usher and Commissioner of Police Ornel Brooks were in San Pedro for a meeting with area representative Patty Arceo in an effort to […]
It’s happened again, a coke truck has been held up. But fortunately this time, unlike the incident in Maskall in August… no one was killed, but a Bowen and Bowen employee was injured. Eighteen year old Louis Crawford had just completed his run on New Road and dropped off his sideman, Erlin Francis at the […]
Police have also detained a man they believe committed two robberies in Belize City over the past few days, one at the Taiwanese Embassy on Friday and the other at the Fisheries Department on Monday. In both cases a well-dressed young man entered the office during the lunch hour and purported to be looking for […]
Police are investigating the death of a man who was in police custody but reportedly jumped out of a moving vehicle. Orange Walk police say they went to Guinea Grass Village early Sunday morning and arrested twenty-three year old Ivan Cruz for violating a protection order issued on behalf of his wife Senaida from whom […]
It’s still a mystery: did someone drown after falling off a Belize City Bridge over the weekend? At the time the incident seemed real enough, but now police and the public aren’t so sure. Shortly after eight, Friday night, traffic on the Belchina Bridge came to an abrupt stop as motorists and pedestrians gathered in […]
If you live in Belmopan, don’t be surprised if you hear the patter of hooves near your window. No, it’s not Santa’s reindeers come early, but the Belmopan police detachment’s new method of community policing. According to Belmopan police, hiring horses to patrol walkways and other difficult access areas of the capital is paying off. […]
Police have arrested a man for making a false statement after he reported his common law wife missing. Police say Robert Patt Jr. told them his wife Mariella Cal had left home on December fourth and failed to return by the next day. Their investigation, however, revealed that Patt had actually driven his wife from […]
The efforts of Belize’s law enforcement agencies to increase their ability to stop drug traffickers in their tracks continues over the next two weeks with a series of training courses for immigration, customs and police officials. News Five attended the opening this morning at the Fiesta Inn. Three senior U.S. customs officials are conducting a […]
This week two Chinese merchants were assaulted by thieves at their shops, but today there was the most brazen and surprising attack of all. This time the incident was not a Chinese business, but the Taiwanese Embassy on Hutson and Eyre Street. A spokesperson for the embassy told News Five that around one p.m. a […]
In police news, George “Junie Balls” McKenzie has been released from police custody. He had been detained for questioning in connection with an armed robbery at a shop on Hyde’s Lane earlier this week. There was also another incident on Racecourse Street around the same time McKenzie was picked up. However, police say they now […]
Only twenty-four hours after a Chinese businessman was hit in the head by armed robbers at his shop on Hyde’s Lane, another shopkeeper was attacked at his establishment on Racecourse Street. Yang Yu Quan told police around nine last night two youths came into the shop and demanded money. One of the robbers fired a […]
A man who says he is a laborer but apparently had a second job as a holdup artist has been arrested in connection with at least six armed robberies on Belize City streets last month. Police say twenty-one year old Eugene Tillett has been charged with four counts of robbery for jewelry and bicycles totaling […]
The Prime Minister Said Musa has extended his condolences to the family of Julian Cho, the Chairman of the Toledo Maya Cultural Council who died at his home in Punta Gorda. The Prime Minister’s office says the community activist contributed significantly to the nation by bringing awareness of the needs of the Maya in Southern […]
A shootout at the Western Border has left a Guatemalan man dead. Police say nineteen year old Gustavo Adolpho Gonzalez a laborer from Barrio Los Flores, Melchor was shot and killed four hundred meters from the Belize border early Saturday morning. Police say Guatemalan authorities had alerted them that a suspect in a shooting in […]
Mark Stuart, the man accused of killing his Hattieville Prison cellmate, was today formally charged with murder. Police have apparently cut a deal with the two other residents of cell forty-one, Albert Broaster and Leroy Flowers, in which they will testify that Stuart stabbed Osmani Guerra to death last Tuesday night. In return for their […]
The code of silence for three prisoners suspected of murdering their cellmate Tuesday night did not last long as police report that two of the inmates have fingered the third as the man who attacked and killed Osmani Guerra. Today I visited Hattieville Prison to get some background on the crime. It is still not […]
Crimes of uncommon brutality were not confined to Hattieville Prison, as police report that once again the Placencia Peninsula was the scene of violent armed robbery. Two Belize City men, twenty-four year old Cecil Jones and twenty-two year old Glenn Stevens, are in custody for a crime spree they allegedly went on in the wee […]
Details are sketchy but police in Ladyville report that early this morning they were called to a home on Marage Road where they found a twenty year old woman lying on the ground naked outside her house. She was tied up and suffering from cuts and bruises to her face and arms. To make matters […]
Police and prison officials continue to investigate the murder of a locked down inmate at Hattieville prison Tuesday night. Today a postmortem revealed that twenty-five year old convict Osmani Guerra of Orange Walk died as a result of strangulation caused by several stab wounds. Authorities believe that Guerra was killed by his three cellmates: Albert […]
It was not a pleasant way to die. At around 9:45 Tuesday night a warden making his rounds at Hattieville prison came across the severed arm of a man lying on the ground in front of cell number 16 on the lower floor. He found the rest of the body, that of 25 year old […]
It will be one month and two weeks that nine year old Jay Karen Blades, a student of Lake Independence Methodist School, has been missing. According to the family, Blades left home on the morning of October seventh to go to school, but never did show up for classes. Blades, who had been having problems […]
Today, six crew members off a U.S. Coast Guard Cutter may be thinking that they were probably much safer patrolling the high seas for drug traffickers than facing a bunch of robbers that came at them on Wednesday night in Belize City. According to police reports, The men had been socializing at the W.B. Bar […]
On Monday we reported on the arrest of two errant fishermen for the possession of a boatload of undersized lobster tails. Four days later, two other anglers have been charged, this time, not for the size of the catch but for the way the fish were caught. Setting of nets near a river mouth is […]
