Police investigating the theft of almost thirty thousand dollars in cash and jewelry from a store in Belize City last week have apprehended two men and recovered some of the missing money. Li Juan Li told police almost thirty thousand dollars in cash and jewelry were taken from her store at the corner of Mahogany […]
Belize City businessman Rhett Fuller was today arrested and now faces possible extradition to the United States. Fuller’s arrest is the result of a request by the United States government to hand him over to stand trial for an incident nine years ago in Florida. Although Fuller was arrested this morning and taken to court […]
It’s a story that has been in the news for almost a week now and the more details that emerge, the more questions arise about the chilling discovery of a dead baby at the city dump. Perhaps the break that police were looking for came today, when they found the mother whose name was on […]
Earlier this month it was a San Pedro accounts clerk whose clever bookwork landed her a jail cell at Hattieville. A week and a half later, three Belize City gas station supervisors find themselves behind bars for their alleged creative business practices. Twenty-four year old Randolph Young, twenty year old Hector Staine and twenty-one year […]
Two Belize City men who terrorized a neighborhood on Friday night appear to have inflicted more injuries by hitting people with their guns than by firing them. Marlon Budd told police he was riding his bicycle on Central American Boulevard near Antelope Street when Mark Henry and Kareem Swazo approached. Mark Henry reportedly began beating […]
There is disturbing news tonight that a killer is on the loose. And while the body of only one young victim has been discovered, there is mounting evidence that a number of missing children may have come into contact with the murderer and face a similar fate. What we know for sure is that thirteen […]
Suicide or murder? That’s the question police are trying to figure out as they investigate the shooting death of a Belize City man Thursday night. Twenty-three year old Peter Valerio was pronounced dead on arrival at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital shortly after nine o’clock after being shot in the head. According to officer in […]
The release of an autopsy conducted on the body of an infant found at the city dump earlier this week has provided police with a clearer picture of how the child died. But it has also raised new questions about the gruesome discovery. According to Dr. Mario Estradabran’s findings, the baby girl was the victim […]
In other police news the department today announced the conducting of an operation to combat the rising number of bicycle thefts in Belize City. Targeted in the sweep were a number of bike repair shops. As a result four people were arrested, while fifteen bikes, seventy-eight frames and assorted parts were confiscated. The public is […]
Twenty-four hours after the gruesome discovery of the body of a dead baby at the City’s garbage dump, police are still trying to piece together the who, what, why and when. A postmortem examination was conducted on the body today by Pathologist Dr. Mario Estradabran, but up to news time, he had not made the […]
In other crime news law enforcement authorities continue to disrupt the marijuana trade just as the prime harvesting season approaches. On Wednesday morning police and B.D.F. personnel operating in the Orange Walk District discovered no less than three weed plantations in the area known as Vaqueros Camp. According to an official release the farms contained […]
It’s a story that we are used to seeing in the U.S. news media: a newborn baby, unwanted by its teenaged mother, is abandoned and left for dead. Tonight that story — or perhaps some as yet unknown variation of it — tops the news right here in Belize. This morning we were called to […]
In other crime news three men from the Corozal District have been arrested for a robbery which occurred last week in Santa Clara Village. On October ninth, twenty-two year old housewife Marcela Gomez reported that three men came to her house, hit her and robbed her at knifepoint of jewelry worth over thirteen hundred dollars. […]
It was a particularly brutal crime, the kind that’s not supposed to happen in a small country where everybody is said to know everybody else. Today police arrested and charged three men whom they claim committed the atrocity… and called in the press to talk. A little over two months after a Coca Cola truck […]
While planning seems to have been the M.O. in the holdup of the Coca-Cola delivery truck, in Belmopan a month long series of burglaries appears to have been the result of similar intentions. Officer in Charge of the Belmopan police station, Gerald Bernard, says that no less than thirty-three burglaries were reported between September third […]
A search for drugs in Belize City has led to the discovery of an illegal substance far more deadly: guns. Early Friday morning police entered the home of twenty-four year old fish vendor Freddy Grant at forty East Collet Canal. In addition to finding three parcels of suspected marijuana they also recovered a nine millimeter […]
Another search for drugs, this time in the Orange Walk District, has netted authorities a much bigger haul of weed… but nothing in the way of suspects. On Monday morning police raided a plantation four miles southwest of San Felipe Village where they discovered two thousand, five hundred cannabis plants over six feet tall. All […]
One month after she was reported missing, the mystery over the disappearance of a thirteen year old girl has been solved… at least partially. The body of Sherilee Nicholas was found on Thursday afternoon on a feeder road, just off the Western Highway at mile thirteen. According to lead investigator Sergeant Francisco Patt, a man […]
We don’t know exactly how they knew where to look but police intelligence proved highly accurate Wednesday night, as it led to the discovery of a sizable collection of illegal guns and ammunition. The raid took place at the home of Edward and Lina Penner, Mennonites of Camalote Village. Police were led there by the […]
In crime news, some highly creative accounting has landed a twenty-four year old San Pedro clerk in a whole heap of trouble. Police on the island are accusing Ruth Guerra of embezzling over fifty six thousand dollars from the Island Marketers Gas Station between August and September. Here is how it allegedly happened. Guerra, who […]
In Orange Walk, police have caught up with one of three men who held up a grocery shop last month. On September twenty-sixth, the trio, one armed with a knife and another with a gun, are reported to have entered Margarita Salazar’s grocery shop in Orange Walk Town and ordered soft drinks. One of the […]
The epidemic known as crime does not seem to have any respect for our most revered institutions and traditions. This morning I visited a place where some heartless criminals are threatening to steal something so valuable that we had assumed it was thief-proof: an education. Since 1995, the students of All Saints School have been […]
A twenty-six year old Belize City man has been charged with the crime of murder in what looks like a long-delayed revenge killing. Steven Kelly is reported to have gone to the home of Hartwell Thompson on Lovely Lane, shortly after eleven o’clock on Saturday morning and threatened to kill him. He soon made good […]
It was a strange crime to begin with, but now the case of two European forgers caught in Belize has become even stranger. Police report that Sunday afternoon prison officials discovered the body of thirty four year old Spaniard Kartheinz Gatscher in his cell. Gatscher, who was on remand along with his Italian partner for […]
Police in Belmopan are investigating the brutal murder of a man from the village of Las Flores. According to police, they visited the school in the village where they found the body of forty-one year old Jose Antonio Obando with chop wounds to the ribs and throat. Obando’s body awaits a postmortem examination at the […]
