In a follow up to a story in yesterday’s newscast, it turns out that at the very moment we were reporting that Denvor Willoughby was yet to turn himself in, he was in fact languishing behind bars on Queen Street. Police picked up the twenty-two year old, who was wanted for questioning in connection with […]
In crime news, police are still trying to piece together last Thursday’s shooting in Belize City which sent one man to the emergency room and at least three others scrambling for cover. Twenty-two year old Denvor Willoughby is the prime suspect in the late night incident and police are anxious to speak with him. But […]
From Chetumal to Guatemala, the news is no less tragic for another Belizean family, as a forty-five year old man was gunned down in front of his wife last night. According to police, Guatemalan national Carlos Canizales and his Belizean wife were walking from Melchor to Arenal Village on the Guatemalan side of the border […]
A late night hold up in Ladyville, has left a family of four Chinese nationals hospitalized suffering with numerous cuts to their faces. According to Corporal Fredrick Gordon, the officer in charge of the Ladyville Police Station, three men, one armed with a gun and knife entered Jim’s Restaurant at mile nine and half on […]
The body was discovered on Friday morning in a canefield near San Antonio, Orange Walk. The man identified as the victim, thirty-eight year old Honduran Anseliano Bonilla, died execution style from a single gunshot wound to the forehead. Police may not have caught up with the murderer but at least they know who they want […]
A quiet late night hangout on Central American Boulevard erupted in pandemonium on Thursday and when the dust had settled, a Belize City youth lay on the pavement with gunshot wounds. According to police, twenty year old Kimbran Mossiah was the only one of four people who were sitting down at the corner of Jane […]
While the victim of Thursday night’s shooting recovers from his injuries in the hospital, another man who found himself on the wrong end of a gun was not so lucky. Twenty two year old Anthony Watson Junior was shot dead around one thirty this morning, apparently as he was attempting to burglarize a Belize City […]
In other crime news last week we were called to the home of a viewer in Belize City, where I discovered that the word burglary has taken on a new meaning. Sixty nine year old Gwen Barnhart, who suffers with severe rheumatoid arthritis, had left the country last October to seek medical attention abroad, but […]
While many people spent the long holiday weekend jumping up, one Belize City family had anything but celebration on its mind. According to June Gabourel, when her thirteen year old daughter, Sherilee Nicholas, left for school on Tuesday of last week, it was the last time that the standard four student was seen by anyone […]
In crime news, the police are no closer to laying hands on accused murderer Ovidio Godoy, but they at least think they know where he’s headed. The twenty-eight year old man is accused of chopping to death his live-in girlfriend, twenty-three year old Ciriarca Varela, early Monday morning. The two had apparently been drinking with […]
A sharp eyed employee at Atlantic Bank has exposed what looks like a major scam by a couple of European tourists. Italian Karlheinz Gatscher and his Spanish traveling partner Maria Elena Sanz Rodriguez were attempting to cash some Visa and American Express travelers checks at the bank’s main office on Freetown Road on Monday afternoon, […]
A domestic dispute in the wee hours of this morning has left a Honduran woman dead and the police in hot pursuit of her live-in boyfriend. According to the head of C.I.B. in Belize City Eli Salazar, the police were called out to mile six and a half on the Northern Highway shortly after two […]
While police chase down a suspected murderer, they have moved quickly to apprehend another machete wielding spouse. According to police, thirty-six year old Abraham Daniels attacked his ex-common law wife, forty-nine year old Concepcion Myers at Myer’s home in Card’s Alley in Belize City. Myer’s twenty-three year old daughter Cecilia told police that she was […]
It was supposed to provide a remedy for the almost routine prison breaks that used to occur at the old Belize City prison back-a-Baptist. But the three years since the Department of Corrections moved to Hattieville, have been anything but escape proof. Seventeen year old Efrain Tut has become the latest inmate to give authorities […]
The long arm of the law has reached out and touched “G.I. Joe,” the Belize City man accused of jacking two Belize City women last week. Less than twenty-four hours after the incidents on Thursday night, police arrested and charged Cecil Gill with two counts of robbery. The charges are the result of reports made […]
The sign over the door says: “Home is where there is a heart that loves,” but the person or persons who went into the Belize City offices of the Family Services Division over the weekend must have left his at home. According to the Coordinator of Human Development, Brenda Stuart, thieves broke into the King […]
In crime news, Belize City police are on the lookout for “G.I. Joe,” a man wanted in connection with the armed hold up of two women in separate incidents overnight. According to police, the first robbery took place around eleven o’clock Thursday night on Central American Boulevard. Twenty seven year old Elena Pfeiffer says she […]
While police in the city chase down a suspected robber, in Belmopan, a twenty-five year old man has been made to answer for the illegal possession of artifacts. According to police, a search conducted on the person of Sergio Ramos Coronado on Thursday morning, resulted in the discovery of over thirty pieces of Mayan artifacts, […]
In crime news, two female workers at Homer Dakers Grocery Shop in Buttonwood Bay received minor injuries during a robbery at the store around eight, Wednesday night. According to Irimay Curlin, the store’s manager, she was checking the night sales in a cash pan, when a short, dark skinned man, wearing blue jeans pants and […]
If we watch the show “Cops” on television we know — or at least think we know — how law enforcement works in the U.S.A. But watching on TV wasn’t real enough for some members of the Belize Police Force, who recently got the chance to trade places with their colleagues from the great state […]
They’re being described as “bad-eggs,” a duo of young men who had the entire village of Red Bank in the Stann Creek District living in fear. Today, twenty one year old Estevan Sho and twenty year old Allan Cal had one more commendation added to their resume… murder. Police are accusing the two men of […]
In other crime news, Belmopan police have arrested and charged four men in connection with a multiple chopping incident on Monday night which sent five people to the hospital. The injured are identified as Carlos, David and Steve Baizar, Seferino Sutz and Adolf Cruz. According to police the five had a misunderstanding with Russell, Clifford […]
Many of us who have never been the victim of a holdup often wonder how we would react to the feeling of a gun barrel pressed against our temple. Well, one Belize City bartender no longer has to fantasize, as that scenario became reality early Sunday morning. What transpired was something out of a movie […]
In crime news police have still not cracked last week’s brutal murder of a British volunteer in the Toledo District. The body of twenty-seven year old Anna Lightfoot, a project leader for Raleigh International, was discovered Thursday near San Pablo Village with stab wounds to her chest, neck, arm, back and thighs. The location of […]
In crime news, three days after she was reported missing, the body Raleigh International venturer Anna Lightfoot was discovered late Thursday evening. The twenty-seven year old British woman had apparently been stabbed to death not far from the Raleigh base camp in San Pablo Village in the Stann Creek District. Although details of a postmortem […]
