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Two of five inmates who escaped from the Belize Prison Authority’s Youth Enhancement Academy last Thursday night, have been recaptured. Eighteen year old Stuart Jones was brought in to the Academy in Ladyville on Saturday and twenty-year-old Fransico Vasquez was recaptured today. The three still at large are: twenty-three year old Glenford Baptist who is […]
Written on June 30, 1998 | Posted in
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A sixty-four year old man from St. Paul’s Bank was crushed to death in an accident on Saturday morning. A police report says Basil Thompson was about to clear a knot in the rope that was being used to move a wooden house, when the loader pulling the house rolled forward and pinned him against […]
Written on June 30, 1998 | Posted in
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In crime news, police have reported the brutal attack of a young couple in the wee hours of Sunday morning in Orange Walk. A twenty one year old woman told police that she and eighteen year old Roberto Herbert were accosted as they drove along Price Avenue in Orange Walk Town by five men armed […]
Written on June 29, 1998 | Posted in
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Two people lost their lives in separate traffic accidents over the weekend. On Friday night police say they found the body of Windel Middleton in a ditch just off Constitution Drive in Belmopan. According to the police, Middleton was in control of a car that was being towed, when another vehicle traveling in the opposite […]
Written on June 29, 1998 | Posted in
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It is a story that has the basic elements to fit neatly into a made for television movie of the week. But instead of a Hollywood production studio, the sickening scene was played out in a Belize City hotel room and the principal actors are as Belizean as rice and beans. Nineteen year old Jose […]
Written on June 25, 1998 | Posted in
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In other crime news Belize City police had a surprise on Wednesday for a young man wanted in connection with the theft of guns and ammunition from the Brodies Warehouse last month. According to police sixteen year old Aaron Mariano was a happy spectator at a basketball game at the Yabra Court when they drove […]
Written on June 25, 1998 | Posted in
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In crime news, police have released a taxi driver who was detained for questioning in connection with a failed kidnapping and robbery last Saturday afternoon in San Ignacio. Thirty-one year old Orestes Cho was being questioned for possible involvement in the incident despite his claim that he himself was a victim of the bandits. Cho […]
Written on June 24, 1998 | Posted in
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The western part of the country is fast earning a reputation for danger. For the second time in one week, a group of armed bandits have wreaked havoc in Cayo, leaving the community in shock and law enforcement authorities scratching their collective heads. Around four o’clock on Saturday afternoon, Cayo businessman Juan Chuc was kidnapped […]
Written on June 22, 1998 | Posted in
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An afternoon outing on Saturday has ended tragically for a family in Dangriga. Eight year old Kenisha Flores and some relatives were bathing in the river in the new site area of the town around one thirty Saturday afternoon, when she disappeared under the water. A short while later, Kenisha’s lifeless body was retrieved and […]
Written on June 22, 1998 | Posted in
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Tonight the police need your help in identifying the body of a dead man found near the Belize-Guatemala border on Thursday. According to Benque Viejo police, they were visited by Guatemalan authorities, who reported to them that a corpse was found lying on a farm situated about twenty yards away from the border. When the […]
Written on June 19, 1998 | Posted in
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Meanwhile in the North, Corozal police continue their investigation into the death of sixty-two year old Amado Castillo of Paraiso Village on Saturday night. Castillo was seen earlier that morning in Corozal Town and was apparently returning home when he was brutally murdered. Police say they quickly went out to the scene after receiving a […]
Written on June 19, 1998 | Posted in
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There is very little in the way of new information to report tonight on Monday’s shooting in Spanish Lookout. Police continue to comb the hills out west for a group of gunmen who terrorized three Mennonite girls and left one wounded. According to the officer in charge of the San Ignacio police station, three people […]
Written on June 18, 1998 | Posted in
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When we received word on Tuesday that a group of men had shot and wounded a twenty three year old Mennonite woman as she drove through Spanish Lookout on Monday night, we were immediately reminded of the brutal May second murder and mass robbery on the Hummingbird Highway. Today News Five’s Patrick Jones traveled to […]
Written on June 17, 1998 | Posted in
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Another baby has died under tragic but all too familiar circumstances in Belize City. Police report that at around five Tuesday evening twenty four year old Ivoney Copius of Queen Charlotte Street was informed by her neighbor, Denise Underwood, that Ivoney’s son, fifteen month old Richard Gentle, had fallen into a bucket of water at […]
Written on June 17, 1998 | Posted in
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The body of a missing man has been discovered in Cayo, apparently the victim of a suicide. On Tuesday afternoon San Ignacio police were called to the Gallo Blanco area where they found the badly decomposed body of Mainor Shershante hanging by a rope from a tree. It awaits a post mortem at the San […]
Written on June 17, 1998 | Posted in
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In another case in which the post mortem has been completed, it has been determined that Rafael Aquino, whose body was found Monday in Dangriga, died of a blood clot on his brain.
Written on June 17, 1998 | Posted in
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The details are sketchy, as the tightly knit community of Spanish Lookout is not known for aggressively telling its stories, but News Five has confirmed that an attack was carried out last night on a Mennonite woman by a gang of armed men. At around eight o’clock Monday night twenty four-year-old Nellie Plett was driving […]
Written on June 16, 1998 | Posted in
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A one-month-old baby has died in Belize City. Twenty one year old Denise Flowers of North Creek reported to police that on Saturday night she fed her daughter Neicha and put her to sleep around eleven thirty. When she next saw the infant at six thirty Sunday morning she was not moving. Neicha was rushed […]
Written on June 16, 1998 | Posted in
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A Dangriga man has also been found dead, under even more mysterious circumstances. Forty two year old Rafael Aquino was discovered by police at five forty-five Monday morning lying in a hammock under his house on Vincent Street. A cut wound had been inflicted on his right ear. After being taken to Dangriga Hospital he […]
Written on June 16, 1998 | Posted in
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An apparent suicide has taken the life of a watchman at Long Caye. On Saturday morning a fisherman and his son arrived at the thinly populated island, located between St. George’s and Caye Chapel, where they discovered the body of forty one year old Frank Young. It was hanging with a rope around the neck […]
Written on June 15, 1998 | Posted in
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In crime news, police have moved quickly to bring drug trafficking charges against four people who were busted in an anti-drug operation on Tuesday. Adolfo Zetina, Ernesto Acosta, Aldo Trejo and Alvaro Trejo are jointly charged with the offenses of supplying controlled drugs and conspiracy to commit drug trafficking. Additionally, Ernesto Acosta and a fifth […]
Written on June 11, 1998 | Posted in
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While police successful apprehended a group of alleged drug traffickers in the north, in Cayo a pair of cops almost got run over in their attempt to apprehend two suspects. A police patrol on the Western Highway in Santa Elena Town early Wednesday morning spotted a parked vehicle belonging to Charles Trapp. The police say […]
Written on June 11, 1998 | Posted in
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It was significantly less than the dramatic bust at the Port late last month; nonetheless, the cops have chalked up another victory in the war on narcotics. Four people were detained on Tuesday as a result of an anti-drug operation in the Corozal District. Police say they intercepted a blue pickup truck on the outskirts […]
Written on June 10, 1998 | Posted in
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It had all the elements of a comic crime caper worthy of such esteemed novelists as Elmore Leonard or Donald Westlake. But this wasn’t fiction and tonight four men are facing the hard reality of prison life, having been accused of involvement in a scheme to send three thousand pounds of weed to Miami in […]
Written on June 9, 1998 | Posted in
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There may not be a crime involved but tonight the family of fifteen year old Joyce Hemmans is in need of your help. According to Hemmans’ mother, Emily Bethram, her daughter, who lives on Faber’s Road Extension with her grandmother, was sent about two blocks away to get some water shortly after eight on Thursday […]
Written on June 9, 1998 | Posted in
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