In other crime news, eight Belize City men ranging in ages from eighteen to twenty nine, were marched to Magistrates court this afternoon to answer to a book of charges in connection with the theft of firearms and ammunition from the Brodies warehouse. Jiovanni Lauriano, Byron Gillett, Deon Burns, Jason King, Leslie Williams, Herman Flowers, […]
A Belize City man accused of bribing the police has been acquitted. Twenty one year old Lionel Castillo appeared in Magistrate’s Court this morning charged with two counts of corruption, but it wasn’t long after the session started that Magistrate Dorothy Flowers threw out the case for lack of evidence. According to police, Castillo acted […]
In crime news closer to home — much closer actually — several members of News Five’s staff were on the scene last night as three gunshots went off across the street from our studios. The next thing we knew a man with a gun appeared and asked us if we could please call the police. […]
He was apprehended Wednesday morning in Cotton Tree and today former fugitive Douglas Williams was held accountable for a pair of crimes allegedly committed while he was on the run. The thirty three-year-old native of Roaring Creek has been charged with murder in the October 1997 killing of retired public officer Joseph Bulwer at Bulwer’s […]
The Police investigation of Monday’s major marijuana bust at the Belize City Port seems to be stuck in first gear. Truck owner Ernesto Castillo and driver Arthur Tillett were released from police detention Wednesday night after questioning. According to Superintendent Gerald Westby, the investigation is being focussed in the north, supposedly where the rented container […]
Meanwhile charges have been brought against three Belize City youths in connection with last Saturday’s burglary of the Brodies Warehouse in downtown Belize City. Nineteen year old Troy Card, twenty four year old Tyrone Augustine and twenty five year old Kelvin Francis were today charged with a total of twenty six counts of possession of […]
There may be viewers who are tired of police press conferences but even those weary souls will have to admit that today’s presentation by Commissioner Ornel Brooks, ably assisted by Minister Dean Barrow and Permanent Secretary Carlos Perdomo, was a command performance… and what it may have occasionally lacked in detail it made up in […]
Commissioner of Police Ornel Brooks was obviously on a roll this morning as he turned his attention to the weekend robbery of guns and ammunition from the Brodies Warehouse in Belize City. Brooks said diligent police work over the last four days has resulted in the recovery of all the stolen ammunition and almost all […]
The next item on the Commissioner’s short but power-packed agenda was the container full of weed that was found at the Port Authority on Monday. After the cache was unloaded, Brooks said the eighty four parcels of compressed marijuana tipped the scale at one thousand, three hundred and sixty four kilos, which translates to a […]
It was left off the Commissioner’s initial running order for this morning’s press conference. And the news that the long arm of the law had finally caught up with fugitive Douglas Williams — itself a headline story — was almost lost in the barrage of information the police were throwing at the media. Ornel Brooks, […]
With so much cocaine coming in and out of Belize it was beginning to look like the whole of the country was one big flourmill. The result was that the homegrown marijuana industry, once renowned worldwide for “Belize Breeze,” had almost been overlooked. No longer… thanks to a massive bust this morning in Belize City. […]
It may not have been as audacious as the Brodies theft, but when it comes to guns, a political candidate in Cayo has reported a robbery of epic proportions. Fifty-year-old San Ignacio businessman Ainsley Leslie, who is also the P.U.P. candidate in Cayo North, told police that on the afternoon of May thirty first his […]
They advertise it as the biggest and brightest store in Belize… and this weekend it was the scene of one of the nation’s biggest break-ins. The downtown warehouse of James Brodie and Company was hit in the wee hours of Saturday morning and while being robbed is bad enough, what made this crime particularly frightening […]
While investigators are still trying to piece together the evidence in Saturday morning’s burglary, the police have issued a nationwide advisory for the public to be on the lookout for the stolen guns and ammunition. The Head of the National Crimes Investigations Branch, Superintendent Gerald Westby, part of a special team that is probing the […]
In crime news, a forty three year old man from the village of Las Flores, just outside Belmopan has apparently become the latest addition to the list of persons who have committed suicide. According to forty-three year old Pedrina Ayala, around three o’clock Thursday afternoon, she left her home in the village to get the […]
A freak accident in Toledo has left a Punta Gorda man dead. Thirty seven year old Simeon Coleman was driving down the Southern Highway from Big Falls to the district capital when upon reaching near mile nineteen, his pickup began to shut down as it labored up a hill. As it sputtered to a stop […]
In crime news there was excitement aplenty on Belize City’s south side this afternoon. News Five’s Patrick Jones was on the scene and files the following report. The mid afternoon robbery of the Coca-Cola delivery truck took place in front of Ke’s Saloon on Mahogany Street. Victim of the daring hold-up, Fred Michael and sideman […]
Authorities are investigating the stabbing death of a man in Orange Walk Town. According to a police report, twenty-two year old Francisco Ack was walking along Lover’s Lane at about one o’clock Monday morning, when he was chased and stabbed on the right side of his chest and abdomen by three unidentified men. He was […]
In other crime news, a lottery vendor from Calcutta Village in the Corozal District has reported to police that he was robbed. Forty-eight year old Mario Moo was riding his bicycle from Libertad Village on Saturday evening. When he reached the junction at the Northern Highway three masked men armed with sticks jumped out of […]
Another issue that was a hot topic of discussion at today’s House meeting was the Labor Day weekend armed robbery and murder near Roaring River on the Hummingbird Highway. Attorney General Dean Barrow stuck by the controversial decision of the police to arrest and charge Alfonso Teul and Eluterio Vasquez in connection with the May […]
Police have arrested and charged two Belmopan residents in connection with a robbery on Sunday. They have been identified in a police report as twenty one year old Raymond Flowers and seventeen year old Anthony Williams. Their arrest is the result of a report made to police by Anthony Barnett that his point twenty two […]
Reports reaching News Five today indicate that the police are making good on their promise to investigate charges that the firm of H.T.A. Bowman Limited, situated at mile thirteen and a half on the Stann Creek Valley Road, violated the law by hiring illegal immigrants. According to reports we received this afternoon, a summons was […]
In crime news, Corozal police are investigating the execution style murder of a man from Concepcion Village. The decomposed body of thirty one year old Hever Atanadel Lopez was discovered on a dirt road near Trial Farm Village. A police report says Lopez’ body was found near his truck with both hands and feet tied. […]
More people have today come forward to protest the continued incarceration of Alfonso Teul and Eluterio Vasquez, two farm workers who have been charged with murder and robbery in the May second mass holdup on the Hummingbird Highway. News Five’s Patrick Jones has just returned from the citrus orchards of the Stann Creek Valley and […]
The May second holdup of over a hundred people on the Hummingbird Highway and the accompanying cold-blooded murder of a B.D.F. volunteer has dominated the headlines and shaken the confidence of an entire nation. But in recent days the controversy has shifted away from the horror of the crime to the tactics used by authorities […]
