In crime news which did not appear on the police blotter, sources in King’s Park have told News Five that a group of youths from outside the area went on a violent rampage on Saturday night leaving one boy chopped and three others with multiple stab wounds. The first attack was said to have occurred […]
The name of a high profile politician is in the news tonight but it is there in connection with matters of crime as opposed to affairs of state. Roberto Campos, brother of Minister of Mobilization Ruben Campos, was picked up by police at his home in Orange Walk early this morning and taken to that […]
Corozal police have arrested and charged two men in connection with the shooting death of forty three year old fisherman Nathaniel Majil last weekend. Thirty five year old Audomoro Itzab of Xiabe Village and twenty two year old Hugo Cassanova of Carolina Village have been jointly charged for the crime of murder and conspiracy. They […]
The foot path leading from Eastern Division police headquarters to Magistrate’s Court in Belize City has been well trod by generations of accused criminals ranging in status from chain snatchers to multiple murderers. This afternoon, however, the men making the pilgrimage were elite members of an institution that is supposed to be a model of […]
Police continue their politically sensitive investigation of this weekend’s sexual assault of U.D.P. Standard Bearer Marisa Quan. And the harder the cops look, the worse things look for eighteen year old Barry Robinson. The Belize City man was again at C.I.B. Headquarters this afternoon, as police questioned him in connection with a series of burglaries […]
It is never easy to report on a crime of sexual assault… and when the victim of such an inherently distasteful act happens to be a politician it makes things even more complicated. The facts as we understand them are as follows: at around five a.m. Sunday morning Marisa Quan, U.D.P. standard bearer for the […]
In Corozal a weekend visit to the beach proved fatal for a Taiwanese teacher. Twenty two year old Wan Chen Hsieh was bathing Sunday afternoon with a group of her countrymen at Blades Lagoon near Santa Elena when around three she suddenly disappeared under the water. Twenty minutes later her lifeless body was recovered and […]
In other police news, authorities are still looking for the owner of eighty pounds of marijuana found on a farm in Burrell Boom. Seventy three year old Belize City resident Lionel Gentle, his son and some other men, went to visit Gentle’s country estate on Sunday morning. While at the farm, and reportedly while getting […]
In crime news, an eighteen year old man was wounded in a shooting incident early this morning in the Kings Park area of Belize City. Forty one year old businessman Chi Zhong Tian told police that he came home around twelve forty five this morning and found the metal shutter covering the front of his […]
While Rosado awaits charges, four young men from the North have had more accusations brought against them in connection with a crime spree earlier this month in Corozal. In addition to charges of murder and conspiracy arising from the killing of boledo vendor Alejandro Cano, sixteen year old Rocky Matura, eighteen year old Jeremy Matura, […]
A habit of joy riding has landed a nineteen year old Belize City youth in some hot water. The reason is that Otis Carr seems to prefer using other people’s cars instead of his own. Carr, who lives on Wagner’s Lane was arrested on Tuesday and charged with two counts of taking conveyance and two […]
Mishaps at sea are not uncommon over Easter but the only one reported this weekend occurred while a vessel was still in the river. The water taxi, “Sunrise,” had just passed the Belize Fiberglass Motors at two miles on the Northern Highway, and was on its way back, when the vessel, captained by Gregory Perry, […]
An internal investigation by the Customs Department has resulted in the arrest of one of their junior officers. According to reports reaching News Five, twenty nine year old Customs Examiner Michael Dyer was charged on April ninth with knowingly dealing with uncustomed goods. The items, which have a market value of over three hundred thousand […]
In crime news Sarita Estrada has been charged with murder in the slaying of her common law husband, Stanley Gillette. Gillette was killed on Monday allegedly as he struggled with Estrada over a shotgun. He was upset over a love affair she was having with another man in Maypen Village. Estrada will reappear in court […]
In Supreme Court News, the man accused in the murder of his common-law wife last year received a long prison sentence but not for the original charge. Rudolph Neal was charged with murdering Lorna Young and burying her body in a shallow grave behind a house on Police street, sometime between December Sixteenth, 1996 and […]
There are many of us in Belize who cling to the notion that once outside the violent world of the city, life in rural Belize is as peaceful and idyllic as a nineteenth century postcard. Today there are fewer believers in that mirage as the prototypically bucolic village of Maypen on Monday became the scene […]
In other crime news, Corozal police have charged three men in connection with the murder of a boledo vendor earlier this month. Twenty four year old Victor Sanker, eighteen year old Jeremy Matura and fifteen year old, Rocky Matura, who jumped the northern border after a shootout with police, were apprehended by Mexican authorities in […]
One of four men believed to be involved in the killing of a Corozal boledo vendor has been charged with murder. Twenty one year old Edilberto Medina, of Chetumal, was wounded and captured in a shootout with police near Four Mile Lagoon last week, following the fatal shooting of Alejandro Cano earlier in the day. […]
In other crime news two Corozal men have been detained pending charges of passing counterfeit currency. On Sunday a shopkeeper of Saint Margaret’s Village told police that two men came to his store and paid for two cokes with a hundred dollar note. Upon closer inspection the bill proved false. When police intercepted the big […]
More details have surfaced in the case of a bankrupt Belize-based investment company and a loan it allegedly made to Agriculture Minister Russel “Chiste” Garcia. As we reported yesterday the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has ordered Swiss Trade and Commerce Trust Limited and its owners, Lloyd Winburn and Eddie Blackwell, to repay over nine […]
In crime news police have made an arrest for a shooting incident which occurred two weeks ago. Sixteen year old Mark Saragosa has been charged with attempted murder, conspiracy to murder, dangerous harm and use of deadly means of harm in the shooting of Guy Russel Smith on the night of March twentieth in Belize […]
The old saying “crime doesn’t pay” has certainly proven true, at least in the case of Hondurans living in the town of San Pedro. Viewers may recall the recent bungled kidnapping of a bank manager in that island paradise by three Honduran immigrants. Today police report that another trio consisting of two Honduran men and […]
There’s big trouble in Corozal as police report that yesterday a gang of four men went on a crime spree which has left one man dead. Around seven in the morning the gang allegedly stole a red Chevrolet at gunpoint from taxi driver Roberto Maldonado. At 8:15 that night three men driving in the same […]
In other crime news a man detained for the rape of a four year old girl has been formally charged. Nineteen year old Tedford Augustine, not Kenworth as we had previously reported, was today charged in Dangriga Magistrate’s Court with rape, unlawful carnal knowledge and abduction of a minor. It is alleged that Augustine was […]
A newspaper figures in another story this morning, but this time it’s the prestigious “Wall Street Journal”. A story in Tuesday’s edition reports that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has issued an order to a Belize based company, Swiss Trade and Commerce Trust Limited, to repay over nine million U.S. dollars it allegedly defrauded […]
