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You’d have thought that the police department would be crowing like a rooster who just stepped out the henhouse. But apart from a terse and enigmatic press release there has been not a single official word from any officer, from the commissioner on down, about Sunday morning’s killing of Belize’s most wanted fugitive, Wensworth Mangar. […]
Written on March 16, 1998 | Posted in
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While Patrick Jones was questioning the dead man’s relatives in Cayo, I spoke to other family members in Belize City, where they had come to identify the body at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital morgue. Not surprisingly, their disdain for the authorities had not been diminished by Sunday’s events. A grieving Sarita Bennett, the mother […]
Written on March 16, 1998 | Posted in
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In other crime news, this time of a less unusual variety, a Chinese restaurant in Belmopan was robbed Friday night. Twenty-seven year old Jim Saan told police that around 9:20 a barefoot masked man entered his restaurant and bar on Constitution Drive. The intruder brandished a pistol, demanded money and then helped himself to four […]
Written on March 16, 1998 | Posted in
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A desire to get high has landed an American resident of Ladyville in double trouble. Police report that forty-eight year old Walter David Soehnge of Marage Road went to purchase three sticks of weed from a neighborhood vendor and paid for the purchase with a twenty dollar bill. The salesman didn’t have change however, and […]
Written on March 16, 1998 | Posted in
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In crime news the six U.S. students and their professor who yesterday pled guilty to exporting Mayan artifacts will not have to spend time behind bars. Working against the magistrate’s ultimatum to pay up today or go to Hattieville, the American visitors this morning presented the money to the Clerk of Magistrate’s Court in Belize […]
Written on March 12, 1998 | Posted in
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For the past week the Archaeology Department has been conducting exercises with security officers at Philip Goldson International Airport in an effort to halt the growing export of Mayan artifacts. But according to Archaeology Commissioner John Morris, he never thought the work would bear fruit so soon. This morning six U.S. students and their professor […]
Written on March 11, 1998 | Posted in
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A freak accident has left one man dead and two injured in Belize City. On Saturday afternoon Antonio Estrada, Douglas Gabourel and John Myvette were together on Coney Drive preparing a sailboat for launching. Apparently while lifting the sail its boom or mast made contact with the B.E.L. high tension lines overhead. All three men […]
Written on March 10, 1998 | Posted in
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In the Orange Walk District the lure of the dam on the Rio Bravo proved fatal for a young fisherman. On Monday afternoon twelve year old Eltezar Magana of Orange Walk Town was fishing at the dam, which is part of the Mennonite’s hydroelectric system at Blue Creek, when, according to a friend, he suddenly […]
Written on March 10, 1998 | Posted in
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A downtown Belize City travel agency was held up this morning and the pair of robbers are still on the loose. At around 11:45 two dark skinned men entered the premises of Belize International Travel Service at 18 Bishop Street. One of them brandished a large knife and told the single clerk on duty, “Give […]
Written on March 6, 1998 | Posted in
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Some days it just doesn’t pay to get out of bed… or in the case of sailors, it doesn’t pay to get off your boat. That’s the way one Danish mariner is feeling today as he lost not one vessel, but two. The tourist, 58 year old Kenrich Enemark, was living aboard his 38 foot […]
Written on March 6, 1998 | Posted in
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You may run but you won’t find it easy to hide in Belize. That’s the message behind the issuing of an expulsion order by Immigration Minister Dean Barrow against a U.S. businessman living in the country. Thomas Crutchfield was taken into custody on Saturday and Chief Justice George Singh issued the writ informing him of […]
Written on March 5, 1998 | Posted in
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It’s been nearly seven months since the incident shocked residents of the Yarborough area of Belize City, but the long arm of the law has finally caught up with another young man in connection with the stabbing death of a Stann Creek Valley farmer. Twenty two year old Kelvin Reneau was arrested and charged on […]
Written on March 5, 1998 | Posted in
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If you thought the Carlos Seguro incident last month was heart-wrenching, the following story should fall right into that category. An elderly Belize City man was badly beaten overnight for reasons that are yet unclear. Simeon Montes whose regular place of residence is this shelter in Lord’s Ridge Cemetery was attacked early this morning as […]
Written on March 4, 1998 | Posted in
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In news of a less upbeat nature, the rushing waters of the Moho River in Toledo has apparently claimed the life of a teenage boy. Seventeen year old Marlon Duncan of Punta Gorda Town was out on a picnic with family members Sunday afternoon. Whilst swimming in the river, Duncan reportedly waded into a deep […]
Written on March 2, 1998 | Posted in
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Reports from out west say two Belizeans have been jailed in Melchor de Mencos, Guatemala after they were caught logging illegally on Guatemalan territory. Forty one year old Arnulfo Manzanero and forty year old Ruben Diaz were taken into custody on Tuesday morning by the Consejo Nacional Para Areas Protejidas and the Guatemalan military. The […]
Written on February 27, 1998 | Posted in
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In news from Punta Gorda, a fallen tree is blamed for the death of a young boy. According to a police report, Lorenzo Sam of Golden Stream Village, Toledo, reported that he and his twelve year old grandson Andres Sho were cutting down a cohune tree when it accidentally fell on top of the boy. […]
Written on February 27, 1998 | Posted in
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While a fallen tree may be the culprit in the death of a twelve year old in Toledo, the Belize River is being blamed for the death of a Belize City man. The body of thirty three year old Randolph Brown was pulled from the murky waters near the Swing Bridge early this morning. According […]
Written on February 27, 1998 | Posted in
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Orange Walk police have detained one man pending charges in connection with the discovery of drugs, a firearm and ammunition. A joint police-B.D.F. anti-drug operation on Thursday resulted in the discovery of five marijuana plantations near the Rhaburn Revenge Lagoon area of the Orange Walk District. The plantations contained a combined total of over five […]
Written on February 27, 1998 | Posted in
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It’s a crime that has shocked the neighborhood, an elderly man beaten to death in his own home on the northside of Belize City just a stone’s throw away from the Eastern Division Police Station. Neighbors say the last time Everaldo Martinez Pererra was seen alive was on Monday morning as he made his customary […]
Written on February 26, 1998 | Posted in
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In crime news, police were called out early this afternoon to number fifty six Daily Street in Belize City where the body of an elderly man was discovered. It has been identified as that of seventy seven year old Everaldo Martinez Pererra. The man, who was the landlord of the two storey wooden house, was […]
Written on February 25, 1998 | Posted in
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Two more suspects have been arrested in last Thursday’s shoot-out on Kraal Road in Belize City. 22 year old Ernest Savery and 24 year old Collin Bailey, like the three suspects already in custody, have been charged with three counts of attempted murder, wounding and deadly means of harm. All five men, believed to be […]
Written on February 24, 1998 | Posted in
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We last heard from Deon Smith as the victim of a drunken policeman intent on playing Russian Roulette — with Deon’s life. Although a bullet still lingers inside his head, the twenty one year old security guard is making a slow but miraculous recovery. Patrick Jones visited him this morning. If life was a game […]
Written on February 24, 1998 | Posted in
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A few hours later the sea claimed another life, this time near Vista del Mar in Ladyville. According to police eighteen year old Ramon Alamilla, of Mitchell Estate, was swimming with two friends between one and two in the afternoon when Alamilla began to struggle in the water. He then went under and was not […]
Written on February 23, 1998 | Posted in
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Police are moving closer to solving the case of last Thursday’s shooting spree in Belize City. Over the weekend they arrested three men believed to have been riding in the black pickup truck which shot up a taxi and also wounded an innocent bystander on Kraal Road. They are 21 year old Alex O’Brien, 24 […]
Written on February 23, 1998 | Posted in
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He hasn’t been arrested, but the price on his head keeps growing. Authorities today announced that not only have they not forgotten about fugitive Winsworth Mangar, but are doubling the reward for his capture, to ten thousand dollars. Mangar, an accused murderer who was mistakenly released from prison in May of last year, has been […]
Written on February 23, 1998 | Posted in
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