Less than twenty four hours after a hail of bullets terrorized students and residents along Kraal Road in Belize City, police have moved one step closer to solving the case. A black pick-up truck believed to be the one carrying a group of gun-toting men who were shooting at a taxi as it drove down […]
He has not been linked to Thursday’s shooting spree but the discovery of a firearm, ammunition and drugs has put police in pursuit of a nineteen year old Belize City man. Orin Arnold, who also goes by the name Arthur Martin, is being sought in connection with Thursday night’s discovery of a nine millimeter pistol, […]
While police look to the public for assistance in capturing Arnold, quick work by the Intermediate Southern Formation has resulted in the arrest of a Honduran man in connection with the grizzly discovery of a decomposing body last week in Cowpen. Twenty year old Jose Vasquez Cubias has been charged for the crime of Murder. […]
The ghost of gangsters past is today haunting Belize City. Almost three years to the day after an historic truce was supposed to have stopped the violence, gunshots rang out across the southside. But this was no middle of the night disturbance; it took place in broad daylight directly in front of one of the […]
The ghost of gangsters? past is today haunting Belize City. Almost three years to the day after an historic truce was supposed to have stopped the violence, gunshots rang out across the southside. But this was no middle of the night disturbance; it took place in broad daylight directly in front of one of the […]
In other crime news, Belizean authorities have acted quickly to deport a U.S. citizen wantdd on a federal kndictment in Teyas. Robert Aaron Cord, who also#goes under a nuober of other aliases, is wanted in the States for conspiracy to!commit mail and wire fraud, mondy laundering and interstate tralsportation of stolen property. Although it had […]
In crime news things have been pretty quiet, with the exception of a ruction on the southside of Belize City which had one family diving for cover. It was shortly before three this morning that the Nunez family of number 63 West Street was awakened from their sleep by sounds of someone on their rooftop. […]
Police in Belmopan say they have arrested a pair of men whom they believe have been involved in at least six recent burglaries in the nation’s capital. The break in the case came when police investigations led to the recovery of items stolen on February tenth from the home of Lewis Wade on Orange Walk […]
It’s the kind of thing that when it happens in isolation it’s not particularly big news. But the destruction of two vehicles by fire in Belize City early Saturday morning looked to be more than just coincidence. Twenty two year old businessman Jose Matus was the first to report his gray four door Chevrolet car […]
When accused murderer Frank Castro entered the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital last month, it was on a stretcher. When he left this afternoon, he was in an upright position and waiting anxiously for him at the hospital doors, were the police who wasted no time in slapping on a pair of handcuffs and dragging him […]
The Valentine’s weekend was not a romantic one on our nation’s highways. On Saturday, seventy one year old Justin Flores was knocked down as he walked up the Stann Creek Valley Road just outside of Dangriga. Twenty eight year old Eloy Martinez, a Honduran resident of the town, was behind the wheel of the van […]
A day later, it was much the same story in Corozal. Police found the lifeless body of fifty eight year old fruit vendor Pedro Gomez lying on the side of the Northern Highway in Calcutta Village. He had been knocked down that evening while riding his bicycle by a vehicle driven by twenty three year […]
1998 has not been a good year for police public relations. The failure to catch Winty Mangar and Douglas Williams combined with two recent shootings of unarmed civilians by officers on special duty, have tarnished the department’s image, which wasn’t particularly polished in the first place. Today comes more bad news. An eighteen year old […]
In other crime news, police have broken up what they call a crime ring responsible for a number of burglaries in Belize City and Orange Walk. Approximately five thousand dollars worth of stolen property has been recovered and five Belize City residents arrested. They are twenty year old William Garcia, eighteen year old Edward Westby, […]
Other November deportees on the latest police list include forty one year old Glenford Gray of Belize City. He did time at Riker’s Island in New York for heroin possession. Thirty eight year old Frank Garcia, also of Belize City, was deported from L.A. after serving a total of twelve years in various prisons for […]
For a while it seemed like Police Commissioner Ornel Brooks was more like Larry King Live, ready to call in the cameras at a moment’s notice to announce even the smallest victory in the nation’s war on crime. But in recent weeks a good number of the accused criminals have been wearing the uniform of […]
In news of another shooting by police, this one a week earlier in Ladyville, wounded security guard Deon Smith is reportedly improving following surgery in Chetumal. Doctors there have treated swelling in Smith’s brain but have not removed the bullet still lodged in his skull. Smith is conscious and has been talking to family members. […]
In other police news authorities report that a fisherman of Seine Bight appeared to have drowned on Monday. Witnesses say that around 10:30 am 19 year old Clifford Arzu was fishing from his dory about a hundred yards offshore when it started to take in water. Arzu then jumped out, went under and was not […]
There’s disaster aplenty tonight, and while there are few scenes more dramatic than a downtown fire, it was a single shot from a policeman’s revolver in the Belmopan suburb of Salvapan that dominates the weekend’s tragic news. Like last week’s senseless gunplay by a cop doing special duty, Saturday night’s shooting took place at a […]
It is rare in Belize — or most other places for that matter — that one person will make a totally unprovoked deadly attack on another. But according to Martin Martinez, a B.E.L. employee who lives in the village of Double Head Cabbage, that’s exactly what happened to him and his wife as they slumbered […]
One man and two minors have been charged in the attempted armed robbery of a Chinese shop on Tuesday night in Belize City. Eighteen year old Kenrick Johnson of Kraal Road and two fourteen year olds have been charged in Magistrate’s Court with three counts of attempted murder and deadly means of harm as well […]
Another Chinese owned establishment was hit by robbers this week, this time in Dangriga. Thirty seven year old Xing Xing Huang told police that just before midnight on Thursday night two dark skinned men, about five feet, four inches in height and wearing masks entered his restaurant, the “Sea Swallow”. One carried a sawed off […]
A twenty two member delegation from the Republic of China on Taiwan may be touring the country to promote investment, but while the high powered visitors are being wined and dined in fancy hotels and restaurants, their less well connected brethren continue to take their licks on the mean streets of Belize City. Today, members […]
While would be robbers may have been shooting up a Belize City shop Tuesday night, the tables were turned in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. When Mark Lizarraga, 36 year old proprietor of Southside Meat Shop on Albert Street, heard a suspicious noise on his verandah, he emerged to find a burglary in progress. […]
Tonight the family of Mark Martinez in Double Head Cabbage remains in shock after an escaped prisoner entered their home and attacked them with a knife. While at this time reports are sketchy, the police say Peter Augustine, who was serving a five year jail term at Hattieville Prison, was one of the inmates taken […]
