It was a particularly brutal killing in a part of the country where brutal deaths are not all that uncommon. But tonight police have in custody two men whom they say are responsible for the murder of Indian businessman Bherumal Punjabi. Punjabi’s body was found last Wednesday night in a canefield off the San Roman […]
In a follow up to a story we ran yesterday, twenty one year old Deon Smith is tonight on his way to Clinica Carranza in Chetumal for further treatment. Smith, who was shot in the face by a policeman playing Russian Roulette early Saturday morning, was to have been flown out on a Wings of […]
The proliferation of broadcasting licenses over the last decade has meant a corresponding increase in the number of tall metal towers that now dot the skyline of Belize City and nearly every district town. But what goes up can also come down… as residents of Partridge Street almost learned the hard way. Earlier today, if […]
Russian roulette, for those who are not aware, is a deadly game that dates back to the invention of the handgun known as a revolver. A bullet is placed in only one of the barrel’s six chambers and one by one each participant in turn points the loaded gun at his temple and pulls the […]
Three young men were charged this afternoon in connection with Tuesday’s shooting of eleven year old Stacy Williams. Eighteen year old Mark Sutherland, his twenty one year old cousin Stuart Sutherland and seventeen year old Norris Leslie have been jointly charged with attempted murder, conspiracy to murder, dangerous harm and use of deadly means of […]
Police in Orange Walk have had less luck in finding the persons responsible for the brutal slaying of forty eight year old Indian businessman Bherumal Punjabi. Punjabi was strangled and robbed Wednesday evening on the San Roman Road, his throat pierced by a stalk of cane. Officers told News Five that while they are looking […]
Also in Belize City members of the Montes family were adding the final touches to funeral arrangements for their son John, whose life ended violently last Saturday evening. But suspicious circumstances surrounding the affair were never far from their minds. According Irma Vernon, sister of the deceased, several eye witnesses have given the family a […]
It was a story right out of South Central. Gang bangers do a drive by and an innocent bystander goes down in a pool of blood. Only this wasn’t Los Angeles…in fact it wasn’t even the bullet ridden Belize City of 5 years ago. It was this morning on Mopan Street…and it wasn’t the first […]
In Orange Walk police are trying to solve the grisly murder of an Indian businessman. Last night around nine, the body of 48 year old Bherumal Punjabi was found in a cane field off the San Roman Road, less than a quarter mile from the northern highway. Punjabi’s throat had been pierced by a stalk […]
On yesterday’s newscast we aired the chilling story of a young woman who was assaulted and nearly raped by a man believed to be Douglas Williams, an escaped prisoner and one of Belize’s most wanted criminals. Tonight News Five’s Patrick Jones returns to St. Margaret’s Village and discovers that Williams…and fellow fugitive Winty Mangar, appear […]
In a follow up to another story we reported on Monday, police have arrested and charged twenty-two year old Jack Slade Ramos with murder. Ramos, of La Democracia Village, was involved in a fight with John Montes early Saturday morning at the junction of the Western Highway and Coastal Road. Montes hit his head and […]
Two young men have been arrested in connection with a weekend shooting in Belize City. 17-year-old Deon Cadle and 18-year-old Mark Gardiner have each been charged with two counts of attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm and dangerous harm for the ride by shooting of Phillip McKay and Mark Dougal. The incident occurred […]
It is believed by many that crime in Belize City may actually be decreasing, but the same cannot be said of the tourist haven of San Pedro. In the latest incident on Ambergris Caye the office of the local high school was burglarized last Thursday. According to principal Angel Nunez, between three thousand, five hundred […]
“I thought it was an eye of a deer.” That’s what thirty one year old Modesto Matamoros is telling police as he was formally arrested and charged in the death of fourteen year old Juan Carlos Orellano. According to police both Matamoros and Orellano went hunting in the jungle near Silver Creek Village in the […]
Viewers may be wondering what ever happened to William Shaw. He’s the visitor who crashed through the northern border, was stopped several weeks later on traffic charges and then beat up a police officer and tried to escape from custody at the Raccoon Street Police Station. On Monday Shaw had his day in magistrates court, […]
For the Montes family of La Democracia village in the Belize District, the last year and a half has been a trying time. In October of 1996, a dispute in the village ended with one Montes brother, Roosevelt, shooting another, Victor, to death. Over the weekend, tragedy struck again. This time the victim was yet […]
While a bench may have been the weapon in the death of John Montes in La Democracia, in Stann Creek’s Silver Creek village it was gun play that resulted in the killing of a fourteen year old boy. According to police reports, on Friday night, the teenager, identified as Juan Carlos Orellano, was out hunting […]
In Belize City two young men have ended up in the hospital, victims of what appears to have been a ride by shooting. Phillip McKay told police that around 10:20 Friday night he was standing in front of Sarita’s Bar at the Corner of Mosul and Vernon Streets when he heard gunshots ring out. McKay […]
Belize’s most wanted man, Winsworth Mangar is back in the news tonight … and no he hasn’t been captured. But the fugitive seems to be living up to his prophesy of kicking up dust in 1998. A LOVE F.M. radio news report says that Mangar had been sighted near Mile 31 on the Hummingbird Highway. […]
In crime news police in Toledo have a “whodunit” on their hands in the village of San Pedro Columbia. All they know is that early Monday morning they were called to the house of thirty-four year old Jose Pop. Lying face down in a drain in front of that house they found the body of […]
She died last year from a bullet wound to the head from her boyfriend’s 38 caliber pistol. Today the case against that boyfriend, twenty-six year old Francis Vasquez, reached a conclusion as he pled guilty to the crime of death by careless conduct. Friends of Emmanuel, citing a history of physical abuse at the hands […]
In crime news: police in Caye Caulker are trying to solve the mystery of a boat and fittings from two others which disappeared between two and eight a.m. Sunday. Nineteen year old fisherman Earl Smith was first to raise the alarm around two o’clock when he could not find his outboard motor that was attached […]
On Wednesday he was stopped by police for a traffic violation and when taken in to the station he attacked the arresting officer and tried to drive out of the compound. A bullet fired into a tire stopped his flight and today the thirty three year old American identified as William Shaw, was remanded to […]
When they were being continuously detained by police they told the media that it was a case of official harassment. Now that they have been formally charged with the hit and run murder of an officer, the four men and their supporters have become even more vocal in their criticism of police. This morning I […]
You heard their complaints on this newscast yesterday, alleging police harassment. Today four men who have been in and out of detention more times than they care to count were formally arrested and charged by police with the murder of off duty policeman Levi Spain on December 14th. They are brothers, Salvador and David Lazaro, […]
