Four persons were charged with drug offenses after the K9 dog, Terry, sniffed out the location of hidden cocaine and crack cocaine at an Orange Walk residence. Officers descended at a residence along Liberty Avenue where Amin Mendez, Jessica Melendez, Amini Mendez, and Henry Nunez. Police say that Terry led them to a small fuse […]
Did thirty-nine-year-old Gregory Bowen kill himself inside a holding cell at the Queen Street Police Station on Monday morning? That’s what police say happened, but his family doesn’t believe that’s what happened. As we told you on Wednesday night, Catherine Bowen says her brother suffered from depression and that the police were aware of his […]
The final statistics for 2020 showed that last year murders were down overall in Belize. The Belize Crime Observatory compiled and analyzed the 2020 crime statistics. The agency says that Belize’s murder rate is below what is considered civil war levels for the first time in seven years. Overall, major crimes have decreased with murders […]
Tonight, the family of Gregory Bowen is speaking out. Bowen is the thirty-nine-year-old man found dead in a cell block at the Queen Street Police Station on Monday morning. The police allege that Bowen hung himself with his pants, but tonight, his sister says that she doesn’t believe that is what happened. Catherine Bowen tells […]
While the Bowen family is questioning the police’s account of his death, they are angry that the police department denies knowing of his mental state. Catherine Bowen says that her brother has interfaced with the cops on multiple occasions over the years because of his mental condition. She says the cops had responded and provided […]
Police are still investigating Myron Itza’s death, the fourteen-year-old minor from San Jose Succotz who was discovered dead inside a bedroom on New Year’s Day. A post-mortem confirmed that the child died as a result of acute respiratory distress. When we reached out to the family today, they were understandably distraught. They are perplexed by […]
Police are also investigating another suspicious case in the west. In this case, it is the mysterious disappearance of an older man. It has been six days since Miguel Caceros has gone missing. Despite evidence to suggest that he was injured during an altercation with three other persons on his farm, the family is still […]
There is yet another weed bust to report in the North. On Tuesday, a police operation for drugs and firearm in Orange Walk Town led to the discovery of several parcels of suspected cannabis. The suspected drugs weighed two thousand eight hundred and fifty-five grams or over six point two pounds. No was in the […]
Today, News Five’s reporter Duane Moody and cameraman Kenroy Michael travelled west to Benque Viejo del Carmen where, as the days go by, the Caceros family is fearing that the worst has happened to sixty-nine-year-old Miguel Caceros. It’s been five days since the elderly man was last seen alive. But was he killed during an […]
The Corea family from the Santiago Juan area of San Ignacio is also looking for its patriarch who has been missing since December twenty-eighth. Oscar Corea Senior left home on that day to socialize with friends and has not returned to work or home since; he didn’t carry a cell phone so there is no […]
He sat in the seat of power in the so-called hotbed of corruption for ten years, as the Commissioner of Lands and Surveys, but tonight Wilbert Vallejos finds himself in the proverbial hot seat. That’s because heavily armed members of the Mobile Interdiction Team descended on Vallejos’ residence in Patchakan Village, Corozal District earlier today. […]
Twenty-five-year-old Shane Flowers was the last murder victim for 2020. The Taylor’s Alley resident was dispatched in a hail of bullets on New Year’s Eve and a female companion with whom he was walking on West Street is hospitalized for gunshot injuries she sustained during the attack. Flowers is no stranger to the law and […]
The first murder for the New Year was recorded on the night of January first in Santa Cruz Village in southern Belize. The body of Placencia resident, Kelvin Lindo was discovered face down in the backyard of Santa Cruz villager, Honduran national Herminio Gutierrez Alvarez. Gutierrez reported to police that he was socializing with a […]
Four other persons lost their lives over the extended weekend. The first includes a fourteen-year-old boy whose body was discovered in a sitting position in a bedroom at the home of Jose Puc on the morning of January first in San Jose Succotz. On December thirty-first, the minor, Myron Shamir Itza complained to his mother […]
An investigation is underway in Belize City where a resident, who was detained by police, was discovered dead inside a holding cell at the precinct. Gregorio Bowen was taken into custody for an incident in which he reportedly wounded another person, but after two o’clock this morning he was found nude and hanging inside the […]
While 2020 closed with the murder of Shane Flowers, it still ended on a high note for the Belize Police Department. The murder rate is significantly down; in fact the number of major crimes reduced significantly across the board. There were one hundred and two murders in 2020, which is thirty-two less when compared to […]
Police are also investigating the disappearance of an elderly man in the west. But this missing person’s case is unlike others we’ve covered and as police and family members have been searching for sixty-nine-year-old Miguel Caceros, they fear that the worst has happened. Caceros was last seen alive on New Year’s Day at a farm […]
There was yet another weed bust on the Philip Goldson Highway. In Orange Walk on January second, police intercepted a vehicle driven at the time by Akeem Bowen; he was accompanied by Curlan Phillips. A search of the vehicle led to the discovery of four parcels of suspected cannabis, weighing four point five kilos or […]
The Gang Suppression Unit (GSU) and the Anti-Gang Task Force have been disbanded. This decision has given birth to the Gang Intelligence, Investigation, and Interdiction Unit (GI3), which will be under the command of Senior Superintendent of Police Linden Flowers. The Belize Police Department has also informed of the establishment of Region Four in Eastern […]
On Wednesday night, we told you about the Belize Crime Observatory’s analysis of the crime data for 2020. According to the most recent figures, Belize is also on track to record its lowest murder rate since 2013. But the data, once gathered and analyzed, tell different stories. And on Wednesday, Technical Coordinator Adele Ramos of […]
Major crimes are down across the board by a whopping thirty-percent in 2020. The Belize Crime Observatory has analyzed data compiled by the Belize Police Department and other agencies – and the numbers are looking better than 2019. In the major crimes category, for example, murders have decreased by over twenty-percent. Today, Technical Coordinator Adele […]
The Belize Crime Observatory says that the data show that the murder rate for 2020 will be the lowest in seven years. Interestingly, the B.C.O. says that across the Central American countries recorded declines in homicides. Adele Ramos, Technical Coordinator, Belize Crime Observatory “Now, given where we are with the numbers, we are projecting […]
A Dangriga resident was shot and killed inside his home on Christmas Day. Police say they don’t know why Errol Gomez was gunned down nor do they know who did it. Today we caught up with the family who shared their own theory about their loved one’s demise. They say that someone wanted him dead […]
A bold attempt was made on the life of twenty-year-old Shemar Kelly on Friday morning as he walked along Lakeview Street, in the direction of Vernon Street. It is the latest round in an ongoing feud amongst gang members in that area. According to Kelly, as he neared the intersections of both streets, he heard […]
Did a quartet of missing fishermen sink into a watery grave off the coast of Dangriga earlier this month when they went on a trip to Southern Long Caye? Police and coast guard personnel are still conducting search operations near that location in an effort to find forty-two-year-old Omar Thompson, twenty-nine-year-old Brenton Brackett, nineteen-year-old Leon […]
