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Two men who were on trial for murder were found guilty of the crime today, despite the fact that one of the Crown’s main witnesses strangely disappeared just after he had given testimony in the trial. His body was later discovered in a shallow grave in Belize District. The trial of Eric Miranda and Jeffery […]
Written on November 2, 2023 | Posted in
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On Wednesday we told you about a group of four, two adults and two minors, that was detained by police, after a loaded firearm was found on one of the adults in the group. Three of the four individuals have been released and today eighteen-year-old Jadaey Williams was formally arraigned on a firearm and ammunition […]
Written on November 2, 2023 | Posted in
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Police reported today that on Tuesday night around seven-thirty, while they were conducting patrols in the Wilson Street area of Belize City, they saw four persons walking on the street and stopped and searched them. The search of nineteen-year-old Erak King, eighteen-year-old Jadaey Williams, and two minors, aged seventeen and sixteen, yielded nothing incriminating. But […]
Written on November 1, 2023 | Posted in
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Brothers Tyrone and Ellis Meighan have beaten yet another case in court. In October when we reported that the brothers were found not guilty of being members of a gang, we also told you that they had a pending case of aggravated assault to answer to. Well, today the brothers received more good news. The […]
Written on November 1, 2023 | Posted in
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On Monday, an official statement was issued by the Cordova and Rodriguez families who laid their loved ones to rest over the weekend. Three-year-old Amari Rodriguez, her father Delmar Rodriguez, and Carlos Chi were murdered and four others injured in a callous attack in the island town of San Pedro. In the statement, the families […]
Written on October 31, 2023 | Posted in
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Christian Espat and Michael Brown have both been arraigned and remanded to the Belize Central Prison for three counts each of murder, three counts of attempted murder and three counts of use of deadly means of harm. The accused men handed in themselves within days of each other, but before he surrendered in the company […]
Written on October 31, 2023 | Posted in
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It’s been exactly one week since the bodies of farmer Joel Andrews and his workman were discovered in a pond on his farm in Hattieville. The farmhand was chopped multiple times while Andrews was shot. Investigators believe that the double murder was motivated by a robbery. In an update today, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams […]
Written on October 31, 2023 | Posted in
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It’s Halloween and across the country, there will be many persons engaged in trick or treating. It is also a time that unsavoury characters may use as an opportunity to commit crimes. ComPol Chester Williams says that there are patrols out to keep the public safe. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “The police do […]
Written on October 31, 2023 | Posted in
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Today in the High Court, Justice Farnese ruled in favor of a mother and daughter who brought a constitutional claim, following a charge of attempted murder that was initially leveled on the pair. Ormencia Pou and her mother, Irene Budd, filed the claim after their brother was deemed unfit to stand trial due to his […]
Written on October 30, 2023 | Posted in
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The two men who are accused of the gruesome Sunday night triple murder in San Pedro were arraigned today in Belize City, due to the absence of a magistrate on the island. At 9:55 this morning, police escorted Christian Espat and Michael Brown inside Magistrate’s Court number three, where they were read nine indictable criminal […]
Written on October 27, 2023 | Posted in
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A trio of American visitors was busted in San Pedro earlier today under suspicion that they were shoplifting from a store on the island. The matter quickly turned into an immigration investigation, before it was later discovered that one of them was the alleged mastermind behind the theft of a million-dollar catamaran stolen from Fort […]
Written on October 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-five-year-old Evander Usher appeared unrepresented in the magistrate’s court this morning where he was charged in connection with a robbery at a grocery store in La Democracia last weekend. Usher, a maintenance worker employed with the Leadership Intervention Unit, was read a single charge of robbery after it was alleged that he stole two thousand, […]
Written on October 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Tonight, the search for wanted man, Christian Espat has ended as he handed himself in to Corozal police this morning, accompanied by attorney Linden Jones. He was transferred to the San Pedro Police Station where he is now detained pending the outcome of an investigation against him as it relates to Sunday night’s triple murder in […]
Written on October 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-six-year-old Michael Llewellyn Flowers, accused of raping a seventeen-year-old female minor inside Eruption Nightclub in October 2022, will stand trial in the January session of the High Court. That’s the decision handed down by a senior magistrate earlier today when Flowers appeared in Courtroom Number Three. This morning, Corporal Edgar Poot submitted twenty-eight witness statements […]
Written on October 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Michael Brown, the man accused jointly along with Christian Espat, has still not been charged, as police wrap up the preliminary investigation into his involvement in the triple murder in San Pedro on Sunday night. And where exactly he will be arraigned, whether in San Pedro or Belize City, remains unclear. But the post mortem […]
Written on October 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Eighteen-year-old Dorian Anthony recently walked away from a murder charge while he was still legally considered a minor. That was a few months ago, back in July. Tonight, he is once again behind bars for murder, after he was arraigned earlier today for the shooting death of forty-two-year-old Trenton Webster, last Thursday night here in […]
Written on October 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Marlon Everett, accused of the murder of Albert Johnson in April 2018, appeared in the High Court today where the trial against him concluded before Justice Nanto. Earlier today, Senior Crown Counsel Sheneiza Smith closed her case after calling on thirteen witnesses, including a main witness who was only fourteen years old at the time […]
Written on October 25, 2023 | Posted in
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As we’ve reported, there were five persons murdered in two days in the Belize District – in San Pedro and in Hattieville. But are the triple and double murders, although unrelated, an indication that the intensity of murders is returning? Minister of Home Affairs Kareem says that these are isolated incidents that are not gang-related […]
Written on October 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Earlier this month, on October second, Tyrone, Ellis and Shaquille Meighan were acquitted of the charge of being a member of a gang due to the lack of sufficient evidence. They were accused back in February 2020 for allegedly being a member of the Ghost Town Crips. More than twenty witnesses took the stand during […]
Written on October 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Earlier today, the Home Affairs Minister also responded to concerns about criminal activities in rural communities. Hattieville, Roaring Creek and Dangriga have been identified as hotspots for criminal activity outside of Belize City. Recently, there was the robbery turned murder in Hattieville and an armed robbery of a store in La Democracia. But are criminal […]
Written on October 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Five persons have been murdered in two days. We begin tonight’s newscast with yet another incident during which multiple persons were killed, this time in the Belize District. In a chilling discovery, a double murder has shaken the Hattieville community. Farmer Joel Andrews and his workman were found murdered in a remote area on Andrews’ […]
Written on October 24, 2023 | Posted in
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Earlier today, a News Five team was back in San Pedro and caught up with Commissioner of Police Chester Williams who was on the ground in the wake of a grisly triple homicide in the early hours of Monday morning. As we reported, the deadly attack that claimed the lives of three-year-old Amari Rodriguez, her […]
Written on October 24, 2023 | Posted in
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We begin our next story with a sincere apology to the young man whose picture we showed on Monday night’s newscast as one of the suspects that police is accusing jointly of the triple murder in San Pedro. While we had the name, Michael Brown right, the image we used was that of another individual […]
Written on October 24, 2023 | Posted in
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In responding to an allegation by Christian Espat who claims that he was physically abused by officers while in police custody last week, ComPol Williams said he is unaware of Espat’s assertion. We also asked the Commissioner of Police whether the deadly incident on Monday is the beginning of a drug war on the island. […]
Written on October 24, 2023 | Posted in
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Belize Rural South Area Representative Andre Perez has kept a low profile since finding himself at the center of a sex scandal a few months ago. The public outrage that ensued sidelined him from his ministerial responsibilities in Cabinet, but it hasn’t stopped him from reaching out to his constituents in the wake of the […]
Written on October 24, 2023 | Posted in
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