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Police descended at 29 Faber’s Road, Belize City, on Saturday night to break up a group of persons gathered there. The family members routinely meet to play games of chance but gatherings of more than ten persons are not allowed due to the COVID pandemic. So the police are cracking down and during the operation […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Twenty-nine-year-old Erica Belisle lost her personal belongings as well as her house in a fire in Hattieville. It is the second time that she has been affected by fire. Belisle was staying in the city because of her job and learnt of the fire on Friday morning via a telephone call. She says she suspects […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Police say they have arrested and charged a man in connection with the shooting of Debbie-Dee Clarke which happened on the sixth of September. Nineteen-year-old Nathaniel Betancourt of Santa Elena was hit with three charges, including attempted murder. Clarke was inside her home in Santa Elena when a gunman drove by on a motorcycle and […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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There was an aggravated burglar over the weekend in Placencia. Police say an armed man held up a woman at her home around ten on Saturday morning. He robbed her and then made good his escape. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “Police were called to the home of Miss Kay Westby […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Police have arrested and charged two men in connection with a robbery in Carmelita Village that happened last week Wednesday. The incident occurred around eight-fifteen in the night at the home of Maria Montenegro. Three armed men held her up at her home and demanded money. Montenegro handed over a sum of cash and her […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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News of a fight between a teacher and student in Belmopan went viral on Facebook over the weekend. Reports say that the two women got into an altercation that led them to seek medical attention at the Western Regional Hospital. While a police report hasn’t been made, online reports say that the women sustained cut […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Police have arrested and charged four men in connection with a robbery that happened in Bullet Tree Village over a month ago. We reported that armed thieves wearing face masks targeted Twenty-Eight Supermarket on Bullet Tree Road in San Ignacio on the night of August third. We got an update from the police today about […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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All six persons detained from Orange Walk in connection with recent suspect drug plane landing on a farm off the Old Northern Highway have been released. Just before news time, the last person, Noel Codd, who is the owner of the farm on which the plane made a clandestine landing, was released from police custody, […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Forty-two-year-old Kendra Foreman was released from the Belize Central Prison on Thursday, after being detained for several months during the state of emergency that was effected in Belize City back in July. Foreman, a resident of Mayflower Street was, swept up along with several others from that area following a violent weekend that saw two […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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There is an allegation that police have been threatening residents to keep them longer behind bars if they do not surrender firearms. Well today, at least twelve firearms were recovered in the south side of the city. The cache includes six point thirty-eight revolvers, two point nine millimetres pistols, three point three eighty pistols, one […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Havana Store in Dangriga was held up on Thursday night by a pistol-toting robber and an accomplice who relieved an Asian businessman of an undisclosed sum of money. The incident happened sometime around seven p.m. while other customers were inside the establishment making purchases. The gunman is heard saying “rapido, rapido” and as seen on […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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There were a lot of noises when a drug plane was found at a farm on Independence Day. An investigation into the suspected drug plane in northern Belize is ongoing, though a property owner on whose farm the aircraft landed has been charged and arraigned but not in relation to the drug plane. Noel Codd […]
Written on September 24, 2020 | Posted in
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Though there were no drugs to be found where the drug plane landed, a number of items were confiscated by police from the area. Codd was rearrested after he was charged. Shipyard resident, Isaac Petka, was also detained for alleged facilitation of the landing of a plane in an unregistered aerodrome. But charges are also […]
Written on September 24, 2020 | Posted in
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In the courts today, interdicted police officer Dwayne Sutherland and Anthony Jevon Arnold were charged with robbing Ronald Heiron with a firearm of his motorcycle which is valued at one thousand two hundred dollars. The incident occurred on the Burrell Boom Road. They both pleaded not guilty and remanded in prison until November thirtieth. Sutherland […]
Written on September 24, 2020 | Posted in
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On Independence Day, a drug plane landing just outside of Santa Martha Village in the Orange Walk District. Five persons, including the owner of the farm, a Mennonite, a farmhand and a minor, are detained and charges are expected to be placed on them. Police did not find the drugs, but found a number of […]
Written on September 22, 2020 | Posted in
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So five persons have been detained and two are expected to be charged on Wednesday morning with facilitating the landing of a plane on an unregistered aerodrome. But where is the suspect illicit cargo? Commissioner of Police Chester Williams believes that the cargo is still in the country and a joint team of Police Officers […]
Written on September 22, 2020 | Posted in
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The borders are closed but illegal activity and contraband continue to flourish. In the south, there was a sizeable bust of contraband goods in Punta Gorda under the cover of darkness on Saturday night which has resulted in criminal charges being brought against seven individuals, including Senior Customs Officer Richard Garbutt and Junior Customs Officer […]
Written on September 22, 2020 | Posted in
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All ports of entry, including harbours, are closed under the existing statutory instrument. And police are deployed at various hot spots along the borders to prevent the entry of contraband goods and the spread of the novel coronavirus by border jumpers. When News Five spoke with Gilbert Gordon, Deputy Comptroller of Customs, earlier today, he […]
Written on September 22, 2020 | Posted in
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While the police department does not have the powers of arrest where uncustomed goods are concerned, a separate investigation is being conducted by the Customs and Excise Department and additional charges are expected to be brought against all seven individuals. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “I communicated again with the comptroller of customs and […]
Written on September 22, 2020 | Posted in
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Forty-seven-year-old Orlando Velasquez better known as Easy Bob of Belize City was found dead on Sunday. Velasquez’s body was found floating nude near the House of Culture in Belize City. Police say no sign of violence was observed on the body, but they did see blood coming out of one of his ears. When we […]
Written on September 22, 2020 | Posted in
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Police have arrested and charged one of their own following an incident involving a firearm. Police say that Corporal Jercel Savery of Dangriga Police Formation used a pellet gun to threaten a group of people around seven on Sunday night. Reports are that some friends were socializing at house on Mopan Street in Belize City […]
Written on September 22, 2020 | Posted in
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Police say they have arrested one man in connection with a shooting incident in a known hot spot in the city. It happened around ten o’clock on Sunday night. No one was injured, but police say it appears to be connected to an inter-gang rivalry. Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, Deputy Head, National Crimes Investigation […]
Written on September 22, 2020 | Posted in
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There was a burglary over the weekend in Belize City, but the robber didn’t get away nor did he go straight to jail; instead, he landed in the hospital. The robber pried a window and entered the second floor of the building and then broke through the door to access the store on Magazine Road. […]
Written on September 22, 2020 | Posted in
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There was a fire on Independence Day in Belize City. Police say that around three-thirty on the morning of September twenty-first they were notified of a fire on Linda Vista Avenue in Belize City. The fire destroyed a wooden home and some vehicles in the yard. According to the police, no one was in the […]
Written on September 22, 2020 | Posted in
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There’s also a small fire to report in the north. This fire was set on the Caledonia Police Station. ACP Joseph Myvett says that the officers who work at the station were out at the time when someone set garbage ablaze on the building on Sunday night just before seven-thirty. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, […]
Written on September 22, 2020 | Posted in
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