There are new developments into the American couple, David and Anke Doehm, who was detained for questioning last week in the wake of the suspicious death of Faye Lin Cannon, their adopted daughter. This morning, the Doehms were whisked by boat to Belize City from San Pedro under police escort. According to the Commissioner of […]
Charges relating to the alleged murder of adopted daughter Faye Lin Cannon are yet to be levied. From what we have learnt, there is not enough evidence as to who murdered the young girl inside the couple’s apartment on the island. According to ComPol Whylie, the police department is awaiting instructions from the Director of […]
As the coverage of this very tragic death continues, a former neighbor of the Doehms provides details on the life of the couple in Hawaii before they moved to San Pedro. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting In the face of a dead sexually abused thirteen-year-old Asian American girl, there has been […]
The death of Faye Lin Cannon has sparked response from all corners. On Monday the Human Development issued a lengthy release on the allegations made against the department. Those allegations are that the alleged abuse of Faye Lin and her three sisters were reported but the social worker attached to San Pedro and Caye Caulker […]
The supply of used B.D.F. uniforms and outboard engines and its mysterious appearance in the possession of civilians, particularly a Mexican national and two Belizeans, in Orange Walk, continues to be investigated. While the men have since been released without charges, there is an inquiry into whether there was indeed a breach in protocol within […]
When asked whether the police department is investigating a string of text messages exchanged between the Mexican national and a high-ranking B.D.F. official while in detention, ComPol Whylie said he was unaware of the communication. Furthermore, the police commissioner says that it would be concerning should the worn uniforms be smuggled into Mexico for use […]
News Five has obtained the video purportedly showing multiple communications between a high-level soldier of the Belize Defence Force and one of the persons found on Friday with used battle dress uniforms and discarded outboard engines that had been property of the B.D.F. Among the recovered items are ninety battle dress uniforms; various amounts of […]
The death of thirteen-year-old American national Faye Lin Cannon has sent shockwaves across the country. The teenager was found dead and a post mortem exam determined that she was physically and sexually abused – allegedly at the hands of her adopted parents’ business owners David and Anke Doehm. The couple has been in police custody […]
Another round of protest as held over the weekend in the San Pedro where police have not yet been able to pin murder charges in the case of Faye Lin Cannon. The thirteen-year-old Chinese-American girl was reported dead last Monday by her own adopted parents, a U.S. couple. But there have been inconsistencies in their […]
As the island continues to reel over the death of Faye Lin, the Department of Human Services is coming under fire for a purported inaction in respect of complaint made against David and Anke Doehm. The department confirmed today that reports of what it calls improper supervision and inadequate parenting of the Cannon children of […]
We showed you the protests on the island where San Pedranos are angry over the death of Faye Lin. Residents have taken to the streets to express their regret and anger because they believe the teen’s death could have been prevented since the authorities never properly followed up the reports made about the suspected abuse. […]
Crime in the prime tourism destination has spiked; three murders were recorded in three days. Even as police continue investigating the death of Faye Lin Cannon, on Saturday night, a minor was shot and killed on Sea Grapes Drive. Sixteen-year-old Julian Tun arrived on the island on the same day death came knocking at his […]
The sensational case of forcible abduction, sexual assault and harm against Bert Vasquez, involving a sixteen-year-old minor back in May 2011 came to an end just before news time. At about four-twenty this afternoon, the jury retired to deliberate after more than six hours of summing up of the evidence of the case presented by […]
Police on the island are also investigating the unusual death of a Honduran national. Fifty-six-year-old Plutarco Noralez relocated to Belize from La Ceiba, Honduras years ago – first living in Dangriga before taking up residence in San San Pedro five years ago. But on Wednesday morning he arrived at the polyclinic complaining of chest pains; […]
The community of San Pedro is still reeling and outraged at the death of a thirteen-year-old girl, one of four girls adopted by American parents. Faye Lin Cannon was found dead since Monday; she had signs of physical and sexual abuse. Police are now looking at her parents as suspects in her death. David and […]
Today in Belize City, People’s United Party Leader John Briceño weighed in on the tragic case. In addition to expressing a hope for justice against the perpetrators, he noted the recent comment by Immigration Officer Ady Pacheco during a public hearing of the Senate Special Select Committee. Pacheco claimed that the Cabinet had decided to […]
We’re following the heartbreaking story in San Pedro where a young girl was found dead with physical and sexual injuries, but we’ll start with a developing story of Orange Walk police who are keeping a tight lid on an ongoing criminal investigation. News Five can confirm tonight that authorities in the north have seized an […]
A team of coastguard officers was busy at sea on Thursday evening off the shores of Punta Gorda Town. An operation led by coastguard personnel and TIDE rangers responded to a distress call shortly before six o’clock when they were informed that a boat had overturned somewhere east of town. Fortunately for the four occupants […]
According to Lieutenant Soberanis, the occupants of the fleeing vessel had managed to toss their catch into the sea before being found with gill nets onboard the boat. Lt. Greg Soberanis, Belize National Coast Guard “As it relates to products, once a vessel is found to be engaged in illegal fishing, upon the sight […]
Erwin Santos, briefly the most wanted man in the West after police linked him to two murders in Unitedville and Teakettle villages, was captured earlier this week in Unitedville, Cayo. Today Belmopan police took him to court on a charge of possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition, specifically a point-two-two rifle for which other […]
Today, another bail application was heard on behalf of convicted prisoner, Orlando Vera, who was convicted and sent to prison on June first, 2017 on a single count of abetment to pervert the course of justice. Vera was jailed for two years after he was recorded telling Belmopan businessman Michael Modiri that he could help […]
A teenage girl was found dead at a resort in San Pedro and police are investigating as a case of murder because a post mortem concludes that the child was physical and sexually abused. The body of thirteen-year-old Faye Lin Cannon also had a large swelling to the head and bruises on the arm and […]
U.D.P. Ministers Anthony “Boots” Martinez and Edmond “Clear the Land” Castro appeared before the senate hearing on Wednesday. They are the first two sitting ministers to be questioned by senators in the ongoing immigration inquiry. While the report from the Auditor General is at the core of the hearing, whistleblower Alvarine Burgess has told the […]
Minister Martinez was defensive today telling the media this afternoon that he comported himself fairly well, given the nature of questions that were asked during his testimony. While his conduct is being described as obnoxious, the Port Loyola Area Representative insists that he was in line with the terms of reference that was before the […]
Martinez maintains that the questions posed to him were beyond the pale, and resulted in his terse responses. He also strongly believes that Burgess should never have been called before the committee, since her name does not appear in the auditor general’s special report. Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez, Minister of Human Development “If you want […]
