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Convicted prisoner Clinton Medina, who is serving time for firearms offenses, is back in court where he is on trial for theft. Medina is accused of stealing a Toyota Forerunner from businessman Robert Wagner who owns and operates Euphrates Auto Rental. In the courtroom of the Chief Magistrate, Wagner testified that Medina visited his place […]
Written on September 7, 2023 | Posted in
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Tonight, two gunmen remain behind bars at the Belize Central Prison after being arraigned earlier today for the shooting death of thirty-four-year-old Orel Leslie on August twenty-seventh. As we reported last week, Elden Flowers and Kareem Franklin were nabbed by Belize City police near the roundabout on Freetown Road, moments after businessman was executed in […]
Written on September 4, 2023 | Posted in
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Brothers Tyrone and Ellis Meighan appeared in court today where they both chose to give unsworn statements from the dock arguing the charge of being members of a gang. According to Tyrone Ellis, he was charged for being a member of a gang in February 2020 and the evidence brought against him in court was […]
Written on August 31, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-four-year-old Everal Sambula, a resident of Partridge Street in Belize City, has been acquitted of two firearms-related offenses. In May 2019, he was charged for kept unlicensed firearm and ammunition, after police said that he had knowledge of a thirty-eight special revolver and three rounds of matching ammunition. But in a trial before the lower […]
Written on August 28, 2023 | Posted in
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Thirty-six-year-old Shane Jones has been charged with robbery after he attacked a call center agent and her young child and stealing a purse containing money, bank cards, and several other personal documents. The incident happened on August eighteenth while Shayan Ramirez, a resident of Burrell Boom Village, was walking along East Collet Canal towards Novelo’s […]
Written on August 28, 2023 | Posted in
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The Meighan brothers – Ellis and Tyrone will have to face the music next Wednesday, that is standing trial for being members of a gang. That ruling was handed down on Tuesday of this week against the car dealers of Banak Street, and the case was to continue today, but was adjourned because one of […]
Written on August 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Late this evening, News Five spoke with attorney Bryan Neal who is representing the Mexican nationals. According to Neal, the men were released from police custody earlier. On the phone: Bryan Neal, Attorney-at-law “Well I can say happily and I can report that they have been released from police custody. It seems that there […]
Written on August 23, 2023 | Posted in
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The trial involving nine men, who were allegedly found inside a boat in the Hill Bank Lagoon with two bales of cocaine back in January 2021, kicked off today inside the Belize City Magistrates Court. The men were detained following the landing of a suspected drug plane. News of their detention made headlines at the […]
Written on August 23, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-three-year-old Dwayne Sutherland Junior, also known as Dwayne Anthony, the son of Superintendent of Police, Dwayne Sutherland Senior, has been charged with two counts of attempted murder. The charges stem from an incident in Lemonal Village on Saturday evening, in which Sutherland is accused of stabbing his grandfather, Tony Anthony and his grand-uncle, Russell Anthony. […]
Written on August 22, 2023 | Posted in
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On Tuesday, we brought you the story of the shooting death of nineteen-year-old Jael Jimenez in Guinea Grass Village, Orange Walk. Jimenez, a father of one, was embroiled in a domestic dispute with his common-law wife when his father-in-law was reportedly called to the residence. He arrived on the scene brandishing a firearm which he […]
Written on August 3, 2023 | Posted in
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Thirty-four-year-old Michael Cowo Senior has been charged with the abandonment of an infant after he left his two-year-old son unsupervised, while he went looking for his common-law wife. It is alleged that in the wee small hours of Sunday, July thirtieth, the construction worker left the child asleep at home on Gladden Street. Later that […]
Written on August 2, 2023 | Posted in
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Kevaun Evans is an environmental officer who is on remand tonight, after being accused of assaulting his ex-girlfriend with a firearm. This afternoon, Evans appeared unrepresented in the lower court where he was read a single charge of aggravated assault with a deadly instrument. The charge follows an incident that reportedly took place on April […]
Written on August 2, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-one-year-old Alyon Domingo, the younger sibling of Jasmine Domingo who was shot and killed while she slept inside her Plues Street home on July seventeenth, has been arrested and charged for being a member of the George Street Gang. This morning, he appeared unrepresented before a Senior Magistrate in the lower courts where he was […]
Written on July 27, 2023 | Posted in
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A treasury clerk is tonight in hot water after being charged with three counts of theft. A police investigation into forty-three-year-old Rona “Ronnie” Ireland revealed that she allegedly misappropriated a total of four thousand, five hundred and one dollars from the Treasury Department. According to police, Ireland dishonestly appropriated nine hundred and ninety-three dollars on […]
Written on July 26, 2023 | Posted in
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This morning, Belama resident Elmer Martinez, who also goes by the name Jovanni Bardalez, appeared before a Senior Magistrate in Belize City and was read a single charge of theft. It is the third strike for the thirty-one-year-old Dolphin Drive resident, who is accused of dishonestly appropriating a black trek brand bicycle on July seventeenth […]
Written on July 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Chaos erupted inside the courtroom of Justice Nigel Pilgrim this morning when brothers Delson and Tionne Paguada were found guilty of murder and a third suspect was freed of the same charge. We’ve been covering the trial of the siblings since they were arrested along with Timothy Carcamo for the murder of Paul Jex in […]
Written on July 24, 2023 | Posted in
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Nineteen-year-old Adrian Hernandez and a seventeen-year-old minor were set free this afternoon, after they were charged jointly for the murder of Emert Flowers in December 2022. Sixty-one-year-old Flowers was gunned down on his property on Racecourse Street and his son, Kyle Latchman, remains missing, presumed dead. When the duo appeared in the lower court today, […]
Written on July 24, 2023 | Posted in
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It went viral last week on social media when a prisoner escaped from police in front of the Corozal Town Hospital, and the officer tripped and fell while chasing the escapee. The chase took place on Wednesday after the prisoner, Tyrone Reyes, duped the officer and told him he needed to see a doctor because […]
Written on July 24, 2023 | Posted in
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Nineteen-year-old Kijahe Molina, charged with wounding twenty-eight-year-old Zani Savala, a police constable, was today offered bail of a thousand dollars when he appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court to face the charge. Molina gave his occupation as a call center agent of Elston Kerr Street, Belize City. That is just two blocks from where […]
Written on July 19, 2023 | Posted in
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The family of Karen and Teena Skeen, as well as Robert Vellos Senior is demanding justice, ten years after their loved ones were brutally murdered, allegedly at the hands of a son. Jared Ranguy is believed to be the person who viciously dispatched his mother, sister and stepfather inside their home in Ladyville back in […]
Written on July 19, 2023 | Posted in
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There was a shocking twist at the end of a murder trial in the High Court earlier today. It’s an unusual outcome, but an accomplice who served as a lookout in the shooting death of businessman Jose Hilario Diaz has been convicted of murder. The alleged gunman, on the other hand, was found not guilty […]
Written on July 14, 2023 | Posted in
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Thirty-four-year-old Lolman Logan, a Belizean/American who was on vacation in Belize in 2018, has been acquitted of the murder of Christopher Meighan. Earlier today, Logan appeared before Justice Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft in a trial by judge without jury. It is alleged that on September twenty-seventh, 2018, Logan inflicted multiple stab wounds on Christopher Meighan. The […]
Written on July 14, 2023 | Posted in
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Daisy Lopez has been charged for the murder of her sister-in-law. On Tuesday, police formally arrested and charged the twenty-three-year-old for fatally stabbing fifty-two-year-old Rosita Olivera in Progresso Village. Lopez was detained on Sunday night, following the incident which occurred when the deceased intervened in a quarrel between Lopez and her common-law husband William Olivera. […]
Written on July 12, 2023 | Posted in
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Thirty-three-year-old Erwin Fitzgibbon, a resident of Benbow Street, has been captured and returned to Belize after absconding to the United States in July of last year. The well-known street figure had been granted bail through the High Court after being charged with being a member of a gang. This evening, he appeared unrepresented before the […]
Written on July 11, 2023 | Posted in
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A second suspect has been arraigned and remanded for the attempted murder of coast guard officer Daniel Sabido, following a brawl at the Elton Gillett Park in Burrell Boom Village last weekend. Twenty-three-year-old Jamaal Stevens, a construction worker of that community in Belize District, joins thirty-eight-year-old Adrian Myvett who was also denied bail and remanded […]
Written on July 11, 2023 | Posted in
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