A .38 snub nose revolver handgun was removed from the streets yesterday. The gun which was loaded with four .38 S and B brand rounds of ammunition was found on Fern Lane in Belize City during a search. A chrome and black 9mm pistol was also found. Officers found it in an abandoned boat in the Conch Shell Bay Area …

A seven year old female child became a victim of gun violence in Belize City last night. Johnelle McKenzie files the report. A little girl is in a critical condition after being shot last night in Belize City. A family had just sat down to watch the news when all of a sudden a barrage of bullets invaded their living …

Around midday today a joint GSU, SPU and San Pedro Police conducted an operation in the San Mateo area in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye which led to the discovery of a point forty five and a point three eighty weapon with magazines and nine point three eighty rounds. No one was in the area so the items were deposited as found …

Thirty one year old Brandon Taylor has been charged for ‘kept firearm and ammunition without a gun license. Police say that at around eight o’clock last night they spotted Taylor on Central American Boulevard in Belize City.  When Taylor saw the officers he reportedly dashed into a yard and attempted to hide the firearm at a house. Police detained Taylor, …

Marijuana and live ammunition were taken off the streets of Belize City yesterday. Officers of the Mobile Interdiction Team conducted an anti-drug and firearm operations in the Pitts Alley area of Belize City. There they found a yellow box which had in it 178 grams of marijuana, twenty three lives rounds of .380 ammunition and twelve live rounds of 9mm …

An inferior court appeal by 27 year old Al Jones, succeeded today when Justice Adolph Lucas ruled that they were discrepancies in the testimonies of prosecution witnesses and he quashed the conviction, set aside the sentence and acquitted Jones. On March 15, 2016, Jones was convicted of possession of a point thirty eight revolver and he was sentenced to five …

Police in Punta Gorda confiscated a twenty gauge shotgun they found among some mangroves during a joint operation with the Belize Defence Force and the Belize Coast Guard.  The units were doing a river patrol near the Sarstoon Island when they saw a red and white item stashed within the mangroves.  Closer inspection led them to the firearm which was …

A business establishment was robbed at gunpoint yesterday evening in Bella Vista Village, Toledo District. Police say that a man wielding a hand gun barged into Charlton’s Cable Office which also provides services of the Insurance Corporation of Belize and Western Union. The man reportedly demanded that the cashier, 29 year old Leslie Williams, hand over the monies. Williams refused …

Under the category of major crimes, there was one murder over the weekend which occurred in southern Belize.  22-year-old, Santiago Garcia lost his life following an incident in Trio Village, Toledo District.  Garcia was in the company of Arturo Choc; they were walking in the village just before eleven o’clock when they came under attack by a group of men.  …

On Tuesday night police conducted a search in an open lot at the corner of George and Prince Streets in Belize City where they found a black plastic bag containing a point thirty eight revolver. No one was in the area at the time of the discovery therefore the firearm was labeled as found property.   On Tuesday afternoon San …