On Friday night two robberies happened within one hour of each other but Belize
City police say the incidents were unrelated. The victims are women, one a fruit
vendor, the other a businesswoman.
The first woman, a fifty year old resident of Crooked Tree Village told police
that around nine thirty on Friday night she had just gotten into her Ford Ranger
that was parked on Barrack Road when a man described only as dark complexioned
approached the vehicle and pointed a hand gun at her. The man then grabbed her
purse that contained $7,680 and two Belize passports, ID documents, keys and
a cell phone. The man then escaped on a bicycle.
One hour later, another woman, the fruit vendor who resides by mile five on
the Western Highway told authorities that while she was driving her pickup truck
along Central American Boulevard but as she reached a speed bump the vehicle
shut down. The woman got out of the pickup truck and this is when a man of dark
complexion armed with a machete grabbed her and took away her purse. It contained
two phone chips, twenty US in cash and an additional five hundred in Belize
currency, ID documents and cell phones all at a value of one thousand, three
hundred and ten dollars Unlike the first robbery case, in the second incident
police say they have detained a suspect for questioning.
Jermaine Belgrave Shot
Belize City Police are looking for a suspect following a shooting on Saturday
night. The victim twenty six year old Jermaine Belgrave was shot on his left
upper shoulder he was admitted to ward at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital
but after receiving treatment he discharged himself from the KHMH.
Police report that acting on information they received, a team did visit with
the victim while he was undergoing treatment at the hospital. Belgrave told
the cops that while he was standing in front of an establishment at the corner
of Orange and West Streets, a car pulled up alongside him and the driver fired
several shots at him. It is not certain if the victim was able to identify the
shooter but like we mentioned at the top of the story police say they are looking
for a suspect.
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