Freetown Police are looking into a bold predawn robbery that left a Belize City resident shaken and without his licensed firearm. It happened just after three this morning, right outside forty\u2011four\u2011year\u2011old Chaowen Wu\u2019s home on Freetown Road. Wu had barely stepped out of his vehicle when three men ambushed him. One grabbed him in a chokehold from behind, another punched him in the face, and within seconds, the trio rifled through his pockets. They escaped with his nine\u2011millimeter pistol, his iPhone 13, his house keys, and a wallet holding a thousand dollars in cash. Investigators say the attackers moved with precision and confidence, raising concerns that this wasn\u2019t a random hit, but a crew targeting victims the moment they arrive home. Police continue to canvas the area for clues as the search for the suspects intensifies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Freetown Police are looking into a bold predawn robbery that left a Belize City resident shaken and without his licensed firearm. It happened just after three this morning, right outside forty\u2011four\u2011year\u2011old Chaowen Wu\u2019s home on Freetown Road. Wu had barely stepped out of his vehicle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":82129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[470,444,475,2544],"tags":[10728,10755],"class_list":["post-82128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-belize","category-latest-news","category-news","category-robbery","tag-2026-02-13","tag-early-morning-robbery-on-freetown-road"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82130,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82128\/revisions\/82130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}