Two separate burglaries, two men behind bars tonight. Police have charged Kevin Navarrete and Jafari Gonguez in connection with two unrelated break-ins—one in San Pedro, the other in Belize City. Navarrete is accused of sneaking into a San Pedro home and making off with two cell phones worth over seven hundred dollars. Meanwhile, twenty-four-year-old Jafari Gonguez allegedly broke into a woman’s home in the city and tried to steal her television, but she caught on just in time. ASP Stacy Smith has more on both cases and the charges these men now face.
ASP Stacy Smith, Staff Officer
“Police have arrested and charged two male persons for the crime of burglary, which occurred in two separate stances. In separate parts of the country. On Tuesday sixteenth June, 2025, police formally arrested and charge Kevin Navarrete, twenty-eight-year-old Bel Reason of Boca del San Pedro for the crime of burglary. This arrest is as a consequence of. Police investigation into a report made by a female who stated that on fifteenth June, 2025 at approximately one thirty p.m. she left her apartment and visited another room on the apartment building, and her attention was drawn to some rattling sounds coming from the direction of her apartment. Upon making checks, she saw a male person exiting her apartment, and upon inspecting her room, she observed that two cell phones valuing a total of seven hundred and fifty dollars were missing. As it relates to the other arrest for burglary. On Friday, June twentieth, 2025, police formally arrested and charged Jafari Gonguez, twenty-four-year-old Belize of Pearl Thompson Street, for the crime of burglary. This arrest is of the consequence of police’s investigation into a report made by a female. Who stated that on twenty-fifth, May, 2025, she returned to her residence and observed that four of the louvers from one of the windows on her home were missing, and her television was placed near the window. Which was not where she had left it. The scene was processed by scenes of crime technicians, which yielded useful potential evidence. Nothing was stolen.”
