A driver has been arrested and for the strangest of reasons. He kicked a traffic officer. The man, age 38, was apprehended outside the Juan Santamaria Airport on Friday being…
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Surprise! Group Trying To Bury A Narcotics Plane Get Busted by Cops
by admin 2019/09/03Police report surprising a group trying to bury a plane that had fallen in a desolate area in Palmar Sur de Osa, in the southern part of Costa Rica. The…
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Cracking Down on Cell Phones in Costa Rica Prisons
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2019/08/30A new initiative seeks to fine those who deliver phones into prisons with over ¢4 million, or ten base salaries. The fine is extremely high due to the danger implied…
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Inmates scam people from jail. This has been known for some time but little can be done about it, well little because Costa Rica is unwilling to take away access…
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Costa Rica Narco Queen Detained
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2019/08/22Cristel Yariella Gómez Espinoza, better known as Reina del Sur, has been detained by authorities and will be serving three months of pretrial detention. She is being investigated for international…
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Scanning for Drugs At the Costa Rica Port of Moin
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2019/08/20There is a new scanner in operation at the Moín Megaport. It will be used to find drugs in containers. There was a halt in its use because of a…
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Uber Eats Driver Beaten in Costa Rica
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2019/08/13The Judicial Investigation Agency is investigating the beating of an Uber Eats driver in Heredia. A video showed that a man traveling by car assaulted him and threw his bicycle…
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Seven men carried out a plan to kill Erwin Guido Toruño, known as “Gringo,” a narco leader. Some of them are already in prison for other crimes and others were…