There is a myth that one must wait 24 hours to report a missing person. Authorities state the importance of those first 24 hours and urge the public not to…
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Why You Can’t Advertise Someone as a Prostitute in Costa Rica
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2019/03/08The OIJ surprised a 27-year-old man at work and arrested him for violating personal data and offering online a lady as a sexual companion and then threatening her not to…
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Facial Recognition & Fingerprints Being Implemented into Costa Rica IDs
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2019/02/18You may not have thought much about it but whenever you picked up your ID you were asked to sign in using your index finger. This allowed the Government to…
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USA Sending Costa Rica Money to Fight Organized Crime
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2019/02/16The U.S. stands by Costa Rica in the fight against drug trafficking and organized crime. This only makes sense as the drugs trafficked often end up in the U.S. The…
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Breakfast Robbery at Costa Rica Bank
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2019/01/16Guess this guard really needed his gallo pinto. ¢12 million and many cell phones were stolen by three armed men at Instacredit in Heredia. They entered while the guard was…
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Insight Into the Costa Rica Sportsbook Owner Kidnapping
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2019/01/14There was a computer error when opening a bitcoins wallet that actually allowed the OIJ insight into the kidnapping of sportsbook owner William Sean Creighton Kopko, who is still missing.…
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Family of Florida Woman Killed in Costa Rica Sues Airbnb
by admin 2018/12/24The family of a Florida woman found dead near her vacation rental in Costa Rica has filed a lawsuit against Airbnb and the resort where she was staying. The lawsuit…
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You Might Want To Keep Track of Your Phone in Costa Rica
by admin 2018/12/17Stealing phones is on the rise in Costa Rica; and that’s an understatement. Take a look at these numbers. 70,000 cell phones were stolen in 2017 and 164,000 were stolen…