Woman with two minors headed to Costa Rica Immigration Control Authorities Jorge Chavez Airport arrested a woman surnamed Huaman (29) for the crime of human trafficking. Apparently, the prisoner tried traveling with two children under the age of 16 and 17 years or so. According to Elizabeth Cruz, director of Immigration Control when inspecting the […]
Comments Off on Lima Peru Airport: woman detained trafficking two minors with Ecuadorian passports • Read this post »
Peru21.pe reported that Five armed criminals robbed of all his belongings to the 25 passengers who travel by bus Romeliza company. Five hooded criminals with guns stormed a bus last night interprovincial Romeliza company, which started from the city of Arequipa bound for Puno. The thugs posed as passengers to board the vehicle. In the […]
Comments Off on Bus Passengers Robbed between Arequipa – Puno Peru • Read this post »
On March 21, 2013, G1 reported that police in the state of Paraná arrested a man yesterday with 400 kilograms of cocaine and 20 kilograms of crack in his car. The bust happened in Céu Azul, in the west of the state. Police say that the drugs were hidden in sacks of farinha which were […]
Comments Off on Police Bust Man in Paraná, Brazil, with 400 Kilograms of Cocaine • Read this post »
On March 21, 2013, G1 reported that an Italian man living in the city of Curitiba was shot in the head Thursday afternoon after a robbery attempt. He was taken to Evangelical Hospital in the city, where he died early this morning. The robbery happened just two blocks from the victim’s house. Police spokesman Rubens […]
Comments Off on Italian Citizen Shot in Head in Curitiba, Brazil • Read this post »
On March 20, 2013, Radio Liberdade reported that police in the state of Santa Catarina found more than half a ton of marijuana camouflaged in a truck. The arrest was made in Mafra, in the north of the state. According to the report, the truck failed to stop during a Federal Highway Police traffic stop, […]
Comments Off on Santa Catarina, Brazil: Police Seize More Than Half a Ton of Marijuana • Read this post »
Shark steak dry with high mercury content has been marketed in the country this summer and can severely damage the health of Hondurans. The authorities of the Ministry of Natural Resources (Serna) reported that blind spot has made the distribution of this product, which is sold under the name of fish jerky (cecina de pescado). […]
Comments Off on Honduras: Shark filets being soldillegally with high levels of mercury • Read this post »
Peru21.pe reported that a 29 year old American citizen was intercepted by an individual who threatened her with a knife and a gun. The American tourist, 29, was raped in the upper district of Alto Selva Alegre. According to the police said, she tried to climb to the summit of the Misti volcano. However, she […]
Comments Off on Arequipa Peru: tourist from U.S. raped, threatened with knife, gun • Read this post »
Armed Forces personnel, through the various Operational Commands, won an important capture fuel and explosives during security operations carried out on Tuesday 19 March this year in several parts of the country. On the way to Tarapoa, Sucumbios province, members of the CO-1 “NORTH” made a raid on the premises of the company EQUISERCOM CIA. […]
Comments Off on Ecuador: Military seizes diesel fuel and explosives for illegal mining • Read this post »
The Joint Command of the Armed Forces Operational Command over No. 3 “South” reports that on March 19 at approximately 00h05, military personnel captured control tasks performed in Patuca, Morona Santiago province, the amount of 3,250 cartridges 16 mm caliber. Saga brand and Raptor, the ammunition was carried by three men in a car Chevrolet […]
Comments Off on Patuca Ecuador: military seizes 3,250 16 mm caliber cartidges in vehicle • Read this post »
Foreign diplomats or working class Venezuelans are equally victims of so-called ‘express kidnappings’, a form of theft also known in other Latin American cities, where armed criminals kidnap their victims to take to the nearest ATM to steal as much cash. In the midst of a long list of problems, including a double-digit inflation, a […]
Comments Off on Surviving insecurity, a challenge for Venezuelans • Read this post »
The arrest of two subjects in the Cancun International Airport who swallowed 60 capsules of drugs, (which until last night had driven) uncovered what could be a new drug trafficking route between Cancun and Italy. Christian Dante López Cordero and Alvarez were arrested by elements Fraire Federal Police before boarding a flight to Milan, Italy. […]
Comments Off on Cancun – Italy drug trafficking route • Read this post »
Over two thousand marijuana plants were discovered and seized in the upper district of Moro, in the province of Santa (Ancash), said the head of the Police Division of Chimbote, Edgar Aguilar Amaro. Amaro Aguilar said the police, together with the representative of the Public Ministry, have come after a long walk, to this remote […]
Comments Off on Moro Ancash Peru: 2000 marijuana plants seized • Read this post »
Increase in homicides and corruption in Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Mexicocnn.com.mx reported the drug like cocaine is increasing in the Caribbean route, said Tuesday the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) in its annual report. After that in recent years recorded a decrease in traffic through the Caribbean countries, again increased, the agency explained. […]
Comments Off on Narcos shifting drug trafficking routes through the Caribbean to U.S. • Read this post »
tnpress.com.py reported the first procedure was recorded during the last hours, when members of the squad 51 “Resistance” Gendarmerie conducting vehicle checks on National Highway 16, at the height of the bridge General Manuel Belgrano. According to spokesmen reported, the police ordered the driver of a Citroen Berlingo to stop the march, who performed the […]
Comments Off on Argentina: two road stops yield seizure of 80 kilos of illegal drugs • Read this post »
Eluniverso.com reported that an Ecuadorean boat arrested Monday in the Costa Rican Pacific carried a total of 470 kilos of cocaine, according to the final tally made by the authorities, said Tuesday the Ministry of Security. The drug has already been sent to San José in aerial surveillance aircraft, while the four arrested, two Costa […]
Comments Off on Costa Rica: Ecuadorian boat seized with 470 kilos of cocaine • Read this post »
On March 20, 2013, SENoticias reported that a civil policeman in the northeastern town of Nossa Senhora do Socorro was arrested and jailed on Monday for allegedly assaulting his two stepchildren sexually. The two teenagers’ names were not released, but they are 19 and 16 years old, respectively. Both have made a statement to the […]
Comments Off on Policeman Accused of Assaulting Stepchildren in Sergipe, Brazil • Read this post »
On March 20, 2013, Nota Pajos (Globo) reported that a transvestite in the Brazilian city of Campinas was arrested yesterday at Viracopos International Airport while trying to transport 1.7 kilograms of cocaine in his underwear. The suspect’s destination was Brussels. The suspect also said that he would have received around R$10,000 for the drugs’ safe […]
Comments Off on Transvestite in Brazil Arrested with 1.7 Kilograms of Cocaine in Underwear • Read this post »
On March 19, 2013, D24AM reported that the number of women arrested so far in the year 2013 is 134, up 41% from the same time period last year. The report notes that many women are the wives and girlfriends of other perpetrators, and many are pulled into crime through emotional and mental bonds with […]
Comments Off on 134 Women in Amazonas, Brazil, Arrested in First Two Months of 2013 • Read this post »
On March 19, 2013, A Tarde reported that police in the Bahian city of Vitória da Conquista arrested a local drug dealer after catching him consuming marijuana. He also had drugs in tow, looking to sell them. Police found Alan Gomes Fonseca Pereira in a house in Conquista, a house which police say served as […]
Comments Off on Repeat Drug Trafficker Arrested in Bahia, Brazil; Police Suspect Gang Activity • Read this post »
Modus Operandi of some of these gangs is to use explosives (grenades) to extort money from their businesses. No name of gang or gangs given in news report. Many of these extortionists operate on motorcycles. aldia24.com reported that a dangerous offender Colombian national and a member of a criminal gang, was arrested by officers attached […]
Comments Off on Táchira, Venezuela: Colombian gang member detained with explosive device • Read this post »
On March 19, 2013, Estado de Minas reported that police completed an operation over the weekend that resulted in the disbanding and arrest of a prominent Belo Horizonte gang that specialized in house robberies. Members are the gang are suspected of performing at least eight robberies since September. Five of them have been arrested, while […]
Comments Off on House Robbery Gang Disbanded, Arrested in Belo Horizonte, Brazil • Read this post »
Many victims suspect the burglaries are committed by individuals who worked in home. Numerous burlaries are home invasions with indivicuals posing as worker from official organization (Electric Company) Assailants often have names of occupants and identity numbers. Assailants are using various types of drugs to subdue victims. Elcomercio.com reported that according to statistics from Metropolitan […]
Comments Off on Home burglaries increase in Los Chillos, Tumbaco Ecuador, many inside jobs • Read this post »
The British banking giant HSBC has been accused of facilitating money laundering and tax evasion in Argentina. The South American country’s tax chief, Ricardo Echegaray, said HSBC’s Argentina subsidiary created an illegal scheme that helped its clients evade more than $100m (£66m) in taxes. Read Article
Comments Off on HSBC accused of money laundering, tax evasion in Argentina • Read this post »
Security cameras of a bus company affiliated Trasalianco in Barranquilla, recorded the times when two criminals robbed of money and possessions to the driver and several passengers who were driving down the street then 17, in the neighborhood Rebolo.
Comments Off on Video of bus assault in Barranquilla Colombia • Read this post »
On March 18, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Highway Police reported that a couple was arrested on a bus headed from São Paulo to Vitória, the capital of the state of Espírito Santo, with three suitcases of marijuana in tow. Highway Police boarded the bus during a routine search close to Guarapari, a city about 47 […]
Comments Off on Couple Arrested with Suitcases of Marijuana in Espírito Santo, Brazil • Read this post »
On March 18, 2013, O Povo reported that a study done in Fortaleza, the capital of the state of Ceará, registered some 949 attacks against senior citizens in the city. The number marks a 30.5% rise from 2011. Most of the cases reported, however, are settled out of court, according to the report. Between 2006 […]
Comments Off on Violence Against Seniors Rises 30.5% in Fortaleza, Brazil, in 2012 • Read this post »
On March 16, 2013, A Tarde reported about the nature of reporting a crime involving human trafficking. A state attorney from Bahia, Vladimir Aras, said that a strong majority of victims do not report human trafficking crimes to authorities because they are afraid of the threats that they receive. Moreover, according to Adriano Figueiredo, head […]
Comments Off on Brazil: Report Suggests that Ignoring Human Trafficking Favors Its Survival • Read this post »
On March 18, 2013, O Estado de Minas reported that officials from the International Financial Action Group (GAFI), an intergovernmental body created to monitor financial activity throughout the world, will be going to Brazil in June to do a study on the country’s financial and legal system. GAFI also made a visit in 2010, in […]
Comments Off on Brazil to be Monitored by Intergovernmental Financial Organization • Read this post »
The Special Rapporteur of the United Nations (UN) on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, Najat Maalla M’Jid, recently lamented that despite efforts by the Guatemalan authorities, many children are victims of sexual exploitation and forced labor. Read Article
Comments Off on U.N Rapporteur warns of sexual exploitation of Guatemalan children • Read this post »
Representatives of the March of Silence lamented violence against Guatemalan children, which has left 73 dead children, in addition to the violations of their rights. Read Article
Comments Off on Guatemala: 73 children killed so far in 2013 as result of violence • Read this post »
A foreigner, 20, was arrested Friday on suspicion of involvement in an assault that occurred on February 11 in a bus route in San Pedro Vargas Araya of Montes de Oca. Agents Assault Section, the Judicial Investigation Organization (OIJ), effected the arrest in his home in Sabanilla, Montes de Oca, where important evidence was seized. […]
Comments Off on Costa Rica: foreign suspect arrested in hold up of bus on Feb. 11, 2013 • Read this post »
Santa Elena and Ruta del Spondylus / Home burglaries on increase first two months of 2013 Eluniverso.com reported that prosecution statistics reveal that in the first two months of 2013 were 85 burglaries, while in the same period last year occurred 68, reflecting an increase of 17 robberies. In the first week of March this […]
Comments Off on Ecuador: Santa Elena and Ruta del Spondylus / Home burglaries increase first two months of 2013 • Read this post »
telegraph.co.uk reported……Seven people have been killed following a shooting in the popular Mexican seaside resort of Cancun. A further four were wounded in the incident, which took place at The Mermaid, a bar on the outskirts of the city centre. Cancun is currently filled with thousands of young American students enjoying “Spring Break”, but the […]
Comments Off on Cancun Mexico: Seven dead in shootout at bar • Read this post »
Globaltimes.cn reported that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were blamed Thursday for blowing up a train track in the northern department of La Guajira, derailing cargo cars, damaging rails and disrupting exports. “An explosive was detonated against a train belonging to the Cerrejon coal mine heading to Puerto Bolivar (for export). As a […]
Comments Off on Colombia: FARC blamed for bloing up train track, derails coal cars • Read this post »
On March 15, 2013, R7 reported that state police in Minas Gerais seized over 600 kilograms of marijuana in the city of Ituiutuba, about 700 kilometers west of Belo Horizonte, the capital. The drugs were discovered in an abandoned car. Police believe some of the drugs had been buried, as the packages appeared to be […]
Comments Off on Police Seize Over Half a Ton of Drugs in Minas Gerais, Brazil • Read this post »
On March 14, 2013, A Tarde reported that police in the state of Bahia seized over one ton of illegal drugs from a group of traffickers in Santo Estevão, along federal highway BR-116. Police arrested six men and two women and seized four cars. All of the cars were equipped with transmission radios. The drugs […]
Comments Off on Police Operation in Bahia, Brazil, Nets over One Ton of Drugs • Read this post »
The alien is identified as Ftouni Abbas, of age, who arrived on Thursday afternoon at the airport of Minga Guazú, Migration reported. According to the report, the officer Adrian Martinez found that the password presented by the Lebanese filing was false, so that informed a superior name Joel Benítez, after thorough verification and found that […]
Comments Off on Minga Guazú, Paraguay: Lebanese national detained airport with false passport • Read this post »
Guatemalan authorities have caught a Belizean with a major cache of weed. According to newspaper reports from that country, 41 year old Antony Patrick Westby, was arrested driving a vehicle with marijuana in the Petén region near San Pedro Cadenas village. The Toyota pickup had Guatemalan plates and police found 12 packages with a whopping […]
Comments Off on Guatemala: Belizean national detained with 280 pounds of marijuana • Read this post »
nogalesinternational.com reported that a Mexican man was arrested Tuesday at the Mariposa Port of Entry after he allegedly tried to smuggle more than a ton of marijuana into the United States in a truck filled with bell peppers. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said its officers referred the 35-year-old man and the tractor-trailer he was […]
Comments Off on Mariposa Port of Entry Nogales Arizona: CBP seizes million dollars worth marijuana • Read this post »
cronica.com.ec reported that officials from the Commissariat of Hygiene discovered a clandestine slaughterhouse sector Zalapa Alto, had no operating license and hygiene and was closed. Without permission and under unsanitary conditions, personal hygiene Police Station Municipality of Loja detected illegal slaughterhouse and a pig farm at Alto Zalapa sector, animal waste directly affected the irrigation […]
Comments Off on Loja Ecuador: clandestine slaughterhouse closed by authorities • Read this post »
Hospital del Día Central Loja Security Increase after Robbery After the robbery to make a large criminal gang in the Day Hospital, where he led endoscopy equipment valued at about $ 80,000, security is extreme in the hospital. Officials checked clothes and handbags to users. Despite the inconvenience caused to members, want to prevent another […]
Comments Off on Loja Ecuador: Increased security after large theft at Hospital del Día Central Loja • Read this post »
On March 12, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Highway Police reported that it seized 62 kilograms of cocaine paste from a car in Santa Isabel, part of the São Paulo Metropolitan Area. The car was en route from Iguazu Falls, Paraná state, to Rio de Janeiro. The driver presented forged documents to highway police, while the […]
Comments Off on Highway Police Seize 62 Kilograms of Cocaine Paste in Brazil • Read this post »
BUY/SELL/RENT REAL ESTATE IN ECUADOR Eltiempo.com.ec reported that the main representatives of Construction Union, Xavier Pachacamac and Yadira Torres, were arrested on Tuesday night in one of its properties located in the Valley of the Chillos, on the outskirts of Quito, this was confirmed by William Aguaguiña, hundreds of lawyer families accuse the real estate […]
Comments Off on Ecuador: couple detained, suspected of real estate scam impacting 7,000 families • Read this post »
“If the Vatican had acted when it found out about the crimes committed by Father Marcial Maciel, things would be different”, says Joaquín Aguilar, a Mexican child sex abuse victim. “He wouldn’t have been able to continue perpetrating these crimes until the end of his life.”
Comments Off on Mexican sexual abuse victims say they have no hope after abuse by priests • Read this post »
Drugs cartels are silencing the Mexican press according to rnw.nl. More and more Mexican newspapers are deciding to stop reporting crime news. And drugs cartels are increasingly succeeding in influencing the editorial line of the Mexican media. Journalists, bloggers and editors who criticise the activities of organised crime groups face death, kidnapping, decapitation or mutilation……Read […]
Comments Off on Drug cartels silencing press in Mexico • Read this post »
The National Union of Entrepreneurs of Mexico Pharmacy (Unefarm) reported growth in the supply of medicines cloned in the country that is now up 7.0 percent market share valued at 150 billion dollars and whose method of operation and extended to Internet sales. The council president, Oscar Zavala, asked the authorities to solve this problem […]
Comments Off on Mexico: sales of counterfeit pharmaceuticals grows • Read this post »
A report by the Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Chile and Dr. Carmen Cerda stated that the patient’s death Mario Rojas was due to lack of procedure in the University Medical false Sea Tania Gonzalez. Gonzalez became dean of nursing at the University of the Sea , despite being school teacher, so that is […]
Comments Off on Two in Chile investigated in fifty deaths while practicing medicine without a license • Read this post »
Nuevodia.com.mx reported that….Foour cardboard boxes with plastic drums filled with chemicals managed to take last Friday morning a group of thugs, a local company, allegedly for use in the production of synthetic drugs, police said Hall. This, said the spokesman of the corporation cajemense, was raised shortly before 09:00 hours when those services are located […]
Comments Off on Obregon Mexico: Assailants raid agrochemical company at gunpoint, seize chemicals for drug manufacturing • Read this post »
Radiosantafe.com reported that units of Traffic and Transportation Branch seized Pentolite 36 bars on the road leading from the village of the municipality of Balboa Mojarras. The seizure occurred when the officers observed a man on his shoulders carrying a box and noticing it was followed by policemen quickened his pace leaving the box on […]
Comments Off on Mojarras Colombia: Police seize 36 pentolite containers • Read this post »
On or About March 5, 2013 / Main tourist zone According to frontera.info, despite maintaining surveillance Federal Police (PF) in Acapulco, a Canadian tourist couple was assaulted and beaten by three men who were traveling on a scooter by the Costera Miguel Aleman, across from the restaurant “El Zorrito”. According to the police report, a […]
Comments Off on Canadian couple assaulted Acapulco Mexico • Read this post »
In Jalisco inhalant sale is available to anyone, including minors despite the risk of using them as a drug, so urgent that marketing be regulated in all municipalities in the state. The problem with municipalities is that, although health officials have insisted that they should limit this problem, “ignore”, Salvador Chavez said Joel Rivera, technical […]
Comments Off on Jalisco Mexico: municipalities urged to regulate sales of inhalants • Read this post »
nationalgeographic.com reported that Native officials and conservationists fear possible reprisals in eastern Ecuador following an attack by uncontacted tribesmen that killed two Waorani Indians last week. According to a preliminary investigation by officials from the Orellana Province public prosecutor’s office, the victims were speared to death last Tuesday morning while walking near their village of […]
Comments Off on Ecuador: Unconctacted tribe kill two Waorani Indians • Read this post »
On March 12, 2013, Diário de Guarapuava reported that police arrested a teenager on a bus last night with close to 24 kilograms of marijuana in her baggage. The bust was made on BR-277, while the bus was on its way to Ponta Grossa, in the Brazilian state of Paraná. The drugs were found during […]
Comments Off on Highway Police Seize 24 Kilograms of Marijuana from Brazilian Bus Passenger • Read this post »
With the death in combat of two individuals belonging to the armed offenders in northeastern Antioquia, amounted to 10 members of the guerrilla cells killed since December when the Army, in coordination with the Attorney General’s Office, launched the campaign Sword of Honor. The death of the insurgents who were armed with two rifles with […]
Comments Off on Colombia: military makes advances against BACRIM • Read this post »
Norte, Bucaramanga, Barrio La Independencia, Home attacked by grenade , possible gang retaliation (grenade IM-26) could be due to a possible gang retaliation sector. Read Article
Comments Off on Bucaramanga Colombia: Grenade attack on home possible gang retaliation • Read this post »
Eluniverso.com reported that Mero Fernando Sergio Davila, 31, thought he could enter without any problem at Social Rehabilitation Center for Women in Guayaquil, with several drugs hidden in bananas, but their plans did not work because I discovered penitenciaras guides. According to the police report, the prison held approximately reached the center at 15:00 to […]
Comments Off on Ecuador: man attempts to smuggle cocaine hidden in package of bananas into prison • Read this post »
eluniverso.com reported that in an operation called Harp, made in Azuay and El Oro, the National Bureau of Narcotics and Money Laundering Unit managed the arrest of four persons, including the son of Joseph Vasquez Arcesio Marin, who is sentenced for trafficking. According to the police report, “the smuggler ‘had international contacts with traders in […]
Comments Off on Ecuador: Group detained for money laundering and trafficking individuals to the U.S. • Read this post »
Playa del Carmen The police of Quintana Roo (PJE) served an arrest warrant against two municipal police officers allegedly responsible for the crime of rape committed against a resident of Italian origin. The uniformed Mardonius Guzman and Jose Manuel Enríquez Gómez Hernández were made available to the judge, on charges of rape and abuse of […]
Comments Off on Mexican Municipal Police officers charged in alleged rape of Italian tourist in Feb. 13′ • Read this post »
Among the “special danger zones” in northern Mexico Spain’s government asks its citizens to avoid include Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, border and mountain areas of that entity, Durango, Sinaloa and Sonora populations area lower Rio Grande Valley, the Texas border, Ciudad Victoria, rural and urban Tampico, Tamaulipas. Spain’s government advised its citizens traveling or living in […]
Comments Off on Mexico: Spanish government issues travel alert for Acapulco, other northern cities • Read this post »
According to gacetamercantil.com, Herman Peterle a German tourist 74, who ran Argentina with his wife in a trailer, was killed on Sunday in the resort of Mar del Plata, reported today (Monday 11) the prosecutor. “The German tourist was killed on Sunday while sleeping in his motorhome that was parked on a cliff near the […]
Comments Off on Argentina: German tourist murdered in Mar del Plata • Read this post »
On March 11, 2013, 24 Horas News reported that a transvestite in Brazil was killed in the city of Cuiabá, capital of the state of Mato Grosso. He was found this morning strangled, with the suspect’s glasses stuffed down his throat. The victim’s name was Alexandre Moura de Mello, or “Shandô,” and he was 31 […]
Comments Off on Transvestite Killed in Brazil During Sexual Act; Killer Leaves Glasses at Scene • Read this post »
On March 8, 2013, the state news agency in Mato Grosso do Sul reported that Environmental Police arrested a commercial fishermen who had 4,100 live fish kept as bait. The fish came from Paraguay, according to the man. By legislation, professional fishermen may only catch other fish and keep them as bait if they are […]
Comments Off on Police Seize 4,100 Fish from Commercial Fisherman in Brazil • Read this post »
On March 8, 2013, A Tarde reported that in Brazil in 2012, ten women were assaulted every hour in the country. These numbers come from statistics reported by the federal Women’s Assistance Center’s Ligue 180 campaign. Physical violence represented the most frequent of the 88,000+ incidents, at 50,236 (56%); other cases included psychological (28%), sexual […]
Comments Off on In Brazil, Ten Women Are Assaulted Every Hour • Read this post »
Attacks using scopolamine are not limited to bars or nightclubs. Reports have also taken place at banks and public transport systems. Mode of delivery in those locations can often be via a piece of paper which has been contaminated. Last year 1186 complaints were reported according to eltiempo.com. Bogota is the city most cases recorded. […]
Comments Off on Colombia: average of three Scopolamine attacks daily • Read this post »
On March 6, 2013, Estado de Minas reported that Federal Police in the state of Minas Gerais are in contact with the Spanish National Police over a woman who recently denounced a man with whom she lived in Spain. Police in Spain arrested the man and questioned the woman, who is said to have been […]
Comments Off on Brazilian Federal Police Investigates New Human Trafficking Scheme • Read this post »
On March 5, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Highway Police reported that it has arrested two Argentine men on a bus headed from São Paulo to Salvador after a routine check. Early Tuesday morning, police seized ten kilograms of cocaine from one of the man’s bags. Upon questioning the passengers, police connected the bag to a […]
Comments Off on Police in Brazil Arrest Argentines on Bus With 10 Kilograms of Cocaine • Read this post »
The discovery of three explosive devices called “explosive sausages”, about 30 cm long and 2 wide, located at the entrance of Hotel Guanajuato, a roadside Guanajuato, Dolores Hidalgo, mobilized the bodies of emergency in the capital to evict about 60 people inside the Aquatic Center CEDAF macro I.No reported injured….. Read Article
Comments Off on Explosive devices found at entrance of Hotel Guanajuato • Read this post »
On March 5, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that three officials at São Paulo’s Guarulhos International Airport were arrested on Tuesday and were accused of stealing perfume, jewelry, and other valuables from the luggage of passengers. Reports state that the employees opened the bags while still in the airplane, out of the sight […]
Comments Off on São Paulo, Brazil, Airport Employees Arrested, Accused of Stealing Luggage • Read this post »
On March 5, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that the Federal Highway Police seized five trucks on the highway in São Paulo state on Tuesday, netting a grand total of six million contraband cigarettes. According to police, the cigarettes are from Paraguay. The bust was made in the region of Presidente Prudente, in […]
Comments Off on Highway Police in Brazil Seize Six Million Cigarettes in One Bust • Read this post »
lanacion.com reported that in Talamanca Bribri. A modern camera surveillance system will be installed on the streets of the southern Caribbean coast as a deterrent against attacks on tourists. The plan, to be implemented jointly by the Chamber of Southern Caribbean Tourism, the Ministry of Public Security and the Municipality of Talamanca, has a cost […]
Comments Off on Talamanca Costa Rica: cameras being installed to help deter crime against tourists • Read this post »
A judgment of the court in San Jose, which authorized the National Arsenal on Monday destroy toy guns 487, notes that three in ten assaults are committed with such weapons. These guns are replicas of revolvers, shotguns, AK-47s and pistols of various calibers. Through an office of 28 January, the President of the Supreme Court […]
Comments Off on Costa Rica: three in ten assaults committed with toy guns • Read this post »
Diariovea.com.ve website reported during the afternoon of March 4, 2013 its website was hacked by enemies of the Bolivarian revolution, our website where information was released with the supposed death of Commander Hugo Chavez. The website states the report was totally false, and categorically denies the information …… Read Article
Comments Off on Venezuela website claims it was hacked with false report of Chavez death • Read this post »
On March 3, 2013, 24 Horas News reported that a woman was arrested in the state of Mato Grosso yesterday trying to transport about 14 kilograms of cocaine paste. Federal Highway Police arrested the woman in the region of Primavera do Leste, about 230 kilometers from Cuiabá, the capital. The drugs were headed for Barra […]
Comments Off on Mato Grosso, Brazil: Woman Arrested for Drug Trafficking, Involving Young Daughter • Read this post »
On March 4, 2013, NE10 reported that six murders occurred in the small Brazilian town of Caruaru, Pernambuco state. One murder happened this morning, two on Sunday, one on Saturday, and two on Friday. On Friday, two young men were killed in front of one of the victims’ houses when two men on a motorcycle […]
Comments Off on Town in Brazilian Interior Records Six Murders in One Weekend • Read this post »
On March 3, 2013, The Americas Post reported that the Brazilian government has agreed to use Israeli security drones in order to monitor violent and suspicious activity during this June’s Confederations Cup. FIFA has already expressed its concerns about the violence in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and so the government has agreed to […]
Comments Off on Brazil to Use Israeli Drones for Reconnaissance for Confederations Cup • Read this post »
Hotel Samasati – one victim was taken to a local hospital after being struck in the face. Puerto viejo, limon Costa Rica, 18 tourists robbed at gunpoint (many tourists from the United States Hotel is located in the southern region of Limón, near the border with Panama. According to the ticotimes.net, five armed assailants raided […]
Comments Off on Hotel Samasati Costa Rica victim of armed attack, 18 tourists robbed • Read this post »
Rudolf Hilmer, age 50, a tourist from Germany was discovered laying face down near his bicycle with a bullet wound in the rib cage and numerous bruises to his head near Alto Tajakusa. According to elcomercio.pe. No motive has been determined for the murder. Members of the Indigenous group awajun-wampis found the body on the […]
Comments Off on Peru: German tourist cycling through Amazon area found shot to death on road • Read this post »
Emperor Hotel, Retiro Buenos Aires Argentina On February 22, 2013, four armed assailants entered the Emperor Hotel in Retiro at approximately eleven pm in the evening according to online-911.com. The thieves stole cash and items from the reception area and lounge. They also stole items form tourists in the concierge area. However, one of the […]
Comments Off on Buenos Aires Argentina: tourists at Emperor Hotel robbed by group of armed assailants • Read this post »
A Canadian couple along with their son, were victims of a new assault Thursday night in Manzanillo, Limón according to telenoticias7.com. Foreigners who were vacationing, recreation rented a house located next to the restaurant Congobongo. At about 10:00 pm the property was invaded by five armed men who arrived on foot. Two of them remained […]
Comments Off on Costa Rica: Canadian tourists assaulted at gunpoint, robbed in Manzanillo, Limón 02/28/2013 • Read this post »
On February 25, 2013, Campo Grande News reported that police arrested a 30 year-old man in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul after they found a large amount of marijuana beneath the cabin of his car. Police also said that he was driving without a license, and could not be identified at the scene. […]
Comments Off on Police Seize 635 Kilograms of Marijuana on Highway in Brazil • Read this post »
On February 28, 2013, Campo Grande News reported that five Paraguayan women and one Brazilian were rescued by local police early this morning from a brothel in Naviraí, Mato Grosso do Sul, about 360 kilometers from the state capital of Campo Grande. Two of the women complained to local police that the owner of a […]
Comments Off on Women Rescued from Brothel in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil • Read this post »
On February 28, 2013, A Crítica reported that nine policemen in Manaus, the state capital of Amazonas, were arrested this morning for suspected involvement in a drug trafficking scheme. The policemen are accused of aiding and abetting a string of drug traffickers throughout the north and west zones of the city, as well as re-selling […]
Comments Off on Policemen Arrested in Manaus, Brazil, Charged with Drug Trafficking • Read this post »
Organized crime struck again on Wednesday for a third day facilities daily El Siglo de Torreón , the main newspaper of the Laguna District, in northern Mexico. Around one in the afternoon yesterday were attacked federal police guarding the headquarters of the newspaper. A worker at a nearby maquiladora was killed and an officer wounded. […]
Comments Off on Mexican daily newspaper El Siglo de Torreón attacked third time in three days • Read this post »
The International Labour Organization (ILO) yesterday reported that about nine million children and adolescents work in Latin America, with the most serious cases in Brazil, Peru, Mexico and Colombia. “Brazil has the largest number of working children in Latin America, followed by Peru, Mexico followed, and fourth in Colombia, not to mention to Haiti,” said […]
Comments Off on ILO reports nine million children working in Latin America • Read this post »
Ecuador remains in the list of countries not cooperating in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) (Acción Financiera Internacional (GAFI). The Attorney said in a statement that it will continue in that status “at least until the next meeting, in June 2013, and which will be […]
Comments Off on Ecuador on list of countries not cooperating in fight against money laundering, terrorist financing • Read this post »
DRUGS OFTEN PACKED IN MIDDLE OF MERCHANDISE ON CONTAINERS POLICE BELIEVE THEIR IS A CONSPIRACY BETWEEN TRAFFICKERS AND LABORERS OF SHIPPING YARDS/COMPANIES LOS RASTROJOS FROM COLOMBIA OPERATE IN ECUADOR SPAIN, HOLLAND, PORTUGAL AND BELGIUM ARE THE PRINCIPAL ENTRY POINTS FOR ILLEGAL DRUGS INTO EUROPE Elcomercio.comThe last Friday was not the only case. That day, police […]
Comments Off on Ecuador plagued by increased drug trafficking • Read this post »
latitude38.com reported…In disturbing news, Bill Lilly and his partner Judy Lang reported their Lagoon 470 Moontide was boarded by three armed men at about 2 a.m. yesterday while they were at anchor at Caleta de Campos, where they had stopped on their way from Zihua to Mazanillo. “I was awakened by banging on the sliding […]
Comments Off on Mexico: armed men board, rob crew of U.S. pleasure craft at Caleta de Campos • Read this post »
Police in Mexicali on February 22, 2013 seized a “cannon gun” used by drug traffickers to “shoot” packages of drugs into the United States. The cannon was activated by a compressor and air tank attached to the tube to initiate the launch. Marco Antonio Carrillo, director of Public Safety Mexicali, capital of Baja California, said […]
Comments Off on Mexicali Mexico: Cannon on pickup seized, used to launch drugs into the U.S. • Read this post »
Eluniverso.com reported that police seized 174 kilos of cocaine in Alamor-Arenillas, in the neighborhood of Canton Monte Huaico Puyango in Loja. A truck was stopped by police during the operation with plates from Pichincha. A double bottom on the floor of the truck revealed 101 packages of cocaine. Investigators believe the drug passed through the […]
Comments Off on 174 kilos cocaine seized Loja Ecuador • Read this post »
Defendant even had list of clients he planned on selling minor child for sexual services according to lapolicia.com. A girl of 13 years believed to have met the love of his life through Facebook and decided to travel to Tijuana to meet and start a life together, but what he really wanted was to sell […]
Comments Off on Mexico: 13 old girl meets love of life on Facebook, targeted for prostitution • Read this post »
frontera.info reported that the number of homicides in 2013, is eleven more than in 2012. Miguel Angel Guerrero of the PGJE confirmed these statistics. He revealed that 85 percent of the homicides are a result of conflicts in the streets between dealers, fighting for turf. Read Article
Comments Off on Tijuana Mexico: so far in 2013, 80 homicides confirmed • Read this post »
This guy said his name was Javier Alejandro Ponce, 22-year-old native of the city of Tulare, California, United States. A dangerous criminal who was wanted in the United States for the crime of murder, was captured by members of the International Liaison Coordination of the State Preventive Police (PEP), during an operation in Florido Hills […]
Comments Off on U.S. murder suspect apprehended in Tijuana Mexico • Read this post »
Along the border between Peru and Ecuador were detected 46 illegal crossings used by criminal gangs engaged in smuggling of arms, drugs and people, the minister warned Ecuadorian security coordinator, Homero Arellano. “To them should focus the armies of the two countries, together with the police, to support enforcement in those places,” he told Andina. […]
Comments Off on 46 illegal border crossings detected between Peru and Ecuador • Read this post »
Again hackers involved the ministry website of Justice of Chile. Shortly before midnight on Monday, on the page read: “That happens to mess with us, nothing personal,” under a cartoon called “Feel like a Sir”, a popular meme of social networking sites. This would be LulzSec, the same hacker who spoke of Peruvian page Justice […]
Comments Off on Chile: website for Ministry of Justice, hacked • Read this post »
ituango-antioquia caracol.com.co reported that a National Police patrolman was seriously injured in a grenade attack allegedly committed by FARC guerrillas in the town of Ituango. The incident occurred in the urban area of the northern population of the department where the alleged rebels threw the explosive device against members of a patrol officer who worked […]
Comments Off on FARC launches grenade attack against police in Ituango • Read this post »
Elheraldo.hn, reported that the Consul General for the Honduran consulate in Phoenix, Arizona, Astrid Kamper Gaborit , remains in office, after an investigation. The results indicated that she used Honduran public funds for automobile payments. These payments according to the article were made between January 2011 and March 2012, to a car dealer in Phoenix, […]
Comments Off on Honduran Consul General in Phoenix Arizona continues in position after investigation • Read this post »
prensa-latina.cu reported that Honduran authorities today confirmed the discovery of the bodies of two peasants in the Bajo Aguan Valley in northeastern Honduras. The bodies were found in a decomposed state in a boundary of the La Concepción, handcuffed, with signs of torture and multiple impacts of firearms. The victims were identified as Yoni Adolfo […]
Comments Off on Honduras: peasants bodies found, had been kidnapped • Read this post »
prensalibre.com reported that the mayor of Santa Barbara, Suchitepéquez Otto Orlando Franco-Najera, 26, elected by the National Transmission Unit (NCU) -, two council members and a bodyguard of the commune were arrested yesterday morning by Army and neighbors who performed patrols in communities surrounding Chicacao. Council members are captured Juan de Dios Rodriguez Quevedo, 53, […]
Comments Off on Guatemala: Mayor of Santa Barbara, Suchitepéquez detained with weapons, masks • Read this post »
Experts believe the unabated flow of weapons in the country is a a major contributing factor. Prensalibre.com reported that 24 people were shot to death and at least 15 were injured between last Saturday and yesterday, in different areas of the country, which is ranked by experts from a negative balance that could be caused […]
Comments Off on Wave of violence over the weekend in Guatemala, 24 murders, 15 injuries • Read this post »
