A driver reported to authorities that while driving an ambulance for Omni Hospital he was assaulted and robbed by unknown individuals according to eluniverso.com. The express kidnapping happend at 16:30 hours last Friday when the driver was in the area of Avenida Americas, near the convention center. A gray vehicle intercepted the ambulance and at […]
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According to proceso.com.do in a study conducted by Elizabeth J. Zechmaeister, a Vanderbilt professor in charge of the survey that is conducted every two years, told me that the percentage of victims of corruption in the region rose in 2012, but that trend is not uniform across countries. “The countries that made up the regional […]
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The Attorney General’s Office, through the Special Prosecutor for Crimes of Violence against Women and Trafficking (FEVIMTRA), said the country estate where they were arrested 24 members Defenders of the cult of Christ. Their leaders, the Spanish Ignacio González de Arriba, “The Master Phoenix”, the Venezuelan José Segovia and Tito Losanger Arenas Shoucri Mohamed Ahdalha […]
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china.org.cn reported that Costa Rica account starting today with a new law against human trafficking offenses and punishing new increases penalties for those who engage in this scourge, reported the Directorate General of Immigration. Costa Rica account starting today with a new law against human trafficking offenses and punishing new increases penalties for those who […]
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Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas. – Elements agency group conducted an operation in the town of Frontera Comalapa, where they managed to rescue five Central American women, including a minor, who were victims of human trafficking. These actions were led by the Attorney General of the State (PGJE), in coordination with personnel from the Ministry of Security […]
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Radio.uchile.cl reported….In 2011 was published the miserable situation in which 57 were Paraguayan citizens working illegally in the estates of businessman Francisco Javier Errazuriz. This revealed that human trafficking is a reality in Chile but little known patent. Proof of this is that only in November 2012 created a special police brigade of Investigation to […]
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ElcomercioRecom source: Recomendations to prevent being robbed after leaving a bankn: – If you are removing a large amount of money from the bank, do not do it alone. It is advisable to ask the National Police guard and accompanied by more than three people. – Avoid withdrawing cash from the banking agencies. Make transfers […]
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On February 8, 2013, Exame reported that the Women’s Rights Division in Brazil, through the federal Ligue 180 (Dial 1-8-0) Campaign, registered some 58 accusations of trafficking between February 3 and February 7. This number nearly matches the entire total from last year. All of the reports are passed on to the Polícia Federal, where […]
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Barbacoas Nariño Colombia: A Prosecutor located a mass grave with the bodies of three Awá children. They were allegedly kidnapped and murdered in the southwest part of the country by the FARC in September, 2011. The children’s bodies were found in a jungle area of the village Barbacoas on Friday February 8, 2013, in the […]
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On February 8, 2013, the Polícia Militar of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul reported that it arrested a man yesterday with about 193 kilograms of marijuana in the trunk of his Hyundai. The arrest happened in Amambaí, some 350 kilometers south of Campo Grande, the state capital. The suspect said he picked the […]
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On February 8, 2013, just two days before Carnaval, A Tarde reported that the Bahian capital of Salvador had a particularly violent Wednesday night, as shootings were recorded throughout the metropolitan region. Two people died earlier that afternoon after they were shot in a marketplace. Police also registered three additional homicides during the night, in […]
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On February 8, 2013, Paraíba.com.br reported that an accountant from Brasília was shot while meeting with his girlfriend in the northeastern city of João Pessoa, Paraíba. Police said that Sandro Alex de Jesus César, 33, was at a restaurant Thursday night with his girlfriend when they heard shots. Before they could reach the restaurant’s entrance, […]
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On February 7, 2013, Cidade Verde reported that a couple and a teenager were arrested Thursday with some 200 kilograms of marijuana, hidden in a bushy area. The arrest was made in Timon, a city in the state of Maranhão just across the river from Teresina, the state capital of Piauí. The drugs had a […]
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On February 8, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that between Friday and Tuesday of next week, police throughout the state of São Paulo will be conducting blitzes in order to enforce the Lei Seca. Aside from performing breathalyzer tests to catch drunk drivers, police will also have devices to test for marijuana and […]
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Miguel Angel Ortiz Campaign, concierge, 58, was killed yesterday while trying to help the Korean citizen Yao Mins according to eluniverso.com. Three subjects on board a motorcycle shot her at the intersection of the avenues and Shirys Republic of Salvador, presumably to steal the money wore. The violent incident occurred about 12:00 yesterday. Witnesses said […]
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elmundo.es —– “Acapulco has deteriorated because there is no authority, not prevented the crime, not prosecuted, not investigated, not punished and impunity is what has made it the most violent city in Mexico and the second in the world, after Honduras San Pedro Sula.’s almost a failed state. ” The president of the NGO Citizens […]
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On February 7, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that the number of phone calls received by the federal Dial 1-0-0 campaign in Brazil rose 58.3% in 2012. According to the Ministry of Human Rights in Brasília, the department received 130,000 complaints last year, as opposed to around 82,000 the year before. The head […]
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Hash House / Chop House (Casas de Pique, Casas de pique: No this is not a restaurant or place to consume hashish. According to RCNRADIO.com, paramilitaries in Buenaventura Colombia are using a new form of violence in this port city. Victims are dismembered while alive, and then their parts are thrown into the sea. According […]
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On February 7, 2013, Tribuna Hoje reported that Melissa Freitas, dancer and winner of the second annual Gay Carnaval Princess award, was attacked and beaten by two men in Rio de Janeiro after leaving a session at a local samba school. Freitas was beaten and thrown from a footbridge by two men, whose motive to […]
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On February 7, 2013, A Notícia reported that in the southern state of Santa Catarina, violence is on the rise. Police have counted 74 incidents in the past eight days, including eight attacks through the night. The most recent, an attack on a band bus in São João Batista (75 kilometers northwest of Florianópolis), left […]
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An official of the Attorney General of Mexico reported that soldiers arrested 17 men who were working on unfinished tunnel in the city of Tijuana, which is on the border with the United States. The tunnel was to cross the border and reach the port of entry at Otay Mesa, said the man, who declined […]
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On February 7, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that police seized some 400 kilograms of cocaine base in the town of Porto Feliz, Sorocaba region, en route to Brazil from Paraguay. The traffickers were using a twin-engine plane when the aircraft crashed in a sugar plantation. The suspects attempted to flee with some […]
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On February 4, 2013, Em Rondônia reported that police seized a vehicle containing 30 kilograms of marijuana en route to the city of Porto Velho, the capital of the state of Rondônia. The stop was made in Itapuã do Oeste, about 115 km from the capital. The driver said that he came from Campo Grande, […]
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On February 7, 2013, Terra reported that the Federal Highway Police (PRF) will deploy some 10,000 agents to keep an eye on the roads during the annual Carnaval celebration, in order to enforce Brazil’s new drinking and driving law, the Lei Seca. Anyone stopped who refuses to take or fails the sobriety test at the […]
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According tolatarde.com.ec the Second Court of Criminal of Azuay, issued the remand order for three individuals who were arrested yesterday in a military operation of gun control. Yesterday afternoon, we developed a successful arms control operating on the streets of Cuenca, by members of the Third Army Area Tarqui, leaving three people detained as a […]
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Two subjects of a well-organized gang of burglars posing as employees of the water company were arrested. The antisocial to commit the crimes in different homes of the capital city, got clothing with the logo of the municipal utility. Men carrying a briefcase and a notebook, came to the house, allegedly to inspect the meters. […]
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NUMBER OF KIDNAP EXPRESS CASES REPORTED FROM January 2012 THROUGH JULY 2012 Guayas Province – 136 Pichincha Province – 134 Elcomercio.com.ec reported still with tape on his face and with his bare feet was rescued from a house inside a taxi driver. Hours before he was kidnapped in Guayaquil Express. Immediately, the Judicial Police in […]
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According to amprovincia.com, the operation was in the south of Buenos Aires. They arrested more than 50 people and seized 80 firearms. After a series of raids by police in the province of Buenos Aires in matches Avellaneda, Lanús and Almirante Brown, was arrested more than 50 people and seized 80 firearms and a grenade […]
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According to latarde.com.mx, the Reynosa COEPRIS released a health alert to the possibility that the local market is selling one type of insulin “pirate” allegedly used to control diabetes in people with this disease. Therefore, the verification personnel available to the unit concerned, is being given the task of traveling to pharmacies and drug distributors […]
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The Tuesday morning everything seemed normal for those who perform their day to day work in the hotel El Molino, established on Avenue 50, 8 kilometer road to Perijá, but about 9:30 am, they were surprised by four subjects carrying firearms, intimidated at least 30 workers, making steal their belongings. Amidst the situation, one of […]
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Authorities in Mexico said nine policemen were killed in an ambush in the state of Guerrero, to the southwest of the country. The state attorney’s office said that police officers were attacked during the night of Tuesday. Read Article
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According to Caracol.com a special report reveals that fifteen places, located in the center of Medellin, including houses, guest houses, local bars and cantinas are used by armed groups outside the law to detain, torture, prosecute and kill people. Preferred sites for the development of these executions have special features: thick walls muffle the screams, […]
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caracol.com reported that Artillery Battalion No.4 ‘Colonel Jorge Eduardo Sánchez Rodríguez’ Organic Fourth Army Brigade, reported on the location and destruction Artillery Battalion Colonel Jorge Eduardo Sanchez Rodriguez, two mines planted by 36 Front guerrillas of the FARC, the side of a road in the village of La Calera Briceño Township, in northern Antioquia. The […]
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On February 6, 2013, NE10 reported that a man from Rio Grande do Norte will face charges after he photographed his own son, 16 years of age, having sex with a 12 year-old girl. Joelito Pedro da Silva, 41, of Nova Cruz (90 kilometers from Natal), was arrested by local police after the son sent […]
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On February 6, 2013, O Dia reported that the Vice-Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, together with the head of the Human Rights Department of the federal government, is launching a campaign in time for Rio’s annual Carnaval celebration targeted at speaking up against sexual exploitation of minors and adolescents. The ceremony will feature various artistic […]
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On February 5, 2013, Diário do Nordeste reported that the Ligue 180 campaign, aimed at combating the trafficking of women from Brazil to Europe, received 80 accusations in 2012. Six of these calls came from women living in Rio de Janeiro state, five from Ceará (the most of any state in the Northeast), five from […]
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On January 29, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Highway Police (PRF) seized approximately 435 kilograms of marijuana from a Fiat en route to Santa Catarina, after a brief car chase. The car was caught in Santa Terezinha do Itaipu, about 25 kilometers northeast of the Brazilian border at Iguazu Falls. The suspect, a 34 year-old man […]
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caracol.com reported an imminent extradition to the United States face both cases and eight operators narcocontroladores Airport in Barranquilla Ernesto Cortissoz Police captured by Colombia and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, DEA. According to research, in the airport terminal were falsified flight plans of the aircraft so that they could easily meet the requirements of […]
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A retired Canadian military member was detained at Mariscal Sucre International Airport for transporting eight kilos of cocaine, reported extra.ec. The illegal drugs were located in her two suitcases. Drug dogs smelled the contraband. The drugs were wrapped in packing tape and foil. The suspect is Gol Ding Clarrissa May (sic?), age 52, listed as […]
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On Monday February 4, 2013, three suspects robbed at gunpoint the owners of Joyeria Dorita in Chordeleg Ecuador. Two of the owners were shot and are recovering in the hospital. One of the victims is over 80 years old. The suspects made a small purchase and then asked to see other jewelry when the assault […]
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elespectador.com reported that two people killed is the balance that leaves a FARC terrorist attack in rural area of Caloto, Cauca Department. Units Apollo Task Force reported finding a car bomb that under the Sixth guerrillas FARC front left at the entrance of the township El Palo. According to authorities, the rebels sought to detonate […]
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Two German captives in Colombia by the leftist ELN are retirees who were in this country as tourists, said Tuesday the German Embassy in Bogotá, indicating that the German Foreign Ministry activated a crisis unit. German captives are: Uwe Breur y Gunther Otto Breuer According to elnuevoherald.com, Two German citizens are currently deprived of their […]
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According to eluniverso.com, there were two killed, five injured left a serious incident occurred at 20:10 yesterday Quinindé city, in the streets on December 6 and October 9 (Quinindé), where a stage had been erected for the candidate-president Rafael Correa, who had announced his arrival to the site (at 20:00) as part of his tour […]
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Sexual Assaults, Rapes took place when ten armed men entered the tourist’s bungalow in colony Alfredo V Bonfil, Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico. According to elmundo.es, seven Spanish tourists reported being raped Sunday night in a neighborhood near the resort city of Acapulco on the west coast of Mexico. According to the Attorney (prosecutor) General of the […]
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Three members of the FARC, who offended in the department of Cauca, escaped from his terrorist cell and voluntarily appeared before military units where they asked for protection. Deliveries occurred in the rural area of the municipality of Morales, offensive operations scenario deployed by members of the Mobile Brigade 37, assigned to the Third Division. […]
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Choloma, San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa and Villanueva are the most dangerous cities for young people of Honduras. Most crimes were committed with a firearm. Read Article
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On February 4, 2013, O Povo reported that Federal Highway Police along BR-116 made a drug bust last Saturday when it seized 22 kilograms of marijuana from a couple traveling by interstate bus between the towns of Jijoca and Jericoacoara, in the northeastern state of Ceará. Police caught them in Jaguaribe, about 300 kilometers from […]
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On February 4, 2013, Surgiu reported that civil authorities in the city of Palmas, the capital of Tocantins, arrested a woman in possession of some 50 kilograms of marijuana. The suspect, Maria Cristina Thomazi Bordin, was taken to the local Women’s Prison, where she faces drug trafficking charges. Bordin was arrested on a bus operating […]
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NGOs say they have indirect presence in more municipalities than pointing Mindefensa. The fight for control of drug trafficking routes and illegal mining has focused the dispute and the presence of criminal gangs in at least eight departments. In this figure match reports from NGOs and the Ministry of Defence on the actual or active […]
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Primary municipalities where violence occurred: Calera, Fresnillo, Guadalupe, Juchipila, Miguel Auza, Noria de Ángeles, Río Grande, Sombrerete, Valparaíso, Vetagrande, Villanueva, Villa Hidalgo y Zacatecas Fntrzacatecas.com reported that a total of 55 people dead, including four women, and 15 detainees is the bottom line of a very violent first month of this year, according to figures […]
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On February 4, 2013, Gazeta do Povo reported that a police barracks in São José, Santa Catarina, was attacked last night as part of a recent string of incidents involving firearms throughout the state. In this attack, the gunmen shot at the barracks from a motorcycle and attempted to flee. Police recovered and captured the […]
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lasillarota.com reported that two tourists were shot by members of the Community Police for not stopping at one of their checkpoints located in the community of Las Mesas in the town of San Marcos, while returning from Ventura beach. Augusto Cardona and Maria Patricia Gomez Rodriguez Padilla, from the Federal District, filed a complaint with […]
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eluniversal.com.mx reported the Department of Public Safety reports that through inter-institutional work done in conjunction with members of the Ministry of National Defense, Navy of Mexico and Federal Police arrested 18 people who are related to his alleged role in high-crime impact and recent violent events in the Valley of Toluca….Salvador Neme Sastre, head of […]
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Major Areas of Disappearances Bogota, Valle del Cauca, Antioquia, Tolima According to caracol.com.co, the Director of Legal Medicine lamented that minors also are part of the missing records, and found that most occur in young people between 14 and 17 years. According Legal Medicine, this year 634 people have been reported missing and 316 women. […]
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radioformula.com.mx reported that the Ministry of Public Security of the Federal District rescued a businessman during a kidnap attempt. The Ministry of Public Security of the Federal District (SSPDF) rescued a businessman who had been kidnapped by three men who were trying to take him to a safe house in the city of Pachuca, Hidalgo. […]
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andina.com.pe/Senior military commanders from Peru, Colombia and Ecuador have agreed to strengthen the fight against organized crime in the region, the Peruvian military said Friday. During a four-day meeting in the northeastern Peruvian region of Loreto, military chiefs of the three countries discussed a variety of issues related to bilateral and multilateral cooperation, the Armed […]
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La Mano Negra – crime group vanguardia.com reported that few people dare to comment on the appearance of a pamphlet signed allegedly by ‘The Rastrojos and’ The Black Hand ‘, in which death threats against 30 youths, who, according to the letter, they were given a deadline of 48 hours to leave the sector.The threat […]
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Guayaquil Ecuador Eluniverso.com reported that the Intervention and Rescue Group (GIR), along with thirteen prosecutors, captured eight adults and three children isolated early yesterday morning, which would be part of the band Flaco Édgar Edgar during the operation called Bastion, made in the north. Agents in charge of the investigation indicated that since last December […]
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espanol.upi.com reported that two Cuban citizens seeking to travel to the United States with false passports were arrested on Tuesday morning at the airport Silvio Pettirossi, appropriated ABC. Acosta is Katherine Stone and Insiesta Lisandra Rodriguez, who arrived in Paraguay with false passports on January 25 pretending to be Panamanian, said on ABC Color journalist […]
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cpj.org press release -Authorities in Colombia should ensure the safety of two journalists who have fled the northern city of Montería after being threatened for their reporting on criminal groups, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Amilkar Alvear, a reporter for the daily El Heraldo and its sister newspaper, Al Día, and Jairo Cassiani, […]
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In joint operation that took place on Friday between police and members of the Department of Army arms control, firearms were found, mainly shotguns, two workshops, as well as ammunition and military use bullets hidden in a chicken coop. Police Intendant Tungurahua, Alex Valladares, noted that the work is true after investigations by military intelligence […]
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police.gov.bz reported on Sunday, 27th January 2013 at approximately 6:30am, San Ignacio Police checked Cell No.3 where detained person – Jeffrey Donald FURGALA, 35 year old Canadian National, was seen in the cell lying face up and unresponsive. A physical check was made on him when Police noticed him to be apparently unconscious with blood […]
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Extra.ec reported that military intelligence achieved the seizure of explosives and arrested a pair of 41 and 43 years were given to the Judicial Police, Otavalo. It happened in the area of Magdalena, Angajalka community. Were involved together with a lead vehicle, PBC-5672 plate, where it was found pentolite units 256 and 354 cylindrical blasting […]
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In an article by Clarin.com, suburban Buenos Aires there are police, patrol and thousands of cameras to try to lessen the drama of everyday insecurity. The municipality of Tigre now adds a hint, at least, novel: a fleet of six “drones,” unmanned aerial vehicles are remotely operated. Robots transmit real-time images that are taken during […]
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On January 30, 2013, G1 reported that a Brazilian couple was arrested for participating in human trafficking. This action comes the on same day as the Federal Police’s announcement of a joint human trafficking investigation with the Spanish National Police. The couple was found by means of an anonymous tip. According to Federal Police, the […]
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On January 31, 2013, G1 reported that two men were arrested today in Cáceres, about 250 kilometers from the state capital of Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, for drug possession. The men were found with 80 kilograms of cocaine base, and were arrested in a patch of shrubbery. Three other men were also spotted, but they escaped […]
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On January 31, 2013, the State Police of Mato Grosso do Sul reported that its Frontier Operations Department (DOF) seized a cache of drugs during a routine search in the region of Ponto Porã. The suspect, identified by the initials C.S., was carrying two bags containing close to 17 kilograms of marijuana and half a […]
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On January 31, 2013, Gazeta do Povo reported that the state of Paraná announced its crime statistics for 2012, through its Public Security Ministry (SESP). The report found that Paraná registered 3,135 homicides, or about one every three hours. This number represents a rise of 1.6% from the year before. Curitiba, the capital, had a […]
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Trust.org reported that Colombia’s FARC rebels on Thursday freed three oil contractors kidnapped a day earlier, military sources said, though the guerrillas killed four soldiers in the south as they step up pressure during peace talks. The kidnappings and other violent incidents came days after the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, made clear […]
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Belize, which borders Mexico and Guatemala, has become dominated territory Cartel and Los Zetas gangs, warns a report by Inter-American Dialogue in Washington. According to the policy analysis group and intelligence in the last 30 years has intensified the phenomenon of drug trafficking in the small Central American nation that has become important point for […]
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SOURCE: http://yucatan.com.mx 1. In 2012 Labboun Rafic Mohammed (Muslim cleric) with alleged links to Hezbollah was arrested in Merida Mexico. He was also a fugitive from U.S. justice. 2. He arrived in Yucatan and apparently used a network of Lebanese government officials. These officials colluded with parties in Belize who provided a fake passport from […]
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The deputy mayor of the northern port city of La Ceiba Honduras, Angel Salinas, was shot dead today by unidentified Golosón near the airport, police said. Two men on a motorcycle shot while driving his car into the City Hall, was shot nine times and died while being transferred to a hospital, said local police […]
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The president of the National Commission of Human Rights (CNDH), Raúl Plascencia Villanueva, regretted that despite progress in respect for fundamental guarantees, enforced disappearances, inhuman and degrading treatment, torture, illegal searches and arrests in mostly associated with operating public security institutions, “are more present than the past few years.” In presenting his annual report to […]
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The crew of a fleet of aircraft Customs and Border Protection (CBP, for its acronym in English) U.S. intercepted two boats in open waters carrying more than 1,700 kilos of cocaine worth more than $ 130 million. The CBP, based in Jacksonville (Florida), reported today that the seizure of the drug occurred in two separate […]
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In the citadel October 4, in northwestern Tulcán (Carchi), was a new form of theft from homes. At 09:00 yesterday, three men disguised as police knocked on the door of the house of Ana V. with the excuse that his son had been kidnapped and had their whereabouts data. Inside the house, the unknown woman […]
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For alleged environmental crime, 50 people, including women and children were arrested the morning of Wednesday Pinazhún Area, Santa Barbara River, belonging to the canton Sígsig. Read Article
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According to jhnewsandguide.com, a trio of Jackson residents were attacked a week ago while on a climbing trip in Peru. Jennifer Wolfrom, her brother, Joseph Wolfrom, and sister-in-law Meghan Doherty say they were trapped, beaten and robbed by villagers Dec. 29 and 30 outside Cuzco, Peru. “This situation has not only been extremely traumatic both […]
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As reported ‘Masks’, three foreign tourists came to the town of Pallca, a town 20 minutes from Ocongate, where they decided to camp after a trek through the snow, Machu Picchu and other lovely places that have the Cusco. However, their happy journey would become a living hell after two local villagers with their whistles […]
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On January 29, 2013, Minas Acontece reported that police have finished an inquiry into the death of a French artist, Jacques Louis Fatosne, murdered in November in Paraguaçu, Minas Gerais state. His body was found later that month. The perpetrators, José Luiz de Oliveira and his son (a minor), were questioned but not formally held […]
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On January 29, 2013, O Dia reported that the Chief of Staff for city councilman Carlos Macedo (PRP), Mariana Queiroz Soares da Silva, has been arrested and charged for crimes involving a plot to kill former city councilman Lúcio do Nevada (PRP), back in October. The crime occurred in Niterói, within the metropolitan region of […]
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On January 26, 2013, Paraná State Police reported that the state’s Environmental Unit charged and fined a man about R$115,000 for keeping 236 wild and exotic birds in his house without documentation or proper treatment. The crime occurred in the state capital of Curitiba. The man stated that he was only keeping the birds to […]
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On January 30, 2013, Folha de São Paulo reported that local police arrested a man connected to the slaying of five prostitutes in the Eastern Zone of São Paulo. Local janitor Eduardo Sebastião do Patricínio, 42, was charged with murdering five women over the past three years. The man confessed to killing the women after […]
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Elpais.com reports: “There is no curfew, but after nine at night, Torreón is a ghost town,” says Professor Robert Lopez Franco, former director of the School of Social and Political Sciences , alarmed by the breakdown of the social fabric. “Our youth is being annihilated by poverty, drugs and weapons,” he adds. The feeling of […]
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Three foreign cyclists were assaulted by four men with knives in the area known as “La Selva”, located in the slums santeño Manuel Arevalo district of Chimbote, Ancash region. This is the American Holly Lee Allin (sic), 47, and Polish Ocaalek Aldana, 34 and Ezek Lemie Marell, 39, who seized their cameras and personal documents. […]
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MOTHER OF SEXUAL ABUSE VICTIM TAKES MATTERS INTO HER OWN HANDS In Iquitos Peru, a mother discovered that a neighbor, a male age 50 had been having sexual relations with her minor daughter for three years according to cronicaviva.com.pe. The daughter had not reported the incidents to her mother in fear of reprisal from the […]
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Nogalesinternatinal.com reported that a Nogales, Sonora woman was allegedly busted with more than a half-million dollars worth of methamphetamine on Friday at the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said that its officers at the port discovered more than 33 pounds of the drug in a Hyundai sedan driven by 42-year-old […]
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Arequipa: Tourists Chileans and Argentines protested bus robbery According to peru21.pe, arriving at the White City in a company car San Martín, foreigners had no money, cameras and personal documents. Theft would have occurred in their sleep. Six Chilean tourists and three Argentines protested at a bus station in Arequipa for stealing their belongings inside […]
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rnw.nl reported …………It is not elitist, is produced in large quantities, is worth billions of dollars and changed the economy of many families, we talk about the kidnapping, a booming new industry, scourge of young and old, rich and poor. Gavin Strong, global risk analyst specializing in Mexico, risk consultancy, Control Risks said in its […]
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Source: huffingtonpost.com– Mexican officials say they have broken up a bizarre cult that allegedly ran a sex-slavery ring among its followers on the U.S. border. Mexico’s National Immigration Institute says 14 foreigners have been detained in the raid on a house near Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas. Those detained include six Spaniards, […]
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According to laprensa.hn, at the crime scene and six people died in the hospital later one of the three injured. At the crime scene and six people died in the hospital later one of the three wounded in the slaughter occurred in the San Francisco neighborhood of San Pedro Sula. The entertaining and celebrating traditional […]
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Elheraldo.hn reported that in a period of ten days two multiple homicides were reported, one in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula last. In the two events killed …… The violence has been a constant in Honduras in the first 28 days of 2013. It posted an average of one every other day slaughter. These events […]
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Milenio.com reported that an armed commando killed this morning when police director Hostotipaquillo, Lucio Rosales Luis Astorga, the crime occurred in the intersection of Javier Mina and Ocampo in the center of that population. The melee, which was confirmed by the authorities, began at approximately 9:00 am this morning. Bodyguard and one of the assailants […]
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José Efrain Rios Montt, who ruled Guatemala for part of its brutal civil war, will face trial for genocide for allegedly ordering the murder, torture or displacement of thousands of Mayan Indians after a March 1982 coup, a judge ruled Monday. A former U.S.-backed dictator who presided over one of the bloodiest periods of Guatemala’s […]
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San José de Yanayacu, Loreto Peru Peruvian authorities arrested a suspected drug gang of five Colombian and Peruvian Amazon region in Loreto, reported the National Police of Peru (PNP). Spanish.china.org.cn reported that according to the police report, the men were seized when traveling in a speedboat in a suspicious manner in the vicinity of the […]
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According to Spanish.china.org.cn, the Ecuadorian minister of the interior, José Serrano, reported today that in the coming weeks will proceed to destroy airfields that were used for illegal activities such as drug trafficking. In an interview with state television TV Series, Serrano said that in coordination with the Armed Forces has been “intelligence work to […]
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National Drugs Control (DNCD) by seize box of straws stuffed with cocaine in mail…… sent from San Francisco de Macoris to a person resident in New York. Read Article
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One person was arrested after firing a gun against strikers of the Union of Employees of the University Michoacana (SUEUM) who kept a guard in University City facility in Morelia, two weeks ago, and managed to slightly injuring two them. According to the police report, on Monday night a person 38 years of age was […]
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Unionyucatan.mx reported that Ukrainian tourist disappears in Yucatan, her boyfriend was murdered Maryna Burakova, whose boyfriend Oleksandr Batychko found dead in Yucatan, is sought by family and friends, who accuse the authorities Yucatecan bureaucracy. In Ukraine, Maryna Burakova relatives began searching for the girl who was vacationing in the Yucatan, the Mexican southeast same place […]
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No Drugs on Board: Two men missing from the plane, reported to have left with two suitcases. Eluniverso.com reported that….Mexican manufacturing various products, including adhesives cartons with eggs marketer of Sinaloa SA and a green bag Walmort brand, are the main evidence of the police to suspect that the HC-AMB plane that landed afternoon Sunday […]
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