Authorities handed a part of 254 drivers caught driving while intoxicated, after the celebration of the day of love and friendship in the nation’s capital, at least in the last six hours of the trading date. Within the operations carried out by the Traffic Police of Bogotá, who registered through checkpoints and mobiles across the […]
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Four men armed with submachine guns and attacked a unit of the carrier Transesmeraldas, at 23:30 last Thursday. The unit en route Esmeraldas-Quito. One passenger said yesterday that strangers Bourbon rose in the parish, and they sat in the back of the vehicle. They were well dressed in comfortable clothes, witnesses said. So, they said, […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that…people in this area prefer not to talk about it. Review, say some fishermen might engage, even after Colonel Paul Aguirre, Chief of Police of Manta, in those days, said an international criminal organization could be operating in San Mateo. Colonel Ramiro Mantilla, head of zone 4 of the National Police, recognizes that […]
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From January to August this year, the airport sector there have been 102 robberies people. Elcomercio.com Yesterday, police officers in the field revealed that the airport operates four criminal groups allegedly involved in robbing people. Researchers know this method as ‘descuideros’. That is, the strangers take advantage of times when users leave their belongings for […]
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Elunivers.com reported that in less than 24 hours four people were arrested in the Metropolitan District of Quito (DMQ) on the charge of being the cause of forest fires that affect the city and its surroundings. On Thursday afternoon were arrested in Pomasqui sector in the north of the capital, three young men who would […]
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Elpais.com.co reported that in one embodiment little known Colombian drug authorities, two men were arrested at the airport in Medellin, while carrying on their small stomachs latex wrappers with a total of $ 80,000. “The money was not counterfeit and the two passengers on seperate flights from Costa Rica claimed they were businessmen. He explained […]
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The agency reported that in the north of the capital have filed 13 complaints, Calderón administrations (1), Eloy Alfaro (2), La Delicia (5), North (5). The lowest incidence was recorded in the south and valleys. In Quitumbe administration filed a complaint, as in the valley of Tumbaco, while in the central administration were filed two […]
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A big commotion on the Twitter social network was caused last night by the messages sent by the District Attorney of the National District, Yeni Berenice Reynoso, who reminded people that checking the cell phone of a partner without his/her permission is a crime under Law 53-07 regarding High Technology…. Read Article
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Diariolibre.com reported that in San Francisco de Macoris, Duarte Province. The National Police under the command of Gen. Juan Ramon de la Cruz Martinez has dismantled over the past 25 drug outlets that worked for years. Many drug stores operating in houses built on lots or remote locations with many bushes to evade authorities. These […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that Miguel Angel Quinonez Rodriguez, alias Danki, minimum internal security pavilion Bellavista in Santo Domingo, escaped on Friday when he was treated in hospital Gustavo Dominguez. Apparently the two guides escorting him were neglected when the defendant remained in the emergency area of the nursing home, where he was taken at 06:30 for […]
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One person was arrested on Route 9, in access to the town of La Caldera, a distance of 25 kilometers from the capital, when he tried to enter the city almost 100 kilos of coca leaves premium bringing contraband from the neighboring Republic of Bolivia. Effective Operations Division, under the Directorate General of Dangerous Drugs, […]
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Armythwarted a terrorist attack by the FARC with a car bomb in a rural area of the municipality of Miranda, in northern Cauca. Inside the vehicle were found 400 kilos of explosives that had been installed to be activated by remote control, looking to cause civilian terrorism and serious damage to the road infrastructure. According […]
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A man was arrested by National Guard troops, within the premises of Big Low Passenger Terminal, with more than a kilo of marijuana.The detainee by the name of Sandy Sanchez Donovan Jones, 22, known as “Sandy The Black”.According to the commander of Urban Security Detachment, Colonel Douglas Gonzalez Casamayor, the procedure was executed on the […]
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Army chief of Nicaragua (IN), Gen. Julio Aviles, admitted an intense movement of drugs through the country, located in the “corridor” of higher traffic narcotics across southern Europe and the United States, the largest consumer, according to statements released today in the local press. According to the staff of IN, seizures this year totaling 3.5 […]
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elnuevoherald.com reported that the mayor of the tourist town of Antigua Guatemala, Adolfo Vivar, was arrested on Thursday by police and prosecutors accused of corruption, said the head of the Prosecutor against money laundering, Rolando Rodenas. Alongside Vivar, also was arrested Boris Asensio, who serves as treasurer of the City of the “colonial city”, 45 […]
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tuteve.tv reported that a traffic policewoman was verbally insulted and beaten by a driver after he refused to receive a ticket for talking on a cellphone while driving and not using his seat belt. However, not recognizing his infractions, the driver and his mother insulted the policewoman and the driver physically assaulted her and threw […]
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According to lanacion.com.co, two caches containing 600 kilos of high explosives and weapons, apparently from the FARC, were discovered by police in the neighborhoods north and south of Neiva. NATION, NEIVA Two caches with highly destructive explosives, equipment for assembling bombs, grenades and heavy artillery weapons were discovered by police in shelters in abandoned houses […]
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According to eluniverso.com, sentence six former National Police officers for a double murder to 25 years in prison. The six were found guilty of the murder of Danilo Bowen Zambrano, 22, and Luis Enrique Jaramillo Alcivar, 21, who were abducted the morning of October 16 in the neighborhood Jocay Manta, and three days later appeared […]
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Elcomercio.pe reported that a necropsy of law practiced today on the body of the girl who died last Saturday during a clash between army personnel and the police with terrorists remaining in Junin, showed that the fatal bullet entered the back of the child. Canal N reported this afternoon in Huancayo was a brief conference […]
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Informacionjoven.com reported that at least 20 suspected members of the criminal organization the Knights Templar were arrested during an operation in the northern part of the state, the state attorney general confirmed, Carlos Zamarripa. At a press conference, he explained that the suspects are linked to at least five murders in Irapuato and his arrest […]
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Authorities Border Police found drugs in the air freight terminal to eropuerto Villeda Morales of San Pedro Sula. In the morning we counted 40 kilos of cocaine contained in several boxes from Colombia through a joint international parcels. After another flight arrived in the rest boxes of seized cocaine figure is 80 kilos. According to […]
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elcomercio.pe reported a Peruvian shaman confessed to burying the body of a young American of 18 years after he died in a session ritual consumption of a powerful hallucinogen from the jungle, police said Wednesday. José Manuel Pineda (58), who called himself Master Mancoluto and ran a retreat lodge in the city of Puerto Maldonado […]
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The Minister of Women, Ana Jara , today raised a sanction for trucking companies, or inland areas that have the passengers to minors unaccompanied by their parents. According considered, could be punished with six months’ suspension of its operating license. The official said the proposal is given in the framework of the campaign “More traffic, […]
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According to informacionjoven.com, police authorities reported shootings in the north of Saltillo, which was triggered by the so-called “Code Red” emergency police. The clashes started in the colony and continued for Colonial Gardens surrounding areas. The spokesman for security issues of state government, Sergio Sisbeles, reported via his Twitter account on detonations in that colony: […]
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Villanueva, Zacatecas – informacionjoven.com reported that local authorities confirmed the discovery of two human heads into a cooler this morning in the urban area of Villanueva, Zacatecas. The incident occurred in front of the Church Sanctuary, just two blocks from City Hall, there was located a cooler with a human head, is recorded large police […]
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According to El-Nacional.com a ship that came from Belgium and docked at the port of Ferrominera Orinoco to load iron ore. Officials of the Regional Intelligence Unit Drug Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) were able to detect 478 kilos of high purity cocaine alleged to Juergen Schulte board the ship anchored in the port of Ferrominera […]
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Telemetro.com reported During an operation, the National Police found two suitcases, one with 20 kilos of cocaine and other cigarette boxes in the baggage area of an express route from Panama – Colon. The bus with registration, was detained along with 54 people aboard, whenever research when passenger belonged to ask what these unclaimed suitcases […]
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Fifteen undocumented Guatemalan origin were arrested while traveling in a van hidden stakes, whose driver upon seeing a patrol state police fled. The incident took place on the road linking the community to Cacalotepec Tamazulapan, off Linda Vista community in Ayutla Mixes, considered the new route of the smugglers to smuggle illegal immigrants from Central […]
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Lanacion.com.py reported that 290 kilos of maijuana was seized on a tour bus. National Police narcotics unit made the seizur on 26 km route No. 7 near Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia. The seizure was made by members of the National Police narcotics, Regional Ciudad del Este, in the 26 There wee 24 people on the […]
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he border police confiscated 316 kilos of cocaine in a wooden boat docked near a small island in the Pacific in the Darien province, which borders Colombia, authorities said Wednesday. The State Border Service reported that the drug was seized on Tuesday and was within 16 sacks. Read Article
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According to chacoteo.com Wednesday, September 12, 2012 10:38 – The court to which the matter was settled appropriated the Criminal Case 240/2012, while that the woman was being held in the Corrections Center number one in Hermosillo, Sonora, pending the determination of their legal status. PGR arrested subject for use of weapons and explosives in […]
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Eluniversal.com.co reported that three tankers suspected guerrillas detonated near the municipality of Tado, in Chocó. This was reported Caracol Radio that the incident took place exactly on the road connecting the town with Risaralda. Read Article
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Average of six vehicles stolen a day in Bogota Colombia carroya.com reported that it has been found that the pattern of stealing vehicles used by criminals in the country’s capital is pulled. Thieves located a car that is parked and take some parts of this, sometimes (when circumstances of time and place are in your […]
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dca.gob.gt reported a plantation of marijuana was located in the vicinity of Cerro Alto Spot, Santa Ana district, the municipality of Momostenango, Totonicapán, in a mountainous area of seven acres of land planted with 32 thousand 800 marijuana plants, valued at 12 million 300 000 Q. Read Article
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Two people were arrested by elements of the prosecution for their alleged involvement in the abduction of a woman in her 20s who managed to flee. Insured persons were identified as Jesus Hernandez Martinez, 33, and Perla Martinez Coronado Ibeth 20, who in the company of another person identified as Adrian Roldan Cross who is […]
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The full Legislature unanimously approved yesterday the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, which includes the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. The purpose of this international agreement is to promote, facilitate and strengthen cooperation between States in order to prevent, combat and eradicate […]
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Television footage showed dozens of supporters of the two sides in a kind of pitched battle outside the airport of Puerto Cabello, in central western oil country, where he planned to get the single candidate of the opposition, Henrique Capriles, for a campaign. Puerto Cabello has a mayor-government, but the government is one of the […]
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Elmercurio.com.ec reported that in broad daylight a man broke into a shop located in the street and Sangurima Benigno Malo, on Monday. The owner, whose identity has not been released she was with her son, when the subject abruptly entered the shop. She realized that he tried to get to the location where she kept […]
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The most dangerous drug in the world: ‘Devil’s Breath’ chemical from Colombia can block free will, wipe memory and even kill. Scopolamine often blown into faces of victims or added to drinks Within minutes, victims are like ‘zombies’ – coherent, but with no free will Some victims report emptying bank accounts to robbers or helping […]
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EFE reported that – Children beheaded by assailant, he is then lynched and set on fire. reported that “The children died beheaded, while the alleged was offender lynched died after being beaten by the mob and burned alive” in a public school in the town of Tactic, about 190 north of Guatemala, said Sergio Vasquez, […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that two women apparently drugged four people stole several artifacts from their residence, located at 19th and Maldonado, southwest of Guayaquil, at 01:15 on Wednesday. The ages of the victims, allegedly with scopolamine, ranging between 31 and 89 years. The housing also were four children under 7, 9, 13 and 17, who were […]
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Caracol Radio reports met a group of importers who complain about what they call “mafia bribes” in the customs dock El Dorado International Airport. It is a mafia comprising inspectors and other officials of medium and high level, who hamper the import documents and only released upon payment burden buried in a “toll”, which can […]
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For a month and a week that Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho had to leave his home in Cancun that it keeps close to the sea, which is energy-place death threats. “If still investigating, we sent his family to pieces,” he said. It was the first time I received them. With the publication of his first […]
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Bogotá. Army troops, deployed in the department of La Guajira, located in the last hours a cache with military equipment belonging to Bacrim. The operation went ahead in the village of Los Naranjos, in near the town of Dibulla where Infantry Battalion Mechanized N 6 Cartagena, assigned to the First Division, and log out operations […]
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Army troops in offensive operations development achieved timely neutralization of five improvised explosive devices installed by terrorists of the FARC in Arauca, Cauca and Meta. The first action took place in the village of Los Pinos in the municipality of Suarez, Cauca, where soldiers Ground Combat Battalion of Numancia N 3 First, Third Brigade found […]
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In April last year the law was reformed on “trafficking” to punish with imprisonment those who bring foreigners to the lucrative sex trade. Before this legal amendment, Chile was a paradise for pimps who risked derisory punishments and returned to the business within days of arrest. CIPER investigated a band who ran brothels in an […]
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jornada.unam.mx reported that an incendiary device was defused today in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Santiago by specialists of the Carabineros militarized, police said. The device was left by strangers in a confessional main Catholic church in this country and consisted of a container with five liters of fuel, potassium hydrochloride and an electric timer who […]
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noticias.univision.com reported that U.S. officials have seen an increase in the use of at least three models of submersible in the Caribbean. These means of transport, operating with a diesel engine and are built in the jungles of South America, represent a new challenge for the U.S. and Latin American countries, according to the note. […]
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RCNRADIO.com reported that 10 nationals from Bhutan were detained while on an inter municipal bus near Cali Colombia. They reportedly entered Colombia at Ipiales, Nariño (Border with Ecuador). They were in route to Cúcuta and with plans to cross into Venezuela. There were thre women and seven men and are scheduled to be deported back […]
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Eltiempo.com.ec reported that staff of the Armed Forces met arms control operating in different parts of the city. Roman Enriquez officer who was in charge of an operation conducted yesterday in Don Bosco Avenue, explained that the controls are preventive and consist of reviewing the compartments of vehicles and their occupants. Read Article
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Clarin.com reported that the Torres Chocolates employee suspected nothing when a mother accompanied by a girl of about 10 years and their teenage son entered the store and looked at the prices of chocolates. Just when the mother began to pretend that he left a young man entered (Jonatan Mayorga, 19) who would be another […]
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Six bodies were found on Monday morning alongside Dutra Highway, linking Rio de Janeiro with Sao Paulo. Were shattered by the blows and stabs received. They also exhibited leaky head shot at close range. The remains belonged to a group of teenagers, including friends, who had gone out to play in a championship kites. Read […]
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elheraldo.co reported, Golden Eagle In operation, the CTI of the Attorney captured in Medellin, Bogota, Norte de Santander and Villavicencio fourteen people who were part of the criminal structure of mobster Victor Navarro said Serrano, alias Megateo, requested in extradition by the District Court South Florida, USA. Read Article
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A few minutes ago, the Judicial Police of Pichincha announced the confiscation of firearms, military helmets and ammunition in a house in the south of Quito. The operation took place yesterday afternoon. “Agents in coordination with the Office conducted a search of the property which reportedly is stored military weapons, possibly obsolete,” the Judicial Police. […]
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According to lavozdelcinaruco.com, a civilian was detained with 190 uniform destined for the guerrillas in Arauca – Arrest took place between Arauquita – Tame Commander Task Force Chiron General Carlos Antonio Fonseca Rubiano said that soldiers Ground Combat Battalion Number 140 in a checkpoint on the highway road that leads to the Philippines the El […]
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lavozdelcinaruco.com reported that – Military Units Chiron Task Force in developing continuous patrols, IEDs located 9 type C Araucalaymore antipersonnel mine and a tatuco, a drawer and a cylinder bomb, planted by members of the Farc tenth, in a place rural municipalities of Puerto Rondon and Arauquita. According to the Commander of Task Force Chiron […]
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Vozenred.com reported that members of the Federal Police raided a home located in Colonia Maria Elena Hernandez in the state capital, where they found numerous chemicals for the manufacture of synthetic drugs. Authorities received an anonymous call. They then raided the home and arrested Manuel Reyes Servantes of 27 year-old native of Torreon, Coahuila, in […]
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Processing lab located in Suchitepéquez synthetic drugs An operation that takes place on Tuesday at a farm in San Francisco Zapotitlan, Suchitepéquez allowed dismantle a narcolaboratorio where located 1000 500 barrels with chemical precursors, bags with drugs, narcotics produce containers and gas cylinders and boilers. Read Article
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Unionradio.net reported GNB seized drugs in Zulia Venezuela GNB seized 122.3 kilograms of marijuana in Zulia As part of Operation Sentinel, members of the Regional Command 3 of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) seized 122.3 kilograms of marijuana in Maracaibo, Zulia state, reported in the account @ FANBoficial. Read Article
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El Paso Police discovered 272 kilograms (600 pounds) of marijuana in an abandoned truck, which had reported as stolen. The discovery came during Monday night east of the city, after they responded to a call which warned of a suspicious vehicle. Read Article
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Elimparcial.com reported that three people were arrested in separate smuggling attempts by Customs and Border Protection during inspections weekend in Puerto Dennis DeConcini. Three people were arrested in separate smuggling attempts by Customs and Border Protection during inspections weekend in Puerto Dennis DeConcini. Francisco Javier Silva Enriquez, 50, of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, was arrested Sunday […]
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RCNRadio.com reported that an explosive device was set off at a Suzuki motorcycle shop in close proximity to the police station in San Vicente del Caguán Caquetá . Two individuals were reported injured. Military sources indicated that the explosive device was set in ratalliation for military operations in the area where FARC is present in […]
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kaosenlared.net reported the living conditions of the 111,000 prisoners in the country are described as inhumane by internal and Human Rights defenders. To end this situation, inmates from 21 prisons have begun a hunger strike and peaceful disobedience. In Colombia, the vast majority of the 142 prisoners who inhabit the country’s prisons live in overcrowded […]
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According to nicanoticias.com, police dismantled a gang that was engaged in drug trafficking from Costa Rica to Guatemala, by passing packets in the interiors of furniture moved and export goods from those nations, the government said Monday. The head of the Directorate of Legal Aid, General Commissioner Glenda Zavala, told reporters that the capture took […]
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eluniversal.com.mx reported that members of the Federal Ministerial Police arrested six people and claimed more than 23 000 591 products apocryphal, mostly sound and video recordings during a search conducted in 16 commercial property market “New Saltillo,” the Attorney General’s Office (PGR ), delegation, Coahuila. Read Article
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Opinion.com.bo reported that FELCN arrested of a person wearing a backpack eight kilos of cocaine, allegedly tried to transport Villazon border with Argentina. The departmental director of the police force, Jesus Flores, said in a press conference, the staff of that unit to the arrest of an individual 31 years of age, who, “acting suspiciously” […]
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aurora-israel.co.il reported that three alleged members of the Lebanese Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah were arrested in the city of Merida, Mexico. One of them, Mohammad Rafiq Labboun Allaboun with U.S. citizenship immediately extradited to Houston, Texas, according to local media reported. Labboun Allaboun, 44, was carrying a false passport under the name Belizean Dick Wilhelm. […]
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The State shall regulate the acquisition of acid to prevent street attacks. The project is in its final stage in the Senate provides that the Superintendent of Industry and Commerce shall regulate the purchase of acid has been used to attack women. It also proposes that this crime captured achieve the benefit of parole. Read […]
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With the alarming numbers of death from medical malpractice in the country, is already beginning to debate a bill in Congress that would include this issue as a bailable offense. This was announced by Senator Colombian Conservative Party, Juan Mario La Serna: ‘We want to prevent medical malpractice and obviously force the government to go […]
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Subrayado.com.uy reported that a clandestine abortion clinic closed down in Melo and processed abortions a woman She was indicted without detention and must comply alternatives for 120 days. The Justice of Cerro Largo closed clandestine abortions clinic operating in the city. In this case a woman indicted yesterday, initials AMPS, 66, who was charged with […]
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Montevideo Uruguay – Principal of school pulls revolver on teachers, gun unloaded – panic ensued – principal removed… Subrayado.com.uy reported that anxiety and panic generated in the staff room of the Lyceum director Prado 16 (Gil 1065, almost Agraciada) to trigger a police regulation firearm against some teachers who were in the place. Classes were […]
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Colombia launches new strategy to combat illegal mining— The illegal mining of gold and other minerals, which inevitably contaminates water sources and the air is 44 percent of Colombian municipalities, representing 30 percent of total domestic mines, according to statistics provided by the Ombudsman Ombudsman, who conducted a study in 1,010 municipalities. Read Article
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According to elnuevoempresario.com, Uruguayan authorities the Interior Ministry dismantled a network of drug sales in the framework of “Operation Pisces” and arrested 18 people, reported media here today. Of those arrested, six have already been processed, without specifying the length of sentence, and another 12 are still held, as quoted by the portal Montevideo.com. The […]
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A woman was killed with five shots in the streets Calicuchima and fourth, in the citadel San Emilio, north of Miracle. The crime occurred at 18:30 last Saturday. The victim, who was identified as Gina Sarango Elizabeth Solano, 24, was liquidated by the executioners when she sat in a vehicle in the copilot’s seat…Police surmised […]
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Is the construction of new police units in neighborhoods has slowed insecurity in Quito? According to the latest report of the Metropolitan Public Safety Observatory (CSOM), reports on three types of crime increased. The theft of belongings to neglect (theft) almost tripled: in 2010 there were 383 complaints and in 2011 was 1118. With respect […]
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Mercopress.com reported that a battalion of Special Forces (BOPE) from the Brazilian city of Rio do Janeiro started using unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones to air monitor the drugs trade and gangs in shanty towns surrounding the “marvellous city”. The VANTS (Portuguese for UAV) manufactured by the Brazilian Military Engineering Institute with Israeli technology are […]
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Lavozdelcinaruco.com reported Colombian soldiers found 80 kilos of explosive ANFO, four-cylinder 40 pounds each and two launchers. A cache with explosives, was uncovered in the last few hours, by National Army troops in the department of Arauca. The military operation deployed by soldiers of the High Ground Combat Heroes Llano, at a place known as […]
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Emisorasunidas.com reported Two explosive devices were detonated in Democracy, Huehuetenango, killing two preliminary dead and several injured. At the scene, the attackers left a sign that read that both victims were involved in robberies and kidnappings. Read/Listen to report
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Rule out the presence of illegal miners in the Sierra de Parima “Before visiting these communities were able to review materials to identify remains or instrumental illegal miners used when addressing these areas. None of this could appreciate, “said Rolando Seguera Telesur journalist Rolando Segura, announced that the National Bolivarian Armed Forces (fanbase), ruled out […]
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Yesterday morning, went to the Provincial Police Command of Manabi No. 4, a total of 210 new police officers, which were distributed to different cantons displaced Manabi. The Colonel. Ramiro Mantilla, made the presentation of the new uniforms, augurándoles successes, as well as references and recommendations made to meet the job efficiently, with honesty, with […]
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According to Eluniverso.com, it is an open secret in the premises of the Judicial Police in the country, in the prosecution. But as said Antonio Gagliardo, District Attorney Galapagos Guayas and probably no citizen complaint because they are smaller amounts of money. It refers to the alleged corruption of certain agents of the Judicial Police, […]
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Peru21.pe reported that a tourist from the Ukraine claimed that she was held without will for over a month in a hostal in Piura, Peru. She claimed that she was raped and to perform manual labor. Makarehko Maryna (39), was able to escape and sought help. She had arrived in Piura in March, 2012, when […]
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Quino Yenny Palomino (33) kept the broken arm and facial injuries after his partner Walter Palomino Roque (49) the assaulted at her home in downtown Lima. The assailant was arrested and accused by the prosecution. A woman was left with a broken arm and multiple facial injuries after being assaulted by her partner, an agent […]
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According to noticias.terra.com.ar, staff of the Coast Guard today seized a shipment of more than four tons of marijuana in the resort of Puerto Rico missionary in the center east of the province. The drugs seized is worth about 19 million dollars on the black market. The tasks were performed under the operating provisions of […]
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Telenews.com.mx reported – Puebla. – Linked to kidnapping, elements of the Federal Police arrested five security elements, two state troopers active with the names of Juan Pablo Vazquez and Antonio Hernandez Hugo Siliceo, two subjects Fernando Garcia Marquez and Francisco Gallardo Pedro Roque who reported being former municipal police officers, and a civilian who said […]
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Troops of the Second Army Division dealt two blows to the structures of the Eastern front war and ‘Dario Ramirez Castro’ ELN in Arauca offenders and southern Bolivar, by capturing two of their leaders. In the first action in the La Floresta Township Cantangallo, southern Bolivar, soldiers from Battalion Air Defense Artillery No. 2 ‘New […]
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The Economist – TWENTY years ago this month, police arrested Abimael Guzmán, the founder of the Shining Path, and Elena Iparraguirre, his partner. With that, the group’s violent insurgency soon came to an end. A truth commission reckoned that the Maoist guerrilla group, which engaged in terror, was responsible for a majority of the 70,000 […]
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Laprensa.com.ni reported the gang truce in El Salvador, which fell from 14 to 5.5 the average daily killings, six months meets on Sunday amid mistrust between the population and the breath of the OAS mediators and is seeking a permanent covenant. Under the mediation of Fabio Colindres military chaplain and former rebel commander Raul Mijango, […]
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Jornadanet.com reported The Prosecutor Javier Monastery reported by the Attorney confiscated 10 fake driver’s licenses and arrested offenders in control operations that were conducted in La Paz and El Alto. In operatives including officials of General Service (Personal Identification Segip) to find the fake licenses that marketed members of a gang of counterfeiters, derailed last […]
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Jornadanet.com reported that The National Coordinator of Trafficking in Persons of the Attorney General, Fabiola Tito Paniagua, reported that in the first half there were 116 cases of crimes related to this criminal. “We have 116 cases of offenses of Trafficking in Persons, in these cases the highest percentage is in Santa Cruz, La Paz […]
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An Assessment of Illegal Protection Markets – Eduardo Guerrero Gutiérrez Illegal protection encompasses a set of activities that involve coercion by any agent different from the State, usually sophisticated and violent criminal organizations (mafias). Illegal protection may be provided against deception by others, against competition, against the government or against a threat from the mafia […]
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Héctor Aguilar Camín Lets begin by saying that drugs are not an issue of public health in Mexico, unless we think of homicides as a public health problem. The drug problem in Mexico is mainly one of insecurity, violence, and institutional weakness. At the root of the problem is a historically weak system of rule […]
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Jorge Hernández Tinajero In this paper, I will try to present a general overview of drug politics and policies in México. It may be less scientific, but comes from our experience on the ground. I will refer especially to the impact of Mexican rates of consumption and violence created by the current government’s policies. This […]
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Eluniverso.com reported thatT. Francisco, who worked for four months as a guide in Ambato Rehabilitation Center, was arrested by police last Thursday, when trying to enter the prison cocaine base. Early yesterday morning the guide gave a statement to the prosecutor to flagrante delicto, Diego Moreno, in which he said he received threats to harm […]
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AP reported – Mexican federal police announced Friday that they have arrested a suspect in the killing of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, the slaying at the center of the scandal over the botched U.S. gun-smuggling probe known as Operation Fast and Furious. Read Article
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Daniel Mejía1 Universidad de los Andes Yale Center for the Study of Globalization bia, which had two main objectives. The first one was to reduce the production and trafficking of illegal drugs, mainly cocaine, by 50% in six years. The second objective was to improve security conditions by reclaiming the control of large areas that […]
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Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, 2012 – The most recent statistics place Central America as the world’s most violent region. In the last decade there have been 145,000 homicides in 7 countries in the region, the vast majority of them in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. These countries appear each year among the […]
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ejercito.mil.co reported that in the last hours, developing military operations carried out in the department of Nariño, troops of the Third Division, assigned to the Southwest Joint Command located and destroyed a crystallizing used for processing coca paste. The discovery was made in the village Manipia Taminango Township, where soldiers from Infantry Battalion No. 9 […]
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Agents of Customs and Border Protection (CBP, for its acronym in English) arrested four Guatemalans in two different actions when they tried to enter the United States a shipment of heroin hidden inside their bodies. The spokesman of the unit, Phillip Barrera said the first assurance of narcotics was made in New Dawn International Bridge, […]
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