“Judge, what happens is that I went to the hospital to see me and that Dr. Rosanna Benavides said ‘come over here a minute’ and took me to a guard. That called police, she carried a folder and an apron and I pointed to the agents who ‘were not mine’. I never pretended to be a doctor, I have not used any apron. I’m innocent of everything against me, “said Santiago Manuel Erazo Ruiz before the judge of Criminal Twenty Eight, Carlos Alberto Redwood Villa, to deny the petition filed by Rosanna Benavides, which is accused of fake doctor. Supposedly, the guy was walking in the area of emergency and ……………… Read Article
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The deaths of Luis Jaramillo and Danilo Bowen, aged 16 and 19, were sanctioned. The Sixth Court of Guarantees Manabi panels found guilty six policemen who were on active duty in Manta. The youth disappeared the night of October 16, 2011 in Las Cumbres neighborhood in Manta. And two days later their bodies were found […]
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After nearly three years of trial, Jaime Solorzano Invermun exejecutivo of casinos, was sentenced yesterday to three months in prison and ordered to pay damages for contempt of offending a public official. The judgment convicting the Ninth Court of Criminal, in Quito, Patrick headed cow. The holder of the Court invoked article 231 of the […]
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Rape, sexual abuse and similar figures that constitute as sexual offenses are the third leading cause of prison in the country and comprise 20% of inmates in a final judgment, according to the head of the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE), José Luis Guadalupe Perez . Also explained that 35% of prisoners were sentenced to actual […]
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Staff of the Ministry of Education was evacuated for bomb threat apparent Agents oversee local UDEX located in San Borja. Workers must stay outside for at least an hour, said a worker Ministerio de Educación View Ministry of Education. The workers have evacuated the building as a precaution. (Elcomercio.pe) Workers of the Ministry of Education […]
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Comunarios Daniel Campos Province Potosí department, border with the Republic of Chile, complained that the auto login “chutos” has not slowed, the little control in the area would be one of the reasons is intern allow tens weekly illegal car to the country, despite weighing a restriction for admission to the country. A community member […]
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According to Montaño, cases culminating in a judgment are not representative. He stressed that the statistics “show that impunity abounds. This impunity is becoming an incentive for offenders to continue “. The research revealed that 34 percent of reported sexual violence registered in Cercado not pass the police report, the 27 was rejected by prosecutors, […]
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Agents Moyobamba Police Station, spoke to a minor, carrying a cardboard box, inside which was a pineapple type grenade, which was sent on a transport company as instructed from Juanjui, in the name of Dante Vasquez Diaz, police are investigating the origin of the materiel. Dante Vasquez’s sister, was the one who informed the National […]
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Personal Protection police Moyobamba Highway, in coordination with the Attorney General, made operational in order to prevent and avoid the crime of human trafficking, raising awareness about the case, and common crime in the area. The biggest PNP Roger Bustamante Baca, who led the operation, said that the act helps identify subjects carrying Lima and […]
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In Colombia, according to the report of the Colombian Family Welfare Institute (ICBF), between March 2011 and March 2012 the company received 51 reports of children and adolescents who are victims of human trafficking, all recruited within the national territory and all purposes of sexual exploitation. “Lately much internet is being used as a means […]
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Having found that the motel called “D’Frams” “, located in Santa Ana road Chiautempan Via Corta-Puebla, practiced the crime of trafficking and had no security measures, was suspended from duty during the sixty-second operating agency was run last Saturday morning .. This coordinated action was completed at 23:10 hours on 24 August, when the cell […]
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The Attorney General of the Federal District (PGJDF) record a couple for his alleged responsibility in the commission of crimes of corruption of minors, family violence and labor exploitation, to the detriment of their children. According to the preliminary investigation, Irma H. and Juan Carlos M. are accused of exercising violence against children, children of […]
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Specialist believes that drug traffickers seeking to intimidate the new governments in seeking a greater control of the territories in which they operate. The violence in the triangle formed by the State of Mexico, Guerrero, Michoacan and Colima and Jalisco, mainly due to the rearrangements of criminal groups and seeking to influence or intimidate the […]
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According to Nogalesinternational.com a state police bomb squad was called to a home in Rio Rico this month after federal agents discovered six grenades there. On Aug. 17, ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents served a search warrant at a home on Calle Dura as part of an investigation into suspected drug smuggling, said […]
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From this week, the city government is empowered to impose fines on those caught using your cell phone to “texting” while driving a vehicle, after the amendments to the Regulation and Control of Vehicular Traffic were published in the Journal Official State Government said the director, Jose Obed Silva Sánchez. Read Article
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Cocaine goes to Uruguay from Argentina. And not from Brazil. The country carioca are “exported” methanol, among other things. But the cocaine base comes from the west bank of Uruguay. Just across the river, as officially denounced Senate Uruguayan National Drug Board. The traffic is through the international bridges and Colon-Paysandu Gualeguaychú-Fray Bentos. In eastern […]
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A Colombian aged 49, was captured by units of the Judicial Investigation Department of the National Police (INTERPOL-Panama), after being requested by the government of the United States of America, for the crime of trafficking International drug. Read Article
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Units belonging to Battalion SENAFRONT Caribbean diligence conducted raid in company secretary Ramiro Free of Nargana personality, to a retirement community Mulatupo in Kuna Yala region, resulting in the seizure of 138 balls and three alleged drug marijuana manila paper wrappers kept inside a dried herb, which is presumed to be the aforementioned drugs, making […]
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Potosionline.com reported that adults are involving minors in drug transport route for drug trafficking, Uyuni-Avaroa without legal consequences legal measure that can be applied to law 1008. In the last operation called “Wind”, staff Especialde Force against Drug Trafficking (FELCN), managed to detain three people including a child under 15 who is under investigation. The […]
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Staff of the Criminal Investigation Branch (Sijin), in a parking Quarter Vélez captured three people who were found 136 kilograms of cocaine, hidden in the trunk of a vehicle with a false bottom. These people, the narcotic substance seized and automotive assets were turned over to the Attorney Carepa Local 095, for the offense of […]
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The Colombian security forces arrested 14 suspected collaborators of the guerrillas of the FARC, including a logistics chief weapons smuggled across the border with Venezuela, the National Police reported Friday. Catches were recorded in two operations, one in a troubled area of Cauca (southwest) and the other in the Arauca (eastern) border with Venezuela. In […]
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August 27, 2012 Florence. In development of offensive operations in the last hours by troops of the Twelfth Brigade, assigned to the Sixth Division, was captured a suspected extortionist and neutralized an explosive device in the department of Caquetá. Initially fact, Caquetá Gaula Group units, in coordination with members of the Office CTI, caught in […]
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Nervous, tender and tearful appeared yesterday morning a young street Antepara O’Connors and Joseph, south of Guayaquil, where the left after suffering an express kidnapping during which she was raped by two men. The victim’s sister said yesterday in a complaint filed in the Prosecutor attached to the Judicial Police (PJ) that she left a […]
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Automatic guns of various calibres, AK-45, AR-15, FAL, AFAG machine guns, rifles steyr, and dragunov, is the arsenal that is in the Yare I. According to intelligence work he did a group of officials from the Ministry of Correctional Services, that amounts to 500 weapons arsenal in total. To which must be added an unknown […]
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In a large-scale operation executed in the town of Ituango, north of Antioquia, Medellin Branch CTI and Army captured 23 suspected members of a support network of the FARC. The action of the authorities started at 4:00 am this Sunday, through searches and seizures in the village, at a place known as Pascuita and Santa […]
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Army troops neutralized in the last hours of 13 explosive devices and destroyed a FARC camp of the terrorist organization, in operations in the departments of Caquetá and Putumayo. In the path Township Guadualito The Paujil, Caquetá, Infantry Battalion No.35 Guepí Heroes of the Twelfth Brigade found 12 explosive devices medium-power, rosary type activation system […]
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Sunday in the village of Campo Alegre, in the municipality of Vista Hermosa, Meta, which left six dead as tragic toll including two minors. “It is a cowardly act (…) is the only tool that has the FARC to show power and sound in some media of Colombia,” said Finch. Meanwhile Colonel Romero Jaime Montoya, […]
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Authorities are investigating the discovery of four bodies with signs of torture in a rural area of the municipality of Corinto, Cauca Department. According to preliminary information, the bodies of four men between 25 and 28 years, were found tied the hands and feet. Had several bumps and bruises, it seems, with knives. Read Article
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The defense ministry is about to conclude two rules that will consolidate the sovereignty of the State in Bolivian airspace control. The first refers to an “Integrated Air Defense System” and the second is the Law on Illegal Interception of Aircraft. With these two rules the government intends to address the “new threats” of society, […]
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The prosecution was able to custodial Colombian-born citizen Juan Bilbao, 43 years old, for his alleged links with the case of the plane that took off without authorization from Arturo Michelena International Airport in Valencia, Carabobo state, with a cargo drug, which was subsequently stash seized by the Spanish authorities in the Canary Islands. Read […]
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Francisco Javier Salaverría Facio, from El Salvador, was arrested at La Aurora International Airport as he was traveling to Panama with more than $ 30,000, who had hidden in a suitcase rods. When baggage went through the scanner system, it was verified that the cash was hidden in the suitcase haulers. The money was wrapped […]
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Siglo21.com.gt reported that a risk analysis of the Interior Ministry reveals a latent threat of drug trafficking groups that “intend to put together to make synthetic drug laboratories in the country,” said the head of this portfolio, Mauricio Lopez Bonilla. The official explained that “probably are trying to make natural drugs like cocaine,” that following […]
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Opinion: In recent weeks the authorities have dealt serious blows to various drug trafficking operations, situation warrants noted that while positive, we also should lead to reflection, because it is a clear indication that these organized crime groups are increasing their presence not only in the country, but also diversify their activities and thus the […]
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After reviewing precaution to policyholders, agents Unit Operations CSO contacted members of the International Liaison Coordination of the same corporation, to verify the personal data of the couple. Verification of personal data proved that Steven Scot Juston Campbell had an arrest warrant against him for crimes related to narcotics, dated May 10, 2012. While Brittany […]
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Ahe charged the ‘clients’ $ 100 and gave the girls only 200 pesos. A 30 year old woman was arrested with two minors, after having been domiciled in the colony Margarita Maza de Juárez, to have sex with a man. The detainee by the name of Sara Cruz Molina, residing in street R. Astolfo Cardenas […]
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The State Police Public Safety (PESP) captured a suspect who was wanted by authorities on charges of trafficking and corruption of minors in Ciudad Obregon.The subject who was discharged from his position as a teacher for having committed these crimes in the past, was arrested yesterday during investigations conducted by state agents in the region, […]
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Iran Federico Sotelo, 22, was arrested at the airport in Phoenix procedetne Hermosillo. Descending from a flight from Hermosillo, Sonora, at the airport in Phoenix, Arizona, was arrested a subject of Mexican origin who had a pending arrest warrant for several crimes related to drug trafficking. Officials of the Department of Customs and Border Protection […]
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The child resided in the San José de la Vega and his body was found wrapped in a sheet in the sector of the board, west of the capital of Honduras. Body found in blue blanket with her feet and hands bound. Read Article
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A man and a woman who were traveling in a van 481DRM agricultural P-plates were captured Sunday by agents of the National Civil Police (PNC) when they had a baby of 15 days old allegedly stolen in the village The rest places, San Pedro Pinula, Jalapa. Read Article
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(Uaxactún, PeténQuip) Laprensalibre indicated that accuse him of leading a gang of tourist assailantsi operating in that department, responsible to strip foreign visitors on routes to Mayan cities. The police chief announced that they seized five bundles of marijuana and a curved machete with which to threaten their victims. Furthermore, a cell phone and a […]
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Prendsalibre.com has reported that Guatemala is a country not at war or a weapons manufacturer, but the civilian population is holding more than 460,000 units in a legal and ammunition imported (legally) between 2009 and 2011 would be enough to give each person two bullets including children. Added to this are pistols, revolvers, rifles and […]
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Prensalibre.com reported, Counternarcotics agents of the National Civil Police (PNC) seized 22 pounds -10 kilos-liquid pseudoephedrine was in plastic bins, hidden in a cardboard box in the office air Combex, in zone 13. The Interior Ministry, in a statement, said the drugs came from France and was bound for a company in San Jose Pinula. […]
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Police in Hong Kong won the largest seizure of cocaine in its history, to seize over 560 kilograms (1,200 pounds) of the drug, and arrested eight people, including five Mexicans, said Monday authorities. The Office narcotics agents attended an anonymous tip and raided a warehouse in a suburb of Hong Kong and three other locations […]
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The Commander of the Special Anti-Drug Unit of the GNB Maiquetia, Lieutenant Colonel Juan Alberto Ramos Faria said that this citizen attempted to board the flight JJ8051, airline TAM, bound for Sao Paulo-Dubai-Nairobi. Staff assigned to the Drug Enforcement Special Unit Maiquetia, succeeded in capturing a Nigerian citizen, (31) with 14.900 Kg of suspected cocaine […]
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Some 30,000 ecstasy tablets were seized on Thursday at Ezeiza International Airport by Customs personnel. The drug was hidden in the false bottom of a suitcase and a Dutchman stopped there because. The Federal Administration of Public Revenue (AFIP), through Customs, carried out the operation and managed to kidnap a total of 29,802 pills were […]
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Customs staff-Clorinda, kidnapped last night Saturday at the Loyola Bridge control 130 kilos of marijuana that were hidden in two spare wheels of international transport Paraguayan patent sought to enter the country. It is presumed that “the idea” was “crossing the empty truck” by Puerto Pilcomayo “but the strong wind that moves the raft did […]
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This 2012, crimes against persons and property rose 32% in La Mariscal. From January to July 1346 was reported, compared to 995 in the same period of 2011, says the CSOM. Violent deaths this year increased by 75% in the sector of four events between January and July 2011 to seven in the same period […]
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Ppelverdadero.com.ec reported that at 22:00 on Wednesday, Carlos Ceron Albuja Thomas, 43 years old, with Ricardo Patricio Simba Panchi were presumably drugged while drawing money from the cashier of the Bank of Guayaquil, located in the streets Cuero y Caicedo and August 10. According to reports from relatives of Ceron, he died while being taken […]
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Staff Highway Patrol Arequipa early Wednesday seized seven kilos of alkaloid cocaine that belong to citizens Brady Zapata Rojas (23), who apparently had hidden it in a turbine. The alleged ‘burrier’ traveling in a bus company Hermanos Flores covering the route Lima-Arequipa-Desaguadero. The drug was camouflaged within the hydraulic turbine casing that was opened with […]
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Elcomercio.per reported agents of the National Police seized at least 10,000 detonators to safety fuse. The intervention was performed at kilometer 853 of the Panamericana Sur, in the district of Yauca Arequipa. The material was found in two suitcases in the hold of the unit Cetur transport company. Read Article
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Elmundo.es reported that the Environmental Protection Division of the Peru Police have seized 16,260 seahorses in Lima, where they were found by officers on the street, boxed. The shipment of animals was abandoned by smugglers when they realized that they had been discovered. The head of that division, Colonel Victor Fernandez said Thursday that apparently […]
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Eluniverso.com reported in the first six months of this year the Attorney General has nationally registered 1354 cases of financial crimes. The provinces that most complaints are recorded with 563 complaints Pichincha, Guayas and Santa Elena 275 to 131.In addition, the governing body of the national banking system ordered change old 332 ATMs nationwide, to […]
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Saturday armed criminals convulsed the Mexican state of Jalisco with 22 blocks in various ways-seven in the capital, Guadalajara, the second largest in the country with stolen vehicles and sometimes on fire, local authorities said. “We confirmed 22 blocks, seven in metropolitan (Guadalajara) and 15 in the interior of the state”, leaving a bullet wounded, […]
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Two people were arrested on Saturday for exceeding the speed limit, on the third day control of the Transit Commission of Ecuador. Both exceeded the speed limit on the road to the coast, so they were taken to the road in June delegation to Daule. At 13:36 the driver Edgar Francis Xavier Viteri was apprehended […]
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LOOKING FOR A HOME IN ECUADOR? TRADE accessed information of the General Command of the Police, according to which, from January to August this year, Ecuador reported the death of 44 policemen in various circumstances. In the same period of 2011, there were 57 deaths. In addition, last year there were 80 deaths in Ecuador. […]
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Elcomercio.com reported… Some cancer patients being treated at the Hospital Eugenio Espejo, have experienced irregularity in the delivery of your medications. The explanation given to them in the hospital is that the shortage is due to theft that occurred in the hospital pharmacy, on 26 May, which amounted to almost USD 55,000. One patient who […]
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A former Border Patrol agent pleaded guilty in federal court in El Paso to conspiracy to procure weapons on federal business licenses in the city, while still working for the immigration agency, knowing that their final destination was illegal importation to Mexico. According to the district attorney of New Mexico, Kenneth J. Gonzalez, Ricardo Montalvo […]
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The director of the National Police of Nicaragua, Aminta Granera, reported that it has been confirmed that most of the 18 people arrested yesterday in this capital itself are Mexican and they have nothing to do with Televisa and declare them to be arrested, but are allegedly members of the Michoacan cartel La Familia drug. […]
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Police Investigation captured at least two people from Colombia, allegedly involved in residential burglaries and a jewelry store located in the historic center. Authorities of the Attorney General of the Federal District (PGJDF) indicated that among those arrested was the alleged leader of the gang, who answers to the name of Jimmy Neisa. Read Article
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he City Council Public Safety and Law Enforcement Federal District unveiled the crime rate report for the first half of 2012 and their respective comparison for the same period in 2010. Council President Luis Wertman, reported that of the fourteen crimes that are measured, twelve showed a decrease while two increased caution. The robbery subway […]
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One in five Cubans drivers driving under the influence of alcohol, infraccción that shot one in the current summer and was the cause of a dramatic accident that left seven people dead and over 40 injured in the Camagüey province, on Sunday. Of the 5.147 practiced breath tests for drivers the summer months throughout the […]
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– The Mexican Army destroyed a marijuana plantation, with an area of more than one hectare, this in Township. The National Defense Secretariat, through tepechitlán ohe Commander of the Eleventh Military Zone, said that in the town of Tepechitlan, Zacatecas destroyed by incineration one marijuana plantation covering an area of 1.5 hectares. Read Article
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After a confrontation between members of a criminal organization and elements Mexico State Police and the Mexican Army, was achieved the arrest of 13 people who would be linked to performance of the commander Israel Arriaga González, director of Public Security of the municipality Tenango Valley. It may be recalled that on August 17 Israel […]
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Attorney Arturo Nahle Garcia, reported that police and military forces reinforced the search operation of the warden of Cieneguillas, Fabiola Quiroz Zarate, kidnapped last Wednesday at his home. The prosecutor explained that intensified patrols with helicopter overflights and expanded the search radius to regions bordering the states of Coahuila and Durango. Read Article
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– Two officials of the U.S. Embassy in Mexico were shot and wounded on Friday after federal police fired on the vehicle they were traveling diplomat confirmed secretariats and Marina Public Safety. In the text state that “today at 08:00 am, a vehicle Embassy diplomat USA received multiple bullet wounds in the road stretch Tres […]
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Nicaraguan police found about $7 million in smuggled cash in vans driven by people posing as members of a Mexican television news crew, National Police chief Aminta Granera announced Friday. The 18 people travelling in six vans were detained Wednesday at Nicaragua’s northern border with Honduras, after they entered Nicaragua saying they had come to […]
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A judge on Friday convicted a retired Colombian general of murder and sentenced him to 25 years in prison for the killing of a peasant decapitated by a right-wing death squad in the late 1990s. Colombia’s chief prosecutor’s office says ex-Gen. Rito Alejo Del Rio did not physically participate in the murder of Marino Lopez […]
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Abusing the power?? In the midst of a severe crisis in the government by the scandals of the president’s brother, Alexis Humala, and your company’s contracts with the State, together with the problems in the pension program 65, the first lady, Nadine Heredia, in a controversial decision, traveled to Brazil using the presidential plane, when […]
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An internal investigation at Hospital Abel Gilbert Guayaqui pontoon l discovered a web of corruption that marketed the drugs destined for the nursing home, and are subsidized by the Government. Leakage of drugs began with the Lead Systems, Javier Patiño, who manipulated the computer program that took control of the hospital’s drug stock. Read Article
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Fear of leaving home and returning to college. He described Elizabeth O., inhabitant of the Biloxi, the aftermath that left the assault she suffered five months ago. It was 20:30 when, with a gun in hand, a man jumped in front of her and her companion. The two walked down the passage that connects the […]
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Residents of Tumaco (Colombia), moved to the center of the country and San Lorenzo, on the border with Ecuador, to buy power plants to overcome the shortage of supporting this service for two weeks. Read Article
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Spanish citizen Amparo Nieto Saenz de Santamaria was arrested in the Puna Cana airport in the Dominican Republic for attempting to traffick drugs to Spain. She had hidden the drugs in a disposable diaper she was wearing and underneath black tights. The total weight of the drugs was one kilo, 40 grams, Noticias Mundo Vision […]
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Colombian citizen Alba Nidia Rivera Solano was arrested after officials in Peru caught her attempting to leave the country with drugs. She had been carrying a laptop that was concealing the drugs, El Comercio reports. They had been packed into areas designated for the battery, hard drive, and in areas under the keyboard and behind […]
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29,802 ecstasy pills were seized in the airport of Ezeiza in luggage belonging to a citizen of the Netherlands. He had arrived in Ezeiza several days earlier without his luggage. Once it arrived and he returned to the airport to pick it up, officials realized it was stuffed with drugs. According to Los Andes, the […]
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Over the course of several operations, police in Peru were able to seize seven kilos of cocaine paste and 280 kilos of dried coca leaves. In the town of Tutumbaru, a total of seven kilos, 300 grams of cocaine paste were seized, Info Region reports. Alex Urquizo (22) was arrested in one operation, in which […]
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In a container transporting a coffee shipment from Ecuador to Europe, officials discovered 2.3 tons of cocaine. According to Hoy.com, the shipment departed from the port of Guayaquil, arrived at the port of Antwerp in Belgium, and then made its way to the port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The drug operation was linked to the […]
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Mac Machine gun, military use, was seized late Wednesday in a house in the 23 and Captain Nájera, southwest of Guayaquil. The discovery of the weapons was the result of intelligence work of the Guayas Judicial Police and the Armed Forces. The prosecutor Francisco Campos said two people were arrested at the scene and identified […]
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Spanish police dismantled the so-called “string band” (banda de la cuerda), made up mostly of Ecuadorians, and stealing houses in Madrid with their inhabitants inside, then climb down from the roof with climbing gear.Police said they arrested six men and a woman aged between 28 and 41 years, including a Spanish. Read Article
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According to Eluniverso.com, President Correa asked SENAIN to investigate insults made towards the President, and that legal action be taken. Read Article
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Proceso.com.ms reported Nicaraguan authorities arrested 18 Mexicans who posed as journalists and alleged cover Televisa and the trial started on Wednesday 22 against an international drug ring linked to the murder of Argentine singer Facundo Cabral. The Chief of Police of Nicaragua, Aminta Granera, said Mexicans entered the country on Wednesday night in six mobile […]
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Five minors, all between the ages of 14 and 16, were arrested in the Dominican Republic for selling drugs in Higuey and La Romana. They were arrested in the possession of several hundred grams of various drugs, El Nuevo Diario Reports. One girl, 16, was arrested in La Romana with 35 portions of cocaine, four […]
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Elements of the Secretariat of the Navy of Mexico claimed 15 communications facilities in Veracruz and Tamaulipas, who allegedly were part of a drug trafficking network communication. In the first case in the state of Veracruz, is able to identify, locate and eradicate atop Coffer of Perote, Veracruz, 13 unauthorized communication facilities, which were secured […]
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Toluca, State of Mexico. – Army elements continue Wednesday with patrols in different colonies of the Capital mexiquense to prevent narcomenudistas(small drug sellers) mobilizations and to achieve more arrests. The operating controls that coordinate random requested help from the public in order to operate more effectively and anonymously report called the phone and email 7171326033 […]
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Seven people were arrested after officials dismantled seven illegal drug laboratories along the border between Colombia and Ecuador. In the Ecuadorian town of San Lorenzo, officials discovered an illicit chemicals marketing scheme was operating under the cover of a lumber company. According to El Nacional, the supplies were taken to Colombia to produce drugs, where […]
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Anti-narcotics police in Paraguay seized 726 pounds of cocaine in the private port of Caacupemí, in Asuncion. According to El Nuevo Heraldo, the drugs were found hidden inside pieces of wood in containers bound for Italy. Police have identified and arrested those responsible for the shipment, though their identities have not been released to the […]
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A 57-year-old was detained after U.S. customs officials caught him with drugs strapped to his body as he attempted to cross the border. He had intended to pass into the United States from Reynosa, Mexico to Hidalgo, Texas. The suspect had legal documents to prove he was a citizen of the United States, but had […]
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Austrian officials detained a 43-year-old Mexican citizen, supposedly a member of a drug trafficking organization, that was wanted by the U.S. DEA. After receiving information that the suspect was in Austria, he was finally arrested in the Vienna airport, Excelsior reports. He was wanted for transporting large amounts of cocaine from South America to Central […]
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The Gulf cartel financed between 1998 and 2007 campaigns, a former governor and mayors of the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, on the border with the U.S., as a protected witness, revealed yesterday by the newspaper Reforma. Read Article
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During the last few months has broken out between the Puerto Rico Police and the Forensic Science Institute of the true number of murders that have occurred in Puerto Rico during the year that has passed. The police provide a figure and the Institute of Forensic Sciences provides another figure significantly exceeds that provides the […]
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Ivan Valencia Jorge Valero, aka The Bearded, leader of the front Guática Heroes and Martyrs of the AUC, was sentenced to 20 years in prison and a fine of 500 thousand legal monthly minimum wage, benefit after a plea bargain. The penalty was imposed by the First Criminal Court of the Specialized Circuit Deputy Pereira. […]
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Although the rate of juvenile delinquency in Risaralda are low compared to cities like Cali, Medellin and Bogota, no longer worrying figures revealed in the inter-institutional table working on sanctions within the system of criminal liability for teens. According Jairo Alberto Martinez, director of the Research Line in Childhood and Adolescence, criminal acts committed most […]
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The United Nations International Narcotics control reported that Africa has become a hub for drug trafficking from Latin America to Europe. According to an El Mundo report, drugs from countries such as Colombia enter Africa through the west coast. At the same time, countries in eastern Africa often serve as transit areas for drugs heading […]
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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime announced the start of a program dedicated to monitoring illicit crops growth in Mexico. This system will produce statistic concerning the production of marijuana, poppy, and coca. The UN will work with officials in Mexico to train them on the methodology of using satellite maps, Noticias Grupo […]
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After a U.S. spy plane spotted a speedboat in Dominican waters, four Colombians were arrested: Aluchom Castro, Arechelleo Bocaleo, Rubén Bucaria and Micton Sretellea. They were trafficking one ton of cocaine, Diario Libre reports. The United States requested the extradition of the suspects. According to authorities, the suspects were members of a major South American […]
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462 grams of heroin derived from cocaine were found in a package meant to be shipped from Ecuador to a location overseas. It was discovered in a post office, El Mercurio reports. Officials do not know who sent the package, or who was to receive it. This type of drug is priced too high for […]
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Customs agents in Argentina arrested a Colombian man along the Bolivian border after he was caught with heroin. According to Nuevo Diario de Salta, he was carrying 1.890 kilograms of the drug. In Europe, this amount of drugs could be worth 200,000 euros. He was arrested after displaying strange behavior. This is the first time […]
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Two anti-narcotics operations in Argentina led to the capture of nearly 100 kilograms of cocaine and 82 of marijuana. The first seizure occurred at the Quiaca checkpoint on Route 9, where drug sniffing dogs were able to alert officials of a suspicious Peugeot vehicle. According to Diario La Nueva Provincia, 97 kilos of cocaine were […]
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At least six municipalities of Arauca were without electricity for a guerrilla attack. They join the residents of Tumaco, with no power for 11 days. The attack, attributed by the Army to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia , initially affected populations Arauca, the departmental capital, Saravena, Fortul, Tame, Puerto Rondon and Arauquita. However, hours […]
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Elespectador.com reported that a total of 21,107 weapons of all kinds and have been seized from the FARC, ELN, common criminals, drug gangs and paramilitaries, will be melted in furnaces of a steel, military said. The conference, which begins on Wednesday 22 and will end on Friday, August 24, will be chaired by the head […]
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Otavalo. Several cases of domestic violence are recorded daily in the women’s police station and the police, 60 percent of these belong to the rural sector. Statistics. Marianita Pijal, curator of Women reported that 48 complaints were recorded monthly from family violence. He said that many times the children, especially those under age often endure […]
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