El Universo reported that Elias Manuel Alvarado filed a complaint yesterday in the prosecutors office attached to the Guayas Judicial Police that he received an attempted scam or extortion by phone that originated in Mexico.
Alvarado stated that a suspected immigration agent migration from that Mexico called him and submitted that his nephew Guillermo Alvarado was arrested in Jalisco.
According to the complaint, the migration police allegedly asked him to make two money transfers 500 and 600 dollars on behalf of Manuel Gonzalez Adrian Garcia Alvarado to help him.
However, the victim phone a relative in the United States to check on his nephew it was confirmed he had not been arrested. Read Article
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•Lacapital.com.ar reveals that while the morning students were leaving school and the afternoon students entered, 3 students were shot in the José Ortolani primary school in Argentina. •The shots were fired by two men on a motorcycle in pursuit of other men. •Teachers and faculty lead the students to the cafeteria for their safety. •2 […]
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According to Expreso.ec police apprehended a robber that was involved with four other men in an assault on an Ecuadorian citizen who had just drawn $2,200 from the Bank of Guayaquil in the commercial center of California Park. Police say when they caught the fifth robber they discovered that the gang of robbers were using […]
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Underaged users of the Internet and social networks can fall victim to pedophiles, human traffickers and child pornographers, who find the potential anonymity of social networking very attractive, Proceso reports. According to data from the Alliance for Internet Security (ASI), 32.8 million users between the ages of six and 11 used the Internet in some […]
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Four soldiers from the Guatemalan military were charged with 50 years of prison each for the murder of 201 farmers in Dos Erres village in 1982 according to El Pais. The event, which occurred during clashes between the de facto regimes and Marxist guerrillas, is considered on of the bloodiest massacres in that decade. Based […]
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These children end up on the street for various reasons—poverty, deaths in the family, lack of educational opportunities, marginalization, sexual abuse in the home (often by fathers and step-fathers). Usually very poor and desperate, these kids depend on this kind of work for survival. Many of them support their families by prostituting, and it’s also […]
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According to Hoy.com.ec the United States announced today, Wednesday August 3rd, that they have dismantled an internet-based pedophile network reaching various countries including Ecuador. Officials have accused 72 people linked to the website of encouraging the sexual abuse of children. The authority’s investigation began in 2009, called “Operation Delago.” During the operation authorities arrested 52 […]
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Dominican TV reporter José Agustín Silvestre was killed yesterday, according to local reports, bringing this year’s death toll on journalists in Latin America to 20. Silvestre’s sister told local news outlet El Siglio 21 that he was beaten and kidnapped outside his house in La Romana by four men, who fired shots as they took […]
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According to RPP.com.pe three armed assailants robbed a hardware store, Difesur, on Socabaya Avenue in Arequipa today, Wednesday August 3rd. Police say the robbers escaped with more than 16,000 Soles. Police report the assailants used a station wagon and were accompanied by two Daewoo vehicles. The assailants threatened workers and fired three shots in the […]
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A journalist has been gunned down in Brazil’s west-central state of Mato Grosso, the fourth to be killed in the country for his work this year, according to the International Press Institute (IPI)’s Death Watch. Read Article
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A 38-year-old women was the victim of rape and kidnapping in Parque Avellande reported infobae.com. The victim was able to escape from the criminals in the early morning and immediately informed the police, which have so far made two arrests. Read article.
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Two men accused for extortion of various Chinese merchants in the last two months were detained by Argentinian police reported Telam. The men, an Argentinian (25) and Korean (38), were at a bar in Balvanera pressuring another victim when they were caught. Investigators believe that the delinquents, who demanded money in return for letting the […]
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According to ElComercio.com the cocaine lab discovered this past weekend, was built in the style of a paramilitary drug distribution center. Ecuadorian National Police say they discovered tunnels for escape routes, underground storage bays for chemicals, refined cocaine and military-type weapons. Police discovered the laboratory in the zone of Rio Bravo in the canton of […]
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According to RPP.com.pe twenty Colombian tourists confronted a group of ‘mototaxistas’ who they accused of purse robbery after hiring their transportation services. Police say a brawl began in the intersection of Piura Ave. and Huascar Street in the city of Tumbes. A Colombian, Julio Jaramillo was injured during the brawl, suffering from two knife wounds […]
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According to Peru21.pe officials for the Municipality of Lima have confirmed that more than 1,700 drivers who were fined S/ 432.00 for excessive speed will not receive a discount on their tickets. Maria Jara Risco, manager of the Metropolitan Transportation Department says the objectives of the fines are to generate respect for speed limits by […]
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Dominican journalist Jose Silverio was found dead in La Romana, Dominican Republic after his family reported him missing reported La Estrella. Authorities located his body near the Soco river with a shot wound in the stomach. Silverio was known for his reports of suspected links of public prosecutors and drug trafficking on a local radio […]
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Maritza Valenzuela was at her residence when former Colonel Raul Vargas Alborta started a shooting that resulted in her death after receiving four bullet wounds, reported Los Tiempos. According to witness statements, Alborta was a difficult person who constantly threatened those around the neighborhood. The case is currently under investigation and the suspect is being […]
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A suspect arrested this morning in the sexual assualt and murder of two young French tourists ages 23 and 30 in a mountain pass in the northern province of Salta, Argentina, said today local government minister, Paul Kosin. He rented horses in the area of the Quebrada de San Lorenzo, where they found the bodies […]
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Domestic violence, a grave and long-standing issue, reflects a history of handicapping nations’ development projects.Fortunately, the United Nations, along with other international governmental bodies, have brought this issue to light. Ecuador seems to be emerging as leader in the battle to conquer domestic violence in Latin America; a region where the practice surpasses passive acceptance. […]
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According to Peru21.pe Peruvian police have captured two people implicated in the assassination of the businesswoman, Rosario Pilar Villegas Delgado. On the night of Tuesday July 26th Delgado was returning to her house in Pueblo Libre with her husband when four people opened fire on them, killing Delagdo with about six shots, say officials. Police […]
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According to ElComercio.com the Guayas Prosecutors Office is continuing with the investigation into an online wire fraud case that used the name of the U.S. Consulate in illegal business transactions. Four months ago U.S. Consulate officials denounced the alleged online scam. The Guayas prosecutor says when a person put their house on sale they would […]
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An American tourist who had been missing since last April in the Ecuadorian Amazon was killed, said Monday the U.S. Embassy in Quito after the victim’s remains were found and identified. The body of Graham Murray , 23 also had Canadian nationality, was found by police on July 22 in the province of Morona Santiago, […]
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ElComercio.com reports Ecuadorian police discovered a lab dedicated to cocaine preparation today, Monday August 1st in an undercover operation in the province of Manabi. Officers say members of the Anti-Narcotics unit found the lab in a house in the zone of Montecristi. An unidentified officer says one person was arrested while weapons and chemicals were […]
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According to RPP.com.pe more than 400 merchants were victims of a four-hour assault by ten masked people with firearms in the district of Ayapata in the Quimsa Cruz sector of the Puno region. The victims say the attack lasted from 11 p.m. yesterday until 3 a.m. today, Monday August 1st. Merchants were robbed of their […]
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According to ElUniverso.com a New York judge in White Plains sentenced the fourth assailant in a gang attack on an Ecuadorian man to 11 years in prison on Wednesday July 27th. On March 15, 2010 Julio Serrano was beaten by four people, which put him in a coma for three weeks. Jarron Slight, one of […]
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According to ElComercio.com a survey completed in Quito by the Observatory of Metropolitan Citizen Security (OMSC) in 4,000 houses during January 2011, reveals that 80% of assaults go unreported. The survey reports 34.7% of the assaults are unreported due to judicial system distrust and 15.7% due to distrust of police. The director of OMSC says […]
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The director of Mexico’s Integral Family Development (DIF) institute, Cecilia Landerreche, urged Mexico’s young people to stay in their hometowns with their families during a visit to a migratory station in Chiapas, La Crónica de Hoy reports. She also said that adolescents should receive education about the risks of human trafficking and sexual exploitation that […]
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A little over a month ago the Central American Integration System held a conference in Guatemala focused on regional security. At this conference, Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, made the controversial statements “true security cannot be funded on the backs of the poor,” urging that “businesses and the rich in every country [within Central America] […]
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Protest singer and member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Julian Conrado, formally requested asylum in Venezuela almost two months after Venezuelan authorities arrested him there with the declared intention of extraditing him to Colombia. Read Article
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The new state institution will be dedicated to working together with families and communities to humanize prisons and address the root causes that lead to imprisonment. Moving ahead with prison reforms in the wake of recent tumult, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez appointed congresswoman Iris Varela to head the newly created Ministry of Penitentiary Services. Read […]
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•The group Los Mata-Zetas has released a video in which they accuse certain officials of being supporters of the Mexican Cartel, Los Zetas. •As reported by blogdelnarco.com, Los Mata-Zetas, a response to the Los Zetas cartel, accused Fidel Herrera Beltrán, former governor of Veracruz, Mexico and alias Z1, of allowing the cartel to establish itself […]
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Members of the 17th Infantry Battalion in Tabasco captured five members of the gang known as “Los Sastré,” Milenio reports. The gang is responsible for several kidnappings and murders throughout the state. The operation began July 12, when a search warrant was issued for the gang members following the kidnapping of a person from the […]
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Once the backbone of President Rafael Correa’s support, the government is persecuting Ecuador’s indigenous population with heavy charges in an attempt to curb social protest. According to the Center for Economic and Social Rights, a rights group, 189 indigenous Ecuadorians have been charged with terrorism, sabotage and other crimes against public safety. The charges appear […]
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According to Peru21.pe the Peruvian National Police captured two members of a bank robbery gang called ‘Los Marcas de Pamplona Alta’ on Friday July 22nd when they were about to rob a bank client in Santa Anita. Police say the incident occurred at 11:45 a.m. when a bank guard noticed people acting in a suspicious […]
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According to Peru21.pe, Peruvian National Police have captured the youngest assassin of Peru called ‘Gringasho,’ while traveling in a station wagon with the plate number P1G-169, in Trujillo. Police say he was caught with two other youths, nicknamed ‘Pelao’ and ‘Jerson’ and two weapons. Agents of the Directorate of Special Operations (Diroes) were dispatched to […]
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•30% of homicides are concentrated in 6 areas in Bogotá, Colombia according to the Administración Distrital per radiosantafe.com. •The 6 zones are Lucero en Ciudad Bolívar, Bosa Occidental, Ismael Perdomo, Patio Bonito, el Rincón y la Sabana. •Revenge is the cause for 51% of murders. •Street fights cause 21% and resisting theft causes 11%. •In […]
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The rate of murders, rapes and disappearances of female prostitutes in the context of the war against organized crime has increased at an alarming rate over the past few years, Vanguardia reports. Previously, the homicide rate of prostitutes was about 6 per year per state, about 190 to 250 in the entire country. However, in […]
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Inspectors from the Federal Department of Environmental Protection (PROFEPA) in Jalisco and Chihuahua have secured 626.6 cubic meters of illegally harvested rolled pine – equivalent to 200 adult pine trees, Milendo reports. The seizure comes as part of the Zero Tolerance Program for Illegal Logging. In Jalisco, wood was seized from a sawmill when the […]
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•The citizens of Almaguer, Cauca, Colombia have marched to petition the freedom of the kidnapped mayor, Milton Fabián Hurtado. •The mayor’s family has not received any information about him and the search for the mayor, who was kidnapped by armed men dressed as civilians, continues. •Authorities believe that the mayor was kidnapped for extortion but […]
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Peru21.pe reports that Lima has become a new haven for networks of human trafficking. Police say in the last couple of weeks they have raided about 71 nightclubs where women, including minors, have been sexually exploited. Police add the raids were in the Cercado area of Lima. Officials of the Official Registry System of Human […]
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ElComercio.com reports around 6 p.m. on Monday, July 25th, five men and a woman tried to rob an armored car that was transferring money from a bank located in a mall in the south of Quito. Witnesses say the security personal were attacked at the entrance of the bank as they were leaving with the […]
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According to ElComercio.com in Guayaquil robbers are more likely to target women traveling alone for traffic light robberies. The Prosecutor’s office in Guayaquil say robbers frequent congested urban streets and conceal themselves among the trading stands in the median. Guayas officials caution people traveling on the avenues of America, Quito, and Juan Tanca Marengo, especially […]
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Leonardo Urbina, a legislator from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), has proposed reforms to the Mexico City Penal Code to make counterfeiting of alcoholic beverages a felony, El Universal reports. There are mafias in Mexico City who exist only to recycle empty bottles, refill them and make counterfeit holograms and seals of authenticity then sell […]
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According to ElUniverso.com between January of 2009 and July 2011 five people have been killed at gunpoint in the correction facility of El Rodeo. Officials say during this time seven people have been seriously injured. This report comes after five people were injured on Friday, July 22nd in what officials say was a gang confrontation. […]
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•Last night, 10 armed men kidnapped the mayor of Almaguer, Cauca, Colombia, Milton Fabián Hurtado. •Semana reports that the two men with him were released after they captured the mayor at an intersection. •It is unknown which group to which the kidnappers belong, but FARC and the ELN have been known to have a presence […]
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The Mexico City Attorney General’s Office (PGJDF) is investigating a new form of extortion, known as “virtual kidnapping,” El Informador reports. The practice involves calling a victim to get them out of their house or work, then keeping them isolated through threats while demanding money from family members. Extortionists will make victims purchase more credits […]
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•Migual Ángel Nuñez, the Colombian student reported missing has been found in a hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador recently. •He was robbed and drugged with a substance that may be scopolamine as revealed by rcnradio.com. •He is currently in a stable condition, but still in a semiconscious state. Read Article
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According to Sp.Rian.ru three people robbed a group of female journalists arriving in Lima to work on the project RIA Novosti Expedition, as they were traveling to their hotel. The journalists say at an intersection a man walked toward their car and broke the window, pulling a passenger and the passenger’s belongings toward him. Then, […]
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According to ElComercio.pe Peruvian National Police raided a club in Lima on Saturday July 9th, finding 62 women being sexually exploited as prostitutes after being lured to Peru via the Internet. Police report the majority of women were from Ecuador and the Dominican Republic, while a group of them were from the Peruvian jungle. The […]
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According to ElUniverso.com a package containing $70,100 in false United States dollar bills was caught being shipped from Cañar to Queens, New York. Cañar police say on Tuesday, July 19th a personal courier alerted them to a suspicious package bound for Queens. Police thought the package contained drugs, however when opened police found fake 100 […]
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DiarioCorreo.pe reports that in the city of Merced is being overrun by illegal bars and taverns that have led to an underground ring of underage prostitution. The sector of Pampa El Carmen houses many of these businesses, especially in front of the municipal stadium. In the three-block sector, Diario Correo reports there are more than […]
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According to BolPress.com the defender for the Ombudsman Rolando Villena says at least 1,299 Bolivian minors were reported missing between 2008 and 2010, detailed in the report by the Special Force to Fight Crime (FELCC). The Network of Attention to Human Trade and Trafficking (RATT) of Person of MERCOSUR and other government and private institutions […]
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According to ElNorte.ec, passengers of the transportation cooperative, Aerotaxi were assaulted on the route from Quito to Ibarra, Thursday July 21st. Passengers say that four people, who boarded the bus in Calderon, did not look like criminals. However, passengers say that on the route between Tabacundo-Cajas, the four people took out weapons and began their […]
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According to ElUniverso.com a 25 year-old Colombian has been reported missing in Ecuador. The story was first reported by www.elspectador.com. The website reports that Miguel Angel Nunez Riano was reported missing by family members today, after they did not have contact with him for a long period of time. Nunez arrived in Ecuador July 6th […]
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For a man who calls his country’s legal system dysfunctional and corrupt, Rafael Correa, Ecuador’s president, has fared remarkably well before the courts. In 2008 he won a $600,000 suit against Banco Pichincha, the country’s biggest bank, because it had erroneously included him on a list of delinquent credit-card holders. On July 20th he was […]
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The Interior Office of Uruguay released a crime report today for the first period of the year, through January to June, that shows robbery and theft have gone up 8% nationwide since last year, according to elobservador.com.uy. These figures have brought about a number of debates focusing on the effectiveness of Uruguay’s security policies. Government […]
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The Mexican Federal Police conducted Operation Alba on July 22, resulting in the capture of 1030 people presumed to be involved in human trafficking, HispanTV reports. According to a report by the Department of Public Safety, the nine-hour operation resulted in the rescue of 20 female minors after searching several establishments in the center of […]
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At least 12 migrants, including two women, who were kidnapped two months ago in Mexico have been rescued by police, officials said. The migrants – eight Central Americans, three Brazilians and an Iranian – were found at a house in Reynosa city across the border from McAllen, Texas, the Public Safety Secretariat said. Read Article
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“It appears that Iranian organizations provide support to other terrorist organizations” in South America, Peruvian ex-chief of staff says.The world needs to act to counter the growing presence of Iranian-supported terrorist organizations throughout South America, former chief of staff of the Peruvian Armed Forces, Gen. Francisco Contreras, told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. Read Article
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The conviction of Oswaldo Álvarez Paz for disseminating “false information” – on the basis of his criticism of the Chávez government – is a move against free speech in Venezuela, Human Rights Watch said today. Venezuela should revoke its law that criminalizes disseminating “false information,” Human Rights Watch said. Read Article
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The conviction of President Rafael Correa’s critics for criminal defamation violates Ecuador’s international human rights obligations and should be overturned on appeal, Human Rights Watch said today. Ecuador should abolish the defamation provisions in its criminal code, Human Rights Watch said. Read Article
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Media watchdogs around the world have denounced an Ecuadorian court decision to send four journalists to prison and impose a $40m fine for libel against President Rafael Correa. Correa pledged not to keep “one cent” of the libel award against the El Universo, a daily newspaper, after a judge convicted senior newspaper managers Carlos, Cesar […]
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Two Mexican police officers assigned to work with U.S. diplomats in northern Mexico have been killed in a drive-by shooting, officials said Friday. Mexican authorities say the men were shot while off duty in Guadalupe, a suburb of Monterrey. They were riding a motorcycle when gunmen in a vehicle opened fire. Read Article
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•EFE reports that the U.S. department of state has renewed the warning made in November 2010 to U.S. citizens traveling to Colombia. •The dangers of narcotics traffickers in the large cities and rural areas are reasons given for the warning. •The American Embassy in Bogotá has not reported any specific threats to U.S. citizens in […]
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A 19-year-old Colombian has been injected with gasoline by criminals for not carrying cash or any valuables in the Lido neighborhood in Cali. He has been transported to a medical center and is going through tests to determine his level of intoxication. Read Article
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ElNorte.ec reports on Tuesday, July 19th altered medication was found in two houses in the south of Tulcan by the Ecuadorian National Police. Officials say a secret lab was also discovered. Police say tools and equipment for the manufacturing of altered medication were found in the two places. Additionally, police say in the first location […]
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•In Manziales, Caldas, Colombian police seized $65,000 in counterfeit bills as well as two men who attempted to circulate it during the U-20 World cup. •El Tiempo reports that the two men captured were part of a group that performed scams in other parts of Colombia. •In the suitcase containing the bills, the authorities also […]
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A 22-year-old was killed by police gunfire in the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires yesterday, reports lanueva.com. Ariel Domínguez was shot in the head after leaving work while police were chasing a suspect that had stolen a wallet through the neighborhood. The official statement says that one of the officer’s guns fell out of […]
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•In Cúcuta, Colombian authorities have captured a child pornographer who kept in contact with 600 minors. •The grandmother of a girl who spoke to the accused man on the internet while unclothed reported him to the National Police’s Gaula (Group of Unified Action for Personal Liberty). •According to El Espectador, the accused sold pornographic images […]
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A North American tourist, later identified as Larry Keith Zimmerman, was found dead in his hotel room in the tourist area of Boca Chica according to Dominicanshoy.com. Zimmerman was last seen Monday the 18th, until employees found him in his room two days later. An investigation has launched to determine whether the incident was a […]
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According to ElComercio.pe agents of the Peruvian National Police seized a Bolivian truck traveling on the Desaguadero-Moquegua road, license plate 1800AXA, in which agents found $237,000 with adhesions of cocaine. Puno police officials report that the semi-trailer was traveling from La Paz, Bolivia to Matarani, Peru transporting soybean meal. Officials say police found a bag […]
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According to ElComercio.com human trafficking rings in Ecuador have links to the Russian mafia, which is confirmed by an undercover agent of the Ecuadorian Police. Officials add the Chinese mafia is also involved. A court-case is underway involving the company, Single Register of Taxpayers (RUC) that in 2009 offered a Russian citizen false identification papers […]
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Police in Brazil have indicted three people for the killing of a couple of prominent environmental activists in the Amazon three months ago. The campaigners were shot dead in a forest reserve in the northern state of Para. Read Article
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A Buenos Aires police officer has been arrested after allegedly being drunk and shooting and killing 30-year-old Damián Romero early this morning outside of La Casona, a club on Sarmiento Ave., according to infobae.com. A fight started between a group of young men, including Romero, outside the club, where the police officer sat in his […]
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The director of the Agricultural Emergency and Disaster section of the Department of Agriculture, Livestock and Fishing in Argentina, Haroldo Lebed, announced yesterday that 5 million pesos of aid money was stolen from a van in Puerto Madryn, Chubut, according to infobae.com. The money was being sent to the southern province of Chubut to help […]
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Two executives of Southern Winds Airlines in Argentina are being tried this week in Córdoba for money laundering, reports lavoz.com.ar. The accused are being prosecuted for embezzling more than 3 million pesos from the National Department of Tourism between 2002 and 2005 by withholding 5% of the rates charged for all international flights. Prosecutors are […]
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The body of the Angostura Municipal Police Chief was found alongside a highway in that same city, the latest in a string of violent crimes against police in Sinaloa, according to El Universal. In Sinaloa, 55 police officers have been murdered to date in 2011, the second-highest police homicide rate in the country. First belongs […]
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According to Peru21.pe Walter Torpoco Manrique was arrested yesterday, Tuesday, July 19th by the robbery division of Dirincri, a Peruvian police unit. Officials say a year ago Manrique, 61, was released from the Lurigancho prison, but continued committing crimes. Since January, Manrique has stolen 15,000 nuevo soles as fictitious police commander, ‘Pepeo’. Officials say in […]
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•This morning, FARC launched an attack using explosives against a Highway Police vehicle patrolling the Pan-American road and left 3 officers injured. •Semana.com reports that another act of violence occurred in Santander de Quilichao in which an explosive device was activated outside of an establishment and left 20 surrounding houses with damages to roofs and […]
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Every day a child is killed in Honduras, one of the most violent countries in Latin America, according to an NGO report informed Entorno inteligente. In the last trimester, 76 children were killed, which is equivalent to one child per day, a number that has been almost constant since 1998. There has been more than […]
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According to a recent report by Correio Braziliense, the Federal Police say the increased use of maritime routes to smuggle arms is a significant development in arms trafficking into Brazil. Police identified Santos, in Sao Paulo, and Paranagua, in Parana – the country’s two biggest ports – as major points of entry for arms. They […]
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Panama alerted that the 48,000 tablets of the drug “histaclor” stolen from a truck might be used to manufacture dangerous drugs in Guatemala and Mexico reported Zona Izabal. The Panamanian Ministry of Health issued an alert of the disappearance of the drug while the truck was near a mall. The drug contains seudofredina, which can […]
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Peru21.pe reports that two soldiers were killed this morning, Tuesday July 19th, in a shootout with terrorists in Llochegua in the Ayacucho province. Officials say the attack occurred during a patrol of Llochegua, where two soldiers were wounded as well. The military patrol belonged to the Base Against Terrorism, “Mantaro Union. Officers of the Joint […]
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According to Peru21.pe the Municipality of Surco has been raised to a ‘permanent alert’ due to increases of thefts and robberies. The mayor of Surco, Roberto Gomez Baca says that both home and car crimes have increased this year. Baca adds 180 vehicles have been stolen since the beginning of 2011. Officials say the cars […]
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According to ElUniverso.com, Emilio Bowen was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of the United States citizen, Max Chamberly Madnick in Manta on November 3, 2009. Bowen’s defense attorney, Luigi Garcia confirmed the ruling, while saying it is impossible that Bowen killed Chamberly. Garcia says that Chamberly, an exchange student, whose family […]
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According to Peru21.pe the Homicide Investigation Division (Divinhom) in Lima have arrested and charged four people, including a police officer, Jonathan Vargas Cristobal, for the death of Alejandro Morales Chuecas, who was killed during an assault on Sandoval pharmacy in the center of Lima. Officials say the robbery occurred on July 2nd, in which Morales’s […]
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Miguel Ahumadad Correa, suspected for the murder of Jessica Cosio Vivanco, is in custody and the prosecution has started a formal investigation against the perpetrator informed La Tercera. Vivanco was found with a mutilated torso on July 9 in Ahumada’s home. At the hearing, the judge established a five month investigation period while the suspect […]
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A tourist from Sinaloa was visiting Leon, Guanajuato for the first time when she was assaulted by scam artists who were posing as tour guides near a bus station reported Correo. The victim explained that the presumed tour guides convinced her to board their black van by offering a list of services and a tour […]
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Prosecutors are investigating the possibility of kickback payment in three other material procurement processes conducted by the Navy in Chile reported La Tercera. These processes include the acquisition of ammunition and spare parts, as well as the purchase of company docks, shipyards, and arsenals. These facts emerged in the investigation, which started in 2007, further […]
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•A Russian citizen died this morning after having been a victim of a paseo millonario in Bogotá and was discovered by Colombian authorities under a bridge in in the city. •As revealed by El Espectador, the victim was visiting the country to attend to business in Bogotá. •He died of two gunshot wounds after being […]
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A retired soldier was assaulted and shot in his home over the weekend in Ramos Mejía, Buenos Aires, according to larazon.com.ar. The 54-year-old man was accosted by four burglars after parking his car outside his home. Inside the home, the thieves were attacked by the man’s 80-year-old mother, until both her and her son were […]
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The subway was in the tunnel on its way to Plaza Maipú station when Israel del Carmen Huerta Cespedes opened fire on the 20 passengers of the last subway car with a CZ 9 mm automatic pistol reported Nacion. cl. Huerta left two fatally injured, Meneses Mario Acevedo (58) and Fernando Munoz Onate (43), as […]
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Recently seized weapons were intended to supply drug cartels, paramilitary groups, and Zeta groups in the area of Olancho, Honduras and most weapons are said to be trafficked from Florida through the Russian mafia reported La Tribuna. The weapons are also said to travel hidden aboard trucks or other vehicles, in exchange, mafias obtain large […]
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Hugues Goisbault, the French ambassador to Panama, confirms that Antonio Noriega will return to Panama this year reported TVN noticias. Noreiga, serving his sentence for money laundering in Paris, is returning at end of his extradition. The process is normal and will be carried out by Panamanian authorities after signing a decree. Read Article.
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Each year, 220 to 240 falsified lawyer credentials are discovered in Mexico causing misfortune to customers according to El Sol de Mexico. These false lawyers present a large problem not only to the costs of a trial, but also to the process of legal justice. Planned reforms to the National Law School of Mexico and […]
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According to ElComercio.com after an investigation into financial irregularities in the Galapagos National Park administration, Gaby Cisneros Ribero was fired for neglecting the protection of personal passwords for accessing the system of Registry Control. Furthermore, Eddie Navarrete was suspended for 30 days without pay. Finally, Sandra Cobos and Carmen Estela were suspended for 15 days […]
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ElComercio.com reports that Ibarra police discovered a truck with 1.2 tons of marijuana in the center of the city. Officials say the marijuana shipment was found this past weekend, however an official announcement occurred today, Monday July 18th. The commander of police in the northern zone, Saul Subia says the load is the largest registered […]
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According to ElComercio.com Quito native, Ecuador Nelson Ivan Serrano was sentenced to death for the murders of four people in Florida December 1997. His nephew, Alfredo Luna says if Serrano’s defense team does not present an appeal by the next 12th of September, Serrano will be listed for execution in Florida. The article says that […]
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According to ElUniverso.com the ex-captain of the Peruvian Army Telmo Hurtado returned to Peru after being extradited from Miami, this past Thursday July 14th. Hurtado is the main suspect in the slaughter of 69 peasants in the Ayacucho community of Accomarca during the search for members of the Shining Path in August 1985. During the […]
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Six men, between the ages of 19 and 30, were arrested last week in the act of collecting extorted money, El Mexicano reports. They are also being investigated for other crimes, such as carjacking. The men were arrested after they demanded 50,000 pesos (4,265 USD) as “fee payment” and gave the man a day to […]
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