A conviction in an Ecuador murder trial brought a sense of justice to an Oregon family last week.
John Chamberlin, the father of murder victim Max Chamberlin, said three judges voted unanimously to convict Emilio Bowen of beating and fatally shooting the 22-year-old in November 2009. John Chamberlin attended the four-day trial that began June 1 and awaited a verdict in Ecuador with his wife, Ellen Madnick, and sister, Ann Chamberlin. At 9 p.m. Tuesday, the Corbett family got the verdict they had waited 19 months to hear. Read Article
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A police patrol killed one soldier and wounded Army is a negative balance of the security forces clash with FARC guerrillas in the area known as the plane’s tail, jurisdiction Quilichao Santander, Cauca. Apparently, the insurgents sought to attack a base of the Pichincha Battalion, based in this population, when they were struck by patrol […]
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A new law was approved on Wednesday and 10 000 vehicles registered undocumented on the first day of implementation. There is strong criticism of Evo Morales and accuse it of encouraging crime. About 10,000 vehicles Bolivia admitted to smuggling, especially from the Chilean port of Iquique, were recorded in the first 24 hours after application […]
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According to Esperso.ec Mario Andres Perez was arrested by the judicial Police in connection with an assault on Assemblywoman Gilmar Gutierrez two months ago. Mr. Perez was arrested in Guayas with a warrant issued by the Fourth Criminal Court in Guayas. During a press conference yesterday, no details were elaborated on due to a continuing […]
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Bolivia.com reports that the offices of Amazon Command Staff and officers of the Control Authority and Social Control of Forests and Land arrested a Peruvian municipal authority on charges of illegal logging in Bolivia. The Agency of Development for Macroregions and Borders reports that the operation was conducted with the boarder community of the Manuripi […]
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ElComercio.pe reports that the central market in Callao does not have a legal operating license or safety certificate. Therefore, 10,000 people are exposed daily to a serious risk in event of an earthquake, stated the council of Civil Defense. The market has a history in kidnappings, stabling and arrests. In 1940 there was an earthquake […]
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El Heraldo de Tabasco reports: • Authorities confiscated 21 million tons of illegally imported tobacco from Vietnam, largest seizure of illegal goods on record • As a result, the Federal Commission for Protection Against Health Risks (Cofepris) announced new measures to combat illegal imporation and sale of tobacco, alcohol and medications • Secondary market for […]
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•17 members of the Colombian National Police have been arrested for being connected to narcotics trafficking in different cities in Colombia as reported by Rcn Radio. •The case is still in the initial stages and after Friday, the officers will face charges of narcotics trafficking and conspiracy to commit a criminal offense. Read Article
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Rcn Radio reports that Angelino Garzón, Vice-president of Colombia, warns the kidnappers, believed to be FARC, that the government is doing everything possible to locate the Chinese workers and that they should release them as soon as possible. Garzón also denounces the murder of judge Margarita de las Salas Bacca in north Barranquilla and called […]
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Director of the Department of Human Trafficking, Daniela Acosta, calls for a change in the Argentine judicial system after two men from Entre Ríos were released today and acquitted of charges of sexual exploitation of minors and running a brothel. The Federal Court absolved the charges even after one of their young victims testified against […]
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According to Ecuavisa a merchant, Christian Ruiz Martillo, was killed in cold blood by his brother in law, Duval Mora Valverde. The incident was caught on tape in the city of Duran in the province of Guayas. Mr. Valverde was married to Mr. Ruiz’s sister, who moved to Spain with their children. Reportedly, Duval Valverde […]
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•In south Cali, Leonel Yusti Cardona, José Albeiro Beltrán, and Jhon Jairo Marín performed the paseo millonario which involved using a taxi to drive victims to an ATM and forcing them to hand over money withdrawn from accounts per rcnradio.com. •The judge sentenced them to 48 to 50 years of prison for crimes including attempted […]
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According to Hoy.com.es, the Unit to Combat Organized Crime (ULCO) destroyed a coca plantation camouflaged on a hectare of land in Pastaza province in the jungle. The operation destroyed more than 150 coca plants, but no arrests were made. The commander of the second police division, Juan Ruales, reported that the population in the area […]
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From SDP Noticias: • Mexico City has the highest rate of alcoholism among minors in the country at 16.4% • Attorney General of Mexico City has passed the “National Agreement for Zero Tolerance of Sales and Provision of Alcohol to Minors” • Attorney General seeks to target bars, clubs and stores that sell illegally to […]
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As described in the video by elespectador.com, in Barrancabermeja, Santander, Colombia, the young boy was caught in school with 7 small packets of marijuana in his bag. Authorities believe that narcotics sellers were using the child to sell the drug at his school. Read Article
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According to Mexico’s El Universal, at around 5:30 p.m. on June 7, five vehicles pulled up outside the Victory Center for Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation in Torreon, Coahuila, in northern Mexico. A gang of heavily-armed men emerged from the cars, and burst into the clinic. Methodically moving from room to room, they opened fire on […]
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Colombia launched a major military and police operation Thursday to try to rescue four Chinese oil workers abducted by suspected leftist guerrillas in a remote southern jungle region. A land and air operation was under way around the town of San Vicente del Caguan, a longtime stronghold of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia […]
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A British grandfather wrongly imprisoned for drug smuggling following a holiday in Peru has finally been cleared of the charges and freed to return home. Alan Rae, 40, was arrested after his travel companion, Nathan Brandon, was found carrying cocaine when they were stopped at Lima Airport in April 2009. Read Article
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On the outside, the San Antonio prison on Margarita Island looks like any other Venezuelan penitentiary. Soldiers in green fatigues stand at its gates. Sharpshooters squint from watchtowers. Guards cast menacing glances at visitors before searching them at the entrance. Read Article
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Of the 58 Brazilian Santos fans and 3 bus drivers arrested in Paraguay for theft, vandalism and battery after a soccer game last month, only 27 will be released and deported to Brazil at this time, according to abc.com.py. The decision made by the Paraguayan Directorate of Immigration this week states that the remaining 31 […]
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A 62-year-old Penticton, B.C., man was robbed and stabbed to death at his Puerto Vallarta home. The victim, identified by a business acquaintance as Len Patrick Schell, was reportedly stabbed on May 30 at his Mexican home, where he spends half the year with his wife and children. Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade […]
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A man wanted out of Lee County for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from his customers reportedly took his own life in Belize. And that could mean his victims will never see restitution. Read Article
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Brazil’s Supreme Court has rejected the extradition to Italy of a former far-left militant and ordered his immediate release in a case that has heightened tensions with Rome. Italy immediately denounced the ruling on Wednesday with Giorgia Meloni, the youth minister said that the latest move to free Cesare Battisti, who has been sentenced to […]
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According to Eltiempo.com, three Chinese nationals working for the multinational oil company Emerald Energy were kidnapped along with his translator, yesterday (Tuesday) at 2:30 pm in a rural area of the municipality of San Vicente (Caquetá). The four employees were traveling with their driver in a pickup truck 4 x 4 when they were detained […]
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El Comercio reports: ● Mexico City: Teenage girl drank too much at a party and passed out; seven young men (five under age 18) sexually abused her while she was unconscious ● One of the perpetrators filmed the act on his cell phone and sent it out (known as ‘sexting’) ● Video was sent to […]
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•According to eltiempo.com, 15 officers of the Policía Nacional of Colombia have been captured in areas such as Bogotá, Cali, and San Andrés and are believed to have links with a narcotics trafficking network. •These officers allowed shipments of narcotics to pass in speedboats headed to Central America, and have been identified to have been […]
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•Rcnradio.com reports that in the southeast of Antioquia, Colombia, a 16 year old who had an argument with the girl’s father started randomly shooting leaving the 3-year-old girl dead and her mother seriously wounded. •The authorities are seeking the culprit who fled the scene. •The girl’s mother was transported to a hospital. Read Article
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A clandestine grave was uncovered in the Mexican municipality of San Ciro de Acosta, San Luis Potosí on Sunday evening, June 5. Soldiers arrived at the location indicated by an anonymous call and discovered four corpses buried in a field. As the commander of the San Ciro de Acosta municipal police force disappeared two months […]
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•As rcnradio.com reports, the director of the Corporación Forjando Futuros, Gerardo Vega, points out a lack of safety in the process of restoring rights to lands in Colombia. •53 leaders of this process have died since the beginning and leaders being threatened are not receiving the necessary protection. •The Comisión Nacional de Reparación y Reconciliación […]
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According to Vistazo.com, an anti-kidnapping unit rescued a taxi driver from his captor in Naranjal, Ecuador on Monday June 6th. Moises Enrique Arevalo disappeared for seven days after an officer, identified as Felix Xavier Criollo Giler, kidnapped him in Machala. Reportedly the officer detained Arevalo on suspicion of drugs. Once Giler transferred Arevalo into a […]
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According to Proceso magazine, at least 11 died and two were injured Tuesday evening at the La Victoria Rehabilitation Center for Alcoholics and Drug Addicts in Torreón, a city in the state of Coahuila, Mexico. Two armed men reportedly forced their way into the center and opened fire in various rooms of the building. Some […]
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U.S. security authorities and businesses are warning travelers to avoid the Mexican states of Sonora, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, Jalisco and Nayarit. Many online sources, including Samuel Logan’s “Traveler Safety in Mexico” map, outline the most high-risk locations for U.S. tourists. This map indicates that half of the territory of Zacatecas is unsafe due to […]
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ElComercio.com interviews Francesco Forgione, former president of the Italian Anti-Mafia Commission and a criminal organization specialist. With no visa required of foreigners, Ecuador attracts criminal groups like Ndrangheta, the world’s most dangerous mafia, interested in coca. As a coca producer, Ecuador has become a crossroads for organized crime due to the increase in production and […]
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According to the Foundation for Social Research (FISAC), since the implementation of the “alcoholímetro” program in 2003, fatal traffic accidents have reduced by 21% in Mexico. The program involves night time and early morning road stops in which drivers, including public transportation drivers in Mexico City, are required to take a breathalyzer test if suspected […]
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Terra.com.mx reports that a big threat for the next president of Peru, Ollanta Humala is the increased presence of drug trafficking. The presidencies of Alejandro Toledo and Alan Garcia lacked action against drug trafficking while increasing business corruption, according to drug trafficking expert Jaime Antezana. Peru has become the world’s largest producer of coca leaf […]
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•In cooperative effort, the antidrug police, the Army, and the Colombian Air Force found and destroyed 14 tons of marijuana ready to be packaged, which were valued at 35 billion pesos, in La María, Torbio, Cauca as reported by elespectador.com. •The marijuana belonged to Miguel Ángel Pascuas Santos, alias “el sargento Pascuas”, who is the […]
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According to Mundolatinhoy.com, in less than one day seven robberies occurred at stoplights in Guayaquil. The criminals surprised drivers who were waiting for the light to turn green.Read Article
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According to Extra.com, five assailants intercepted a security vehicle that was transferring money from a Pacific Bank located in the offices of Telecommunications Corporation (CNT) on Monday at 9:00 a.m. The twelve assailants were riding motorcycles and armed with high-powered weapons. The incident occurred between Gaspar de Villarroel and Amazonas Avenues in Quito. As the […]
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In Cali, Colombia, two unidentified women 75 and 77 years of age were found dead in their homes with their throats slit as reported by the video by elespectador.com. The authorities believe that the assailants committed the murders in an attempt to rob the victims. Read Article
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Women in the Mexican state of Guanajuato are the top consumers of coke and crack cocaine in the country; Guanajuato is one of top 10 states for illegal drug consumption in Mexico In workshop held on policies for addiction prevention, Carlos Tena (Commissioner of National Council Against Addiction) argued against drug legalization, saying it would […]
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•In April, as armada.mil.co reports, the National Navy of Colombia and the Antinarcotics Police found 210 kilos of cocaine worth $5 million USD dissolved in 350 gallons of diesel fuel on the Honduran ship “Seven Sean”at the Las Flores sector in Barranquilla. •The fuel tested positive for alkaloid and the process of examining the net […]
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A women’s network in Nicaragua will bring the international SlutWalk protest march (“Marcha de las Putas”) to the city of Matagalpa on June 11. The SlutWalk movement initiated in Canada after a police officer recommended for women to avoid dressing like “sluts” in order to prevent being victims of sexual violence. Representatives of SlutWalk in […]
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The Mexican government has adopted the Colombian government’s system of battling organized crime. As leon.milenio.com reports, the two governments have been working together sharing information and technology in order to stop narcotrafficking groups who transport drugs from Colombia to the United States through Mexico. Although the Colombian government has reduced the production of cocaine by […]
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•Although there is a soldier every two kilometers, on Tuesday there will be a meeting between the minister of Defense, Rodrigo Rivera, and Ricardo Virviescas, the secretary general of the Asociación Colombiana de Camioneros (ACC), to discuss increased security on the highways. •Virviescas expresses worry that armed groups are operating in places in which there […]
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In the past five years, disappearances attributed to government institutions and criminal groups have increased in Mexico. Since December 1996, Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission has classified 5,397 people as “lost” or “absent”, with 500 of these disappearances originating in the state of Michoacan. While reliable statistics are difficult to establish and confirm, it remains […]
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The home of businessman and former mayor of Tijuana Jorge Hank Rhon was raided early Saturday morning, as reported by El Universal. Hank Rhon and ten of his bodyguards were arrested and will be flown to Mexico City for questioning by the Assistant Attorney General’s Office for Special Investigations on Organized Crime. At his residence […]
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he National Commissioner for Human Rights, Ramón Custodio, expressed his concern about the apparent weakness of the government of Honduras to confront organized crime. The human rights advocate urged the government to attend as a priority and effective criminal actions carried out by organized groups, regardless of the law, “exacerbate the crisis of violence in […]
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According to ElComercio.pe four Europeans tried to smuggle hydrochloric cocaine concealed in their luggage out of Peru. The Europeans and three Peruvians were apparently traveling to Madrid at the time of their arrest. Police confiscated 2 to 7 kilos of hydrochloric cocaine. The arrest of the three Peruvians occurred as they were trying to transport […]
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Alan Garcia condemned the terrorist attack Choquetira town, which troops killed Huilber Angeles Casio, Alban Towers and Zózimo Rusber Huamán Cuyo. The president, Alan García Pérez, condemned the terrorist attack last night in Cusco , in which troops killed Huilber Angeles Casio, Alban Towers and Zózimo Rusber Huamán Cuyo. “We mourn the martyrs of democracy, […]
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An assault on the Boulevard Morazan provoked strong police mobilization. The members of the security fell as gullible for trusting a uniform stained by crime. With a large sum of money was raised several men dressed as police who raided the cashier of a stock car on the Boulevard Morazan, leaving the balance of three […]
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Leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as FARC continue their cat-and-mouse battles, in the nation’s almost five-decade-old conflict. “It’s tough fighting in all this mud,” a guerrilla named “Adrian” says. Flinching with every shot he or his comrades fired, he explained that “This is to slow the army’s advance. Within two or three days […]
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Online-911.com reports an operation by the National Police of Argentina along the toll road of Molle Yaco in Tucuman, ended in the rescue of five Chinese citizens and the arrest of an Ecuadorian. The police stopped a bus arriving from Salvador Mazza to perform a passenger check, when they detected the five Chinese, including two […]
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ElComercio.com reports the discovery of new centers of human trafficking in Chile, which include mafia operations in Paraguay, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic, occurred Friday April 27th. Chilean Labor Minister, Evelyn Matthei said that the government was looking into the issue and criticizing former Paraguayan senator Francisco Errazuriz for employing illegals on his farms and […]
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The fruits of drug trafficking are on open display in this western state capital: Cartel members honor their dead with gaudy mausoleums at the main cemetery, black-market moneychangers work in the open, and store shelves are stuffed with products from businesses identified by the U.S. Treasury Department as being fronts for organized crime. Read Article
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Neiva. The fighting yesterday between troops of the Ground Combat Battalion No. 37, organic Brigade No. 29 and the sixth terrorist Farc allowed to expose the massive recruitment that would be suffered by indigenous people living in councils of the department of Cauca, limits to the west of Huila. The incident took place in an […]
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According to msemanal.com, last month’s massacre of 28 Guatemalan farm workers by the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas represents a first act of extreme violence aimed explicitly at civilians since the end of Guatemala’s Civil War. However, it is not the first instance of violence attributed to Los Zetas in El Petén, the department of […]
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Speaking to the General Council of the Spanish Bars in Madrid on Thursday, human rights activists from Mexico condemned the sexual violence committed against women, and in particular women from the most vulnerable groups of Mexican society according to elpais.com. One of the activists who testified was Valentina Rosendo, the indigenous woman who was tortured […]
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Lahora.com.ec reported at 9:30 in the morning of Wednesday June 1st, more than 600-armed soldiers entered the farming facilities of the community Patria Nueva in the Puembo sector of canton Pujili, seizing weapons (machetes) in a storage facility that previously contained cassava. Farmers demanded a warrant issued by a judge, but no warrant was ever […]
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In Quito, the Zone Management Center, National and Metropolitan Police and Armed Forces are conducting joint security operations to improve public safety. Seventeen establishments were closed in May when four operations were performed. The operation aims to control land use, liquor sales, evaluate emergency situations, ventilation and sanitary conditions. Joint control was implemented in the […]
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•According to a study done by Competencia Humana, one out of every ten diplomas given by potential employees were false per portafolio.co. •In the study, 20% of the falsified documents were from schools that did not exist and 15% of the cases involved complicity between the forger and the academic institution itself. •Only 15% of […]
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•The United Nations’ Office of Human Rights in Colombia condemned the attacks led by the ELN and FARC as serious violations of human rights norms according to radiosantafe.com. •Christian Salazar, the representative of the High Commissioner of the UN for Human rights stresses that among these violations are homicides, indiscriminate attacks, and forced displacement. Read […]
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A 48-year-old man was arrested last week in Villa Gobernador Gálvez, Santa Fe after officers found large quantities of shotguns, pistols and revolvers in his home. The man was apparently renting out fire arms to criminals, according to pais24.com. Some of the weaponry found included: Sole caliber 24 shotguns 380 caliber Bersa pistols 32 caliber […]
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Police arrested the 61 Brazilian Santos fans and their bus drivers after a semifinals soccer game of the Copa Libertadores against Paraguayan team Cerro Porteño yesterday. On their way home to Brazil after the tie game, the fans attacked local fast food joints in San Lorenzo, outside Asunción, with firecrackers, sticks and stones, damaged equipment […]
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Between 2009 and 2011 so far, in official schools in Bogotá, there have been 53 sexual abuse cases of teachers towards minors and 140 child abuse cases as reported by the Secretaría Distrital de Educación according to elespacio.com.co. A candidate to the Council of Bogotá, Miguel Uribe Turbay, who made the report, stated that of […]
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•Hoy.com.ec reports that the Ecuadorian police force considers FARC an internal security issue as the Colombian guerrilla group uses Ecuador as a base for planning and carrying out operations. •Their actions according to the Ecuadorian police force include trafficking of narcotics and arms, assassinations, and smuggling of fuel among other activities. •Between 2005 and 2008 […]
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•The Colombian National Police and the DEA of the U.S. worked together in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Spain, and Colombia to capture 22 members of “los Paisas” and the “Oficina de Envigado” as reported in rcnradio.com. •Within Colombia, 12 members of captured along with $480 million USD. •Currently in Boston, César Augusto Pinzón, Antinarcotics director […]
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Expreso.com reports that so far in 2011 that fifty percent of murders in Manta have been committed by assassins. There have been a total of 79 murders in the entire province of Manabi according to police. Many of the murders committed by assassins involve gangs of which one of the most notorious are “Los Choneros” […]
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The Senate is meeting today to discuss and vote on a new law that will punish money laundering as a separate crime. This legislation was proposed by the government in regulation with the Financial Action Task Force guidelines on how to handle money laundering offenses. The new law also changes the election process for leaders […]
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•Elespectador.com reports that the Policía Nacional Civil found 166 kilos of cocaine in a container from Colombia in a warehouse of the Santo Tomás de Castilla port in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. •There were no arrests. •Yesterday, the police seized $4.29 million USD of cocaine in the El Progreso department during which two presumed members of […]
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•So far in 2011, The National Police of Colombia have captured 34,456 people, 3,968 of them under 18, involved in narcotics according to policia.gov.co. •In the last two days, the police have shut down 250 stores of hallucinogens as part of the operation. •198 firearms and 12,209 white arms were seized as part of the […]
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•So far in 2011, 113 cases of suicide have been reported, 25.6% more than the same period last year according to the report by the Policía Metropolitana de Bogotá per elespectador.com. •Homicide cases have experienced a reduction of 5%, and theft cases have experienced reductions in their different categories. Read Article
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06-01-2011 UPDATE: ACCORDING TO ECUAVISA.COM TWO EMPLOYEES WERE ARRESTED OF THE BUS COMPANY REGARDING THE CRIME. THE MINOR BOY INVOLVED IN THE HEIST IS AGE 10 AND NOT AGE SIX AS ORIGINALLY REPORTED. ——————————————– In the middle of the night on Tuesday, bus number three of Cooperativa de Transportes Ecuador pulled out of it’s terminal […]
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Brazilian police have arrested nearly 30 people in connection with a series of ATM heists that have left some poorer parts of Sao Paulo with scant access to cash. Five current or former police officers were arrested in the sting Tuesday — and investigators suspect another two dozen police could be involved. Read Article
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Chile’s state television channel has reported that long-secret documents support the theory that President Salvador Allende may have been assassinated and did not commit suicide during the 1973 coup. TVN’s “Special Report” based its report late Monday on a copy of a 300-page military review of Allende’s death long thought to be lost. Read Article
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Iran’s defense minister, whose extradition is sought by neighboring Argentina for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center, briefly visited Bolivia on Tuesday, raising tensions between the countries. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi is wanted by Buenos Aires as an alleged mastermind of the bombing, which killed 85 people. Interpol issued a red notice for Vahidi in […]
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A Brazilian environmentalist was killed Friday in the Amazon Rainforest region, three days after the murders of two other environmental activists in the area, authorities said. Adelino Ramos, known as Dinho and a leader among local impoverished farmers, was killed Friday morning while selling vegetables produced in the farming settlement in Porto Velho in the […]
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The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies is investigating whether or not the CIA sent money to Federal Police officers who investigated members of the Islamic community and terrorist organizations in the triple border between Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. Former police chief Queiroz Protógenes was charged with the task to find the source of the money that […]
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•The non-governmental organization Corporación Nuevo Arco Iris performed a study that revealed the sale of arms in black-markets in Bolívar City, Suba Usaquén, Kennedy and Bosa, areas that also experience other illegal activity according to radionacionaldecolombia.gov.co. •The prices of the arms range from 200,000 pesos to 2 million pesos depending on the quality and are […]
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•The operation that the Spanish Guardia Civil started in October allowed them to capture 1,000 kilos of cocaine and 22 members of the illegal band responsible for the transfer of narcotics including cocaine from Colombia as reported by diariosigloxxi.com. •The Guardia Civil received information about the transport of Colombian cocaine to Belgium dissolved in containers […]
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•Donay Correa Londoño and Guillermo Roldá Correa, both candidates for the Mayor of Campamento, were shot and killed by FARC’s frente 36 in the North of Antioquia according to rcnradio.com. •This makes 3 assassinated candidates for mayors of municipalities so far in 2011 in the north of Antioquia. •There have also been attempts against candidates […]
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•Minister of Minas and Energy, Carlos Rodado Noriega, affirms that after months of investigation, they have ascertained that old drug traffickers have been using the gold mining industry to launder money per rcnradio.com. •According to the minister, they have found 9,000 issued securities and 19,600 requests. Noriega states that one of the problems in Ingeominas’ […]
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The Policía de Control de Drogas (PCD) – drug enforcement police – and the Fuerza Pública (regular police) had a busy weekend, seizing some 371 kilograms of illegal drugs in the 24 hours between Friday and Saturday, increasing the haul in the last 10 days to 1.3 tons. Read Article
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In Neiva, capital of the Huila department in Colombia, an assassin, recently turned 18, was arrested after shooting and killing a 4-year-old boy. The victim was the nephew of the man he had be contracted to kill whom the assassin was unable to find as reported by rcnradio.com. Read Article
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In Giradot, Cundinamarca, Police captured a drug trafficker alias “Mago de Oz” (Wizard of Oz) as shown by video posted by elespectador.com. He attempted to escape while being searched by an officer by jumping into the Magdalena River, but was later apprehended and found with 700 doses of marijuana hidden on his person.
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•The Colombian National Police found 3 million pesos in the possession of Iván Mejía Soto, who was allowed to go free, in a hotel in the city Sincelejo, the Sucre department per eluniversal.com.co. •He was seemingly planning on circulating the money in a local market. •According to the Unidad de Reacción Inmediata de la Fiscalía, […]
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The Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal reports the number of cases of sexual abuse against minors is over 18,200 according to rcnradio.com. The Universidad Nacional stresses the importance of proper care when questioning these children who may not be able to deal with the pressure of the procedure due to the psychological stress involved in […]
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•The strengthening of intelligence through technology and training is part of the plan according to elpais.com.co. •The Política Integral de Seguridad y Defensa para la Prosperidad also plans to protect the people and respect rights. •A security expert from the Fundación Arco Iris, Ariel Ávila, emphasizes the need to get rid of any infiltration of […]
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Spanish police have arrested a man when he picked up in the city of Badajoz (Southwest) a parcel from Venezuela contained inside an accordion with 1,018 grams of cocaine. Read Article
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•In the department of Risaralda, Colombia, the National Police, the Procuraduría Regional de Risaralda, and the Secretaria de Hacienda de Risaralda have been making efforts to fight against adulterated liquor and contraband of liquor as revealed by eltiempo.com. •Some homemade liquor is very dangers as it can affect the liver and even cause sudden blindness. […]
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•Elespectador.com reveals that during a 100-man operation in the Calle del Bronx, 17,000 doses amounting to 843 kilos of marijuana were confiscated which is worth over 200 million pesos. •Investigations revealed that marijuana came from the south of Colombia to be sold in Bogotá. •Seven people were captured in the operations, and these illegal actions […]
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As revealed by a video of elespectador.com, while fans of the Tolima soccer team were driving down a road from Sardinata in Norte de Santander, Colombia, they were attacked by a group of fans of Cúcuta Deportivo. The assailants threw rocks at the vehicle, and one of the young men was carried away by the […]
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The Policía Aeroportuaria del Servicio de Vigilancia del Ministerio de Seguridad Pública (MSP) at country’s international airports now do more than keep an eye on security, but can also now issue traffic tickets to drivers and detain illegals, among other duties of an immigration official. The special police body that is a permanent fixture at […]
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For the Fiscal Guayas, Antonio Gagliardo, there is a current trend in which criminals prefer the presence of the inhabitants of the house to commit the crime. “Now they are becoming more aggressive and do not care if the house is occupied or not … Now enter the force, assault, rob, rape … We’re finding […]
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After ten months of police investigation led to Luis Venegas, accused of raping more than 20 women. Several complaints had reached the Police of Pichincha, but the capture of the man is because one of his victims was identified through an identikit. Read Article
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•Corporations Mujeres que Crecen and Vamos Mujer have reported that in Medellín, among other sexual crimes, the sale of young virgin girls has risen according to radiocaracol.com.co. •Offenders are seeking 11 and 12 year old girls to sell their virginity. •The investigation reveals that family members commit 65% of sexual crimes against women in Medellín, […]
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•The proposed solution is to raise the penalties for minors for committing such crimes as homicide, kidnapping, extortion, and sexual crimes per elespectador.com. •Minister of the Interior and Justice, Germán Vargas Lleras stated that Colombia could not continue to allow 16 and 17 year old assassins to go free without punishment. •Representative Alfredo Deluque explains […]
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With more that 2 million women subjected to sexual slavery, it has become the third most profitable illegal business behind drugs and arms trafficking. In Focus has created a documentary centered on the “Triple Frontier.” This tri-border between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil is one of the most prominent for the sex slave industry because of […]
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Authorities are investigating the disappearance of a Catholic priest in this Mexican metropolis near San Diego, the Baja California Attorney General’s Office said Wednesday.The Rev. Salvador Ruiz Enciso was last seen Sunday, but authorities were not alerted until two days later, the AG’s office said. Read Article
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Gunmen apparently from two rival drug gangs fought a ferocious gunbattle on a highway in a western Mexico state that killed 28 men Wednesday, authorities said. Read Article
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A psychiatrist arrested in Argentina on charges of falsely billing $1 million in health insurance claims in Hawaii was involved in similar fraud some 30 years ago in Colorado, according to documents obtained Wednesday. Read Article
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