Mexico. Mejicanas authorities yesterday analyzing the video from a camera that captured the moment in which the bodies of 35 people killed were left on the street in a city of Veracruz. In turn, followed the identification of victims, including a policeman and two children.
The prosecutor Reynaldo Escobar said that the images of the security camera in the hands of the State Police, which conducts research supported by federal prosecutors, and confirmed that already identified 18 of those killed. The bodies of 35 victims of the massacre were found Tuesday in the busy Boulevard Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, in the municipality of Boca del Rio, part of the city of Veracruz.Read Article
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The group is a remnant of the exterminated band led by the then leader, Valdecir Pinheiro dos Santos. Conocidos delincuentes son los que tuvieron en cautiverio por seis días a Dalia María. Known offenders are those who were in captivity for six days Dalia Maria. Days after the kidnapping occurred on the morning of Aug. […]
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Brazil’s army began on Friday gave a mega security operation on the Triple Frontier, with the aim of curbing illegal activities as smuggling and drug trafficking and weapons. The Brazilian general Ajax Porto Pinheiro, one of the persons responsible for operating Agate 2, announced that the controls in the area where forces are deployed will […]
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key documents that compromise national security and strategic operations of undercover life have been sold to the guerrillas, drug traffickers and foreign governments. Much of the information in this organization with the true identities of its agents, the names and trades used as fronts, the missions assigned to them, the targets that spies, the names […]
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Ecuador and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding to combat money laundering and organized crime during a visit to Quito’s Vice President Mohammad-Reza Rahimi, the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry reported. Under the agreement, the Financial Analysis Unit of Ecuador and the Financial Intelligence Unit, Iran exchange information aimed at countering both crimes, said vice turn Ecuador. […]
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The Minister of Education, Alonso Lujambio, admitted yesterday that organized crime had “right of territory” and “had infiltrated the whole sections of public institutions.” As the only speaker at the commemoration of the 201 anniversary of Independence, Lujambio defended the fight against crime launched by Felipe Calderón:Read Article
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The deputy said that about 90% of the number of homicides in the country are committed with firearms, thus confirming that arms proliferation must be eradicated. The National Assembly deputy, William Ojeda, claimed Sunday the indifference of the national executive against criminal boom and the criminal action that has made Venezuela has the highest murder […]
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The drug scene is still dominated by American groups or clans, a trend that is accentuated each year and which echoes the Senior Prosecutor of Cantabria in his Report for 2010. Also detected the phenomenon of the proliferation of laboratories for growing marijuana. Recent years are marked in the world of drug trafficking by a […]
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The Governor of Chiriqui and the security sectors of the province ordered the closure of hundreds of illegal steps on the border of Panama with Costa Rica, to curb smuggling, trafficking in arms and persons, to give more security to the area, confirmed the governor of the province, Aixa Santamaría. Read Article
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Fear and anxiety seized dozens of residents of mountain communities of this county and its neighbor Uruachi, when planes were full of down gunmen who took over roads and trails, apparently to guard a new route to get shipments of marijuana and poppy produced in the Upper and Lower Tarahumara. “Since last week fell (landing) […]
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This past weekend, the county seat of Uruachi, Chihuahua, was the scene of several clashes between gunmen of the Juarez cartel and the Sinaloa, vying for control of a new route for the smuggling of drugs into Sonora. The shootings left a toll of 10 criminals and a policeman wounded, and the facades of the […]
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The prosecutor of the State of Mexico, Alfredo Castillo Cervantes, reported the arrest of seven members of The Knights Templar participated in the multihomicidio of six men in a house in Chichester on Friday. The killings were “a settling of scores between a group dedicated to the sale and distribution of drugs and other consumers, […]
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PHILADELPHIA “Band of brothers,” the U.S. Department of Justice calls them. These brothers number just five, hail from Ukraine, and stand charged with one of the most insidious crimes in the illegal immigrant underground: human trafficking. Omelyan Botsvynyuk, 52, and Stepan Botsvynyuk, 36, are set to go on trial Tuesday in U.S. District Court in […]
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Los Zetas, with traffic of drugs, kidnapping and extortion of money as casinos and betting sites, have occupied at least one third of the territory of Nuevo Leon, according to the operational files of the Federal Police. The corporation has verified the active presence of the arm in 17 of the 51 municipalities that make […]
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Elmeridianodecordoba.com.co reported that law and order situation in the department has become a source of conflict between local and national authorities, for while Gov. Martha Sáenz Correa wields a figure of 356 dead at the hands of criminal gangs in so far year, the former Minister of Defense Rodrigo Rivera from Bogota said at the […]
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Following the demobilization of paramilitary groups, the then government of President Alvaro Uribe had considered regained control in areas that were dominated by the paramilitaries. However, these organizations were unfolding today monopolize their structures and 21 of the 32 departments. Aupados private armies for drug trafficking violence and overflowed the shot a sense of insecurity […]
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he sign directed by Tomas Rojas Cañete, alias “Toma’i” is perhaps the most powerful operating on the border with Brazil.The operational structure of the organization is run by his brother Marcos Rojas Cañete, who allegedly manages the group’s money and the right arm of the drug czar. Read Article
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The former pilot and filmmaker Enrique Pineyro warned two months ago in an interview with THE GAZETTE “for pilots, flying the north is potentially dangerous clandestine flights are a threat. It is a scene often must cross drug planes.” Read Article
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To the ‘strengthening’ of the military strategy in the area VRAE (Ene River valleys of Apurimac and) some drug dealers have migrated to this region to start a new drug route and that, in two separate intelligence reports, the Police Drug Cajamarca has already dubbed as the ‘small’ VRAE. According to narcotics agents require the […]
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Report a nexus of narco network at airports Facilitators. Univision Miami, says police operating in airports allow the drug to exit aircraft from Bolivia to America.The U.S. network Univision and opposition MPs claim that in some airports nationwide carrier networks exist that facilitate the activity of drug trafficking in Bolivia.From a report by the U.S. […]
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Colombia announced the destruction of 10 clandestine airstrips Colombian police on Saturday presented to the press 23 of the detainees, some of them pilots of aircraft. At least ten were clandestine airstrips used by Colombian drug organization Daniel “Loco” Barrera for sending drugs to the U.S. will be destroyed in Colombia and Venezuela, Colombian police […]
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They get to cut down forests without permission or with false papers legalized. In nearby national park The Katie the illegal logging is an everyday thing. Sawmill groups, representatives of ‘mafias’ international or need income laborers valuable trees felled, cut and sell timber removed, before being sent to markets in China and other countries in […]
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Brazil won’t acknowledge terrorists, raises global concerns as host of World Cup and Olympics. Even as the world has cracked down hard on terror, some countries have refrained from adopting anti-terror laws. Their stance has racked up consternation at a time when terrorism is a global concern, especially with Brazil now set to host the […]
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Extortion (la vacuna) is not a new scourge in Medellin and Valle de Aburrá. The “vaccine” is used for years as a way of financing illegal armed groups and common criminals. Transporters and traders are among the most affected unions. And in the midst of this illegal pressure, the average citizen suffers the humiliation of […]
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River captured pirates who raided Gaston Acurio Police Criminal Investigation Division (DIVINCRI) captured the two alleged ringleaders of the gang “Pirates of the Amazon River,” known in the underworld underworld as ‘Salamanca’ and ‘Battery’, involved in the assault on the chef Gaston Acurio national, his wife and a group of tourists when roamed the Amazon […]
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An arson attack on a casino in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey has killed more than 50 people. Several gunmen burst into the building in broad daylight, dousing it with fuel and setting it alight. Amid the panic, many people were trapped and overcome by smoke. Officials suspect organised crime was behind the attack, […]
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According to hoy.com.ec, FARC is distributing brochures in the neighborhood Kennedy southwest of Bogota, on how to construct in twelve steps bombs. The phamplets show how to prepare, install, and activate the explosive devices. Residents in this populous area are concerned that many of the pamphlets will end up in the hands of minors. Read […]
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The presidents of Mexico and Costa Rica have signed an extradition treaty as well as an official agreement to exchange information and intelligence to better combat drug trafficking, El Informador reports. The agreements were signed at the beginning of a two day state visit to Mexico by Costa Rican president Laura Chinchilla. Additionally, a cooperation […]
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While many of Mexico’s tourist areas have remained separate from the bouts of drug violence buffeting the country, the popular resort city of Acapulco has emerged as one of the new hot spots of organized crime. Read Article
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Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla says increased international help is vital to tackle the drug cartels operating in Central America. President Chinchilla told BBC Mundo that Mexican gangs were present in her country, working with local cartels.Ms Chinchilla was speaking during a visit to Mexico focused on boosting co-operation against organised crime. Read Article
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The murder of the PT mayor of Zacualpan, Nava Hedwig and the alleged threats against mayors of the south are a reaction of organized crime, which seeks to intimidate the communes said Governor Enrique Peña Nieto, after qualifying this as an isolated objectionable. Read Article
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Local police of Ingeniero Budge in Lomas de Zamora disbanded a cocaine kitchen yesterday at dawn, according to inforegion.com.ar. The raid occurred after police discovered two suspicious men, who appeared to be guarding a door, during a routine check of the area. The men fled after noticing the police and officers entered the house they […]
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The Chinese owner of a supermarket in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina was shot dead in his shop yesterday afternoon by two suspected members of the Chinese Mafia, reported lanacion.com.ar. According to police, the shop owner had been approached by Mafia members last week demanding he pay $50 thousand to ensure his safety. After […]
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According to ElComercio.com a young Ecuadorian was willed and an Ecuadorian soldier wounded during a confrontation between the Ecuadorian military and a group of FARC guerillas located on the Colombian side of the San Miguel River. Officials say the confrontation occurred last Thursday, August 11th while a military patrol was performing control operations along the […]
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According to ElComercio.com the arrest of Dan D., a foreigner ten days ago, is an important break in bringing down an international crime organization involved in drug and weapons trafficking. Ecuadorian police say this man along with two accomplices who were also arrested, are important players in a crime network that carries out many illegal […]
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A man linked to the Italian Mafia was arrested at his home in the La Matanza district of greater Buenos Aires over the weekend after a four-month-long investigation, according to elcomercial.com.ar. Walfre Dante Zubieta Bilbao, 49, is accused of leading an organization that trafficked Bolivian cocaine through Argentina and to Italy and other European countries. […]
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According to Peru21.pe a Taca Airline crewmember was detained by police of the Dirandro Unit in the Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima, Friday August 12th. Police say he was trying to leave the country with 2 kilos of drugs, cocaine and opium. The crewmember, Ricardo Velasquez Luque was arrested while in the international departures […]
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According to ElUniverso.com the Anti-Kidnapping and Extortion Unit of the Ecuadorian police on August 4th, freed a Jewish Rabbi Yishak Tom Rotem Yosef after three days held by kidnappers. Police say his wife reported the rabbi’s kidnapping on the 1st of August when she received messages and a video in which the kidnappers demanded a […]
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According to RPP.com.pe police seized over 14 kilos of hydrochloride cocaine inside a house in Juliaca. Police say the drugs were in 14 packages, wrapped in duct tape, beige tape and duct tape. During the operation three people were arrested, two women, ages 60 and 35 and a man, 20, whose identities have not been […]
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RPP.com.pe reports that police at the Argentina’s Eseiza Airport outside Buenos Aires, have arrested a Peruvian tourist trying to enter the country with 20 kilos of cocaine hidden inside screws. Police say customs agents discovered the drugs on a Peruvian who had a ticket for Johannesburg. The Peruvian was stopped once x-ray machines discovered packages […]
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District attorney, Teresa Martínez, of Buenos Aires, is working today with authorities from Paraguay to repatriate 23 women that were rescued from a trafficking network outside of Buenos Aires over the weekend, according to abc.com.py. The victims from Peru and Paraguay, ranging from 30 to younger than 18-years-old, arrived in Argentina hoping to find honest […]
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A package was seized today at the Silvio Pettirossi International Airport in Luque, Paraguay containing 3.957 kilos of cocaine hidden among leather car seat covers and a thermos used for drinking a South American tea called yerba maté. Abc.com.py reports that the package was headed for Spain when it was seized by the National Anti-Drug […]
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•Due to the increase in security on the U.S. – Mexico border, there has been an increase in the transport of illegal drugs transported through the U.S. Mail per elespectador.com. •Marijuana and cocaine have been detected and seized in the mail. •In the U.S., 10, 786 kilos of marijuana have been seized from mail in […]
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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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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 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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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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In an interview with Público, two Mexican writers, Luis Humberto Crosthwaite and Hector de Mauleón, spoke about the effect of the war on drugs on journalism in Mexico. Both have written books on the subject. They say that journalism has turned into a high-risk profession and that there are parts of the country in which […]
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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 presumed member from the armed group, Sendero Luminoso, died today and two others were captured in an encounter with the Peruvian army in the Quillabamba province informed Terra.com.pe. The incident occurred in Kepashiato, a town located in the Valley of the Apurimac and Ene rivers (VRAE), where Sendero collaborates with drug gangs. The VRAE […]
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After receiving a distress call, Honduran police officers left to Mount de Los Negros where they encountered a mysterious vehicle and were later ambushed by a heavily armed group of Zetas informed La Prensa. The staged emergency has no leads on the supposed criminals, but addresses the increase of organized crime and drug manufacturing near […]
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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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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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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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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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The U.S. House of Representatives released a report this month focusing on Lebanese and Iranian terrorist groups, specifically Hezballah, that have established networks in South America at the Triple Frontier between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay and in Venezuela, reports infobae.com. The Triple Frontier is already a haven for organized crime and trafficking, and the Islamist […]
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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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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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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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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 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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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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The head of the National Information Office of the UN in Bolivia, Robert Brockmann, has denied Sunday a report published in various media referred to Bolivia is the largest producer of marijuana.Previously, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has rejected an alleged statement by a report in the Bolivian press. Read Article
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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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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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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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“Los Zetas”, a Mexican criminal group, allied with the Salvadorian coyote Jesus Ovidio Guardado to recruit women for prostitution informed El Mundo.com.sv. The coyote tricked the victims by promising safe passage to the United States when the actual plan was to sell the women to Enrique Jaramillo Aguilar, leader of one of the Zeta cells […]
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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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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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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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Felipe Calderon, president of Mexico, signed a decree that strengthens laws against human trafficking to halt the abuse of organized criminals reported El Punto Critico. Calderon is confident that the reform will help fight violence and save innocent people from the hell power of organized crime. The president also encouraged citizens to be weary of […]
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A tense meeting between a group of 36 employers from Tehuacán and the governor of the state of Puebla, Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, was held earlier this week, La Jornada de Oriente reports. The employers are concerned about the recent increase in kidnappings, as well as complaining that there have been no decisive actions taken […]
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According to ElUniverso.com Spanish police in Madrid, Spain dismantled a drug ring that ran between many European and South American countries, including Ecuador, on Friday July 15th. Officials say drugs, like heroin and cocaine, were hidden in cans of dog food and put on airplanes that delivered them to their destination. The Spanish Interior Ministry […]
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The focus of the anti-drug movement in the Southern Cone has traditionally been on Bolivian and northern Argentine citizens used as “mules” who transport drugs around the world, according to lavoz.com.ar. But now the drug cartels have employed, for much cheaper, European “mules” posing as tourists who transport the drugs from Bolivia to Argentina, and […]
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Criminal organizations in Mexico are using fake Red Cross ambulances and trucks for unlawful purposes, primarily for human trafficking, Univision reports. Last week, the Federal Police detained a trailer in Oaxaca with Red Cross symbols on it that was carrying at least 100 undocumented immigrants, mostly from Central America. This type of disguise is nothing […]
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The Ministry of Interior stated that in the past two years the rate of thefts against tourists has decreased almost 50% at Jorge Chavez International Airport, reported Peru21.pe. Statistics from the Department of Tourism and Environmental Protection (Dirtupramb) also show that the number of reported cases has also reduced. Their joint efforts with the National […]
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Mexican poet Javier Sicilia, head of the victims movement against violence in Mexico, stated that in September the Consolation caravan will march from the south to the center of Mexico according to EFE. Sicilia gave up poetry in April after the murder of his son, and has since organized activist movements throughout Mexico. His influence […]
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16 miles off the coast of Cape Gracias a Dios (The Mosquito Coast), units of the Armed Forces (Armed Forces) have custody of a submarine that contains between three and five tons of cocaine. This is the first time a submarine has been intercepted in Honduras. Read Article
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In a park in Santa Catarina, several men that were traveling in late-model vehicles killed five youths in multiple shootings reported Milienio. The youth often meet at Plaza Argentina of La Fama, a known point for selling drugs. The victims, which included three teenagers and two middle-aged men, were chased and shot with handguns, as […]
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According to RadioSucre.com.ec government authorities say that an addition of a monetary reward system for the location of criminals on the ‘Most Wanted’ list, is just one of the new strategies for the capture of the violent criminals in Ecuador. The undersecretary of Internal Security of the Interior Ministry, Javier Cordova says that rewards will […]
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A young Argentine model, Daiana Antivero, was arrested this morning in Ezeiza International Airport after security personnel found 5 kilos of cocaine in her luggage, according to losandes.com.ar. The woman was planning to board a flight to Holland when she was detained. Investigators are trying to discover how long the model has been a member […]
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Chief of Bolivia’s anti-drug police force, Colonel Gonzalo Quezada, announced today that 543 kilos of cocaine were seized in 2 operations in the last 48 hours, per abc.com.py. The first operation took place in the Santa Cruz region and involved a plane that was carrying 363 kilos of cocaine to Brazil. Gunfire was exchanged, but […]
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ElComercio.pe reports on Monday July 11th, police pursued a group of criminals belonging to a ‘Marcas’ group. Police say they caught the criminals before a bank robbery was committed. ‘Marcas’ groups are gangs of 3 to 4 bank robbers who use a ‘mark,’ an individual dressed in casual clothes creating no suspicion, to identify possible […]
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Two men accused of being involved in the assassination of Argentine singer Facundo Cabral were arrested today in Guatemala, according to lavoz.com.ar. One of the men arrested is believed to have hired the gunman who shot Cabral and the other man was one of two drivers of the vehicles used during the shooting. Officials have […]
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According to ElComercio.com the current Ecuadorian government has been asked to extradite 33 fugitives with criminal backgrounds ranging from drug trafficking to murder. An unknown government official has reported to El Comercio that from 1995 to 2011, 21 nations asked the Ecuadorian government for extradition of 86 criminals hiding in Ecuador. Additionally Jay Bergman, the […]
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The following information was obtained from an article published on 5 June 2011 by the website of Colombian newspaper El Espectador. Additional references concerning the topic of crime’s influence on Colombian youth and its causes were also taken from an RCN Radio articles published on 21 June 2011, and 22 June 2011 as well as […]
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A Wikileaks document released this week shows that U.S. Officials are intent on working with Brazil to combat drug trafficking, according to abc.com.py. The documents dated March 2009 talks about the importance of increasing funds to Brazil, the dominant country in South America and a leader in the fight against drugs. At the time of […]
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According to ElComercio.com this morning, July 6th, a criminal court judge freed the foreigner who tried to leave Ecuador with $132,600 yesterday afternoon. Abel M, 23 years old, was arrested by narcotics agents yesterday, trying to leave the Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito. Abel was arrested while waiting for a 2 p.m. international flight […]
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A group of 120 from Central America – 41 Guatemalans, 40 Hondurans and 43 Salvadorans – were taking a train from Oaxaca to Veracruz on June 24 when they were kidnapped, Prensa Libre reports. Early investigations indicate that the train was intercepted by at least 12 armed men belonging to the drug cartel Los Zetas. […]
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Hoy.com.ec reports that today, July 5th, the Ecuadorian police seized 741kg of cocaine in the Manta fishing port. Officials say that the value of the bust is estimated between $30 million and $45 million. Officers seized the cocaine during a boat inspection of the shipyard. Colonel Wladimir Leon, head of the Narcotics Police say that […]
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According to Hoy.com.ec the director of National Police in Colombia announced today, July 5th, that the March 2008 bombing of the FARC camp in Ecuador was a state decision and therefore, the officials found to stand trial in Ecuador should not be held accountable. General Oscar Naranjo along with the Colombian government do not recognize […]
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According to ElComercio.com at least 16 areas in the Historic Center in Quito are being overrun with alkaloid micro trafficking. The Metropolitan Secretary of Security says that the problem is increasing due to the presence of crime and instability in Quito. Furthermore, the Antinarcotics Division of Pichincha has identified 76 selling points of these drugs […]
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According to ElComercio.com new government statistics from SIGOB show robberies and other violent crimes are increasing in Quito. In Quito, robbery of bank customers in the vicinity of financial institutions increased from 81 cases in 2009 to 169 in 2010. Officials report that the first quarter of this year 2,044 robberies occurred in Quito while […]
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