Federal Police in Brazil captured drug trafficker who is also accused of numerou homicides. The suspect was near Rio Javarri which is located on the border of Brazil and Peru, and was transporting 30 kilos of cocaine. The operation also discovered an Israeli grenade along with weapons and cell phones. Read Article
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About 220 Colombian indigenes had to leave their homes in the western department of Choco due to pressure and attacks by an organized crime ring, humanitarian organizations reported Wednesday. The 220 people from 43 families of the Embera community near the municipality of Bajo Baudo were forced to leave by “Los Rastrojos,” an armed gang […]
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U.S. diplomats in Costa Rica have offered help in the construction of the “Centro de Intervenciones Telefónicas” (Telephone Intervention Centre), that the Poder Judicial (Judicial Branch) will be building in their effort to fight drug trafficking and increase public security. Read Article
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A wiretapping centre is the new ally of authorities to fight organized crime in Costa Rica. The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), the Poder Judicial and the Instituto Costarricense Contra Drogas signed an agreement to jointly create the new entity. Read Article
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A nightmare is lived in the late-night in this capital, as a result of clashes between rival gangs of criminals who used the street to settle their differences with a bloody balance. Long minutes of tension, real panic among the citizenry were experienced after intense firefight in which surfaced from the fearsome assault rifles and […]
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Captured inside the country, staying in various hotels in the capital and then the training started in the same Aeropuerto Internacional Jorge Chávez: The mules were shown step by step the route to be followed, until the situation they faced in each of the checkpoints. Thus, an international mafia was directed from the Lurigancho used […]
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Pirates in Callao again attack a cargo ship. This time, 20 of these criminals, armed with guns, surprised the crew of a Japanese vessel after gunpoint and handcuffed the crew, took possession of various machinery, along with money and fuel of the ship. This new assault, which is the third pirate attack in the last […]
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Seven foreign citizens were arrested accused of belonging to a gang was involved in extorting money from Chinese traders who opened supermarkets in the city and suburbs. Police sources informed that six of those arrested are Chinese nationals and the remainder is Dominican, one of which would be the alleged leader of the criminal organization. […]
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The United States on Wednesday levied sanctions on more than 70 individuals and entities in six countries linked to Mexico’s notorious Sinaloa cocaine cartel. The Treasury Department targeted a supply group — headed by Colombia’s Jorge Cifuentes Villa — on allegations of drug trafficking and money laundering activities spanning Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Panama, Spain and […]
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Two people were arrested when they moved to six children to the city of Ica. According to police investigations, girls would be sexually exploited in the various brothels in the city. Police were able to stop by the timely reporting of persons whose identities are kept confidential. Read Article
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The head of a company that provides security for American citizens traveling in Mexico says the powerful drug cartels are branching out into the $40-billion-a-year sex trafficking industry. Read Article
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From 2000-2009 criminal activities and corruption in Costa Rica brought in $4,359 million on average per year, according to a recent study. Read Article
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In early January, three Argentine pilots of a private modern jet were arrested in Barcelona, Spain, for transporting nearly a ton of cocaine. The episode is embarrassing for the Argentinean government since Spanish investigators have proof that the cocaine was loaded onto the plane from an Argentinean military airbase. Moreover, this was the last and […]
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BIKIE gangs and organised crime groups have foiled police attempts to tap their phones by importing untraceable, encrypted BlackBerrys from Mexico. The telecommunications black hole exploited by the Comancheros gang and drug cartels has come to light after several nations – anxious about terrorism and national security – threatened to ban the Canadian-designed BlackBerry phones […]
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Three hundred weapons, fifteen phones, forty doses of marijuana, crack cocaine and twenty twenty of cocaine seized police during the storming of the prison of El Bosque in the south of Barranquilla. Read Article
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Nicaraguan police seized the alleged members of a gang of kidnappers of migrants transiting through the country and rescued four illegal aliens, three Somalis and one of Eritrea, an official source. The operation was carried out in the community of Nacascolo, San Juan del Sur, Rivas, on the border with Costa Rica, local media reported […]
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Tension was running high between Spain and Venezuela on Thursday over allegations that the Latin American country had become a refuge for the militant Basque separatist group ETA, which has plagued Spain for decades. Read Article
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Narco gangs have opened a new front in South America’s expanding drug war by seizing control of parts of northern Guatemala, prompting the government to suspend civil liberties and declare a state of siege in the area. Hundreds of soldiers have reinforced police units in an offensive against a Mexican cartel known as the Zetas […]
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A total of 517 executions recorded in 2010 the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, an entity the U.S. border. Of the total, 30 were innocent victims, “said Jorge Domene, spokesman for the State Security Council. Read Article
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Famed chef Gordon Ramsay was covered in petrol and threatened at gunpoint in Costa Rica while conducting an investigation on shark finning as part of Britain’s Channel 4’s Big Fish Fight series. Chef Gordon Ramsay was conducting the investigation for Channel 4’s Big Fish Fight series. (Photo: Gordon Ramsay/FIS) “It is a multibillion dollar industry, […]
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A letter purportedly signed by the La Familia drug cartel announcing a one-month truce circulated Sunday in the western state of Michoacan. In the one-page message, distributed by e-mail and in some cities door by door, the gang claims it will halt all crime activity during January to demonstrate that the cartel “is not responsible […]
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Security forces have this year arrested over 27,000 suspected drug gang members, as part of Mexico’s ongoing bloody military-led crackdown on cartel operations, officials said. Among the top captures for Mexican authorities were the arrests of drug kingpin Edgar Valdez, known as “the Barbie,” as well as the killings of Ignacio “Nacho” Coronel, a top […]
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The supposed kidnappers of 50 Central American migrants who disappeared in southern Mexico last week called a family in the United States demanding a ransom, a Roman Catholic priest who first reported the abductions said Thursday. Read Article
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The Washington Post revealed Monday the names of the top 12 traders of weapons seized by police in actions against organized crime in Mexico in the last two years. After a yearlong investigation, the newspaper reported that eight of the main suppliers of arms to Mexico are in Texas, three in Arizona and one in […]
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The highest number of guns seized by police and military at Mexican crime scenes came from Houston-based Carter’s Country, the largest gun dealer in the region, according to the Washington Post investigation. In the last two years, more than 115 guns linked to Carter’s Country were found across the border, the paper reported. Read Article
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Although Guayas has alarming rates of crime, the other provinces are not immune to this crime wave that generates violence and is responsible for 2,225 killings and assassinations nationwide between January and October. Nationwide figures are growing insecurity linked to drug trafficking, contract killings and crime, which generates an unprecedented violence in the streets. Read […]
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Now as Christmas approaches, mobsters have chosen a new target, turning their sights on humble schoolteachers. Painted threats scrawled outside numerous public schools demand that teachers hand over their Christmas bonuses or face the possibility of an armed attack on the teachers — and even the children. To make the point clear, assailants set fire […]
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The commander of the Bloque Guainía del Ejército Revolucionario Popular Antisubversivo de Colombia (Erpac), was taken into custody in a rural area of Arauca on Tuesday. ERPAC is considered to be one of three emerging gangs involved in drug trafficking in Colombia. Read Article
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Colombian National Police have taken into custody four individuals wanted for trafficking in arms and laundering money for the FARC. The investigations was a cumilation of efforts beween Colombian National Police, Peruvian authorities, and Interpol. Since February of this year Colombia authorities have captured 22 wanted individuals for extradition. Read Article
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A detained leader of Mexico’s notorious Aztecas drug gang claims to have ordered 80 percent of the thousands of murders in the border city of Ciudad Juarez over the past two years, officials said Monday. View Story
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The United States and Panama signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) Monday to enhance cooperation in aeronautic security against the threat of organized crimes. View Story
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