costa rica crime

Costa Rica News – There are 900 traffic officers patrolling more than 25,000 miles of Costa Rican roads in 3 shifts. The Internal Affairs Department of the Public Works and Transportation…

Costa Rica News – Costa Rican officials say they have seized more than four tons of cocaine from three boats disguised as fishing vessels off the Central American country’s Pacific Coast.

Costa Rica News – For her last months as president, Laura Chinchilla was pretty quiet. She passed the power to Luis Guillermo Solis about a month ago, remarking about how she…

Costa Rica News – Although prostitution is legal in Costa Rica, promoting prostitution or recruiting prostitutes and forcing them to work the trade is illegal. A bar owner in Guapiles, in…

Costa Rica News – The use of medicinal marijuana is a delicate topic but is being discussed in Costa Rica’s capital city after officials confiscated an anti-inflammatory cream that is supposedly…

Costa Rica News – Keep your hands on your wallets while walking through downtown San Jose or get yourself a money belt to hide your valuables.  The Director of the…

Costa Rica News – President Luis Guillermo Solis says that he is willing to collaborate with the United States in fighting the war against drugs. The US has recently petitioned the…

Costa Rica News – A Minnesota  man is accused of running an illegal gambling operation that preyed upon North Dakota gamblers for years, and funneling the money back and forth among North…