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The Tico Times - August 24, 2020

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Government announces increased security measures to curb recent crime wave

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Salvadoran man deported from United States suspected in murder at San José hotel

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Fourth cyclist victim of hit-and-run dies

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Costa Rica suffered through most violent year on record in 2016

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The amount of deaths from homicides and traffic accidents rose again last year, breaking Costa Rican records for both categories.

Arrests made in case of murdered Dutch couple and laborer

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OIJ officials say they've solved the January case of a Dutch couple and Nicaraguan laborer who were found brutally murdered on their Puntarenas farm.

Public Security minister says he’ll resign if not given more funds for policing

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Costa Rica's National Police force currently has some 14,000 officers. Public Security Ministry Gustavo Mata says there should be at least 18,000.

US man shot, killed outside Jacó club

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A 38-year-old U.S. man was killed in the Pacific beach town of Jacó outside of a club early Wednesday morning, according to the Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ).

Costa Rica serial killer sentenced to 110 years in prison

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The man responsible for the 2015 murder spree of drug-addicted prostitutes in San José's slums was sentenced Wednesday to 110 years in prison.

Environmental leader killed in Honduras

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A Honduran environmentalist campaigning against a dam project in indigenous lands was killed with a machete blow to the head, her organization said Thursday.

Daughters of slain Honduran activist want int’l commission to investigate mother’s death

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The daughters of slain Honduran environmental and indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres talk about their struggle to bring their mother's killers to justice.

Robbery could have been motive behind killing of three foreigners in December

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Robbery may have been the motive behind the killing of Dutch expat Johannes “Hans” Snelders, his wife Sita Dhawtal and an employee at the couple's farm in Sardinal, Puntarenas, investigators say.

Police arrest suspected killers of Gerardo Cruz

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In an ugly twist to the story of a young man hailed as a defender of women, police say he was killed by a jilted lover.

Video shows suspected killers of Gerardo Cruz, who confronted man filming up skirt

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Judicial Investigation Police on Wednesday released a video of two men suspected of killing Gerardo Cruz Barquero, the 22-year-old man who in October became famous for posting a video to his Facebook page of himself confronting a man who had been trying to film up a woman’s skirt with a smartphone camera.