The National Police received 2,512 complaints for property crimes during the first half of this year, representing a 13.6 percent drop from the same period of 2016.

Even though police said the men were throwing drugs off the boat and into the sea at the sight of officers, they were allowed to walk free after a ruling from a Limón judge.

Police said Andersson was caught in the act of stealing items from a grocery just hours after threatening neighbors with a machete.

The Salvadoran man was deported from Los Angeles, California in September of 2016, and entered Costa Rica a few days later.

The men that were identified only by their last names – Matamoros Duarte and Rojas Jiménez – were briefly detained Monday following police raids in San Pedro and Heredia

Three of the prisoners had burns on various parts of their bodies; others suffered respiratory problems caused by smoke.

On Monday, Costa Rican prosecutors announced they are launching an investigation of real estate group Homes Grupo Inmobilario for various developments in the Central Valley.

A would-be robber got a taste of karma this weekend in Liberia, Costa Rica when he got trapped in the window of the house he tried to steal from.

Members from the famed Genovese crime family were arrested Thursday after being linked to a Costa Rican-based bookmaking operation.

Two men held up a cop in Santa Teresa and locked him in his own station before stealing three pistols, tourism police say.