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Costa Rica police analyze burned bones found on property of missing U.S. citizen

Three of Robert Stewart's acquaintences told police that the missing man had been acting strangely in recent days, had stopped taking his prescription medication and voiced his intention to commit suicide.

Police seize $1 million collection of pre-Columbian art in Santa Ana

Laidy Bonilla, an archeologist with the National Museum’s Department of Cultural Heritage Protection and who was involved in the raid, told The Tico Times the collection is very large, making up more than half of the 148 artifacts seized so far in 2014. The collection included ceremonial and domestic items such as ceramic vases, pendants, metates — mealing stones used to grind corn and seeds — mortars, and grinding stones from Costa Rica’s Pacific northwest dated between 300 AD and 700 AD.

US woman killed in southern Costa Rica after attacker hits her in head with a rock

A 20-year-old male suspect, identified with the last names Jiménez Torres, called police after the incident and is in custody. According to the suspect, Kropf raised Jiménez since he was a boy and allegedly sexually abused him.

A letter from a Costa Rican jail

U.S. real estate developer Patrick Hundley, 46, is speaking out from his jail cell in Pérez Zeledón, where he has been incarcerated for over four months since his arrest in February for allegedly defrauding Michigan investors of $7 million dollars.

U.S. beachgoer tries to burn down police station after his arrest in Tamarindo

Police caught the Gringo with the last name Kelarakus minutes after he allegedly broke a car window and stole a laptop computer and other items at the popular tourist beach on Tuesday.

Police arrest 2 US citizens on cocaine possession charges

Costa Rica's National Police arrested two U.S. citizens with the last names Little and Goges in Liberia, capital of the northwestern province of Guanacaste, over the weekend for alleged cocaine possession. Three Costa Ricans, including a 17-year-old girl, also were charged, according to the police report.

Suspected child molester passed background check at American school in Nicaragua

William James Vahey, who committed suicide in March, traveled to Costa Rica several times between 2004 and 2011.

Suspected US serial child predator taught at American Nicaraguan School

A suspected serial child molester may have abused at least 90 young boys at international American schools since 1972, and many of the victims may not be aware of what happened to them, said the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a statement Tuesday.

Expat wanted by US arrested while attempting to sneak into Panama from Costa Rica

Wanted by the United States for several pending charges, Sage Million, 61, was arrested in Panama last Wednesday after he tried to illegally cross the border from Costa Rica.

US real estate developer accused of fraud in Jacó allegedly targeted Michigan investors

Investors in the U.S. state of Michigan made up the majority of alleged victims in what investigators are describing as multi-million dollar real estate fraud in the central Pacific tourist town of Jacó, reported WZZM-TV in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Thursday.
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Guatemala Seeks FBI Help After Gang Leaders Escape Prison

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Costa Rica Residency Backlog Hits 38,000 in October

Immigrants in Costa Rica continue to deal with long waits for their residence cards, known as DIMEX, as the immigration system struggles with backlogs....