While Judge Isabel Porras read out the counts against U.S. investor Cyrus Sepehr in a San José courtroom Thursday, he lowered his head to the wooden table,…
When Iranian-American Cyrus Sepehr was thrown into a preventive prison in Costa Rica under suspicion of fraud, he could still walk. But in just four months he's been…
A Dutch couple and one of their employees were found dead Monday on a hardwood plantation in Puntarenas near Costa Rica's central Pacific coast. The victims have…
Less than eight months after three masked men broke into her Playa Langosta hotel, beat her husband -- who later died -- and took off with their life savings,…
The 57-year-old U.S. man who was arrested Nov. 21 on accusations of paying an underage girl for sex says that he is a victim of extortion. Prosecutors claim that…
Authorities in Costa Rica arrested a 57-year-old man from the United States on Saturday, accusing him of sexually assaulting a minor last July. Agents from the Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ)…
Costa Rica's Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ) said Friday that it had discovered burned remains, apparently human, on the property of U.S. citizen Robert Stewart, 72, who was reported missing on…
Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ) raided the Santa Ana home of a German man on Oct. 22, seizing a large collection of unregistered pre-Columbian art worth as much as $1…
Update: The Judicial Investigation police published a clarification that the woman's name was Kropf, not Crock as originally reported by the authorities. A U.S. woman was killed with…
Update Monday, July 7: Patrick Hundley appeared before a judge in Puntarenas to appeal his $2 million bail Monday. The judge reduced his bail to $1.5 million,…
