It wasn't all good clean fun at the Fuente de la Hispanidad on San José's east side, where thousands of Costa Ricans gathered Sunday night to celebrate their national team's victory over Greece.
Acting on a tip from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Costa Rican Drug Control Police seized over 700 kilograms of cocaine Thursday and arrested four suspects.
Judicial Investigation Police agents simultaneously raided the hospital, the main offices of the Social Security System, or Caja, and the offices of medical supply company Synthes.
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.
Roberto Echeverría had a bad start to his weekend. Friday evening, Echeverría's car was stolen along with his iPhone 5S still inside. He could have thrown his hands up and filed a police report the next day but instead he booted up his find phone app and took to Twitter.
Peru’s National Police on Thursday arrested Nazira María Cross, 48, a Costa Rican woman and one of the FBI's most-wanted suspects, on suspicion of murdering her ex-husband in 2008 in California.
After more than a week of testimony, a Costa Rica criminal court on Tuesday convicted U.S. expat Ann Maxin Patton, 43, of shooting to death her husband, U.S. financier John Felix Bender, 44, in 2010. The court sentenced Patton to 22 years in prison for the crime.
The FBI asked the Costa Rican woman who married the online currency company's founder, Arthur Budovsky, to testify in a money laundering trial in the U.S.
