The Public Security Ministry also doubled the number of National Police officers in the Cahuita district who are patrolling the Caribbean town around the clock.
A U.S. woman filed a criminal complaint against a man who she says raped her last Sunday on a beach in Costa Rica's Caribbean beach town of Puerto Viejo.
A young Costa Rican man who was romantically involved with Sondra Elizondo for two years was arrested Thursday in connection with the murder of the 45-year-old U.S. woman at a San José hotel on Dec. 9.
