[caption id="attachment_66828" align="alignright" width="285"] (Courtesy OIJ)[/caption] UPDATE: 10:15 a.m. Thursday, March 10 Costa Rica Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ) Director Walter Espinoza announced Tuesday that four suspects…
A day after police discovered the slain family of a U.S. expat and his Costa Rican wife and children in Matapalo, Guanacaste, details about the couple’s strained…
Read an update to this story here Updated at 5:10 p.m. on Tuesday At a news conference Tuesday afternoon, Director Walter Espinoza of Costa Rica's Judicial Investigation Police…
Prosecutors painted a dark portrait of 53-year-old real estate developer Cyrus Sepehr in their closing arguments Friday, saying the U.S. citizen defrauded plaintiff Dan Kohanarieh of nearly $8 million…
Arthur Budovsky Belanchuk, 42, the founder of the Costa Rica-based cyber-currency operation Liberty Reserve pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiring to run a money laundering operation, the U.S. Department…
MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities on Thursday deported a U.S. teenager known for using an "affluenza" defense in a fatal Texas drunk-driving accident, a month after the fugitive…
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…
