Limón crime

The National Police received 2,512 complaints for property crimes during the first half of this year, representing a 13.6 percent drop from the same period of 2016.

A recent shooting in Cieneguita, Limón, shocked the community – but it was quick to respond, both supporting victims' families and organizing a peace march.

Costa Rica's National Police force currently has some 14,000 officers. Public Security Ministry Gustavo Mata says there should be at least 18,000.

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.

Police in Limón have rescued a second green sea turtle in as many weeks that was likely destined for a soup pot.

Labor leaders and some politicians denounced the conviction, while the court said it would not allow vandalism during protests.

Judicial Investigation Police found several types of bullet casings at the scene, including some from an AK-47 assault rifle and a 9 mm handgun.

There’s 1 metric ton less of Jamaican "high red” marijuana destined for Costa Rica after authorities seized a boatload of the drug off the coast of Limón on Sunday, according to a statement from the Public Security Ministry.

At approximately 1:30 p.m. on Monday, one of the seven defendants in the Jairo Mora murder trial allegedly attacked a guard while being transported from his jail cell at a Limón courthouse, the Judicial Investigation Police stated in a press release.

According to the attorney for Mora's family, Rodrigo Araya, defendant Ernesto Enrique Centeno is in quarantine at Sandoval prison with chicken pox.