Costa Rica's Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ) are searching for Charlie Edward Hughes, a U.S. citizen who went missing earlier in August. OIJ says Hughes, 62, disappeared on…
Costa Rican police on Tuesday arrested an alleged drug dealer linked to Mexican cartels who had been wanted by United States authorities. José Efraín López Mendoza, alias…
A device that exploded Saturday at 11:30 p.m. and damaged a window of the Teletica building was a fire extinguisher tube that could be activated remotely and…
Carla Stefaniak was visiting Costa Rica from the United States last November when she went missing. In a case that quickly garnered international attention, authorities soon found…
Two National Police officers who are suspected of robbing foreigners in Jacó remain under investigation by Costa Rica’s Public Security Ministry (MSP) and Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ).…
Two men have been detained for the murder of a young Mexican tourist. Authorities say the woman was killed during an attempted robbery in Santa Teresa, Puntarenas,…
Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ) told The Tico Times this afternoon that the German tourist who disappeared from Montezuma, on Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula, on May 3 has…
Repercussions have continued for Costa Rica's iconic public high school, the Liceo de Costa Rica, following last week's tragic student death. On Wednesday, Feb. 28, 12-year-old student…
The Costa Rican Prosecutor's Office announced that it arrested "Chinese cement importer by the last name of Bolaños" just before 4 am Friday morning as he was…
Leaders of Costa Rican Judicial Branch workers’ unions, on strike since last week over a stalled pension reform plan, announced Monday that other public-sector unions will join them…
