Four men caught off the coast of Limón with more than one ton of marijuana onboard their ship were allowed to walk free by ruling of an area judge Thursday. The decision…
The messaging service WhatsApp caught on in Costa Rica and elsewhere around the world as a way to keep up with friends and family. But local communities and…
Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly will soon consider a bill to turn the Department of Intelligence and Security (DIS) into the National Intelligence Strategy Directorate (DIEN) to get…
More than 100 police with air support carried out eight raids across Costa Rica Tuesday morning, targeting an organized crime network responsible for smuggling Cuban migrants from Panama to…
More than 200 heavily armed police officers and tactical units began swarming several high-crime neighborhoods in Costa Rica's capital on Thursday in an effort to take back city…
Police in La Cruz, Guanacaste detained 44 undocumented Cuban migrants near the border with Nicaragua, according to a statement Friday from the Public Security Ministry. Authorities arrested…
Police arrested a man trying to sell endangered snapping turtles to a Chinese grocer in Limón on Sunday. The suspect, identified with the last name Barrera, had…
In August, two men held up a woman in San José. The thieves stole her smartphone and cash before police caught and arrested them with the loot.…
https://twitter.com/AlfreditoGuzma/status/638380579205939200 Is famed Mexican drug lord and masterful prison escapee Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán hiding out in Costa Rica? His son would apparently like people to think…
If you're going to wage war on drugs, you need to be outfitted like a warrior. That seems to be the rationale behind hundreds of U.S. police…
