Slow justice: Costa Rica’s criminal courts backlogged as far as 2017
Email this page August 8th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Costa Rica residents can now expect, on average, to wait more than a year for criminal cases to see the inside of a…
Cocaine seized at SJO destined for Canada, Ireland, and the Netherlands
Email this page August 4th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Costa Rica’s Drug Control Police (PCD) seized three packages containing a total of one kilogram of cocaine at the Juan Santamaria International Airport…
Six suspects dressed as police assault hotel in Quepos
Email this page August 4th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) At least six suspects wearing jackets marked “Policia” and “OIJ” held up a hotel in Quepos on Friday morning. A police official…
Costa Rica Coast Guard arrests two men with butchered sea turtle with 200 eggs
Email this page August 1st, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Costa Rica’s Coast Guard along with judicial police officers arrested two suspects Tuesday who were in possession of a butchered green sea turtle…
Judge arrested for stealing bail, child support money freed from jail
Email this page August 1st, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) A criminal court judge in Upala, Alajuela, identified by the last name Leon who was arrested on July 24th on charges that he stole…
73-year-old man dies trying to rape his sister-in-law
Email this page Editor’s Note: This story has been corrected. We initially identified the woman as being the man’s sister. She is in fact his sister-in-law. We regret the error.…
Identity of Canadian man arrested on Interpol Red Notice in Costa Rica confirmed
Email this page July 30th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) After initial confusion, an official with the Interpol section of Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ) told Inside Costa Rica today on the condition…
Drug traffickers target Costa Rica’s exports
Email this page By Mario Garita July 29th, 2014 (ISH) Costa Rica is the leading exporter of pineapples in the world, according to the country’s Foreign Trade Promoter (PROCOMER). In 2013,…
