Archives for February 22, 2018

A family-based criminal organization was stopped this Thursday in Montecillos de Alajuela. They apparently distributed drugs in the sector. A 40-year-old woman and her 17-year-old son were some of the six people arrested. The four raids also resulted in the confiscation of half a kilo of marijuana, 140 doses and four bags of crack paste. […]

The Venezuelan parliament, which has an opposition majority, believes the government’s proposal to have early legislative elections and join them to the presidential elections on April 22nd -corresponding to 2020- is an “attempted coup d’etat.” This attempt of coup d’etat aims at evading the control of the national public administration that constitutionally corresponds to this […]

A couple failed in their attempt to steal cash and goods from a Canadian tourist in Guanacaste. Officers of the Airport Police of the Directorate of the Air Surveillance Service (SVA) apprehended a man and a woman who had in their possession $5,000 dollars in cash and the belongings of the foreigner. The incident took […]

The Plenary Court ruled that the suspended magistrate of Chamber III, Celso Gamboa, incurred serious offenses during the exercise of his position. This was established after the plenary session this Thursday, which determined to hold Magistrate Celso Gamboa Sánchez responsible for disciplinary proceedings, for having incurred serious violations in the exercise of his position,” in […]

National scientists discovered a new bacterium called Listeria costaricensis. The species was identified by Johnny Peraza and Kattia Núñez, from the Biotechnology Research Center of the Technological Institute of Costa Rica (TEC). They had the collaboration of the Pasteur Institute, based in Paris, France. The scientists made the discovery in collected water of an industrial […]