MANAGUA — Nicaraguan police have seized a large cache of weapons and explosives from suspected members of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel after a police car chase outside Managua, a spokeswoman said.
The weapons included 61 automatic rifles, mostly AK-47’s and four M-16s, two grenade launchers, 10 hand grenades, 20 sticks of dynamite and more than 19,000 [...]

BROWNSVILLE – A murder suspect on the run for two years will soon face a judge.
U.S. Marshals caught 55-year-old Dennis Wayne Capps in Nicaragua. He was wanted for the June 2006 murder of Bryan Aldrich on South Padre Island.
Aldrich was found stabbed to death in his RV near Beach Access 5.
In October 2007, a Cameron [...]

Hand-in-hand with renovating Limón’s tired infrastructure, authorities are looking to revive the Costa Rican Caribbean port city’s tranquillity.
President Oscar Arias on Thursday celebrated some small successes in the initiative, including a drop in rates of homicides, property damage and domestic violence in a part of the country that traditionally reports higher crime rates.
From 2008 to [...]

BOGOTA – The Colombian navy detained two Nicaraguans who were sailing illegally in Colombia’s Caribbean waters, the military said.
The foreigners were surprised four miles west of the island of San Andres, the navy said after noting that the pair were on board a motorboat called the Easy One, which did not have any registration documents.
“The [...]

Costa Rica’s National Police discovered 11,000 marijuana plants in Bagaces, in the northwestern Guanacaste province, last weekend thanks to a tip from a resident, law enforcement officials said.
The plants represent the largest find of the illegal drug in Costa Rica in almost a decade, according to a press release from the Public Security Ministry.
The plants [...]

MANAGUA – Ten Mexicans, five women and five men, were arrested at the Peñas Blancas crossing on Nicaragua’s southern border for not declaring at least $120,000 they were intending to take across the frontier into Costa Rica, the National Police said Sunday.
The Mexicans, who were en route to the Costa Rican capital supposedly to attend [...]

Nicaraguan police hand over Saul Antonio Turcios Angel, a Salvadoran citizen who is regarded as boss of the criminal gang MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, to Interpol under tight security measures at Sandino International Airport in Managua, capital of Nicaragua, Sept. 4, 2009. Turcios Angel, 29, who is described by Interpol as “highly dangerous,” was arrested [...]

WOODSTOCK, Ga. — A restaurant in Woodstock is the focus of a federal investigation into “human smuggling” and involuntary servitude. Two federal search warrant affidavits allege young women were smuggled into the United States and forced into prostitution.
According to the affidavits, the women came from Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador.
The investigation is focusing on Cabanas, [...]