Archive for: July, 2011

Uruguayan President promotes the role of media in the education against crime.

“A police report in a TV newscast has the right to spend 5 or 10 minutes and say everything that comes to mind, but the news should end with an analysis that strike the subliminal awareness of what the crime is and how to fight it. I think we are entitled to ask mass media [...]

Military World Games in Rio had security flaws.

A series of security incidents that happened here during the Military World Games cast shadow over the two biggest international sport events that Brazil is going to host — 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Rio Olympics. Four armed men broke into one of Rio de Janeiro’s luxurious hotels and robbed guests including foreign tourists before [...]

Good News: Canadian crime rate lowest since 1973

The police-reported crime rate, which measures the overall volume of crime, continued its long-term downward trend in 2010, declining 5% from 2009. At the same time, the Crime Severity Index, which measures the severity of crime, fell 6%. The national crime rate has been falling steadily for the past 20 years and is now at its lowest level since 1973. Canadian police [...]

Biggest blow for Juarez Cartel in years. Police captured cartel leader.

MEXICO CITY –  Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez, a former mexican police officer who allegedly admits ordering 1,500 killings during a campaign of terror along the U.S.-mexican border has been captured in northern Mexico, federal officials said Sunday. Acosta is also a suspect in last year’s slaying of a U.S. consulate employee near a border crossing [...]

Facebook in Brazil misused to sell Ecstasy and hire criminals.

A young brazilian man, 25,  suspected of dealing Ecstasy through the social networking site Facebook, was arrested by officers of Precinct 12 (Copacabana), in Barra da Tijuca in western Rio do Janeiro. The commissioner responsible for the action, Antenor Lopes Martins  Jr explained that the alleged criminal lived in the neighborhood of Espirito Santo (Holy [...]

From China with love: 25 tons of precursor chemicals for synthetic drugs seized in Mexico.

MEXICO. A shipment of 25 tons of precursor chemicals used in the production of synthetic drugs and that was bound for Guatemala, was seized at a port in the Mexican state of Michoacan (west) , said Friday the Navy of Mexico. The chemicals origin and port of  embarkation was from China. The container of the [...]

Norwegian terrorist mentioned Mexico´s Tijuana Cartel.

MEXICO, D.F. – The killer of 77 people in two attacks in Norway last Friday 22, Anders Behring Breivik , mentions the mexican Tijuana cartel in a list of likely suppliers of weapons to extremist right-wing cells, such as the Knights Templar, which he claims is a part of, according to a report of proceso.com.mx [...]

Mexican Judicial System is negligent against Sexual Trafficking.

Many of the traffickers gangs for sexual exploitation in America, Asia and Europe are led by citizens of  Tlaxcala in Mexico. That is why the mexican authorities launched investigations to detect the native  “pimps”  of the smallest state in the Mexican Republic, according to the announcement of the President of the Special Commission for Combating [...]

Colombia´s yearly money laundering exceeds 8 billion dollars.

Attorney General’s Office, Viviane Morales, said yesterday in Beijing that the growth of money laundering in Colombia has taken a rapid pace and now exceeds 3% of the country’s gross domestic product, or approximately 8 billion dollars per year. She said these are the results of  a study made by the colombian Information and Financial [...]

Mexico signed extradition agreement with Italy and antimafia collaboration.

Mexico City.- Marisela Morales Ibáñez , attorney general of Mexico,  signed an extradition treaty with Italy and a Treaty on Criminal Legal Assistance to fight against organized crime. The mexican Attorney Gral also held a meeting with the Italian Anti Mafia Director Mr. Piero Grasso.  Both parts will collaborate in technical asssistance on Organized Crime, [...]

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