Rosalina Treyer Pacheco and Ailyn Lineth Chong were caught Wednesday trying to bring contraband into the La Joya jail, hidden in boiled yuca, a popular tropical vegetable root. Camouflaged items included six bundles of marijuana, a cell phone, a cell phone chip and a charger destined for a relative in the penitentiary. Both women were turned in to the...
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Bullets were exchanged between the driver of a stolen Toyota Corolla and police during a public street shooting on Tuesday. The pursuit began in 5 de Mayo Plaza and finished in the El Marañon neighborhood in Calidonia where police intercepted the car thieves right before the two parties exchanged shots. The driver of the stolen...
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Police arrested an alleged member of the internationally renowned MS-13 gang on Monday in Chorillo, betrayed by his tattoos, including one of a clown and three stars. To authorities, the capture of the 27-year old Salvadoran, last name Galvez, is proof that the MS-13 has infiltrated Panamanian gangs, which are increasingly recruiting children and...
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Traffic police gave 1,034 tickets to drivers violating traffic laws this Christmas. Of the total violations, 444 were given in Panama City and the other 681 in the interior of the country, according to a Police Department release. In additional 148 vehicles were towed. Of these, 106 tickets were given to drunk drivers, 196 to speeding driver,...
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So far this year, 50.7 tons of drugs have been enkindled in Panama in 2010. During the ninth drug burning session, which took place on Wednesday, drug agents and Judicial Investigation officials lit up 6.4 tons of cocaine, 65.6 kilos of marijuana and 7.9 of heroin at the Cerro Patacon landfill, La Prensa reports. One drug incineration...
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