An award-winning Canadian country music star has brought his nationwide campaign against human trafficking to Waterloo Region. Earlier this year, police said human trafficking cases in Waterloo Region nearly tripled the national average In 2024, Waterloo Region saw 3.4 reports of human…
COSTA RICA · SECURITY The OIJ is the investigative police arm of Costa Rica’s judiciary, and the Public Prosecutor’s Office directs its cases in court. Sinpe is the national electronic payments network run by the central bank. Clonazepam is a prescription…
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC · SECURITY This story is part of our coverage of the Haiti crisis. The gangs, the UN force, the December vote and the Dominican border are explained in our dossier. Latest: Haiti Election Delayed to 18 July The Gang Suppression…
Police have arrested six men, and seized drugs, ammunition, gang patches, and gang regalia, following search warrants in Kawerau this week. Seven search warrants were executed across the Kawerau area on Tuesday 25 August by the Gang Disruption Unit as part…
COSTA RICA · CRIME Costa Rica arrested ex-model Chonta Mullins on suspicion of laundering drug money for a network tied to a boss extradited to Texas. She has not been convicted. Costa Rica’s judicial police arrested former model Chonta Mullins at…
Honduras wants a maximum-security prison for gang leaders. It is choosing among three state-owned sites, one an unfinished jail left to rust. The Honduras megaprison plan moved forward on Friday, 23 October 2026. Congress president Tomás Zambrano and security chiefs toured the…
EL SALVADOR · PRISONS The El Salvador early release plan for jailed gang helpers now has numbers, with 10,629 detainees due for review. President Nayib Bukele said on Friday 16 October 2026 that about half of them, roughly 5,300 people, could join a work programme…
Rafael Caro Quintero, the Mexican drug lord accused of ordering the 1985 killing of a US drug agent, remains in plea talks with US prosecutors. Both sides told federal Judge Frederic Block in Brooklyn, New York, on Wednesday, 14 October, that the…
For US readers the remark lands days before Red Ribbon Week, 23 to 31 October, when communities and schools hold prevention events in red. It also comes while Rafael Caro Quintero, the Mexican trafficker the DEA says it believes is responsible, faces…
A series of break-and-enters in Waterloo Region may be tied to international organized crime groups.
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