The search operations set up by the National Police (PN) this past weekend in San Joaquín, Panamá Viejo, and Mañanitas, yielded the re-capturing of three fugitives that recently escaped from La Joyita prison.
According to a press release from the PN, the first capture took place in the neighborhood of 8 de Septiembre in Mañanitas, when [...]

TVN Noticias – Ninety-eight (98) bags with “white flour” were found inside a container that was abandoned in a warehouse on Via Tocumen, near the University of Technology.
The container from South America was supposed to contain 36 stoves, but upon inspection authorities found only six stoves and 98 sacks full of drugs. When they were [...]

BY ALISON GENDAR – DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER. In every way, he was one of the biggest drug kingpins around. Jorge Paredes-Cordova, all 330 pounds of him, was convicted on Friday as the head of a drug-trafficking syndicate that smuggled tons of Colombian cocaine into major cities in the United States. Paredes-Cordova, nicknamed Gordo – [...]

TVN Noticias – Panama’s Assistant Attorney General filed manslaughter charges against Anibal Rivera, accused of hitting and killing Rolando Rodriguez, 24, with his car while driving under the influence of alcohol, who he then dragged under this car more than 5 kilometers, from Los Andes to the entrance of La Cabima in Alcalde Diaz.
Rivera remains [...]

MEXICO CITY, November 3 (Itar-Tass) – Russian woman tourist Olga Shidlovskaya was seriously wounded in Panama by unidentified attackers, Itar-Tass learnt on Monday by phone from head of the consulate section of the Russian embassy in Panama Georgy Polin. According to Polin, the Russian tourist is now hospitalised in a serious state in the Panamanian [...]

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com – The Panamanian National Police announced the arrest of two teenagers, aged 15 and 17, who have reportedly admitted to committing last Saturday’s attack. I’ve been told they have even turned over the weapon used in the attack to police. Reportedly these two have prior offenses for other crimes. So, their [...]

By Edilsa Gonzalez Roca for La Prensa – Penonomé Cocle – Two American tourists were seriously wounded on Saturday afternoon when they were intercepted by two masked and armed thugs as they crossed the road leading to the Playa Blanca hotels in Rio Hato. A man, about 70 years old, was shot in the shoulder, [...]

Mario Ernesto Kennedy, the son of the representative of San Felipe by the same name, was arrested Tuesday morning by agents of the National Police during a raid on block 1091 of Avenida A.
The son of the Partido Revolucionario Democrático councilman is accused of illegal possession of 78 rounds of AK-47 ammunition that was found [...]

A lack of resources and a failure to coordinate between different agencies are just some of the reasons that police officials say has led to the failure of the country’s anti-gang laws to address the problem.
Passed in 2004 and revised in 2007, the law is aimed at stopping gang activity, but so far only 312 people have [...]

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com – The lawyers for Airbox Express (Aerocasillas) in Panama are going to have a field day. Yesterday I was contacted by an Airbox Express customer who received a delivery from Aeropost employees. James Fendell, the CEO of Aeropost illegally redirected mail and packages that had been ordered by Airbox customers, in [...]

Panama America – In an operation dubbed “Goliath I” the Panamanian National Police arrested 113 people and seized a 12 gauge shotgun in the district of Arraiján. According to preliminary reports, 99 of those arrested were adults and 14 were minors, all of which were turned over to the competent authorities to be processed for [...]

THE FAMILY of a man who has been missing in Panama for eight weeks have flown out to help search for him.
Alexander Giles Humphrey was on holiday alone and there have been no positive sightings of him for weeks. He had left his belongings at a hostel in Boquete, Chiriqui, on Friday, August 14.
The 29-year-old’s [...]

By Grisel Bethancourt for La Critica – Panama’s Electoral Tribunal lifted the electoral immunity of former Education Minister Belgis Castro in relation to another corruption case being investigated by the First Anti Corruption Prosecutor for the scandal involving contracts to remove fiberglass insulation from schools, this time in Chiriqui.
The damage to the state detected in [...]

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com – Hello? McFly? Some of the stuff I’ve seen going around about Ricardo Martinelli’s recent moves to clamp down on illegal and undocumented Chinese immigration is way off the mark.
This issue is about illegal human trafficking, millions of dollars in illegal bribes, and the outright business that has been being conducted [...]

PANAMA CITY – A U.S. Peace Corps volunteer reported missing in western Panama’s Baru Volcano Park has been found “safe and sound” by Sinaproc emergency management agency personnel, the agency’s director, Arturo Alvarado, said.
Yennifer Vilk went for a walk alone last Thursday in the park, wandered off a trail and got lost.
The 37-year-old American was [...]

PANAMA. There have been 275 complaints of corruption made against almost 50 public offices to the Attorney General in the first two and a half months of the Martinelli administration.
The exact amount of public funds allegedly mis-used has not been quantified but, combined with cases languishing in the courts, runs into over $20 million with [...]

By Carolina Sánchez P. for DIAaDIA – He was arrested for carrying drugs. The citizen from the Netherlands, Otwin Adriann Gustina, was arrested at the Tocumen International Airport for having traces of a while powder that is presumed to be cocaine on the clothes.
Gustin was arrested as he got out of a taxi. His impatience [...]

Jorge A. Rios H. for Mi Diario – They went straight to him. Javier Sanchez, who worked as a foreman in the Panama Ports Company was shot ten times. Ironically, he was killed at 1:00 am yesterday right in front of the entrance to the cemetery in Pueblo Nuevo, headed in the direction of the [...]

Booker T. Lewis, a prominent businessman and educator in downtown Panama City, was murdered twenty-five years ago Sunday. The trail has gone cold, but Panama City Police investigators have never stopped looking for Lewis’ killer.
On September 20, 1984, Lewis was found dead inside his bail bonds business on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. The 63 [...]

Alida Spadafora, of the National Association for the Conservation of Nature, Tuesday said that the group has filed four complaints over illegal logging in protected forest reserves in the Darién.
Spadafora said that the activities taking place in the province are a “disaster,” and said that they take place because there is no enforcement of environmental laws.
There have [...]