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🇨🇷 Costa Rica /Crime & Justice

Police officer detained over alleged ties to Diablo gang had drugs hidden under mattress

From La Nación · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Costa Rican investigators found drugs hidden under a mattress in the bedroom of a police facility where officer Ureña worked.
  • The discovery came during raids in Pococí and Sarapiquí that also sought the arrest of a suspect known as Mister Músculo.
  • Ureña was detained over an alleged connection to the Diablo gang.

Drugs were found hidden under the mattress in a police facility room where an officer detained over alleged links to the Diablo gang worked.

The discovery formed part of raids carried out by Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Police in Pococí and Sarapiquí. The operation also targeted a suspect known as Mister Músculo.

The detained officer was identified by the surname Ureña. Investigators found the drugs in the bedroom of the police delegation where he worked.

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Originally published by La Nación in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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