Miss Colombia mugged in Bogota
The current Miss Colombia Paulina Vega was violently robbed while driving through one of...
Tag: robbery
Colombia’s homicide rate drops 18%, overall crime lowers: Ministry of Defense
A report from Colombia’s Ministry of Defense states that in the past year, homicides in the...
72 ‘priceless’ works of art recovered from thieves in southwest Colombia
The investigative body of Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office recovered 72 stolen...
Uribe party HQ ransacked, robbed of cash and computers
Colombia’s Democratic Center Party headquarters in the capital of Bogota was left in...
Colombia to work with neighbors to limit stolen cellphone trade
The Colombian government announced Monday it will be spearheading a regional initiative to end the...
Bogota thief gets 42 years
A thief in Bogota on Friday was given an unprecedented prison sentence of 42 years for kidnap and robbery in a style of crime commonly known as the “millionaire ride.” Bogota taxi driver, Jimmy Belisario Perez...
Teen murdered over 10 cents in Bogota
A 13-year-old boy was killed on Saturday after refusing to give 200 pesos (ten cents) to a thief in Colombia’s capital city of Bogota. According to police, the boy, Nicolas Acosta Piña, was waiting for some friends in the...
Stolen donkey gets thieves in more trouble than they bargained for
A group of thieves were thwarted after one of their accomplices, a very disagreeing donkey, gave them away. According to local media, the group managed to steal goods from a small store in the tiny north Caribbean town of Juan...
Former Colombian soccer star ‘Tino’ Asprilla robbed
The luxurious estate of Faustino “Tino” Asprilla, the controversial former Colombian soccer player, was robbed while he was in Medellin for the Madonna concert, reported local media. According to El Espectador, a...
$65K Picasso piece stolen from Popayan museum
A painting by Pablo Picasso, valued at $65,000, disappeared Friday from a museum in Popayan, western Colombia. The Edgar Negret Museum alerted press of the robbery on Tuesday. The untitled piece from 1930 disappeared from the...
Colombian thief caught snoozing on the job
A dozy Colombian thief was collared by police after sneaking a snooze on the roof of the shop he was trying to rob on Sunday. The attempted robbery took place in the San Francisco neighborhood of Bucaramanga, a few blocks from...
Police capture alleged ex-paramilitaries, thieves in Bogota
The police captured six alleged robbers, including two former paramilitary members, attempting to steal from a dental hospital in Suba, a neighborhood in the north of Bogota. Colombian media reported that one of the paramilitary...
