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Bracelet? T-Shirt? Joint?
Posted by Editor | July 27, 2009 | Categories: Crime & Punishment | 1 Comment
 Local artisans at the market along the Puerto Viejo beachfront |
Investigators have busted a vendor at the artisan’s market in Puerto Viejo who was selling marijuana along with bracelets, necklaces and other assorted souvenirs.
La Nacion reports that the man, with the last name Velázquez, but known to local police as Juan, had been under surveillance for several days by OIJ investigators from Limon.
The investigators were responding to anonymous complaints from neighbors that drugs were being sold openly at the market, which is on the main road in downtown Puerto Viejo.
On Friday, the agents made 5 drug purchases and then arrested Velaquez. They seized several marijuana joints along with a collection of bracelets. As well, they seized several marked bills which had been used in the drug purchases.
A judge in Limon then gave Velaquez six months of preventative detention while the investigation and court case proceeds.
More: La Nación: Artesano vendÃa drogas a turistas en Puerto Viejo
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ok, murder and now drugsales ! I mean really what does take for the Municipality to close these “chinameros” down once and for all. You can’t even get to the beach anymore