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The start of the "Drug Wars" in Puerto Rico was in 2009 in a conflict between Police and drug dealers which police wounded and killed two men. This occurred in Naranjito, Puerto Rico, the place where the drug dealers distributed their drugs to many places in Puerto Rico. In the house they found AK-47, M9 pistols and the drugs.
Trujillo has written letters to Puerto Rican schools to advise students to stay off the drug business and drugs in general and to ask for forgiveness for crimes against the community. [5] He is a preacher whose Christian testimony has appeared on various media outlets, including YouTube. [10] Trujillo was paroled on November 2, 2021. [11]
Jose Figueroa Agosto (born "José David Figueroa Agosto"; June 28, 1964), also known as "Junior Capsula" and "the Pablo Escobar of the Caribbean", is a Puerto Rican former drug trafficker. [2] As the head of a major drug trafficking organization that controlled 90% [ citation needed ] of cocaine in Puerto Rico, Figueroa Agosto was considered to ...
The Cerro Maravilla murders, also known as the Cerro Maravilla massacre, [3] occurred on July 25, 1978, at Cerro Maravilla, a mountain in Ponce, Puerto Rico, [1] [2] wherein two young Puerto Rican pro-independence activists, Carlos Enrique Soto Arriví [a] (born December 8, 1959) and Arnaldo Darío Rosado Torres [b] (born November 23, 1953), were murdered in a Puerto Rico Police ambush.
The NETA Association (Asociación Pro-Derechos del Confinado, "Association for Prisoners' Rights", Asociación NETA, or simply NETA) is the name of a gang that began in the Puerto Rico prison system and spread to the United States mainland. Although Puerto Rico has many small street gangs claiming its poorer neighborhoods, NETAS is by far the ...
Puerto Rico's murder rate dropped somewhat from the 1990s into the 2000s, yet violent crime remained significantly higher not just at a regional but also on an international scale. In the mid-2000s, the territory's troubles ranked it sixth worldwide in murders per capita. [2] In 2006, a total of 736 individuals were murdered in Puerto Rico. [3]
Name Date Location Deaths Notes Río Piedras massacre: 1935-10-24 Río Piedras: 5 [1]Ponce massacre: 1937-03-21 Ponce: 21 [2]Utuado uprising: 1950-10-30 Utuado
The Insular Police of Puerto Rico was created on February 21, 1899, under the command of Colonel Frank Techner (US Marine Corps officer during the Spanish–American War), [4] with an authorized strength of 313 sworn officers. [citation needed]