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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 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.
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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]
Puerto Rican newspaper El Vocero ran a series of articles about the massacre during 1998. Luís Rivera Newton was sentenced to life in prison for the killings. [ 1 ] Another man, identified as Hector Ayala Adorno, who had been living in the United States since 1994 under the name of "Miguel Velez", was arrested in 1998 as a suspect of having ...
The people who were found murdered in Carolina were identified by Puerto Rico's police as 27-year-old Eric Johan Batista Trinidad Navarro, 18-year-old Dartaneon Pablo Figueroa Navarro, and 15-year-old Iván Alfonso Morales Rivera, while the two young women found dead in Loíza were identified as 13-year-old Nahia Paola Ramos López and her best ...
The Ponce massacre was an event that took place on Palm Sunday, March 21, 1937, in Ponce, Puerto Rico, when a peaceful civilian march turned into a police shooting in which 17 civilians and two policemen were killed, [6] and more than 200 civilians wounded.
The Puerto Rican Mob/The Puerto Rican mafia, consists of 6 crime families, in the northwestern coast of Puerto Rico around the cities of San Juan, Aguadilla, Añasco and Isabela. The family was founded by Quitoni Martinez, José "Coquito" López Rosario whom later split from the Family to form his own which became a family within the Puerto ...