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The 2009 Sabana Seca massacre, also referred to as La Masacre de La Tómbola, was an incident that occurred on October 17, 2009, in Puerto Rico related to drug trafficking. Eight people were killed by gunmen in a car, who shot randomly in a bar in the Sabana Seca barrio of Toa Baja , 15 miles from San Juan .
From 2009 to 2021 at least 196 women on the island were killed in acts of gender-based violence according to the Oficina de la Procuradora de la Mujer (Office of the Woman's Rights Advocate) of the government of Puerto Rico. [28] On January 26, 2021, governor Pedro Pierluisi declared a state of emergency after several women were murdered. The ...
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 2023 Carolina, Puerto Rico, massacre took place on July 25, 2023, when five youngsters, four of them teenagers from the southern city of Guayama, were murdered and their bodies were found in barrio Martín González, [1] in the northern city of Carolina and in neighboring Loíza. [2]
The Masacre de Cayey or Cayey Massacre, was the murder of four people on March 13, 1994 at various locations in Puerto Rico. Because three of the four victims were killed in Cayey the local press called it the Masacre de Cayey (Cayey Massacre).
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 ...