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Boxer Carl Davis surrenders
and goes free as case is dropped
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Well-known boxer Carl Davis Drummond went free Thursday hours after surrendering himself to prosecutors. The Judicial Investigating Organization said they were searching for the man as a suspect in a rape case, but Davis later said that he simply was on vacation at a beach. The Poder Judicial said that Davis went free because the woman who filed the rape complaint withdrew the allegation. She was a cleaning lady at his home. Davis is a popular figure in Costa Rica, although he has had police problems in the past. The existence of an arrest warrant was confirmed Tuesday by the Poder Judicial, |
which said that the alleged act for
which he is sought took place June
21. The location was reported as his apartment in Belén.
Law officers
suggested he was on the run, although they had no evidence of that.
Davis has a fight in the United States July 21. Davis in the company of a lawyer submitted to questions at the Unidad de Delitos Sexuales de la Fiscalía Adjunta del Segundo Circuito Judicial de San José. He was handcuffed and officially booked by agents. The Poder Judicial in an explanatory statement said that the Ministerio Público and its prosecutors could not continue an investigation as a public action when the presumed victim has decided not to continue pressing the case. There is a legal impediment for doing so, the Poder Judicial said. |
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28 Africans safe after 15
days abandoned on the high seas
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Some 28 presumed African illegal immigrants on their way to Canada spent 15 days abandoned on the high seas before they were able to make shore at Playa Manzanillo Wednesday afternoon. The new arrivals said they had paid between $6,000 and $7,000 to make the trip from a gathering point in Colombia, according to the Ministerio de Gobernación, Policía y Seguridad Pública. Immigration officials said the individuals were from Somalia, Eritrea, Kenya, New Guinea and Ethiopia. The group includes two women, said the Policía Especial de Migración. The 28 survived in part because they drank sea water, said immigration officials. Four are being treated for dehydration and sunburn. Officials are trying to check their stories. Rodrigo Araya, regional director of the Fuerza Pública in Limón, said that all the individuals agreed that they had left Africa on airplanes but then their stories become disconnected. Some said they had been in Cuba. All agreed, however, that they met their escorts on a mountainside in Colombia. Most of the individuals are traveling on false passports, |
 Ministerio de Gobernación,
Policía
One of the detained men tells police and immigration officials
about his route.y Seguridad Pública photo by Guillermo Solano said immigration officials. The new arrivals are in custody at the immigration detention center in Hatillo after spending Wednesday night at a police station on the Caribbean coast. The bulk of the individuals said they had higher education and had worked as secretaries, teachers and in other professions in their homelands. They said they left due to continual violence, said immigration agents. |
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