Between January and April, police received 9,097 complaints for attempted shakedowns, up 19 percent from the same period in ...

Gangs are preying on local businesses, demanding money and unleashing violence if they refuse. A surge in extortion has ...

The governor said the incidents were extortion, not kidnappings, and the crime did not occur in Puerto Vallarta. Records from ...

With an approval rating of just two percent, Peruvian President Dina Boluarte might be the world’s most unpopular leader, ...

Two decades after Natalee Holloway vanished, Joran van der Sloot's confession sheds light on her murder, but the search for ...

AWAY from the ancient stones of Machu Picchu, Peru is a nation in the grip of a brutal crime wave, with hundreds of gangs ...

A former municipal councillor from Surat, who served three terms, has been granted default bail by the district court in an extortion case after the police failed to submit the chargesheet in 60 days.

A former deputy sheriff for the Norfolk County Sheriff’s office was arrested Wednesday morning on charges of extortion and bribery stemming from allegations that he used his position at the ...

Brady faces four counts of extortion and three counts of use of interstate facilities to commit bribery and extortion. Brady served as the assistant deputy superintendent and later as deputy ...

The former Deputy Superintendent at the Norfolk County Sheriff’s Office is accused of extortion and forcing his subordinates to perform free labor at his house during their public work shifts ...

Police in Peru have captured a group of extortionists that used Nazi insignia to intimidate their victims, authorities said ...

LIMA — The City of Lima will hold a workshop from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, June 5 at Lima-Allen County Neighborhoods in Partnership, 1440 W. Spring St., Lima. Residents can come to this public ...