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Wow, totally corrupt miscarriage of justice. Reading the article, even the anti-trafficking organization claimed to know nothing of the case in direct contradiction to the oij. Of course this is politically motivated and payback for somebody he pissed off. Other than a Tica I still keep
In touch with from my first trip, my CR travels will be limited to banging her beautiful ass in a non pay for play situation. DAMN shame. Discovered Hong Kong Club in Tijuana. $80 beautiful strip club quality beauties who come from all over Mexico to work there. Cheap flight to SAN Diego and Uber to border. 4 dollar taxi ride from border to hotel and $60 to stay in the hotel above the club. Doing my 4th trip there this year in 2 weeks, maybe one day I will do Colombia. Dave looks like a skeleton, definitely lost whatever muscle he had. My tica says armed robbers, murderers have done less time than Dave in CR. Tijuana is not without its own risks but living on the west coast, definitely the better alternative. Too bad too as I had soooo much fun in CR.

Correct. One of the scumbags who shot and killed my brother in law 2 years ago spent a grand total of 6 months in jail (under preventative). Then he got out killed one of the witnesses who was going to testify against him at trial and the rest of the witnesses refused to testify and they dropped the case. He has some juice and is feared. The other one was a punk and wasn't feared. He got out even sooner but the street took care of him. He was caught, tortured, and killed by the barrio hit squad.

Unfortunately, Dave is a foreigner so he will do his time or die trying.

Is the US different? Murderers get 7 years in a state court. Low level drug dealers get 20 to life in a federal court. The murderer then gets parole in 3 to 5.

True.

What 'low level' drug dealers get 20 years to life in federal court? That's ridiculous. The majority of high level drug dealers don't get prosecuted in federal courts due to US Attorney threshold prosecutions. I'd be interested in examples.

Fully agree CD sentence is unjust.

I was under the impression that there were quite a few due to mandatory minimum sentencing laws.

Found the question interesting so I googled "drug dealer gets 20 years" and was surprised at the number of people who has been given 20 years. The federal law for drugs seems to have a minimum sentence of 10 years for drug dealing. I guess the key is your definition of "low level."

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryla ... story.html

Have a Great Day,

Dave

Edited to include the federal punishments: https://www.dea.gov/druginfo/ftp3.shtml

I wasn't commenting on the CR justice system, culture or country in general. It's not my business.

All I'm saying is from a pure PR standpoint. Having a gringo die in prison just seems like a bad idea to me. If it can be avoided.

Poor guy. Such BS

Google "Clarence Aaron"
Here are a few links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Aaron
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/snitch/cases/aaron.html

Here is the short version of his case. Back in 1993 Aaron (who was from Alabama) was going to college in Louisiana, where he met a drug dealer. Aaron mentioned the guy to one of his friends in Alabama (who were also drug dealers) the Alabama friends asked Aaron to introduce them to the Louisiana drug dealer (probably in hopes of buying their product cheaper or something). They offered him $1,500 and Aaron made the introductions. Clarence Aaron never sold touched or even saw any drugs. He just introduced two dealers who would not have met each other otherwise.

The situation goes bad and everyone gets busted. The actual dealers get anything from no time to 15 years for the trafficker in exchange for testifying against others. Clarence Aaron, who WAS NOT a dealer, didn't have any useful information for the prosecution (because he was not a full time criminal), so they hit him with the max, THREE LIFE SENTENCES WITH NO PAROLE.

In the end, he ONLY served about 22 YEARS until President Obama commuted his sentence.

In other news, a young man was convicted of SODOMIZING a mentally disabled K*D with a coat hanger, but was not given any time, because the prosecution didn't think he should be labeled as a sex offender.

Thanks for the info. Smh

This is right on point!!! I couldn't agree more.

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isn't it unpleasant, though, to wait those 2 hours in the line back to the u.s. border ? Or, to avoid that, you need to leave your hotel at like midnight... ( and that sucks because you're paying for the hotel until noon the next day and it would be nice to get in another chica before leaving )
When I lived in S.D. I went to TJ total of 3 times, and then tired of that back-to-u.s. border line. Didn't want to hassle with getting a sentri.

Get global entry and walk right through.

As far as the Latin culture. I recently was in Quepos and the manager of a hotel asks me if we want to book a tour. So I picked the waterfall. Which is an absolute rip off but I had guests. And didn't want to arrange transportation and lunch on my own.

He assured me he would take care of everything and handle it.

Gave him $100 deposit. He wanted cash of course. Which I'm sure he kept. Van comes 2 days later takes us to the tour office and they ask me for the full price. They have no record of the deposit. Well I tell them to get stuffed and leave. It's wasn't a pretty scene.

Get a ride back to hotel for 1200 colones. He's there and says everyone is upset because I caused a scene. Made the secretary cry etc. and I'm lying about getting a cab for 1200. I said not all gringos pay gringo prices. Well he was furious about that too. Lol

Well you know what I say. Don't try to rip off the tourists and there won't be issues.