Reporting on criminal incidents, investigations, and law enforcement responses across Panama. Stories focus on facts, community impact, and safety developments.
Two people were arrested in Brisas del Golf, San Miguelito, accused of advertising metalwork services on social media, taking advance payments and failing to complete jobs or refund clients.
Panamanian authorities launched Operation Alborada, carrying out raids in Chiriquí, Darién, Panamá and Coclé and arresting several people allegedly linked to a human trafficking network.
Aeronaval units in Panamá Oeste seized 20 packages of presumed illicit substances inside a container aboard a merchant ship; the cargo was traced from Pisco, Peru, through Panama to Rotterdam.
A Telemetro report says a certification shows the supposed homicide victim in a 28-year-old Panama case is alive, raising questions about the brothers’ convictions and potential judicial review.
Senan intercepted a boat near Punta Coco in Las Perlas and seized 680 kg of cocaine, detaining two men who were turned over to the Drug Prosecutor’s Office amid broader trafficking probes.
Panama’s customs authority says it seized presumed melted gold at Tocumen International Airport on March 25, 2026, and is holding the material in custody pending further action.
Ivanna Lisette Ortiz, 35, pleaded not guilty to attempted murder after allegedly firing shots at Rihanna’s Los Angeles home while the singer and partner A$AP Rocky were in an Airstream on the property.
Panamanian authorities are investigating a reported loss of fentanyl from a CSS drug warehouse in Pedregal; forensic experts from the University of Panama are participating in the probe.
Telemetro reports the Anti‑Corruption Prosecutor’s Office inspected a CSS warehouse in Pedregal on March 25, 2026, as part of a fentanyl investigation in Panama. Details remain limited.
Authorities inspected the CSS drug warehouse in Pedregal as part of an ongoing probe into 19,000 missing fentanyl vials registered in November 2022; audits and forensic reviews are underway.
Anti-Corruption prosecutors inspected Caja de Seguro Social warehouses on March 25, 2026, as part of a probe into possible irregularities in custody and dispensing linked to the Panama fentanyl case.
Panamanian authorities arrested 20 people in Operación Alborada on suspicion of migrant trafficking, executing 23 raids across four provinces. Investigations and evidence analysis are ongoing.
TVN 2 reports a raid in Panama City’s Calidonia neighborhood that resulted in the seizure of 68 drug packages. Authorities have not yet released fuller operational details.
Panama’s Operation Alborada led to the arrest of 20 people suspected of running a migrant trafficking network, in a case linked by authorities to rising irregular flows through the Darién jungle.
The Anti‑Corruption Prosecutor led an inspection of the CSS controlled‑substances warehouse in Pedregal as investigators probe the disappearance of 19,000 fentanyl vials from November 2022.
Panama has submitted evidence to Venezuelan courts seeking extradition of Ali Zaki Hage Jalil over the 1994 Alas Chiricanas bombing; dual nationality and Venezuela’s constitutional ban on extraditing nationals complicate the case.
Homicide prosecutor Jorge Ferguson reported a rise in national hitmen—especially in the metropolitan area—linked to organized crime, narcotrafficking, microtrafficking and territorial control.
Panama has presented evidence to Venezuela seeking the extradition of Ali Zaki Hage Jalil, accused in the 1994 Alas Chiricanas bombing; Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal will hold a hearing amid questions over the suspect’s dual nationality.
A City University associate professor was sentenced to 4½ months after offering a HK$1,000 bribe to a property agent; he has been granted bail while appealing the conviction.
Two men were arrested after four volunteer ambulances run by a Jewish organisation were set on fire next to a London synagogue; police are probing an online claim by an Islamist group with possible Iran links.