COSTA RICA
Who Dropped the Dime?
Police have arrested 12 people in Costa Rica and Spain in connection with the kidnapping of American William Sean Creighton Kopko, the owner of the online gambling site 5Dimes, in September.
Kopko’s family reportedly paid his kidnappers a ransom of $950,800 in Bitcoin, but they never released him and stopped communicating with the family, CNN reported.
A statement issued by the Spanish Civil Guard on Saturday said that the authorities had traced the suspects’ moves to Cuba. From there three of the alleged kidnappers traveled to Spain, where they rented a house in the city of Zaragoza. A raid on another house in Costa Rica on Friday led to the arrest of nine other suspects.
The high-profile kidnapping and the apparent murder of American Carla Stefaniak in November have shaken Costa Rica’s reputation as the safest destination for tourists in Central America, though its 2017 murder rate of 12.1 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants pales in comparison to Mexico’s.
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