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Police Sweep Of San José
Night Clubs Finds Hiding Place For Illegal
Foreigners
The annual police sweeps of night clubs and
bars in San José was on schedule Friday
night, when a special task force descended
on a number of bars and nightclubs,
primarily looking for illegal workers, drugs
and minors.
The concentration of the task force was on
the Atlantis club located in La Uruca, where
immigration officials found a hidden
compartment beneath the floor of one of the
change rooms used by illegal employees to
hid from authorities.
The ministerio de Seguridad explained that
under the floor of the women's change room,
they found a compartment where two women and
two men, both illegally working in Costa
Rica, were found. One of the women was a
Nicaraguan national, the other Venezuelan.
One of the men was from Colombia, while
another, the club's bartender, was wanted on
a warrant on allegations of sexually abusing
a minor.
The task force that included members of the
Fuerza Pública, agents of the Organismo de
Investigación Judicial (OIJ) specializing in
the trafficking of persons, the Dirección
General de Migración y Extranjería
(immigration service) and the Policía
Municipal de San José (municipal police).
The police operation also included a visit
to VIP's, Monca, Nicoles, Bella Mansión and
Alcázar.
In total some 150 people, employees and
patrons, were asked to provide
identification. The majority were foreigners
who were asked to provide proof of their
legal stay in the country, which included
checking immigration entry stamps on
passports and legal residency cedúla, which
resulted in 50 people asked (ordered) to
report to the immigration service to clear
potential irregularities with their status.
Typically between the beginning of the new
year and Semana Santa, police do sweeps of
bars and centres of adult entertainment
(clubs, massage parlours, etc). |
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