Foreign tourists walk in downtown Merida. The Mexican Association of the sector warns that fraud against travelers is growing, and Yucatan is in third place nationally in the incidence of this crime. The Mexican Association of the Tourism Industry of Yucatan (Amity) asked the State Congress to establish in local regulations the crime of “tourism fraud”, a serious, systematic, […]
Missing American woman’s body found in Baja California cemetery
The body of a Washington State woman who went missing two weeks ago was found over 1,300 miles away in a local cemetery in Mexicali, the state capital of Baja California, in northern Mexico, police said. Reyna Hernandez, 54, was found in the cemetery on the Tijuana Highway, the Renton, Washington Police Department said Monday […]
Richard Philip Houghton has scammed hundreds of investors over the past 10 years
The Cancun Post editor received an email from a reader (who requested to remain anonymous), to denounce an American citizen who goes by the name of Richard Philip Houghton, who is an ex-convict and is now living in Quintana Roo scamming people who are interested in Real Estate investment in that area. His first conviction […]
Ever heard of Mexico’s “Gringo Hunters”?
A group of bold men known as Mexico’s ‘Gringo Hunters’ track down, capture and deliver foreign fugitives to the U.S. law enforcement agencies. It’s an old Hollywood story: some criminal suspects believe they can outrun the law, and escape their charges, by fleeing to Mexico. But when fugitives who commit a crime in the United […]