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Amid a rise in pickup truck thefts using signal jammers in Asunción, Paraguay police recommend using mechanical locks on the gear shift lever as an effective security measure.
The National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD) dismantled two drug sales points in Asunción and Hernandarias this week, seized narcotics, and arrested two suspects.
The Prosecutor's Office accused a couple of operating a pyramid scheme in Asunción since late 2025, promising high returns on events such as the pilgrimage to Caacupé, while in Encarnación a woman received alternative measures to imprisonment for diverting 200 million guaranis in a currency exchange operation.
Police operations in Paraguay resulted in the death of a PCC inmate in a prison, the arrest of suspects linked to the faction and drug trafficking in several cities, the seizure of drugs and luxury goods, and the interception in Bolivia of a bus carrying marijuana that displayed the name of São Paulo.
The Paraguayan Prosecutor's Office formally accused former minister Arnoldo Wiens of causing a million-dollar loss to the state with the demolition of the Metrobús, while the politician and allies allege judicial persecution with electoral motivations.
Paraguay's judiciary has dismissed the criminal case against businessman Eugenio Sanabria Vierci, accused of negligent homicide in the deaths of four people, after approving economic compensation agreements with some families, a decision contested by other relatives excluded from the process.
Paraguay integrated its police databases with Interpol for real-time queries, while Parliament debates a bill granting police access to private security cameras.
Paraguay's Public Ministry accused former minister Arnoldo Wiens of breach of trust and damage to the Metrobús project in Asunción, with estimated losses of Gs. 14.955 billion, and requested an oral trial, while also seeking to expedite an appeal in another corruption case involving officials.
Court unanimously acquits former judge Tania Irún of misconduct charges in the Alto Paraguai lands case, while in a separate proceeding former Petropar president Sergio Escobar Amarilla is accused of breach of trust in a contract that caused billions of guaranis in losses.
Paraguayan police arrested five Colombians accused of being part of a criminal organization that carried out kidnappings and extortion linked to the "gota a gota" (drop by drop) loan-sharking scheme.
Police arrested five foreigners — two Spaniards and three Bolivians — for the double homicide of gold buyers in Encarnación, following a scam that left two victims dead and one man injured.
Paraguayan police dismantle a clandestine Tirzepatide falsification laboratory in Pedro Juan Caballero, seize a thousand vials, and detain three people in an operation investigating a cross-border distribution circuit for the lucrative black market of the drug.
Paraguay's Prosecutor's Office charged nine former IPS employees, including former presidents, for embezzlement of G. 61 billion in a contract for modular operating rooms never installed.
Paraguay's Public Ministry has requested the preventive detention of two former presidents of the Social Security Institute (IPS) and seven other former officials for an alleged diversion of 61 billion guaranis in unfinished works. In separate cases, former mayor Miguel Prieto will stand trial for a simulated purchase during the pandemic, and three people are accused of fraud against Mennonite settlers.
Paraguayan lawmaker Rocío Vallejo of the Partido Patria Querida had her Itaú bank account emptied following a cyberattack while accessing the bank's official website, which is under investigation and prompted a digital security alert from Paraguay's Central Bank.
The Paraguay National Police has appointed new directors of Prevention and Security in Asunción and nine departments, including a replacement in command of Alto Paraná following a series of million-dollar robberies, as part of a broad operational restructuring based on the institution's reform law.
Operation in Paraguay arrests five people for a digital scam scheme that recruited victims with fake job offers and laundered over $3 million in cryptocurrencies.
A three-day operation in northern Paraguay combined seizures with the eradication of crops whose potential yield was estimated at nearly 160 tons; in separate developments, three people were arrested in Ypané and a court conditionally granted former footballer Julio César Manzur house arrest.
An Argentine man was arrested in Paraguay for human trafficking and sexual violence, with police describing a sadistic profile after testimonies from seven victims who reported recruitment through fake job offers, kidnapping, assaults, and forced filming.
Twenty-two years after the fire that killed more than 400 people at Ycuá Bolaños, survivors transform pain into memory and a demand for justice, while the Asunción city council approves a G. 700,000 subsidy for victims and a commemorative program marks the date.
At least five Paraguayans recruited with promises of high salaries are missing in the war between Russia and Ukraine, with the government denouncing the enlistment as a new form of human trafficking.
Paraguayan institutions, including the Highway Patrol and Security Forces, are finalizing security preparations and volunteer training for the WRC Rally del Paraguay 2026, which takes place in August in Itapúa.
Interpol arrested in Paraguay a Paraguayan citizen wanted for sending cocaine to Asia concealed in wine bottles through an international drug trafficking network.
Paraguay has approved a new mandatory protocol for migration agents at all of the country's borders to detect and report human trafficking cases during routine inspections.