Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Group of thieves set up shop at Costco Puerto Vallarta

They act in groups of at least four individuals, they can be men or women and their victims are regularly elderly, the most vulnerable. The thieves resort to one of the old tricks of the pickpockets: they stain the clothes of their prey, they act as if they help him, but in reality, they make off with a wallet, or purse with the money, and take flight.

This has become a regular occurrence at the Costco store in Puerto Vallarta.

It's 5:15 in the afternoon. A woman over seventy years old, accompanied by her escort and driver, goes . . .

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