Theft Tamarindo Beach

We were less than 5 feet from our bag, when we were approached by vendors. We took our eyes away from bag and that quickly it was gone

Our video camera, phone, money, credit card. The thieves used the credit card, which was in a woman’s name, and they were men-which I later learned. They went to five stores in less than ½ hour, tried to get money off atm also with card. When we reported to police, we knew that they would not aggressively investigate, we do not speak Spanish, and they barely spoke English. There are video cameras at ATM but we were told that we would have to drive to Santa Cruz to fill out a report and then they could investigate?? What was the point of telling the Tamarindo police? They would not even come down to tamarind to interview us. They don’t seem to care about trying to catch the thieves they make it virtually impossible to even report it! We know people on the beach has to see it, including the sno-cone vendor. They all act like they can’t speak English though.

The stores that processed our cards were Arenas, Banana Surf, High Tide.

Also Roca Bruja, but the owner at Roca told me that the first time they came in (2 guys) they gave a credit card under the name “Jim Morris” then they “switched it” to mine just before the clerk ran it through. They came in again, and she caught it. They told her it was “their mom” and she refused to sell to them.

Donna Taylor