Some LCN members have been known to live there and hideout down there. There is a high demand for sports betting to where mobsters and their associates will become a silent partner in some of those venues, mostly online gambling. The Lucchese bust is the biggest case of this to come out Costa Rica from the city of San Jose. In terms of Mafia involvement, I would have to say the Russian mafia and other eastern european mobsters have a stronger hold on Costa Rica through auto theft, drugs, gambling, and smuggling.