Francisco Salinas

National Police officers arrested the mayor of Ojós this morning on charges of corrupting children. Francisco Salinas, who represents the Independent Group, was elected mayor in 2003, replacing Bartolomé Bermejo. He has a degree in Pharmacology and works as a pharmaceutical analyst...

José Martínez Andreo

Guardia Civil officers have arrested the current mayor of Totana, José Martínez Andreo (PP), the Local Police chief and the municipal secretary as part of the 'Totem' council corruption inquiry. The Town Hall building has been evacuated while officers search for evidence. Totana...

36 year old man from Birmingham was found dead

36 year old man from Birmingham was found dead in the centre of Vigo on Christmas Eve. Cause of death appears to have been alcohol poisoning. The man, whose initials have been confirmed as KT, was found lying on the pavement outside a bar in La Puerta del S...

Guardia Civil officers arrested two men following a high speed chase on the Costa del Sol

The chase happened at 1PM on Saturday and started in the centre of La Cala de Mijas and ended 5km down the road when the suspects car dramatically spun out of control and smashed into a lorry in Torremolinos.The Guardia were acting on information that a grey Renault Megane on the...

lorry registered in Germany

A Ton of Cannabis Was Seized By Civil Guard Officers In Malaga Last FridayFour People were arrested after a routine Civil Guard control of routes into the provincial capital pulled over a lorry registered in Germany which was carrying a cargo of tinned foods and officers discovered a ton of cannabis resin hidden amongst the car...

Cannabis Resin

The Civil Guard Seized over a ton of cannabis resin in Cabopino port in Marbella arresting 5 people in the operation ,Four Moroccan nationals and a Spaniard who were caught as they were unloading their cargo into a vanA van and the boat used to transport the 1.275 tons of cannabis...

link between the fire and the shooting of a French man

A Fire broke out at the Visconti Restaurant in Marbella on Monday morning. The fire is being investigated by the National Police who are suspicious that there could be a link between the fire and the shooting of a French man last week at the same restaurant.The fire has gutted the...

link between the fire and the shooting of a French man

The fire is being investigated by the National Police who are suspicious that there could be a link between the fire and the shooting of a French man last week at the same restaurant.The fire has gutted the terrace of the restaurant, but the interior remains practically untouched...

Mother threw away a marihuana plant

Police arrested a 17 year old youngster from Málaga The attack happened after the boys mother threw away a marihuana plant . She denounced her son for domestic violence following the attack after he pushed his mother head first through a glass terrace glass during a violent outburst...

Hit and Run

A woman who was crossing the road in Estepona on Christmas Eve died instantly after been knocked down by a hit and run driver some 100 metres from the Church of Nuestra Señora del Carmen.Following the accident in Calle Ceuta in the centre of the town police launched a intense search based on witness statements. They arrested a man shortly afterwards and he was held on Monday night in the cells of Estepona police station ahead of appearing before...

a two-year investigation focused on internet users in Spain using foreign websites

Sixty-three people have been arrested in Spain on suspicion of involvement with child pornography, following raids across the country, officials say. Police said large amounts of computer-based "paedophile material" had been seized as the raids were executed over more than 10 days.a two-year investigation focused on internet users in Spain using foreign websites. The operation was carried out with help from US, German and New Zealand police. Those...

unscrupulous skippers had taken cash in return for letting illegal African refugees swim out to the cages and be towed into European ports, hidden amo

bluefin tuna had recently streamed from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean through the Straits of Gibraltar, following ancient migration routes to their traditional spawning grounds off the North African coast. “In Malta last week, where local businessmen working with Japanese, Korean and Spanish partners are at the forefront of the tuna revolution, “Whoever gets to the tuna first, claims the biggest prize in fishing history. For this is no ordinary...

Mafia gangster known as the Acid Man, is in a Spanish jail

Learco Chindamo, 26, is serving a life sentence for stabbing headmaster Philip Lawrence to death outside his school in Maida Vale, north London, in 1995. Learco Chindamo’s father, a Mafia gangster known as the Acid Man, is in a Spanish jail awaiting trial for murdering his ex-girlfriend....

Arrested at a warehouse near Castellon

two Britons and a Polish man were arrested at a warehouse near Castellon, on the east coast of Spain, accused of preparing to smuggle cannabis hidden among cheap cerami...

Passion Storm 3.4 tonnes of cannabis stashed below decks

Three Britons were arrested on a luxury yacht after drugs worth £10.2million were found on board. Spanish customs officers stopped the 43ft Passion Storm 300 miles off the north-west tip of Spain after a tip-off from police. A Moroccan crew member was also held. Police believe the 3.4 tonnes of cannabis stashed below decks were headed from Morocco to the UK.The three Britons and the Moroccan, who have not been named, were being held last night in...

4.5 metric tons of cocaine on board

Spanish police on Monday reported detaining a ship that was sailing from Latin America with 4.5 metric tons of cocaine on board. A police official said the cocaine was presumably intended for drug dealers in the northwestern province of Galicia, and that several local residents...

organized crime group which brought young women from Russia to Spain and forced them to work as prostitutes

Spanish police have broken up an organized crime group which brought young women from Russia to Spain and forced them to work as prostitutes. "Twelve members of the gang, mainly Russian and Uruguayan nationals, who controlled four night clubs in northeastern Spain, have been detained...

Russian national 15 burglaries in Almeria

Police in southeastern Spain have detained a Russian national on suspicion of committing at least 15 burglaries, a police department representative said Friday. "The Russian national was arrested red-handed with a laptop computer after a theft in the town of Al-Ejido in the province of Almeria," the police spokesperson said, but declined to reveal his name in the interests of the investigation.He said that a Spaniard, who received stolen goods in...

Greco Organised Crime Unit for the Cadiz Costa

The Greco unit, which specialises in fighting organised crime will be based in Chiclana. It will be responsible for controlling the western part of Andalucía, as its counterpart in Málaga does on the Costa del Sol. Indeed many crime experts believe the success of the Málaga unit...

Spanish Home invasion robbers fuelled by drugs

Spanish Home invasion robbers work more often at night and on weekends when homes are more likely to be occupied. The Costa home invader will sometimes target the resident as well as the dwelling. The selection process may include a woman living alone, a wealthy senior citizen or...

Cocaine now sells for as little as 60 euros

Cocaine now sells for as little as 60 euros ($80) a gram, or 5 euros ($7) a line, and it is regularly used by 1.6 percent of Spaniards, up from 0.9 percent in 1999, a government report said this month.Traces of cocaine can be found on 94 percent of banknotes in Spain, a country that has one of the world's highest rates of users, according to a study published on Sund...

a quarter of males younger than 49 in Spain have paid for sex

the state-run National Statistics Institute show a quarter of males younger than 49 in Spain have paid for sex) is satisfied by a population of sex workers who are over 95 per cent extranjeras (of foreign nationality). These women, who are ‘owned’ by mafias here, are trafficked from...

sex slaves

women and girls are trafficked into the country by mafias who trap them in a form of debt bondage. Effectively sex slaves, they are forced into prostitution to pay back impossible debts which barely diminish. Traffickers have been known to hold children as ‘deposits’ until their...

147 women for being in the country illegally

The police have arrested 147 women for being in the country illegally since January of 2004. Not all of them have since been deported: article 59 of the Foreigners’ Law states that they can remain in Spain and obtain work papers if they co-operate with the police in tracking down...

brothels on the Costa del Sol

Following an investigation of brothels on the Costa del Sol over the past eighteen months, the National Police have arrested 150 people in Malaga province accused of sexual exploitation and other crimes relating to prostituti...

all residents of Malaga

Police seized 4.3 tons (4.7 US tons) of hashish in southern Portugal, and arrested four Moroccans on suspicion of drug smuggling, authorities said Friday.Police intercepted the suspects Tuesday, in truck heading to Spain. A search revealed 52 bales of hashish in the truck, police...

cannabis intended for the European market

Some four tonnes of cannabis intended for the European market were seized by the Moroccan Royal Navy off the coast of Nador (northeast), local authorities affirmed here Monday.The drug was concealed in a zodiac whose occupants succeeded in fleeing, the same source said, adding that security forces has already launched an international arrest warrant against trafficke...

member of the Civil Guard has been arrested in Melilla

A member of the Civil Guard has been arrested in Melilla as he was trying to board the Málaga ferry with 56 kilos of cannabis hidden in his car.The arrest took place on Sunday night, and was carried out by his colleagues assigned to the Civil Guard in Melilla.It happened during a...

Portugal Connection

Police said Monday they had seized 3.3 tons (3.6 U.S. tons) of hashish in Portugal, and arrested a 21-year-old Moroccan man in connection with the seizure.Police made the arrest , after chasing a van that refused to stop in southern Portugal."During the chase the driver tried to hit police cars several times," leading police to fire on the van's tires to stop the vehicle, police said in a statement.The suspect then tried to flee on foot, running...

ocean rescue boat off the Spanish coast

Spanish police on Sunday said they had seized more than four tonnes of hashish on an ocean rescue boat off the Spanish coast and arrested 15 people in the latest of a series of raids on drug trafficking rings.In a statement police said ‘4.3 tonnes of hashish have been seized in the cabins of a small boat used for ocean rescue operations.’The 15 people arrested were Spanish, Colombian, Romanian and Moroccan nationals, police said.Three of them were...

operation "Coleta" (Ponytail) in Malaga

Spanish police arrested 17 people and seized four tons of hashish smuggled from Morocco in separate anti-narcotics operations on the island of Ibiza and in MalagaIn both cases, smugglers brought the drugs to the Spanish coasts by boat and, after hiding them away for a period of time,...

Moroccan-born Dutch Amin Mrini,

Moroccan-born Dutch Amin Mrini, who was sentenced to the death penalty at the first instance court for the murder of a Dutch citizen, Ilona Nemeth, in August 2005 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The postponement came to appoint a new chief judge to give a ruling on this case. The defendant, who was sued for a list of charges, notably murder, rape and theft, was arrested in 2006 following a Dutch police arrest warrant.The defendant, who committed the...

Cabo de Gata Nature Park

Two arrests were made as the smugglers were unloading Close to three tons of cannabis resin at San José port in the Cabo de Gata Nature Park.Two drug smugglers were caught in the act in the early hours of Sunday. They are 51 year old Nicolás S.M., who is from Almería and has been arrested on three previous occasions for robbery, and a Moroccan national named as Idriss B.Ideal newspaper reports that one of the two vans seized in the Civil Guard operation...

a street value of 3.7 million

A joint operation between National Police and Customs Authorities on Friday night has seized 2.5 tons of cannabis resin on a beach in Las Amoladeras, in La Manga.Police say in a press release that ten people were arrested after a Customs helicopter spotted a suspicious-looking boat...

British man is in custody after a high speed sea chase

Officers seized 109 kilos of cannabis resin carried by two jetskis when the drugs were dumped on a beach in Marbella A British man is in custody after a high speed sea chase to the coast of Marbella on Sunday.The Civil Guard say in a press release that the Coastguard chased two jetskis to the Río Verde Beach, and that two suspects ran off on foot after dumping their cargo of 109 kilos of cannabis on the shore.A 35 year old Briton resident in Estepona,...

700 million smuggled-in packs of tobacco

700 million smuggled-in packs of tobacco are sold in Spain. This merchandise comes primarily from the East through different land and sea routes, from the United States and from Andorra. It makes up ten per cent of the tobacco consumed annually in Spain, which implies a loss of 120...

The Maltese connection

Malta is serving as a redistribution centre for drugs from South America. Malta’s drug barons are behind bars at Kordin, cocaine worth 46 million marks destined for the Spanish market was being discovered in a container destined for the Malta Freeport. The find included 514 kilogrammes of 90% pure cocaine and 25,000 ecstasy pills – representing a local market value of over Lm 20 millionThe plan, according to German investigators, was to use yachts...

Michael Dugdale, 60,

Michael Dugdale, 60, was arrested two months ago at his house in the south- east of Spain, following a Europe-wide manhunt. He is accused of six rapes and a string of sex assaults on children as young as 12. He was extradited to Britain - but was allowed to return to his villa after Judge Robert Brown gave him bail earlier this month at a chambers hearing, from which the public were exclud...

Francisco Corbacho

The mayor of Gaucín, Francisco Corbacho, has been fined 2,700 euros and banned from holding public office for seven years after a court found him guilty of embezzlement of public funds and corruption. The judge heard how between December 2002 and January 2003 Corbacho took advantage of the absence of the municipal secretary to obtain Town Hall cheques for sums ranging between 10,000 and 22,000 euros, amounting to a total of 200,000 euros. The discrepancy...

several arrests on the Gibraltar border

The Spanish National Police made several arrests on the Gibraltar border. One of these was a 37 year old Portuguese citizen, L.F.D.O., who was wanted by a court in Estella. Another, 44 year old J. L.C., was wanted by an Algeciras court, as was a 39 year old Gibraltarian, E.J.S. These arrests were a result of the passport controls carried out by police at the bord...

Richard Neil has become the 6th fatality

Richard Neil has become the 6th fatality to die as a consequence of the settling of scores in Málaga province this year. The first of them was last August at The Point bar, when a 38 year old Estonian was shot dead with a single shot to the head.Two weeks later the burnt out body of a man was found in a car in Estepona. He had also been shot. And on September 11th three Colombians were killed in the Torreblanca del Sol Urbanisation in Fuengirola,...

living in the Fuengerola area of Spain

Northumbria Police is continuing to make enquiries to trace Allan James Foster, 31, who sometimes goes under other names including Sean Wilkinson. He originates from South Shields but has also spent time in Majorca and the Canaries.It is believed he may currently be living in the Fuengerola area of Spain. Foster is 5'8" tall and has a mole on the left side of his face. He is wanted in connection with the murder of David "Noddy" Rice, 42, who was...

A British man has died overnight after being shot in the centre of Marbella

A British man has died overnight after being shot in the centre of Marbella by two people who managed to make their escape from the scene.EFE news agency quotes police sources who say it happened at 10pm close to Calle Camilo José Cela and that the two people who carried out the attack passed on a moped.The victim is reported to have been shot several times in the back.The National Police have opened a full investigati...

840 kilos of cannabis resin in Estepona

The Civil Guard have reported a drugs haul of 840 kilos of cannabis resin in Estepona this weekend, after a suspicious boat was spotted 10 miles off shore on Saturday, and came to shore on the Playa Arroyo Vaquero. The drugs had already been loaded into a waiting vehicle when officers arrived on the beach and arrested a 28 year old man named by his initials, I.C.M. The Civil Guard said he is Spani...

A Dutch national offered an officer 50 €

A Dutch national offered an officer 50 € to let him through without problemsA Dutch national whose van was searched at the Customs point in Tarifa on Tuesday is under arrest for trying to bribe a Civil Guard. He was due to appear before Instruction Court No. 4 in Algeciras. Europa Press said he offered the officer 50 € to let him through without any problems, and now faces charges of bribery. There was no mention if anything untoward was found in...

British pensioner resident in Fuengirola

British pensioner resident in Fuengirola has been taken into custody as the alleged head of the gang. He is named as A.M.T., aged 66.The Interior Ministry said in a press release that the investigation began in Barcelona in October with the discovery of 1.2 tons of cannabis resin hidden inside computer casings. It led investigating officers to premises in Montcada i Reixac, Barcelona province, last month, where they saw a lorry being loaded up with...

The Civil Guard officers found it to have a ton of cannabis resin hidden

The Civil Guard in Málaga province have released news of a drugs haul on one of the accesses into Málaga City last Friday where four people were taken into custody. Málaga Hoy newspaper said it happened during a routine Civil Guard control of routes into the provincial capital, and took place on Las Pedrizas.The lorry pulled over was registered in Germany and was carrying a cargo of tinned foods. The Civil Guard officers found it to have a ton of...

Civil Guard swoop nets three tons of cannabis resin

A Civil Guard swoop on a warehouse in Callosa de Segura on Tuesday has seized what is reported to be more than three tons of cannabis resin and taken at least four people into custody. La Verdad newspaper said the suspects may be from Holland, and two of them appear to be the man who rented the warehouse and his father.It’s understood he had a legal rental contract with the owner of the premises in Callosa, and had been using the premises for more...

ton of cannabis resin

Four men from Roquetas de Mar are under arrest, after they were caught in the act unloading a cargo of more than a ton of cannabis resin on a beach in Balanegra on Tuesday night. The smugglers who transported the drugs to the Seto Maleno beach managed to escape out to sea.Two of the three vehicles seized on the beach were later found to be stol...

European arrest warrant for armed robbery

The National Police have arrested a 28-year-old Romanian fugitive wanted on a European arrest warrant for armed robbery. He was identified by police officers at a local street market. And in neighbouring Torremolinos, another foreign fugitive has been arrested. The 52-year-old German was wanted on a warrant from his home country, where he faces fraud char...

smuggling of cocaine into Ireland which passed through Alicante.

Spanish police arrested a number of people related to the smuggling of cocaine into Ireland which passed through Alicante.The arrests came after an eight-month investigation into the gang's operations by the Irish Police, British police and the authorities in Spain and the Netherlands....

crime wave sweeping the Costa Blanca

crime wave sweeping the Costa Blanca and other parts of southern Spain popular with foreign tourists. Hundreds of holiday villas have been attacked recently by criminal gangs, many of them Romanians and Albanians. The criminals are not only burgling houses. A hire-car belonging to Geoff and Diane Winnard, a retired couple from Bournemouth, was rammed from behind as they drove from Alicante airport to their holiday villa. “One man reached into my...

fight in Playa Flamenca

A man died and four others were hospitalised following a fight in Playa Flamenca.The incident happened in the early hours of Monday outside the Chinese restaurant on Calle Nicholas Bussi in Playa Flamenca on the Orihuela Costa. The 25-year-old, who has not yet been named, died in hospital from stab wounds following the fracas. Another man was also seriously injured and three others were slightly injured. It is thought that the altercation started...

Missing

Derek John Cross, nicknamed Des or Dosser, has not been seen since he was holidaying with friends in Benidorm on November 15, 19...

Spain is going to be the largest grower of Cannabis

Spain is going to be bigger than Jamaica or Holland as a cannabis growing country.The Spanish sun is free, and the climate in some parts of the country is good for growing cannabis 10 months a year, but we see indoor growing as superior because it offers a controlled environment,...

Judah Eleazar Binstock

Judah Eleazar Binstock, is a 78 year old British businessman and financier and is now believed to have been the person who financed trips taken by Marbella councillors the week before the motion of no confidence was placed against Julián Muñoz. He is now thought to have been hidden in the background and pulling the strings behind much of the corruption in Marbella. This information has been given to Judge Miguel Angel Torres in the declaration from...

four Madrid Lawyers have been ordered that they be held in prison pending trial

Murcia Judge Miguel Angel Torres who has been investigating the corruption scandal in Marbella has indicted four Madrid Lawyers and has ordered that they be held in prison pending trial. This follows the arrest of the Cartagena property developer Juan Antonio Roca for corruption charges. Roca is belived to be the mastermind behind a corruption ring in Marbella, Andalucia.The four Lawyers have been involved in large projects in Los Alcazares like...

‘Malaya 2’

‘Operation Malaya 2’ new offences came to light, resulting in some 30 city councillors and business people being accused of massive corruption. These accusations were in addition to the arrests made earlier in the year. Then. 29 people were arrested, including Mayor Marisol Yagüe,...

hidden storage room

Police have uncovered a hidden storage room in Spain holding 1,800 pieces of pre-Colombian art, including ceremonial masks, ceramics, jewellery and a suit of 37 plates of gold - artefacts from a collection last seen in public 10 years ago.Many of the metallic pieces, including four copper masks, four gold rattles and four gold nose pendants, derived from the ancient tomb of the Lord of Sipan, one of the most important vestiges of pre-Inca Moche culture...

torture and other ill-treatment

Spanish police are getting away with repeated acts of torture and other ill-treatment, according to a new Amnesty International report.The report highlights cases of people who have been hit, kicked, punched and verbally abused by police officers, both in police custody and on the...

Spanish drug survey

The figures released yesterday are the result of a survey carried out by the government in secondary schools. Teenagers between 14 and 18 participated in the nationawide survey. According to the results, the number of teenagers who admit to taking cocaine is now four times as high as it was in 1994, and the number of people who smoke cannabis has doubled. 87 per cent of teenagers consider that it is easy to buy alcohol, 64 per cent find it easy to...

5,627 structures that are not reflected in the property register.

Using the satellite images of the town’s urban centre and outlying urbanisations and rural zones, officials have identified 5,627 structures that are not reflected in the property register. The majority of the unregistered buildings, 69 per cent of which existed prior to 2002, are in the countryside and the El Rodeo, Cortijo Benítez, Miravalle and Las Delicias districts. Comparing images taken in 2002 and 2006, officials discovered 2.676 land-use...

Three Britons have been handed prison sentences

Three Britons have been handed prison sentences for their involvement in a recent late-night brawl in Ronda.Three received prison sentences of six months each for attacking two local police officers and a local resident. As they have no previous convictions, the jail terms were deferred but will be taken into account if they offend again.In addition to the prison terms, they also have to pay 1,500 euros in compensation to one of the officers, 800...

Four prisoners who took three prison officers hostage

Four prisoners who took three prison officers hostage at Picassent jail, near Valencia, yesterday evening have been split up and transferred to different jails. The crisis began at around 6pm yesterday evening when four prisoners from the high-security wing took three officers hostage, apparently using one of their fellow prisoners as a bargaining chip. Two of the three officers, both in their twenties, were released shortly after midnight and following...

British man, whose initials have been confirmed as AMT

A 66 year old British man resident in Fuengirola (Málaga) has been arrested accused of heading up a gang trafficking cannabis between Spain and the UK. Two weeks ago, a suspicious trailer was intercepted on its way to a company that runs daily shipments to the UK. It was found to contain industrial-sized water purifiers, though police sniffer dogs later detected 2,500kg of cannabis resin hidden inside the machines. A further 1,500kg was found inside...

Ken MacIntyre from Ayrshire murdered

Ken MacIntyre from Ayrshire and his partner Bill had been drinking in bars near Plaza de la Constitución in the old town on Friday night when the attack took place.The couple left Eros bar in Calle Santa Faz around 04.00 and headed in the direction of Plaza de la Constitución near the popular tapas strip. They walked through Calle San Miguel and were attacked near Domino bar.A friend told Costa Blanca News that Ken and Bill were allegedly tapped...

raping an 18 year old British tourist last Saturday night

A 39 year old taxi driver was arrested today accused of raping an 18 year old British tourist last Saturday night in Maspalomas (Gran Canaria). According to the victim's testimony, she caught the taxi at around 2am on Sunday morning in the Plaza de Maspalomas and asked the driver to take her back to her hotel. Instead, she alleges, he drove her first to a piece of waste ground where he raped her in the back of the vehicle before dropping her off...

154 people were arrested

since the introduction of tougher penalties for dangerous drivers at the start of this month, a total of 154 people were arrested for traffic infractions, 151 of whom tested with more than 0.6mg alcohol per litre of aspirated breath. The other three were caught speeding: one was arrested for driving at more than 60km an hour above the legal limit on an urban street, while the other two were clocked doing more than 80km an hour above the limit on...

criminal offence to drive drunk or speed

criminal offence to drive drunk or speed, and anyone caught doing so could face a prison sentence of up to six months. If they are caught committing both crimes together, the sentence could be up to two years. The limit at which drunk driving becomes a crime is 0.60 milligrams of alcohol in exhaled air, while for speeding to be considered a crime the driver would have to exceed 200km/h on a highway or 110km/h in an urban area. Except for people with...

Three out of every 100 Spaniards over the age of 15 paid a bribe last year

Three out of every 100 Spaniards over the age of 15 paid a bribe last year, according to figures released Thursday by anti-corruption organisation Transparency Internatio...

Three notaries have been arrested in connection with Operation White Whale.

Operation White Whale is the first time police have established a direct link between organised crime and Spain's booming construction and property industries. Half of all new construction starts in Spain take place on the Mediterranean coast.In a boon for international criminals, established practice enables notaries to absent themselves for a few minutes when property contracts are signed, allowing the buyer to hand over “dinero B”, a substantial...

323 arrests in connection with organised crime

The Civil Guard,estimates that about 550 criminal groups operate in Spain, about half of them foreign. Last year, police made 323 arrests in connection with organised crime. “Criminals are businessmen these days,” says a chief inspector in a unit that fights organised crime. “They want good travel connections, an efficient banking sector, nice weather and anonymity. They get all that in Málag...

Seven Britons were involved in a brawl

Seven Britons were involved in a brawl with a group of Spaniards in the early hours of Saturday morning in the centre of Ron...

nabbed a bag snatcher

Police in Benalmádena Costa nabbed a bag snatcher just moments after he had robbed three tourists on Friday afternoon. The alleged thief, identified only as a Romanian man, was picked up at 1.30pm on Calle Carril del Siroco. When police grabbed him, he was about to steal the bags of two British touris...

four robberies in Sotogrande and Pueblo Nuevo de Guadiaro have been reported to the police

A further wave of four robberies in Sotogrande and Pueblo Nuevo de Guadiaro have been reported to the police. The thieves were looking for money and jewellery and used the same modus operandi as on previous occasions. They entered all of the properties while owners were asle...

major paedophilia ring

A Malaga woman who was searching for information about babies on internet came across two files containing images of children being sexually abused by adults. She reported her find to the National Police and the resulting investigation led to the exposure of a major paedophilia ring. After tracing the origins of the files discovered on internet the police made 13 arrests, two in the province of Malaga, and thousands of files containing child pornography...