Le Chateau swingers club in Lorca no licences for the construction

Owners of a swingers club in Lorca, Le Chateau, have locked themselves inside the building after it was closed down by local police last Saturday for not having a licence.The local town planning councillor, Francisco García, told the press that owners had not complied with a previous...

ex Chief of the local police in Marbella Del Pozo faces charges of carrying out continued bribery, failing to pursue crimes re-employed

ex Chief of the local police in Marbella, Rafael del Pozo, who is implicated in the Malaya corruption case in the town, has been re-admitted for the second time to Marbella Town Hall after making an application last April. He had earlier been off work for depression and also for surgery to his foot, but now returns as a traffic assessor in the local transport department in offices based in San Pedro de Alcántara.Municipal sources told El País that...

Drug driver hits pedestrian

36 year old man who hit a 20 year old pedestrian from Ecuador on a zebra crossing in Málaga at 8am on Monday morning has been arrested after being found to have tested positive for four different drugs.The victim has suffered serious head injuries as well as a broken arm and leg and is now in the Carlos Haya hospital.Police noted that the driver of the van was having trouble standing and carried out an immediate blood test, which detected four different...

Venezuelan woman, who had travelled via Malaga in Spain, was arrested after the discovery of cocaine worth €210,000 at Cork airport.

A 25-year-old woman and a 22-year-old man will appear before a special sitting of Cork District Court this evening following two separate seizures of drugs yesterday. The 25-year-old Venezuelan woman, who had travelled via Malaga in Spain, was arrested after the discovery of cocaine worth €210,000 at Cork airport. Customs officers found the drug during a search of her luggage. The 22-year-old man was arrested after gardaí seized cannabis worth €600,000...

Police have seized more than 35,000 ecstasy pills

Police have seized more than 35,000 ecstasy pills in the biggest drug bust in Spain against a Chinese mafia group.The drugs were found during raids on three apartments in Madrid, in which 14 Chinese citizens were arrested, including the alleged leader of the drug trafficking network. The pills, which were brought into Europe via Holland, were apparently intended for distribution across Spain, Portugal and Ita...

Spanish police have arrested five teenage computer hackers

Spanish police have arrested five teenage computer hackers who allegedly disabled internet pages run by government agencies in the United States, Latin America and Asia, police said. The group, who attacked some 21,000 pages over two years, were arrested last week in Barcelona, Burgos, Málaga and Valencia following an investigation that began in March after the web page of a Spanish political party was disabl...

Mallorca illegal high power motorbike road races on the Youtube website.

15 people have been arrested in Mallorca after they placed videos of their illegal high power motorbike road races on the Youtube website. The images shown were recorded on the same stretch or road between Caimari and Selva, where two youngsters, aged 16 and 17, died as a result of the races of the group, which called themselves ‘Pikas de motos’ last April 4. It was that accident which led to the start of investigations into the group.The judge in...

Half a ton of hashish has been thrown overboard from two boats off the Costa Blanca.

The chases started after air patrols spotted the semi-rigid boats moving, with four powerful outboard motors, rapidly towards the coast.Half a ton of hashish has been thrown overboard from two boats off the Costa Blanca. The Agencia Tributaria has recovered about 500 kilos of the drugs off the coast at Torrevieja and Dénia, but they think that the drug runners may have dumped upto double the amount recovered.A customs patrol boat with helicopter...

Paediatrician, who was arrested in Benalmádena on charges of possessing child pornography, has been ordered to prison without bail.

paediatrician, who was arrested in Benalmádena on charges of possessing child pornography, has been ordered to prison without bailThe man, named with the initials R.D.P.M., who works in the Municipal Health Centre in Benalmádena, is alleged to have had paedophile photos and videos on his home computer, and was ordered to prison by the judge in Instruction Court 1 in Málaga.Apparently the images were in a file labelled for the learning how to play...

scams that dupe holidaymakers into buying club membership with the promise of cheaper holidays catch 400,000 UK victims each year.

Six European countries, including Britain, are to act together against bogus holiday clubs operating in Spain.The scams that dupe holidaymakers into buying club membership with the promise of cheaper holidays catch 400,000 UK victims each year.Usually sales representatives use high-pressure tactics and misleading sales patter as part of the scam.The task force is to look at common ways of tackling the problem and increasing public awareness of these...

Ricky Devine DJ for Costa Blanca radio station has been arrested by Spain's National Police at the resort of Orihuela Costa, south of Alicante.

A British national has been arrested in Spain in connection with rape offences committed in south east London.The man named by news sources as Ricky Devine is accused of raping the same victim over a number or years.He was arrested by Spain's National Police at the resort of Orihuela Costa, south of Alicante.The 49-year-old accused is being held at a maximum security prison outside Madrid after appearing before a judge at the National Criminal Court.A...

Francis Smith, who now lives in Malaga, on the Costa del Sol, is charged with conspiring to distribute 1.234 tonnes of cannabis,

Francis Smith, who now lives in Malaga, on the Costa del Sol, is charged with conspiring to distribute 1.234 tonnes of cannabis, seized in a random stop on the A45 near Ryton-upon-Dunsmore.A British ex-pat living in Spain has been charged in connection with a £2.7 million drugs bust in Ryton.Stunned police found 5,000 blocks of cannabis resin when they pulled over a white Iveco van in February 2006.Stockton man Roy Selby, 42, was jailed for two-and-a-half...

Tangier Police seized a total of 272 kg of hashish that were concealed in a car registered in Spain.

The Customs and police services of the port of Tangier have seized, in four catches over the week-end, some 347 kg of cannabis products, and arrested 3 Moroccans and three foreigners as part of these operations, according to port authorities.The most important catch was on Saturday when customs at the port of Tangier seized a total of 272 kg of hashish that were concealed in a car registered in Spain. The car's owner and the passenger, two Moroccan...

Colin 'Smigger' Smith resident of Puerto Banus on the Costa del Sol

Colin 'Smigger' Smith resident of Puerto Banus on the Costa del Sol kept a close eye on his cocaine empire, jetting in and out of Liverpool on cheap EasyJet flights. An underworld source said: "If there was a problem he'd always fly back. It was all done over a cup of tea and then...

Colombian drug trafficking gang arrested in Valencia

international drug trafficking gang has been broken up by the National Police in Valencia. Fifteen arrests were made in the second phase of ‘Operation Antilla’, nine of them in Valencia, and 235 kilos of cocaine has been recovered in Madrid and Valencia.Those arrested are believed to have brought the drugs into Spain from Colombia. Police have impounded computers, precision scales and other items in a total of five searches carried out since the...

Woman shot dead in the street in Málaga

A woman has died after being shot in the street in Málaga. It happened on Friday afternoon at 1,30pm in the conflictive ‘La Palma’ district of the city.It’s thought that the woman in her 30’s was just passing when she was hit by a gun shot coming from elsewhere where it seems a violent argument was taking place. Police had been called to Calle Deva with reports of a disturbance between two people, one armed with a knife and another with a gun.Police...

British man sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison for killing a friend of his fathers in Torremolinos

Provincial Court in Málaga has sentenced a British man to 12 and a half years in prison for killing a friend of his fathers with whom he lived in Torremolinos. The court found it proved that 41 year old C.B.C. killed the victim by hitting him over the head and stabbing him a total of 13 times, twice from the back and then 11 times face on. He then tried to hide the body in a room in the house for several days. It happened at the start of May 2006...

British woman arrested by the National Police in Torrevieja for drug trafficking.

British woman is among a group of three people who have been arrested by the National Police in Torrevieja for drug trafficking. Three kilos of cocaine was recovered in the operation which saw the searching of a house and a restaurant on the ‘Ciudad Quesada’ urbanisation. Those arrested are thought to have been mixing the drug with caffeine, before distributing it locally. It’s thought they purchased the drug, which is of Colombian origin, here in...

‘Sheriff of Coslada’, the local police chief in the Madrid town of Coslada, Ginés Jiménez Buendía,accused of extorting local businesses,

‘Sheriff of Coslada’, the local police chief in the Madrid town of Coslada, Ginés Jiménez Buendía, has told the judge instructing the allegations of widespread local police corruption that he is innocent. His lawyer, José Andrés Díaz Herrera, says the case is wrapped up in political fighting.13 of the 24 local police arrested last Thursday still remain in the judicial cells waiting for their turn to make a statement to the judge. Eight of them did...

Man has been arrested by the local police in Alicante after allegedly stabbing his father

Man has been arrested by the local police in Alicante after allegedly stabbing his father during an argument on Saturday night. The difference of opinion emerged when the two were discussing the First Communion plans for a nephew and the victim was stabbed in the shoulder. He has now been allowed home after treatment in the Alicante General Hospital, while the aggressor has now been handed over to the National Police and is expected to appear in...

Lost pistol turns up in police station, other misplaced

INVESTIGATIONS are being carried out into the disappearance of two guns held by a policeman in La Vila Joiosa. A member of the Local Police is thought to have misplaced one handgun and lost the other.One of these later turned up in the safe at the police stati...

Confiscated three firearms and various stolen goods in a known drug zone in Málaga

Confiscated three firearms and various stolen goods in a known drug zone in Málaga. Local Police officers, acting on repeated complaints from neighbours, uncovered the illegal activity on Monday after entering a property in the city’s Carlos Haya neighbourhood.Taking advantage of a ‘client’ leaving the building, officers went inside and discovered quantities of hashish, cocaine and marihuana in bags and empty tuna-tins. They seized the handguns and...

Father and son wanted for questioning about the murder of a traveller in the UK have been arrested in Marbella

father and son wanted for questioning about the murder of a traveller in the UK have been arrested in Marbella. The headless and handless body of John Finney, 42, was found dumped in Ickleford, Hertfordshire, on 14 March. 49 year old British man, named as N.J.J., and his 23 year...

Spanish pedophile ring 17 faces charges of corruption of minors and possession of child pornography

Police in Spain have arrested 17 people across the country and seized computer equipment containing over one million images of a pedophile nature, the interior ministry said Friday.They are suspected of being part of a "wide-ranging and active network of people with residency in Spain who accessed and distributed these types of archives," it said in a statement.The 17 faces charges of corruption of minors and possession of child pornography.Over...

Spanish police have arrested in the city of Barcelona a man wanted by the Argentine authorities for suspected drug trafficking.

Spanish police have arrested in the city of Barcelona a man wanted by the Argentine authorities for suspected drug trafficking. Police sources said the man wanted in Argentina belonged to an organization dismantled at the end of last year when it tried to smuggle around a ton of cocaine into Spain. The Algerian-born French citizen who is under arrest was a kingpin of the organization that fronted as a company that imported protective coverings for...

Police in Marbella have arrested two Britons, father and son,

Police in Marbella have arrested two Britons, father and son, who are wanted by the UK authorities in connection with a murder.The two men, 49 year old NJJ and 23 year old JNJ, were arrested under an international arrest warrant. A third person involved in the crime was arrested in the UK.The men are wanted in connection with the kidnapping and subsequent murder of a UK citizen. The victim is believed to have been abducted from Park Farm in Northaw...

John O'Connell and wife Mary were killed instantly when they were struck by a Peugeot 206 at an accident blackspot on the Costa Blanca

Suspected Drink driver who killed two Irish pedestrians in Spain has blamed poor road conditions and the couple's "lack of caution" for their deaths.The 35-year-old has been remanded in custody while a judge investigates him for the possible crime of manslaughter.John O'Connell (46)...

National Police in Malaga city said firearms were taking over from knives as the weapon most used to commit crimes nine shootouts 20 armed robberies

Coín’s Local Police made 70 arrests during the month of April, double the monthly average of 30 to 30 and the largest number in the force’s history. Just under two thirds of the arrests were made in the town itself. The rest were made in Alhaurin el Grance, Guaro, Monda and Tolox, which come under Coín’s jurisdiction. Most of the arrests involved robbery, followed by drug trafficking. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the National Police in Malaga city...

Police say they are investigating the sale of fake work contracts

Diario Sur, published in Málaga this morning says that local immigrant workers are paying for fake work contracts so that they can keep their Spanish residency. As the economic slowdown begins to bite locally, especially in the construction industry, it is immigrant workers who are in the front line, and non-EU workers are obliged to have a current work contract when they need to renew their residency permits.Police say they are investigating the...

Credit card skammers working in Puerto Banús have been caught

Credit card duplicators has been broken up in Marbella and items from fraudulent purchases estimated to be worth more than 100,000 € have been recovered. Police also found a large amount of false documentation with some 100 cards which had been cloned and were ready for use.Europa Press reports that National Police based in Marbella broke up the gang of Romanians, and two of those arrested, named as Petrica L. and Florin B. will appear before the...

International luxury car theft gang broken up Madrid, Alicante and Málaga

Guardia Civil have broken up an international network specialists in the theft of luxury top of the range cars. 19 people have been arrested in the provinces of Madrid, Alicante and Málaga, and at least a dozen properties have been searched.Spanish police say the group was one of the most active in Europe and could have carried out vehicle thefts in as many as ten provinces. Codenamed ‘Operación Lujo’, the nationalities of those arrested are Spanish,...

Laura Jiménez murder arrests made

Ecuadorian man, Amable Danilo B., who is accused of killing the 19 year old local girl, Laura Jiménez, from Pilar de la Horadada, whose body was found weighed down in an irrigation reservoir, was sent to prison on remand by the judge investigating the case. He is accused of premeditated murder. His arrest and imprisonment has been welcomed by the victim’s family as ‘the first step of justice for the death of Laura’. The killing has caused a great...

Argentinian shot in Malaga house robbery

Argentinian man, has been injured after being shot twice in the leg. It happened in a house in Calle Cómpeta in Málaga yesterday afternoon at 2pm according to the EFE news agency.The victim was taken to the Clínico hospital, and police have recovered the firearm used and opened an investigation.The victim says that he did not know the two attackers, who shot him when he answered the door. The attackers, who are also thought to be Latin American,...

Police said two men, aged 59 and 22 and from north London, were arrested in Spain on suspicion of murder.

Three men have been arrested in connection with the murder of a man whose headless and handless body was found in Hertfordshire. John Finney, 42, is thought to have been abducted from his vehicle in Northaw on 29 February. His body was found in Ickleford on 14 March. Two men have been detained under a European arrest warrant in Spain and are currently being held there. Another man was held in north London and remains in police custody. Police said...

The secrets of the £2m villa named El Lechero,

Brian Wright led a double life as a notorious horse-racing punter and a major league gangster before his arrest in Spain 2005.Brian Wright is being chased for £45million in profits from his billion-pound cocaine smuggling operation, a court heard.The 61-year-old godfather — who was...