Sotogrande 600 kilos of hashish hidden in petrol cans

National Police has been involved 600 kilograms of hashish hidden in cans of petrol in a pleasure boat moored Dutch flag in the marina of Sotogrande, Cadiz who had as the final destination Palma. Three people have been arrested as alleged perpetrators of a crime against public health. Praise arrested have been identified as RB, aged 61, born in Harlen (Netherlands); RGF, a native of Madrid, 25, and DABG, 19, born in Puerto Plata (Dominican Republic)...

40 year old man who was seriously injured when attacked with a baseball bat

40 year old man who was seriously injured when attacked with a baseball bat while taking a walk on the El Postuguet beach in the city, has died in the Alicante General Hospital.The emergency services were called to the scene of the aggression at 7,15am on Wednesday morni...

Costa del Sol real estate scam 200 Brits affected

Several searches of real estate companies were carried out in Fuengirola and Mijas yesterday in connection with an alleged fraud which is thought to have affected hundreds of British citizens.The scam consisted in offering investment in what turned out to be false construction projects on the Costa del Sol, according to La Opinión de Málaga this morning.One Briton affected by this made a complaint to the British courts and they have sent a commission...

Arrested for trying to con his parents out of €30,000

young man from Murcia has been arrested for trying to con his parents out of €30,000 euros in ransom money by pretending to have been kidnapped. It seems that the man was detained after police traced a call he had made to his parents to inform them of the time and place they were to leave the money, and to let them know that the kidnappers had instructed him to collect it personally. When questioned, he admitted that he had wanted the cash to move...

British 'martial arts experts' are being questioned by police after a foiled kidnap and extortion attempt on an expatriate in Tarifa.

British 'martial arts experts' are being questioned by police after a foiled kidnap and extortion attempt on an expatriate in southern Spain.Shoppers in the resort of Tarifa rescued the British victim as he was being bundled into a jeep by four men outside a supermarket. The suspects were arrested at a roadblock last Thursday on their way to the Strait of Gibraltar.Spanish detectives believe the group, who they describe as 'martial arts experts who...

Five bodies have been found inside suitcases in the province of Malaga.

The latest suitcaase murder containing a human skeleton has been found in a dry river bed next to the MA-387 road in Mijas. Pathologists at the Institute of Legal Medicine are analysing the skeleton in an attempt to identify it. Whilst a preliminary examination suggests it is that of a large, middle-aged man who died about one year ago, existing environmental conditions may have delayed or accelerated the putrefaction of the body. Investigators...

Depot manager at Movers International, became suspicious about a request to ship furniture from Alicante to Preston

Depot manager at Movers International, based at Red Scar Industrial Estate, became suspicious about a request to ship furniture from Alicante to Preston.And when Spanish police checked the furniture they discovered £250,000 worth of cannabis destined for the streets of Liverpool.This week Peter Thomas, 47, of Upper Brassey Street, Birkenhead, who had earlier pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to supply 122 kilograms of the Class C drug, was...

Paul Charleston, 45, of Leigh, was taken into custody by Majorcan police, along with another Briton – Donna Marie Messe,

Paul Charleston, 45, of Leigh, was taken into custody by Majorcan police, along with another Briton – Donna Marie Messe, 38, of Seisdon, Staffordshire – a Spaniard and a Canadian.Detectives from the National Police Economic Crime unit carried out the swoop, codenamed Operation Sofia.The four were taken into custody after detectives raided the premises of Onix Office Management in Palma. Police also raided a property in Santa Ponsa on the south-west...

Andrew Alderman,one of the10 most-wanted British criminal suspects hiding in southern Spain handed himself in

Andrew Alderman, who was sentenced to 10 years in jail for indecent assault and the rape of a girl under 16, handed himself over to Britain's Consulate General.He is the fourth person on the "most-wanted" list to be tracked down since it was launched two weeks ago."This is excellent...

British man laundering some 200,000 € from the sale of heroin daily

38 people have been arrested across Spain of a gang of drug runners who were allegedly distributing heroin from Turkey though a centre in La Cañada Real in Madrid.The arrests were carried out in Oviedo, Gijón, La Felguera in Asturias, Unquera in Cantabria, Arganda del Rey in Madrid, Sevilla and Fuengirola in Andalucía and El Ferrol in Galicia in an operation which was opened in April.13.5 kilos of heroin, 1.8 kilos of cocaine, more than 14 kilos...

Sixteen year old youth was stabbed

sixteen year old youth was stabbed in the early hours of Saturday morning in a street fight on the promenade in Fuengirola. The emergency services received a call at 1.45 a.m. this morning informing them that a young man was lying on the ground with a knife wound which was apparently inflicted during a fight. He was taken to the Costa del Sol hospital in Marbella for treatme...

Sixteen year old youth stabbed

sixteen year old youth was stabbed in the early hours of Saturday morning in a street fight on the promenade in Fuengirola. The emergency services received a call at 1.45 a.m. this morning informing them that a young man was lying on the ground with a knife wound which was apparently inflicted during a fight. He was taken to the Costa del Sol hospital in Marbella for treatme...

Ronald O'Dea, 42, and James McDonald, 39, both of Glasgow, and Stephen Brown, 42, Brian Rawlings, 63, and Debra Learmouth, 45 were arrested

Six people arrested in raids on a suspected drug smuggling gang based in Spain. Police seized 70kg of speed, thought to be destined for sale in Scotland, after stopping a lorry near Oxford. A Spanish police spokeswoman said the arrests - five in Marbella, southern Spain, and Santa Cruz, Tenerife - followed an intelligence operation which lasted months. Cops seized around £84,000 in euros and £6000 in Scottish banknotes in the Spanish raids. They...

Fuengirola attempted security van robbery

National Police have arrested six people, four men and two women, from a gang of jewellery thieves who had been acting in Málaga province. The arrests came just as the gang were about to assault a security van in Fuengirola.A police statement that the arrested men were five Argentineans and a Paraguayan and that following two searches a large amount of jewellery had been recovered. The leader of the group has been named with the initials J.F.G. and...

Jose Ignacio International arrest warrant has been issued for a terrorist from the Basque separatist group ETA who is believed to be in Ireland.

International arrest warrant has been issued for a terrorist from the Basque separatist group ETA who is believed to be in Ireland. The warrant was put out by a Spanish judge today after Jose Ignacio de Juana Chaos failed to appear at the National Criminal Court in Madrid. De Juana was released from prison this summer after serving 21 years for the murder of 25 people in the 1980s. He was due to answer questions from the Spanish judge over an alleged...

Christopher Wiggins, of Apartment Six, Block 10, Mirador de Costalita, Cancelada, Estepona, Malaga

Christopher Wiggins (42)Philip Doo (52), and David Mufford (44) were brought before a special sitting of Clonakilty District Court on Saturday night amid tight security. A force of up to 30 gardaí, including detectives armed with Uzi submachine guns, surrounded the courthouse.The...

Guardia Civil have broken up a car-theft gang suspected of 17 forced robberies in the La Orotava area

The Guardia Civil have broken up a car-theft gang suspected of 17 forced robberies in the La Orotava area. The four arrested, males of 46, 23, 22 and 21, are charged with break-ins to cars and building sites, as well as other burglaries, especially in La Perdoma. Two were caught in the act of a burglary of building materials from a construction site. The arrests follow months of surveillan...

Mark Stephens guilty of conspiring to import 7,100 ecstasy pills and 3 kilogrammes of cocaine

Briton was on Wednesday jailed for 25 years and fined €60,000 after a panel of jurors found him guilty of conspiring to import 7,100 ecstasy pills and 3 kilogrammes of cocaine in 2003. After just over 4 hours deliberating, the jurors returned a guilty verdict of 7 votes to 2, announcing Mark Stephens guilty of conspiring to import 7,100 ecstasy pills and 3 kilogrammes of cocaine in 2003. Defence counsel Joe Brincat asked the judge to take into consideration...

Shot two Moroccans in Calle Carretería in Málaga

Police in Málaga have arrested another person in connection with the shooting of two Moroccans in Calle Carretería in Málaga on Tuesday night. Both the victims also face charges. One of the two victims remains in a serious condition in hospital after being shot , while the other has been allowed home. The third arrest is also Moroccan with all three of the men being aged between 26 and 42. Police investigations in the case are ongoi...

Captain was killed in a fight with one of the crew

crew of a Guardia Civil coastal patrol boat has boarded an Italian merchant vessel - the 'Paxi C', sailing from Alexandria (Egypt) to Gijón anchored off Fisterra since its captain was killed in a fight with one of the crew. They were sent to take charge of the investigation after an SOS message sent at 6.20am by the ship's first officer, who was ordered to drop anchor and prepare to be boarded after explaining what had happen...

Ferry from Tangiers seven Portuguese have been arrested

Seven Portuguese have been arrested in Tarifa port after they were found to be carrying a total of 4.2 kilos of hashish hidden in their internally.A statement from the Civil Guard said the group were given a scan when they arrived on a ferry from Tangiers yesterday. 600 small pellets of the drug were found in the travellers aged between 18 and ...

Gary Dunne,body is being kept under local hygiene laws.

Gary Dunne, 22, was killed by a machete-wielding thug on Spain's Costa del Sol in March 2006. His body is being kept under local hygiene laws. A heartbroken family have won the support of Sports Secretary Andy Burnham in their battle to bring home the body of their murdered son. But Mr Burnham, who has met Gary's parents Stephen and Lesley, told officials in Spain last month: "The return of Gary's body is crucially important to his family." Killer...

Double murder and attempted suicide

Two women have been stabbed to death in Abarán, Murcia. Next to the bodies the police found a seriously injured man who was also suffering from stab wounds to his neck. It appears that the man had tried to commit suicide after presumably killing the women.The Guardia Civil say that the 74 year old Spaniard had a sentimental relationship with one of the women, a 40 year old from Honduras, who spent her time looking after the other, a 75 year old Spanish...

Robber has died in a shoot out with police in Seville.

Robber has died in a shoot out with police in Seville. It happened at a supermarket in the Nervión area of the city at 8,30pm on Friday night, and a 54 year old off duty police commissioner was also injured in the groin. Witnesses say the two robbers arrived on a moped which they left with the engine running outside the store. The commissioner was shopping inside with his wife and daughter, and realising that a robbery was underway, tried to intervene....

Not guilty.two Romanians and a Moroccan, accused of torturing and killing a German couple in their home in Chilches, Málaga,

Provincial Court in Málaga has found the three men, two Romanians and a Moroccan, accused of torturing and killing a German couple in their home in Chilches, Málaga, not guilty.Inconsistencies in witness statements and the lack of DNA evidence were deciding factors in the verdict.The attack which also saw the theft of 60,000 € and jewellery took place on January 22 2007, and the three accused have been held in prison since then. The group was however...