Team of armed robbers broke into Dolph Ludgren villa on the Costa del Sol

Dolph Ludgren, who has been married to jewellery designer Anette Qviberg for 15 years, and has two children, has stepped up security at his home following the raid last week.Team of armed robbers broke into the star's villa on the Costa del Sol, tied up his wife, who was home alone,...

Costa Del Sol drugs war is spilling onto the streets of Britain

Detectives fear a Costa Del Sol drugs war is spilling onto the streets of Britain after a kidnapping.One man had his ear hacked off in a horrific attack.He was snatched along with another man outside an curry house in West Yorkshire and they were driven around for two hours before...

finca ‘Los Naranjos’ shot at close range with a hunting shotgun

Autopsies carried out on the bodies of two men found dead on the finca ‘Los Naranjos’, on the Camino de los Martínez in Alhaurín de la Torre, on Saturday night have confirmed that they were shot at close range with a hunting shotgun. Neither man was carrying documentation and has yet to be identified, although reports from El Mundo newspaper indicate they could be from South America and are possibly from Colombia.The man arrested in connection with...

Swedish man arrested for murdering his wife at their home in Torrevieja last Saturday has been remanded to custody

Swedish man arrested for murdering his wife at their home in Torrevieja last Saturday has been remanded to custody by the judge. Judge Iris Valero is in charge of domestic violence cases locally and is understood to believe the murder was premeditated, La Verdad newspaper reports.The paper notes statements from neighbours on the urbanisation where the couple lived, La Siesta, that the victim, 67 year old Mona J., suffered repeated abuse from her...

Four drug smugglers have been arrested in Cádiz

Four drug smugglers have been arrested in Cádiz in a joint Civil Guard and Customs operation which has seized more than a ton of cannabis from a boat boarded off Puerto de Santa María. Officers discovered 1.1 tons of the drug hidden in a false bottom built into the boat once the vessel, which was flying under the Spanish flag, was inspected in port.The two crew members taken into custody are both Spaniards, as are another two men arrested in Chipiona...

Scott Harrison has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison by a court in Spain.

Scott Harrison,former world featherweight boxing champion, was arrested at Málaga airport on Thursday when he got off an Easy Jet flight from Glasgow with his parents. They have told the press that they were aware of a warrant against him, but they did not think it would be acted...

Linekers Bar Fuengirola arson attack

Linekers Bar was badly burned in what is thought to be a deliberate arson attack last week .The bar is part of a European chain of bars owned by the brother of the ex-soccer player Gary Lineker .According to a local person the fire was suspicious and police are investigating some...

Arrested a British couple and their 18 year old son, accusing them of the sale of marihuana

Guardia Civil has arrested a British couple and their 18 year old son, accusing them of the sale of marihuana which they were growing on their finca in Santa María de Nieva, Huércal Overa, Almería.Ten plants and some 740 grams of the drug were recovered from the scene on April 7, according to a statement just released by the Guardia Civil. They also took some scales and bags of fertilizer.The Britons have been named as 55 year old John Leslie P.,...

Spanish police said on Tuesday that they have arrested 22 members of the Hells Angels biker gang

Arrested 22 members of the Hell's Angels biker gang in an operation which took place in five provinces. The majority of the arrests – 13 – were in Barcelona , with the remaining suspects taken into custody in Valencia, Málaga, Madrid and Las Palmas. The charges against them range...

Spanish police say they have arrested three lawyers suspected of laundering money for Russian mobsters.

Spanish police say they have arrested three lawyers suspected of laundering money for Russian mobsters.The National Police said in a statement Wednesday the three were picked up in the southern cities of Malaga and Marbella and said they worked for one of the most powerful Russian organized crime gangs.Police said investigators found evidence of bogus financial transactions by a complex network of companies that allegedly transferred proceeds from...

National Police have arrested a 17 year old in connection with the stabbing to death of a 47 year old man, Miguel Márquez

National Police have arrested a 17 year old in connection with the stabbing to death of a 47 year old man, Miguel Márquez, in La Línea de la Concepción, who was attacked last April 12 when out walking with his wife.The youngster is being held in a youth custody centre in Algeciras and declared before the juvenile court there on Friday. Five other people have been arrested for covering up the crime.The motive remains unclear, but police are reported...

Police opened fire in the early hours on a man in Elche to stop him killing his ex partner.

Police opened fire in the early hours on a man in Elche to stop him killing his ex partner.A police patrol managed the save the woman after one of the police shot the man in the abdomen, with both the man and the woman resulting seriously injured. They are now both in the Elche General Hospital. The aggressor had stabbed the victim more than a dozen times.It happened around 4am in a flat in Calle Fray Jaime Toores where the woman in her 30’s was...

Swedish man has been arrested in Torrevieja for allegedly strangling his 66 year old wife to death

Swedish man has been arrested in Torrevieja for allegedly strangling his 66 year old wife to death on Saturday.It happened in the La Fiesta urbanisation in the town, and reports indicate the husband was drunk at the time of the attack. An autopsy will determine the exact cause of death. The couple had been living in Torrevieja for some years, and there had been no previous reports of domestic violen...

Ex Banco Popular bank manager, José Pérez Díaz, known as ‘Pepe el del Popular’, and who fled to Mexico

Ex Banco Popular bank manager, José Pérez Díaz, known as ‘Pepe el del Popular’, and who fled to Mexico after allegedly carrying out a six billion pesetas fraud in Santander 20 years ago, is coming back to Spain.The court here found him not guilty given the passage of time since...

Russian mafia Tambovskaya-Malshevskaya links as three Marbella lawyers arrested

National Court judge, Baltasar Garzón, ordered Kiril Illine Yudasehev to prison on charges of illegal association and money laundering after questioning in Madrid on Friday.One of the three Marbella lawyers who were arrested on Thursday in a new stage of the ‘Troika’ operation against money laundering linked to the Russian mafia, has been sent to prison on remand.The other two lawyers, both Spaniards, Francisco Eloy Ocaña and Antonio de Fortuny,...

There’s nothing to indicate at this stage the body may be Amy Fitzpatrick’s

“There’s nothing to indicate at this stage the body may be Amy Fitzpatrick’s and we’re not going to rule anything out until we’ve managed to establish an identity or at least the sex of the victim.“But the area this body was discovered in was well searched when Amy went missing.”The remains were found inside a sewage pipe near Mijas football stadium where a massive search for Amy took place shortly after she went missing on New Year’s Day 2008.Amy’s...

Gypsy families decided to leave 34 apartments in the Golden Hills development

Gypsy families who had been squatting in an embargoed urbanisation since Sunday have decided to leave and all of them had moved out by the early hours of Wednesday. Police remained at the scene to prevent any of them returning.Between 100 and 150 people spent two nights in the 34 apartments of the Golden Hills development, and moved in there from social housing in Molino de Viento. EFE reports that other families from Sevilla and Málaga arrived on...

Breast and Buttock implants for between 250 and 500 €, injecting liquid silicone with a type of instrument used by vets on animals

Police in Barcelona have arrested a 63 year old man who allegedly passed himself off as a cosmetic surgeon and carried out the surgery in filthy conditions in his home. Three dogs, a cat and a parrot lived with him in his flat in the El Raval area of the city.He is said to have performed breast and buttock implants for between 250 and 500 €, and injected liquid silicone with a type of instrument which is normally used by vets on animals. The instrument...

Three Costa del Sol lawyers suspected of laundering money forTambov/Tamboskaya group arrested

Police on Wednesday arrested three lawyers suspected of laundering money for Russian mobsters in southern Spain, authorities said.The suspects _ who were not identified by name or nationality _ allegedly worked with a powerful Russian organized crime gang known as the Tambov/Tamboskaya group, Spanish police said in a statement.Investigators found evidence of bogus financial transactions since the late 1990s that funneled proceeds from criminal activities...

Armed British Landlord demands Orihuela Costa rent

64 year old British man has been arrested in the Horizonte urbanisation in Orihuela Costa for allegedly making threats at gunpoint.The man, who has not been named in reports, is alleged to have threatened other Britons, described as a young group, who are renting property from him, demanding that they pay their rent.Police say the pistol used by the man was a replica which worked with compressed air.The man faces charges of making threats and housebreaking...

British man, is in a deep coma after being attacked by a burglar at his home in Benalmádena

65 year old man, reported as British, is in a coma after being attacked by a burglar at his home in Benalmádena on Friday, La Opinión de Málaga reports this Tuesday.The un-named victim is reported to be under treatment in the Intensive Care Unit of Carlos Haya Hospital in Málaga and his condition is serious.It happened in an apartment block on Calle Levante on the Alegranza Urbanisation when the pensioner returned home from a local bar. The paper...

Badly burnt body was found in a waste pipe in La Cala de Mijas possible links to unsolved disappearance

autopsy is to take place on a badly burnt body which was found in a waste pipe in La Cala de Mijas this Sunday.The discovery was made by a passerby in the area of La Rosa on Sunday morning, a short distance away from La Cala’s football ground, Málaga Hoy newspaper reports.It’s understood the autopsy could take some days to complete, as only parts of the cranium and body had survived the blaze, which it’s believed may have been set only the night...

Authorities are trying to identify a badly decomposed body which was found floating in waters off Estepona

Authorities are trying to identify a badly decomposed body which was found floating in waters off Estepona on Thursday morning. The discovery was made by a crew member of a passing yacht and the Coastguard were immediately informed.In Alhaurín de la Torre, the woman who was found dead in a parking area used by hire cars on Tuesday met a violent death, according to sources in the investigation quoted by the newspaper, La Opinión de Málaga. There is...

Marbella arrests

“The international nature of this operation outlines the fact that criminal groups causing harm in our communities have links in many countries.” Four people were arrested after cash, drugs and imitation guns were seized in police raids across England. Two 37-year-olds were arrested at an address in Missenden Road in Amersham. And a 36-year-old man was arrested at a property in Carrington Road in High Wycombe, with a 44-year-old being cautioned and...

Two Britons and a German have been arrested by the police in Mallorca and charged with negligent homicide

Two Britons and a German have been arrested by the police in Mallorca and charged with negligent homicide after a 32 year old British man died following a fight last Saturday night in the Puerto de Alcúdia in Mallorca.The Britons have been named as 23 year old Matthew James F. and 27 year old Graham Loye W.The German is 23 year old Benjamin J.The three of them were involved in the fight with the fourth man, the 32 year old Briton, as yet un-named...

British man arrested on the Costa del Sol

Details have emerged on the violent burglary gang arrested on the Costa del Sol in the Civil Guard operation ‘Ronin.’ Their nationalities have been given as 7 Spaniards, 2 Moroccans and one each from Belgium, Colombia, Argentina and Britain.The leader of the gang is Spanish.According to information from Diario Sur, officers in Operation Ronin carried out 17 property searches as part of their investigations: in Málaga city itself, and, in the province,...

Marta’s family were in Madrid this weekend, collecting signatures in support of ‘cadena perpetua’ – life imprisonment

Monday was the team’s 15th day at the site, with the search centred on the area where newspapers found show it to be the spot where refuse was deposited after collection on the night Marta’s body was allegedly dumped.Marta’s family were meanwhile in Madrid this weekend, collecting...

Granada executions of two South Americans

Police in Granada are investigating the death of two men, whose bodies were found by a passerby on the right-hand bank of the río Genil on Thursday morning. They were lying in a ditch on the Camino de Perchil. Both were tied up and both had been shot in the head.The men are believed to be from South America, in their thirties, but it’s understood that they have yet to be identified as neither of the two were carrying any documentati...

17 year old girl has died after being shot twice with a shotgun in the bedroom of her villa in Alfaz del Pi in Alicante

17 year old girl has died after being shot twice with a shotgun in the bedroom of her villa in Alfaz del Pi in Alicante.It happened in Saturday morning between 9am, when her mother went to open her local business, and 12 noon when the body of the victim was found by the cleaning lady at the house at 10, Camí de Coves. She called the girl’s mother who rushed home only to find the body of her shot daughter.It appears she was shot with her father’s...

Arrest of 13 members of a gang which specialised in violent burglaries on the Costa del Sol.

The Spanish Interior Ministry says more than 30 crimes, most of them involving violence, have been solved with the arrest of 13 members of a gang which specialised in violent burglaries on the Costa del Sol. Dubbed ‘Operación Ronin’, it’s been described by the government representative for Málaga province, Hilario López Luna, as a ‘brilliant’ operation.Their set-up was highly organised with a hierarchical structure down from the leader to the chief...