Spanish police busted five people over heroin trafficking, including three Bulgarians.

Spanish police busted five people over heroin trafficking, including three Bulgarians.The confiscated 31 kilos of heroin are the largest quantity caught in the last years, the Spanish police informs.The drugs have been smuggled to Spain by the Bulgarians and have been destined to...

Mans body who died some eight years ago have been found in the Sierra Nevada

Mans body who died some eight years ago have been found in the Sierra Nevada.The body was found on Thursday in an area of difficult access on the mountain range, and now the Guardia Civil have asked for the help of the public in identifying him. They say at the time of his death he would have been about 60 years old, was slim, and about 160cms tall. They have published photos of the man’s trousers, in which some pesetas and Portuguese escudos were...

Miguel Carcaño, has tried to take his own life in the jail at Morón de la Frontera.

Miguel Carcaño, has tried to take his own life in the jail at Morón de la Frontera.He tried to hang himself using a cord from a track suit, but was stopped for carrying out his wish by other prisoners.He had left a letter in his cell, addressed to his lawyer, in which he insists that Marta’s body was thrown into the rubbish bins.Antonio del Castillo, Marta’s father has asked ‘If he is so scared he is protecting someone and would rather end his life...

Spanish police have arrested more than 50 people, most of them Britons, suspected of involvement in a network that falsified identity documents

Spanish police have arrested more than 50 people, most of them Britons, suspected of involvement in a network that falsified identity documents for clients around the world.They have also identified around 100 British citizens living in Spain whom they suspect of using the fake documents to obtain bank credit, mostly mortgages of between 200,000 and 1.5 million euros.The gang's operations may have defrauded some 25 financial institutions in Spain...

James “Pancake” Taylor 29-year-old was released only because British police promised to return him if he was needed by the Spanish courts.

James “Pancake” Taylor 29-year-old was released only because British police promised to return him if he was needed by the Spanish courts.Taylor was arrested in the popular ex-pat playground of Marbella last year.He was allowed back to Merseyside under an international legal process known as ‘provisional liberty’.This occurs when an arresting authority informs officials in the accused’s home country what has happened. The accused is then sent home...

Boris Slavov, was sentenced in Spain to 7 years behind bars over the attempted murder of his girlfriend.

Boris Slavov, was sentenced in Spain to 7 years behind bars over the attempted murder of his girlfriend.The information was reported in the Spanish "La Provincia" electronic media.The tragic incident occurred on September 15 2007, in the southern side of Spain's Gran Canary island. Boris and his girlfriend Sibyl had an argument in her apartment. The man grabbed a knife with a 10-cm-long blade and stabbed the victim in the chest and the stomach. He...

unnamed British man in his mid thirties has died after falling from the balcony of a hotel when he was trying to flee from the Guardia Civil.

unnamed British man in his mid thirties has died after falling from the balcony of a hotel when he was trying to flee from the Guardia Civil.The man died around 5am on Friday morning after falling from the first floor of the hotel in Guardamar, Alicante, and suffered severe head injuries. It’s thought he was trying to escape after the Guardia Civil were called because of his allegedly drunken and rowdy behaviour which had been disturbing other hotel...

Guardia Civil, named as Santiago A.N., who shot dead an immigrant who had arrived on a patera small boat in Tarifa in December 2000, been sentenced

Guardia Civil, named as Santiago A.N., who shot dead an immigrant who had arrived on a patera small boat in Tarifa in December 2000, has been sentenced to six months in jail for involuntary manslaughter.In a long sentence the court in Algeciras leaves several questions open in the case. The official version from the Government Sub-delegate in Cádiz was that the gun went off accidentally during a struggle, but the evidence accepted in the sentence...

30 million € fraud pirate television system run in Orihuela by a group of British residents

Seven Britons, four men and three women, were arrested in Los Montesinos and Orihuela. The men have been named as 49 year old D.J.H., 22 year old M.A.H, 25 year old J.J.H., and 43 year old R.J.B., while the women are named as 40 year old A.L.S. 49 year old L.J.H. and 24 year old J.K.C. Guardia Civil operation, code-named Odyssea, and broken up last week, against a pirate television system run in Orihuela by a group of British residents, is now estimated...

judge has decreed prison without remand for the Mayor of La Muela Victoria Pinilla who faces real estate corruption charges in the Zaragoza town

María Victoria Pinilla declared before the instruction judge for four hours last nightThe judge has decreed prison without remand for the Mayor of La Muela who faces real estate corruption charges in the Zaragoza town.María Victoria Pinilla is the third person to be imprisoned in the case, ordered behind bars by the Instruction Judge One in La Almunia, Alfredo Lajusticia at 1,55 this morning after taking her statement for more than four hours.Earlier...

ex Deputy Mayor of Marbella, Pedro Román, has denied in court of having committed any fiscal crime

ex Deputy Mayor of Marbella, Pedro Román, has denied in court of having committed any fiscal crimes because his companies were based in Switzerland. He claimed neither to have directed or managed the companies.He told the instruction judge in the Malaya case on Thursday that he had not obligation to declare the money in Spain.Román faces five counts of fiscal crimes which defrauded Hacienda nearly six million €. His case was originally being treated...

un-named 54 year old British woman has been arrested in Málaga on charges of fraud after making false credit card claims

un-named 54 year old British woman has been arrested in Málaga on charges of fraud after making false credit card claims through a funeral and medical assistance business.The provincial police say that their investigation started a month ago when a bank informed them that they had detected strange operations at the funeral business alerted by the real owners of credit cards who saw unexpected charges. It’s understood the business used a dataphone...

Seven Brits were all arrested Tuesday in Orihuela Costa, and are thought to have distributed TV channels illegally to 15,000 clients

Seven were all arrested Tuesday in Orihuela Costa, and are thought to have distributed TV channels illegally to 15,000 clientsSeven Britons have been arrested in the coastal area of Orihuela for distributing pirated television signals to more than 15,000 clients, most of them also British.The Guardia Civil made the arrests in several urbanisations on Tuesday, starting at 9.30am in Urbanisation Laguna III in the area of Punta Prima.Telecommunications...

Arrested a 66-year-old Chilean at Barcelona airport after discovering the cast on his broken leg was made of cocaine.

Spanish police said they arrested a 66-year-old Chilean at Barcelona airport after discovering the cast on his broken leg was made of cocaine.The man also had cocaine hidden in six beer cans that had been emptied, packed with drugs and resealed, and inside the legs of two small folding stools. Altogether, he was carrying about 11 pounds of the drug.The arrest was made on Wednesday as the man arrived from Santiago, Chile.The man’s leg was broken and...

British couple were beaten unconscious by the robbers who took money and jewellery worth 200,000 €

British couple were beaten unconscious by the robbers who took money and jewellery worth 200,000 €.Two British tourists have been robbed in Benidorm of jewellery worth 200,000 €. According to the denuncia to the Benidorm police they were beaten up in a pub in the town and left unconscious before being robbed of cash and jewellery worth 200,000 €. National Police have arrested a Dominican man in connection with the attack after searching his home...

Plane found to be carrying more than 1,000 kilos of hashish has been intercepted between Valdepeñas and Moral de Calatrava in Ciudad Real

Plane found to be carrying more than 1,000 kilos of hashish has been intercepted between Valdepeñas and Moral de Calatrava in Ciudad Real after a chase across the skies which started in Almería from where a customs helicopter had been shadowing the plane.Two Mexican pilots have been arrested and are now being held in Valdepeñas.Police sources say the plane was intercepted on Monday night on a landing strip on a finca called ‘Las Agrupadas’.The Guardia...

South American man has been arrested, accused of raping an 18-year-old girl on the hard shoulder of the Benalmadena-Malaga motorway

South American man has been arrested, accused of raping an 18-year-old girl on the hard shoulder of the Benalmadena-Malaga motorway. According to the victim, she and a friend were in Benalmadena Costa’s Plaza Solymar, and wanted to go to Fuengirola. They decided to hitch-hike and were offered a ride by the alleged rapist. After dropping off the first of the two women, he started to drive in the direction requested by the victim. But shortly afterwards,...

Spate of robberies from chemist’s shops 20 people arrested

Police have arrested 20 people in Malaga, as part of ‘Operacion Reja’, on suspicion of carrying out a series of robberies. The police operation was launched last month after the province suffered a spate of robberies from chemist’s shops. Out of the 20 arrests, 11 were for aggravated burglarly with a firearm and nine for robbery using a lethal weapon. The last three arrests took place last week. The detainees are also suspected of having robbed...

Leónidas Vargas was the Colombian drug trafficker was assassinated five arrested

Police in Madrid have arrested five people allegedly linked to the Leónidas case. Leónidas Vargas was the Colombian drug trafficker who was assassinated in his hospital bed in Madrid on January 8.Vargas was considered to be one of the most importing 19 drug traffickers in the world,...

Paul Logan Donnelly one of two men arrested after a short siege with officers in a village outside Marbella.

Paul Logan Donnelly is at the centre of the investigation and is now reportedly facing attempted murder charges.Police in Spain named Donnelly as one of two men arrested after a short siege with officers in a village outside Marbella.It is reported the pair were apprehended by civil guards after one was spotted urinating in the street, before pulling out a gun which jammed, preventing it from firing.The alleged gunman is named as “Paul B” but the...

Torrevieja explosives were reportedly found in a home belonging to a couple at the Los Locos beach in Torrevieja.

Four people, all Spanish, have been arrested in Torrevieja with 15-20 kilos of Goma 2 explosives. It’s thought the explosives were stolen before the Madrid Train Bombings in 2004 when control on the movement of such explosives was stepped up.Initial investigations indicate those arrested are not linked to any form of terrorist group.Some of the explosives were reportedly found in a home belonging to a couple at the Los Locos beach in Torrevieja.Información...

Potasas, Body in the boot

National Police have found the body of a 70 year old man in the boot of a car parked on the forecourt of Potasas, a closed company at the entrance to Cartagena.The victim has not been identified but is said to be in his 70’s, and the body has been taken to the Forensic Science Institute for the autop...

Alharín el Grande 42 year old man from Bromley in Kent has been arrested on suspicion of attempted homicide

42 year old man from Bromley in Kent has been arrested on suspicion of attempted homicide following an incident in the street in Alharín el Grande.The man is accused of pulling out a gun and attempting to fire it, when he was stopped by the Guardia Civil for urinating in the street. The gun however jammed and no shot was fired.First analysis of the weapon shows it to be a semi automatic, but an unknown brand, and possibly with a 9mm caliber. Two...

Costa crime gang arrested for assaulting more than 50 people’s homes on the Costa del Sol

Fourteen people have been arrested for assaulting more than 50 people’s homes on the Costa del Sol, Álava, La Rioja and Alicante while their owners were asleep.The Guardia Civil have named the operation ‘Canuni’, and say that those arrested are seven Albanian Kosovars, a Moroccan, four Romanians, a Serb-Croat and a Belgian.In the five searches carried out by the Guardia Civil, objects with more than 500,000 € were recovered, including a watch made...

Benidorm drug traffickers lab found four arrests made.

Three Colombians and a Belgian have been arrested, all of them with previous records for drug or arms trafficking and violent theft.Police in Benidorm have broken up a group of drug traffickers who had their own laboratory in the town where they adulterated the drugs they sold with different chemical products.Three kilos of highly pure cocaine was recovered int he operation, together with a firearm and ammunition. Two of those arrested are broth...

Ettore Facchinetti, 60, was detained in the town of Caldes de Montbuy near Barcelona

Ettore Facchinetti, 60, was detained in the town of Caldes de Montbuy near Barcelona, a police spokeswoman told AFP."He is accused of coordinating in Spain a network that smuggled cocaine to Italy," she said.Facchinetti, a suspected member of 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia, was...

Sentence against Judge, Francisco Javier De Urquía, was two years in prison for accepting 73,800 € from Juan Antonio Roca

Sentence against Judge, Francisco Javier De Urquía, was two years in prison for accepting 73,800 € from Juan Antonio Roca, the man at the centre of the Malaya corruption case in Marbella, for the purchase of a property in the La Azalea urbanization.The judge was also banned from holding office for ten years by the Andalucian High Court in August 2008. The judge was also found guilty of accepting money from Roca to stop the broadcast of a local television...

Abou Mossab Anadori arrested on the Costa del Sol

The man who is organising group of men or terror cell is known to the police as Abou Mossab Anadori .The small town of Torreforta was the scene of the arrest of a Moroccan man on the Costa del Sol.The Civil Guard made the arrest because the 21 year old was wanted in his own country because of allegedly planning terrorist attacks against tourists in North Africa .He was the subject of an international arrest warrent issued by the Attorney Generals...

Heavy plant machinery stolen from the U.K. sold in Spain

Eight machines valued at 1.2 million € have been recovered in Málaga and Galicia, and reports indicate that the sales to third countries were used as a way of hiding shipments of drugs.police have broken up an organization which sold heavy plant machinery in Spain which had in fact been stolen from the U.K.Two people have been arrested, both of them in Marbella, named as E.C. from Argentina and Briton A.J.C., and another six are reportedly indicted...

James “Pancake” Taylor was picked up by police

James “Pancake” Taylor was picked up by police trying to stop a violentdrugs war that has broken out on the Costa del Sol.NOTORIOUS Liverpool gangster was today behind bars in Spain after being arrested for attempted murder.James “Pancake” Taylor was picked up by police trying to stop a violent drugs war that has broken out on the Costa del Sol.The 29-year-old is also being investigated over claims he is the ringleader of a gang which has brought...

National Police have arrested one of the bosses of the Calabrese Mafia in Marbella.

National Police have arrested one of the bosses of the Calabrese Mafia in Marbella.48 year old Giususeppe U. was a policeman himself in Italy and even acted as a bodyguard to a minster there for a time.He was arrested on a European warrant for large-scale hashish trafficking from Morocco, and is wanted in connection with the killing of Salvatore Nigro in Rome in 1997.He was also wanted here in Spain in connection with the killing of a Spaniard in...

Ian Donaldson wanted in Spain for drug smuggling has been arrested in Scotland.

Ian Donaldson wanted in Spain for drug smuggling has been arrested in Scotland. Ian Donaldson, 29, was snared by Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency officers on Friday afternoon. They swooped using an international arrest warrant issued by a judge in Madrid. Now Donaldson, of Renton, Dunbartonshire, faces extradition to Spain where he is expected to face money laundering and drug trafficking charges. The arrest is part of Operation Sendero...

British tourist could lose the sight of his left eye after he intervened to defend a woman who was being bothered by two men in a Marbella bar.

A British tourist could lose the sight of his left eye after he intervened to defend a woman who was being bothered by two men in a Marbella bar.man stepped in to defend a woman who was being bothered by two men 'with Liverpool accents'The 53 year old businessman, who has not been named in reports, was attacked last Monday and has been admitted to the Civil Hospital in Málaga, after earlier treatment in the Costa del Sol Hospital in Marbella. He...