arrested a 40-year-old man from Arriate, near Ronda, for a crime against public health when he was found to be in possession of 10 grams of cocaine

arrested a 40-year-old man from Arriate, near Ronda, for a crime against public health when he was found to be in possession of 10 grams of cocaine. Further to the arrest, charges have been pressed against the owner of the pub where the man was arrested. Upon search of the bar police found the establishment had no opening licence and found drugs and different weapons. It is also thought the owner permitted patrons to consume drugs freely in his ...

arrested a 54-year-old man from Velez Blanco charged with a crime against public health after dismantling a drugs sale point

arrested a 54-year-old man from Velez Blanco charged with a crime against public health after dismantling a drugs sale point and seizing 49 grams of cocaine. The operation began after police observed unusual activity of people coming and going from an establishment in Velez after commercial hours. The clients were seen leaving the establishment putting small items in their pockets, making police suspect that drugs were being sold. They confirmed...

sentences of between two and nine years for three men charged with planning to kill a National Police officer

sentences of between two and nine years for three men charged with planning to kill a National Police officer who had previously arrested one of them for drug dealing. One of the accused, who owned the premises where the drugs were being distributed, is believed to have paid almost 300,000 euros to one of the others to carry out the murder. The hired killer then obtained a weapon and requested help from the third man accused, giving him the weapon....

wearing blue overalls and armed with a gun stole 150 euros from a shop

wearing blue overalls and armed with a gun stole 150 euros from a shop in Ciudad Quesada, Rojales. Police are investigating and believe he may not have acted al...

arrested four people believed to have perpetrated a robbery on December 13 at an Orange mobile phone shop near the train station

arrested four people believed to have perpetrated a robbery on December 13 at an Orange mobile phone shop near the train station in the centre of Malaga in which 30,000 euros worth of latest generation mobile phones and laptop computers were stolen over the weekend. They entered the shop via an adjoining empty warehouse. This time, they were caught red-handed by the police after a citizen alerted that they had entered the office of a promoter. Two...

Man who died in hospital following an argument on the CV-905 road in Rojales, had been stabbed several times in the head.

Man who died in hospital following an argument on the CV-905 road in Rojales, had been stabbed several times in the head. The victim was from Madrid but lived in Torrevieja. The other man involved in the events, a 26-year-old resident of Rojales, is also in a serious condition in hospital as he was stabbed in the lung. He is under police guard and will be arrested by the Guardia Civil as soon as he is well enough and charged with manslaughter.It...

17 years in prison for a Guardia Civil officer who with the help of a friend who is facing the same sentence, allegedly killed a drug dealer

17 years in prison for a Guardia Civil officer who with the help of a friend who is facing the same sentence, allegedly killed a drug dealer who regularly supplied them with cocaine and who they owed 3,000 euros in 2006. The body was found abandoned in an olive grove in the town of Biar. Also on trial are the officer’s wife, his friend’s brother and a Local Police officer, all of whom are facing two years in prison.The two men used to take drugs...

7 men and 2 women aged between 18 and 41 have been arrested in a drugs operation against cocaine sales in Torrevieja

7 men and 2 women aged between 18 and 41 have been arrested in a drugs operation against cocaine sales in Torrevieja, charged with illegal association, document forgery and cocaine trafficking, believed to have been carried out in local bars and nightclubs. The operation, codenamed Milor, began nine months ago when Guardia Civil detected drugs sales in leisure areas.On April 16 last year, they seized 626 grams of cocaine and arrested one man, believed...

attempting to kill the victims with a chainsaw in Estepona Port

sentenced by Malaga Provincial Court to 15 years each in prison for attempted manslaughter, for causing an accident and attempting to kill the victims with a chainsaw. The events took place in Estepona Port in April 2001, where one of the accused put a chainsaw to the neck of one of the victims, although he did not start it. A friend of the victim came forward in his defence and pushed the attacker to the floor.The two men, accompanied by another,...

sentenced to six years and six months in prison for the attempted manslaughter of a colleague who he said harassed him.

sentenced to six years and six months in prison for the attempted manslaughter of a colleague who he said harassed him. The two men had argued on several occasions and threatened to kill each other, so the company in Marbella reprimanded them both. Two months later, in August 2008, outside in the street after work, they argued again and one of the men stabbed the other. The attacker will also have to pay the victim 1,210 euros in compensation for...

Marta del Castillo Casanueva, police have still not been able to find her body.

Marta del Castillo Casanueva, police have still not been able to find her body.According to self-confessed killer and ex-boyfriend of the victim, Miguel Carcaño, 21, Marta's body was thrown into the river Guadalquivir.Carcaño later changed his statement and claimed she was on a rubbish dump just outside the city.The killer told police a year ago that he and his former girlfriend had argued after she told him she wanted to see him to find out about...

64-year-old woman has been found dead at her home in Granada with signs of a blow to the head and her maid has been arrested.

The police were called to the building at number 3 cuesta de Escoriaza around 4.30pm today by neighbours who had heard a violent argument going on inside the apartment.When they entered the apartment, the police found the owner, a 64-year-old woman, dead and with a gash to the head, apparently caused by a blow from a vase.A search of the apartment revealed the alleged author of the crime, hiding in a wardrobe. The 26-year-old Spanish woman, identified...

woman was murdered on Thursday night by her partner at their home in Palma de Mallorca.

woman was murdered on Thursday night by her partner at their home in Palma de Mallorca.National Police were called out to the street in the Camp Redó district of the city at around 22.00hrs by the victim's family, when they were concerned that they had been unable to reach her by telephone all day.Officers found that her throat had been slit and she had been inserted into a plastic bag.They believe she had been killed by her husband, who had fled...

Julio Alberto Poch, 57, the Dutch-Argentine pilot convicted for throwing political prisoners out of an aircraft into the sea

Julio Alberto Poch, 57, the Dutch-Argentine pilot convicted for throwing political prisoners out of an aircraft into the sea 30 years ago, has been ordered extradition by the High Court of Spain.He was arrested last year after a conversation between his colleagues and an Argentine judge in Europe, who said that he had boasted about throwing prisoners into the River plate or the Atlantic Ocean. Poch was protected from extradition until September 22,...

2009 ended with over 1.5 million unsold homes

Property sales in Spain dropped by 36% in November ‘08 registered figures. The director of TINSA, announced at a press conference that even though many construction projects have been paralized, we are still seeing twice as many constructions complete as they are being sold.TINSA also predicts that 2009 ended with over 1.5 million unsold homes. This is an increase of over 50 per cent compared to 2008, which ended with 930,000 unsold uni...

Marbella planning office, counted a total of 38,194 buildings which do not comply with the current PGOU Urban Plan guidelines

Marbella planning office, counted a total of 38,194 buildings which do not comply with the current PGOU Urban Plan guidelines, which was approved in 1986.90 per cent of the buildings are hom...

89 year old woman, named with the initials I.R.G., died instantly in Málaga on Wednesday after a woman threw herself from an eighth floor window

89 year old woman, named with the initials I.R.G., died instantly in Málaga on Wednesday after a woman threw herself from an eighth floor window and fell on top of the woman below. The falling woman, said to be 20 and named with the intials M.D.P.M., was only injured in the fall which was a suicide attempt, according to 112 emergency sources. She is reported to have fractures to a leg and an arm as well as head injuries, and was admitted to the Carlos...

Narcogangs on the Costa del Sol have been hit hard in recent weeks with some 3.3 tons of the drugs being seized by Guardia Civil

Narcogangs on the Costa del Sol have been hit hard in recent weeks with some 3.3 tons of the drugs being seized by Guardia Civil. The first drugs bust took place in Calahonda, where two people were arrested and 592 kilos seized. The second was on El Moral beach in Estepona when a suspicious boat was detected heading to the Bahia Dorada area. The people on board fled before they could be arrested, but officers recovered 1,650 kilos of hashish.The...

Bankrobbers entered two banks on the city’s industrial estates over the weekend by making holes in the walls of adjoining premises

Bankrobbers entered two banks on the city’s industrial estates over the weekend by making holes in the walls of adjoining premises. One of the robberies took place at the Cajamar bank on the San Luis Industrial Estate, which the robbers entered via an abandoned warehouse some 20 metres away, by making holes in all the walls they came across in their path, crossing four premises in total, some of which opened to the public on Monday with large holes...

40 year old Spanish woman, named with the initials J.C.R. has been arrested in Benidorm and faces possible charges of attempted homicide

40 year old Spanish woman, named with the initials J.C.R. has been arrested in Benidorm and faces possible charges of attempted homicide after stabbing her 27 year old Lithuanian sentimental partner in the heart. It’s understood there was a distancing order in place against the man who now in hospital in a serious condition.It happened at 10,30pm on Saturday night in a residential block in Avenida Portugal in the town, and a full investigation is...

Alicante man then took hold of a shotgun and fired at his wife as he chased her down the street in Gata de Gorgos

Following an argument at home an Alicante man then took hold of a shotgun and fired at his wife as he chased her down the street in Gata de Gorgos.The Guardia Civil told the EFE news agency that the 42 year old woman is now in Dénia hospital after being hit in the back.After shooting his wife the man then turned the gun on himself and shot himself dead just metres from where his wife lay injured.The couple are well known in the village and have two...

voodoo prostitutes

sent a Nigerian couple to prison for 12 years 6 months for obliging girls from their country to work in Spain as prostitutes. The girls were told that if they disobeyed a voodoo curse would be placed on them, and voodoo ceremonies were carried out involving the cutting of nails and the removal of all body hair.The couple’s activities were discovered thanks to the statements of one of the victims who declared in the case as a protected witness. She...

10,000 illegal properties have been counted in the Axarquía region

Eight mayors from the Axarquia region of Eastern Málaga province travelled to Sevilla on Monday with the President of the Málaga Diputación, Salvador Pendón, in order to discuss the planning problems in their municipalities.They met with the Regional Councillor for Housing and Territorial Planning, Juan Espadas, who met with four of the Mayors at a time.The idea was to draw up a working plan to draw up definitive plans for housing areas in each municipality...

sacking of Juan Antonio Roca from his post as Municipal Real Estate Assessor at Marbella Town Hall was justified

judge in Social Court 11 in Málaga has ruled that the sacking of Juan Antonio Roca from his post as Municipal Real Estate Assessor at Marbella Town Hall was justified, and that the man who is at the centre of the Malaya corruption allegations has no right to his job back or any...

flamenco dancer Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya, known as ‘Farruquito’, is a free man after completing his three year prison sentence for a fatal hit an

flamenco dancer Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya, known as ‘Farruquito’, is a free man after completing his three year prison sentence for a fatal hit and run in 2003. Montoya had been out on parole since January last year, after completing two thirds of his sentence and spending the...

Eighteen people have been arrested across Spain for the illegal online sale of protected species

Eighteen people have been arrested across Spain for the illegal online sale of protected species, in a Civil Guard operation which began with an investigation into an Iberian Wolf which had been put up for sale on the Web.Dubbed ‘Operation Lobezno’ – ‘Wolf Cub’, a number of exotic animals have been seized, including a number of lions, three pumas, a cheetah and a tiger, in addition to an Iberian Wolf, a European Lynx and several birds of prey. EFE...

Free Sex on the Net

un-named woman resident in the Cartagena district has been taken into Civil Guard custody for advertising an offer of free sex on the Internet, but giving the contact details of a rival.La Opinión de Murcia said she published the telephone number and even the full address of her enemy, a woman who has now been forced to move house to escape the avalanche of enquiries from men seeking to take up the offer.The adverts have now been removed from the...

Málaga woman has accepted a one year sentence for assaulting her son’s teacher

Málaga woman has accepted a one year sentence for assaulting her son’s teacher during an incident at the child’s school in the Palma-Palmilla district of the city. It happened in the first week of the new school year in 2007, when the mother hit the teacher and threw her onto the floor in front of other mothers and also in front of her own son.Málaga Hoy newspaper reports that although the woman was brought before a judge for a minor offence at the...

counterfeit Osborne black bull

National Police have broken up a network which was importing counterfeit items using the famous Osborne black bull logo from SE Asia, mostly China and Thailand.26,478 articles were recovered in total during the operation which was carried in warehouses in the provinces of Madrid,...

Juan Antonio Roca.The court considered that his situation was worsening and that with the news that he could have money stored abroad

The Provincial Court in Málaga has once again denied an application for bail from the man at the centre of the Malaya and Saqueo corruption cases in Marbella, the ex municipal real estate assessor, Juan Antonio Roca.The court considered that his situation was worsening and that with...

THREE bodies were found in less than 24 hours in Cullera, Sellent and Favara,

THREE bodies were found in less than 24 hours in Cullera, Sellent and Favara, although authorities have said that the deaths do not appear to be related. They were found by passers-by who alerted the Guardia Civil and were each found in a different state of decomposition. One is believed to be that of a man who was murdered two years ago in Sellent, a crime for which Guardia Civil have already arrested three people. Another was found near the Santa...

LOCAL POLICE in Palma arrested a 32-year-old man

LOCAL POLICE in Palma arrested a 32-year-old man, after he and his brother attacked two officers who had been called to their home after a family argument. The events took place in the early hours of the morning in Son Roca when the officers were called to the scene because of a violent row. When they arrived they found blood on the landing and in a flat where the man, who was in an aggressive and nervous state, was found covered in cuts and bruises....

TWO people were arrested by Local Police after they used an umbrella to rob a perfume shop in the centre of Malaga

TWO people were arrested by Local Police after they used an umbrella to rob a perfume shop in the centre of Malaga and attack the shopkeeper. The two men, both from Malaga and aged 29 and 40, hit the shopkeeper on the head with the umbrella, as well as punching and biting him. They then fled with two bottles of perfume worth just over 100 euros. Police began to search the area and found the two near the Atarazanas Market where they were ordered to...

Piers Morgan heads to Marbella to investigate a tale of two cities

Marbella, the Costa del Sol’s capital of cool, is set to be the fifth exclusive global destination to be put under the spotlight of Piers Morgan’s Travelogues show on ITV, as part of the second series.Piers Morgan’s Travelogues began last year investigating the inner-workings of...

Guardia Civil arrested 13 individuals of Rumanian origin accused of commiting 20 robberies

Guardia Civil arrested 13 individuals of Rumanian origin accused of commiting 20 robberies in recreational spaces and bars, restaurants and hotels of different points of Andalucia. The first crime took place last October in a bar in Grazalema (Cadiz) where the accused forced a window and took the money in the slot machines, the till and the cigarette machine. That same day, three other robberies took place in the locality, two in bars and one in...

Six people have been arrested in Valencia for kidnapping a businessman who was held captive in a countryside cabin

Six people have been arrested in Valencia for kidnapping a businessman who was held captive in a countryside cabin in Chiva for six days before he managed to escape. Europa Press said one of his captors is an employee at the construction company the businessman owns.The victim was snatched on an industrial estate in Chiva and forced at gunpoint into the van which took him to the place where he was held and repeatedly beaten during his captivity....

homeless man who was attacked with an axe in Fuengirola in the early hours of Monday regained consciousness on Tuesday

homeless man who was attacked with an axe in Fuengirola in the early hours of Monday regained consciousness on Tuesday and is now understood to be off assisted respiration. His condition is however still serious and he remains in the Intensive Care unit of the Carlos Haya Hospital in Málaga.The 53 year old, who it’s understood is well known locally, was found with an axe wound to his head on Calle Palangreros shortly after 4am on Monday. Police are...

death of a 42 year old Russian woman whose stabbed body was found in her home in Almería.

Police are investigating the death of a 42 year old Russian woman whose stabbed body was found in her home in Almería. Her flatmate alerted the National Police to the tragedy and they say that all lines of investigation remain open.The body was found in the early hours of Wednesday in the home in Calle Rodrigo Vivas Miras in Almer...

body of another homeless person has been found in Málaga

The body of another homeless person has been found in Málaga. The 45 year old showed no signs of violence, but given the two recent axe attacks on homeless men in Fuengirola, one of which was fatal, the Police say they are investigating and waiting the results of an autopsy.The body was found around 6am on Wednesday close to the Muelle de Heredia, not far from the city cent...

National Police have smashed a drugs gang which smuggled regular consignments of cannabis onto the Algeciras ferry

National Police have smashed a drugs gang which smuggled regular consignments of cannabis onto the Algeciras ferry at Tangiers and which used a rented garage in Algeciras as a warehouse to store the drugs they brought over from Morocco. A quarter of a ton of cannabis was impounded as part of the police operation.Five of the eight suspects taken into custody are reported by the EFE news agency as crew members on one of the ferries which cover the...

32 year old woman from Peru who was found dead at her home

Two people have been arrested in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona province, for the death of a 32 year old woman from Peru who was found dead at her home in the city on Wednesday afternoon. The two suspects are also from Peru: the alleged murderer, who is the woman’s partner, and another man who was in the home and saw her being killed.Police have yet to determine if the murder of a 42 year old Russian woman who was found stabbed to death at...

green light has been given to the Spanish Government’s project to close down any web page which is found to be infringing copyright law.

Green light has been given to the Spanish Government’s project to close down any web page which is found to be infringing copyright law. Under the legislation the Ministry for Culture would handle and complaints via a new body called the Intellectual Property Commission, and then pass on the information to the National Court which would then have to make a ruling and decide to issue a court order to close the web down within four days or to order...

Andalucia’s most wanted man Jose Luis Maseda, 67,

Andalucia’s most wanted man Jose Luis Maseda, 67, who has apparently disappeared after wheeling and dealing for more than 25 years. Claiming to be a lawyer, financial consultant and tax advisor, Maseda wooed hundreds of clients to invest their money from the confines of his Eurobrokers office, in central Benalmadena.up to 100 former clients, are trying to track him down in a bid to discover what has happened to an estimated 20 million euros invested...

23-YEAR-OLD man has lost his life during a brawl in Almería

23-YEAR-OLD man has lost his life during a brawl in Almería, National Police report. He was stabbed to death at around 21.00hrs in the street on New Year’s Day in the Venta Gaspar district of the city.Although emergency services rushed to the scene, they were unable to save the young man. Police say his death was the result of a fight between the victim and another man of a similar age, whose whereabouts are as yet unkno...

2 million € worth of heroin at Lidl

2 million € worth of heroin have been recovered by National Police in Madrid after the packages were delivered by error to the Spanish capital’s central wholesale market, Mercamadrid, amongst the cargo of bananas which the drugs gang had used to smuggle them into the country.The alarm was raised on Saturday morning when staff at Lidl supermarkets unpacked the boxes of bananas which had been distributed from Mercamadrid to the company’s stores in...

Domestic violence claimed its first victim of 2010

Domestic violence claimed its first victim of 2010 in Sevilla province in the early hours of Sunday, where a 45 year old woman died at the hands of her partner at her home in El Cuervo, a village which lies on the border with Cádiz province. She is named with the initials of J.R.Z.Her 54 year old partner, J.M.C.E., was taken into custody after he contacted the local police confessing to the crime at around 4am on Sunday.The Civil Guard are in charge...

blaze started near the balneario in an area which is popular with day trippers on bank holidays.

forest fire which broke out in Aigües, inland to the north east of El Campello, on Friday afternoon was officially out 24 hours later after destroying an estimated 20 hectares of land. The work to tackle the blaze was hampered by the high winds affecting the area, but it was brought under control by 9 on Saturday morning after three fire-fighting brigades spent the night at the scene attempting to prevent the flames spreading any further.It was originally...

Another axe attack on a homeless man in Fuengirola

Another axe attack on a homeless man in Fuengirola has been reported by Diario Sur this Monday morning, after the murder of a man, well-known locally, whose body was found with an axe buried in his head in a local car park last month.The second victim, a 51 year old man, survived the attack, but is seriously ill in the Intensive Care unit of Carlos Haya Hospital in Málaga. He is understood to be on assisted ventilation.Emergency services were called...

kidnapping of a businessman

Six people have been arrested in Valencia for kidnapping a businessman who was held captive in a countryside cabin in Chiva for six days before he managed to escape. Europa Press said one of his captors is an employee at the construction company the businessman owns.The victim was snatched on an industrial estate in Chiva and forced at gunpoint into the van which took him to the place where he was held and repeatedly beaten during his captivity....