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Gang’s main base was in Marbella, in Málaga province, and they were closely linked to another gang in Marbella from the Mazzarella clan of the Napolitan Camorra – the Naples mafia. The clan leader in Spain was arrested along with 13 other people in police swoops which took place...
The mother of missing Amy Fitzpatrick has vowed to travel "the length of Spain and Gibraltar" in the hope of finding the teenager.The 15-year-old vanished after leaving her friend's house near Feungirola, in Spain, at 10pm on New Year's Day. She set out on the 20-minute walk to her...
Researchers learned yesterday, thanks to an interview that the father of Amy granted to a tabloid newspaper, that Amy Fitzpatrich was offered a job as a model and an offer to participate in a photo session. According to the father, the girl was told by phone three days before her...
Stewart "Specky" Boyd, 40, died with his daughter Nicola, her friend and a three-year-old girl when the Audi coupe he was driving veered across a motorway on Spain's Costa del Sol and hit a BMW, killing two occupants. Earlier investigations had suggested the former Glasgow enforcer's...
Alexander Colin Dalgleish, aged 30-35, Gordon Stewart, 25-30, Paul Turner (also known as Paul Francis or Geddes), 50-55, Joshua Karney, 25-30, who also goes by five other names, and Kamil Krawiec, 25-30. missing of the sex offenders list in the U.K.British pedophiles and rapists...
Francisco Luis González Fernández, the head of Conil's Local Police force, was arrested on Wednesday in connection with alleged fraud involving vehicles in the municipal car pound. Investigators believe that he may be involved in various crimes, such as fraud, falsification of documents, omitting to follow up offences, and robbery with the use of vehicles. The police chief, who is nicknamed Paco Mato, has been a Local Police officer for more than...
At least 22 people have died trying to cross the precarious Atlantic waters to the Canary Islands. At least 14 bodies of attempted immigrants have been washed up on the shores of Nuakchott in the north african state of Mauritania. At the same time the security forces said that they...
Britons who have a house or apartment in Spain and rent it out are advised to tell the UK tax authorities. This applies even if the amount earned just covers their maintenance costs.Gibraltar banks have been forced to disclose all the details of their accounts to U.K.government who have set up a special investigation department to prosecute all account holders who have not declared property or business holdings in Spain.Owners are advised they should...
The Civil Guad have taken a foreign resident of Benalmádena into custody after an operation by the Organised Crime and Drugs Squad in Málaga over the Christmas period. Officers seized more than one and a half tons of cannabis resin. The two suspects are named in a Civil Guard press release as M.E.V., who is 35 and is from Romford in Essex.They have both been remanded to custody.The drugs were found on a lorry intercepted by the Civil Guard, and were...
Dutch man wanted by police in his home country was arrested by police in Sabinillas Named as P.J.J.D.J he is wanted for money laundering and arms trafficking in the Netherlands It is thought he fled to Spain when other members of the criminal organisation he led were taken into custody Officers from a specialised squad of National Police from La Línea de la Concepción took the man into custody in Sabinillas National Police told the news agency that...
Inspector Francisco Javier Martín, who is accused of hiding and then removing three statement complaints from the police station on the same day that the premises were searched, March 30 2006, as part of the Malaya case. Since the time of the alleged offence, the policeman has been promoted to control traffic, plain-clothed officers and the police training school.Instruction judge four in Marbella is investigating a top local policeman in the town,The...
The dynamite-packed explosive were found at the Hotel Cano in Torrevieja .This unexploded bomb had been planted 17 years ago in a resort popular with British tourists has been uncoveredWorkmen refurbishing a bathroom after a fire found the device inside a tube left in a false ceiling.The area was evacuated and disposal experts removed the device.Designed to target holidaymakers, the bomb was one of three planted in Costa Blanca in 1991 by Basque...
local police chief in Conil, who was arrested on Wednesday for charges including fraud and falsifying documents. The paper says it relates to the sale of stolen cars, which were allegedly sold on after they were recovered by police, instead of being returned to their owners.Also under investigation by the court in Chiclana is a territorial planning crime. La Voz says they have been unable to confirm if that relates to a property built by the police...
The Alicante newspaper, Información, reports on the case of two men who were arrested in Alicante city centre this Tuesday night, with one of them at the wheel of the car, speeding and zig zagging along the street, and the owner of the vehicle on the roof. He was standing up, pretending...
Terra España quoted information from the EFE news agency that the Civil Guard have organised a search party with the help of volunteers and emergency services, which meets at the Cala de Mijas football ground at 9am on Wednesday. They continue to investigate if there is any truth...
The bodies of three skiers have been recovered by rescuers in Formigal after they were all buried by an avalanche at the Spanish ski resort at 1030am on Friday morning. The avalanche happened in the Anayer region of the resort when the three skiers were off-piste. The weather forecast...
The Guardia Civil was giving evidence in the trial , which sees nine Guardia Civil officers and a number of civilians facing charges of smuggling cigarettes from Gibraltar across the border into Spain. The officer said he worked in a shop owned by an Indian businessman. That covers a five or six-month period although the accused claim he was working there for 18 months. He said he worked in the shop and every 15 days made a report on what he had...
Wearing police uniforms and carrying fake identification they passed themselves off as police officers to prey on drivers of cars on foreign licence plates has been broken.carrying fake identification, the gang is believed to have targeted northern Europeans on the two ring roads around Madrid and the main road between the capital and the country’s southern coast.In simultaneous raids around Spain, police arrested 28 Pakistan and Iranian immigrants...
officer of the Guardia Civil has been arrested for allegedly passing on confidential information to a drugs gang.Police claim the un-named civil guard, who belonged of the traffic division of the Salobreña Guardia Civil, told the gang the locations of random police road checks and the best methods of avoiding the SIVE marine patrol to transport cannabis from Morocco to the Costa Tropical.Five other people, all believed to be members of the drugs...
Police in Almuñecar believe the un-named servicemen, who belong to the Regulars Division of Ceuta, were travelling from the North Africa enclave to Motril to sell the drug. soldiers were arrested after police found four kilograms of cannabis in their car. Aged 19 and 22, were arrested in La Herrad...
