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The Costa del Sol’s out-of-control organised crime gangs takes HUGE hit as French ‘super-mafia’ smashed

SPANISH police have put the brakes on the Costa del Sol’s spiralling mafia activity with a huge operation targeting a number of interconnecting mafia gangs

5 Nov, 2025 @ 17:00

Costa del Sol·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

African leopards- including three cubs- are removed by police after being kept in a caged area on a farm in Spain

African leopards- including three cubs- are removed by police from fenced enclosure on a farm in Spain

FIVE African leopards- including three newborns- have been seized by the Guardia Civil after they were found on a Gran Canaria farm. Three people are

5 Nov, 2025 @ 16:15

Animals·Canary Islands·Crime & Law·Lead

Albanians ran five marijuana farms on the Costa Blanca with drugs exported across Europe

Albanians operated Costa Blanca marijuana farms with drugs exported across Europe

POLICE have swooped on an Albanian drug trafficking gang- making six simultaneous arrests across the Costa Blanca. The crew grew marijuana to sell across Europe.

5 Nov, 2025 @ 14:00

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Blackspot Branded As The 'road Of Death' On The Costa Blanca In Spain Claims Another Victim In A Head On Collision Horrific crash at blackspot known as the ‘Road of Death’ on the Costa Blanca in Spain claims another victim

Wave of mysterious deaths shocks Malaga as three separate corpses appear within 24 hours

THREE bodies have been found in less than a day across Malaga province in what police are calling an ‘unprecedented’ 24 hours of unexplained deaths.

4 Nov, 2025 @ 17:49

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Mallorca agent slams Spanish sellers for ‘profiting from foreigners while moaning about them’

Nuisance noise beware: Running the washing machine at night or drilling in the early morning CAN be prosecuted under Spanish housing law

RUNNING the washing machine late at night or using the dishwasher early in the morning can be prosecuted under Spanish housing law. Neighbours can report

3 Nov, 2025 @ 17:30

Crime & Law·Lead

Spain’s Puerto Banus is the most expensive port to dock a yacht in Europe, according to new ranking

Chilling scenes in Puerto Banus as suspected narco boat ‘dumps body in broad daylight and speeds away’

IN one of the most chilling scenes witnessed in Marbella’s millionaire marina, a suspected narco speed boat pulled up to the mouth of Puerto Banus,

3 Nov, 2025 @ 17:19

Crime & Law·Lead

Seprona’s most shocking case: Woman in Madrid discovered living with over 50 dogs – six of which were dead

A WOMAN was found living in a substandard Madrid home with over 50 dogs – six of which were dead. A 68-year-old woman living in

3 Nov, 2025 @ 17:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

Sneaky domestic worker steals €100k of jewellery and uses her mother to sell it off around Valencia

Sneaky domestic worker steals €100k of jewellery with her mother pawning it off in Valencia

A VALENCIA domestic worker broke her employer’s trust by stealing at least €100,000 of jewellery. She then got her mother involved in helping her pawn

3 Nov, 2025 @ 16:30

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

Sweet shop in Barcelona ‘sold cocaine on its shelves in full reach of school children’

A BARCELONA sweet shop was found to be selling cocaine and stocking it on its shelves in full reach of children. Catalunya’s regional police, the

3 Nov, 2025 @ 13:45

Barcelona·Crime & Law·Lead

Mallorca's former top anti-drug cop arrested in money laundering probe linked to Ibiza cocaine pipeline

Shock in Sevilla: Mother is jailed for 26 years after passerby finds newborn baby dumped in a rubbish bin

A MOTHER has been sentenced to 26 years in prison after dumping her newborn baby in a rubbish container and leaving her to die on

3 Nov, 2025 @ 11:45

Crime & Law·Lead·Sevilla

‘We are becoming a narco-state’: Inside the Belgian judge’s warning that should terrify Spain

SOMETHING is rotten in the state of Belgium – and the stench is emanating from the country’s largest port. An investigating judge in Antwerp recently

1 Nov, 2025 @ 11:00

Crime & Law·International Affairs·Lead·Must Read·National News

WATCH: Police seize 2.5 million cigarettes and 5,200 litres of laughing gas set for illegal export from Spain via lorries

AN EAST European and Spanish gang that used its own international transport firm to smuggle cigarettes and laughing gas within legal cargo has been busted

31 Oct, 2025 @ 15:00

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Spanish football fan who racially abused Barcelona and England star Marcus Rashford faces €4,000 fine

A SPANISH football fan who allegedly directed racist abuse towards Barcelona and England forward Marcus Rashford could be handed a fine of up to €4,000,

31 Oct, 2025 @ 14:16

Crime & Law·Lead·Sport

Amazing security breach as bogus police officer regularly visited military barracks to ‘recruit’ soldiers for fake spy jobs in Spain

A BOGUS Policia Nacional officer has been arrested in Madrid after trying to recruit soldiers to work for Spain’s intelligence service. The genuine Policia Nacional

31 Oct, 2025 @ 14:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

Drugged driver rescued but friend drowns after car plunges 20 metres into Port of Gandia in Spain

A MOTORIST has been arrested by the Guardia Civil after her car plunged into the water at the Port of Gandia on Thursday- with her

31 Oct, 2025 @ 11:24

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

Fugitive TikTok star’s surprise return to the UK because he ‘glassed man in the throat during Marbella night club brawl’

A NEW twist in the tale of fugitive British streamer and TikTok star Harrison Sullivan – better known as HSTikkyTokky – has been revealed after

30 Oct, 2025 @ 18:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Marbella

Man arrested in Spain for supplying payments to French tennis players to fix matches

A MAN has been arrested by the Policia Nacional in Spain for being part of a Europe-wide gang that fixed tennis matches to benefit players

30 Oct, 2025 @ 16:30

Crime & Law·Lead·Sport

Crazy high-speed car chase sees pedestrian run over and vehicles hit before drug traffickers are arrested in Costa Blanca city

A PEDESTRIAN was knocked over and parked cars damaged in Torrevieja during a high-speed Guardia Civil pursuit of two drug traffickers. Two men, aged 25

30 Oct, 2025 @ 15:45

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Torrevieja

Despicable cafe boss cheated elderly customer out of €22k by overcharging him for his breakfast over two years in Spain

Despicable cafe owner in Spain cheated elderly customer out of €22k over two years by overcharging him for breakfast

A HEARTLESS Granada cafe owner ripped off an elderly customer to the tune of €22,000 by over-charging him for breakfast between 2023 and 2025. The

30 Oct, 2025 @ 15:00

Crime & Law·Granada·Lead

Ex-Marbella councillor who fled Spain in 2006 over infamous Malaya corruption case is arrested at Madrid airport

A FORMER Marbella councillor who fled Spain 19 years ago to avoid being indicted in an infamous corruption case has been arrested at Madrid airport

29 Oct, 2025 @ 18:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Marbella

Teenage hacker arrested in Alicante for making death threats to Podemos leader, Ione Belarra, and the mass theft of personal data

Teenage hacker arrested in Alicante for death threats against left-wing Podemos leader and threatening mass theft of personal data

A 17-YEAR-OLD boy has been arrested in the Vinalopo region after making online death threats to the leader of the left-wing political party Podemos. He

29 Oct, 2025 @ 16:00

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead

Fears of new ‘wolf pack’ as four men are arrested over attack on girl in Pamplona – nine years after horrific assault during Spain’s Running of the Bulls

FOUR men have been arrested over an alleged gang rape of a young woman at a university party in Pamplona – sparking fears of another

29 Oct, 2025 @ 16:00

Crime & Law·Lead

EXCLUSIVE: Fears of more victims in the Costa Blanca’s ‘very own Jimmy Savile case’ after Brit charity worker is jailed for raping teenage girl in UK

THE rape conviction of a Costa Blanca-based British charity worker for a crime dating back 30 years has prompted fears many more victims could come

28 Oct, 2025 @ 18:30

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·EXCLUSIVE·Lead·Torrevieja

Ex-porn star faces four years in prison over toad venom fatally administered to house guest in Valencia

THE Valencia Public Prosecutor wants ex-porn star Nacho Vidal jailed for four years if he’s convicted for killing a photographer in a toad venom drinking

28 Oct, 2025 @ 17:32

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

62 people set to be prosecuted after hundreds of animals are poisoned or illegally hunted in rural Spain

THE Guardia Civil’s annual ‘Atrax’ campaign to combat the illegal killing of animals in mainly rural Spain has led to 62 people being either arrested

28 Oct, 2025 @ 15:00

Animals·Crime & Law·Lead

‘Most sophisticated’ indoor marijuana farm to be found in years is raided in Alicante with entry via ‘secret’ door

THE Guardia Civil have dismantled one ‘of the most sophisticated’ indoor marijuana farms to be discovered in Alicante province in recent years. Two warehouses in

28 Oct, 2025 @ 14:15

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead

Crime & Law

The Costa del Sol’s out-of-control organised crime gangs takes HUGE hit as French ‘super-mafia’ smashed

African leopards- including three cubs- are removed by police from fenced enclosure on a farm in Spain

Albanians operated Costa Blanca marijuana farms with drugs exported across Europe

Wave of mysterious deaths shocks Malaga as three separate corpses appear within 24 hours

Nuisance noise beware: Running the washing machine at night or drilling in the early morning CAN be prosecuted under Spanish housing law

Chilling scenes in Puerto Banus as suspected narco boat ‘dumps body in broad daylight and speeds away’

Seprona’s most shocking case: Woman in Madrid discovered living with over 50 dogs – six of which were dead

Sneaky domestic worker steals €100k of jewellery with her mother pawning it off in Valencia

Sweet shop in Barcelona ‘sold cocaine on its shelves in full reach of school children’

Shock in Sevilla: Mother is jailed for 26 years after passerby finds newborn baby dumped in a rubbish bin

‘We are becoming a narco-state’: Inside the Belgian judge’s warning that should terrify Spain

WATCH: Police seize 2.5 million cigarettes and 5,200 litres of laughing gas set for illegal export from Spain via lorries

Spanish football fan who racially abused Barcelona and England star Marcus Rashford faces €4,000 fine

Amazing security breach as bogus police officer regularly visited military barracks to ‘recruit’ soldiers for fake spy jobs in Spain

Drugged driver rescued but friend drowns after car plunges 20 metres into Port of Gandia in Spain

Fugitive TikTok star’s surprise return to the UK because he ‘glassed man in the throat during Marbella night club brawl’

Man arrested in Spain for supplying payments to French tennis players to fix matches

Crazy high-speed car chase sees pedestrian run over and vehicles hit before drug traffickers are arrested in Costa Blanca city

Despicable cafe owner in Spain cheated elderly customer out of €22k over two years by overcharging him for breakfast

Ex-Marbella councillor who fled Spain in 2006 over infamous Malaya corruption case is arrested at Madrid airport

Teenage hacker arrested in Alicante for death threats against left-wing Podemos leader and threatening mass theft of personal data

Fears of new ‘wolf pack’ as four men are arrested over attack on girl in Pamplona – nine years after horrific assault during Spain’s Running of the Bulls

EXCLUSIVE: Fears of more victims in the Costa Blanca’s ‘very own Jimmy Savile case’ after Brit charity worker is jailed for raping teenage girl in UK

Ex-porn star faces four years in prison over toad venom fatally administered to house guest in Valencia

62 people set to be prosecuted after hundreds of animals are poisoned or illegally hunted in rural Spain

‘Most sophisticated’ indoor marijuana farm to be found in years is raided in Alicante with entry via ‘secret’ door

Spain grants citizenship to 170 descendants of International Brigade volunteers who fought Franco

The Costa del Sol’s out-of-control organised crime gangs takes HUGE hit as French ‘super-mafia’ smashed

African leopards- including three cubs- are removed by police from fenced enclosure on a farm in Spain

Tunnel between Spain and Morocco ‘technically feasible’ – with a start date pencilled in for 2027

What’s going on on the Rock? Tensions between Spain and Gibraltar go to the wire amid bid to derail historic treaty signing