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Crime & Law

Property owner stung with massive fine for bogus registration of immigrants in Spain’s Valencia

A Valencia area man has picked up a €105,000 penalty for breaking Spain's immigration laws. The 52-year-old Pakistani national from Mislata was fined €525 each...

Supermarket thieves took ‘cut-price’ orders from Costa Blanca bars and restaurants in Spain

SIX people have been arrested for stealing from Costa Blanca supermarkets and passing on the items at discount prices to Elche bars and restaurants. The...

Home robbers made weekly 300 kilometre round-trips to Costa Blanca in Spain

A member of a Murcia-based home robbery gang has been arrested in Alicante Province over 11 break-ins. The 25-year-old man was part of a crew...

Man arrested in Spain’s Almeria for “obsessive” cyber-bullying of 23 kids after mum discovers pornography on daughter’s phone

FOLLOWING the shock discovery of pornographic images on her daughter’s phone, a mum’s report led to the arrest of a 26-year-old man in La...

Illegal drone sprays banned chemicals close to homes and river on Spain’s Costa Blanca

AN illegal crop-spraying drone using dangerous chemicals has been brought down to earth in Orihuela. The Policia Local were told about the drone operating just...

Supermarket sweep as serial robber is caught shopping after police spend months trying to catch him in Spain’s Murcia...

AN eight-month probe to capture a serial robber has culminated in his arrest in a Murcia region supermarket. The Guardia Civil swooped on the shop...

British gang grew marijuana and ran drugs mail-order service from Costa Blanca area of Spain

A British trio of marijuana farmers who ran a mail-order service out of the Costa Blanca have been busted by the Guardia Civil. The illegal...

Online Costa Blanca scammer tricked people across Spain into buying expensive video game consoles that he never sent

A Denia scammer tricked at least 17 online customers to pay for a video game console that he never sent. The Spaniard, 44, has been...

Knife-wielding father kills son, 11, just two days after youngster’s birthday in Spain’s Valencia area

AN 11-year-boy died after his father stabbed him with a kitchen knife at his Sueca home on Sunday. The young victim, named as Jordi, had...

€3 million fake saffron gang busted in Spain’s Malaga, Alicante and Barcelona

POLICE have arrested 11 people in  Malaga, Barcelona, Alicante, Granada and Almeria for a €3million scam that passed off gardenia extract as saffron, making...

Notorious matriarch of drug dealing clan among 50 arrested in massive police bust in Spain’s Mallorca

A NOTORIOUS drug dealer known as La Paca has been arrested in Mallorca during raids on the shanty town Son Banya. The Guardia Civil operation...

Power company Iberdrola admits personal details of 1.3 million customers in Spain were hacked

PERSONAL data of 1.3 million Iberdrola customers were hacked in a cyberattack on March 15 according to the El Pais newspaper. The criminals seized information...

British robber caught stealing 21 brass taps from old hospital building in Spain’s Valencia

A British man has been arrested by the Policia Nacional for stealing 21 brass taps from a building formerly used by a Valencia hospital. The...

Network of overcrowded unhygienic flats housed trafficked migrants on Spain’s Costa Blanca

THE Policia Nacional have raided six flats crammed with trafficked migrants in the north of Alicante City. The living conditions were described as 'very poor'. The...

Man jailed for child sex offences in Gibraltar

A Gibraltarian man has been handed a 15 month jail sentence after pleading guilty to a string of child sex offences. Karl Bassett, 26, a...

Woman from Spain’s Valencia endures 56 years of hell from abusive husband before barricading herself in room

A Valencia woman suffered 56 years of abuse from her husband and eventually resorted to barricading herself in a room. Officers from Valencia's Policia Local...

Son ‘hacked at his own father with an axe and left him with serious injuries’ in Spain’s Granada

A TROUBLED son has been arrested after attacking his father with an axe during a heated argument at a family home in Granada.  The pair...

Zaragoza hamburglar strikes again just days after jail release

A RESTAURANT bill dodger has once again proved there is no such thing as a free lunch.  Hamburglar Antonio Miguel Grimal fell back into his...

Father arrested for ‘abusing daughter for years’ on Spain’s Costa del Sol

POLICE on Spain's Costa del Sol have arrested a man accused of sexually abusing his own daughter.  He allegedly abused his daughter, now a teen,...

Costa Blanca pensioner gets stolen mobility scooters back after same thief struck twice within weeks in Spain

AN octogenerian has been reunited with his two stolen mobility scooters taken by the same thief in less than two months in San Juan...

Ex-King of Spain, Juan Carlos, looks to Court of Appeal to delay or stop London trial over surveillance of...

LAWYERS acting for Emeritus King, Juan Carlos, say they are going to the Court of Appeal over a key immunity ruling made last week. Justice...

Santi Mina tells sexual assault trial that woman consented to sex

SPANISH footballer Santi Mina has told a court in Almeria that a woman he is accused of sexually assaulting consented to sex with him. Mina,...

Man kills girlfriend’s ex-partner by running him over in the street of Spain’s Valencia area

A 21-year-old Valencia Province man has been charged with homicide after running over and killing his girlfriend's ex-partner, also 21. The incident happened in Serra...

Italian mafia crime boss and two henchmen arrested in Valencia area of Spain

AN Italian mafia drugs lord and his two lieutenants have been arrested in Valencia Province. The leader has been detained by the Policia Nacional in...

Scammers put fake top brand labels on cheap clothes and shoes with €1.7 million retail value in Spain’s Murcia...

A fraud involving bogus brand labels being slapped onto cheap clothes imports has been broken up by the Guardia Civil in the Murcia region. A...

Serial hugging robber arrested on Spain’s Costa Blanca over stealing €20,000 watch from Costa del Sol victim

A woman, 29, wanted over the theft of €20,000 watch in a hugging robbery in Malaga Province, has been arrested by the Guardia Civil...

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