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Spain's government to ban spam calls by companies

Phone scam extorts bars and restaurants over ‘unpaid’ electricity bills on Spain’s Costa Blanca

THE Guardia Civil has broken up a Madrid gang who said they’d cut off electricity to 26 Alicante Province hotels and restaurants after falsely claiming

26 Dec, 2022 @ 19:15

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Granada·Jaen·Lead·Madrid·Murcia·Valencian Community

José Antonio Griñán Top corrupt politicians

Disgraced Junta de Andalucia President Jose Griñan ‘has cancer’

DISGRACED former President of the Junta de Andalucia Jose Antonio Griñan who was given 10 days to surrender himself to jail is still not behind

26 Dec, 2022 @ 18:30

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News

Hero Police Dog Pounces On Gunman To End Armed Siege In Spain's Murcia

Heroic police dog pounces on gunman to end armed siege in Spain’s Murcia

ONE of Spain’s top police dogs helped to bring an end to a 36-hour armed siege in Murcia on Saturday. Elko works for the Policia

26 Dec, 2022 @ 15:30

Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia

Terra Natura Benidorm Manager In Spain And Two Staff Members Admit Reckless Homicide After Tiger Killed Worker

Manager at Benidorm’s Terra Natura on Spain’s Costa Blanca admits reckless homicide after tiger killed worker

THE manager of Benidorm’s Terra Natura wildlife park and two employees have plead guilty to reckless homicide after a zookeeper was killed by a tiger

26 Dec, 2022 @ 13:30

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community

Daughters save mother from certain death after ex-partner stabs her eight times in Spain’s Andalucia

POLICE arrested a man in Spain’s Estepona who allegedly stabbed his ex-partner eight times before his daughters stopped him from killing their mother. The man,

24 Dec, 2022 @ 11:00

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga·Other News

Police arrest four gang members after catching them with 440kg of hashish in Spain’s Andalucia

POLICE officers arrested four people after finding 440kg of hashish hidden in a secret compartment of a trailer in Spain’s Granada. National Police officers of

24 Dec, 2022 @ 10:00

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Granada·Lead·Malaga·Other News

Spain’s National Police arrest one of the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Criminals in Madrid

SPAIN’S National Police force has detained one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, Michael J. Pratt. The suspect, a 40-year-old from New Zealand, was

23 Dec, 2022 @ 15:25

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid·National News

Malaga police break up Marbella-based drug-trafficking operation flooding the streets of Spain with heroin

Spanish authorities have struck a blow against some of the worst narcotraffickers with the recent dismantling of a major heroin trafficking operation in the province

23 Dec, 2022 @ 12:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Man exploited 40 migrants by cramming them into his flat in Spain and charging €100 per month in rent

Criminal gang in Spain charged up to €20,000 for Pakistani nationals to travel from Bosnia

EIGHT people have been arrested by the Policia Nacional for illegally bringing Pakistani nationals into Spain and charging between €12,000 and €20,000 per person for

22 Dec, 2022 @ 15:45

Alicante·Barcelona·Crime & Law·Lead

Prisoners Use Day Release Privileges To Rob Houses Across Spain's Costa Blanca

Prisoners spend day release time robbing houses across Spain’s Costa Blanca

TWO prisoners used their day release privileges to rob houses across the southern Costa Blanca. They were part of a three-man gang who have been

22 Dec, 2022 @ 14:15

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Torrevieja·Valencian Community

British woman fatally mowed down by car on Spain’s Mallorca with driver claiming a puncture

A British woman died and a man- also British- suffered serious injuries in Palma on Wednesday when a vehicle hit them while waiting to use

22 Dec, 2022 @ 11:26

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Man convicted in Spain for horrific ‘Alcassar murders’ arrested in Barcelona drug den

MIGUEL RICART, who was convicted for the rape and murder of three teenagers from the Valencian municipality of Alcàsser, was arrested in a Barcelona drug

21 Dec, 2022 @ 17:48

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid·National News·Valencia

British expat is bludgeoned to death with a gardening hoe ‘for walking his dog near neighbour’s home’ in southern Spain

Popular tourist hotel owner on Spain’s Costa Blanca dies during alleged home invasion

THE Guardia Civil is investigating the death of a 77-year-old hotel owner at her Guardamar del Segura home on Wednesday. Her son is claiming that

21 Dec, 2022 @ 14:15

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community

Police arrest ‘the guardian’ of massive heroin trafficking ring in Marbella

A heroin trafficking ring leader from Marbella who police have dubbed the ‘guardian’ of the drug has been busted. Policia Nacional and Guardia Civil Cordoba

21 Dec, 2022 @ 13:30

Crime & Law·Jaen·Lead·Malaga·National News

Police patrols stepped up for holiday season in busy shopping areas of Spain’s Costa Blanca

THE Policia Nacional has launched its annual Safe Trade Plan to cut crime in Alicante Province shopping areas over the busy Christmas and New Year

20 Dec, 2022 @ 19:30

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community

Football coach accused of sexually abusing five boys in Spain’s Murcia region

A 29-year-old Spaniard has been arrested for sexually assaulting five boys aged between 12 and 16 who he coached at a Murcia football club. He

20 Dec, 2022 @ 18:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia

Pedro Sanchez says court veto over appointing judges is ‘unprecedented’ in Spain’s democratic history

A crisis has erupted in Spain after the Constitutional Court(CGPJ) blocked the Senate from voting on a bill to change the way that judges are

20 Dec, 2022 @ 12:49

Crime & Law·Lead·National News·Politics

Spain’s Malaga ramps up police surveillance on Midsummer’s Eve to 300 police officers and a drone

Benidorm gang dress up as police to con €500,000 out of businessman on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A Benidorm gang fleeced a Russian businessman out of €500,000 by pretending to be Guardia Civil officers and telling him that he was wanted by

20 Dec, 2022 @ 09:15

Alicante·Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community

stash of hashish found in councillors van

Police arrest drug gang that held up rival hash truck on Spain’s A-7 motorway

POLICE in Malaga have arrested four gang-members who violently held-up a truck that rival drug-traffickers were using to move hashish hidden in its cargo of

19 Dec, 2022 @ 15:30

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga·Other News

FIREBUG: Man arrested accused of causing 19 forest fires in Spain’s Caceres

A MAN has been arrested accused of setting 19 forest fires in Spain’s Caceres over a period of two years. One of the blazes burned

19 Dec, 2022 @ 15:00

Crime & Law·Lead·National News·Other News

TRAGEDY: Police search suspect after hit-and-run death leaves Spain’s Cartama in state of shock

POLICE are searching for the driver of a BMW who fatally ran over a 28-year-old at the entrance to Cartama and then fled the scene.

19 Dec, 2022 @ 14:12

Crime & Law·Malaga·Other News

Hotel owner in Spain’s Mar Menor beats off knife-wielding thief with iron bar

TWO robbers were beaten off by a Mar Manor hotel owner on Friday when the owner coshed one of them with an iron bar. They

19 Dec, 2022 @ 12:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Mar Menor·Murcia

DGT’s festive drugs and alcohol campaign in Spain’s Andalucia sees 47 drivers a day caught under influence of alcohol or drugs

THE DGT’s (General Directorate of Traffic) six-day festive drugs and alcohol campaign, carried out at the start of the month between December 5-11, has seen

19 Dec, 2022 @ 09:15

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead

NOTHING TO HIDE: Marbella lawyer Antonio Flores talks exclusively to the Olive Press about dawn raid as part of €2 billion European tax fraud probe

A MARBELLA lawyer has slammed a ‘heavy-handed’ dawn raid over a VAT fraud that was splashed over the media. Antonio Flores is furious that 12

18 Dec, 2022 @ 17:00

Crime & Law·Lead

Criminal mastermind who stole luxury cars for drug smugglers arrested in Spain’s Malaga

POLICE have re-arrested the criminal mastermind of a gang who allegedly stole luxury cars on the Costa del Sol and sold them to drug smugglers

18 Dec, 2022 @ 09:01