Crime & Law News - The Olive Press Spanish Newspaper

Urgent warning for parents in Spain: Predators are using popular video game to groom children and offer them ‘power-ups in exchange for naked photos’

CHILD sex predators are using popular online gaming platforms to pose target children in Spain for grooming – befriending them before tricking them into sending

8 Oct, 2025 @ 08:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Other News

Mystery in Formentera as tourism boss wakes up to find his Italian girlfriend, 45, dead in his apartment

AN Italian entrepreneur who awoke to find his girlfriend dead in his Formentera apartment has been cleared of suspicion – but the woman’s death remains

7 Oct, 2025 @ 17:46

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead

Scottish mafia shootings: Alleged hitman claims Spanish prison sentence would ‘infringe his human rights’

A BRITISH man alleged to have carried out the brazen Mafia-style assassination of two notorious Scottish underworld figures has claimed his human rights would be

7 Oct, 2025 @ 16:10

Costa del Sol·Crime & Law·Lead

Fugitive Brit wanted for ‘repeatedly sexually assaulting a child’ is arrested on Spanish holiday island

A BRITISH man who fled the UK before a trial over alleged sexual offences has been arrested in the Canary Islands following a joint investigation

7 Oct, 2025 @ 14:01

Canary Islands·Crime & Law·Lead

Man ran residency fraud with his mother illegally getting free health treatment on Spain’s Costa Blanca

AN ALICANTE man has been accused of running a residency scam for his family which allowed his mother to get €9,000 of free public health

7 Oct, 2025 @ 12:03

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

‘Just need him blind and face melted’: UK ‘Lord of War’ arms trafficker told thug to ‘double dose’ in horrific acid plot before Costa del Sol arrest

A BRITISH arms dealer living in a luxury villa on the Costa del Sol plotted to ‘melt’ a rival’s face with acid before his arrest

6 Oct, 2025 @ 18:15

Costa del Sol·Crime & Law·Lead

Shock in Marbella as 84-year-old man repeatedly stabs his wife, 83, to death

AN 84-year-old Marbella man has been arrested for fatally stabbing his wife, 83, at their home. A court on Monday placed him into pre-trial detention

6 Oct, 2025 @ 17:18

Crime & Law·Lead·Marbella

Brit living in Mallorca who 'shattered eye' of passerby finally arrested - after trying to 'lay low and blend back into daily life'

Brit living in Mallorca who ‘shattered eye’ of passerby is finally arrested – after trying to ‘lay low and blend back into daily life’

A BRITISH expat in Palma has been arrested over a brutal August assault that left the victim partially blinded. The Policia Nacional detained the suspect

6 Oct, 2025 @ 14:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Brit detained at Palma airport on drug trafficking warrant from South Korea

A BRITISH man was arrested at Palma de Mallorca airport after the Policia Nacional discovered he was wanted for drug offences in South Korea. The

6 Oct, 2025 @ 13:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Police arrest man who stole €7k of jewellery from his aunt who was flying to UK from Costa Blanca airport

Police arrest man who stole €7k of jewellery from his aunt and was flying to UK from Costa Blanca airport

A MAN stole €7,000 of jewellery from his aunt and was arrested before he could board a UK-bound flight at Alicante-Elche airport. Authorities have not

6 Oct, 2025 @ 11:45

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Man suffers brain damage after brutal assault by 'up to 20 mad men' outside Alicante nightclub

Woman in Malaga stabs partner multiple times while he is ‘fast asleep in the middle of the night’

A WOMAN has been arrested in Malaga after allegedly stabbing her partner as he slept in the middle of the night. The incident happened inside

6 Oct, 2025 @ 11:20

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

EXCLUSIVE: ‘I was mauled by an out-of-control police dog on holiday in Spain – imagine if I had been a young child’

AN aspiring young footballer has said he has been left ‘paranoid’ after falling victim to a savage attack by an unruly police dog while holidaying

6 Oct, 2025 @ 11:00

Catalunya·Crime & Law·Lead

Revealed: The disturbing history of the Swedish rapper shot dead in Marbella in revenge killing

THE victim of a grisly shooting that shook Marbella this weekend has been identified as a Swedish rapper with a violent past and suspected links

5 Oct, 2025 @ 18:43

Crime & Law·Lead·Marbella

Marbella’s new police bodycams are already helping clean up the streets – and save cops from accusations of brutality

MARBELLA police’s new bodycams have already secured convictions for violent criminals in their first five months of operation, including a towering Russian man who was

4 Oct, 2025 @ 11:30

Crime & Law·Lead·Marbella

Police make multiple arrests to bring down family-led drugs gang in Spain

Horror in Marbella: Man, 25, is riddled with bullets in broad daylight while chatting on phone in glitzy Puerto Banus – 38-year-old shooter arrested

A YOUNG man was brutally shot to death in broad daylight as he strolled through well-heeled Puerto Banus while chatting on the phone. The 25-year-old

3 Oct, 2025 @ 20:42

Crime & Law·Lead·Marbella

Spain's Attorney General will stand trial over leaks involving partner of leading political opposition figure

Spain’s Attorney General to stand trial over allegations he leaked secret files on the Madrid president’s boyfriend

THE Supreme Court has announced a November trial of Spain’s Attorney General over alleged leaking details about the partner of a leading opposition figure. 40

3 Oct, 2025 @ 18:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Politics

French murder fugitive chased on Costa Blanca motorway with vehicle towing stolen boat

A FRENCH fugitive wanted for murder stole a boat from his native country but was arrested on a Costa Blanca motorway- after the craft’s GPS

3 Oct, 2025 @ 13:30

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Police in Spain float new hypothesis over Brit, 34, who vanished off Gran Canaria coast during round-the-world trip – but family suspect foul play

SPANISH police hunting for a British sailor who disappeared off the coast of Gran Canaria during a solo round-the-world trip have revealed a new line

3 Oct, 2025 @ 10:50

Canary Islands·Crime & Law·Lead

British expat conned out of €310k in Mallorca pyramid scam involving two Swedes and a Brit

THREE people have been arrested in Mallorca over a pyramid scam that swindled victims out of at least half-a-million euros. A British expat says he

3 Oct, 2025 @ 10:43

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Ex-mayor committed fraud over ‘illegal’ villas sold to British buyers in picturesque Alicante area town

A FORMER mayor of Lliber, Jose Mas, has been convicted of fraud over licences granted to the building of 290 illegal villas. The properties were

2 Oct, 2025 @ 18:20

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead

Ex-police chief cleared of hate crime charge after saying ‘virtually all arrests’ in Spain involve foreigners

A FORMER Valencia police commissioner has been cleared of committing a hate crime after claiming that most immigrants arriving by boat in Spain are criminals.

2 Oct, 2025 @ 15:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

Homeless man killed by umbrella during outdoor sleeping spot argument in Valencia

Homeless man stabbed to death with umbrella during sleeping area argument in Valencia

A ROW between two homeless men in a Valencia doorway escalated into a violent assault with one of them fatally stabbed by part of an

2 Oct, 2025 @ 12:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

Tinder rapist who faked his own death caught living new life on Costa del Sol is finally jailed

A CONVICTED rapist who staged his own death before fleeing to southern Spain has finally been jailed in Scotland. James Clacher, 57, carried out two

1 Oct, 2025 @ 15:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Málaga·Other News

Is Morocco is ending its role as one of the last remaining safe havens for international cocaine traffickers?

ONE of Europe’s most wanted cocaine traffickers has been arrested in Morocco, bucking the country’s trend as a safe haven for gangsters. Younes El Ballouti,

1 Oct, 2025 @ 14:30

Crime & Law·International Affairs·Lead

Squatters spark outrage by calling police on three burglars trying to break into ‘their’ home in Malaga town

A GROUP of Malaga area squatters called police to say the property they were occupying illegally was being robbed. The break-in happened on September 22,

1 Oct, 2025 @ 12:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Narco submarines, spider-men and a wave of arrests rock Spain’s cocaine underworld

SPAIN’S war on drug trafficking has exploded in dramatic fashion, as police smash two major cocaine-smuggling rings operating on opposite ends of the country. One

1 Oct, 2025 @ 10:30

crime·Crime & Law·Galicia·Lead·National News·Other News

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