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SPECIAL REPORT: After coining the phrase ‘Costa del Crime’ in the 80s, it’s not surprising we’re STILL living in a gangster’s paradise, writes David Baird

He was sleeping with an axe and a machete under his pillow to fend off murderous rivals

21 Dec, 2019 @ 09:00

Drug trafficker arrested at Spain’s Malaga airport while trying to smuggle narcotics into the UK

A MAN has been arrested at Malaga airport for allegedly trying to smuggle drugs into the UK. The 38-year-old was busted with 1.6 kilos of

19 Dec, 2019 @ 16:08

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Costa Blanca city linked with multi-national cash counterfeiting operation – 11 arrested

EUROPOL and Policia Nacional have arrested 11 people involved in a huge fake money scam operating across Europe. Five of the arrests were in Spain,

19 Dec, 2019 @ 08:05

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Cannabis cops mixed up in Mar Menor marijuana mountain

A PAIR of Spanish policemen are among 26 accused of bringing over two tonnes of drugs onto the Costa Blanca. All are up before Murcia’s

18 Dec, 2019 @ 22:04

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law

Inside Marbella’s new €1.6 million state-of-the-art surveillance centre ready to crackdown on local criminals and troublemakers heading to Spain’s Costa del Sol next summer

MARBELLA is cracking down on would-be criminals thanks to its new state-of-the-art video surveillance technology. According to the town hall, its new control and command

18 Dec, 2019 @ 15:14

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

British motorcyclist killed in head-on crash with fellow expat on Spain's Costa Blanca

Drunk truck driver zig zags all over A-7 motorway in Spain’s Marbella after consuming SIX TIMES the legal limit of alcohol

A TRUCK driver pulled over in Marbella last month was found to have consumed six times the legal limit for alcohol, police have revealed. The

18 Dec, 2019 @ 14:50

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

WATCH: Police arrest 15 in prostitution and trafficking raids across Axarquia

Police received a tip off that women from the former Soviet republic were forced into prostitution

18 Dec, 2019 @ 14:37

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Farmer arrested after dumping DEAD worker in hospital who’d had heart attack during his first day picking olives in Spain’s Andalucia

He is then reported to have left him and fled, after which a doctor realised that the man he had dropped off was dead

18 Dec, 2019 @ 08:32

Crime & Law·Jaen·Lead

American man arrested at gunpoint while driving luxury car through Marbella’s Puerto Banus for ‘holding girlfriend against her will’ after ‘taking away her phone and credit cards’

AN American-Georgian man has been dramatically arrested at gunpoint while driving through Marbella’s Puerto Banus. The 33-year-old, who has dual nationality, was making laps of

17 Dec, 2019 @ 10:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Girl, 14, launches frenzied stabbing attack on pal, 13, in Spain’s Madrid

A 14-YEAR-OLD girl has been arrested for allegedly stabbing her pal, 13, in a frenzied attack in Madrid. The shocking assault occurred in the La

17 Dec, 2019 @ 09:00

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Mystery as bodies of old age pensioners found slashed to death in their home in Spain’s Madrid

AN old-age couple have been found stabbed to death inside their home in Madrid. Marcelina, 80, and Perfecto, 79, were found in their second-storey apartment

17 Dec, 2019 @ 08:00

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

PIPE DREAM: British family accused of siphoning off €4 million of jet fuel from Malaga Airport supply line under their Costa del Sol home

The police discovered the theft after a suspicious pipe was seen on the farm during a helicopter search

16 Dec, 2019 @ 20:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Costa del Sol cowboy builder had previously racked up thousands in fines with car he was borrowing from expat

Sunderland-born Maddison accumulated the charges during April 2018, while he was driving the car without permission

16 Dec, 2019 @ 20:12

Crime & Law·Lead

HATE CRIME: ‘Gay man’ hospitalised after group of young men use fake dating profile to lure him to secluded road before violently robbing him in Spain’s Andalucia

A MAN has been hospitalised after being lured to a secluded road and violently robbed by a group of young men on the outskirts of

15 Dec, 2019 @ 12:50

Crime & Law·Lead·Sevilla

‘King of Algeciras port’ brought down in HUGE win for Spain’s drug war after cops seize half a tonne of cocaine and €700,000 cash hidden inside a pool table

While he was arrested several times throughout his career, nothing quite stuck and his run ins with the law only made him more determined

14 Dec, 2019 @ 17:43

Cadiz·Crime & Law·Gibraltar·Lead

Cabify driver who sped off with four girls ends up ploughing into roundabout on Spain’s Costa Blanca

FOUR girls have escaped a potential kidnapping when their Cabify driver sped past their requested destination before ploughing into a roundabout on Spain’s Costa Blanca.

13 Dec, 2019 @ 20:57

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Police pull over van ‘leaking blood’ on Spain’s Costa del Sol to discover two illegal tuna

POLICE in Estepona were not sure what they would find when they pulled over a van which was leaving a trail of blood as it

13 Dec, 2019 @ 16:40

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Spike in street brawls and violence sees three shootings in less than a week in British expat hotspot on Spain’s Costa del Sol

A COSTA del Sol neighbourhood has reported three shootings in less than a week. Police were called to Las Flores, in Fuengirola, for the third

13 Dec, 2019 @ 12:26

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

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Police informant gunned down while seen talking to an officer in eastern Spain

AN INFORMANT has been gunned down while he was spotted conversing with a police officer on a roadside in Barcelona. The man was killed instantly

13 Dec, 2019 @ 11:03

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law

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“Give me €50,000 or I’ll share your videos online”: the new breed of cybercriminals tricking Spanish teens into sextortion

CYBERCRIMINALS in Spain are tricking gullible teens into sharing intimate videos and then blackmailing them up to €50,000 for keeping them from friends and family.

13 Dec, 2019 @ 10:43

Crime & Law

Expat drug lord on the run from 20 year jail sentence arrested in Spain’s Marbella

He had gone awhol on the Costa del Sol

12 Dec, 2019 @ 13:58

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Body found in Mijas was of 20-year-old ‘killed by submachine gun’ as more details emerge

THE young man found off a cliff in Mijas yesterday was a 20-year-old from Slovenia. According to reports, the young man was known to police

12 Dec, 2019 @ 11:46

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

‘THE FIRST KILL HURTS’: Hitman who kills for €15,000 along Spain’s Costa del Sol speaks out as police label region ‘a global epicentre of international crime’ while more details of slain Briton emerge

A COSTA del Sol hitman has revealed how he gets paid up to €60,000 for each person he kills. The French-Moroccan, who grew up in

12 Dec, 2019 @ 08:29

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

BREAKING: Fresh suspected shooting as body of young man found off a cliff on Spain’s Costa del Sol

THE body of a young man has been discovered off a cliff on the Costa del Sol. The grisly find was spotted by a passerby

11 Dec, 2019 @ 15:35

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

OUTRAGE after police armed with sniffer dogs ‘raid’ SCHOOL in Marbella as kids as young as 12 searched against the wall in new low for Spain’s drugs war

KIDS as young as 12 have been left stunned by a ‘surprise raid’ by a police canine unit at a school in Marbella. Armed with

11 Dec, 2019 @ 15:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Benidorm bus joyrider held in custody without bail as he faces 7 YEARS for wrecking 29 vehicles and assaulting police officer

THE British man who stole a coach in Benidorm before embarking on a reckless joyride could face up to seven years in prison, court documents

11 Dec, 2019 @ 12:09

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

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SPECIAL REPORT: After coining the phrase ‘Costa del Crime’ in the 80s, it’s not surprising we’re STILL living in a gangster’s paradise, writes David Baird

Drug trafficker arrested at Spain’s Malaga airport while trying to smuggle narcotics into the UK

Costa Blanca city linked with multi-national cash counterfeiting operation – 11 arrested

Cannabis cops mixed up in Mar Menor marijuana mountain

Inside Marbella’s new €1.6 million state-of-the-art surveillance centre ready to crackdown on local criminals and troublemakers heading to Spain’s Costa del Sol next summer

Drunk truck driver zig zags all over A-7 motorway in Spain’s Marbella after consuming SIX TIMES the legal limit of alcohol

WATCH: Police arrest 15 in prostitution and trafficking raids across Axarquia

Farmer arrested after dumping DEAD worker in hospital who’d had heart attack during his first day picking olives in Spain’s Andalucia

American man arrested at gunpoint while driving luxury car through Marbella’s Puerto Banus for ‘holding girlfriend against her will’ after ‘taking away her phone and credit cards’

Girl, 14, launches frenzied stabbing attack on pal, 13, in Spain’s Madrid

Mystery as bodies of old age pensioners found slashed to death in their home in Spain’s Madrid

PIPE DREAM: British family accused of siphoning off €4 million of jet fuel from Malaga Airport supply line under their Costa del Sol home

Costa del Sol cowboy builder had previously racked up thousands in fines with car he was borrowing from expat

HATE CRIME: ‘Gay man’ hospitalised after group of young men use fake dating profile to lure him to secluded road before violently robbing him in Spain’s Andalucia

‘King of Algeciras port’ brought down in HUGE win for Spain’s drug war after cops seize half a tonne of cocaine and €700,000 cash hidden inside a pool table

Cabify driver who sped off with four girls ends up ploughing into roundabout on Spain’s Costa Blanca

Police pull over van ‘leaking blood’ on Spain’s Costa del Sol to discover two illegal tuna

Spike in street brawls and violence sees three shootings in less than a week in British expat hotspot on Spain’s Costa del Sol

Police informant gunned down while seen talking to an officer in eastern Spain

“Give me €50,000 or I’ll share your videos online”: the new breed of cybercriminals tricking Spanish teens into sextortion

Expat drug lord on the run from 20 year jail sentence arrested in Spain’s Marbella

Body found in Mijas was of 20-year-old ‘killed by submachine gun’ as more details emerge

‘THE FIRST KILL HURTS’: Hitman who kills for €15,000 along Spain’s Costa del Sol speaks out as police label region ‘a global epicentre of international crime’ while more details of slain Briton emerge

BREAKING: Fresh suspected shooting as body of young man found off a cliff on Spain’s Costa del Sol

OUTRAGE after police armed with sniffer dogs ‘raid’ SCHOOL in Marbella as kids as young as 12 searched against the wall in new low for Spain’s drugs war

Benidorm bus joyrider held in custody without bail as he faces 7 YEARS for wrecking 29 vehicles and assaulting police officer

Two injured in dining room floor collapse at popular tourist hotel in Mallorca

Robber stole from elderly and vulnerable foreign patients at Costa Blanca hospital

British-Spanish team develops hybrid solar and nuclear power system for astronauts on missions to the moon and Mars

Engines set to roar in Estepona as Peñas Blancas Hill Climb returns this weekend

Police arrest parents in Spain’s Zaragoza after 10-month-old baby tests positive for drugs