The year ends with a bang for Spain’s overworked customs police as TWO TONNES of cocaine are seized in Tenerife
IN a year of humongous cocaine busts in Spanish ports, 2023 signs off with a hefty – but by no means record-breaking – haul of
Blackmailers extort vast sums of money from men wanting sex in Spain
A GANG who blackmailed website users looking to meet young women for sex has been brought down by the Policia Nacional. 13 people have been
Violent and dangerous fugitive with links to Italian mafia is arrested on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A FUGITIVE with links to the Italian mafia who was wanted by Belgian and Dutch authorities has been arrested on a Costa Blanca urbanisation. The
Brazilian kidnap gang snatch elderly man in Portugal and leave him tied to a tree in Barcelona robbed of €100,000: Arrests made in Torremolinos
A WEALTHY Portuguese businessman was kidnapped from his home and driven on a harrowing 1,200km journey across Spain before being left tied to a tree
BREAKING Christmas jailbreak update: Police issue wanted notice for escaped hitman, 20, as major manhunt gets underway
A MAJOR police manhunt is underway after a ‘highly dangerous’ Ceuta hitman slipped out of a Madrid jail the day before Christmas Eve. The Policia
Police arrest man who gagged, threatened, beat up and extorted his two Colombian housemates in Spain’s Costa del Sol
POLICE are searching for three suspects who gagged, extorted, threatened with a firearm and beat up two Colombian nationals in Spain’s Costa del Sol. Guardia
Christmas Eve jailbreak timeline: Guards guided double killer to exit of Madrid prison in staggering display of incompetence
A COMEDY of errors by prison staff – which included guiding the prisoner to the exit – led to the Christmas Eve escape of a
Albanian mafia kidnaps and tortures man before demanding €100k ransom from his girlfriend on Spain’s Costa Blanca
THE GUARDIA CIVIL have freed a 24-year-old man who was held hostage for two days in Calpe with the kidnappers demanding a €100,000 ransom from
Ceuta killer and gang member, 20, waltzes out of Madrid jail concealed among his family after they visited him on Christmas Eve
A YOUNG gang member and hitman escaped from jail on Christmas Eve after brazenly walking out of the prison gates hidden among his visiting family.
Two Gibraltar women are attacked in separate domestic incidents: Police arrest two men – one for attempted murder
A MAN who allegedly attacked a woman in Gibraltar was charged with attemped murder, assaulting police, threats to kill and Actual Bodily Harm during the
PICTURED: Most wanted criminal in Europe who was found hiding among expats on Spain’s Costa Blanca
AN IMAGE has been released of an Albanian mobster who was arrested by the Policia Nacional earlier this month after a search lasting nearly two
Nun’s bank card stolen and used in multiple ATM withdrawals on Spain’s Costa Blanca
AN ex-cleaner who stole a nun’s bank card and racked up €2,640 of cash withdrawals has been arrested by the Guardia Civil in Petrer. The
‘Professional’ thief dresses up as tourist to rob hotel guests on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A THIEF dressed up as a tourist to rob hotel guests staying in premises in the centre of Alicante. The man, 50, was a Moroccan
Heads of cult that ‘cured homosexuality’ with heterosexual sex with leader arrested in Spain’s Caceres
THE HEADS of an alleged cult that ‘cured’ homosexuality via sexual relations with one of its leaders have been arrested in Spain’s Caceres province. The
Spain is Europe’s cocaine gateway of choice for the Kinahans and Europe’s new ‘super cartels’, according to Europol conference
SPAIN’S role as a pivotal gateway for cocaine entering Europe was a key talking point at a conference of Europe’s top anti-drug enforcers. It was
British expat wife who abused and ‘humiliated’ her husband in Spain over a 12-YEAR period is jailed
A BRITISH woman has been handed down a 26-month prison term for regularly abusing her husband over 12 years in Arta, Mallorca. A Palma court
British expat and son are dramatically arrested at a Marbella restaurant for ‘trafficking €100m worth of cocaine across the Atlantic’
THREE British nationals have been arrested as part of an international operation against drug trafficking across the Atlantic, which has seen around 1.2 tonnes of
British gangster who ‘cut off young man’s fingers and subjected him to a lie detector test’ in a bid to recover a €3m cocaine debt is arrested on Spain’s Costa del Sol
A BRITISH man has been arrested on suspicion of torturing an alleged drug trafficker over the loss of a €3million cocaine shipment. The 24-year-old victim
Attacker in Darth Vader mask stabs rent collector inside popular shopping mall on Spain’s Costa del Sol before making off with €80,000 cash
A DARTH Vader masked assailant has stabbed a shopping centre rent collector in broad daylight before making off with €80,000 on Spain’s Costa del Sol.
‘Illegal’ hunter who ‘beheaded majestic deer in the dead of night after slaying them with a gun and silencer’ is arrested in southern Spain
A MAN who hunted deer with a silencer and night-vision goggles in Spain’s Andalucia to use their heads as trophies was arrested in a police
Robber saved by police after clinging onto top floor window railing with one hand in Spain’s Murcia
A ROBBER needed police help after trying to escape their clutches in a Murcia region apartment block. The man got himself into a tangle at
Police arrest man who made gunpowder and upgraded machine guns at his Costa Blanca home in Spain
A FORMER solider has been arrested in Villajoyosa for operating a clandestine workshop where he upgraded weapons and made gunpowder and metal gun cartridges. The
Independent report declares child sexual abuse a ‘serious problem’ within Spain’s Catholic church after calculating at least 2,056 victims
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH in Spain made public on Thursday an independent report on sexual abuse in the Church prepared by solicitor Javier Cremades and his
Revealed: How a British school in Spain received a ‘bomb threat email’ which sparked closures nationwide
THE British School of Villarreal in Castellon province has confirmed that it was one of several international schools in Spain that received an email threatening
Dani Alves’s sexual assault trial date is confirmed: Footballer is accused of attacking young woman in Spain’s Barcelona
THE TRIAL of former Barcelona footballer Dani Alves on sex assault charges will begin on February 5. Alves is accused of assaulting a 23-year-old woman
This European city could legalise COCAINE in a desperate bid to stop cartels in Spain and the Lowlands from flooding the area with the drug
SUPER wealthy Switzerland is considering a groundbreaking proposal to legalise cocaine for recreational use. In what would be a first-of-its-kind pilot scheme, the Swiss capital