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YOU TOO?: Brit scammed by bogus Sky TV box distributor fears ‘many more’ could be affected on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A BRITISH expat claims he has been scammed by a Costa Blanca company offering bogus Sky TV boxes. Ray Gardner, who runs Moraira Plumbing, paid €99 for the set from Xpat TV

22 Jul, 2019 @ 13:25

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Expat Marbella couple held in prison on drug and money laundering charges ‘may have links to Finland’s Hells Angels’ as more details emerge

Niko Ranta-aho, who runs a restaurant in Marbella, and his bikini-model girlfriend Sofia Belorfia, will both remain in custody in Helsinki, Finland

19 Jul, 2019 @ 15:13

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

SHOEDUNIT: Man cuffed in Spain’s Andalucia after hiding kilo of hash in trainers

The shoes - black Nike Air Force 1s - had been altered to conceal the hash in the tongues and in cavities under the insoles

19 Jul, 2019 @ 14:58

Cadiz·Crime & Law·Lead

IN THE NICK OF TIME: Irish man arrested at Malaga airport check-in desk donning €28,000 Rolex he reported as robbed in Marbella a day earlier

The holidaymaker had made the claims in a local police station in Puerto Banus, but agents weren't buying it

19 Jul, 2019 @ 12:41

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Conservative deputy mayor arrested after police find HUNDREDS of marijuana plants growing in his home in Spain’s Andalucia

A new deputy mayor will be selected from the PP list

18 Jul, 2019 @ 17:13

Crime & Law·Granada·Lead

Ex-soldier shoots wife dead with rifle from terrace before killing himself outside ex-wife’s home in Spain’s Andalucia

One neighbour said: ‘I do not understand how a human being can do such a thing’

18 Jul, 2019 @ 16:22

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Expat Marbella restaurant owner and bikini-model girlfriend arrested on money laundering and drug charges as Costa del Sol home raided

The pair, who reportedly met in London before 'falling in love in Ibiza', are being held in prison in Helsinki

18 Jul, 2019 @ 16:09

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Blood-soaked man arrested after allegedly stabbing dad to death before taking bus to hotel on Spain’s Costa del Sol

Uniformed and plainclothes officers arrested the man, before transferring him to a health centre, where he remained under police supervision

17 Jul, 2019 @ 19:08

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Woman held on suspicion of bludgeoning her sleeping dad to death and knifing mum in back on Spain’s Costa del Sol

The woman fled the scene and was found on a Malaga industrial estate in a state of shock by a relative shortly after

17 Jul, 2019 @ 11:55

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Drug smuggler held in Spain after hiding half a kilo of cocaine under toupee

Arriving at Barcelona airport from Bogota, the Colombian man attracted suspicion with a disproportionately large hairpiece under his hat

16 Jul, 2019 @ 13:50

Crime & Law·Lead

Young woman arrested after ‘stabbing man in face with fork’ in Gibraltar’s Ocean Village

She was charged with wounding, and spent the night in a cell, before her appearance in Magistrates’ Court this morning

16 Jul, 2019 @ 11:02

Crime & Law·Gibraltar·Lead

Alicante rapist jailed for 12 years after claiming asylum seeker, 26, could not report him because she was an ‘illegal immigrant’

A CONVICTED criminal has been sent back to prison for 12 years after raping an asylum seeker and claiming she couldn’t denounce him ‘because she was illegal’. The man, 52, raped the

16 Jul, 2019 @ 03:38

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

British man, 46, arrested after stabbing 20-year-old at 11AM in a bar in Alfaz del Pi on the Costa Blanca

A BRITISH man, 46, has been detained after stabbing a 20-year-old at 11am in a bar in Alfaz del Pi. The men, both British, were inside a bar on the Cami Vell

15 Jul, 2019 @ 17:45

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

British carers given four years in jail for defrauding elderly couple of €270,000 in Alicante – but will KEEP €100,000 of stolen cash

A BRITISH couple who were caring for an elderly pair have been given four years in jail after an Alicante court found they had ‘fraudulently’ gained €270,000. The judge said the elderly

15 Jul, 2019 @ 17:00

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Two men using fake €500 notes ‘so good they were undetectable by machines’ caught after blowing 15 of them in an Alicante casino

TWO men have been arrested in Alicante for using fake €500 bank notes so good they were ‘undetectable by machines’. The sting came after the youths, aged 26 and 27, blew 15

15 Jul, 2019 @ 12:00

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Spanish man arrested over rape of British teenage girl in park in Spain

The pair are reported to have met during a night out in the city

15 Jul, 2019 @ 08:53

Crime & Law·Lead

WATCH: Spanish school teacher’s vile RACIST rant at black British men on Spain train, calling them ‘monkeys’ and ‘f**king Africans’

The men also speak Spanish to the woman, but she says that she, ‘doesn't understand anything’

13 Jul, 2019 @ 10:03

Crime & Law·Lead

Spain’s Government SEIZES former dictator General Franco’s €5 million summer palace over its ‘fraudulent’ sale

It comes as Pedro Sanchez’s PSOE administration has pushed on with a plan to exhume the remains of the Fascist dictator

12 Jul, 2019 @ 13:22

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Brit, 20, robbed of €400 by ‘hugger muggers’ in Benidorm on day one of first-ever lads’ holiday

A BRIT has been robbed of €400 by a gang of women in Benidorm on day one of his first-ever lads’ holiday. Alex Ayland, 20, from Lydney, Gloucestershire, headed out to the

11 Jul, 2019 @ 16:28

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

British expats arrested and fined in new crackdown on ‘pirate taxis’ at Malaga airport

Policia Local launched a new summer operation to combat the so-called ‘pirate taxis’ last month

11 Jul, 2019 @ 14:31

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Police probe in Spain’s Andalucia after ILLEGAL zoo with turtles, ostriches and porcupines BUSTED

It comes after cops found fake permits for at least 14 animals at facilities in Villafranca de los Barros in February

11 Jul, 2019 @ 10:12

Crime & Law·Lead·Nature

Spanish policeman ‘hero’ in New York after saving US officer from violent assault

A SPANISH policeman holidaying in New York has been applauded as a ‘hero’ after he saved a US officer from a violent assault. Ruben Castillo, a Policia Nacional agent from Valencia, was

10 Jul, 2019 @ 11:14

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

‘WRONG MESSAGE’: Young man who accidentally killed drug addict while stopping him from robbing helpless cleaner on Spain’s Costa del Sol given two-year prison sentence and HUGE fine

The robber had beaten the hotel worker and made off with her handbag, causing the bystander to give chase

9 Jul, 2019 @ 12:37

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Irish teenage lad raped by two men in Spain holiday hotspot

The shaken tourist was examined at Son Espases Hospital in Palma where doctors confirmed injuries sustained from a sex attack

8 Jul, 2019 @ 15:47

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Police hunt gunmen who opened fire on bouncers at Marbella club that hosted Paris Hilton and Antonio Banderas

It comes after the shooting of Dutch and Belgian revellers in the same car park last year

8 Jul, 2019 @ 11:49

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Chaos ensues with new laws on Spanish mortgage loans, writes Lawbird’s Antonio Flores

Now imagine a foreign buyer who speaks no Spanish and a notary who speaks only Spanish and you have a deal-breaker

6 Jul, 2019 @ 16:05

Antonio Flores: Legal Problems·Columnists·Crime & Law

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