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Mobile phone company duped by €240,000 credit card con in Spain

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Number of schoolboys under investigation for creating deep-fake nudes of classmates rises to 26

Simon Hunter - 3 Oct, 2023 @ 14:55

National Police arrest couple in Madrid

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Police in Madrid arrest man suspected of sexually assaulting months-old daughter and offering her to others to do the same

Motorcyclist crashes at 220km/hr while trying to avoid a traffic police helicopter in Valencia

Valencia

Motorcyclist crashes at 220km/hr while trying to avoid a traffic police helicopter in Valencia

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British-plated cars are targeted by vandals in Marbella: Police ‘make one arrest’ after vehicles spray-painted and tyres slashed

Teenage youths in mass fight brandishing machetes and knives as horrified parents look on at junior soccer match in Spain's Costa Blanca

Costa Blanca

Teenage youths in mass fight brandishing machetes and knives as horrified parents look on at junior soccer match in Spain’s Costa Blanca

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Former wife of ex-Marbella mayor begins jail sentence for money-laundering involvement

Imogen Calderwood - 28 Oct, 2014 @ 14:02

Maite Zaldivar behind bars for two-and-a-half years for helping Julian Munoz's scheme

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Top judge labels Spain’s legal system as only fit for ‘chicken thieves’

Rob Horgan - 23 Oct, 2014 @ 10:43

Supreme Court Chief Justice Carlos Lesmes has urged the new justice minister to roll out radical reforms with the country's court system

Crime & Law

Youngster convicted for killing mum with dumbbell and electric cable

Rob Horgan - 17 Oct, 2014 @ 11:48

Antonio Llompart Perun faces 20 years in jail after brutally murdering his mother

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Hells Angels drug supplier arrested in Madrid

Rob Horgan - 16 Oct, 2014 @ 17:02

Hells Angels money launderer arrested in Madrid after a year hiding out in Malaga

Crime & Law

Criminal gang smashed by Spanish National Police after attempted robbery on luxury home

Rob Horgan - 7 Oct, 2014 @ 15:00

Policed have arrested 17 men involved in a criminal gang after they attempted to burgle a luxury house in Velez-Malaga

Crime & Law

Senegalese man banned from Spain for stealing less than €20 of meat

Imogen Calderwood - 5 Oct, 2014 @ 20:00

The man was caught at a supermarket in Mallorca

Crime & Law

Police probe alleged expat property fraudster

Imogen Calderwood - 1 Oct, 2014 @ 11:50

Victims are hunting Rebecca Wells, who has vanished from the Costa del Sol after allegedly 'taking deposits for homes she didn't own', by Imogen Calderwood

Crime & Law

Disgraced Mirador property developers begin prison sentences in Spain

Tom Powell - 30 Sep, 2014 @ 11:31

Enrique and Leopoldo Faura were found guilty of keeping €400,000 in deposits from prospective buyers last October

Crime & Law

Singer Isabel Pantoja told to report to prison to begin sentence

Tom Powell - 29 Sep, 2014 @ 14:02

She was found guilty of money laundering in connection to former mayor of Marbella Julian Munoz

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Prisoners in Spain are refusing to leave jail

Imogen Calderwood - 19 Sep, 2014 @ 15:00

Dozens want to stay in the cells for fear of the outside world

Crime & Law

Spanish government stocks up on riot gear for autumn

Imogen Calderwood - 18 Sep, 2014 @ 12:00

Amnesty calls the purchase a 'worrying development'

gerard the hatchet kavanagh shooting marbella

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EXCLUSIVE PICTURE SPECIAL: Irish gangster Gerard ‘the Hatchet’ Kavanagh slain in broad daylight in Marbella murder

Imogen Calderwood - 7 Sep, 2014 @ 11:37

More than a hundred punters looked on as bullets flew round the busy square. Photographs copyright the Olive Press

Crime & Law

Drug detecting nail polish invented to help fight date-rape

Jacqueline Fanchini (Reporter) - 5 Sep, 2014 @ 13:00

A nail polish that detects date-rape drugs has been invented by students in North Carolina State University

Crime & Law

Family drug business disbanded in Velez-Malaga

Jacqueline Fanchini (Reporter) - 5 Sep, 2014 @ 12:00

Three family members were arrested for drug-dealing after receiving a tip-off

Cocaine sandwich

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Stamping out the ‘Class A drugs post’ peril

Tom Powell - 4 Sep, 2014 @ 13:40

Injected into silicone breasts and surgically implanted into defenceless puppies – the Class A Drugs ‘delivery service’ is becoming increasingly deadly as traffickers seek horrific new ways to smuggle contraband into Europe, using Spain as their back door. But it’s a ‘smug’s game’, reports Tom Powell

Crime & Law

Dutch ‘Scarface’ executed in Benahavis

Jacqueline Fanchini (Reporter) - 2 Sep, 2014 @ 14:40

One of Amsterdam's most prominent crime lords was gunned down in Benahavis last Thursday

hashish

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Guardia Civil seize 2.8 tonnes of hashish in Marbella thanks to tip-off

Jacqueline Fanchini (Reporter) - 1 Sep, 2014 @ 12:16

Police seize 2.8 tonnes of hashish and arrest five people following an emergency call by a concerned citizen

canary island cartoon

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Canary Islands cartoonists fined thousands for poking fun at ex-prosecutor’s illegal home

Imogen Calderwood - 31 Aug, 2014 @ 08:30

The illegally-placed and illegally-sized home is in Lanzarote

Biker

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Police to clamp down on Spain’s criminal biker gangs

Rob Horgan - 28 Aug, 2014 @ 10:37

Spanish authorities pledge to prevent a criminal biker gang culture from developing

GFA new kit

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Gibraltar FA warns of fake football kits

Tom Powell - 24 Aug, 2014 @ 16:00

Supporters are being urged to check Gibraltar football shirts before buying

noticia normal e

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Three arsonists arrested in Las Rozas

Staff Reporter - 20 Aug, 2014 @ 12:19

A farmers' squabble allegedly incensed the fire-starters

Feria de Málaga Noria e

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Five arrested for raping a young woman at Malaga Feria

Staff Reporter - 18 Aug, 2014 @ 12:32

Two of the five perpetrators are minors

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Gibraltar Government hits out at ‘sensationalist’ reporting of EU tobacco smuggling report

Tom Powell - 16 Aug, 2014 @ 10:00

A Spanish television channel apparently faked tobacco smuggling scenes and portrayed them as real

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Police investigating brutal murder of Nerja museum director

Tom Powell - 15 Aug, 2014 @ 13:27

Around 400 people gathered to mourn the fatal stabbing of Ana Maria Marquez

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Gibraltar cracks down on speeding drivers

Staff Reporter - 12 Aug, 2014 @ 19:18

The Rock has begun installing speed cameras in hazardous locations

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Crime & Law

Car dealers trip up over turning back odometers

Staff Reporter - 12 Aug, 2014 @ 10:12

27 auto dealers have been detained for 'rollback fraud'

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