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Racket which ‘sold bodies of dead foreigners’ and ‘people with no family’ for €1,200 each is busted in Spain’s Valencia

POLICE have busted a Valencia body-snatching gang that removed corpses from hospitals like La Fe and nursing homes to sell them for up to €1,200

29 Jan, 2024 @ 12:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencia·Valencian Community

Dutch narco boss accused of shipping cocaine worth €228 million is arrested on Costa Blanca

Squatter removers are accused of strong-arm tactics after ‘assaulting tenants’ and ‘robbing homes’ in southern Spain

POLICE are investigating eight employees of an unnamed company that evicts squatters for assaulting tenants of a dozen homes in the Murcia district of La

27 Jan, 2024 @ 10:15

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Wanted US fugitive who ‘hired a hitman to kill his three brothers’ but ended up killing his teenage sister is arrested at major airport in eastern Spain

AN AMERICAN fugitive who hired a teenage hitman to kill his three brothers has been arrested at Valencia Airport. The Policia Nacional and FBI cooperated

26 Jan, 2024 @ 13:23

Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencia·Valencian Community

‘Dangerous hitman’, 20, who escaped from a Madrid jail is FINALLY caught: ‘El Pastilla’ managed to travel 2,200km across Europe after his Christmas jail break in Spain

A ‘HIGHLY dangerous hitman’ who escaped from prison in Madrid has finally been caught after spending weeks on the run. Yousef Mohamed Lehrech, 20, slipped

26 Jan, 2024 @ 07:00

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REVEALED: The Dutch cocaine kingpin who connected South American cartels with Balkan mafia: String of luxury Marbella villas seized

A COMPLEX narco money laundering operation on the Costa del Sol has been smashed with the arrest of a Dutch cartel boss in Marbella. Police

25 Jan, 2024 @ 16:15

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga·Marbella·Other News

A member of the Mocro Maffia is arrested

Dutch mafia boss who ‘helped launder at least €6m for drug cartels’ is arrested on Spain’s Costa del Sol: Police seize 172 properties and high-end jewellery pieces

SPAIN’S National Police have arrested a Dutch mafia boss who is alleged to have helped launder at least €6 million for drug cartels. The detainee,

25 Jan, 2024 @ 12:44

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga·Marbella·Other News

Illegal cigarette factory busted in Spain's Costa Blanca

Illegal cigarette factory making 12,000 ‘branded’ fags per hour is busted on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A ROBBERY alert led to the discovery of an illegal cigarette factory featuring two sophisticated machines inside a Costa Blanca house. The Guardia Civil visited

25 Jan, 2024 @ 12:30

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencian Community

Young expat is accused of killing priest found dead in his home: ‘Vulnerable’ suspect had sexual relations with the elderly clergyman after he ‘brought him in off the street’|

Expat is accused of killing priest found dead in his home: ‘Vulnerable’ suspect had sexual relations with the elderly clergyman after he ‘brought him in off the street’

THE Policia Nacional have arrested a South American man, 40, in connection with the murder of a Valencia priest who was found dead on Tuesday.

25 Jan, 2024 @ 10:56

Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencia·Valencian Community

Revealed: How a heavily armed group of ex-soldiers robbed at least 70 homes in wealthy expat neighbourhoods on Spain’s Costa del Sol

POLICE have revealed how an Eastern European organisation comprised of ex-soldiers robbed at least 70 homes in wealthy neighbourhoods on the Costa del Sol. Speaking

24 Jan, 2024 @ 16:15

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News

Spain’s largest ever ecstacy factory is raided after making more than €100m worth of the drug

THE Policia Nacional has dismantled Spain’s biggest-ever ecstasy laboratory and seized 1,900 litres of MDMA with a street value of €105 million. 12 men of

24 Jan, 2024 @ 16:15

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencia·Valencian Community

Wanted Irish ‘drug trafficker’ is arrested on Spain’s Costa Blanca after showing police a ‘manipulated’ photo of his ID

AN IRISH fugitive wanted for drug trafficking and the illegal possession of weapons has been arrested on the Costa Blanca after an anonymous tip off.

24 Jan, 2024 @ 14:45

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencian Community

Gangster axed: BBC ditches notorious costa fugitive Kenneth Noye from his own TV series about record armed robbery heist after accusations of ‘glamorising’ killer

AN infamous British criminal finally snared in Spain has been written out of his own hit TV series. The UK’s one-time most wanted fugitive Kenneth

24 Jan, 2024 @ 11:00

Andalucia·Cadiz·Crime & Law·Lead·Must Read·Other News

Man exploited 40 migrants by cramming them into his flat in Spain and charging €100 per month in rent

Spain narrowly avoids its worst terror attack in YEARS: How Jihadist, 17, successfully built a ‘mother of Satan’ bomb and planned to blow up a school in Andalucia

THE Policia Nacional say they have thwarted what could have been the biggest terrorist attack in Spain ‘for years’ with the arrest of a 17-year-old

24 Jan, 2024 @ 09:01

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Sevilla

Female cook is forced to prostitute herself on roundabouts in Spain after being tricked by a gang who promised her a job in a restaurant

Sex pest who ‘paid’ €10,000 to have consensual sex with a young woman in a toilet is arrested in Spain after the bank transfer never arrived

A VALENCIA man has been arrested for fraud after agreeing to pay €10,000 to have sex with a woman, but then didn’t meet his end

24 Jan, 2024 @ 06:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencia·Valencian Community

End of the road for brutal but highly-sophisticated Costa del Sol heist gang who ‘used sports cars to hijack narco drug stashes’

A BRUTAL Costa del Sol stick-up gang notorious for targeting fellow drug traffickers has been arrested in a complex operation by the Policía Nacional in

24 Jan, 2024 @ 05:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencia

Murder probe is launched after a PRIEST is found dead in his home in eastern Spain ‘with signs of violence’

A CATHOLIC priest has been found dead in his Valencia home bed on Tuesday with police suspecting foul play, citing asphyxiation as a possible cause

23 Jan, 2024 @ 16:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencia·Valencian Community

Spain’s National Police arrests five in Madrid and Valencia on suspicion of exporting an anti-drone system to Libya

THE National Police have made five arrests in Madrid and Valencia after they detected a group that was trying to illegally export an anti-drone system

22 Jan, 2024 @ 13:05

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid·Other News·Valencia

Man confesses to police that he killed the three siblings found dead in their homes in Spain’s Madrid last week in ‘revenge’ for a €50,000 debt

A MAN arrested by police in Madrid on suspicion of killing three siblings in their seventies has confessed to the crime, claiming that he murdered

22 Jan, 2024 @ 11:46

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid·Other News

Rapper Daddy Yankee will receive €1m in compensation from a hotel in Spain’s Valencia over a 2018 robbery

A VALENCIA hotel has been ordered to pay almost one million US dollars in compensation to the rapper Daddy Yankee after he was robbed of

21 Jan, 2024 @ 15:00

Celebrity·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencia·Valencian Community

Violent gang members who robbed dozens of homes on Spain’s Costa Blanca are finally arrested

A HOME robbery gang has been arrested in two Alicante province towns and charged with 21 burglaries as well as drug trafficking. The Guardia Civil

21 Jan, 2024 @ 12:00

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencian Community

Cockfighting ring with seats for 200 spectators is raided on Spain’s Costa Blanca: Police make 19 arrests

AN ILLEGAL cockfighting tournament staged in a purpose-built arena at an Alicante province bar has been busted by the Policia Nacional. 19 men involved in

20 Jan, 2024 @ 16:15

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencian Community

Boss of €30m narco clan known as ‘the Chestnuts’ is jailed for six years: How ‘idolised’ Antonio Tejon, 43, avoided a serious prison term after ‘historic’ trial in southern Spain

A NOTORIOUS drug kingpin has been sentenced to over six years in prison after the largest trial against drug trafficking in Spain’s history. Antonio Tejon,

19 Jan, 2024 @ 11:09

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Gibraltar·Lead·Other News

How a Polish gang ‘flew into Spain to rob homes in British expat hotspots before returning home with their spoils’

A POLISH gang that specially flew to Spain to carry out home robberies has been arrested by the Guardia Civil. After two men were detained

18 Jan, 2024 @ 17:30

Alicante·Andalucia·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga·Other News·Torrevieja·Valencian Community

Deadly nightclub fire that killed 13 in Spain’s Murcia was caused by negligent use of spark machine, say police

A DEADLY nightclub fire in Spain’s Murcia that killed 13 people on October 1, 2023 was caused ‘accidently’ due to ‘negligence’ in the use of

18 Jan, 2024 @ 14:40

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The arrest of Greg Oliver Higuera Marcano

Suspect in attempted murder of co-founder of Spain’s hard-right Vox party arrested in Colombia

A VENEZUELAN citizen was arrested earlier this week when trying to enter Colombia on suspicions that he was one of the hitmen that tried to

18 Jan, 2024 @ 14:01

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Granada·Lead·Other News

EXCLUSIVE: Read the full charges facing Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner just days before the German paedophile, 47, stands trial for sex crimes – including ‘attack on 14-year-old girl’

DETAILS of the heinous charges facing Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner can be revealed for the first time today. The 47-year-old German paedophile will stand

18 Jan, 2024 @ 11:15

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