Tag: crime
Drug cartel members who used cocaine profits to buy hundreds of El Gordo lottery tickets are arrested on Spain’s...
A FAMILY gang selling cocaine laundered their proceeds by buying Christmas Lottery tickets with the hopes of scooping a bigger return from their criminal...
Music event ticket seller cons dozens of people across Spain who end up out of pocket
A FRAUDSTER conned at least 58 people by selling bogus music concert tickets online with customers getting nothing or at best- just a fake...
Olive oil mafia which ‘sold fake extra virgin shipments abroad’ is exposed following raids in Spain and Italy
THE Guardia Civil has arrested 11 people in Spain and Italy for belonging to a gang trading tampered olive oil.
Authorities have seized 16 containers...
Mother warns girls in Spain are being targeted by pimps on TikTok and Instagram after her daughter was roped...
THE MOTHER of a 20-year-old woman who was murdered just over a year ago in Madrid has warned that girls in Spain are being...
Fraudsters posing as Denzel Washington and Hugh Jackman scam victims out of €75,000 on Spain’s Costa del Sol
THE COSTA del Scam strikes again with victims losing €75,000 to fraudsters posing as famous Hollywood actors.
Policia Nacional have reported numerous cases in which...
Illegal taxi boat service shipping migrants and drugs worth €3 million is busted on Spain’s Costa Blanca
THE GUARDIA CIVIL has busted a 'taxi-boat' gang that shipped over a total 68 kilos of drugs worth over €3 million to Algeria and...
Young squatter in Spain faces losing her ARM after sticking it in a barrel of cement to avoid being...
A FEMALE squatter could lose her arm after putting it into a barrel of cement during a police raid in Catalunya.
Mossos d'Esquadra officers entered...
German man is arrested after ‘stabbing his own mother’ on Spain’s Costa del Sol: Police arrive at scene to...
A GERMAN man has been arrested after allegedly stabbing his own mother in the back.
Police received a call at around 4pm on Saturday, November...
How a French mafia made a Marbella man’s life a living hell, including torture, kidnappings and near-fatal beatings after...
A MARBELLA man has gone through hell at the hands of the French mafia after he refused to sell them his business, enduring beatings,...
Mamma Mia! Italian family-run pizzeria is exposed as a front for mafia’s drug trafficking ring on Spain’s Costa Blanca
AN Italian-owned pizzeria on the Costa Blanca served up cocaine and hashish to its customers along with its more traditional fare according to the...
British expat’s home is taken over by squatters who turn it into mammoth marijuana farm on Spain’s Costa Blanca
TWO people have been arrested for running an indoor marijuana farm out of an Aspe property belonging to a British national who died in...
British man arrested in drug den selling marijuana to tourists on Spain’s Costa Blanca
AT LEAST one British man was part of a ten-strong group arrested for their role in a bogus l'Alfas del Pi 'social club' that...
Prostitution soars in Marbella as pimps across Spain move to running operations out of apartments – thanks to legal...
MARBELLA has become a prostitution hotspot after a legal loophole lets pimps operate out of unassuming apartments.
In the centre of Marbella, people explore the...
Ay, caramba! Moment a huge €130m haul of ‘Bart Simpson cocaine’ sent from South America is seized in Spain
THE Guardia Civil has seized 600 kilos of cocaine hidden in a container on a Quart de Poblet industrial estate in Valencia province.
Some of...
British tourist has expensive gold chain stolen by Benidorm ‘love hug’ thief who foolishly publishes social media photos of...
A WOMAN stole a gold chain from a British tourist in Benidorm but was arrested days later after posting social media images of her...
Man arrested in Madrid after allegedly murdering 25-year-old ex-wife and their five-year-old daughter
POLICE in Madrid have arrested a 26-year-old man after he allegedly stabbed to death both his 25-year-old ex-wife and their five-year-old daughter. The shocking...
‘Have-a-go’ shop worker dragged down the street by robbers getaway car on Spain’s Costa Blanca
TWO robbers ran over an Alicante shop worker who clung onto the hood of their getaway car for around 100 metres.
The Policia Nacional went...
Man who kidnapped, attacked and bound a woman in Burgos has been arrested after she escaped with a CHAIN...
A KIDNAP suspect has been jailed in Spain after being released on bail despite his victim turning up at a local hospital with chains...
Gang from Madrid which robbed safes at shopping centres on Spain’s Costa Blanca is brought down
A MADRID-BASED gang travelled to the Costa Blanca and Murcia areas to rob store safes in large shopping centres after hiding inside premises before...
Catholic Church in Spain to pay reparations to sex abuse victims without needing a court ruling
THE Roman Catholic Church in Spain is to set up a 'comprehensive' reparation plan for victims of sexual abuse.
The secretary general of the Episcopal...
Kidnap victim turns up at hospital in Spain with a chain and padlock around her NECK – as convicted...
A KIDNAP suspect has been released on bail in Spain after a woman fled to a local hospital with chains still around her neck.
Authorities...
Cult leader who ‘fed his followers mercury’ to ‘revitalise’ them and lived in a ‘cave with multiple women’ is...
THE POLICIA NACIONAL has arrested the leader of a Murcia region cult who is accused of administering mercury to his followers.
The Spaniard named as...
Human and drug trafficking gang which brought illegal immigrants to Spain by boats is busted in Alicante
FIVE members of a human and drug trafficking gang that operated between Spain and Algeria have been arrested in Alicante.
Several homes and a warehouse...
BREAKING: British woman is arrested in connection with the assassination attempt of far-right politician in Spain
A BRITISH woman is one of three people detained by the Policia Nacional over the attempted killing of the former head of the Partido...
Dozens arrested for duplicating SIM cards of unsuspecting victims and using their data to go on €110,000 shopping spree...
A FOUR-STRONG Valencia gang ran a phone card fraud that syphoned off over €110,000 from 15 victims.
The criminals hired 31 'mules' across Alicante and...
Supermarkets in Spain are locking up OLIVE OIL amid a surge prices and shoplifting
OLIVE oil is nicknamed 'liquid gold' in Spain- perhaps a very apt description these days with prices tripling in the last two years as...
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Hair salon of horror: Sheep placenta and cancer-causing cosmetics are discovered by police in Spain during raids on beauty...
A SERIES of hair salons were discovered to be using banned cosmetics made from sheep placenta and other cancer-causing products.
Police inspections of the salons...
