Tag: drugs
REVEALED: How Spain is part of rise in drug trafficking, violent crime & corruption across Europe
REPORTS show that the European cocaine market is expanding due to a flood of imports from South America.
Spain, Belgium and Holland are the worst...
Traffickers lured women to Spain with bogus job offers but forced them into prostitution at Valencia area flats
A gang that brought over women from Columbia with promises of legal jobs in Spain, but used them instead as prostitutes, has been brought...
Cocaine home delivery service operated out of Costa Blanca bar kitchen in Spain
A drugs gang who ran a cocaine home delivery service has been smashed by the Guardia Civil in Torrevieja.
The main sales point of the...
KINGS OF HASHISH: Trial begins for Castaña clan, alleged to have made €30 million from drug trafficking in southern...
IT’S taken over a decade, but finally the 'Kings of Hashish' are on trial.
Brothers Francisco and Antonio Tejon are facing 20 years in prison...
Police dismantle trafficking networks smuggling drugs into Spain’s Murcia with 35 arrests
SPANISH police have arrested 35 people from two criminal organisations involved in drug trafficking in Murcia.
The Guardia Civil dismantled a criminal network that operated...
Massive drugs busts sees Spanish police seize three tonnes of cocaine on fishing boat off Canary Islands
POLICE in Spain seized nearly 2.9 tonnes of cocaine in a raid on a fishing boat south of the Canary Islands.
The 20-meter-long AKT 1...
Tonne of drugs retrieved after 26 bundles found floating off Spain’s Costa Blanca
OVER a tonne of hashish was spotted floating in waters some 40 miles off the Costa Blanca on April 9.
Packed into 26 bundles, they...
Boy in Spain’s Alicante turns in own parents after they order him to sell drugs at school
A BOY aged 16 who was forced by his parents to sell drugs at his school tipped the police off.
Now his mother and father...
British man arrested on Spain’s Mallorca for sexually corrupting vulnerable underage girl
A British man, 43, has been arrested in Palma, Mallorca over the sexual exploitation of a vulnerable underage girl.
A 20-year-old Ecuadorian was also detained...
Tourist drugged at Costa Blanca ‘hostess’ club in Spain and has €10,000 of charges on stolen bank cards
A Finnish tourist had €10,665 charged on two stolen bank cards after being rendered unconscious by a spiked drink and pill at an Alicante...
Boy, 5, rushed to Costa Blanca hospital in Spain for drug poisoning including cocaine
A five-year-old boy was rushed to Alicante General Hospital and treated for poisoning after taking benzodiazepine tablets.
The number of pills he ingested was not...
Camper van couple from Malaga travel around Spain stealing from shops, restaurants, and hotels
A Malaga couple have been arrested in Alicante Province after hitting the road in their camper van and stealing from shops and hospitality businesses...
Convicted Dutch drug-trafficker faces extradition after Benidorm arrest in Spain
A Dutch drug-dealing fugitive has been arrested by the Policia Nacional in Benidorm.
He was said to have been living in the city for 'several...
Police sting operartion in Mallorca, Spain seizes large amounts of cocaine hidden in coffee
POLICE in Palma seized eight kilos of high purity cocaine smuggled into Spain inside packets of Colombian coffee.
The ruse was rumbled when officers posed...
British motorist pumped full of booze and drugs drives down wrong side of Costa Blanca motorway in Spain
A British woman drove on the wrong side of the AP-7 motorway on the northern Costa Blanca after consuming excess alcohol and taking drugs.
The...
Massive cocaine haul discovered among pineapples in Alhaurin De La Torre on Spain’s Costa del Sol
SPAIN’S Policia Nacional seized some 750 kilos of cocaine hidden among a container of pineapples in the Alhaurin de la Torre, in Spain’s Malaga.
The...
MUST READ: British ‘narco’ baron Brian Charrington jailed after Costa Blanca cocaine smuggling retrial in Spain
BRITISH drug trafficker, Brian Charrington, has been found guilty and jailed for almost 11 years for smuggling cocaine into a Costa Blanca marina in...
Police raid illegal booze and drugs ‘rave’ inside road tunnels on Spain’s Costa Blanca
AN illegal party in a network of road tunnels in an isolated area of Benissa was raided by the Guardia Civil and the Policia...
Dawn raids across 80 homes in Spain and Belgium result in arrest of 45 Albanian cocaine-drugglers
DAWN RAIDS carried out by authorities from seven countries has resulted in the takedown of one of Europe’s most active Albanian-speaking cocaine trafficking gangs.
Spain...
‘Well-structured’ Costa Blanca marijuana gang with network of indoor farms is arrested in Spain
A 'large scale' drugs trafficking gang in Alicante Province that cultivated and sold marijuana has been brought down by the Policia Nacional.
Ten people, all...
Five arrested in Malaga, Cadiz and Ceuta in an operation against money laundering from drug trafficking in Spain
POLICE in Spain have tracked down and arrested five people for their involvement in the laundering of drug trafficking proceeds in the south of...
Police donate fruit and veg uncovered in drug raid to food bank in Malaga on Spain’s Costa del Sol
Imagine the scene – you’re volunteering for a good cause, or you’re going through a rough time and you and your family are in...
Six years for man rescued after sinking rented boat laden with drugs bound for Torrevieja on Spain’s Costa Blanca
ALICANTE Courts have sentenced a man to six years to six years in prison after his failed attempt at importing nearly two tonnes of...
Police chase luxury yacht stuffed with drugs off Spain’s Costa Blanca
A luxury yacht crammed with 810 kilos of hashish has been intercepted off the Costa Blanca after a half-hour police pursuit.
A Guardia Civil maritime...
Police in Spain bring down Chinese prostitution network that pocketed €5 million
A Bilbao-based Chinese prostitution gang that banked an estimated €5 million has been smashed by the Policia Nacional.
63 people have been arrested- 61 of...
‘Drug kingpin’ known as Pablo Escobar of Spain arrested
POLICE in Spain have arrested an alleged drug kingpin in one of the major heroin busts in recent years.
Known as the Pablo Escobar of...
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