Two people have been hurt in a traffic accident on the A-31 near Elda today. After a car veered off the road, the Alicante Provincial Fire Consortium sent out personnel together with SVB and SAMU units to respond to the incident.

While one of the injured was able to escape on his own, the other had to be extricated from the car and sent to the Alicante General Hospital via medical helicopter.

Traffic in the area has been stopped by the Civil Guard to allow for the helicopter’s landing and rescue operations. The intervention was carried out by a Heavy Urban Fire Brigade (BUP), a Command and Leadership Unit (UMJ), and a Various Rescue Van (FSV). The crew consisted of three firefighters from the Elda station, a sergeant, and a corporal.

In the municipality of Altea (Alicante), National Police officers have disassembled a hydroponic marijuana plantation that was set up inside a home and arrested a man and a woman.

One technique for growing plants without soil is hydroponics, which uses mineral solutions. With the appropriate chemical inputs, the roots receive nutrients in a balanced solution dissolved in water.

The inquiry started after examining different information from neighbours that revealed the presence of this crop, which made regular coexisting in the region challenging, according to police sources in a statement. According to a statement from Police Headquarters, “the strong stench emanating from the home caused discomfort among the neighbours.”

The agents were certain that the residence under investigation included a marijuana crop for later treatment and sale on the black market after conducting a number of surveillance and follow-ups on the house.

The court was asked to enter and search the home in order to carry out the intervention and dismantling of the marijuana plant cultivation. They found 1,105 grammes of marijuana buds and 106 1.50-meter-tall plants in a room that had a “sophisticated” hydroponic system with all the equipment required for the plants’ growth and cultivation.

Due to all of these factors, the agents have detained a Spanish-born man and a woman, ages 31 and 33, on suspicion of committing a crime against public health.

The trial of an Alicante lawyer accused of keeping more than 190,000 euros that he received as the legal representative of a deceased woman’s husband and children will take place on Friday, March 7th, in Section 7 of Elche of the Provincial Court of Alicante. The Ministry of Health acknowledged the amount because of a patrimonial responsibility that existed in the Torrevieja Hospital following the woman’s death.

Instead of distributing the money to the victims, the prosecution insists that the accused received a cheque with the money which he added to his own estate.

As a result, they are requesting that he be sentenced to three and a half years in prison and that he be prohibited from practicing law for five years.