As part of its efforts to combat drug trafficking, the National Police have investigated a store in a house north of Alicante that sold a variety of illegal drugs, including cocaine and heroin. As a result of the police action, a 44-year-old lady of Spanish descent has been arrested.

The officers were able to identify the resident, a middle-aged woman, after conducting multiple inspections at the house under investigation.

The suspect was the subject of several monitoring and follow-ups during the police investigation, which allowed the agents to confirm that she was responsible for delivering the drug from her residence to those who arrived to get their dosage.

The suspect was arrested as part of a police operation after it was determined that she was involved in the sale and distribution of narcotic substances and that she utilised the house to conceal the money she had gotten illegally as well as to conduct drug transactions.

After the arrest, a search of the house turned up 450 euros in bills, 229 grammes of cocaine, and 96 grammes of heroin.

The detainee is now available to the Alicante on-call court when the police proceedings are concluded.

A significant drug sales hub that served the whole northern region of Alicante has been eliminated thanks to the police operation.

After reporting that he had been the victim of a vicious knife attack on an Alicante street, a 40-year-old Colombian man was arrested by the National Police for posing as a criminal. The individual who was arrested acknowledged that he had made up some of the events, but he told the police that he had no insurance, despite suspicions that the goal was to get paid by an insurance company.

The man who was arrested for feigning a crime told the police that two men had approached him on the street, taken the rucksack he was holding, and threatened him with a switchblade during the altercation. According to his version, he gave up his possessions out of terror, and the criminals ran away.

He stated that he had a laptop, bank card, company documents, and his car keys in his backpack. However, the officers’ early police investigations made them doubt the complainant’s version of events.

The complainant was called back by the police to elaborate on his account and provide further details. According to the authorities, the individual went to the Northern authorities Station in Alicante and was evasive and anxious during the interrogation until he eventually acknowledged that he had changed his account of events.

As he had stated in his first testimony, the man acknowledged that his rucksack had been stolen, but he did so without threatening him or using a weapon. Additionally, he said that the accused burglars had used his debit card to pay 40 euros at a café.

Upon examining the transactions made using the pilfered card, the agents found that the purchase was for a mobile churro stand, where such a high amount of money was uncommon, rather than a bar or café. By supplementing the existing evidence, this proof demonstrated the complaint’s partial falsehood.

The proceedings were brought to the notice of the on-duty Alicante court, and the detainee had no criminal history.

The National Police remind people that making a fake report is illegal and can have serious repercussions. Furthermore, this kind of activity wastes resources that could be utilised to protect actual victims and solve actual crimes.

All municipal emergency systems have been triggered by the Spanish Meteorological Agency’s (Aemet) yellow signal for Alicante on Wednesday. According to municipal sources the Santa Bárbara Castle and the municipal parks of Lo Morant, Palmeral, and Canalejas have been closed due to high wind gusts of up to 52 km per hour that have been reported since early this morning.

In addition, the City Council has implemented additional measures in wind-prone locations with large trees, such the Plaza de Gabriel Miró and the Portal de Elche.

In the case of the castle, the closure is being carried out because Parks and Gardens’ internal procedures have been activated, “given that the current weather situation does not make it necessary to implement the City Council’s Emergency Plan,” according to municipal sources. The same sources do caution, though, that “the City Council keeps the entire municipal prevention device on alert.”

The yellow level rain warning does not activate any civil protection plans, but it does contain wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour and a maximum of 20 litres per square metre in the municipality of Alicante. At 2:00 pm, the high wind forecast comes to an end. Despite not meeting the emergency protocols’ risk threshold, “the City Council has chosen to close public spaces to reinforce security.”

In order to keep an eye on the yellow level risk warning for rain in the municipality issued by the Emergency Coordination Centre of the Valencian Community (CCECV) between 9:00am and 00:00 today, Wednesday 5th, the Municipal Operational Coordination Centre (Cecopal) of Alicante City Council convened on Tuesday under the direction of Mayor Luis Barcala.

The City Council has temporarily banned swimming on the municipal beaches and established the Social Emergency and Shelter Centre (CAUS) in case it becomes essential to help the homeless. Simultaneously, the Department of Security consolidates all relevant data on meteorological developments in case further action is required if the situation deteriorates.