Costa Blanca
Nine arrested after breaking up a drug trafficking network with marijuana crops
The National Police have arrested nine members of a criminal cell, one of them is a juvenile, for allegedly engaging in large-scale marijuana cultivation....
La Hoya, Torrevieja will invest 3 million euros to ensure the clearing of its rainwater to the Council’s network
The UTE La Hoya, which is in charge of the macro-urban development that is building 7,400 homes in Torrevieja, is to invest three million euros to connect its...
Woman rescued from a house fire in Altea after being trapped on the ground floor
The Guardia Civil rescued a 36-year-old woman after she became trapped in a fire that broke out in a family home in Altea. The woman was transported to...
Stabbed in Elche in a brawl between two groups
A young man was stabbed on Monday night, September 29th, in Elche’s Carrús neighbourhood. The incident occurred at 10 p.m. in the northern section of the...
Car and a mechanical bull catch fire in an industrial warehouse
The Provincial Fire Consortium reported that an industrial warehouse in Callosa de Segura had burned down on Monday, September 29th. A corporate car and a...
Interior Ministry expands the Guardia Civil in Finestrat while it waits for its barracks
The Interior Ministry plans to increase the Civil Guard force in Finestrat. The Mayor, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, made this announcement during a plenary session...
Three defendants acquitted of shipping marijuana from Alicante to the Netherlands
The Alicante Criminal Court No. 5 acquitted three suspects of drug trafficking, disputing proof of their involvement in the cultivation and subsequent...
Basketball coach who “kissed and groped” female players faces 61 years in prison
The assistant coach of a basketball club faces 61 years in prison after coaching a youth women’s team and “hugged, kissed, and groped” the...
Two Elche residents arrested for extortion and assaulting a businessman in Madrid
Two robbers from Elche, one Spanish and the other Dominican, were detained in Madrid in connection with the robbery of a businessman whom they beat, threatened...
Spain will expel a man who attacked his ex-partner and her boyfriend with a knife in Benidorm
A 46-year-old Colombian man was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for stabbing his ex-girlfriend and her current partner in the street in...