A 20-year-old repeat offender has been taken into custody by the National Police on suspicion of conducting up to seven robberies at Denia’s business premises. He faces charges of fraud, theft, and burglary. A number of robberies that took place between December 2024 and January 2025 were solved by investigators.

Actually, a “unusual increase” in local burglaries prompted the start of the probe. The security team installed a tool that enabled them to spot recurring themes in the robberies and connect them to the now-arrested person.

At the end of December, a young guy broke the lower lock and shattered the glass of the entrance door of a clothes store during the first heist. While someone else was on guard, he was able to get in and steal thirty euros.

He used a similar tactic to target a nearby pub the following week. Once inside, he stole 250 euros in cash after forcing a side door until the opening mechanism broke. The same clothes store was targeted once more a few days later. The young man stole 1,556 euros worth of clothing by repeating the approach, damaging the hinges and the lower portion of the door.

A supermarket in Denia reported locker tampering and the disappearance of many wallets at the same time as all of these incidents. Additionally, one victim found that the cards they carried were being used fraudulently.

Two robberies at the same pub in Denia at the end of December are added to these instances. He rode a bicycle and exploited the early hours to force open the establishment’s sliding doors without causing any obvious damage. Before the alarm went off, he was able to take 500 euros in change from the cash register the first time. A few days later, he went back to the same place with a bank card and a cell phone and tried to make a transaction.

Connections between the incidences and the juvenile offender were made possible by the examination of every offence. It was established that he exploited the physical closeness of his targets to his own house to operate inside a certain radius. As a result, he was able to quickly hide without being noticed and leave the area.

The man has a previous history for a number of property-related offences and was arrested in Teulada at the end of January. The investigation to find a potential second accomplice in some of the crimes is still ongoing, however he has been taken before the Denia Magistrate’s Court.

A 26-year-old man was sentenced to two years in prison by an Alicante court for beating and injuring his seven-month-old child. However, the accused, who was placed in preventive detention following his arrest in 2021, will not be sent to prison because the sentence suspends its execution provided he refrains from committing any crimes for the next two years.

The defendant, who was represented by attorneys Francisco Miguel Galiana Botella and Alicia Grau Córdoba, was found guilty of a crime of injury after first being probed for a homicide attempt.

After being admitted with a perforated intestine, the 4-year-old baby spent 18 days in the paediatric intensive care unit (ICU) of Alicante General Hospital, where his survival was questioned. Thankfully, he recovered from his injuries. After his parents, who were 22 at the time, were arrested, the Generalitat took care of the kid. Although the mother’s complaint was ultimately dismissed, the mother was also the subject of a court investigation.

Following a plea agreement struck during the trial between the prosecution and defence, which had sought a five-year prison sentence for serious injuries, Criminal Court No. 10 of Alicante imposed the punishment.

Given that he paid 4,477 euros in civil liability claims to compensate the minor prior to the trial, the verdict finds the minor’s father guilty of assault with the aggravating circumstances of treachery and kinship and the mitigating circumstances of confession and reparation of damages. The 6,000 euros the offender paid as bail to be freed from prison was used to pay the reparation.

The offender is sentenced to two years in prison, three years of special disqualification from exercising parental control over his young son, and a three-year prohibition from approaching his son within 300 meters or communicating with him in any way. He would only have three months remaining in the sentence’s three-year term, though, because his parental power has been revoked since the incidents. After serving this time, he may attempt to reclaim parental power by starting a new administrative procedure.

He reported a household mishap

At the hearing, the defendant entered a guilty plea and acknowledged the facts the prosecutor’s office had brought against him. Up until this point, the defendant had maintained that his kid had been involved in a domestic mishap at home in Alicante and had hit himself with a toy after falling off a sofa.

The sentence’s declared proven facts took place in Alicante on the afternoon of May 27, 2021. At the house where he lived with his girlfriend and the minor’s mother, the accused was by himself caring for his seven-month-old baby. He was with the youngster in the marriage room at an unspecified time that day when he “hit him several times with such force that the minor had to undergo emergency surgery for a jejunal perforation and mesointestinal haematoma.” The kid spent 18 days in the paediatric intensive care unit at Doctor Balmis General Hospital in Alicante and four days in the hospital ward during his 22-day recovery from the intestinal perforation.

The child was left with a “slight scar from the central abdominal laparotomy” as a cosmetic harm, but the verdict claims that he does not have “anatomical functional sequelae” as a result of these injuries.

After the hospital was informed that a newborn had been admitted with injuries incompatible with the domestic accident his parents had recounted, the police arrested the parents. When the mother got home and started throwing up, the boy was brought to the hospital when he was alone himself with his father.

Early on Saturday morning, Torrevieja firefighters, the Guardia Civil, and the local police rescued a body that was drifting close to the Cala Cornuda cliffs in Torrevieja.

One of the visitors who came to observe the condition of the sea in a region renowned for its breathtaking storm waves set off the alert at around ten to eight on Saturday morning. Until the Torrevieja Local Police patrol arrived, the witness stayed in the vicinity.

In extremely unfavourable maritime storm circumstances, the local police were able to secure the body with a rope and a life preserver until the firefighters from Torrevieja arrived and performed the extraction in a secure location.

Finally, the body—which was in a highly decomposed state—was recovered. He had on specialised boat fishing gear and a wetsuit.

Civil Guard sources said that they are conducting the necessary processes to identify him and ascertain the reason of his death.

The Torrevieja Judicial Police’s Territorial Team has notified the Torrevieja Court on Duty and is conducting the inquiry.

According to people close to the fire department and security forces, it might be a fisherman, but they were unable to identify the deceased’s gender due to the condition of the body following the time spent at sea. The powerful easterly storm over the past three days brought the body to the Torrevieja coast.