Crime
Two sentenced to 12 years for prostituting and drugging vulnerable women
Two people have been sentenced to six years in jail and €8,700 in fines for four prostitution offences and another public health violation, including...
Man assulted his partner and police officers during his arrest at Alicante-Elche airport
The Elche Local Police (Alicante) have arrested a man accused of abusing his partner and wounding four municipal officials while being detained at the...
Elche company acquitted of a cryptocurrency scam after the funds could not be traced
The Provincial Court of Murcia has ordered the preliminary discharge of judicial proceedings into an alleged cryptocurrency-related scam in which an...
Javea police seize more than a thousand counterfeit sportswear items
As part of operations to curb unauthorised street vending on the el Paseo Tenista David Ferrer facing l’Arenal beach, the Javea Local Police seized a...
Guardia Civil arrests a grandmother and her son-in-law for drug trafficking
The Guardia Civil arrested a 40-year-old woman and her 19-year-old son-in-law on narcotics trafficking charges. The woman’s 18-year-old daughter is also...
Couple arrested after being caught stealing from a home in Alicante
A man and a woman were arrested by National Police officers while stealing inside a property in Alicante, according to a statement from the Provincial Police...
Santa Pola police is launching a van adapted for service dogs
Santa Pola Mayor Loreto Serrano and Councillor for Citizen Security Ana Blasco presented the Local Police’s equipment to ensure citizen safety during the...
Orihuela court frees Irish mobster John Gilligan for a pink cocaine lab case
John Gilligan, the legendary Irish mobster, has been released after paying €10,000 bail. Gilligan had been imprisoned since late January after a synthetic drug...
Squatters unleash fear in Torrevieja
Residents of a Torrevieja urbanisations are “fighting”—or rather, resisting as best they can—against a group of squatters who have moved into a...
Body of missing Albanian drug trafficker found in Marbella
Miklovan Danaj, 30, from Shkodra, Albania, was found dead on the shore of Marbella after going missing in May. His relatives received a telegram that confirmed...
