Crime
Judge dismisses the case of the Russian pilot murdered in Villajoyosa
The head of the number 3 Civil and Instruction Section of the Court of First Instance of Villajoyosa has decided to temporarily dismiss the case about the...
Couple wanted for 49 scams arrested in Torrevieja
In Torrevieja (Alicante), the Guardia Civil arrested a man and a woman, a couple, on 49 counts of fraud and four instances of identity theft. They are said to...
Man arrested for claiming to be able to turn black papers into real banknotes
National Police officers in Alicante stopped a scam by catching a 58-year-old Nigerian man in the act of trying to pull off the “washwash scam.”...
Woman stabs three people in Torrevieja restaurant area
A woman from the Netherlands in her sixties tried to rob a bar with two knives. Later, she fled the building and stabbed a postal worker on the street, hurting...
Couple jailed for stealing five lottery tickets and 100 euros from a 90-year-old man
A man answered the door to his house in Coín because the person ringing was the woman who typically cleaned his house. But as he opened the door, he saw...
Drug trafficking and money laundering network dismantled with 25 arrests
The Guardia Civil and the Tax Agency’s Customs Surveillance Service have broken up a drug trafficking and money laundering gang based in the south of the...
Woman arrested for driving the wrong way, drunk, and with her young child on board
The Guardia Civil arrested a woman who was driving a car on the A-7 motorway in the municipality of Murcia, going the wrong way and with her small kid in...
Murcia court investigates a dozen sexual assaults by a child against his younger stepbrother
A juvenile court in Murcia is looking into whether a nine-year-old kid was sexually assaulted about ten times by his stepbrother, who is also a young boy. The...
Driver who refused a drug test because he was not informed in his language has been acquitted
A 30-year-old Ukrainian motorist who refused to take a drug test was given an eight-month prison sentence, but the Benidorm Local Police did not tell him in...
Arrested in Dénia for stealing 190,000 euros from house sale
The National Police have arrested a 43-year-old man in Dénia who is accused of stealing almost 190,000 euros from the sale of a home. The owner of the home had...
