Spanish police busted five people over heroin trafficking, including three Bulgarians.

Spanish police busted five people over heroin trafficking, including three Bulgarians.The confiscated 31 kilos of heroin are the largest quantity caught in the last years, the Spanish police informs.The drugs have been smuggled to Spain by the Bulgarians and have been destined to a Turkish national said to live in Valencia and have close ties to a Turkish mafia dealing with heroin trafficking.The heroin has been found hidden in an expensive automobile with Bulgarian license plates. The illegal drug was placed in one of the car's doors and underneath the back seat.
The other two alleged criminals were a Turkish national and a Spaniard.

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Mans body who died some eight years ago have been found in the Sierra Nevada

Mans body who died some eight years ago have been found in the Sierra Nevada.The body was found on Thursday in an area of difficult access on the mountain range, and now the Guardia Civil have asked for the help of the public in identifying him. They say at the time of his death he would have been about 60 years old, was slim, and about 160cms tall. They have published photos of the man’s trousers, in which some pesetas and Portuguese escudos were found.

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Miguel Carcaño, has tried to take his own life in the jail at Morón de la Frontera.

Miguel Carcaño, has tried to take his own life in the jail at Morón de la Frontera.He tried to hang himself using a cord from a track suit, but was stopped for carrying out his wish by other prisoners.He had left a letter in his cell, addressed to his lawyer, in which he insists that Marta’s body was thrown into the rubbish bins.Antonio del Castillo, Marta’s father has asked ‘If he is so scared he is protecting someone and would rather end his life than reveal who it is’.‘All I want to know is where my daughter is, and I don’t care what happens afterwards’.Miguel was not injured in his suicide attempt and prison authorities have made it clear that the cord he used was from another prisoners track suit and not his own which had been removed for his own protection.

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Spanish police have arrested more than 50 people, most of them Britons, suspected of involvement in a network that falsified identity documents

Spanish police have arrested more than 50 people, most of them Britons, suspected of involvement in a network that falsified identity documents for clients around the world.They have also identified around 100 British citizens living in Spain whom they suspect of using the fake documents to obtain bank credit, mostly mortgages of between 200,000 and 1.5 million euros.The gang's operations may have defrauded some 25 financial institutions in Spain of around 60 million euros (80 million dollars), police said in a statement.Spanish authorities have also provided information to the international police agency Europol on more than 1,000 people in 26 countries in the five continents suspected of obtaining fake documents from the gang.Police in the eastern Mediterranean resort city of Alicante opened an investigation in early 2007 after spotting websites that offered fake driving licences, residence permits, birth certificates, academic qualifications and other official documents, the statement said.
In May 2007 they arrested two men and a woman, all Britons, in the Alicante region and seized equipment for producing fake documents, guns and ammunition in raids on two properties.Since mid-2008, 50 people, most of them British, have been arrested in various regions of Spain, and the operation is continuing."It was a perfectly structured organisation, capable of successfully producing all types of fake documents, including a vast range of clients and able to set up a full network of collaborators, which meant a high volume of fake documents were generated - more than 1,000 documents in three months," the statement said.The websites were administered in the United States but had virtual offices in the British colony of Gibraltar, off Spain's southern tip.Two of the Britons arrested, identified only by their initials AK and DM, were located last November through appeals from the British charity Crimestoppers and Britain's Serious and Organised Crime Agency.The investigation also led to the identification of a British man who was wanted for a murder in the southern city of Malaga, and who police believe may have fled to Britain using fake documents supplied by the gang.investigation has also led to the identification of another British resident, wanted in connection with a homicide carried out some years ago in Málaga. Spanish police say this man has now returned to the U.K. using a fake identity created by the group now detained.The Guardia Civil has described the group as perfectly organised, with the ability of obtaining all types of fake documents, and with a wide network of clients and collaborators.
They are thought to have generated more than 1,000 false documents over a three month period.

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James “Pancake” Taylor 29-year-old was released only because British police promised to return him if he was needed by the Spanish courts.

James “Pancake” Taylor 29-year-old was released only because British police promised to return him if he was needed by the Spanish courts.Taylor was arrested in the popular ex-pat playground of Marbella last year.He was allowed back to Merseyside under an international legal process known as ‘provisional liberty’.This occurs when an arresting authority informs officials in the accused’s home country what has happened. The accused is then sent home but only if the home country's police agree to take responsibility for returning him if required.Taylor, who was named as a leading member of Liverpool's underworld at a hearing before city licensing magistrates in 2005, was arrested on September 24 last year.It is believed Spanish police were at the time investigating a violent drugs war.They arrested Taylor over the shooting of a British man who was attacked following a nightclub brawl last AugustA group of British men - including several from Merseyside - and men of Middle Eastern descent had started a fight in the Nikki Beach bar in Las Chapas, Marbella, in the early hours of August 23.Two Iranians were arrested initially and gave statements to the Udyco arm of the police – which combats organised crime – before Taylor was arrested.He was held for more than three weeks before being released on provisional liberty. He did not have to pay any money for bail.The Spanish authorities list his case as ‘pending’.

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Boris Slavov, was sentenced in Spain to 7 years behind bars over the attempted murder of his girlfriend.

Boris Slavov, was sentenced in Spain to 7 years behind bars over the attempted murder of his girlfriend.The information was reported in the Spanish "La Provincia" electronic media.The tragic incident occurred on September 15 2007, in the southern side of Spain's Gran Canary island. Boris and his girlfriend Sibyl had an argument in her apartment. The man grabbed a knife with a 10-cm-long blade and stabbed the victim in the chest and the stomach. He then refused to offer any help and despite her pleas remained inside the house for 6 hours, waiting for Sibyl to die from blood loss. He told her he would kill himself with the same knife.Only after the victim revealed she had EUR 1,000 in her closet and asked Boris to take the money and use them to find help, the perpetrator left the house with the stash. Instead of seeking help, he went to airport, trying to flee the island. In the mean time Sibyl managed to find help herself. Boris was arrested by the authorities at the Gran Canary airport.The incident's cause is listed as alcohol overdose. According to the magistrates, the amount of alcohol, consumed by Boris Slavov was the extenuating circumstance, leading to the lighter sentence. The Las Palmas Court judged that the man committed the crime under the influence of alcohol and should receive only 7 years behind bars.

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unnamed British man in his mid thirties has died after falling from the balcony of a hotel when he was trying to flee from the Guardia Civil.

unnamed British man in his mid thirties has died after falling from the balcony of a hotel when he was trying to flee from the Guardia Civil.The man died around 5am on Friday morning after falling from the first floor of the hotel in Guardamar, Alicante, and suffered severe head injuries. It’s thought he was trying to escape after the Guardia Civil were called because of his allegedly drunken and rowdy behaviour which had been disturbing other hotel guests.He was taken by helicopter to hospital but died shortly after.Información newspaper reports that the two British people in the room refused to open the door to the Guardia Civil when they arrived, and when the Guardia managed to gain access one of the men tried to escape over the balcony which was only three metres high.An autopsy has been carried out and the friend of the deceased has been arrested.

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Guardia Civil, named as Santiago A.N., who shot dead an immigrant who had arrived on a patera small boat in Tarifa in December 2000, been sentenced

Guardia Civil, named as Santiago A.N., who shot dead an immigrant who had arrived on a patera small boat in Tarifa in December 2000, has been sentenced to six months in jail for involuntary manslaughter.In a long sentence the court in Algeciras leaves several questions open in the case. The official version from the Government Sub-delegate in Cádiz was that the gun went off accidentally during a struggle, but the evidence accepted in the sentence considers there was no struggle and the shot was not accidental. Another immigrant witness said the Civil Guard approached the victim with his finger on the trigger of his gun, and with the safety catch off.
The court ruled the action of the Civil Guard was disproportionate to what he should have done to protect the immigrant, and that it not justified either because there was no evidence either that his own life was in any danger.The Guardia has also been ordered to pay 300,000 € in compensation to the victim’s family, and has also been ordered to pay the costs of the case.

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30 million € fraud pirate television system run in Orihuela by a group of British residents

Seven Britons, four men and three women, were arrested in Los Montesinos and Orihuela. The men have been named as 49 year old D.J.H., 22 year old M.A.H, 25 year old J.J.H., and 43 year old R.J.B., while the women are named as 40 year old A.L.S. 49 year old L.J.H. and 24 year old J.K.C. Guardia Civil operation, code-named Odyssea, and broken up last week, against a pirate television system run in Orihuela by a group of British residents, is now estimated to have defrauded 30 million €.
They captured satellite television signals from the U.K. and then distributing them to some 7,0000 mostly British clients along the coasts of Alicante and Murcia. They charged 890 € for the installation of a decoder and then 15 € a month and operated a fake company with a nonexistent registered address.Nine homes were searched in Los Montesinos, Rojales, Orijuela and San Pedro del Pinatar in Murcia, and more than 90,000 € cash was recovered with an estimated 600,000 € worth of communications and computer equipment.

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judge has decreed prison without remand for the Mayor of La Muela Victoria Pinilla who faces real estate corruption charges in the Zaragoza town

María Victoria Pinilla declared before the instruction judge for four hours last nightThe judge has decreed prison without remand for the Mayor of La Muela who faces real estate corruption charges in the Zaragoza town.María Victoria Pinilla is the third person to be imprisoned in the case, ordered behind bars by the Instruction Judge One in La Almunia, Alfredo Lajusticia at 1,55 this morning after taking her statement for more than four hours.Earlier the Chairman of the Aranade company, Julián de Miguel, was granted 120,000 € bail, and later on Monday

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ex Deputy Mayor of Marbella, Pedro Román, has denied in court of having committed any fiscal crime

ex Deputy Mayor of Marbella, Pedro Román, has denied in court of having committed any fiscal crimes because his companies were based in Switzerland. He claimed neither to have directed or managed the companies.He told the instruction judge in the Malaya case on Thursday that he had not obligation to declare the money in Spain.
Román faces five counts of fiscal crimes which defrauded Hacienda nearly six million €. His case was originally being treated as separate from the main Malaya case, but now has been brought in by the instruction judge, Óscar Pérez.

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un-named 54 year old British woman has been arrested in Málaga on charges of fraud after making false credit card claims

un-named 54 year old British woman has been arrested in Málaga on charges of fraud after making false credit card claims through a funeral and medical assistance business.The provincial police say that their investigation started a month ago when a bank informed them that they had detected strange operations at the funeral business alerted by the real owners of credit cards who saw unexpected charges. It’s understood the business used a dataphone to make the credit card payments using a code number.

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Seven Brits were all arrested Tuesday in Orihuela Costa, and are thought to have distributed TV channels illegally to 15,000 clients

Seven were all arrested Tuesday in Orihuela Costa, and are thought to have distributed TV channels illegally to 15,000 clientsSeven Britons have been arrested in the coastal area of Orihuela for distributing pirated television signals to more than 15,000 clients, most of them also British.The Guardia Civil made the arrests in several urbanisations on Tuesday, starting at 9.30am in Urbanisation Laguna III in the area of Punta Prima.Telecommunications and computer material was seized in such an amount that several vans were needed.The group distributed the signal from several national pay channels from Digital Plus as well as international satellite signals. It’s estimated that they had made several million € in servicing at least 15,000 clients in the area. Several clients told the Guardia Civil that they were indeed customers of the group, but that they did not know the service was unauthorised.The seven arrested face initial charges of crimes against intellectual property and tax fraud. More arrests in the case have not been ruled out.

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Arrested a 66-year-old Chilean at Barcelona airport after discovering the cast on his broken leg was made of cocaine.

Spanish police said they arrested a 66-year-old Chilean at Barcelona airport after discovering the cast on his broken leg was made of cocaine.The man also had cocaine hidden in six beer cans that had been emptied, packed with drugs and resealed, and inside the legs of two small folding stools. Altogether, he was carrying about 11 pounds of the drug.The arrest was made on Wednesday as the man arrived from Santiago, Chile.The man’s leg was broken and investigators are looking into the possibility that he deliberately broke it in order to smuggle in the drug.Police spokesman Jose Antonio Nin said he knew of cases in which smugglers had concealed cocaine underneath casts but this was the first time officials had seen a cast made entirely of compressed cocaine. It weighed about 2.2 pounds.Police detected the drug by spraying the cast with a chemical that turns bright blue when it comes in contact with cocaine.The man was taken to hospital after the cast was removed.
Spain is a major European gateway for cocaine from Latin America and airport officials pay especially close attention to passengers on flights from Peru, Colombia and Chile.A UN report in 2008 revealed it had become the biggest consumer of cocaine in continental Europe, and is one of the world’s top users of the drug.

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British couple were beaten unconscious by the robbers who took money and jewellery worth 200,000 €

British couple were beaten unconscious by the robbers who took money and jewellery worth 200,000 €.Two British tourists have been robbed in Benidorm of jewellery worth 200,000 €. According to the denuncia to the Benidorm police they were beaten up in a pub in the town and left unconscious before being robbed of cash and jewellery worth 200,000 €. National Police have arrested a Dominican man in connection with the attack after searching his home in the town where some of the jewellery was recovered, including a 250 diamond necklace set in white gold, and an 82 diamond princess cut diamond and white gold cross.20minutos.es reports police only found out about the theft two days after it occurred because no witnesses reported the attack at the time. Now witnesses say four of five people were involved.

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Plane found to be carrying more than 1,000 kilos of hashish has been intercepted between Valdepeñas and Moral de Calatrava in Ciudad Real

Plane found to be carrying more than 1,000 kilos of hashish has been intercepted between Valdepeñas and Moral de Calatrava in Ciudad Real after a chase across the skies which started in Almería from where a customs helicopter had been shadowing the plane.Two Mexican pilots have been arrested and are now being held in Valdepeñas.
Police sources say the plane was intercepted on Monday night on a landing strip on a finca called ‘Las Agrupadas’.The Guardia Civil, National Police and Customs Authority are all involved in the investigation.

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South American man has been arrested, accused of raping an 18-year-old girl on the hard shoulder of the Benalmadena-Malaga motorway

South American man has been arrested, accused of raping an 18-year-old girl on the hard shoulder of the Benalmadena-Malaga motorway. According to the victim, she and a friend were in Benalmadena Costa’s Plaza Solymar, and wanted to go to Fuengirola. They decided to hitch-hike and were offered a ride by the alleged rapist. After dropping off the first of the two women, he started to drive in the direction requested by the victim. But shortly afterwards, she noticed he had changed course on to the motorway in the direction of Malaga City. He allegedly pulled up on the hard shoulder, tied her up and blindfolded her, and proceeded to attempt to rape her. The victim says she put up a tremendous fight to resist him and he eventually gave up. However, instead of releasing her, he drove to a car park in Arroyo de la Miel, removed her blindfold and forced her to have sex with him. Following the alleged rape, the 31-year-old suspect drove to Fuengirola. As they arrived at the seafront, the victim managed to escape and ran off to get help. She found a Local Police patrol who took her to Las Lagunas Health Centre where she received medical attention.

Given the serious nature of the crime, the case was passed on to the National Police who later managed to trace the car and identify and arrest the suspect

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Spate of robberies from chemist’s shops 20 people arrested

Police have arrested 20 people in Malaga, as part of ‘Operacion Reja’, on suspicion of carrying out a series of robberies. The police operation was launched last month after the province suffered a spate of robberies from chemist’s shops. Out of the 20 arrests, 11 were for aggravated burglarly with a firearm and nine for robbery using a lethal weapon. The last three arrests took place last week. The detainees are also suspected of having robbed a hairdressing salon.

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Leónidas Vargas was the Colombian drug trafficker was assassinated five arrested

Police in Madrid have arrested five people allegedly linked to the Leónidas case. Leónidas Vargas was the Colombian drug trafficker who was assassinated in his hospital bed in Madrid on January 8.Vargas was considered to be one of the most importing 19 drug traffickers in the world, and those now arrested in connection with the killing are also Colombian and aged between 22 and 34. The alleged head of the gang is among those being held, and at the time of arrest had a loaded gun in his possession.Police searched several premises across the Spanish capital on Thursday night.

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Paul Logan Donnelly one of two men arrested after a short siege with officers in a village outside Marbella.

Paul Logan Donnelly is at the centre of the investigation and is now reportedly facing attempted murder charges.Police in Spain named Donnelly as one of two men arrested after a short siege with officers in a village outside Marbella.It is reported the pair were apprehended by civil guards after one was spotted urinating in the street, before pulling out a gun which jammed, preventing it from firing.
The alleged gunman is named as “Paul B” but the second person has been identified as Donnelly, originally from Newcastle.It is alleged he fled the scene, having brandished a knife, which he went on to abandon as he ran off.Describing the incident, a Guardia Civil officer said: “It was around the leisure zone and there were three individuals who were walking through the street and one of them was urinating in the middle of the street.“They (the police) went to identify him and the first of those arrested threw his passport.“When the police approached him, he then took out a gun which he had hidden in his trousers, he loaded and shot at one of the policemen. They (the police) identified him and arrested him without firing any shots. They are now in custody awaiting trial.”The incident happened in Alhaurin el Grande, a hillside village around 30 miles from Marbella, on the Costa del Sol.
Police say they spotted one of the men urinating outside a video shop at 9pm on Monday. Paul B then reportedly threw a passport belonging to another ex-pat on the floor and took out the gun.It is said the 9mm weapon jammed when he pulled the trigger twice, meaning no officers were hurt in the incident.The officers then drew their own guns and talked the man round, before he was arrested.A British Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesman said: “The men were arrested for urinating in the street and possession of a gun.“A consular team is now working with the relevant authorities in Spain. The investigation is at a very early stage.”

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Torrevieja explosives were reportedly found in a home belonging to a couple at the Los Locos beach in Torrevieja.

Four people, all Spanish, have been arrested in Torrevieja with 15-20 kilos of Goma 2 explosives. It’s thought the explosives were stolen before the Madrid Train Bombings in 2004 when control on the movement of such explosives was stepped up.Initial investigations indicate those arrested are not linked to any form of terrorist group.Some of the explosives were reportedly found in a home belonging to a couple at the Los Locos beach in Torrevieja.Información reports that the four arrested were being held separately ahead of interrogation.

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Potasas, Body in the boot

National Police have found the body of a 70 year old man in the boot of a car parked on the forecourt of Potasas, a closed company at the entrance to Cartagena.The victim has not been identified but is said to be in his 70’s, and the body has been taken to the Forensic Science Institute for the autopsy.

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Alharín el Grande 42 year old man from Bromley in Kent has been arrested on suspicion of attempted homicide

42 year old man from Bromley in Kent has been arrested on suspicion of attempted homicide following an incident in the street in Alharín el Grande.The man is accused of pulling out a gun and attempting to fire it, when he was stopped by the Guardia Civil for urinating in the street. The gun however jammed and no shot was fired.First analysis of the weapon shows it to be a semi automatic, but an unknown brand, and possibly with a 9mm caliber. Two other men, one British and one Irish, were with the accused at the time of the incident, 8pm on Tuesday in Calle Gerald Brenan, and ran off, only to be arrested later. A Guardia Civil spokesman said ‘The only reason at least one officer is not dead is because the British man's weapon jammed. All three men live in Spain. We are looking into their backgrounds’.
The three will appear in court shortly.

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Costa crime gang arrested for assaulting more than 50 people’s homes on the Costa del Sol

Fourteen people have been arrested for assaulting more than 50 people’s homes on the Costa del Sol, Álava, La Rioja and Alicante while their owners were asleep.The Guardia Civil have named the operation ‘Canuni’, and say that those arrested are seven Albanian Kosovars, a Moroccan, four Romanians, a Serb-Croat and a Belgian.In the five searches carried out by the Guardia Civil, objects with more than 500,000 € were recovered, including a watch made from the steel from the Titanic, with an estimated value of 400,000 €.Investigations in the case started in March last year. The group was based in luxury urbanisations in Benalmádena, Torremolinos and Fuengirola, where they could often be seen in top restaurants and boutiques.

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Benidorm drug traffickers lab found four arrests made.

Three Colombians and a Belgian have been arrested, all of them with previous records for drug or arms trafficking and violent theft.Police in Benidorm have broken up a group of drug traffickers who had their own laboratory in the town where they adulterated the drugs they sold with different chemical products.Three kilos of highly pure cocaine was recovered int he operation, together with a firearm and ammunition. Two of those arrested are brothers.

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Ettore Facchinetti, 60, was detained in the town of Caldes de Montbuy near Barcelona

Ettore Facchinetti, 60, was detained in the town of Caldes de Montbuy near Barcelona, a police spokeswoman told AFP."He is accused of coordinating in Spain a network that smuggled cocaine to Italy," she said.Facchinetti, a suspected member of 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia, was sentenced to 15 years in jail in Italy for drugs trafficking and was the subject of a European arrest warrant.Since 2006 more than a dozen leaders of the Camorra and other Italian mafia groups have been arrested in Spain, the main entryway into Europe for cocaine from Latin America and hashish from North Africa.Last week Spanish police said they had detained a suspected leader of a Calabrian mafia, who was once a security guard for an Italian government minister, in the southern port of Marbella.Italian journalist Roberto Saviano, the author of Gomorra, a best-selling expose of the criminal underworld in Naples, has said several mafia clans have transferred what he termed "their most risky activities," such as drug-running, to Spain, particularly to Barcelona.
Speaking in Barcelona earlier in February, he said Camorra bosses refer to the Spain's Mediterranean coast as "Costa Nostra" or "our coast", alluding to the Sicilian mafia's "Cosa Nostra".

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Sentence against Judge, Francisco Javier De Urquía, was two years in prison for accepting 73,800 € from Juan Antonio Roca

Sentence against Judge, Francisco Javier De Urquía, was two years in prison for accepting 73,800 € from Juan Antonio Roca, the man at the centre of the Malaya corruption case in Marbella, for the purchase of a property in the La Azalea urbanization.The judge was also banned from holding office for ten years by the Andalucian High Court in August 2008. The judge was also found guilty of accepting money from Roca to stop the broadcast of a local television programme about the corruption in the municipality.Now the decision of a review of the case by the Penal Hall of the Supreme Court is expected on Wednesday.

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Abou Mossab Anadori arrested on the Costa del Sol

The man who is organising group of men or terror cell is known to the police as Abou Mossab Anadori .The small town of Torreforta was the scene of the arrest of a Moroccan man on the Costa del Sol.The Civil Guard made the arrest because the 21 year old was wanted in his own country because of allegedly planning terrorist attacks against tourists in North Africa .He was the subject of an international arrest warrent issued by the Attorney Generals Office in Morocco.After the arrest he was handed over to the National Court which made a decision to imprison him .More than 15 people with links to terrorist operations were arrested in the same operation .It appears that these people are attached to a radical group with a link here in Spain .He it appears proposes to carry out terrorist attacks here in Spain .

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"Mafia Cops" Louis Eppolito and Steven Caracappa, convicted in April 2006 of committing eight murders while on the payroll of a mob underboss,

"Mafia Cops" Louis Eppolito and Steven Caracappa, convicted in April 2006 of committing eight murders while on the payroll of a mob underboss, received life sentences Friday in Brooklyn federal court.Eppolito, the son of a mobster, was sentenced to life plus 100 years. Partner Caracappa received life plus 80 years. Each was fined more than $4 million.Although the pair remained jailed in the years since they were convicted of betraying their badges, their case was tied up in appeals that delayed their sentencing.Caracappa, 67, and Eppolito, 60, committed the killings between 1986-90. The elder detective stood to declare he had nothing to do with the slayings."I am innocent of these charges," Caracappa insisted. Eppolito, speaking before his sentencing, made the same claim."I'm a big boy, I'm not a child," he said. "The federal government can my life. But they can't take my soul, they can't take my dignity. I never hurt anybody. ... I never did any of this."
Federal Judge Jack Weinstein - who overturned their convictions on a technicality, but was reversed by an appeals court - handed down the lengthy terms.Weinstein, after their convictions, said the pair had committed "the most heinous series of crimes ever tried in this courthouse."He threw out their convictions in June 2006, citing the statute of limitations in the racketeering case. Prosecutors appealed, and the convictions were restored last September.The crooked pair earned as much as $65,000 for one of their hits on behalf of brutal mob boss Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso. The jailed Mafiosi, suspected of 36 murders, paid the rogue cops a $4,000-a-month retainer while they worked for him. The defendants committed the killings while simultaneously on the payrolls of the NYPD and the Luchese crime family.Caracappa, who retired in 1992 after 23 years with the NYPD, helped establish the department's clearing house for Mafia murder probes.

Eppolito grew up in a mob family: His father, grandfather and an uncle were members of the Gambino family. The dichotomy between his career and his upbringing was covered in his autobiography, "Mafia Cop: The Story of An Honest Cop Whose Family Was the Mob."

Eppolito, who retired in 1990, had a bit part in the classic mob movie "Goodfellas" - and later fancied himself a Hollywood script writer.

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Heavy plant machinery stolen from the U.K. sold in Spain

Eight machines valued at 1.2 million € have been recovered in Málaga and Galicia, and reports indicate that the sales to third countries were used as a way of hiding shipments of drugs.police have broken up an organization which sold heavy plant machinery in Spain which had in fact been stolen from the U.K.Two people have been arrested, both of them in Marbella, named as E.C. from Argentina and Briton A.J.C., and another six are reportedly indicted in the case. The two arrested are accused to have changed the axel numbers of the vehicles concerned and offered them for sale though an opaque company. 25 kilos of hashish has also been recovered in the operation controlled by GRECO specialist police in Cádiz with help from agents in Marbella and A Coruña.EFE news agency reports that investigations started in 2007 into some British drug traffickers based in Marbella.

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James “Pancake” Taylor was picked up by police

James “Pancake” Taylor was picked up by police trying to stop a violent
drugs war that has broken out on the Costa del Sol.NOTORIOUS Liverpool gangster was today behind bars in Spain after being arrested for attempted murder.James “Pancake” Taylor was picked up by police trying to stop a violent drugs war that has broken out on the Costa del Sol.The 29-year-old is also being investigated over claims he is the ringleader of a gang which has brought terror to the sunshine streets.
A leaked report to a Spanish judge over a spate of shootings says the gang is a “worldwide organisation that is dedicated mainly to drug trafficking, targeted assassinations and has a hierarchical structure among the members, almost all of whom originate in Liverpool and Man-chester”.Taylor was arrested over the shooting of a Brit after a nightclub brawl last August.

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National Police have arrested one of the bosses of the Calabrese Mafia in Marbella.

National Police have arrested one of the bosses of the Calabrese Mafia in Marbella.
48 year old Giususeppe U. was a policeman himself in Italy and even acted as a bodyguard to a minster there for a time.He was arrested on a European warrant for large-scale hashish trafficking from Morocco, and is wanted in connection with the killing of Salvatore Nigro in Rome in 1997.He was also wanted here in Spain in connection with the killing of a Spaniard in Almería in 2003.He is to go before instruction court 5 in the National Court who are expected to extradite him.

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Ian Donaldson wanted in Spain for drug smuggling has been arrested in Scotland.

Ian Donaldson wanted in Spain for drug smuggling has been arrested in Scotland.
Ian Donaldson, 29, was snared by Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency officers on Friday afternoon. They swooped using an international arrest warrant issued by a judge in Madrid. Now Donaldson, of Renton, Dunbartonshire, faces extradition to Spain where he is expected to face money laundering and drug trafficking charges. The arrest is part of Operation Sendero - a long-running investigation spearheaded by Spanish police. Fellow suspects Ronald O'Dea, 4 2, and Jim McDonald, 59, both of Glasgow, are already in custody in Madrid. They were arrested following the seizure of 70 kilos of amphetamines from a lorry in Oxfordshire heading for Scotland. Spanish police have already seized assets worth £12million on the holiday island of Tenerife. The haul includes eight luxury homes, a fleet of sports cars and a yacht which were all owned by Donaldson. One of his properties is a £1million cliff-top villa. Donaldson will appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court tomorrow. A decision will be taken whether to keep him in custody in Scotland, transfer him to Spain immediately, or grant him bail. Last month we revealed Donaldson had been spotted enjoying a night out with pals in a Glasgow nightclub despite being a wanted man. The SCDEA said: "A 29-year-old man was arrested following the execution of an arrest warrant which had been issued in Spain." Donaldson is a struggling amateur racing driver whose team compete in an orange Lamborghini.

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British tourist could lose the sight of his left eye after he intervened to defend a woman who was being bothered by two men in a Marbella bar.

A British tourist could lose the sight of his left eye after he intervened to defend a woman who was being bothered by two men in a Marbella bar.man stepped in to defend a woman who was being bothered by two men 'with Liverpool accents'The 53 year old businessman, who has not been named in reports, was attacked last Monday and has been admitted to the Civil Hospital in Málaga, after earlier treatment in the Costa del Sol Hospital in Marbella. He told police that the two men bothering the woman had a Liverpool accent and were very aggressive. He decided to help her, but was knocked unconscious. Diario Sur reports that the woman told police that after the man had fallen to the ground the two others continued to kick his head.

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