Civil Guard maritime unit has discovered almost two tons of cannabis hidden on scrub land on the Punta La Polacra in Níjar

Civil Guard maritime unit has discovered almost two tons of cannabis hidden on scrub land on the Punta La Polacra in Níjar. Ideal newspaper reports that a team from the Almería Civil Guard were inspecting the coastline from offshore last Friday, and decided a closer inspection from land was needed of the area of Carnaje Beach.They found sixty one packages of the drug, amounting to 1,800 kilos of cannabis. Instruction Court No. 1 in Almería has been assigned to the investigati...

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Mijas Diamond and Jewellery Centre raided

Three jewellery thieves have made off with a haul estimated to be between 8,000 € and 20,000 € from a shop in Mijas pueblo, the Mijas Diamond and Jewellery Centre. The owner of the store was inside when the hooded thieves attacked carrying hammers. Dee Iglesias, co-owner of the store told Diario Sur that her husband had tried to detain one of the theives without success; he was thrown to the floor. Police say it was a professional operation with the thieves dressing as road workers and previously placing a no-entry sign in the Avenida de Méjico to ensure their getaway. A fourth member of the gang drove the getaway car which had been previously stolen and which was found shortly after the robbe...

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Couple thought to have been dealing ecstasy on the Costa del Sol have been arrested

Couple thought to have been dealing ecstasy on the Costa del Sol have been arrested and police have seized a kilo of the drug.According to the National Police, the woman, 26, was caught with this haul in the bus station in Málaga this week.Later investigations led to the arrest of a man aged 33 in Alcobendas (Madrid).He is believed to have been supplying MDMA to the woman for resale.A raid on his flat revealed a further 84 grams of ecstasy plus other chemicals, a 40-centimetre machete and tools for creating the dru...

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Pat McCadden to face Spanish court.

Pat McCadden walked free after being accused of shooting a police officer in Spain may still stand trial.Convicted drug dealer Pat McCadden, 42, was last week told by Judge Gonzalo Divar he would not face court.But a lawyer for the unnamed 36-year-old officer - shot in Marbella in 2003 - has appealed.Three years ago McCadden was arrested and picked out of an identity parade by the officer, shot by two men who also shot British shop owner Luke Miller.Alleged getaway driver Paul Lesbirel - also picked out by the cop - was cleared last week.A police source said: "An appeal has been lodged. The officer intends taking it as far as he can." Gangster McCadden claimed to be a businessman importing Italian shoes into Glasgow. He was jailed for 10 years in 1985 for smuggling more than £600,000 of heroin.His...

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Bulgarian gangster Hristo Vasilev has been shot dead in public

Bulgarian gangster Hristo Vasilev has been shot dead in public in the town of Sant Joan Despi, Barcelona province, in Catalonia, Spain.The news has been reported by the Bulgarian 24 Chasa Daily, which cites the local newspaper El Periodico.According to the reports, Vasilev was part of a gang of Eastern Europeans who committed robberies and luxury car thefts in Spain and France.The gang had committed a number of daring crimes including one occasion in the French city of Orleans where they held a whole family at gunpoint for several hours until the family opened a save.The gang was eventually busted by the Spanish police but Vasilev managed to get away. According to El Periodico, however, he was shot dead over drugs as he repeatedly stole drug shipments of competing Barcelona gangs.The murder...

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Pat the Rat, was arrested three years after the officer was gunned down in the Costa del Sol resort of Marbella.

Convicted drugs dealer Pat McCadden, 52, was celebrating yesterday after being told he will not face trial.The former shoe importer, nicknamed Pat the Rat, was arrested three years after the officer was gunned down in the Costa del Sol resort of Marbella.He spent nearly seven months on remand in jail before being released on bail while a judicial probe continued.A judge has now dismissed the case against the Glaswegian after witnesses failed to identify him and he was told DNA found in a getaway car used by the gunman did not match the Scot's.Judge Gonzalo Divar made the decision after a request to stay proceedings against McCadden by his lawyer...

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34 year old Salahidin E.N. from Holland shot to death in Pechina

Man found shot to death on a road in Pechina has been identified in the press as 34 year old Salahidin E.N. from Holland. Sources at central government offices in Almería told Europa Press he was shot once in the chest and was found by a routine Civil Guard patrol on the road to neighbouring Viator on Monday afternoon.Further information from EFE indicates he may have been shot from a moving vehicle. He is said to have had a criminal record from 2004 in Algecir...

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Police investigations revealed that the gang of smugglers were planning to bring the drugs onto the Málaga coast from Morocco

Eleven people are in custody after a police swoop on a property just off the A-7 motorway near Cajíz where almost a ton of cannabis was seized.Police investigations revealed that the gang of smugglers were planning to bring the drugs onto the Málaga coast from Morocco, and surveillance of the group discovered Almayate to be the point of entry. National Police in Málaga said in a press release on Wednesday that officers were waiting at the finca in Cajíz when the suspects arrived to unload the drugs. They had been brought over from Morocco in a boat which had set sail the day before.Together with the 900 kilos of cannabis, police seized a number of vehicles, some c...

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Alicante ‘Lops Capito’ gangman died and another was seriously injured in a shooting

Man died and another was seriously injured in a shooting in the Juan XXIII district of Alicante city on Saturday afternoon.Police are investigating the motive for the attacks but they think it was related to drug trafficking.On their arrival at the scene SAMU medics could do no more than to declare a man in his 40’s, named with the initials L.I.P. as dead, while another aged 44 and identified as J.G.A.R. was taken to the General Hospital in the city after being shot it the throat and arm.Police say they are searching for a third person who could possibly have been the shooter and is a member of the ‘Lops Capito’ gang. The search has been opened...

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Man wanted for an armed robbery in Barcelona province has been captured in El Ejido

Man wanted for an armed robbery in Barcelona province has been captured in a National Police operation in El Ejido which also took three members of his family into custody. The two women and another man are said to be his wife, mother and brother. They’re charged with selling cocaine and marijuana from their home and it’s understood that police found a large quantity of drugs and cash in a search of the property.The suspect in question was wanted in connection with an assault in Barcelona province, where four armed men stole the drugs being handed over in a deal in Gavá. They got away with two kilos of cocaine after a shootout in which no-one was injured.He’s reported to face three counts of attempted murder and one of illegal possession of weapons, along with a public health cri...

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Raffaele Amato was detained in a joint operation by Italian and Spanish police in Marbella

Raffaele Amato was detained in a joint operation by Italian and Spanish police in the city of Marbella on Saturday. leader of the powerful Neapolitan-based mafia, the Camorra, has been arrested in southern Spain, Italian prosecutors have said.Amato is accused of eight murders between 1991 and 1993, and of being "the principal, or one of the principal importers of cocaine into Italy". He had been living under a false name on the Costa del Sol, police said. The 44-year-old had been a fugitive from Italian justice since 2006, when a Naples court issued a warrant for his arrest for murder. Police said Amato had once been a key lieutenant of the alleged...

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Amy Fitzpatrick Mayor of Mijas should erect posters and billboards with Amy's photograph and details

Audrey Fitzpatrick said she was glad to have the opportunity to ask Ambassador Mercedes Rico in Dublin to assist in getting more action from the Spanish authorities. Amy was 15 when she disappeared in Spain on the night of January 1 last year. She left a friend's house to walk about one kilometre to her own home in Calahonda on the Costa De Sol but failed to arrive. The Dublin teenager had lived in Spain with her mother, brother and her mother's partner for some years since moving there from Ireland. A search by Spanish police, including the use of helicopters and tracker dogs, failed to find any trace of her. Audrey told the Herald she would...

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Mijas Costa 25 year old man had his throat cut on the Sitio de Calahonda development

25 year old man died in the early hours of this morning as a result of being injured in the throat with a knife in Mijas Costa according to the 061 emergency services. Emergency service personnel were called to the Sitio de Calahonda development after being called by Civil Guards around 3 a.m. where they tried in vain to resuscitate the victim.The judge ordered that the body be removed and Civil Guards are now investigating the cri...

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Estepona British couple attacked and man was stabbed twice in the back, piercing his kidney

National Police are investigating the brutal attack of a 50-year-old British tourist who was stabbed twice and hit over the head with a bottle by a gang of youths in Estepona on May 10.The attack took place when at approximately 4am the victim and a British woman were sitting by the seaside in an area which is frequented by young people who drink and socialise there at the weekends. For unknown reasons the victim was attacked by a group of North African youths who were only a few metres away. One of the youths approached the man and hit him over the head with a bottle. A second youth then stabbed him twice in the back, piercing his kidney.The gang ran off while the woman managed to help the victim to Avenida España where they found a Local Police patrol.The victim was rushed to the Costa del...

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National Police has broken up a network of 22 shops which sold manipulated and counterfeit games consoles across the country.

National Police has broken up a network of 22 shops which sold manipulated and counterfeit games consoles across the country. In the first operation of its type in Spain the police moved against the franchises which sold manipulated chips, compatible games cartridges and the counterfeit consoles in the provinces of Madrid, Sevilla, Valladolid, Málaga, Salamanca, Zamora, León, Gerona and Santiago de Compostela.Eight people have been arrested, including the man who set up the franchise system and more than 30,000 chips and other electronic material valued at 922,000 € has been impound...

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Alan McGregor Heron, 56, lives on the Costa del Sol,his Ferrari California was clocked in a radar trap travelling at 168mph in a 75mph zone

Alan McGregor Heron, 56, lives on the Costa del Sol,his Ferrari California was clocked in a radar trap travelling at 168mph in a 75mph zone on the A-92N motorway, police said adding that it was the highest speed ever recorded in the province.Policeman clocked him at 159mph .A patrol car was dispatched and intercepted the Briton as he approached the town of Baza to the north east of Granada in the Sierra Nevada shortly after."It is rare to catch anyone driving at more than 200 kmph (124mph)," said a police spokesman. "But to reach the speed of this driver is completely unheard of."It is thought the car was brand new and was being driven with temporary...

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Sarah Hunt,finally been jailed after more than four years hiding in Spain.

fraudster who siphoned off thousands of pounds in cash from two restaurants where she worked has finally been jailed after more than four years hiding in Spain.Sarah Hunt, who was also known as Sarah Hopkins, was thought to have fled to the Costa del Sol while awaiting trial for theft and false accounting charges in 2004.But she was finally tracked down to the holiday resort of Malaga after police circulated her pictures on Crimestoppers UK Most Wanted site.She was jailed for 14 months at Birmingham Crown Court this week.Hunt, aged 34, from Tamworth, stole about £20,000 in takings from two restaurants in Star City, Nechells, and also at the Touchwood shopping centre, Solihu...

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Eight Britons have been arrested for drug trafficking in Magaluf

Eight Britons have been arrested for drug trafficking in Magaluf.The Guardia Civil in Palmanova on Mallorca say that those arrested acquired adulterated drugs, and then cut them some more before reselling them on in the clubs of Magaluf.The arrests were made in the early hours of Sunday, and a home was raided where quantities of cocaine, MDMA ecstasy and hashish was recovered along with some cash.The eight will appear in court short...

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52 year old British neighbour,hurt as neighbour attempts suicide by Butane Gas

Woman who was injured in a gas explosion at her home on the N340 coast road in Almayate Bajo in the early hours of Tuesday has reportedly admitted that she purposely caused the blast in an attempt to commit suicide. She is said to have opened the valve on a butano gas bottle and then lit a cigarette.It came after an incident at her home in the early hours of Monday, where local police arrested her partner’s brother, 42 year old J.A.M.G. The woman, named by EFE as 37 year old N.E.R.P., told officers she had been sexually assaulted.Sheremains under treatment in the Carlos Haya Hospital in Málaga with superficial burns to 33 % of her body. Her 52 year old British neighbour, named by EFE as M.T.S., was also injured, but has already been discharged from hospital. His wife and two children escaped...

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Shooting in Rincón de la Victoria two arrested

The two men in custody are both Spaniards, and were picked up in the early hours of Tuesday, near the scene of the crime, EFE reports. A friend who saw what happened told the news agency that the motive was some sort of personal disagreement, and that the two accused, armed with a shotgun, had turned up at the same square on Saturday night but left when they were unable to find the person they were looking for.Two men, both aged 21, have been arrested for a shooting in Rincón de la Victoria on Monday night where the victims, a man and a woman, were shot at as they were sitting in a square near the Casa de Cultura in La Cala del Moral. The weapon...

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Benidorm a Portuguese man has been arrested for theft.

Benidorm a Portuguese man has been arrested for theft. He would break into the personal lockers of the staff in hotels in the town in search of cash and valuable items. He passed the items on to an Argentinean man who has also been detain...

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Benidorm robbery of a branch of Bancaja

National Police in Benidorm has arrested two Bulgarian men in connection with the robbery of a branch of Bancaja in the town last March 22. The two are accused of making a hole in the wall of the bank on the Sunday, and after their arrest police also impounded a stolen Audi car, and a wide range of tools and other items used in robberi...

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Charles Stabler,pensioner was attacked by a burglar at his Benalmádena home

Charles Stabler, 65,pensioner was attacked by a burglar at his Benalmádena home last month, has died of his injuries. The 65 year old had been in a coma in the Intensive Care Unit of Carlos Haya Hospital in Málaga, and is reported by Europa Press to have died last Friday, three weeks after the attack.He never woke from a coma after being hit around the head last month.The burglar, who escaped with just two mobile phones and 30 euros (£27) in cash, fled after ransacking the apartment and setting it on fire.left Mr Stabler unconscious on the floor as flames took hold around him.A neighbour called emergency services after seeing smoke coming from the flat, in the seaside resort of Benalmadena.Police have arrested a 44-year-old Spaniard and he is being held in custody.He is thought to have followed...

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International manhunt is under way to trace a Bradford man suspected of conspiracy to murder.

Raymond Daniels, 39, extradited from Marbella in Spain, where he had moved to in 2007, last December to face the drugs charges. Now he is feared to have fled abroad, although detectives also think he could be hiding in the UK. has not been seen since walking free from court in March when a judge threw out drugs conspiracy charges against him. Daniels, of Drighlington, is wanted for questioning about a conspiracy to murder Mohammed Nissar Khan – one of his co-defendants on the drugs allegations. But he disappeared after an application to dismiss charges of conspiracy to supply heroin, against Daniels, Khan and three other men and allegedly involving...

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