35 year old man from Ecuador has been found with 800 grams of cocaine in his luggage

35 year old man from Ecuador has been found with 800 grams of cocaine in his luggage at El Altet airport in Alicante.Customs officials stopped the man who had hidden the drugs inside large wooden pestles. They say they stopped him because of his nervous behavi...

Albanian burglar gang has been broken up by the Guardia Civil on the Costa del Sol

Albanian burglar gang has been broken up by the Guardia Civil on the Costa del Sol, who arrested the eleven Balkan citizens, eight men and three women on Tuesday.A judge in instruction court four in Torremolinos yesterday ordered the eight men be held in prison on remand, while the three women were released although they still face charges of money laundering.The group were arrested in a series of operations in Benalmádena, Fuengirola and Málaga Ci...

Spanish Customs says its officers have seized a Venezuelan-flagged fishing boat the Dona Fortuna carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine

Spanish Customs says its officers have seized a Venezuelan-flagged fishing boat carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine worth about $316 million. Five Venezuelan crewmembers are under arrest.The agency says the 52-foot boat Dona Fortuna had been under aerial observation for three days and was seized as it approached the southwestern Canary Islands.Officers boarded the vessel early Thursday when it was 900 miles, northwest of Las Palmas.A Customs statement says...

Prince of Marbella,Monzer Al Kassar convicted of conspiring to sell weapons worth $1 million

US prosecutors asked a judge on Monday to sentence a Syrian arms dealer convicted of conspiring to sell weapons worth $1 million to Colombian rebels to decades in prison.Monzer Al Kassar, 63, described by prosecutors as one of the world’s most prolific arms dealers, was convicted in November of agreeing to sell weapons to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, to protect a cocaine-trafficking business and attack US interests.Kassar,...

Discotheque and bars doormen on the Costa del Sol sold stolen luxury cars to clubbers

Networks of stolen luxury vehicles has been broken up by the authorities in Málaga. EFE news agency reports that there are 15 people arrested and five more indicted in the case so far.It seems that the gang were supported by a group of discotheque and bars doormen on the Costa del Sol, who offered clubbers the vehicles.The gang removed chassis numbers and faked documents to go with the vehicles and the total amount of assets now embargoed by the police has been estimated at 26 million €.Some of the vehicles were allegedly set on fire or lost so...

Nigel Hunt,arrested at Madrid airport after he flew in from Thailand.

Nigel Hunt, from the Rawtenstall area of Lancashire, was jailed for five and a half years in 2004 for conspiracy to supply controlled class A drugs. But he absconded from Kirkham Prison in August 2006, prompting a manhunt which ended in his arrest at Madrid airport after he flew in from Thailand. Lancashire Police said he was currently awaiting extradition to the UK. There is no hiding place and we will work with our colleagues across the globe in...

Sotogrande,two alleged drug traffickers have drowned off the coast

Two alleged drug traffickers have drowned off the coast of Sotogrande, and another person was found suffering from severe hypothermia as the Guardia Civil broke up a drug running operation off the luxury urbanisation on Tuesday.It’s thought the three were trying to bring some 350 kilos of hashish onto the Spanish coast. The survivor was first spotted walking along the coast in wet clothes, and a further search revealed the 7 meter semi-rigid boat containing the drug in 11 bales. The first body, carrying Moroccan documents, was a few metres away...

Plans are underway to arrange the final farewell to Gary Dunne, 22, of West Derby, who was murdered on the Costa Del Sol by a machete-wielding killer

Gary’s dad Stephen is set to travel to Spain to sign the power of attorney document allowing the body’s long-awaited release.He will go to Malaga hospital where his son’s body is being kept and wait as the remains are placed in a zinc coffin.The family must hand over a cheque for £10,000 to the Spanish authorities to complete the repatriation.Plans are underway to arrange the final farewell to Gary Dunne, 22, of West Derby, who was murdered on the...

17 Time sharers were arrested in Mijas Costa

17 people were arrested in Mijas Costa on Wednesday in connection with the fraudulent resale of time share properties.The authorities say the compliant placed by two British people has stopped the fraud taking on massive proportions.The two Britons told the National Police that a company based in Mijas Costa had phoned them and offered them the possibility of advertising and selling their time share rights, for which they only had to pay some management costs.A search of the company office in an urbanisation in Mijas revealed several people working...

Seven properties in Sotogrande siezed

Seven properties in Sotogrande belonging to people or companies forming part of the investigation in to corruption being carried out by Spanish High Court judge Baltasar Garzón have been impounded. Francisco Correa, the suspected mastermind in the scam which has engulfed the Partido Popular, was arrested last Friday at his Sotogrande home and transferred by police to Madr...

Lex Life over hundred Marbella residents, the majority of them Britons, could lose their homes after an alleged 40 million euros Icelandic bank fraud.

Over hundred Marbella residents, the majority of them Britons, could lose their homes after an alleged 40 million euros Icelandic bank fraud.The case is being investigated by San Roque court although the majority of victims are in Marbella. It centres on the Icelandic bank Landsbanki that was recently nationalised in the world financial crisis and its Luxembourg subsidiary Landsbanki Luxembourg SA which is in liquidation and has suspended payments....

German has been detained in Vejer by the organised crime and drugs squad of the National Police

German has been detained in Vejer by the organised crime and drugs squad of the National Police on an international arrest warrant in the town of Memmingen. It is stated that he has evaded justice in his home country since 2002 when he was convicted in selling hashish and for threatening police with a knife when they attempted to apprehend h...

Ex boyfriend of Marta del Castillo, the 17 year old girl who has been missing for 21 days from her home in Sevilla, confessed to her killing

Ex boyfriend of Marta del Castillo, the 17 year old girl who has been missing for 21 days from her home in Sevilla, on Saturday confessed to her killing.20 year old Miguel C.D. told police that he had thrown her body into the Guadalquivir River. He had got into an argument with her and hit her with an ashtray until she was dead. He then called a friend of his, named with initials S.B.P. who has now also been arrested, who helped him to throw her...

National Police have broken up a network which defrauded four million € from 70 businessmen in Spain, Portugal and Holland.

National Police have broken up a network which defrauded four million € from 70 businessmen in Spain, Portugal and Holland. They caught out their victims by saying that they were businessmen representing Italian investors and offered loans for a share in the profits. Six arrests have been made, four of them in Marbella, one in Ibiza and another in Alicante, according to a police statement. The fraudsters set up a group of companies, based in Marbella, but with links to Alicante, Ibiza and Barcelona. Before the victims signed the contract they had...

13 people have been arrested by the Guardia Civil in Valencia after a violent theft

13 people have been arrested by the Guardia Civil in Valencia after a violent theft of drugs which they later sold on.A statement from the Civil Guard says that in some of the thefts the accused dressed up as Guardia Civil. The operation started on Feb 7 with the arrest of two women and four men, one of whom is implicated in an attempted murder in Benetússer, Valencia. Three kilos of marihuana has been recovered in the operation and one of the arrests was made inside the Albocàsser jail. It seems part of the stolen drugs were introduced into the...

Two notaries and a bank manager have been arrested and are indicted to appear before the courts in Paterna.

A financial fraud from two fraudsters could see some 600 families being left without their homes in the Valencia region. Two of the men acted as money sharks and offered loans, but only taking property as security, and charged far more money than what was officially signed at the notary.The police say they have already stopped one of the people affected by the fraud from taking his own life by jumping in front of a train because of the case. The names used by the financiers were Hipoval and Renew House, both registered in Valencia. Newspaper, Las...

La Carolina urbanisation in Marbella body found

body has been found in a home in the La Carolina urbanisation in Marbella. The victim is a 68 year old Iraqui man who had been stabbed to death and who becomes the second violent death in less than a month in the area, following the express kidnapping and death of local businessman Fernando Moreno.Sources at the Government Sub Delegation offices in Málaga told the EFE news agency that the body in La Carolina was found at 11am today, and that the National Police has opened an investigation with all options op...

Two cocaine laboratories have been broken up by the police in Alicante and Murcia.

Two cocaine laboratories have been broken up by the police in Alicante and Murcia. Seven people have been arrested as part of the operation in Alicante, Elda, Sax, Orihuela, Beniel and Cabezo de Torres. More than three kilos of cocaine were recovered with 2 kilos of a substance to cut the drug and 47,000 € in ca...

Morocco biggest drug swoops netted about 100 people

Two Moroccan courts Monday began hearing suspects after one of the country's biggest drug swoops netted about 100 people, a source close to the investigation said. A military court in Rabat started questioning some 70 members of the army and police force, while 30 civilians began appearing before a Casablanca court. The detainees were suspected of drug trafficking, corruption and failing to report criminal offences. The network smuggled drugs from the northern city of Nador to Spain and other European countries, the source said. He described the...

Polish drug dealers, who headed a gang, were detained within the so-called ‘Scorpio action,’ when police rooted out the main amphetamine distribution

Two Poles detained in Malaga, southern Spain, in 2007, on charges of drug trafficking and crimes committed against social welfare will face over 23 years in prison. The Poles were sentenced in Spanish courts today.The convicts will also have to pay penalties - the first of them amounting to 750,000 euro and the second 150,000 euro.The Polish drug dealers, who headed a gang, were detained within the so-called ‘Scorpio action,’ when police rooted out the main amphetamine distribution plant on Costa del Sol, southern Spain in 2007. The men were found...

Pancake the scouser leads violent Liverpudlian gang which has been carrying out extortion of local businessmen on the Costa del Sol

Violent British gang based in Mijas. The gang are called Pancake after their Liverpudlian leader, according to La Opinión de Málaga today. A violent British gang which has been carrying out extortion of local businessmen on the Costa del Sol has been linked to several shooting incidents.The group is known as ‘Pancake’, because it is allegedly led by the known British criminal referred to as ‘Pancake the scouser’, and is involved in drug trafficking and carrying out assassinations in Málaga province. Most of the members are originally from Liverpool...

Romanian burglary gang arrested

Spanish National Police have broken up what they describe as a military group of 25 people who dedicated their time to robbing from shops and homes across the country.The arrests of the group, all Romanians, were made in Madrid, Valencia and on the Balearic Islands.Police say they had a network of spies who would first identify possible targets to be burgled, while another part of the group would set up a security cordon round the site when the theft was taking place. Police say they acted across the country and had frequency inhibitors to block...

Gary Richard Stephens, has been sentenced to nine years in prison by the Provincial Court in Murcia, found guilty by a jury of beating his business p

Gary Richard Stephens was found guilty of killing Jonathan Robert O'Neill by hitting him around the head with a hammer, after discovering he was having an affair with his wife.A British man, Gary Richard Stephens, has been sentenced to nine years in prison by the Provincial Court in Murcia, found guilty by a jury of beating his business partner to death with a hammer.It happened in November 2005 in the Playasol urbanisation in Mazarrón, which the two men were promoting.The magistrate, Álvaro Castaño gave his sentence, saying it was lower than normal...

Marta del Castillo Casanueva Another young girl goes missing in Andulusia

Still no sign of the 17 year old girl who has gone missing from Sevilla.National Police have opened an investigation into the whereabouts of Marta del Castillo Casanueva, who was last heard from when she left home last Saturday afternoon to visit friends.Her uncle Javier told the press she left home about 5pm and one of her friends said the dropped her off at the door to her home at 9,30pm. However she never made it inside.Her mobile phone is ‘switched off or out of coverag...

Eva Casanueva, the mother of the 17 year old Marta del Castillo, who vanished from Sevilla nine days ago, has spent most of that time in bed

Eva Casanueva, the mother of the 17 year old Marta del Castillo, who vanished from Sevilla nine days ago, has spent most of that time in bed just waiting for news. On Monday she made the effort to attend to the questions of the media. There are no firm clues to go on, although rumours that the boy who said he dropped Marta off at her home on the Saturday night is under suspicion. An expert dog has indicated that the clues may be in the Triana part of the city, where Marta spent Saturday afternoon with friends before she disappeared.Meanwhile her...

Search is underway for two girls aged 14 and 12 who have gone missing from their homes in Valencia and Torrent.

Search is underway for two girls aged 14 and 12 who have gone missing from their homes in Valencia and Torrent. It’s not thought that the two know each other, but both went missing after failing to return from school. The 14 year old is missing since last Monday and the 12 year old who is Brazilian, has been missing since Friday.The mother of the 14 year old said she thinks her daughter has gone off with an Ecuadorian, who is now believed to be a member of the Latin King Junior gang. She denies claims that she kicked her daughter and her boyfriend...

Taxi driver was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge of murdering a storeowner in 2006

Taxi driver was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge of murdering a storeowner in 2006 when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.28-year-old Sherwin Sampson of 2091 Williamstaad Road, North Ruimveldt was not required to plead to the indictable offence when it was read to him.It was alleged that on September 26, 2006 at Georgetown, Sampson murdered store owner Shirool Persaud. She was...

Player’s Club, or Nicky’s Shop.The gunman squeezed the trigger.

“You want to play?” Figueira asked the gunman who was standing near the table with the stack of dominoes.“Play?” the man with the shotgun replied. “We…doan…play…games.”Then he squeezed the trigger…Brentnol Figueira was probably the last person in the Player’s Club to notice the gunmen, even though the short one with the shotgun was standing just behind him.Figueira didn’t notice because he was backing the entrance, and because he was absorbed in a domino game, and because he was slightly intoxicated.Perhaps things might have turned out differently...

Two Bandits, one of whom was wanted by police, were shot, and killed during an early morning chase

Two men, one of whom was wanted by police, were shot, and killed during an early morning chase on Saturday. Dead are Ian Francis, and Damien Roberts. Francis who was wanted by police in connection with several robberies, lived at Bhagna Trace, Chase Village, Couva, while Roberts lived at Todds Road, Caparo. According to police, officers received a telephone call shortly after 2am, informing them of a robbery at the Open House Restaurant and Bar on Factory Road, Chaguanas. An All Points Bulletin was sent out for a blue Mazda 323. Police officers...

Urunga Bowling Club bandits

Three men wanted over the armed robbery of the Urunga Bowling Club remain at large.Police say the trio were armed with implements when they entered the club about midnight AEDT on Friday and demanded money from staff.They fled in a stolen car, which was later intercepted by highway patrol officers at Eungai and pursued through the lower Macleay.Police say when the car left the road and crashed into a shallow creek near Crescent Head, the men fled into bushland.Two of the alleged armed robbers are described as being of Aboriginal appearance, between...

Three bandits escaped with cash, jewellery and a cell phone

Three bandits escaped with cash, jewellery and a cell phone on Saturday night, after invading the Kamboat Restaurant on Sheriff Street. They later injured a motor cyclist while fleeing in a car.A police release said that cashier Sabrina Gobin and waitress Claudia Chase, along with two males and a female patron, were in the restaurant at around 21:20 hrs when three armed men entered and held them at gunpointThe robbers relieved the victims of US$1,000, GY$177,000., a cell phone and a quantity of jewellery before escaping in a waiting car.As the...

Three well-dressed, greying bandits have been hitting small businesses in central Alberta.

Three well-dressed, greying bandits have been hitting small businesses in central Alberta.RCMP in Rocky Mountain House, Alta., say they believe a liquor store and a supply store were targeted by the team in November and that the group has also been active in Leduc and Drumheller.RCMP said all three are well-dressed and in their late 40s to mid-50s.In each case, one will act as the lookout, one will distract the clerk and the third, a tall, thin man with short, grey hair who is always wearing a hat, will go for the cash register.One bandit is balding...

Several people were robbed at gunpoint during two incidents this weekend

Several people were robbed at gunpoint during two incidents this weekend, and Lodi police believe the same suspects may be responsible for both crimes.The incidents were possibly gang-related, police said, but they had not identified suspects by Monday. Two people had minor injuries.At 1:50 a.m. Sunday, police were sent to Maple Street, said Lodi Police Sgt. Bill Alexander.There police learned that several people had been playing cards in a backyard when four or five males entered the yard, one brandishing a sawed-off shotgun.The suspects took...

Several people were robbed at gunpoint during two incidents this weekend

Several people were robbed at gunpoint during two incidents this weekend, and Lodi police believe the same suspects may be responsible for both crimes.The incidents were possibly gang-related, police said, but they had not identified suspects by Monday. Two people had minor injuries.At 1:50 a.m. Sunday, police were sent to Maple Street, said Lodi Police Sgt. Bill Alexander.There police learned that several people had been playing cards in a backyard when four or five males entered the yard, one brandishing a sawed-off shotgun.The suspects took...

The Bird Rock Bandits

Seth Cravens of La Jolla, California was convicted for the death of professional surfer, Emery Kauanui on November 18th, 2008. Cravens, 23, was a member of a La Jolly Gang who called themselves “The Bird Rock Bandits” and was today sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. It looks like Cravens will have to continue his Bird Rock Bandit chapter in prison. But I’m not too sure if they will take him very seriously in there. He might be taken seriously...

FEMALE Bandit struck twice in a month, swathed in a hat and scarf, a blue and white umbrella in hand.

Bandit struck twice in a month, swathed in a hat and scarf, a blue and white umbrella in hand. Both times, the culprit produced notes demanding cash and fled on foot with the loot.Police said the first hit was at Washington Mutual Bank in Port Jefferson in December. The second, at a Chase branch in Mount Sinai on Jan. 7.Textbook bank robberies, except for one fact: The robber is a she."Females account for maybe one or two cases a year, on the average," said Suffolk County Det. Sgt. Robert Doyle, commanding officer of the major case investigations...

Abu Sayyaf bandits seized a Chinese businessman in Sulu late Monday afternoon.

Still-unidentified armed men believed to be Abu Sayyaf bandits seized a Chinese businessman in Sulu late Monday afternoon.1Lt. Steffani Cacho, information officer of the Armed Forces’ Western Mindanao Command, said the incident took place at about 5:30 p.m. in barangay Kakuyagan, Jolo, the capital town of Sulu.Cacho identified the victim as Diongin Que, the owner of Lengs Restaurant.She said Que was abducted by five gunmen.Abu Sayyaf bandits are also holding three staffs members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who were seized...

Six britons arrested for Costa del Sol timeshare scam

Six britons arrested for Costa del Sol timeshare scam The six, a manager and five telesales operators have not been named. National Police from Málaga have arrested six British people in Fuengirola for defrauding other Britons in the fraudulent resale of timeshare property in the province of Málaga.The manager and five telesales operators offered timeshares on the Costa del Sol for one or several weeks across many years, for large amounts of money. It seems the same timeshare rights were resold to different buyers several times, according to a...