Friday 27 February 2009

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

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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 behavior.

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

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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 City.

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

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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 officers also intercepted a high-speed boat loaded with gasoline that was preparing to depart from the northeastern port of Noya. It says the agency suspected it was about to rendezvous with the Dona Fortuna.

Tuesday 24 February 2009

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

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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, a longtime resident of Spain known as the ‘Prince of Marbella’ for his lifestyle in the glitzy seaside town, will be sentenced in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, along with Felipe Moreno Godoy, a Chilean, 59.Kassar was extradited after Spain received assurances from US authorities he would face neither the death penalty nor a life sentence without chance of parole.In a sentencing memo on Monday, prosecutors asked for Kassar to serve a prison sentence ‘substantially in excess’ of the 25-year minimum he faces, but ‘less than life.’‘From his palatial estate along Spain’s Costa del Sol, Al Kassar commanded an arms trafficking network of criminal associates and front bank accounts that spanned the globe,’ the memo said.In this case, the memo said, he agreed to supply 12,000 weapons to the FARC, which ‘he believed intended to use the arms to kill Americans.’Kassar’s defense lawyers, who argued during the trial he was a legitimate arms dealer, asked in separate court papers for a sentence of 25 years, the minimum he can receive.‘There were crimes of greed, not crimes of terrorism,’ said the lawyers. ‘All this for a crime-really, a DEA sting operation-in which nobody was harmed,’ they said, referring to the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
Kassar ‘will likely die in prison in a foreign country ... thousands of miles from his wife and children,’ the lawyers said.The prosecution case was based largely on evidence gathered by two undercover operatives who posed as FARC arms buyers and videotaped negotiations in Spain with Kassar and Moreno.Both were convicted on a host of charges including arms sales, conspiracy to kill US officials, conspiracy to aid a terrorist organization and money-laundering.The US embassy in Madrid said Kassar had been selling weapons since the 1970s to the Palestinian Liberation Front and clients in Nicaragua, Bosnia, Croatia, Iran, Iraq and Somalia.

Monday 23 February 2009

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

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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 that money was also claimed on insurance, when in fact they continued on the road under a new identity.Four homes were searched in Málaga province as part of the operation, and ten cars have been embargoed. The case is being organised by the Instruction Court Four in Torremolinos.There is no detail as yet on the nationalities of those detained.

Saturday 21 February 2009

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

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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 order to bring people to justice Det Insp Simon Brooksbank, Lancashire Police The force's Serious and Organised Crime Unit was granted a European arrest warrant in December 2006. It allowed officers to make inquiries through Interpol and they learnt Hunt was due to travel from Thailand to Spain on 12 February. Lancashire officers worked closely with their Spanish colleagues to ensure that Hunt was arrested as he landed, the force said.

Friday 20 February 2009

Sotogrande,two alleged drug traffickers have drowned off the coast

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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 and the second was found on Wednesday morning some 400m from the Tiburón beach.On Tuesday afternoon Guardia Civil officers patrolling the coast in Sotogrande came across a disorientated Moroccan man walking around in wet clothes. Officers suspected that the man had recently disembarked from a boat and set about searching the area. They found a seven metre long boat in the mouth of the Guadiaro river and discovered the dead body of another Moroccan citizen floating in the water some metres away. It appears that the strong tide and the eleven packets of hashish on board, which weighed some 350 kilos in total, made the boat capsize.After a more in-depth search of the coast, the Guardia Civil found the body of a second person at 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning some 400 metres from the Tiburón beach. The authorities are trying to identify the victim.

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 Costa Del Sol by a machete-wielding killer.After a long delay due to Spanish hygiene laws, it seems certain the Everton fan’s body will be back in Merseyside in the next fortnight.Church officials have now agreed to allow his long-awaited funeral to be held at the cathedral.It is rare for the stunning building to be used for public funerals and last happened for 11-year-old Rhys Jones.
It will hopefully take place in March, followed by a burial because cremation was expressly against Mr Dunne’s family’s wishes.Everton FC have also offered the use of one of their stadium suites for the funeral.Upton- based funeral director Sue Porter is waiving the majority of her costs in sympathy for the Dunne family.She said: “Gary’s parents wanted to have something special. When I phoned the cathedral a few weeks ago, they were already aware of Gary’s situation.“The family has waited such a long time. Once the funeral is over, they will be able to start grieving properly.”

Thursday 19 February 2009

17 Time sharers were arrested in Mijas Costa

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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 as phone operators, and the 17 arrested include the company administrator and several collaborators. Documents have been removed for study.

Tuesday 17 February 2009

Seven properties in Sotogrande siezed

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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 Madrid.

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

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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.
These along with the Luxembourg insurance company, Lex Life and Pension SA, have been denounced for deceitful publicity and fraud by the law firm Martínez-Echevarría, Pérez y Ferrero that is representing 28 of those affected, all foreign residents in Spain. The lawyers believe that the number of those affected is over 100.
Amongst those included in the legal action are three investment advisors operating on the Costa del Sol and dedicated to serving Britons in Spain. Britons are said to be the highest nationality group affected and include pensioners and the owners of properties of high value.It was back in 2004 that investment advisors started to sell to the British market on the Costa del Sol a financial product of an insurance company for a Luxembourg subsidiary of the Icelandic bank. It guaranteed the mortgage of the property owners. It consisted of a mortgage on the property of around half a million euros in each case and invested this money in financial products not only to pay the capital interest on the loans but also to earn additional income. The clients were lured by the offer that the loan was self-financing with zero risk and secure income. In the event none of these promises were true.

The offer was widely marketed in the English media on the coast. Those taking out the products were also assured that should the title holder die it would reduce the tax liability of the heirs. The lawyers bringing the action stress that in Spanish law such a device was not possible and hence the offer was a fraud. Indeed the scheme offered to Britons on the coast had been illegal in the UK since 1990. Under the terms of the Landsbanki equity release scheme, borrowers could take a quarter of what they raised in cash, but had to put three-quarters in an investment fund run by Landsbanki.

The Costa del Sol Action Group that fights against financial fraud and mis-selling on the coast warns on its website: “One such project that Landsbanki are involved in is the short term lending currently being advertised erroneously in Spain as “equity release” (the ads talk of reductions in Spanish succession tax and then the borrower is persuaded to enter into a renewable 5 year loan i.e. renewable at the bank’s discretion).”Thanks to the success of the marketing campaign in 2006 the bank opened an information office in Nueva Andalucía. From there all monies were channelled to Luxembourg. The lawyers again say that the capital had not been insured and even less so the auto-financing scheme and the amounts that were paid in lost value. The tragic result is that with the collapse of the Luxembourg based bank those who entered this scheme are left without any cover and are in danger of loosing their homes. Not surprisingly the bank has closed its office in Marbella and cut all communications with its clients.

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

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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 him.

Sunday 15 February 2009

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

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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 body from a quiet pedestrian bridge. A helicopter in the search for the body .He had been missing since her disappearance but was arrested by police on Friday.National Police and Guardia Civil are to restart their search for her body on Sunday in an area between Camas and the Isla de la Cartuja.Marta’s shattered family have made a call for justice, and promised to fight for it. Marta's father Antonio.Her cousin Sandra told the press that the man who has been arrested was Marta’s boyfriend a long time ago, and they went out together for about a month, but had been friends before that. Her uncle in a brief statement to the press called on the media not to refer to her killer as her ex boyfriend, as a relationship of a month is not enough to describe it as such.

Saturday 14 February 2009

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

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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 to pay some costs and what was described as for insurance on the money requested.As part of the operation police have embargoed four properties worth more than a million €, together with several top of the range cars, and blocked 400,000 € in current bank accounts.

Thursday 12 February 2009

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

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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 prison by family members. Investigations in the case continue.

Tuesday 10 February 2009

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

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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 Provincias, reports that the alleged fraud now amounts to 10 million € and the number of people affected is already more than 1,000.

La Carolina urbanisation in Marbella body found

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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 open.

Monday 9 February 2009

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

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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 cash.

Morocco biggest drug swoops netted about 100 people

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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 arrests, which began in January, as a big blow to drug trafficking in Morocco. The north African country is the world's second biggest hashish producer after Afghanistan.

Friday 6 February 2009

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

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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 to have in their car a bag with 10,000 ecstasy pills. When the men’s homes were searched for drugs, it turned out there were some 60,000 more pills there.The Poles also frequented public houses, where they established connections with other drug traffickers. Their cars, stolen in other European countries, had forged license plates.

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

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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 and Manchester.La Opinión de Málaga reports that the group controlled four houses in Urbanisation Jacaranda in Mijas, and that there are at least five members known to the authorities.The shooting at Nikki Beach last year has been linked to the gang which is under investigation by the UDYCO, organized crime and drug unit of the police. Several witnesses at the scene identified ‘Pancake the Scouser’ as the shooter there last summer.The gang is also linked to the Puerto Banús shooting last summer and to the shooting of an Irishman at the Aloha Garden bar.

Wednesday 4 February 2009

Romanian burglary gang arrested

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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 alarms and ultrasound devices to deal with guard dogs.Investigations started in the Valencia region and the alleged head of the gang was detained as he was trying to board a plane from Madrid back to Romania. He was carrying 24,000 € cash at the time.

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

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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 as he had taken account of the fact that the man had acted in a fit of jealousy after he had just discovered that his business partner had started an affair with his wife, making the discovery by reading a text message on his partner’s mobile phone.Stephens pleaded guilty of killing his partner, Jonathan Robert O’Neill. After carrying out the killing he pretended to be his now dead partner, and sent several SMS messages from his phone saying he was going on a trip. He then buried the body in cement at the urbanisation the two men had been promoting.Stephens himself was finally arrested on December 6 2005 in Naples, after earlier lying low in the U.K.

Tuesday 3 February 2009

Marta del Castillo Casanueva Another young girl goes missing in Andulusia

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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 coverage’.

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

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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 uncle, Javier Casanueva, who is acting as family spokesman, has complained to the press that neither the Prime Minister, nor the Minister for the Interior have called the family.

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

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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 out of the house.
The 12 year old vanished when heading home from the Veles e Vents Institute in Torrent on Friday. Classmates say she was in class, but has not been seen since.

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

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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 shot dead when two bandits rushed into her store just before noon on bustling Regent Street, Georgetown.Persaud was shot several times in the head and about the body while she tried to fight off the two bandits who struck while she was in the cashier’s cage and with employees around.
Ajodha Persaud, the woman’s husband, said the two fled with an undisclosed sum of money, the takings from the previous day’s sale at their Boyo’s Variety Store.Police in a press release had said the man with the gun suddenly rushed into the cashier’s cage through the doorway and demanded cash. During the robbery, the man discharged several rounds hitting Shirool about the body.When given the opportunity to speak Sampson declined.His matter was transferred to Court Two for February 13 so that a date could be fixed for the commencement of the preliminary inquiry.

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

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“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 that Friday night of June 10, 2005, had he not been drinking.But perhaps not. The gunmen who had spawned the country’s ‘crime wave’— into its fourth year at the time — sometimes seemed to kill just for the fun of it.When they weren’t targeting civilians, they were targeting the police, and when they weren’t targeting the lawmen, they were targeting each other.Maybe it was just Brentnol Figueira’s time.
Now don’t let the fancy name fool you. The Player’s Club, or Nicky’s Shop, as it was also called, was just a small, roughly-built structure with a few benches and a television set.Part shop, part beer garden, it was the only hangout spot in ‘E’ Field, Sophia, one of the most impoverished sections of the community. There’s still no electricity in the area, though the proprietor of the Player’s Club had a generator.Figueira and his wife, Dianne, a teacher by profession, lived some 300 metres away in ‘D’ Field, Sophia, in a two-storey concrete house.A regular patron of the Club, he was a jovial, free-handed individual, who seldom had to be asked twice to buy a round or two.At around 14:00 hrs on June 10, 2005, Figueira arrived home and handed his salary to his wife.He explained to her that he was going to complete some work before going for a drink with friends.Figueira returned home at around 18:00 hrs, while his wife was preparing dinner.“You want to go to the Fish Shop?” he asked Dianne.Dianne looked at her husband and immediately realized that he had taken one drink too many.No, she replied. She didn’t want to go to the Fish Shop.
“You see how you stay? I wan’ go out and I got to beg you like we still courting,” Brentnol teased.Dianne, a Seventh Day Adventist, pointed out that her ‘Sabbath’ was approaching. Besides, she said, it was dark. She suggested that Brentnol take an early rest.But Brentnol Figueira would have none of that. He told his wife that he was going “up the road”.Telling Dianne he would send a ‘runner’ (one of the youths in the community) with a mosquito coil and a Malta for her, Brentnol then left for the Player’s Club.On arrival, Figueira bought a bottle of Banko wine, settled into a corner with a few friends and became engaged in a game of dominoes.Other patrons focused on a movie that was being shown on the television set.And so none of them saw when the five men suddenly appeared.Four of them had handguns. The fifth, a short individual, brandished a shotgun.Three of the gunmen remained on guard outside while the other two, including the one with the shotgun, entered the night spot.
One of the men walked over to the section of the shop which the proprietor and his wife occupied.The short man with the shotgun took up position a few feet from Figueira.By now, some of the patrons had become aware of their presence. However, many assumed that the men were police ranks. After all, the cops conducted regular raids in the area.Figueira, though, backing the entrance, was still engrossed in his wine and his domino game.Some of the patrons were reacting too slowly for the bandits’ liking and the short bandit with the shotgun said: “Like y’all want I shoot.”He was within earshot of Brentnol Figueira, who now became aware of the men’s presence.Turning around in his seat, Figueira said loudly: “Is who deh talking ‘bout shooting?”“Shut yuh mouth,” the short bandit with the shotgun said menacingly.
Still unaware of the danger, the slightly intoxicated Figueira said jovially: “Y’all is police? Y’all want play? Is twenty dollar a love.”The short gunman edged closer to Figueira.“Game?” he said. “We …doan… play… games.”He pointed the shotgun at Figueira. He cocked his weapon.And still, it seemed, Figueira didn’t sense the danger.He said: “Jus suh you gun shoot me?”The gunman squeezed the trigger.
The blast hurled Figueira from his seat. He was dead before he hit the ground.
After her husband left for the club, Dianne Figueira decided to go over to a female neighbour who was also one of her best friends.Father’s Day was two Sundays away, but the two women were already making plans.They eventually decided to buy shirts for their husbands.At around 21:00 hrs, Dianne informed the friend that she was leaving.But just as she reached the door, both women heard a loud explosion nearby.
“That sound like a cannon,” Dianne said.“Girl, how they gun got cannon in Guyana?” the friend retorted. “That is a gunshot.”Dianne Figueira immediately hurried home. She was taking a bath when she heard someone calling outside.Finishing her bath, Mrs. Figueira hurried to her door. Two boys from the community were standing by her gate.She greeted them.
“Yu husband get shoot,” one of the boys said.
She had heard the boom of the shotgun just minutes before, yet Dianne Figueira refused to connect that gunshot to her husband.
“You mad,” she told the boys. “My husband can’t get shoot.”
“Yes,” the boys replied. “He get shot and he dead.”
Accompanied by the youths, Dianne Figueira rushed over to the Player’s Club. There, she saw her husband lying motionless on the ground.
She shook him. She tried to revive him. But, from the huge hole in his chest, she knew that he was dead.Some of the victims would later recall that after killing Figueira, the gunmen relieved the beer garden owner, Linden Headley, of $30,000 and also took his wife’s earrings.They also relieved the patrons, numbering about 20, of small sums of cash after ordering them to lie on the ground. Some claimed they were beaten.They also took coins from some children who were at the shop with their parents.The eyewitnesses said that the men also tried to cart off a generator, but eventually ditched it nearby and wended their way further into ‘E’ Field, Sophia.
Word of the killing spread quickly, and a squad of ‘black clothes’ policemen, guns at the ready, made their way in pitch darkness through the backlands to the murder scene.But by then, the gunmen had vanished.
They have never been identified.
Within a week the Player’s Club was closed. The owners packed up and left, never to return. Some other residents also left the area, though a few are now returning.

Dianne Figueira says that she still has not recovered from the trauma of her husband’s violent death.
“I am not afraid,” she told me last week. “I just feel a sadness, a great loss. It affected me (tremendously). I have to do everything on my own. My husband was always there to assist me.”
And she still wonders what fate has befallen the gunmen who killed him.

She takes some comfort in the belief that they might have been slain over the past few years, during encounters with the Joint Services’, which has apparently wiped out many of the key players in the crime wave.

“I guess that these guys might have died, the Force was working overtime (to catch the criminals).
Every bad man gets his day.”

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

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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 from the Inter-Agency Task Force, along with Snr Supt Edwards, ASP O’Garro, and Insp McIntire, set up a roadblock near Ravine Sable Junction, Longdenville and the car was intercepted a short while later.
Upon seeing the police the men reportedly opened fire on the officers, and the officers returned fire. When the smoke cleared the two men were found slumped in the driver’s, and front passenger’s seats of the vehicle. Both were taken to the Chaguanas Health Facility where they were pronounced dead. Officers reportedly discovered a firearm in the car, as well as an undisclosed sum of cash.

Urunga Bowling Club bandits

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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 165 and 175 centimetres tall.The third suspect is described as about 160 centimetres tall, of solid build and with dark tanned skin.

Three bandits escaped with cash, jewellery and a cell phone

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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 bandits were escaping, their vehicle struck down motor cyclist Rabindra Lall, of Campbell Street, Campbellville. He was treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.

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 and has a sharp chin and glasses.Police said another can be identified by his cloak, a navy blue winter coat with deep red lining clearly visible around the collar.Rocky Mountain House is about 220 kilometres southwest of Edmonton, Leduc is just south of Edmonton, and Drumheller is about 140 kilometres northeast of Calgary.

Several people were robbed at gunpoint during two incidents this weekend

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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 victims' money at gunpoint before fleeing. One victim was assaulted in the process, but the wound was not life-threatening. Alexander did not have further information on the injury, as reports on the case were not finished.That crime happened a few blocks away and a little more than two hours after an attempted carjacking involving a shotgun.

Several people were robbed at gunpoint during two incidents this weekend

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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 victims' money at gunpoint before fleeing. One victim was assaulted in the process, but the wound was not life-threatening. Alexander did not have further information on the injury, as reports on the case were not finished.That crime happened a few blocks away and a little more than two hours after an attempted carjacking involving a shotgun.

The Bird Rock Bandits

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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 for a good fudge packing if you know what I mean. “Prosecutors unsuccessfully argued that the group’s behavior constituted a gang and had added gang allegations to the original charges. But Judge John S. Einhorn ruled that the alliance did not fit the definition of a gang under state law.” So John S. Einhorn, what exactly constitutes a gang? Are the Bird Rock Bandits not a “gang” because they’re name sounds more like a gay porno? Or is it because the Bird Rock Bandits don’t identify with a specific gang color making them neutral? I’ll just take a guess as to why they’re not considered a gang in your eyes. It’s probably because they don’t belong to a lower socio-economic bracket in our society considering after all, they do come from La Jolla. What would the rest of the world think if La Jolla was mentioned in the same breath as Watts or Boyle Heights? Honestly, I don’t think the rest of the world really cares. But you should call the Bird Rock Bandits for what they are. A group of low achievers who may be prone to violent or erratic behavior who through the organization, formation, and establishment of an assemblage share a common identity.

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

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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 unit. "It happens infrequently." Except recently, when three female robbers struck banks five times over four months in Suffolk, and one in Nassau. And in each case they have been the main or sole operative in the crime, bucking the usual M.O., of females working as accomplices. Such a trend - although it's over a short period of time - mirrors what experts say is occurring nationally."You are more likely now to have a Bonnie without a Clyde," said Rosemary J. Erickson, a South Dakota forensic sociologist and security consultant who has interviewed hundreds of bank robbers.Nationally, bank robberies by women have risen slightly from year to year since 2002, though they still now account for only about 6 percent of all bank robberies, according to FBI statistics. Female bank robbers are unusual enough that they often earn their own monikers, from the glamorous "Starlet Bandit" who robbed a bank in California last year; the "Barbie Bandits" in Atlanta, two giggling 19-year-olds who robbed a bank in 2007; and the "Cell Phone Bandit," who struck four banks in Virginia in 2005, all while talking on her cell phone.Robert McCrie, a professor of security management at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, said it was unusual to have several female robbers in a relatively short period. "I'd call them uncommon as sole operatives," said McCrie.

He said he wouldn't be surprised if the number of female bank robbers rises, as it's a "fairly safe kind of crime to commit in terms of personal risk."

"It's now a situation where it's becoming an equal opportunity crime. There's no barrier to women being bank robbers. It's not something where you require more muscle mass."

Suffolk police say that despite the recent spike, they haven't seen a long-term increase in female bank robberies or attempts. Nassau police also report few female bank robberies or attempts - but in all but one case in recent years women acted alone, said Det. Sgt. John Giambrone, commander of the Nassau police Robbery Squad. Only once did a woman produce a weapon. None of the Suffolk suspects used a gun.

Tod Burke, a professor of criminal justice at Radford University in Virginia, said female robbers rarely produce a weapon. "Females are really big into notes," he said. "They'll flip the note to a teller."

Giambrone said few of the female bank robbers in Nassau have been driven by drug addictions, a common reason cited by male bank robbers.

Suffolk police say crack cocaine was behind one woman's robbery of one bank and attempted robbery of another.

Jessica D. McNeil, 21, of Medford, was charged with the Sept. 23 robbery of the Bank of Smithtown branch in Centereach.

McNeil, who is out on bail, answered the door cheerfully in a bright pink robe Thursday at her grandmother's house in Medford. "It was basically just the drugs," the woman said when asked about the robberies, as a young child looked through the door. "I have to go feed my daughter," she added, before her grandmother yelled at her to come inside.

McNeil and a male accomplice were also charged with the attempted robbery of the Roslyn Savings Bank in Centereach on Sept. 25.

In the Sept. 23 case, McNeil placed a small piece of paper on a teller station, according to a witness statement.

"I have a gun," the note said. "I will shoot you. Give me all your money. Put in bag."

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

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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 on January 15.Cacho said responding policemen recovered the getaway vehicle of the kidnappers in barangay Tagbak, Indanan town.The kidnappers have not yet established communication with Que’s family. Que is the second Chinese businessman to be seized in Sulu in less than two months.The first was Xili Wu, alias Peter Go, who was kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf bandits last December 13 in downtown Jolo.Go, 28, is one of the five owners of Perlas Trading, which is engaged in the export of seafood.With Que’s kidnapping, the total number of people kidnapped in Sulu, Basilan and Zamboanga since the start of the year has increased to 11.The other victims are a businessman and three teachers from Zamboanga City; a midwife; and a nine-year-old child from Basilan, aside from the three ICRC staff members and two Chinese businessmen in Sulu.In Zamboanga City Mayor Celso Lobregat said he has allowed emissaries to negotiate for the release of the three public-school teachers.Lobregat said the emissaries voluntarily offered their services in working for the release of the teachers, who are assigned on the island-barangays of Zamboanga City.Lobregat stressed that any negotiation would not involve the payment of ransom.The kidnappers are asking a P6-million ransom for the three teachers.

Six britons arrested for Costa del Sol timeshare scam

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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 statement from the main police station in Málaga.The case started after a complaint from a British person about a company based in Alhaurín el Grande.The company used several different names and closed down, only to reopen in Fuengirola.The six arrested will appear in court shortly.

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(1) Mexico via Madrid and Alicante (1) Michael Eddleston (1) Michigan (1) Mickey Green (1) Mijas Town Hall’s social services (1) Mijas pueblo (1) Mijas. (1) Military court in Rabat (1) Missing (1) Mohammed V Airport Casablanca (1) Mojacar (1) Molinos Marfagones (1) Montesinos (1) Monzer Al Kassar (1) Moraira (1) Morroco (1) Morón de la Frontera (1) Moto Club 12+1 (1) Motril (1) Mpumalanga province's Hazyview area (1) Murcia. (1) Murder of Alejandro Ponsoda (1) Murtala Mohammed International Airport (1) MyBank in Los Lunas (1) Málaga Provincial Court (1) Málaga airport (1) Málaga and Valencia (1) Málaga bus station (1) Málaga woman has accepted a one year sentence for assaulting her son’s teacher (1) Málaga's El Palo district (1) Nador (1) Nairobi’s Bahati Estate (1) Narcogangs on the Costa del Sol have been hit hard in recent weeks with some 3.3 tons of the drugs being seized by Guardia Civil (1) Nassau County (1) Nathan Lamar Stewart (1) National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Matters (1) National Court judge has indicted three former SS guards at Nazi concentration camps for genocide and crimes against humanity (1) National Police have smashed a drugs gang which smuggled regular consignments of cannabis onto the Algeciras ferry (1) Nautexco Marine (1) Nechells (1) New Kingston (1) Nigeria (1) Nikki Beach (1) Nikki Beach bar in Las Chapas (1) Nikki Beach discotec (1) Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (1) Northumbria Police (1) Novelda (1) Nueva Andalucía (1) Nuneaton (1) Níjar (1) Officer shot by bank robbers (1) Ojos (1) Ojén reservoir Marbella (1) Oklahoma Department of Corrections. (1) Olathe (1) Olga Pleguezuelos Puzueu stabbed several times (1) Onix Office Management in Palma (1) Orange County (1) Orihuela and Torrevieja (1) Orijuela and San Pedro del Pinatar in Murcia (1) Oxford (1) Paedo on the run in Huelva (1) Pakistani (1) Palma (1) Palma Majorca. (1) Pamplona (1) Pechina (1) Pedro Tirado has now been imprisoned for accepting bribes (1) Pego (1) Peru (1) Piers Morgan heads to Marbella to investigate a tale of two cities (1) Piracy (1) Playa Marina urbanisation in Orihuela Costa (1) Playa de Las Américas (1) Playasol urbanisation in Mazarrón (1) Plaza y Janés (1) Pleasant Hill home (1) Plez-U (1) Police in Málaga have shot dead a 54 year old (1) Police may soon seize domains without court order (1) Portugal and Italy (1) Praia da Luz (1) Prince of Marbella (1) Prostitutes in Sevilla are set to jump to the top of the council housing lists under new legislation from the City Hall (1) Provincial Court of Malaga (1) Pub La Estrella Cómpeta (1) Puerto Banús shooting (1) Puerto de Alcúdia (1) Puerto del Rosario (1) Punta Umbría (1) Rabat (1) Randy Willis Grocery in Vale (1) Record $1 million (£680 (1) Reina Sofia airport (1) Rinconada Real urbanisation (1) River Júcar (1) Riviera Coast Invest (1) Riviera Del Sol in Spain's Costa Del Sol (1) Riviera del Sol urbanisation (1) Robbers smash cash register so clerk can't open it (1) Robert Steven Starling was charged with four felony counts of robbery (1) Rocky Mountain House is about 220 kilometres southwest of Edmonton (1) Rojales (1) Romulus Police Department (1) Ronald Priestley (1) Ronda (1) Rosas (1) Rosmarino restaurant (1) Rójales (1) Sabinillas (1) Salamanca (1) Salobreña (1) San Ginés (1) San Luis industrial estate (1) San Miguel de Salinas (1) San Pedro (1) San Pedro Alcántara (1) San Roque (1) San Vicente del Raspeig (1) Sant Cugat del Valles (1) Sant Joan Despi (1) Sant Jordi Alfama residential estate (1) Santa María de Nieva (1) Santander (1) Santander's Optimal has commercialised more than $3 billion dollars of Madoff funds (1) Santander’s Optimal Investment Services unit (1) Santiago (1) Santiago Mainar (1) Sellent and Favara (1) Serranía de Ronda (1) Seven youths (1) Sevilla and Madrid of 9 members of a drugs network which smuggled cocaine into the country from South America (1) Sevilla village of Pruna (1) Seville airport (1) Sierra Nevada (1) Sierra de Bèrnia (1) Silves (1) Simpson's Las Vegas sentencing a "good day for us. ... It's been a long time coming." (1) Sioux Falls (1) Sitges (1) Six people have been arrested in Valencia for kidnapping a businessman who was held captive in a countryside cabin (1) Sogecable (1) Solihull. (1) Sotogrande’s Rivera del Emperador zone. (1) Space nightclub (1) Spain and Morocco (1) Spain is considered by many mafiosi as the best place to hide (1) Spain's largest bank Santander (1) Spain’s largest ever hauls of heroin: 50 kilos of the drug (1) Spanish (1) Spanish National Police (1) Spanish lawyer has disappeared along with an estimated €5 million of client’s money (1) Spanish men captive in a house on an urbanisation in La Cala del Moral (1) Spanish state prosecutor changed his charge from murder to manslaughter (1) St George bank machines (1) Star City (1) Stephen Henry Pitman (1) Stephen John Burnell (1) THREE bodies were found in less than 24 hours in Cullera (1) TSA hit by new theft allegations after two agents are arrested for stealing $40k from a passenger at JFK | (1) TWO people were arrested by Local Police after they used an umbrella to rob a perfume shop in the centre of Malaga (1) Tambovskaya-Malshevskaya Russian mafia (1) Tambovskaya-Malyshevkaya (1) Tampa (1) Tarifa (1) Tarifa port (1) Tarragona (1) Teenager Amy Fitzpatrick (1) Tenerife. (1) Terrell (1) The Bird Rock Bandits (1) Three arrested on bookies raid (1) Three people were killed in a shooting outside El Dueso prison in Santoña (1) Time Share (1) Tolox (1) Tonight programme (1) Torre del Mar (1) Torreforta (1) Torremelinos (1) Torremolinos and Fuengirola (1) Torrequebrada casino (1) Torrevieja and Dénia (1) Torrevieja marina. (1) Torrevieja port (1) Torrevieja shotgun fired in the street (1) Tortosa (1) Torture (1) Tres Estrellas campsite in Gavà (1) Turkish (1) Two Chinese prostitutes have been arrested for dumping a client’s body in a doorway (1) Two gang members who are thought to have fled to Spain after raiding HSBC (1) Two men 'with Liverpool accents' in Marbella bar attack (1) Tyneside (1) UGANDA’S police (1) UK charity Crimestoppers has launched a new appeal for British fugitives believed to be on the run on in Spain (1) US State Department (1) Urbanisation Laguna III in the area of Punta Prima (1) Urrugne (1) Urunga Bowling Club bandits (1) Valencia and Torrent (1) Valencia and on the Balearic Islands (1) Vecindario (1) Vejer (1) Victoria Pinilla (1) Vila Joiosa (1) Washington Mutual branch (1) West Coast Bank branch (1) West Palm Beach (1) Wheaton branch of BBT (1) Wythenshawe's Newall Green Crew gang (1) Zurgena (1) a 42-year-old mother of two (1) a Somalia citizen (1) addictions-international (1) aggravated assault (1) all aged between 20 and 45 (1) allegedly killed a drug dealer (1) and Andreas Gregoriou (1) and Anthony Griffths (1) and Drumheller is about 140 kilometres northeast of Calgary. (1) and also at the Touchwood shopping centre (1) and the Madoff funds (1) arrested Cody Bertelsen when he surrendered Friday and wrapped up an intense investigation into what police say was a notorious gang of organized thieves (1) arrested a 40-year-old man from Arriate (1) arrested a 54-year-old man from Velez Blanco charged with a crime against public health after dismantling a drugs sale point (1) arrested four people believed to have perpetrated a robbery on December 13 at an Orange mobile phone shop near the train station in the centre of Malaga (1) attempting to kill the victims with a chainsaw in Estepona Port (1) banker Stephen Gerard Versalko (1) blaze started near the balneario in an area which is popular with day trippers on bank holidays. (1) body of another homeless person has been found in Málaga (1) both in their 50’s have been arrested at the El Altet airport (1) central ‘Avenida’ bar in Avenida País Valenciano. (1) child pornography (1) clothing and passes for an airline lounge “on a scale that (1) counted a total of 38 (1) counterfeit Osborne black bull (1) counterfeit games consoles (1) death of a 42 year old Russian woman whose stabbed body was found in her home in Almería. (1) died instantly in Málaga on Wednesday after a woman threw herself from an eighth floor window (1) direct flights from Dubai to Durban could be proving a boon to drug smugglers (1) disappeared from prison in 2000 while serving a 15-year sentence for conspiracy to import cocaine and heroin (1) eight Spaniards (1) family must hand over a cheque for £10 (1) flamenco dancer Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya (1) for a crime against public health when he was found to be in possession of 10 grams of cocaine (1) from Finglas in Dublin (1) gang members are in custody after the initial 3 arrests after the Málaga robbery (1) green light has been given to the Spanish Government’s project to close down any web page which is found to be infringing copyright law. (1) had been shot (1) had been stabbed several times in the head. (1) has been arrested in Spain on suspicion of smuggling £5million of heroin into the UK. (1) has been found in a Fuengirola car park. (1) has been missing presumed dead in Spain for over three years. (1) has never been seen before (1) have been arrested in Santa Pola (1) head of security for a beachfront bar (1) her brother Tassos Krasopoulis (1) homeless man who was attacked with an axe in Fuengirola in the early hours of Monday regained consciousness on Tuesday (1) in Nueva Andalucía (1) indicted Ahmed Muhammed Dhakane (1) international arrest warrant issued by a judge in Madrid (1) international drug ring (1) internet lottery scam (1) is a free man after completing his three year prison sentence for a fatal hit and run in 2003 (1) is accused of being the head of a drug smuggling gang that conspired to bring hundreds of kilos of heroin into Britain. (1) is accused of causing grievous bodily harm with intent and maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm. (1) is accused of seven offences of of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs. (1) is accused of three counts of illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances (1) is charged with armed robbery (1) is wanted (1) is wanted for the rape of a seven-year-old girl. (1) is wanted in connection with the rape of a child (1) island of Cabrera (1) it is believed (1) jewels and diamonds (1) kidnapping of a businessman (1) known as ‘Farruquito’ (1) known as ‘Pepe el del Popular’ (1) named with the initials I.R.G. (1) near Ronda (1) near Valencia (1) northeastern Catalonia (1) of Birkenhead (1) of Chislehurst (1) of Doncaster (1) of Hereford (1) of Minneapolis (1) of North Shields (1) of Scunthorpe (1) on two counts of false statements under penalty of perjury (1) originally from Algeria (1) police have still not been able to find her body. (1) preventive custody in Spain (1) residency permit in Spain (1) resident of Elche (1) sacking of Juan Antonio Roca from his post as Municipal Real Estate Assessor at Marbella Town Hall was justified (1) sailing from Alexandria (Egypt) to Gijón (1) sentenced to six years and six months in prison for the attempted manslaughter of a colleague who he said harassed him. (1) sentences of between two and nine years for three men charged with planning to kill a National Police officer (1) serious and persistent breaches of Gibraltar’s financial services legislation. (1) six men and two women (1) so they steal entire thing (1) some of them mere children (1) south Tulsa (1) southeast London (1) southern Andalucia (1) street gang terrorism and possession of a firearm (1) the Dutch-Argentine pilot convicted for throwing political prisoners out of an aircraft into the sea (1) the Mayor of the town of Fago (1) the forestry worker accused and found guilty of killing Miguel Grima (1) the investment fund Fairfield Greenwich Group (1) the owners of the Spanish Digital Plus satellite system (1) u.k. sex offender (1) unregistered buildings (1) voodoo prostitutes (1) was linked to drug trafficking (1) was shot dead in his office on Monday. (1) wearing blue overalls and armed with a gun stole 150 euros from a shop (1) went missing nearly two years ago from the very same area (1) were held by police over the weekend after a riot broke out in the Camino de los Almendrales district of Malaga City (1) which involved four people (1) who sparked a diplomatic incident when they were chased into Gibraltar (1) with 132 taking place through November. (1) with an axe buried in his head (1) woman studying pharmacy at Granada University who was found brutally stabbed to death in her flat (1) woman was murdered on Thursday night by her partner at their home in Palma de Mallorca. (1) £2m villa — named El Lechero (1) Águilas (1) Álora (1) ‘J.C’s’ bar in Calle Saltillo Torremolinos (1) ‘Operation Búho’ (1) ‘jamonero de Trevélez’ (1)

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