Crime/Incidents news & information for Costa Blanca

THE actor who played the cigar-chewing Sergeant Apone in the 1986 cult film Aliens has been found dead in his villa in the Orihuela Costa area (southern Alicante province).

A TELEVISION documentary on the BBC is planned covering the death of Scottish newlywed Kirsty Maxwell in a fall from a 9th-floor Benidorm hotel.

POLICE in Jávea (Alicante province) have launched a probe after a video of two young women dancing on top of a moving car went viral on Facebook.

A BRITISH paedophile has been arrested in the coastal town of Calpe (Alicante province) after going on the run to avoid a 25-year jail sentence.

A WOMAN has been arrested in connection with 12 muggings involving 'hugging' her victims in the street, each of them hundreds of kilometres apart.

A BRITISH mother whose three-year-old son went missing on a southern Costa Blanca seafront went out drinking and then to bed before reporting his disappearance 14 hours later.

AN ITALIAN mafia boss who has been on the run for nearly 25 years has been caught in Alicante, according to National Police.

A MECHANICAL fault left 13 terrified kids stuck on the top of a fairground ride last night (Friday) in Benidorm.

A MOTHER on the run from Swiss authorities who stabbed her infant son in the toilets at Torrevieja hospital has been jailed for 11 years.

FURTHER forensic tests have ruled out that the killer of the CAM bank chairman's widow was her son-in-law.

A SPANISH father has been arrested on the southern Costa Blanca for leaving his five-year-old daughter home alone when he went for a night out at a karaoke.

AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD British girl who went missing in El Albir (Alicante province) has been found safe and sound in the restaurant next door to the one she was last seen at.