Crime/Incidents news & information for Spain

Crime/Incidents 17/03/2005
Notorious British drug trafficker arrested in Marbella

National Police officers attached to the Costa del Sol Organised Crime Unit arrested 58 year old Brian Brendon Wright in Marbella yesterday. Wright is believed to have been the boss of a criminal network and one of the...

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Crime/Incidents 20/07/2005
British man found dead in Málaga well

The body of a British man was found at the bottom of a well in the village of Alora (Málaga) at around 4pm yesterday afternoon by a man out for a stroll near the Pedro La Torre stream in an area known locally as Pollo...

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Crime/Incidents 19/09/2005
Calpe police investigate mystery body found on beach

A local man found the body of a man at 6am this morning on Capri beach in the town of Calpe. The victim's identity has not been confirmed, but he is described as a European man, thought to be aged around 35 years...

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Crime/Incidents 21/01/2006
Nearly half Alicante jail inmates are immigrants

Alicante's Fontcalent prison has more than the national average of foreign internees according to a recent report. Of the 960 prisoners inside Fontcalent, 46.6% are foreigners of some fifty nationalities, whilst the...

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Crime/Incidents 27/01/2006
Three killed in helicopter crash near Lorca

Three people, whose identities have not been confirmed, died at around 1pm this afternoon when the helicopter they were travelling in crashed in a mountainous, wooded area near the town of Lorca in Murcia.

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Body of missing jogger found at reservoir
Crime/Incidents 03/03/2006
Body of missing jogger found at reservoir

The young woman who was found dead at Cubillas reservoir near Granada has been identified by her parents as 27 year old Beatriz CR, who went missing when she went out for a jog on Wednesday night along the calle...

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Illegal ‘brat camp’ kept children in animal sheds
Crime/Incidents 05/04/2006
Illegal ‘brat camp’ kept children in animal sheds

Police in Girona have arrested three people on charges of abusing children in an illegal juvenile ‘brat camp’ for teenagers from Switzerland.There are reports that the children were kept shut up in cages made for...

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