Home » Posts tagged with » crime (Page 2)
bibiana aido \ crime \ death \ domestic violence \ domestic violence spain \ l \ offence \ women
Spain posts drop in domestic violence victims in 2009
Spain saw a sharp reduction in the number of women killed by their partner or ex-partner in 2009, the government said Tuesday, in a sign that measures taken to fight domestic violence are working.
The figure fell by more than…
bank \ bankinter branch torrevieja \ bankinter torreveija \ bankinter torrevieja spain \ crime \ guardia civil \ l \ robbery \ spanish bank robbery \ the guardia civil \ torrevieja \ www.bankinter torrevieja
Bank robbery of Torrevieja Bankinter
The Bankinter branch located in the Plaza de Waldo Calero, by the concrete fountains, was robbed during the weekend. Members of the Guardia Civil and Local Police of Torrevieja are investigating the details of this theft that was believed to…
cocaine \ colombia \ colombia lotto blanca \ crime \ drugs \ l \ paint \ smugglers
Colombia seizes 750 kg of cocaine bound for Europe
Drug enforcement agents in Colombia´s Pacific port Buenaventura seized some 750 kg of cocaine in separate shipments bound for Belgium and Spain, officials said.
The cocaine was hidden in coffee and polypropylene shipments, the head of the National Polic´s drug…
arrest \ crime \ drugs \ harry lenton cocaine \ l \ police \ scotland yard and destiny empress \ ship \ smugglers \ spanish national police \ stephen pitman arrested
Boat with £375m of cocaine seized
A ship carrying cocaine worth £375m – mostly thought to be destined for London – has been seized off the coast of Spain.
The former coastguard boat, named Destiny Empress, was captured some 200 miles off the northern coast as…
andalusia \ court \ crime \ l \ married \ motril \ prison
Married couple given jail sentence for getting back together
A Spanish couple has been sentenced to prison for breaching a distancing order and reuniting after hitting a troubled patch in their marriage.
A court found the husband and wife guilty of breaching the order, which forbade them from coming…
alicante \ arrest \ crime \ crimeestoppers \ criminal \ help \ l \ police \ search \ spanish law \ web
Most wanted caught with his pants down
UK crime-fighting charity, Crimestoppers, can confirm that one of Britain´s most wanted men, Adam Hart, was arrested in Amsterdam by Dutch police on 3rd December 2009.
Hart, a kickboxer, who previously resided in Essex, was wanted by the Serious Organised…
bilbao \ crime \ criminal \ fraud \ l \ start
Man seduced women and tricked them out of their savings
He is alleged to have charmed at least half a dozen women with his cut-glass English accent, convincing them that he was from a well-known titled family and the heir to a vast fortune.
After starting affairs with the women,…
alicante \ british \ costa blanca \ crime \ Dhar \ drugs \ l \ police \ Sahnan \ Shashi \ spanish law
BRITISH DETECTIVES SEARCH FOR MAN IN ALICANTE
Multilingual posters and flyers are to be distributed across Alicante in the hope of tracing a man wanted by British Detectives in connection with a multi million pound heroin smuggling operation.
Shashi Dhar Sahnan (51), who is subject to a…
crime \ gps \ l \ robbery \ theft \ www.spanishvida.com
Warning – GPS can grass you up!
Police officers arrested a couple on Wednesday, after they had allegedly stolen food from a supermarket.
Staff at the store alerted police who gave pursuit and stopped the vehicle they were travelling in.
Upon investigation, officers found goods, mostly cheese,…
credit card \ crime \ fraud \ germany \ l \ Money \ scam \ spanish police
Compromised credit cards under investigation in Spain
A major credit card scam may have emerged in Spain.
It has been suggested that visitors to Spain, using Visa or Mastercard, may have had their card data compromised.
In Germany, as many as 100,000 cards have reportedly been recalled…
arrests \ conspiracy to import cocaine. \ crime \ drugs \ l \ prison \ smugglers
Trio smuggled £3m worth of cocaine
TWO members of an international drug smuggling ring have been jailed for more than 18 years after police found cocaine worth millions of pounds in a car boot.
Matthew King, 42, from Laverstoke Lane, Whit- church, Hampshire, and Harry Lenton,…
arrest \ benidorm \ crime \ l \ rape \ spanish police \ woman \ www.spanishvida.com
British tourist raped repeatedly in Benidorm
The young woman, from Birmingham, met a man on a night out in the seaside resort and returned to his home in the countryside ten miles away, police said.
“The victim was attacked in a country house in Villajoyosa, where…
"simon vernege" \ alicante \ benidorm \ crime \ death \ gang \ knife crime \ l \ murder \ sas \ spanish knife law \ www.spanishvida.com
Prosecutor asks for 31 years prison for each of the 4 Brits charged with murder in Benidorm
The prosecutor has requested 31 years in prison for each of the four British suspects, charged with the brutal murder of a man Benidorm.
The crime occurred in August 1996 and, according to the classification of the prosecutor, the four…
conviction \ crime \ fraud \ guardia civil \ l \ police \ pontevedra \ the guardia civil \ www.spanishvida.com
Traffic cop sacked for stealing credit card from dead crash victim
The Guardia Civil has sacked a traffic officer from Pontevedra, accused of using a credit card of a dead man in a road accident after going to the scene which occurred in 2002. The decision to sack the officer occurred…
crime \ death \ domestic voilence \ guardia civil \ l \ mallorca \ man \ murder \ the guardia civil \ wife \ www.spanishvida.com
A man kills his wife in front of their two daughters in Mallorca
The middle-aged woman was found dead in her home shortly before 05:00 in the Mallorcan town of Santanyi, showing signs of violence, and apparently murdered by her husband, in what could constitute a new case of gender violence, as confirmed…
arrest \ brit \ crime \ crime stoppers \ l \ malaga \ www.spanishvida.com
Most wanted man held in Spain
One of Britains most wanted men has been arrested in Spain.
Ronald Priestley, 69, was detained in Malaga on Wednesday afternoon in connection with £4.25m of currency counterfeiting offences.
Leeds-born Priestley is the 25th person to be arrested under Operation…
"jeffrey robert thompson" \ crime \ drunk. waiter \ l \ mallorca \ rape \ spanish law \ www.spanishvida.com
Drunk waiter jailed for rape of 17-year-old
A WAITER from Durham has been jailed in Majorca for raping a 17-year-old girl on a drunken night out with friends.
Jeffrey Robert Thompson, 55, who worked on the Spanish island, will be locked up for four years after admitting…
crime \ criminal \ dame denise holt \ denise holt \ doncaster \ l \ mallorca \ palma de mallorca \ spanish national police \ spanish police \ spanish police force \ spanish police forces \ www.spanishvida.com
One of the most wanted British criminals in Spain hands himself in
27 year old Michael Eddleston (Doncaster, UK) was arrested by the Spanish National Police after handing himself in at the British Consulate General in Palma de Mallorca this afternoon. Eddleston is accused of three counts of illicit trafficking in narcotic…