A BRITISH fugitive sentenced to life imprisonment for drug trafficking and weapons offences has been arrested in Benidorm. The Policia Nacional executed an international arrest warrant on behalf of UK authorities. Information was received via Interpol that the 35-year-old man was hiding out on the Costa Blanca. READ MORE: POLICIA NACIONAL STATION, BENIDORM Investigations confirmed […]
NARCOS are operating from Costa del Sol tourist towns with police confiscating ten tonnes of petrol in La Duquesa and Estepona. The Guardia Civil confiscated the goods which were intended to supply high speed boats with fuel as they journeyed from the coast. Unfolding in Casares, Estepona and Manilva, the operation had the objective of […]
A TOWN councillor was arrested in Malaga amid investigations into a prostitution ring that laundered millions with the help of local white-collar professionals, authorities have said. Right-wing Partido Popular’s Miguel Vazquez, who was serving as councillor for industry, development and European funds in the town of Coin, west of Malaga, resigned from his post after […]
ENCOD deeply regret the passing of Pr. Baldomero Cáceres Santa María We, as ENCOD, as well as the Regional Board of Directors I Lima and Callao of the College of Psychologists of Peru, deeply regret the passing of Pr. Baldomero Cáceres Santa María (1932–2025), a distinguished psychologist recognized for his outstanding academic career, his research […]
TWO members of a British gang that terrorised cannabis clubs on the Costa Blanca have been arrested by the Guardia Civil. One of them is career criminal 32-year-old Sonny Redmond from Bootle, Merseyside who appeared on a ‘most wanted list’ issued by Merseyside police in 2021. He failed six years ago to attend court to […]
THE GUARDIA CIVIL has closed down a private cannabis club in Almoradi because it sold drugs. Registered cannabis clubs are permitted to allow the smoking of marijuana on premises, but sales of narcotics are strictly prohibited. Two Spaniards, aged 23 and 26, who ran the Almoradi club have been arrested at their homes in Daya […]
THREE British people are being investigated over an illegal marijuana smokehouse and drug sales point on the southern Costa Blanca. Orihuela Policia Local raided an address last Wednesday on the Orihuela Costa’s La Campana urbanisation. The property was being used as an unregistered cannabis club. It sold drugs which even registered associations are prohibited from […]
THREE people who ran an illegal cannabis club in Denia have been arrested for selling drugs at their city centre headquarters. It’s the latest in a whole series of Policia Nacional raids on clubs around Denia in the last year. Cannabis associations are legal in Spain so long as they have a registered list of […]
A British president of a Denia-based cannabis club has been arrested for drug trafficking. It’s the latest move by the Policia Nacional against local cannabis groups after the president of another club and three associates were arrested in March for selling drugs out of Denia houses. Cannabis clubs in Spain operate under the legal loophole […]
FOUR people behind a Denia cannabis club have been arrested for selling drugs out of city centre homes in the northern Costa Blanca port. The 28-year-old president, plus the secretary, treasurer and a club member were detained by the Policia Nacional. Neighbourhood groups reported a constant stream of visitors to an apartment block and passed […]