Category: Enforcement
A 28-YEAR-OLD British man has vanished in the southern Costa Blanca after a series of gang-related incidents involving expats. The missing fugitive with a UK extradition warrant issued against him has not been named but comes from Merseyside and is an associate of Bootle gangster, Sonny Redmond. Redmond was in his car at an Orihuela […]
THIS is the moment an Andalucian mayor pleaded for government help as brazen ‘nacro-boats’ were caught on camera idling off Spanish shores in broad daylight – just metres from where he stood. Shocking video depicts two speedboats floating undisturbed off the coast of Pulpi, in northern Almeria province, as the town’s mayor Juan Pedro Garcia […]
A DRUG mule who flew from Amsterdam to Valencia swallowed over 1.1 kilos of heroin in a failed bid to evade authorities. The 37-year-old man was arrested for drug trafficking at Valencia airport on January 12. The Policia Nacional discovered the mule was onboard an inbound flight after receiving information that he could be a […]
TWO Guardia Civil officers were injured after their car was rammed by an Irish driver during a 15 kilometre chase in the Murcia region. The man was keen not to be stopped as he had garbage bags filled with drugs in his car boot. The pursuit happened on Saturday night in the Lorca area when […]
DRUG busts in Spain have become so commonplace that it seems like there is one a day – and this isn’t just rhetoric. Criminal gangs from all over the world collaborate – and sometimes fight – to smuggle and distribute an unknowable number of tonnes of cocaine and hash into Europe via Spain’s shores and […]
A SHOCKING shootout in Mijas at the weekend has laid bare a terrifying new reality on the Costa del Sol – one where drug gangs looking for quick profit are turning residential streets into battlegrounds. The violent clash on Saturday afternoon, which saw a high-speed chase end in gunfire and an overturned vehicle, is just […]
RUSTING against the dock in Santa Cruz de Tenerife sits the United S, a vessel that looks like it belongs in the scrapyard. Instead, it finds itself at the centre of a multi-million-euro criminal investigation. The aging cargo ship has been the subject of intense police scrutiny since elite Spanish police officers stormed its deck […]
ELITE officers from the Policia Nacional have seized the largest high-seas cocaine haul in the force’s history after storming a merchant ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Agents from the GEO special operations unit boarded the vessel 535 kilometres off the coast of the Canary Islands to discover nearly 10 tonnes of the drug hidden beneath […]
A MAN has died and several others are feared missing after human smugglers forced migrants to swim to Andalucian shores at gunpoint on Sunday. Shocking video by Diario de Almeria shows two migrant-packed speedboats bearing down on an old pier off Aguamarga, in Almeria province, before dozens of terrified people are ordered into the sea […]
POLICE raids have shut down narco flats in a popular expat town during the latest drug crackdown on the Costa del Sol. The Policia Nacional arrested two individuals for drug trafficking after entering three properties in Fuengirola that were being used to sell drugs. Officers entered the three addresses, in the Los Nucleos neighbourhood, at […]
