Category: Enforcement
ONE of Scotland’s most notorious gangland bosses will have his long-awaited extradition to Spain delayed. Steven Lyons, the 45-year-old leader of Glasgow’s brutal Lyons gang, was arrested at Bali’s I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport on 28 March. The fugitive, who was subject to an Interpol Red Notice triggered by Spain’s Guardia Civil, was detained […]
A BRITISH woman, 47, and her 19-year-old daughter have been arrested at Valencia airport after 42 kilos of cocaine was found in their two suitcases. The Guardia Civil detained the couple a week ago on April 2 at 11pm. The Brits said they spent a few days in Valencia City as ‘tourists’ to enjoy Semana […]
THREE men accused of carrying out a cold-blooded execution and another attempted murder in Marbella are facing a combined 114 years in prison as their long-delayed trial finally gets underway this month. The case relates to the fatal shooting of one man and the attempted murder of another in the Playa Alvaro residential area on […]
A STUDENT from Navarra has become the first person in Spain to die after taking nitazenes, a group of synthetic opioids so powerful that experts warn using them is like playing Russian roulette. The young man died on 2 August 2024, although the case has only now come to light. Nitazenes are considered far more […]
THE Guardia Civil has confirmed the expulsion of an officer whose links with narcos ultimately led him to be hunted down with 65,000 in Mijas. Through the use of a GPS device, the individual was tracked to Algeciras in 2019 where he received a package and then followed to the Calahonda toll and stopped by […]
DRUG smugglers have been using a sophisticated three-level tunnel system, complete with rails, wagons and pulley mechanisms, to move tonnes of hashish into Spain without ever coming face to face. The underground network, discovered by the Policia Nacional in Ceuta, functioned like a hidden production line between Spanish and Moroccan narco bosses. Bales of hashish […]
A SECOND narco tunnel has been uncovered in an industrial park in Ceuta, near the exclave’s border with Morocco. The discovery was made at the Tarajal industrial park by a huge deployment of over 250 police officers specialising in drug-trafficking and organised crime on the afternoon of March 28. Authorities are still examining the tunnel […]
ONE of Scotland’s most notorious gangland bosses is facing extradition to Spain after he was arrested arriving at Bali airport. Steven Lyons, 45, was detained at an Indonesian airport immigration checkpoint on Saturday just hours after heavily armed police swooped on his associates at properties in Mijas, Barcelona and Scotland. The mafia kingpin, who lived […]
AT LEAST 50 people have been arrested in a massive police operation against drug trafficking in pubs and clubs operating in Benidorm’s popular ‘English Zone’. A hundred Policia Nacional and Benidorm Policia Local officers took part in the sweep last Thursday. The Informacion newspaper reported that the raided establishments were owned by ‘two well-known’ business […]
TWENTY people have been arrested in a massive Guardia Civil operation that has dismantled a major international cocaine trafficking ring operating across the notorious ‘Costa del Sol triangle’. Officers stormed 22 properties across Marbella, Algeciras, San Roque, Los Barrios and La Linea in a coordinated strike against the cartel. The sweeping raids targeted the notorious […]
