Category: Enforcement
AUTHORITIES on the Costa del Sol have called for government assistance after defiant drug traffickers anchored their speedboats off a popular tourist hotspot during a violent sea storm on Sunday. Shocking images show a group of nine ‘narco-boats’ brazenly floating off the coast of Agua Amarga, a renowned beauty spot in the municipality of Nijar, […]
MORE than 2,5 tonnes of cocaine have been seized as multiple raids across Costa del Sol brought down the Spanish cell of one of Europe’s largest drug cartels, authorities said. Police described the operation as a “historic blow against drug trafficking” after busts in Malaga, Sevilla, and Cadiz resulted in 30 arrests – crippling the […]
THE Guardia Civil have smashed a gang that used helicopters to smuggle hashish into Spain from Morocco. The helicopters, which could carry between 500 and 900 kilograms of drugs, flew across the Mediterranean to southern Spain, where the hashish was then transported by road to other parts of Europe. Six people were arrested in the […]
A BRITISH man, 32, is recovering in Torrevieja Hospital after being struck by three bullets while in his car on the Orihuela Costa. The vehicle was reportedly hit by up to 15 bullets in an underground car park on Calle Cabo de Gata in Lomas de Cabo Roig. The Guardia Civil are searching for the assailant […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
