Category: Enforcement
SPAIN has recorded its largest-ever seizure of marijuana originating from Canada after authorities intercepted a major drugs shipment at the Port of Valencia earlier this month. Officers confiscated a staggering 3,289 kilos of marijuana, along with a further six kilos of suspected Canadian hashish. The haul is estimated to be worth more than €6 million […]
THE OPERATION started off at 4am on Friday, with officers carrying out simultaneous raids in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, West Lothian, Barcelona and Malaga. The cross-border crackdown was led by Police Scotland working alongside Spain’s Guardia Civil, with support from Eurojust. Specialist detectives from the Organised Crime and Counter Terrorism unit moved in after more than two […]
A NARCO boat crash on Cadiz’s cocaine coast has left one person dead and another injured. The incident saw the two vessels collide approximately 40 miles from Chipiona, a Cadiz town with over 18,000 inhabitants. The petrol boats hitting one another triggered an explosion which occurred at 9.30 on Wednesday at a point 36.33 miles […]
A BRITISH suspect is behind bars over the execution of a Czech man linked to the Costa Blanca murder of John George. The 40-year-old expat from Torre Pacheco in Murcia was detained last week at the region’s Corvera Airport, as he was set to leave Spain. He has been remanded in custody as part of […]
ONE of Latin America’s most-wanted drug kingpins lives freely on Spain’s Costa Dorada after Spanish authorities released him from custody. William Joffre Alcivar Bautista, known under the aliases Black Willy, Commander Willy, or The Emperor, is the leader of Los Tiguerones, one of Ecuador’s most violent gangs. Bautista fled to Spain in 2022, with the help […]
SPANISH police have turned to AI to imagine the many faces of one of Europe’s most wanted drug traffickers as the hunt for the fugitive heats up. Unveiled on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday morning, the images depict drug lord Sergio Jesus Mora Carrasco in a series of striking disguises – sporting long and short […]
THE government has revealed that 106 Spanish police officers have been arrested for drug-related offences since 2021. Among them is Luis Fernandez Rafael, the former chief of the National Police’s Narcotics Unit in Valladolid. He was arrested in December 2025 after an internal police investigation discovered that he was saving cocaine from drug-busts he coordinated […]
FOREIGN nationals account for 51 per cent of daily arrests in Spain, according to new police data. Internal police figures obtained by The Objective show that on Wednesday, March 18, 506 Spaniards were arrested compared with 527 foreign nationals. Madrid recorded the highest number of arrests. Of the 250 arrests made in the capital, 160 […]
A REWARD for information linked to the fate of a British father and son duo who mysteriously vanished on the Costa del Sol seven years ago has been increased. The charity Crimestoppers has upped its reward from £20,000 to £30,000 for any new details that lead to a conviction in the case of Daniel and […]
THE identity of a former Premier League footballer arrested in a daring drugs raid on the Costa del Sol has been revealed. Neil Clement, 47, was handcuffed by undercover police officers earlier this month on suspicion of committing an offence against public health after cops detected suspicious movements in and out of his shop in […]
