Category: Enforcement
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 […]
A NOTORIOUS Mexican cartel that slipped crystal meth into Europe by concealing it in marble statues delivered to Spain has been smashed by police following a series of dramatic raids. Agents from the Policia Nacional, working alongside the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), have dismantled what is described as the continent’s ‘main supply point’ for […]
A BRITISH man who survived a brazen mafia-style assassination attempt on the Costa Blanca has been named. Sonny Redmond, 32, remains in intensive care in Torreveija Hospital after he was gunned down in an underground car park in a residential area of Orihuela Costa called Lomas de Cabo Roig. Redmond was sat in his car […]
A BULLET-RIDDEN body of a British man was discovered in an Orihuela Costa property before Christmas. Details have only just been made public over the shooting of a 29-year-old Brit on the Lomas de Cabo Roig urbanisation. The Orihuela Policia Local went to the home at around 9pm on December 21. READ MORE: GUARDIA CIVIL […]
THE falling price of cocaine is driving drug traffickers in Spain to reuse ‘narco-submarines’ they would otherwise destroy, in what authorities described as a major operational change. The semi-submersible vessels, used to smuggle cocaine into Europe and each costing around €600,000 to build, would normally be scuttled in the waters between the Azores and Canary […]
INDOOR marijuana farms leeching electricity off Malaga’s power grid are stealing enough energy to keep 2,500 homes lit for an entire year, authorities have warned. According to a report by energy distributor Endesa, around a quarter of all electricity stolen in Malaga province between January and November was used to run illegal cannabis plantations, powering […]
FIVE people have been arrested in the Canary Islands for their involvement in a cult that ripped off members with charges for animal sacrifice rituals and the supply of illegal drugs. The Policia Nacional said the gang used Santeria rituals to exert psychological control over followers. Santeria is an Afro-Caribbean religion that combines West African […]
