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Eugenio Cabezas
Police are investigating an alleged sexual assault on an 11-year-old girl on Halloween in the Capistrano area of Nerja. According to police, the girl said her attacker was a tall, blond youth who was wearing a cap and scarf around his face and was
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Charo márquez
A 25-year-old French man got a shock last week when he went to the police car pound in Marbella to reclaim his hire car. It had been towed away for being badly parked. Police checked his ID and then proceeded to detain him after realising there
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Eugenio Cabezas
Two men from Granada province were caught stealing avocados from a farm in El Morche on Monday night. Police seized 150 kilos of the Hass variety of the fruit from the suspects who are believed to be part of a bigger group. Officers said that ... season got under way last month. Police have increased their patrol of rural areas and are carrying out controls on vehicles that could be carrying stolen produce.
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C. MÁRQUEZ.
The public prosecution is calling for six years and nine months behind bars for two Local Police officers in Marbella. They are accused of warning a drug trafficking gang (made up of 12 individuals specialising in the distribution of drugs on the ... Costa del Sol) of "the presence of officers and vehicles belonging to law enforcement". According to the petition, this "invalidates" their status as a police officer.
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Tony Bryant
Torremolinos council has opened a new Local Police headquarters in the town centre to increase security in the area and to bring the services offered by the force closer to the public. The new station, which will see greater police presence in ... the town centre, especially in the recently pedestrianised area and the surrounding plazas, was officially opened last week by Antonio Ruiz, councillor for Citizen Security, who was accompanied by several representatives of the Local Police. "This ... new services will complement the work that police patrols regularly carry out in the area, which, as he pointed out, "has been increased in recent years". The new premises is situated in Plaza Goya and will be open from Monday to Sunday from 7.15am to
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Eugenio Cabezas
Police are continuing their search for three of five north African migrants who arrived at Torrox's Peñoncilla beach in a small boat at around midday on Tuesday. Two of the men were caught and detained. A number of beach-goers witnessed the ... incident and recorded it on their mobile phones before sending it to contacts via Whatsapp. The videos show a National Police helicopter following the boat to the shore, before the men jumped out and made their way along the beach.
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SUR.
A 33-year-old Romanian man has been held for allegedly faking a disability to gain attention, then trying to force passersby to take money out of a cashpoint. Police started searching for the accused at the start of September after reports that a
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CHARO MÁRQUEZ
Guardia Civil officers raided a house in Mirador de Costalita, Cancelada, on Thursday morning. Inside they found the whole ground floor turned over for use as a drug warehouse, laboratory and space to grow marijuana. Two Spanish nationals were arr
National
DOMÉNICO CHIAPPE
...his satisfaction at being chosen for the conference, there was some disquiet from police who will be responsible for the security of the estimated 25,000 delegates and support teams. "We found out via the press," a police source said. "At the moment
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F. TORRES / J. CANO
...signs of violence and police are investigating.