Sport
EFE
There was a new development this week in the so-called 'operation Oikos' into corruption and match fixing in Spanish football. According to the police, a recording from a microphone in the car of former footballer Carlos Aranda picked up
Local
ÁLVARO FRÍAS
Seven people (six men and one woman), aged from 30 to 52, have been arrested in connection with a string of burglaries across the Costa del Sol. This is the result of an investigation, known as 'Operación Fair', which began in March after several b
Local
E. C.
Three people were arrested during a police operation in Torre del Mar on Wednesday. The arrests follow a spate of burglaries across the Axarquía in which the accused are said to have entered houses through open windows and doors. The arrests ... took place in the slum houses on the N-340 at the western end of the town near Mercadona. Officers from across the Axarquía were involved in the operation. According to police sources, they also seized high-end watches and drugs ready for
Gibraltar
D.B.
Following a tip-off from the Guardia Civil, the RGP arrested three Spanish men after a high speed chase at sea in the early hours of Monday morning. They are charged with dangerous navigation, importing prohibited items and obstructing police.
Gibraltar
D.B.
The Royal Gibraltar Police force will be boosted by an additional 50 officers of different ranks over the next three years, to a total of 291, and the government has also commissioned a work stream which will enable 24 officers who are currently
National
FERNANDO TORRES
...it used funds to support "a lavish lifestyle". Police in Zaragoza, northern Spain, where the charity had a base, have raided its offices and five people were also arrested. Following the police raids, companies, local authorities and schools who ... helped with fundraising have been coming forward to report their involvement in the network of organisations supporting the charity and that they may have been victims of the supposed illegal activity. Police say that formal complaints have started to ... be received but that for the moment it is impossible to know the full extent of Linceci's operation. "The charitable association widely promoted over its website and magazines the sale of fundraising products and events," said the National Police
Local
FRANCISCO JIMÉNEZ
Local Police in Malaga will increase their presence at the city's airport in an attempt to crack down on pirate taxis. This comes in response to complaints from taxi drivers who on Sunday night stopped service for more than half an hour to appeal ... for greater action from the city town hall. Now, four police officers have been deployed to Malaga-Costa del Sol Airport. Two will be in plain clothes to try and catch the perpetrators in the act with the other two in uniform and controlling the ... traffic and monitoring which vehicles are entering the airport premises. In the past two years, 170 pirate taxis have been reported by the Local Police. Most of them have been detected at the airport, but some also at the bus station close to the city
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ÁLVARO FRÍAS / JUAN CANO
...help of National and Local Police. In the second success, on 31 May, five people believed to be involved in the financing of drugs gangs were held in nine raids in Malaga and Ceuta. Three raids were in Malaga city; in a solicitors in the centre, a
Local
FERNANDO TORRES
Four Local Police officers in Alhaurín el Grande took part in a call out late last month that went from being routine to a complete test of their psychological and negotiation skills. ·For confidential support: Samaritans in Spain, 24 hours 900 ... 525 100 A British national was threatening to jump from the balcony of a second-floor apartment and the coaxing of the police for an hour and a half led to a happy ending to the drama; the man was taken, safe and sound, to hospital. The incident ... began when residents noticed their neighbour's unusual behaviour on the balcony and called police. A two-officer patrol arrived and tried to calm the man down, but with everything they tried the tension grew worse with the man, shouting in English,
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fernando torres
...apparently occurred after the two men, who didn't know each other, got into an argument. At one point the victim went to the toilet and the other man followed him, according to the National Police, attacking him several times with two broken bottles. The ... been sent to prison, without bail, under suspicion of murder, attempted to leave the bar after the attack but was held back by security staff until National Police officers arrived and arrested him. According to police, initial investigations have