Local
SUR.
A 49-year-old man has been arrested in Malaga having been spotted behaving suspiciously by police. He was seen picking up a package from another man and when stopped and questioned said the package, wrapped in paper and with a bow, was a present for
Local
E. P
Police officers have detained 29 people at the Tuesday market in Fuengirola for contravening industrial property rights, and have confiscated about 10,000 fake items, mostly clothing and leather goods bearing designer names or logos. This was a ... joint operation organised by the Malaga provincial police headquarters and the judicial police. The authorities became aware that several stallholders at the market were selling fake designer products, which results in a major financial loss for the ... companies in question as well as contravening their industrial property rights, so on 4 September the police went to identify those selling these goods. They inspected 16 stalls and searched seven vehicles which were owned by the stallholders and parked
Local
J. CANO / H. BARBOTTA
Extraordinary details of Monday's fatal shootout in an aparthotel outside Estepona between police from Marbella and a wanted 39-year-old British man have emerged. The heavily-built suspect opened the door without looking, and surprised to see on ... his doorstep the three police officers who had been looking for him since midday, took the worst way out he could. "Go, go, go!" Sean Hercules accompanied what police at least believe were those words with a hand gesture that they understood as an ... According to first investigations, Hercules had got ahead of the two officers in the apartment's hallway -one officer waited by the door-, and run into the bedroom at the end. Police caught sight of two pistols and spare bullets magazines on the white
Local
J. C. / Á. F.
A group of illegal street vendors last week grouped together to turn on police who had confiscated the handbags, wallets and belts that they were trying to sell on Rodeíto beach between Puerto Banús and Estepona. The three police officers were ... outnumbered and the men were able to snatch back a large part of the contraband, injuring the officers in the process. According to police sources, exchanges such as these happen with certain frequency but in Marbella alone this summer, 39 street hawkers
Local
J. CANO / H. BARBOTTA
Police are keeping an open mind as to who is behind the explosive device that was found on Tuesday afternoon in Marbella and what, or who, the intended target was. Officers in charge of the investigation are trying to establish if it is linked to ... police initially thought it was part of a terrorist plot, officers are now looking at connections to organised criminal gangs, or the possibility that it was a planned attack related to a specific business activity in the resort.
LifeStyle
CECILIA CUERDO
...thanks to cooperation between the police in several countries. It is now on its way back to Germany to finally be repaired. The National Police in Jaén explained this week that they are working with Europol to clarify whether the bell had been lost or ... and at the end of August the workshop received a package which they believed would contain the repaired bell. "It was a cardboard box with nothing in it except some boards to give it weight," they say. The police have managed to ascertain that the
Local
Eugenio Cabezas
Chief of Torrox Local Police, José Manuel Ruiz Ortega, has reported a 75 per cent reduction in beach-goers reserving the best spots near to the shoreline this year, compared with 2015, when the local bylaw was implemented and in 2016 and 2017. The ... early in the morning or at lunch time, in some cases they have come across just one person looking after several parasols and other items. "When asked they claim that they are using all the items," commented the Local Police chief. Despite this tactic,
Local
Tony Bryant
Torremolinos hosted the 16th edition of the Concurso de Mascotas on Wednesday. More than 20 dogs, from Chihuahuas to poodles and German shepherds took part in the competition staged in the Plaza La Nogalera. Organised by the Local Police and
Gibraltar
DEBBIE BARTLETT
Drivers and pedestrians trying to cross the border into Gibraltar on Wednesday morning found themselves caught up in a protest called by Spanish National Police and Guardia Civil officers who are demanding equal salaries to those earned by the ... regional police, and for help in dealing with drug and people traffickers. According to a leaflet, this was to have been an 'informative gathering' to raise awareness of the problems, none of which have anything to do with Gibraltar. However, trouble ... Picardo, said "This demonstration was organised by an association of police officers and was totally unrelated to Gibraltar. It had no place being organised in the vicinity of the frontier. Whilst I always defend an individual's right to peaceful protest,
Local
SUR
Police are blaming the surge in violent drug crime on the Costa del Sol so far this year on increased rivalry between gangs and theft between them. Besides news of two shock murders in the last week, which police suspect were linked to organised ... drug smuggling, National Police have broken up a group that were posing as Guardia Civil officers in the Campo de Gibraltar area in order to enter homes and warehouses of the drug barons themselves and make off with drugs stashed there. The men, all ... are still under investigation. All have been linked to drugs. Gangs are allegedly fighting between themselves more as it is harder to land drugs now from Africa due to police activity.