The National Police are investigating the death of a child of about two years of age who died after falling from the fourth floor of a house in the city of Alicante. The tragic…
Category: Provincial News
Fire crews across the Alicante province have been utilised to capacity recently, partly due to a number of forest fires, and partly due to an increase in the number of house fires. The latest,…
A major fire broke out in an industrial unit in Santa Pola on Tuesday. Fire crews from across the area attended the incident which totally destroyed one of the buildings. Many people shared images and…
This is the list of beaches across the Alicante province which obtained a Blue Flag for quality for the 2017/2018 period, in the inspections carried out last year. Dénia Les Bovetes Les Marines Molins…
Officers from Alicante Local Police have arrested two people for allegedly kidnapping a bank manager. The arrest was made in a bank branch in San Mateo, after the son of the victim reported that…
The prosecutor has asked the courts in Alicante to sentence a couple to eight months in prison, after they were caught having entered a closed and locked supermarket grounds in order to recover out…
A court has acquitted a physical education teacher at a school in Finestrat (Alicante) who was accused of molesting five girls aged between 6 and 10 years old. The tenth section of the Audiencia…
Officers from the Guardia Civil in Calpe (Alicante) have arrested two people accused of defrauding up to 9,000 euro for elderly victims. Officers were conducting a routine patrol when they observed a young man…
Some 200 people were evacuated from a bingo hall in the centre of Alicante on Thursday after a fire broke out.
The city was celebrating a local holiday and so the venue was busier than normal, but luckily nobody was injured in the blaze attended by the…
An eight-strong Romanian gang that robbed tourist cars at service areas on the AP-7 has been rounded up by the Guardia Civil. The crooks, who operated at areas on the motorway between Alicante in the south and Castellón in the north, have been charged with theft, violence, and possession of fake documents. The Guardia realised
Los agentes de la Policía Nacional tuvieron que partir miles de piezas con mazas buscando la droga que ocultaban
Los arrestados conformaban una organización criminal radicada en México, Colombia y España -con conexiones en Bélgica y Holanda- dedicados a la introducción de cocaína por vía marítima para su posterior distribución por la península
La organización estaba perfectamente jerarquizada: contaba con un líder en el extranjero encargado del envío de la droga y otro en España responsable de su recepción y distribución, además de con otros colaboradores se ocupaban del transporte, la guarda y custodia, conseguir vehículos caleteados o hacer de “hombres pantalla”
Registradas 28 viviendas y una nave industrial e intervenidos 20 vehículos -varios de ellos “caleteados”- y más de 200.000 euros en efectivo
La organización desmantelada está relacionada con los 62 kilos de cocaína aparecidos el pasado mes de enero en las playas de Denia y Xábia (Alicante) procedentes de un lanzamiento fallido de la droga adosada a bidones flotantes desde un buque mercante
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Los arrestados, una pareja de 44 y 45 años, se enfrentan a una pena máxima de 20 años de prisión por su participación en los delitos de tráfico de seres humanos y pertenencia a organización criminal en su país
Al hombre detenido se le imputa también un delito de agresión sexual, ya que durante los años de cautiverio de su víctima la agredió en repetidas ocasiones
Esta operación se enmarca dentro del Plan de la Policía Nacional contra la Trata de Seres Humanos con Fines de Explotación sexual
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