The National Police is warning of a new method practised by thieves to detect if a property is vacant before breaking in. The thieves are placing glue strings between the frame and the door to locate possible empty houses. If several days pass and they have not been broken, it means that no one has opened the door and the …

Officers from the National Police have arrested four people for being part of a group who would help people obtain a driving licence by fraudulent means. The officers also charged a fifth person as alleged perpetrators of criminal offences including the disclosure of secrets, document forgery and crimes against the State Administration. The arrests were …

Three people have so far been arrested, with other detentions looming, after an investigation by the National Police led to the breakup of a major drug supply network. The arrests have followed weeks of investigations, resulting in a van being intercepted in Torrevieja, and sixteen thousand euro in cash being found, along with half a kilo of cocaine. The arrest …

A 51-year-old man, of Spanish nationality, has been arrested for allegedly trying to abduct a 10-year-old girl during the bonfires in Alicante, the National Police have reported. The events took place around midnight yesterday during the Hogueras fiesta, when the man, taking advantage of the fact that the city is celebrating the parties, told the …

A British resident of Spain was arrested in Torrevieja, and is amongst 24 people detained across Spain as part of a National Police investigation into the distribution of child pornography. Arrests have taken place across Spain, including 4 in Madrid and 3 in the Alicante province, as reported by the Ministry of the Interior on …

Officers from the Guardia Civil and the National Police have arrested four people as alleged authors of a crime of illegal possession of weapons in Torrevieja and Guardamar. The investigation revealed replica weapons which are first manipulated, in order to qualify them for the practice of real fire and, secondly sold, within the black market …

Officers from the Guardia Civil and the National Police have arrested four people as alleged authors of a crime of illegal possession of weapons in Torrevieja and Guardamar. The investigation revealed replica weapons which are first manipulated, in order to qualify them for the practice of real fire and, secondly sold, within the black market or the criminal sphere, with …

Four men and a woman, of Spanish, Colombia, Argentina and Ukraine nationality, one of them a minor, were arrested for a brawl in the port of Alicante where three other people were almost killed. According to the National Police, the incident occurred during the early hours of Aug. 19 on Paseo de Gomis, by the …

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...

A couple who sold drugs from their Torrevieja home, and hid them in the attic, has been arrested by the National Police on charges of crimes against public health. The raid at an undisclosed address in the city took place last month, but details of the operation have only been recently released. The couple aged

A hi-tech gang that used electronic gear to rob cars across Alicante Province has been broken up by the National Police, with Russian and Ukrainian nationals arrested in the Santa Pola area. The operation against the crooks, aged between their mid-twenties and mid-fifties, started last September, after multiple reports of property being stolen from cars, including incidents

Two men, aged 53 and 23, have been arrested by the National Police in Alicante in connection with the suspected sexual abuse of a 15-year-old boy. One of the individuals ran an internet forum by which he befriended the teenager, and met him in secluded places around the area including a deserted building in San