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 …

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 …

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

A man aged in his forties has been arrested by the National Police for allegedly strangling his 89-year-old aunt, with the body lying at their home on Alicante’s Calle Pintor Aparicio for a week. The nephew turned himself into the National Police in Alicante on Monday, with neighbours saying that he had lived with his

A National Police officer has been taken into custody and had bail refused by an Alicante police court, after being accused of crimes of sexual abuse and assault involving under age teenage boys. Extensive investigations by the National Police led to the arrest of the 32-year-old agent, with indecent images of children found on his

A 49-year-old Belgian woman, who allegedly got 60 thousand euros of deposit money for non-existent flats on the Costa Blanca, has been arrested by the National Police in Formentera del Segura. Fellow Belgians were marked out for the scam as they paid deposits of between 12,500 and 15,500 euros for apartments in Calpe, which were

A 38-year old man who locked up a neighbour in an Alicante apartment block and then set fire to it, has been arrested by the National Police. The incident happened on September 15th when firefighters were called to fire and discovered a man had been locked up in a room, who they rescued before the

Officers from the National Police in Alicante arrested a bank robber on Friday after he stole 1,800 euro and then fled on foot with one of the employees as a hostage. The incident took place at around noon on Friday Read More ...