Spanish police busted five people over heroin trafficking, including three Bulgarians.The confiscated 31 kilos of heroin are the largest quantity caught in the last years, the Spanish police informs.The drugs have been smuggled to Spain by the Bulgarians and have been destined to a Turkish national said to live in Valencia and have close ties to a Turkish mafia dealing with heroin trafficking.The heroin has been found hidden in an expensive automobile with Bulgarian license plates. The illegal drug was placed in one of the car's doors and underneath the back seat.
The other two alleged criminals were a Turkish national and a Spaniard.

Mans body who died some eight years ago have been found in the Sierra Nevada.The body was found on Thursday in an area of difficult access on the mountain range, and now the Guardia Civil have asked for the help of the public in identifying him. They say at the time of his death he would have been about 60 years old, was slim, and about 160cms tall. They have published photos of the man’s trousers, in which some pesetas and Portuguese escudos were found.

Miguel Carcaño, has tried to take his own life in the jail at Morón de la Frontera.He tried to hang himself using a cord from a track suit, but was stopped for carrying out his wish by other prisoners.He had left a letter in his cell, addressed to his lawyer, in which he insists that Marta’s body was thrown into the rubbish bins.Antonio del Castillo, Marta’s father has asked ‘If he is so scared he is protecting someone and would rather end his life than reveal who it is’.‘All I want to know is where my daughter is, and I don’t care what happens afterwards’.Miguel was not injured in his suicide attempt and prison authorities have made it clear that the cord he used was from another prisoners track suit and not his own which had been removed for his own protection.

Spanish police have arrested more than 50 people, most of them Britons, suspected of involvement in a network that falsified identity documents for clients around the world.They have also identified around 100 British citizens living in Spain whom they suspect of using the fake documents to obtain bank credit, mostly mortgages of between 200,000 and 1.5 million euros.The gang's operations may have defrauded some 25 financial institutions in Spain of around 60 million euros (80 million dollars), police said in a statement.Spanish authorities have also provided information to the international police agency Europol on more than 1,000 people in 26 countries in the five continents suspected of obtaining fake documents from the gang.Police in the eastern Mediterranean resort city of Alicante opened an investigation in early 2007 after spotting websites that offered fake driving licences, residence permits, birth certificates, academic qualifications and other official documents, the statement said.
In May 2007 they arrested two men and a woman, all Britons, in the Alicante region and seized equipment for producing fake documents, guns and ammunition in raids on two properties.Since mid-2008, 50 people, most of them British, have been arrested in various regions of Spain, and the operation is continuing."It was a perfectly structured organisation, capable of successfully producing all types of fake documents, including a vast range of clients and able to set up a full network of collaborators, which meant a high volume of fake documents were generated - more than 1,000 documents in three months," the statement said.The websites were administered in the United States but had virtual offices in the British colony of Gibraltar, off Spain's southern tip.Two of the Britons arrested, identified only by their initials AK and DM, were located last November through appeals from the British charity Crimestoppers and Britain's Serious and Organised Crime Agency.The investigation also led to the identification of a British man who was wanted for a murder in the southern city of Malaga, and who police believe may have fled to Britain using fake documents supplied by the gang.investigation has also led to the identification of another British resident, wanted in connection with a homicide carried out some years ago in Málaga. Spanish police say this man has now returned to the U.K. using a fake identity created by the group now detained.The Guardia Civil has described the group as perfectly organised, with the ability of obtaining all types of fake documents, and with a wide network of clients and collaborators.
They are thought to have generated more than 1,000 false documents over a three month period.

James “Pancake” Taylor 29-year-old was released only because British police promised to return him if he was needed by the Spanish courts.Taylor was arrested in the popular ex-pat playground of Marbella last year.He was allowed back to Merseyside under an international legal process known as ‘provisional liberty’.This occurs when an arresting authority informs officials in the accused’s home country what has happened. The accused is then sent home but only if the home country's police agree to take responsibility for returning him if required.Taylor, who was named as a leading member of Liverpool's underworld at a hearing before city licensing magistrates in 2005, was arrested on September 24 last year.It is believed Spanish police were at the time investigating a violent drugs war.They arrested Taylor over the shooting of a British man who was attacked following a nightclub brawl last AugustA group of British men - including several from Merseyside - and men of Middle Eastern descent had started a fight in the Nikki Beach bar in Las Chapas, Marbella, in the early hours of August 23.Two Iranians were arrested initially and gave statements to the Udyco arm of the police – which combats organised crime – before Taylor was arrested.He was held for more than three weeks before being released on provisional liberty. He did not have to pay any money for bail.The Spanish authorities list his case as ‘pending’.

Boris Slavov, was sentenced in Spain to 7 years behind bars over the attempted murder of his girlfriend.The information was reported in the Spanish "La Provincia" electronic media.The tragic incident occurred on September 15 2007, in the southern side of Spain's Gran Canary island. Boris and his girlfriend Sibyl had an argument in her apartment. The man grabbed a knife with a 10-cm-long blade and stabbed the victim in the chest and the stomach. He then refused to offer any help and despite her pleas remained inside the house for 6 hours, waiting for Sibyl to die from blood loss. He told her he would kill himself with the same knife.Only after the victim revealed she had EUR 1,000 in her closet and asked Boris to take the money and use them to find help, the perpetrator left the house with the stash. Instead of seeking help, he went to airport, trying to flee the island. In the mean time Sibyl managed to find help herself. Boris was arrested by the authorities at the Gran Canary airport.The incident's cause is listed as alcohol overdose. According to the magistrates, the amount of alcohol, consumed by Boris Slavov was the extenuating circumstance, leading to the lighter sentence. The Las Palmas Court judged that the man committed the crime under the influence of alcohol and should receive only 7 years behind bars.

unnamed British man in his mid thirties has died after falling from the balcony of a hotel when he was trying to flee from the Guardia Civil.The man died around 5am on Friday morning after falling from the first floor of the hotel in Guardamar, Alicante, and suffered severe head injuries. It’s thought he was trying to escape after the Guardia Civil were called because of his allegedly drunken and rowdy behaviour which had been disturbing other hotel guests.He was taken by helicopter to hospital but died shortly after.Información newspaper reports that the two British people in the room refused to open the door to the Guardia Civil when they arrived, and when the Guardia managed to gain access one of the men tried to escape over the balcony which was only three metres high.An autopsy has been carried out and the friend of the deceased has been arrested.

Guardia Civil, named as Santiago A.N., who shot dead an immigrant who had arrived on a patera small boat in Tarifa in December 2000, has been sentenced to six months in jail for involuntary manslaughter.In a long sentence the court in Algeciras leaves several questions open in the case. The official version from the Government Sub-delegate in Cádiz was that the gun went off accidentally during a struggle, but the evidence accepted in the sentence considers there was no struggle and the shot was not accidental. Another immigrant witness said the Civil Guard approached the victim with his finger on the trigger of his gun, and with the safety catch off.
The court ruled the action of the Civil Guard was disproportionate to what he should have done to protect the immigrant, and that it not justified either because there was no evidence either that his own life was in any danger.The Guardia has also been ordered to pay 300,000 € in compensation to the victim’s family, and has also been ordered to pay the costs of the case.

Seven Britons, four men and three women, were arrested in Los Montesinos and Orihuela. The men have been named as 49 year old D.J.H., 22 year old M.A.H, 25 year old J.J.H., and 43 year old R.J.B., while the women are named as 40 year old A.L.S. 49 year old L.J.H. and 24 year old J.K.C. Guardia Civil operation, code-named Odyssea, and broken up last week, against a pirate television system run in Orihuela by a group of British residents, is now estimated to have defrauded 30 million €.
They captured satellite television signals from the U.K. and then distributing them to some 7,0000 mostly British clients along the coasts of Alicante and Murcia. They charged 890 € for the installation of a decoder and then 15 € a month and operated a fake company with a nonexistent registered address.Nine homes were searched in Los Montesinos, Rojales, Orijuela and San Pedro del Pinatar in Murcia, and more than 90,000 € cash was recovered with an estimated 600,000 € worth of communications and computer equipment.

María Victoria Pinilla declared before the instruction judge for four hours last nightThe judge has decreed prison without remand for the Mayor of La Muela who faces real estate corruption charges in the Zaragoza town.María Victoria Pinilla is the third person to be imprisoned in the case, ordered behind bars by the Instruction Judge One in La Almunia, Alfredo Lajusticia at 1,55 this morning after taking her statement for more than four hours.Earlier the Chairman of the Aranade company, Julián de Miguel, was granted 120,000 € bail, and later on Monday

ex Deputy Mayor of Marbella, Pedro Román, has denied in court of having committed any fiscal crimes because his companies were based in Switzerland. He claimed neither to have directed or managed the companies.He told the instruction judge in the Malaya case on Thursday that he had not obligation to declare the money in Spain.
Román faces five counts of fiscal crimes which defrauded Hacienda nearly six million €. His case was originally being treated as separate from the main Malaya case, but now has been brought in by the instruction judge, Óscar Pérez.

un-named 54 year old British woman has been arrested in Málaga on charges of fraud after making false credit card claims through a funeral and medical assistance business.The provincial police say that their investigation started a month ago when a bank informed them that they had detected strange operations at the funeral business alerted by the real owners of credit cards who saw unexpected charges. It’s understood the business used a dataphone to make the credit card payments using a code number.

Seven were all arrested Tuesday in Orihuela Costa, and are thought to have distributed TV channels illegally to 15,000 clientsSeven Britons have been arrested in the coastal area of Orihuela for distributing pirated television signals to more than 15,000 clients, most of them also British.The Guardia Civil made the arrests in several urbanisations on Tuesday, starting at 9.30am in Urbanisation Laguna III in the area of Punta Prima.Telecommunications and computer material was seized in such an amount that several vans were needed.The group distributed the signal from several national pay channels from Digital Plus as well as international satellite signals. It’s estimated that they had made several million € in servicing at least 15,000 clients in the area. Several clients told the Guardia Civil that they were indeed customers of the group, but that they did not know the service was unauthorised.The seven arrested face initial charges of crimes against intellectual property and tax fraud. More arrests in the case have not been ruled out.

Spanish police said they arrested a 66-year-old Chilean at Barcelona airport after discovering the cast on his broken leg was made of cocaine.The man also had cocaine hidden in six beer cans that had been emptied, packed with drugs and resealed, and inside the legs of two small folding stools. Altogether, he was carrying about 11 pounds of the drug.The arrest was made on Wednesday as the man arrived from Santiago, Chile.The man’s leg was broken and investigators are looking into the possibility that he deliberately broke it in order to smuggle in the drug.Police spokesman Jose Antonio Nin said he knew of cases in which smugglers had concealed cocaine underneath casts but this was the first time officials had seen a cast made entirely of compressed cocaine. It weighed about 2.2 pounds.Police detected the drug by spraying the cast with a chemical that turns bright blue when it comes in contact with cocaine.The man was taken to hospital after the cast was removed.
Spain is a major European gateway for cocaine from Latin America and airport officials pay especially close attention to passengers on flights from Peru, Colombia and Chile.A UN report in 2008 revealed it had become the biggest consumer of cocaine in continental Europe, and is one of the world’s top users of the drug.

British couple were beaten unconscious by the robbers who took money and jewellery worth 200,000 €.Two British tourists have been robbed in Benidorm of jewellery worth 200,000 €. According to the denuncia to the Benidorm police they were beaten up in a pub in the town and left unconscious before being robbed of cash and jewellery worth 200,000 €. National Police have arrested a Dominican man in connection with the attack after searching his home in the town where some of the jewellery was recovered, including a 250 diamond necklace set in white gold, and an 82 diamond princess cut diamond and white gold cross.20minutos.es reports police only found out about the theft two days after it occurred because no witnesses reported the attack at the time. Now witnesses say four of five people were involved.

Plane found to be carrying more than 1,000 kilos of hashish has been intercepted between Valdepeñas and Moral de Calatrava in Ciudad Real after a chase across the skies which started in Almería from where a customs helicopter had been shadowing the plane.Two Mexican pilots have been arrested and are now being held in Valdepeñas.
Police sources say the plane was intercepted on Monday night on a landing strip on a finca called ‘Las Agrupadas’.The Guardia Civil, National Police and Customs Authority are all involved in the investigation.

South American man has been arrested, accused of raping an 18-year-old girl on the hard shoulder of the Benalmadena-Malaga motorway. According to the victim, she and a friend were in Benalmadena Costa’s Plaza Solymar, and wanted to go to Fuengirola. They decided to hitch-hike and were offered a ride by the alleged rapist. After dropping off the first of the two women, he started to drive in the direction requested by the victim. But shortly afterwards, she noticed he had changed course on to the motorway in the direction of Malaga City. He allegedly pulled up on the hard shoulder, tied her up and blindfolded her, and proceeded to attempt to rape her. The victim says she put up a tremendous fight to resist him and he eventually gave up. However, instead of releasing her, he drove to a car park in Arroyo de la Miel, removed her blindfold and forced her to have sex with him. Following the alleged rape, the 31-year-old suspect drove to Fuengirola. As they arrived at the seafront, the victim managed to escape and ran off to get help. She found a Local Police patrol who took her to Las Lagunas Health Centre where she received medical attention.

Given the serious nature of the crime, the case was passed on to the National Police who later managed to trace the car and identify and arrest the suspect

Police have arrested 20 people in Malaga, as part of ‘Operacion Reja’, on suspicion of carrying out a series of robberies. The police operation was launched last month after the province suffered a spate of robberies from chemist’s shops. Out of the 20 arrests, 11 were for aggravated burglarly with a firearm and nine for robbery using a lethal weapon. The last three arrests took place last week. The detainees are also suspected of having robbed a hairdressing salon.

Police in Madrid have arrested five people allegedly linked to the Leónidas case. Leónidas Vargas was the Colombian drug trafficker who was assassinated in his hospital bed in Madrid on January 8.Vargas was considered to be one of the most importing 19 drug traffickers in the world, and those now arrested in connection with the killing are also Colombian and aged between 22 and 34. The alleged head of the gang is among those being held, and at the time of arrest had a loaded gun in his possession.Police searched several premises across the Spanish capital on Thursday night.

Paul Logan Donnelly is at the centre of the investigation and is now reportedly facing attempted murder charges.Police in Spain named Donnelly as one of two men arrested after a short siege with officers in a village outside Marbella.It is reported the pair were apprehended by civil guards after one was spotted urinating in the street, before pulling out a gun which jammed, preventing it from firing.
The alleged gunman is named as “Paul B” but the second person has been identified as Donnelly, originally from Newcastle.It is alleged he fled the scene, having brandished a knife, which he went on to abandon as he ran off.Describing the incident, a Guardia Civil officer said: “It was around the leisure zone and there were three individuals who were walking through the street and one of them was urinating in the middle of the street.“They (the police) went to identify him and the first of those arrested threw his passport.“When the police approached him, he then took out a gun which he had hidden in his trousers, he loaded and shot at one of the policemen. They (the police) identified him and arrested him without firing any shots. They are now in custody awaiting trial.”The incident happened in Alhaurin el Grande, a hillside village around 30 miles from Marbella, on the Costa del Sol.
Police say they spotted one of the men urinating outside a video shop at 9pm on Monday. Paul B then reportedly threw a passport belonging to another ex-pat on the floor and took out the gun.It is said the 9mm weapon jammed when he pulled the trigger twice, meaning no officers were hurt in the incident.The officers then drew their own guns and talked the man round, before he was arrested.A British Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesman said: “The men were arrested for urinating in the street and possession of a gun.“A consular team is now working with the relevant authorities in Spain. The investigation is at a very early stage.”