12 Sep, 2019 @ 12:38
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Moped thief rumbled after stealing and stripping almost 20 between Marbella and Malaga

POLICIA Nacional have arrested a Moroccan man accused of robbing or stripping almost 20 mopeds along the Costa del Sol.

It comes after the suspect was busted in a storage room in Malaga with hundreds of parts, 18 engines and six complete mopeds.

The thief is believed to have been operating in Marbella, Fuengirola and Torremolinos.

The man would allegedly load the mopeds into his van and simply drive away,

He always struck between Thursday and Friday or Saturday and Sunday between 3am and 5am.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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