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Watch: ‘Armed’ robber is chased out of shop in Spain’s Andalucia by female worker wielding a roll of sellotape

THIS is the moment a hooded man brandishing a plastic gun failed to rob a shop in southern Spain thanks to its no-nonsense owner. Footage

26 Feb, 2025 @ 11:55

Crime & Law·Lead

Dutch narco boss accused of shipping cocaine worth €228 million is arrested on Costa Blanca

Clash of Clans: Shots fired in Malaga

TWO people suffered gunshot wounds after an alleged gang related confrontation on Saturday in Churriana, Malaga. National police are investigating the incident that left a

17 Apr, 2023 @ 16:30

Crime & Law·Lead·Other News

Policeman shoots himself dead at Castellon courthouse in Spain’s Valencia region

A Policia Nacional officer fatally shot himself on Thursday while on duty in a Castellon city courthouse in the Valencia region. The man was in

15 Dec, 2022 @ 14:48

Castellon·Lead·Valencian Community

Violent jewellery store robbers arrested on Spain’s Costa Blanca after five stick-ups

TWO men have been arrested in Rojales and Torrevieja over five gunpoint jewellery store robberies over the summer in Alicante Province. The Guardia Civil seized

18 Oct, 2022 @ 12:14

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Torrevieja·Valencian Community

Angry Patient In Spain's Murcia Region Threatens To Shoot Dead Health Centre Staff Over Prescription Refusal

Angry patient with gun threatens to kill staff at Murcia region health centre in Spain

A patient who was refused a new prescription at Yecla’s Mariano Yago health centre returned an hour later with a gun and threatened to kill

30 Aug, 2022 @ 10:45

Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia

Estate agent who shot British expat, 80, to death inside her Alicante villa is jailed

Two arrests after elderly British woman is shot dead at her Costa Blanca home in Spain

TWO people have been arrested by the Policia Nacional over the fatal shooting of an 80-year-old British woman in the Elche area on Wednesday. A

6 May, 2022 @ 12:20

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Revenge Seeking Man Tries To Kill Brother In Law Who Abused His Sister On Spain's Costa Blanca

Armed avenger fails to kill abusive brother-in-law on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A man sought vengeance for his abused sister by trying to shoot dead his brother-in-law in Alicante but ended up missing his target. He drove

17 Mar, 2022 @ 17:45

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

British ‘gangster’ rumbled after cleaners find gun he left under his pillow in hotel room in Spain

The 31-year-old Englishman was staying in a hotel in Arona, Tenerife, when cleaners discovered the weapon underneath his pillow

31 Jul, 2020 @ 13:24

Lead·National News

Man who brandished ‘loaded gun’ in hospital arrested before police find knives, crossbow and pistols at his home near Spain’s Costa del Sol

Police held the man on illegal weapon charges after he had originally tried to hide the gun, which a spokesperson said was ‘ready for use.’

15 Oct, 2019 @ 08:58

Cadiz·Lead

WATCH: Heavily armed police storm CaixaBank and arrest ‘robber’ who had taken ‘hostages’ on Spain’s Costa del Sol

“First let the hostages go, get down to the floor, everybody get to the floor”

26 Sep, 2019 @ 15:47

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Mum shot dead with shotgun on Spain’s Costa del Sol before police arrest her ‘schizophrenic’ son

At age 14 the man is believed to have obtained a weapons license and had several firearms in the house

6 Sep, 2019 @ 10:51

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Man arrested after FIVE gunshots fired on Spain’s Costa del Sol, streets away from where 10,000 people partied at Malaga Feria

“Do you want shots? Well, you are going to have shots”

19 Aug, 2019 @ 12:51

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Man arrested after ‘faking’ gunpoint robbery to hide night of booze and strippers from wife on Spain’s Costa del Sol

Investigators rejected the suspect’s story, which allegedly took place on Saturday between 2:30am and 4:00am

14 Aug, 2019 @ 16:20

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Man arrested after threatening woman with machine gun, pistol and bow and arrow in Spain’s Andalucia

It comes after Spain’s 1000th victim of gender violence was identified as a murdered a mother-of-five

26 Jun, 2019 @ 11:37

Crime & Law·Lead·Sevilla

OH MY GOGH: Gun Van Gogh ‘killed himself with’ to be auctioned off while southern Spain tour of his work continues

He died in a field near the French town of Auvers-sur-Oise, where the revolver was located some 70 years later

19 Jun, 2019 @ 12:30

La Cultura·Lead

Young man shot on Spain’s Costa del Sol in suspected gang warning

It comes after just a fortnight after the Office of the Public Prosecutor in Malaga expressed ‘serious concern’ about the rise in murders on the

27 May, 2019 @ 12:53

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

WATCH: International fugitive who ‘shot man in belly with AK47’ arrested in family park on Costa del Sol

On Monday police in Benalmadena cuffed the international fugitive, 24, who is wanted by the Danish authorities

17 Jan, 2019 @ 17:22

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Police in Spain seize grenades, submachine guns and detonators from stolen UK-registered car

GRENADES, submachine guns and detonators have been seized by police in Spain from a stolen UK-registered car. The weapons were found in an abandoned Volkswagen

14 Jan, 2019 @ 15:43

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

JAIME BOND: Two arrested on Spain’s Costa del Sol for 007-style PEN GUN and seven kilos of cocaine

Sean Connery’s Bond uses a similar 9mm rocket-firing pen gun in the film Never Say Never Again (1983)

9 Jan, 2019 @ 12:19

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

CLOSE CURTAIN CALL: Costa del Sol pensioner cheats death as curtain stops bullet in ‘submachine gun’ shootout

A WOMAN in Malaga has cheated death after her curtain stopped a bullet in a New Year’s Day gun battle. Paquita, a 79-year-old widow, was

3 Jan, 2019 @ 14:53

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

XMAS BUST: Police in two sleepy Andalucia towns arrest 4 as 1000 cannabis plants and six cars seized this week

POLICE in two Andalucia towns have made huge drug busts over Christmas, arresting four people this week. In Manilva and Alhaurín El Grande, Guardia Civil officers

27 Dec, 2018 @ 14:46

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga