Marbella eight urbanisations has been evacuated. 4,000 people have been evacuated from their homes.

The village of Ojen and eight urbanisations in Marbella have been evacuated. 4,000 people have been evacuated from their homes.

 

The fire broke out on Thursday afternoon and has affected Coín where some 60 homes have had to be evacuated. The fire was still burning overnight so the terrestrial fire fighters continued to work overnight, according to the fire fighting Infoca.
The extinction of the blaze was complicated by the strong hot wind known locally as the ‘Terral’.
Three of the four fronts were brought under control just after midnight.

The fire is also affecting Alhaurín El Grande and Mijas where homes have been evacuated in the Entrerrios area, according to the Junta de Andalucía.

The Barranco Blanco urbanisation in Coín is close to the fire, and there were fears that non-forestry zones could be affected.

In Calahonda there are flames in the urbanisation between Calle Cristóbal Colón and Residential Princess Park. The upper zone of Calahonda is being evacuated.

Two people have been seriously injured with burns. They were in the urbanisation El Rosario where five homes have been affected by the flames. The two injured were taken to the Costa del Sol Hospital in Marbella a 4.30am this morning. One of them has burns to 50% of their body.

The AP-7 Motorway was for a time overnight for a while.

The Mayor of Marbella, Ángeles Muñoz, has confirmed that several urbanisations have been evacuated, including La Mairena, Elviria, the area of Las Chapas and Molinillo where the fire is concentrated and continues to advance.

The Hotel La Cala Resort has also been evacuated of its 200 guests.

Those evacuated have been told to go to the sports centre in La Cala, the sports centre in Las Lagunas or the Mijas Hippodrome.

Between 25 and 30 families have been evacuated from Alpujata on the outskirts of Monda.

13 airborne fire fighting planes were brought in on Thursday afternoon from Málaga, Córdoba and Granada, and they have resumed their work at first light.

Land forces totalled 99 fire fighters distributed in seven brigades, three reserve brigades, five fire engines, five operation technicians and four environmental vehicles.

The fire continues out of control on one front and the Mijas Town Hall has told the residents of la Atalaya to urgently leave their homes. A level 1 has been put in place and that indicates that the prevision for the fire could affect non-forestry assets.

350 firefighters are at the scene this morning and the fire fighting planes have returned to work.

Numerous homes have been burnt out and others seriously affected in Ojén and Marbella. The urbanisation La Mairena has flames affecting several properties.

The situation is particularly difficult in the upper part of Calahonda where residents have been evacuated and there are flames in the urbanisation between Calle Cristóbal Colón and the residential complex Princess Park.

Some 3,000 residents of El Rosario in Marbella have been evacuated, and German couple in their 60’s have been seriously hurt. Marbella Ayuntamiento says they were surprised by the flames and now have burns 40-50% of their bodies. 

Those affected by the blaze are being first treated in the Costa del Sol Hospital in Marbella, and then many suffering burns are being transferred to Málaga to the Specialist Burns Unit in the Carlos Haya Hospital.

People have been sleeping in sports centre in Monda and Marbella and municipal buses have been laid on as transport.

The Junta delegate in Málaga, José Luis Ruiz Espejo, has said today that he suspects the fire could have been started deliberately given its rapid propagation. He said the technicians suspected the fire was man made from the start.

Ground fire fighters worked through the night facing difficult terrain and totalled 99 fire fighters distributed in seven brigades, and three reserve brigades, five fire engines, five operation technicians and four environmental vehicles.

At first light this morning the 17 fire-fighting planes returned to the air.
Five planes which drop earth, four large capacity helicopters, five transport helicopters, two amphibian planes, and a plane for coordination and vigilance.

More than 250 professionals from fire fighting organisation INFOCA are working this morning in Mijas, Marbella, Alhauin de la Torre and in Coín where the fire started.

The Mayor of Marbella, Ángeles Muñoz, has confirmed that several urbanisations have been evacuated, including La Mairena, Elviria, the area of Las Chapas and Molinillo where the fire is concentrated and continues to advance.
Between 25 and 30 families have been evacuated from Alpujata on the outskirts of Monda.

The fire broke out on Thursday afternoon and has affected Coín where some 60 homes have had to be evacuated. The fire was still burning overnight as so the terrestrial fire fighters continued to work over night, according to the fire fighting Infoca.
The extinction of the blaze is being complicated by the strong hot wind known locally as the ‘Terral’.

Three of the four fronts were brought under control just after midnight.

The fire is also affecting Alhaurín El Grande and Mijas where homes have been evacuated in the Entrerrios area, according to the Junta de Andalucía.
The Barranco Blanco urbanisation in Coín is close to the fire, and there were fears that non-forestry zones could be affected.
The Hotel La Cala Resort has also been evacuated of its 200 guests.

Those evacuated have been told to go to the sports centre in La Cala, the sports centre in Las Lagunas or the Mijas Hippodrome.
13 airborne fire fighting planes were brought in on Thursday afternoon from Málaga, Córdoba and Granada, and they resumed their work at first light this morning.

The fire continues out of control and the Mijas Town Hall has told the residents of la Atalaya to urgently leave their homes. A level 1 has been put in place and that indicates that the prevision for the fire could affect non-forestry assets.

A huge wildfire is approaching the wealthy resort of Marbella on Spain's Costa del Sol, where the authorities have evacuated thousands of people.

Flames reached the Elviria area on the edge of Marbella early on Friday.

About 1,000 people have been evacuated from the edge of Marbella, about 3,300 from Ojen and others from a camp site at Alpujata, Spanish media report.

They include at least 300 British expats sent to evacuation centres, the UK embassy told the BBC.

Marbella is famous for its up-market hotels and villas - it is a favourite haunt of wealthy foreigners.

Overnight the fire spread rapidly through a 12km (eight-mile) coastal strip, not far from holiday resorts.

Two people have suffered serious burns and some homes have been engulfed by the fire.

The Costa del Sol is one of Spain's most popular holiday destinations and home to a large British expatriate community.

The British embassy says it is working closely with the Spanish authorities and consular staff have been deployed to assist those affected.

Much of Spain's countryside was left tinder-dry this summer by a prolonged heatwave. There have been major wildfires in northern Catalonia - near the Pyrenees - and on La Gomera, in the Canary Islands.

The wind speed has dropped since Thursday and the air is more humid, so there are hopes that the Costa del Sol blaze can be contained soon.

More than 250 firefighters are battling the fire, helped by 17 aircraft dropping water to douse it, Spain's El Pais news website says.

The fire started on Thursday afternoon in the Sierra Negra area of Coin, near Malaga and has now affected an area of some 1,000 hectares (2,471 acres).

Part of the AP-7 highway was cut temporarily, but other roads are unaffected. It is not yet clear how many homes have been damaged or destroyed.

THE brother of Ireland’s so-called ‘unluckiest criminal’ has been shot in a bar in Torremolinos.

 

 

 

 

 

Dubliner Michael Joseph O’Driscoll, who was on holiday with his girlfriend on the Costa del Sol, was singled out by a balaclava-wearing gunman who fired one shot and ran out of the bar.

 

The 28-year-old victim, who has been described as a low-ranking member of a criminal gang, was taken to hospital but his injuries were not life-threatening.

 

Meanwhile Spanish police are now liaising with police in Ireland to try to establish a motive for the attack.

 

One theory is that Irish criminals found out O’Driscoll was in Torremolinos and asked associates there to shoot him.

 

His brother Thomas, a 100-times repeat offender, was nicknamed Ireland’s unluckiest criminal after he was shot and paralysed in an attack at a north Dublin pub in 2006.

 

He later learned to walk again only to be knocked down by a car and end up back in a wheelchair.

 

He was jailed in August 2010 for stealing women’s blouses.

SPANISH police have launched a major investigation after exiled drugs boss 'Fat' Freddie Thompson returned to Ireland using an illegal passport.

 

BREACH: Freddie Thompson allegedly skipped bail to return to Ireland

The Sunday World can reveal that the 31-year-old slipped back into the country last week despite being legally required to remain in Spain while cops investigate him. Thompson was extradited to Spain last November for questioning about his role in Christy Kinihan's drug empire. He was released without charge pending further investigations by Spanish cops, on condition that he surrender his passport, stay in Spain and sign on at a police station twice a month.

However, last week Thompson breached his bail conditions by using one of three passports he has in different names to fly into Belfast airport from Malaga. He was picked up in Belfast by a close associate and driven to Dublin, wearing a wig to disguise his identity.

Criminal

Sources say that the criminal spent four days in Dublin and stayed with a friend of drug boss Greg Lynch in the Marylands area of Dublin 8. The safe house was just around the corner from his family home and he made his way to see his mother each day by climbing through back gardens, so he would not be seen on the streets.

Greg Lynch is regarded as being a key associate of Thompson and gardai believe he is in regular contact with him in Spain and is involved in the running of Freddie's drugs gang from Dublin. It is understood that his criminal cronies held a massive party for Freddie last weekend before he travelled back to Spain last Sunday and signed in with police in Estepona the following day.

Gardai only learned of Thompson's return on the day he departed and investigations have confirmed that he was illegally back in Ireland.

 

 

DRUG EMPIRE: Christy Kinihan

If the Spanish police can confirm that Fat Freddie did leave the country then he could be jailed while the investigation into his Kinihan links is completed. This could take another year, so Thompson is facing the possibility of a long stretch in a tough Spanish jail, which would be a massive blow to him.

 

A source said: "We have confirmed that Thompson was back and spent most of his time visiting his family and, more worryingly, his close gang associates, including Greg Lynch. He was staying with a close friend of Lynch's very near to his mother's house.

"We know he has three passports, but we didn't think he would be mad enough to come back."

Freddie has been living it up in Marbella, spending days working out in the gym and organising drug shipments, while hitting the town at night. He is regularly in the company of Irish criminals Gary Hutch and his cousin Liam Byrne and several gardai on holiday in Marbella have seen Thompson partying hard in the company of several women.

The father of one was extradited to Spain last November on foot of a European arrest warrant. He was questioned on suspicion of participating in a criminal organisation, the illegal transportation of drugs and the illicit trafficking of weapons.

However, despite the seriousness of the charges, the maximum sentence that the mobster is facing is just nine years in prison. The Spanish authorities did not provide any direct evidence to show Thompson is a key member of the Kinihan gang.

They claim he is a "trusted right-hand man" of Kinihan and acted as his bodyguard and chauffeur and was a senior player in the gang. They accuse him of drug and gun trafficking, but the only evidence they cite is a vague recorded conversation between Thompson and Gary Hutch about a gun not being as "big as expected".

Spanish cops say it is possible to "infer" from this that Freddie is responsible for sourcing the gang's firearms. Spanish police also say that they have recorded conversations that reveal Freddie travelled to Amsterdam to "weigh up the possibility of preparing a
large shipment of drugs which was to be picked up in Ireland".

However there is no physical evidence linking Freddie Thompson to any drugs.

Spanish child kidnap inquiry takes grim turn as charred bones declared human

One of Spain's most horrific, long-running investigations took a grim new twist on Monday after two scientists separately confirmed that the mass of charred bones found in a homemade oven at a property owned by the grandparents of missing siblings José and Ruth Bretón belonged to a two-year-old and a six-year-old child. Ruth, six, and José, two, are thought to have been killed by their father, José Bretón, who claimed they had been kidnapped at a park in the southern city of Córdoba while he was looking after them last October. He was eventually arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and held in jail, but has continued to proclaim his innocence. Bretón's ex-wife, Ruth Ortiz, has insisted for months that he had either kidnapped or killed the children out of revenge for her leaving him. Spanish newspapers quoted police as describing Bretón's attitude under interrogation as "ice cold" and investigators have indicated they thought he had either killed his children or was paying someone to keep them at a secret address. Months of searching properties, draining local ponds and dragging rivers had failed to produce results. Bretón, a former soldier, had written to newspapers claiming he had been given information that would allow him to find the bodies if released. Police scientists originally said the bones in a furnace on a piece of land outside Córdoba owned by Bretón's parents belonged to animals. But the interior minister, Jorge Fernández Díaz, admitted that fresh reports on the bones now revealed they included human remains. The oven had been made by covering an open fire with a metal bell cover so that temperatures reached as high as 800C (1,472F), baking the mud underneath. "It is as if it was a cremation oven," Fernández Díaz said. José María Bermúdez de Castro, Spain's most celebrated paleoanthropologist and co-director of excavations at the Pliocene and Pleistocene-era Atapuerca cave site in northern Spain, has reportedly produced a report saying that the bones found in the oven include a six-year-old child's teeth. He had been called in to study the bones after the mother's family asked Francisco Etxeberria, a well-known forensic scientist who has dug up many mass graves left over from the Spanish civil war, to analyse them. He surprised police by concluding that the bones included those of both a two-year-child and of a six year old. "It is obvious there were human remains there," he told the newspaper El País. "They met a violent end." Bretón's lawyer said his client stood by the original police report stating that only animal bones were in the oven. Further tests on the remains are being carried out, though Etxeberria warned that the high temperatures in the oven made DNA testing impossible.

OwnFone: A Custom-Printed Phone Perfect for Seniors and Kids

Some people need all the latest apps and features available on their smartphone so they can be connected 24/7, while others just want to make a phone call. For the connected crowd, read all the latest reviews onMashable. For the others, check out the OwnFone.

It’s designed to call only the people you want to reach most frequently. In fact, it can only hold 12 contacts. There are no keys or buttons to program. Instead you let OwnFone know who you want to add, and they program and send you a custom-printed phone, about the size of a credit card.

If you lose it, they just print you a new one. You do need to call OwnFone support if you need to change someone’s number, or add a contact.

 

OwnFone says it plans to come out with a phone that can be customized in braille in the near future. Right now OwnFone is only available in the UK.

Check out the video above for more details and let us know what you think of a printed, pre-programmed cell phone.

Estepona Wild Fires rage on a 2km front

Police and Ambulances hurried to evacuate as wild fires quickly spread our reporter on the scene photographer the devastation

 

Estepona on Fire

We had a tiny little fire today, which they put out.

Then an hour later, it restarted, and spread along 2 Klm of the coast.

It was horrible seeing old people being run out of their homes, and carried through the smoke by police and ambulances.

The pictures really doesn,t do show bad it really was.many houses have gone

 

 

Britons fall foul of holiday scams

Conmen and thieves are going to elaborate lengths to rob holidaying Britons abroad. Those taking breaks overseas have fallen foul of "the bus breakdown" where a driver pretends the vehicle has failed in the middle of nowhere and demands money from passengers to be collected by a second bus. In another scam, a taxi driver forces passengers to pay a fine for non-seatbelt wearing, with the money being passed to a "policeman" he is in league with, revealed Sainsbury's Travel Money. Britons have also been victims of "the beachcomber" who watches them on the beach then robs them when they go in for a swim. Some have also succumbed to the "note switch" con, where they offer a large note to taxi drivers or barmen who switch it to a small one and claim they are owed more money. A survey by Sainsbury's Travel Money of 2,014 adults showed that 7% of Britons who had travelled abroad in the past two years had been robbed, with the average value of money or possessions stolen being £414. Of those who had been robbed, 59% had loose cash taken while 23% had entire wallets or purses snatched. Other stolen items included credit or debit cards (14%), mobile phones (12%), cameras (10%), clothing (10%), iPods or similar devices (7%) and watches (6%). Thefts or cons were most likely to take place in hotel rooms or on public transport, with the next most popular spots for thieves being tourist attractions, busy streets and beaches.

400 people have been arrested for the falsification of 19 million € of notes in three years.

 The 100 € notes were found by the National Police in one their recent operations.

The arrests come thanks to the coordination of the national forces with the regional police and international cooperation, resulting in an efficient persecution of the crime.
The National Police have a specialised unit against fake money, which has broken up 35 organisations in three years.

This latest operation ended with the arrest of ten people in the city of Plodiv in Bulgaria where 660 fake 100 € notes were found in conjunction with Europol and Eurojust.

In Spain operations have taken place in Murcia, and Gijón.
Over the past 3 years the security services have arrested 415 people, broken up 35 gangs, and dismantled 24 distribution centres in several operations. It’s thought the face value of the notes collected amounts to as much as 19 million €.

In the face of these high numbers the Director General has advised the public to look at their notes, ‘Touch, study and turn it over’. The police says a real Euro note has a certain firm tact and characteristic which is missing on the fake notes. When Euro notes are put up to the light you should see three security items. The watermark, the security thread, and inside the note which can’t normally see, but it you put it to the light and look at the white part of the note you can a design which includes the number of Euros of the note.

 

Spanish police working with the FBI have halted an attempt by a major Mexican drug smuggling and distribution ring to establish a European operation

Spanish police working with the FBI have halted an attempt by a major Mexican drug smuggling and distribution ring to establish a European operation, authorities said Friday. Four suspected Sinaloa cartel members, including an alleged cousin of the group's notorious leader, have been arrested in Madrid. The Interior Ministry said the cartel wanted to make Spain a gateway for operations in Europe, even carrying out test runs using shipping containers without drugs. But investigators managed to monitor many of the group's activities and intercepted a container carrying 373 kilos (822 pounds) of cocaine in late July before moving in to make the arrests. The ministry statement said Jesus Gutierrez Guzman, Rafael Humberto Celaya Valenzuela, Samuel Zazueta Valenzuela and Jesus Gonzalo Palazuelos Soto were arrested near their hotels in the Spanish capital. The statement did not say precisely when the arrests were made, and ministry officials reached by phone could not immediately give exact details of the dates. The investigation was initiated by the Boston unit of the FBI's Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force in 2009, said Greg Comcowich, a spokesman for the Boston FBI. Comcowich said the FBI later worked with the Spanish national police. Jesus Gutierrez Guzman is alleged to be the cousin of Joaquin Guzman, known as "El Chapo," the leader of the cartel and among the world's most wanted fugitives. Since escaping prison in 2001, Joaquin Guzman has run the Sinaloa cartel, one of Mexico's two most powerful drug-organizations, from a series of hideouts and safe houses across Mexico. Law-enforcement officials say he has earned billions of dollars moving tons of cocaine and other drugs north to the United States. In recent months, the Sinaloa cartel and its allies have been waging a brutal war against the paramilitary Zetas cartel across Mexico, often carrying out mass killings that have left hundreds of dismembered bodies dumped in public places. Along with the alleged link to the cartel leader, the arrests in Spain have attracted a great deal of media interest in Mexico because a Facebook page in Celaya Valenzuela's name appears to show a photograph of him alongside Enrique Pena Nieto, the man who won the July 1 presidential elections. The photo was posted on Feb. 11. Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party, the PRI, appeared to acknowledge he was a member, as Celaya Valenzuela claimed, but said he had not participated in Pena Nieto's campaign. The PRI noted in a statement that "during his presidential campaign, Enrique Pena Nieto took hundreds of thousands of photos with party members and sympathizers, without that implying any commitment or close relationship." In early 2012, Celaya Valenzuela applied to be the party's candidate for a congressional seat in northern Sonora state. The PRI refused to allow his candidacy, arguing he did not have enough support among party members, according to court documents of an appeal he filed against that decision. The issue is a sensitive one, given that President Felipe Calderon has accused some members of the PRI of wanting to make deals with drug cartels in exchange for peace. Pena Nieto has hotly denied he will make any deals with the gangs. The operation against the Sinaloa cartel was made possible thanks to agents using "the most modern research techniques," which had at all times been supervised by judges and prosecutors, the Interior Ministry statement said. It noted that "the bulk" of the investigation was carried out in the United States. U.S. agents had learned that cartel members were planning to travel to Spain and were later able to confirm the trip, which took place in March 2011, the statement said. Thanks to the information provided by the FBI's Boston division, Spanish police located the suspects and monitored them closely "to ensure their full identification," the statement said. The statement said FBI investigators had determined that the gang intended to begin large cocaine shipments by sea with the drugs concealed in cargo containers. The cartel used stringent security measures to try to ensure the success of the operation and did several test runs, initially shipping containers without any drugs in them. When they sent a first drugs shipment to Spain on board a ship from Brazil in late July, officers intercepted it, the statement said. Comcowich declined to say how the investigation began or whether anyone from the area was involved in the cartel. The Boston division of the FBI covers Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. "There was investigative activity in the United States, but at this time the details of that activity and how it was related to the Spanish arrests are not being released," Comcowich said. The arrest of Guzman's alleged cousin could potentially lead to information about the whereabouts of the fugitive Mexican drug lord. Investigators working to bust Sinaloa's operations thought in June that they had nabbed a son of Joaquin Guzman, but it turned out they got the wrong man.

British man sentenced to 19 years for stabbing his Irish ex-girlfriend 53 times

The Briton who killed his Irish ex-girlfriend, Avril Louise Flanagan, by stabbing her 53 times has been sent to prison for 19 years. The Court for Violence against Women in Orihuela handed down their sentence against Alan Matthew Daulby. He was found guilty of, last 29 May 2009, stabbing his ex-girlfriend 53 times across her body. It happened on May 29 2009 in the Aparthotel Playa Marina on Orihuela Costa. The couple had been living together, and sentence says that the ex-girlfriend when to his house at about 12 o’clock to collect some of her belongings, and to ask him to stop phoning her insistently. In this moment Alan Matthew grabbed her by the neck, and showing no mercy stabbed her 53 times until her body stopped moving. The victim’s family then arrived, and the aggressor escaped down the back stairs after wrapping her body in plastic sheeting and hiding it under the sofa. The attacker said his ex-girlfriend thought he was a thief, and her lawyer asserted after she broke up with him, he started to abuse drugs and drink. Later the killer burnt all the clothes he had been wearing and the rags that he had used to clean the blood, on waste ground, taking them there in a suitcase. Its thought he failed to notice there was blood on the suitcase. He then continued driving to escape, but was intercepted by the Security Forces three hours later in Oliva, a distance of 200km away. The judge said that the stabbings carried out led to death, and his violent action ‘was conscious and voluntary’. Only one member of the jury led the judge to take off a year from the 20 year maximum for such a crime. Daulby didn’t make any statement for three years, but he finally admitted that his crime had destroyed both families.

Briton arrested at Málaga Airport for VAT fraud

58 year old is wanted by Germany and is expected to be extradited shortlyThe National Police has arrested a 58 year old British man at Málaga Airport, who wanted in Germany under a Detention for Extradition in regard to fraud in VAT returns. The frontier police at the airport last Wednesday detected the wanted Briton who was among travellers to Ireland. It has been calculated that the benefits of the fraud could ascend to some seven million €, according to a statement from the National Police. The arrested man has been transferred to Madrid and is at the disposition of Central Court Five in the National Court.

yellow jacket stun gun case for iphone

yellow jacket is a case that transforms the iPhone 4 & 4S into that 650,000-volt stun gun you've always needed.

scheduled to hit the US market in fall 2012 the case is advertised as being able to 
easily stop an aggressive male attacker, and ready for use in less than two seconds. 
its designer seth froom, a former military policeman came up with the product after 
being robbed in his home at gunpoint.

what is the demand for such a hostile product you might ask? well, yellow jacket 
has managed to receive over 100,000 USD worth of backing on the crowd-funding 
website indiegogo which means that there must be quite a few people out there 
who feel the need to transform their phone into a weapon.


detail of the stun gun nodes 

the iPhone's designers could never have conceived half of the the weird and wonderful accessories 
that have been designed for use with the iPhone since its launch, but even in the name of self defense 
a stun gun seems a bit much, doesn't it?

Two Britons arrested after fight in San Antoni disco

One needed two stiches in a face wound. Another two Britons have been arrested in Sant Antoni for fighting with their compatriots. One youngster, 21 year old, D.A. broke a glass in the face of another, 23 year old S.M.B, it seems after he considered he was pushed when he was dancing. A fight broke out and the aggressor placed several punches on the other Briton leaving him on the floor with blood coming from his mouth. The victim was taken to a health centre where he needed two stitches in the wound. Agents of the Local Police in Sant Antoni made the arrests on Sunday in the Avenida Doctor Fleming.

20 year old British man accused of raping an 18 year old British woman

The Guardian Civil arrested a 20 year British man last weekend for the alleged rape of an 18 year British woman in her hotel room in Magaluf in Calvià. The arrested man, who was initially charged with the crime of sexual aggression, denied the accusation. His version was that he was not with the victim on the night concerned, and that he did not even know her. After declaring to the police court last Sunday, he was released with charges outstanding. The judge removed his passport. It happened last weekend when the victim and a girlfriend met a group of boys in the nightclub area of Magaluf. The two woman accepted an invitation to go with two of the men to their respective rooms in the early hours. The victim said that in principle she was going have sex with man, but suddenly he grabbed by the neck, and she asked him to stop. She claims the man ignored and she was then sexually assaulted

75 year Briton caught running drugs across the Strait

75 year old Briton has been arrested by the Guardia Civil when he on a yacht, ‘Arabian Sunshine’ crossing the Strait of Gibraltar. The yacht was found to be carrying 1,038 kilos of hashish. The Guardia Civil stopped the yacht when it was halfway across the Strait even though it tried to escape when it noted the presence of the Guardia Civil. It has been estimated the 1,038 kilos of the drug would have reached 1.6 million € on the drugs market.