nutritionist in Barcelona accused of monitoring his patients' bathroom habits with the help of a hidden camera.

Police have arrested a nutritionist in Barcelona accused of monitoring his patients' bathroom habits with the help of a hidden camera.The suspect, identified by police as Jorge I. P., is accused of violating the privacy of his clients, who included the prominent Catalan politician Joan Puigcercos, top motorcyclist Jorge Lorenzo, and even the sister of former Barcelona soccer star Ronaldinho. The camera was found by a cleaner hidden behind a radiator in the toilet of his clinic. The device was connected by wire to his computer, which is being analyzed by police to determine whether he recorded any of the illicit footage.Jorge I. P. told officers after his arrest that he had installed the camera in an attempt to catch clients stealing from the clinic, a claim that prosecutors have rejected.If found guilty, the suspect could face between one to four years in prison.

Armed Robbery at McDonalds restaurant

Two men armed with handguns stole €40,000 euros in an attack on a McDonalds restaurant in Alfas del Pi (Alicante) during the early hours of yesterday morning. The attack occurred shortly before 2am as staff were getting ready to close up for the night. Nobody was injured as the two men fled as soon as the cash, which represented several days' takings, was handed over. They made their escape in a car driven by the third member of the gang. According to eye-witnesses, the two men who carried out the raid, seemed to be Spanish.

Body of a man whose identity has not been confirmed, was spotted floating next to a lorry tyre

The body of a man whose identity has not been confirmed, was spotted floating next to a lorry tyre by the passengers of a pleasure yacht off Almería's Sabinal coast earlier today. A maritime salvage vessel, the 'Denébola', has been dispatched to the scene to recover the body, which is said to be dressed in a black suit

875 kilos of hashish on a wooden launch on the Tuburón beach in San Roque close to Sotogrande

The Guardia Civil have found 875 kilos of hashish on a wooden launch on the Tuburón beach in San Roque close to Sotogrande. The drugs were hidden in a secret compartment and the boat was found complete with its outboard motor and some food in its interior. Officers took the boat from the Club de Playa area to Sotogrande port.

Bobby Spiers identified as a notorious member of the Manchester gangland, was arrested in Benidorm

Bobby Spiers identified as a notorious member of the Manchester gangland, was arrested in Benidorm on Tuesday. Spiers, 40, was arrested by National Police on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder under a European arrest warrant and is being held in custody until a formal extradition can be carried out.The arrest follows extensive enquiries by Greater Manchester Police who were investigating a shooting in a pub in Salford in March 2006.Spiers is alleged to have been behind an attempted execution which led to the murder of two hit men.The gunmen were arrested but Spiers, from Prestwick, Greater Manchester, had been on the run since.Police began looking in Spain after several sightings were reported following a BBC1 Crimewatch programme that made an appeal in July last year for information on the whereabouts of Spiers.UK and Spanish police have been working in collaboration since these reports were received and have been searching for Spiers mainly on the Costa Blanca.

‘Gordo’, has admitted that he killed the Italian tourist, Federica Squarise in the early hours of July 1 in Lloret de Mar.

28 year old Uruguayan waiter, Santiago Victor D.S. known in the press as ‘Gordo’, has admitted that he killed the Italian tourist, Federica Squarise in the early hours of July 1 in Lloret de Mar. He told the court in Girona that he had consensual sex with the woman who then threatened to charge him with rape, and so he decided to kil her by putting clothes in her mouth and then suffocating her with his hands. The magistrate ordered jail with no bail. Under Spain’s penal code he faces between 15 and 20 years in prison for the murder, and between 6 and 12 years more for the sexual aggression.

Body of a woman found on waste ground

Police are investigating what is an apparent killing following the discovery of the body of a woman on waste ground close to the CT 32 service road to the new industrial park at Los Camachos in Cartagena.The body, which showed signs of violence, is thought to have been there for some days, and had been partially covered with branches.The unidentified body has been described as robust, and was wearing a dark grey tracksuit with a green shirt and has now been taken to the Legal Medicine Institute in Cartagena.
An autopsy is to be carried out to try to determine cause of death.

Burnt bodies of two Spaniards have been found in a forest in Morocco

Burnt bodies of two Spaniards have been found in a forest in Morocco. The Spaniards are both of Berber origin and were found close to the border with Melilla in a place called Mariguari, according to police sources. One of the two was identified by an ear-ring, but their identity has not yet been released by police. An autopsy is to be carried out, but it’s believed the two men in their 20’s went missing from their homes in Melilla last July 12.

Torrevieja Danish mans body found by his driver in his luxury villa in the Los Balcones urbanisation.

Judicial Police of the Guardia Civil are investigating the death of a Danish man in Torrevieja, with the first data appearing to confirm a settling of criminal scores.
The body of the victim was found by his driver in his luxury villa in the Los Balcones urbanisation. The body showed signs of violence and seems to have struggled with his aggressor(s) before meeting his death. Police sources also say that the body was manipulated after death. The victim had rented the villa from German owners and had been in residence there for some 12 days.

Torremolinos explosion on the paseo marítimo in the La Carihuela district

An explosive device went off on a beach in Torremolinos in the early hours of this morning without causing any injuries.The small device went off at 20 minutes past midnight on the paseo marítimo in the La Carihuela district in the top tourist destination in Málaga province, between the Aloha Puerto and Timorsol hotels. The police, as yet, have not confirmed who they think may have placed the device, but it is almost certainly to be the work of Basque terrorists ETA. They have already claimed responsibility for four small and similar devices which exploded on the Cantabrian coast in the north of the country a week ago.

Freddie Thompson assassinated in Spain?

Freddie Thompson, leader of one of the feuding Drimnagh/Crumlin gangs, was alive or dead after rumours spread throughout Thompson's associates that he had been assassinated in Spain.Senior garda sources said last night there had been no reports from Spanish police of a murder. Thompson left Dublin last weekend for Spain amid reports of a growing threat to his life. He has been warned several times by gardai about threats to his life.The sources said that there was no evidence of a murder, or disappearance, but did confirm that Thompson's associates believe he is dead. Intelligence reached gardai early yesterday that Thompson's gang were unable to contact him and that it was completely out of character for him to lose contact with his gang.
Thompson, 27, was in Estepona in southern Spain in February when one of his close associates, Paddy Doyle, also 27, was shot dead. The murder has not been solved but Spanish police indicated to gardai that they suspected Doyle -- and Thompson -- had run foul of Turkish drug traffickers.Thompson was on the scene shortly after the murder, though it was not absolutely established if he was travelling in the car in which Doyle was shot, though Spanish police believe he was. A short time later Spanish police seized a car in a nearby car park and found 110kg of cocaine.
Thompson travels between Dublin, Amsterdam and the Costa del Sol. He was arrested in Rotterdam in October 2006 when police seized seven kilos of cocaine, six handguns and ammunition at an apartment he had been used. He evaded prosecution on a technicality when the case came to trial in February 2007.
Thompson is also an associate of Martin Foley, who has been the target of several murder attempts -- the latest in January when he survived being hit by five bullets.
The feud in which Thompson and Foley are caught up began in 2000 when a gang of young drug dealers from the Drimnagh-Crumlin area fell out after gardai seized cocaine in the Holiday Inn in Pearse Street. The gang split and the violence started with the murder of one of the gang in 2001. Since then there have been nine more murders, dozens of attempted murders and hundreds of violent incidents.
The intelligence reaching gardai about Thompson's disappearance come after an upsurge in activity from his enemies, who carried out at least one known assassination attempt early this month and were planning another murder last week.
The spread of Irish gangland violence to Spain is not new and six known Irish criminals have been murdered there in the past four years. In 2004, the leaders of the Westies gang, Stephen Sugg and Shane Coates, were murdered and buried in a secret grave in Alicante. John McKeown, 48, said to be a major figure in international drug trafficking, was shot dead in January last year in Torrevieja. Sean Dunne, 32, from Coolock, was shot dead in September 2005, also near Alicante. And, the body of Cork man Michael 'Danser' Ahern was found stuffed into a freezer in Albuifera, Portugal, in September 2005.
Gardai who know Thompson said last week that the murder in Spain of his friend Paddy Doyle had badly affected him and he had been acting in an erratic manner since.
Doyle was Thompson's main "enforcer" and had personally carried out the assassinations of two of Thompson's rivals. Doyle had been living in Spain since 2005.

The suspect, arrested on July 3rd works in Spain as a cleaner. The suspect hails from Asaba in Delta State

A 26-year-old female suspected drug courier has been arrested by men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for alleged unlawful possession and attempt to export 1.050 kilogrammes of substances that tested positive for cocaine at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja.
Fourteen (14) of the wraps were discovered to have been stuffed into her private parts while 44 other wraps were ingested by her in a desperate bid to earn 1,000 Euros.Reacting to her arrest, the NDLEA Airport Commander Alhaji Hamza Umar cautioned drug traffickers to stop abusing their bodies. Hamza said that it is dehumanizing for anybody to either ingest or insert narcotic drugs.
“It is amazing the way drug couriers treat themselves with disdain. They must understand that this is sheer cruelty and it has to stop,” the Commander warned.
The suspect, arrested on July 3rd works in Spain as a cleaner. The suspect who hails from Asaba in Delta State is the only female among eight suspected drug traffickers so far arrested at the Abuja airport in July 2008.

National police have arrested four people who are accused of trafficking in cocaine in the Campo de Gibraltar area

National police have arrested four people who are accused of trafficking in cocaine in the Campo de Gibraltar area. The four are to face charges of committing a crime against public health, and some 3.2 kilos of the drug was recovered in the operation. The four acted in particular during the local fiestas in municipalities in the region.In a separate incident the Civil Guard has arrested a Spanish married couple at the port in Ceuta as they were boarding a ferry for Algeciras. The couple was carrying 25 inflated balloons which they said were for a children’s party, but inside which the police found more than six kilos of hashish.

Southern Spain cannabis with a potential street value of €1.1 million found at a warehouse in an industrial estate in Blanchardstown.

Gardai and Revenue’s Customs service arrested two men last night following the seizure of cannabis with a potential street value of €1.1 million at a warehouse in an industrial estate in Blanchardstown.The cannabis was discovered in pallets of tiles which had been imported from Southern Spain. The men, aged 39 and 53, were arrested at the scene and are currently being held at Blanchardstown Garda Station under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice ( Drug Trafficking ) Act 1996. They can be detained for up to 7 days.

Police in Spain said Wednesday they had seized 4.2 tonnes of hashish in the south of the country and arrested nine suspected drug traffickers.

Police in Spain said Wednesday they had seized 4.2 tonnes of hashish in the south of the country and arrested nine suspected drug traffickers. The drugs were found in April on two speedboats, one carrying 2.4 tonnes of hashish and the other 1.8 tonnes, police said in a statement. Police also seized 1.2 million euros (1.9 million US dollars), four vehicles as well as several guns and documents during 18 searches carried out as part of their probe of the group which is suspected of smuggling hashish from Morocco. They did not give an estimated street value for the drugs. Morocco is believed to be one of the world's largest producers of hashish. It has vowed to crack down on trafficking and toughened border controls in recent years. Spain, with its extensive coastline, is Europe's main entry point for Moroccan hashish and cocaine from South America, mostly from its former colony Colombia, the world's top producer of the drug.

Body of a man has been found in the burnt out remains of an A4 car

The body of a man has been found in the burnt out remains of an A4 car on the A-92 road near Gérgal in Almería. The body was on the back seat of the vehicle. Police were alerted at 4am on Friday morning by a driver who had noticed the fire on land next to the road, and then a second driver said that there was a car on fire in the area. The Guardia Civil have now opened a full investigation.
Back in 2005 two people were found at the same spot, in a burnt out vehicle with German registration. Then a settling of scores among foreigners was considered to be the cause.

French national arrested under suspicion of being involved in drug smuggling

officers have arrested a man of French nationality who was under suspicion of being involved in what was known to the investigating authorities as ‘Operation Envolat’.
The man in question was arrested aboard his yacht, which was flying the French flag, just off the coast of the island of Cabrera. According to Guardia Civil sources, the Frenchman often sailed through these particular waters of the Mediterranean Sea but changed the yacht’s name and flag every so often in order to avoid detection by the authorities.This operation has been ongoing for the last few months and was made more difficult by the fact that enquiries revealed that a luxury yacht was being used to transport the drugs. It was only very recently, due to certain controls carried out, that the yacht in question was regarded as suspicious and boarded. Security forces which form part of the Guardia Civil discovered 66 packets of hashish, amounting to two tonnes in total.

Elderly couple found stabbed to death at a flat in Moraira town centre shortly after midnight last night may have been killed by burglars.

Investigators suspect that and elderly German couple found stabbed to death at a flat in Moraira town centre shortly after midnight last night may have been killed by burglars. A large kitchen knife was left at the scene and the doors to the couples' safe were found open, and it was empty. The identities of the couple have not been confirmed though it is known that the man was aged 78, and his wife 85.

Rumanian immigrant was arrested last Sunday evening hours after a woman returned home to find him asleep in her chalet

27 year old Rumanian immigrant was arrested last Sunday evening hours after a woman returned home to find him asleep in her chalet. The woman noticed something was wrong when she noticed that the door of the property had been forced and that one of the window bars had been bent out of shape.
Peering in through the bedroom window, she spotted the man asleep in her bedroom, and immediately called the police. He was captured a few hours later hiding in bushes on the banks of the Guadalmedina river between Casabermeja and Málaga.
During the search, a shotgun wrapped in a blanket was found discarded close to the chalet, which is located in the El Chorro area, not far from the Hermitage of Nuestra Señora del Socorro, on the outskirts of Casabermeja.

Police are investigating the death of a man whose badly burned body was found in a wooded area of the Garraf natural park

Police are investigating the death of a man whose badly burned body was found shortly after midnight last night in a wooded area of the Garraf natural park near Sitges (Barcelona). It seems that the man was hit over the head before being doused in some kind of inflammable liquid then set alight. The body was discovered after fire-fighters had been called in to extinguish the resulting bush fire.