The Costa Blanca is a large area on the eastern side of Spain with big name cities like Valencia, Alicante and popular Brit tourist destination Benidorm. Valencia has a massive port which is where a lot of big drug traffickers are trying to import into the country from South America.
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MORE than €550,000 in cash and an arsenal of firearms were seized from a luxury property in Valencia.
Among the weapons seized are three Scorpion submachine guns commonly used by the Serbian mafia hit-men, Spanish National Police said.
This followed the arrest in Valencia City last Friday of a fugitive convicted …
17 February 2012
Costa Blanca
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AGENTS of the National Police and Spain’s equivalent of the Customs and Excise have seized 50 kilos of cocaine in Crevillente.
The drug was tracked from its source in Colombia, to Barcelona port and then on to the Alicante region town where the police moved in.
The cocaine was concealed …
20 May 2011
Costa Blanca
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A 28-year-old Spanish man was found dead inside a burning home in Los Montesinos (Alicante) on Friday; however the cause of death seems to be from his bullet wound.
Fire fighters got the call of a fire on the third floor of a building in Calle Mediterraneo at 1.45pm.
When they arrived …
9 April 2011
Costa Blanca
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AN organization dedicated to robbing businesses in several provinces including Alicante, Valencia, Murcia, Castellon, Almeria and Albecete, has been dismantled.
Six people have been arrested as the alleged perpetrators, three more for providing support and cover work and two others for their alleged connect with the sale of stolen vehicles.
8 April 2011
Costa Blanca
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In this second, concluding part, EWN journalist Benny Davis investigates the story behind the headlines of a vicious murder including an exclusive interview with the wife of one of the two British men convicted and jailed for murder.
Case history:
In June 2006, British men Lindsay Frampton Slade and Adrian …
25 March 2011
Costa Blanca
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A MAN has been arrested by Guardia Civil for allegedly murdering a woman in Torrevieja on February 23.
She was selling her apartment and had placed an advert in a newspaper, to which this man answered and a viewing was arranged. Video surveillance shows him entering the building.
She was found murdered …
25 March 2011
Costa Blanca
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GUARDIA CIVIL investigating the drive-by killing of a German Altea resident in Alfaz del Pi have discovered he had previously been kidnapped in Poland, press reports say.
The details of the kidnapping are yet to be revealed, but this development follows last week’s revelation that the Polish-born, German national, was wanted …
17 March 2011
Costa Blanca
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