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Woman held for drunk driving and abandonment
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A 39-YEAR-OLD woman was arrested in Malaga city after she was found driving whilst clearly under the effects of alcohol.
Police observed her car swerving wildly in Avenida Juan XXIII in Malaga and hitting the kerbs. Having detained the woman on a charge of drunk-driving, police discovered that she had left her children, aged eight and nine, at home alone for several hours.
She was then further charged with temporary abandonment of minors and for refusing to take a breathalyser test. When taken to hospital for another blood test, she again refused.
In the meantime, police officers went to the woman’s home and found the two children asleep. However, officers reported that they appeared to be well fed and looked after.
They were then taken to their grandmother’s home, where they remained while their mother was in custody and Social Services have been asked to look into the case.
The woman spent the night in jail at a Local Police station and, as she refused to take alcohol tests, the officers were obliged to detail the external symptoms she presented in their report, which alleges she was driving while drunk.
British murder suspects arrested in Spain
NATIONAL POLICE in collaboration with Hertfordshire Police have arrested two men, N.J.J. aged 49, and his son J.N.J, aged 23, who were wanted for the kidnapping and murder of 42-year-old John Finney, who was snatched from his car in Park Farm on Northaw Road West, Northaw, on February 29, 2008.
His body was found, on March 14, on a piece of wasteland in Ickleford, Hertfordshire, with the head and hands cut off. The other body parts were not found but DNA tests enabled forensic investigators to identify the body. It is believed he was killed shortly after he was abducted.
A European arrest warrant had been issued against the two men who were detained in Marbella and are now being sent back to Britain. A third man, M.C., aged 28, has also been arrested in the UK and charged in connection with the murder of father-of-four, Finney. The Spanish investigation was carried out by the Homicide Group of the Specialised and Violent Delinquency Unit, with the help of the Costa del Sol Narcotics Group.
In a follow-up operation, Police confiscated three vehicles, documents, 30,000 euros and an immitation firearm.
Football trainer accused of sexual abuse
A 36-YEAR-OLD man from Malaga has been arrested, charged with the continued sexual abuse of his girlfriend’s 13-year-old son for more than a year.
The abuse came to light after the boy had an interview with a psychiatrist at the school where he studies and the answers he gave raised their suspicions. They contacted his mother, who immediately reported the case to the Guardia Civil. The Women and Minors Team (EMUME) opened an investigation which led to the man’s arrest.
The accused is a children’s football trainer and monitor and, although the boy was not on his team, this is how he met the mother, aged 45, with whom he began a relationship in 2005.
He has been taken into custody and is awaiting an initial hearing.
Malaga’s first repeat offender
A MAN in his twenties was caught twice in 48 hours, driving without a licence in Malaga. This is now considered a crime under new laws which came into effect just the day before he was stopped. The man was first stopped during a routine control carried out by the Local Police, proceedings were opened against him and he was released. However, he was stopped again, still with no licence, and a second case was opened.
The new law could mean that anyone found driving without a licence may face a prison sentence. More than 70 people have been charged in Malaga city alone since it came into effect.
Network dismantled
GUARDIA CIVIL in Malaga have dismantled an organised network which specialised in stealing new, luxury vehicles to sell abroad, and arrested two Russians aged 44 and 60, and a Spanish man aged 44, in Manilva.
The operation, code-named ‘Nave’, began in March, when a warehouse on La Dehesilla Industrial Estate was found
to be the scene of suspicious activities. Luxury vehicles were seen entering and leaving the building.
The authorities and a company which specialises in locating stolen vehicles began to investigate the warehouse and the people who were driving the cars, which were suspected to have false registration plates.
The premises were then searched and documentation from the vehicles, which had been stolen all over Spain, was confiscated, together with registration plates, tools, frequency inhibitors, false keys and equipment to change the vehicles’ chassis number, plates and locks. Several altered vehicles including Toyota, Mercedes, Lexus and Volkswagen and a trailer for transporting them were also confiscated. The cars were mainly being sold in eastern European and north African countries.
Casabermeja bank targeted again
A MAN burst into an Unicaja bank in Calle Bernardo Luque in Casabermeja, covering his face with a cap, and stole more than 7,000 euros at gunpoint before escaping on a motorbike. At the time of the robbery, there were three employees in the bank, as well as the manager and two customers.
The robber failed to get away with more money as the safe was not opened.
Members of the Guardia Civil are studying recordings from the bank’s security cameras and investigating whether the man had help or whether he acted alone. It is also unknown whether his gun was real or an immitation.
It is thought that the robber may have headed towards Malaga city after the attack but, although Local Police and Guardia Civil set up check-points and alerted forces in other nearby areas, the man was not found.
The same bank was targeted in 2003, when four people stole 30,000 euros. |  Return to Top
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