Costa del Sol News

Arrested for paying with fake banknotes

NATIONAL POLICE arrested two Moroccan men in Malaga city, Costa del Sol for allegedly buying drinks in several different bars with fake banknotes. According to Police sources they were called to the Plaza la Merced area by the two men themselves who told them that a group of Rumanians were following them with the intention of attacking them.

While the officers were talking to them, several owners of bars in the area approached them and informed the officers that the two men had been paying for drinks with false 20 bank notes. According to the bar owners they became suspicious after they noticed the men paid for each drink with a new bank note sometimes without waiting to have finished the first drink.



Hashish bundles found on beach

LOCAL POLICE in Casares, Costa del Sol discovered and confiscated a total of 106 kilos of hashish while they were patrolling a beach known as the Torre de la Sal. According to sources, the officers found one bundle of drugs on the shore and after inspecting the area another three bundles were found partially buried in the sand.



Hoodies rob warehouse

TWO hoodies armed with a gun and a knife robbed a construction material warehouse located in Avenida Jose Ortega y Gasset in the Campanillas area of Malaga, according to sources near to the case.

Allegedly the two robbers intimidated the employees and in just a few seconds escaped on a motorbike with the days takings which were, according to the same sources, around 600 euros.



Man tries to set fire to bakery

A 44-year-old man who had worked in a bakery in Calle Joselito, located in the Vistafranca neighbourhood in Malaga, Costa del Sol, 20 years ago was arrested by Local Police for trying to set the establishment on fire with a Molotov cocktail.

According to sources near to the case the arrested entered the shop and asked an employee if the owner was there. When told that she wasn’t there at the time, the man went outside to his motorbike and came back with a plastic bottle full of petrol with a piece of cloth and a lighter.

According to the couple who own the bakery, they where able to stop the man just as he was walking through the door and called the Police.

According to Police sources the officers who arrested him found that he was also carrying a starting pistol.

According to the owner of the bakery the man was fired by her father around 20 years ago when he still owned the establishment.

She claims she doesn’t have an explanation for the incident which has left her shocked and scared.



Two years for complicity in shooting

PROSECUTORS are asking for jail sentences of two years each for two British men accused of being involved in a shooting in a bar in Puerto Banus Costa del Sol in 2005.

Reportedly the two accused entered the bar with a third person who has since been found to be in contempt of court.

The three argued with several people and then left the establishment. When they returned shortly afterwards the third man, who is now on the run, was holding a gun. Reportedly, he shot randomly at a group of around 20 people injuring one person. According to prosecutors his two friends did nothing to try to stop him and therefore, were charged with complicity.



Abandoned baby returned to mother

THE baby girl who was abandoned in a Cartama health centre (Euroweekly 1175) will be returned to her mother according to the sentence ruled by the judge presiding over the case.

According to sources near to the case the mother of the two-month-old baby had had a heated discussion with her partner inside their house, apparently they had another argument later on that day during which the mother took the baby to a male friend’s house in Alhaurin el Grande. Reportedly, this was so that he would look after the baby so that she wouldn’t have to be present during the argument. Apparently after having looked after the baby for many hours with no news from the mother, the man left her in the health centre, allegedly assuming that she would be properly looked after there. Employees in the health centre called the Guardia Civil which lead to the arrest of the mother, her partner and the friend.

After interrogating all three the judges’ decision was that the baby was better off with the mother.



Courthouse computers stolen

NATIONAL POLICE are investigating the burglary of five computers in a new Courthouse in Marbella, Costa del Sol. The burglars came in through the main door, which was still under construction and the computers could be seen from outside.