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[Crime Watch]
• 24 Jan 2008 •
Drunk driver crashes into Police
A LOCAL POLICE vehicle has been smashed into twice by a drunk driver in Fuengirola. Reports say that the accident occurred just 15 metres away from the police station. The police car was making its way out of the station’s garage, when drunk driver reversed his car into them. According to the officers, they shouted a warning at the man but he continued to reverse his car three more times. The third attempt resulted in another collision which caused damage to the front of the police car. Officers approached the man’s vehicle and observed that he appeared to under the influence of alcohol. A breathalyser test indicated that he was four times over the legal limit. A search of his car also revealed a small amount of marihuana.
Extortionists arrested
A GANG of extortionists was uncovered by National Police thanks to an investigation which began at the beginning of the year after an elderly woman in Cadiz reported that a group of people were physically and verbally abusing her and demanding that she pay them 100,000 euros.
The investigation led to the arrest of four people, three of them residents of Malaga, and all with extensive criminal records.
The suspects, who are aged between 39 and 61, now face charges of allegedly forming an illegal association, extortion and threatening behaviour as well as resisting arrest.
According to the police headquarters in Cadiz, the group was an organised and complex gang which had analysed and studied information gathered on the victim as they had realised she was vulnerable. One officer was injured during the arrest.
Doctor assaulted
PROSECUTORS are asking for an 18-month jail sentence and a 180-euro fine for a man accused of physically assaulting a doctor in a health centre in La Palma, Malaga.
The alleged aggressor had asked the doctor for a sleeping pill, and when the doctor refused, he became very angry and began shouting. He is said to have hit the doctor causing several eye injuries; the doctor was unable to work for three days.
Fifteen years for stabbing
A 33-year-old Romanian man has been sentenced to 15 years in jail by the Malaga Provincial Court for stabbing his flat-mate to death after an argument. The accused was arrested in Granada where he was in hiding. The court considered it proven that the accused took money and a mobile phone from his dead flat-mate’s pocket. |  Return to Top
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