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BURGLARY GANG ROUNDED UP

An investigation by Guardia Civil officers in Almoradí has led to the arrest of three men and the recovery of stolen goods valued at more than 350,000 euros.
The operation began last Sunday when a police patrol intercepted a vehicle travelling to Almoradí from the town of Lorca in Murcia. The two male occupants, both Romanian nationals, were in possession of a large quantity of cigarettes and alcoholic drinks, the proceeds of a burglary in Lorca.
Further enquiries led to a police raid on a house in El Saladar on the outskirts of Almoradí, where a third member of the gang was detained.
According to police, the house was being used a distribution warehouse for the stolen property, mostly tobacco and alcohol, from crimes committed throughout the region.
Here, the offenders ‘watered down’ the alcoholic beverages before selling them on to various small commercial outlets throughout the Vega Baja.
Police have not ruled out further arrests.

ANOTHER BY-PASS BRIDGE

Yet another road-bridge is to be constructed over the Torrevieja by-pass, making access from several urbanisations to the town even easier.
The new bridge is to be built near the ‘Aquapark’ on one side and the cinema/leisure area on the other.
The site of the proposed bridge has been the scene of a number of traffic accidents in recent years, when pedestrians have attempted to cross the busy main road.
This latest project, which will cost around 750,000 euros, will be the third such vehicle and pedestrian crossing along this stretch of road.

Police in Torrevieja arrested two employees of a company in the town last week for stealing their boss’s company car because he hadn’t paid them their wages.
The two men were apparently owed several months’ back pay. After asking their boss for the money several times without success, they got him to sign a paper saying that he was handing over the car to them.
The men then used the car, a Renault Megane, and continued to work at the company.
However, the boss denounced the employees to the police, saying that they had threatened him and forced him to sign the document to hand over the car.
The two men were arrested, accused of robbery, and the car was returned to its rightful owner.
The dispute over the unpaid wages will now be dealt with in court.

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CREDIT CARD CON-MEN CAUGHT

Eight Romanian nationals were arrested by Alicante police last weekend accused of falsifying credit cards and using them at cashpoints to withdraw substantial sums of cash.
More than 2 million euros are believed to have been fraudulently obtained by the gang. This sum may well increase as police investigations into the case continue.
The arrested men, aged between 22 and 37 years, belonged to an organised gang based in Alicante that operated at different towns throughout the province.
The gang stole handbags at El Altet airport and shopping centres, mainly from foreigners, and then used the “Lebanese loop” method (where a plastic device is inserted into the cash machine to trap cards) to obtain cash with the credit cards. They also used sophisticated manual card reading and recording machines to obtain information from the magnetic strip on credit cards used to pay for goods in shops.
The cash was then used to purchase goods that were sent to Romania.
Police apparently decided to bring forward the arrests when they found out that the gang was planning to return to their home country.
Police also raided two apartments on San Juan beach and seized a number of machines for reading the magnetic strips on credit cards and computer files containing programmes for manufacturing and reading credit cards, as well as a quantity of jewellery, cash and blank credit cards.
The arrested men are believed to be belong to the same gang arrested by police in Denia last weekend for being involved in a major credit card fraud in the town.

A walker was rescued on Sunday morning after falling and sustaining serious injuries in the mountains near Crevillente.
The 32-year-old man from Elche, J.M.A., was out walking with three companions on the south-west face of the Picacho de San Cayetano mountain, an area of almost vertical rock faces.
The incident occurred at around 10.30 when a rock the man had been holding onto, weighing around 200 kilos, became loose, hitting him and then dragging him several metres down the mountainside.
Another member of the group was slightly injured when hit by the same rock.
One of man’s colleagues called the emergency services on his mobile phone, while another tried to stem the bleeding from a severe cut in the injured man’s leg.
A complicated rescue operation was then carried out involving the mountain rescue group of Crevillente Red Cross, police, firemen and eventually an army helicopter, as it proved impossible to reach the injured man with a stretcher on foot.
The injured man was transferred by helicopter to a waiting ambulance and taken to hospital in Elche at around 13.45.

Part of the protected area of the natural park that surrounds the Torrevieja salt lake, near the residential area of urbanisation Los Balcones, is continuing to suffer from an invasion of illegal tippers, motor vehicles and persons bathing in the water, according to Miguel Angel Pavón, a spokesman for the ecologist group ‘Amigos de los Humedales del Sur’.
A few weeks ago, plans to fence off the affected area were announced by those responsible for the conservation of the park but, to date, the work has not yet been completed.
The ecologists are not only demanding a fence to protect the area from vehicle access and the implementation of heavy fines for those caught dumping rubbish; they are also calling for a clampdown on people who bathe in the lake to benefit from the health-giving properties of the mud and salt water.
Officially, bathing in the salt lakes is illegal. However, for several years now, the authorities have turned a blind eye.