ISSUE NO. 1728
Newspaper in Spain 2017 & 2018
COSTA DE ALMERÍA YOUR PAPER, YOUR VOICE, YOUR OPINION
16 - 22 August 2018
Locksmith taxed by arrest OFFICERS of the National Police have detained a 22year-old man at Almeria port, using a European arrest warrant. The Moroccan man is a professional locksmith and repair man, but has been charged with fraud and forgery in Austria after issuing false pay receipts to the country’s Treasury. At the time of the arrest the man was travelling from Spain to Nador (Morocco) with his 17-year-old sister. According to the Prosecutor’s Office of Korneuburg, Austria, the suspect defrauded the amount of €6,389 between December 2017 and June 2018, and is liable to be sentenced to three years in prison for the offence. The detainee carried out locksmith services and repairs in Korneuburg, but when he referred his selfemployed accounts to the Treasury, he made no allowances for the country’s tax system. He has been placed before the court of Almeria for trial.
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POT PLANTS: The Guardia Civil inspects a seized marihuana plantation.
Weeded out by Tom Woods THE Guardia Civil has dismantled two indoor greenhouses in Vicar that were cultivating 1,054 marihuana plants, arresting four people in the process. In the first of two raids, officers initially noticed a van with a French licence plate outside a house, with the keys in the ignition and signs of having been broken into, but with no one inside. As they were making inquiries into the ownership of
the van, four people came out of the house but on seeing the policemen looked startled, and turned to go back inside. Observing their reaction, the officers followed them and arriving on the patio they detected a strong smell of marihuana. When the four men were questioned about this, they replied that they did not own the plants, they only looked after them. A total of 794 plants were seized from the house, along with air conditioning ma-
chines, filters, lights, and an illegal electricity network. The detainees are aged 36, 41, 36 and 22, and are all residents of Vicar. In a separate incident, the Guardia Civil noticed a man jumping over a wall into a street in Vicar, but when he noticed the officers he ran away. As he fled, he jumped over a metal fence into a farm and managed to escape from the police. However, they inspected the house from which the man
had exited, and discovered 260 marihuana plants, as well as a range of electrical equipment used to grow them. There was also a pitbull running loose in the back yard, which was handed over to a local animal charity.
Credit: Guardia Civil
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