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ISSUE NO. 1737
18 - 24 October 2018
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TWO men have been arrested after breaking into a home and threatening its owners with a knife. T h e a l l e g e d b u rg l a r s have been placed in prison pending trial after reportedly forcing entry to an apartment in La Cala del Moral while wearing balaclavas before holding a knife to one person’s throat and stabbing another person. The suspects, identified only as MLC, aged 22, and DTR, aged 19, are said to have tried to break into the property’s front door early in the morning. Hearing a disturbance, a woman inside the home reportedly tried to block their entry but was forced to the ground before the men held a knife to her neck. Neighbours saw the commotion and called police as well as the property’s other owner as he travelled to work. The owner made his way back home, reportedly disturbing the intruders and entering into a struggle with them. The man is then reported
Credit: Ayuntamiento de Rincon de la Victoria
Home invasion
LOCAL POLICE: Seized two knives. to have been stabbed with a large knife and sustained injuries to both hands. Moments later, police arrived, preventing further injury and arresting the suspects. On searching the men, o ff i c e r s f o u n d a l a rg e kitchen knife, a second blade, a mobile phone, a
set of keys and a remote control to a garage. Police say the keys had been stolen from the owner of another property in the block by a man, ‘related to the perpetrators of the robbery, that he had given to them to help their burglary.”‘ The mayor of Rincon de
It’s a fruitless task A FARMING association is asking police to crack down on the sale of stolen fruit. The Agrarian Organisation of Young Farmers (ASAJA) is pressuring councils and the Local Police to increase checks in shops and markets on the origin of fruit and vegetables. A spokesperson for ASAJA claimed it was easy to tell which fruits - particularly avocados - had been stolen as they were often immature. He explained the crops, “are clearly not edible because they have two months of growth left and must be collected in December at the earli-
est for commercial maturity.” ASAJA claim these products are then sold at lower-than-normal prices, causing unfair competition which is harming other growers. The body said police should do more to control the “illegal sale,” of fruit and vegetables on the side of roads and in markets, adding, “if the fight against theft is effective we will also prevent farmers from picking a fruit before it is ready for fear of being robbed.” The organisation is asking councils to fine sellers who do not find out the crop’s origin.
la Victoria, Francisco Salado, praised, “the professionalism and speed with w h i c h t h e o ff i c e r s o f t h e Local Police acted, proceeding to the immediate arrest of the individuals.” He reassured residents, “ R i n c o n d e l a Vi c t o r i a i s one of the safest municipalities in the province.”
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Hero police save man MEMBERS of the Local and National Police have saved the life of a suicidal man in Caleta de Velez. Several civilians also helped in the rescue after a 30-year-old man swam half a mile out to sea and reportedly tried to drown himself. The man, named as Alejandro MG, is said to have been suffering from a ‘psychotic break,’ and had been told by members of his family at a nearby bar in Caleta de Velez that he would have to be admitted to a mental health hospital in Malaga. Alejandro instead fled and ran into the sea. Officers from the National Police found his brother and sister standing on the beach and initially called for help from the Maritime Services.
After learning it would take four hours for a rescue boat to arrive, officers instead ran to the marina in Caleta de Velez in search of a motor boat, finding help from two residents, Antonio Jose Encinas and Pablo Moyano. Meanwhile, a member of the Local Police flagged down the owner of another boat already out to sea, identifying himself as a police officer and asking for help. A fourth man, a young kayaker from Madrid, also paddled out to Alejandro, staying with him and helping the rescue boats locate him. Officers finally persuaded the man to come aboard a boat before he was transferred to hospital with, ‘symptoms of fatigue, totally exhausted and without strength.’