EST 2005
PHOTO CREDIT GUARDIA CIVIL
8th - 14th September 2017
BUSTED: The thief targeted private car parks.
No parking A 26-YEAR-OLD man has been held by the Guardia Civil on suspicion of committing a string of car robberies in Almerimar. His arrest comes after detectives launched a probe in the wake of a series of complaints from victims. Investigators believe that the man was living in a disused stor-
age unit, entering via a broken door. A raid on the building resulted in the seizure of two stolen bicycles, two portable DVD players, mobile phone chargers, an ebook, binoculars, three torches and a box containing 11 pairs of expensive sunglasses plus a num-
Lethal cocktail TWO beggars have died in Almeria City after consuming alcohol laced with a chemical agent designed to kill algae. The pair were hospitalised last Sunday after being found in plaza San Sebastian complaining of severe abdominal pains. And a third homeless man remains in critical condition after pedestrians called an ambulance. The first victim suffered a heart attack before reaching the hospital while the second died two days later. Investigators say that all three had mixed the contents of a box of pills they had found into their drinks.
ber of tools repor tedly used to break into parked vehicles. According to a police statement the thief would loiter in the vicinity of a private car park until there was nobody around before checking if vehicles had been properly locked with all the windows closed.
Pervert jailed A 60-YEAR-OLD man has been handed a four-and-ahalf-year jail sentence for sexually abusing an autistic girl. The provincial court heard that the victim was ‘less than 13-years-old’ when the accused, who was renting a spare room in her home, kissed her on the mouth and touched one of her breasts. He is also banned from coming within 500 metres of the girl for 10 years after confessing, but a second charge of touching her genitals was dismissed due to a lack of evidence.