Ten arrested in weekend operations in Tesorillo

JIMENA / San Martín del Tesorillo The Guardia Civil detained a total of ten people in two separate incidents over last weekend. The first incident was a street fight outside a disco, in which six were arrested. The quarrel also involved others who were severely injured and needed medical attention. The second involved four people who allegedly set fire to a car, having previously damaged it heavily, and which spread to another two vehicles in the immediate vicinity. The fire also caused damage to the Town Hall offices as well as the post office. All the arrested are now 'at the disposal of the courts'.

Man arrested for scratching three cars

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JIMENA (Agencies) The Guardia Civil arrested a man last Sunday for allegedly being the perpetrator of scratches on three cars. The first denuncia was made in July, followed by two more this month from different car owners on the same street in the same spot. Observation elicited that the marks on all three vehicles looked much the same and were probably made by the same instrument, which was probably a stone. Further investigation led the Guardia Civil to the conclusion that the same person waited until a car parked in front of his house, waited for the driver to leave and then proceeded to come out of his home, pick up a stone and scratch the car all over, causing damage to all sides of the vehicles. It is estimated that the damage to each vehicle amounts to €1,000.

Guardia rescue group of walkers lost in the hills

JIMENA (Agencies) It is all too easy to get lost in the cork forest of Los Alcornocales Nature Park, as a group of supposedly experienced walkers learned last weekend. Officers from the GC post at Jimena were alerted by a mobile phone call to the station, coming from the walkers themselves. They were lost, but thanks to the GC's exacting knowledge of the area, they were able to recognize some indicators. Having taken off for a long walk into the forest, they were now at a place known locally as Majada del Lobo. The search was on and the visitors were finally located and brought into the village safe and sound. This is hardly the first time this has happened in the park, and fortunately there are no injuries or worse to report. The Guardia Civil advises, though, that walking in these hills can be a risky business, however leisurely it may appear, so it is not a good idea to set out without excellent knowledge of the forest or without taking a guide.

Castellar heroin ring busted

CASTELLAR (Agencies / Photo: from Guardia Civil video) A drug specialising in heroin traffic and based in Castellar was busted yesterday, according to a press release from the Guardia Civil. With ramifications in Algeciras, La Línea and San Roque, as well as in Madrid and Palma de Mallorca, Operation Almenara concluded with the arrest of eight people, confiscation of 814 grammes of heroin, other drugs, cash, computers, mobile phones and arms. The gang had been under watch, in an operation headed by the GC in Algeciras, since December but it was only in April that a man of North African origin was seen arriving from Madrid by bus and being handed a parcel of the drug. He was arrested at the Algeciras bus station. (See the full story on CampoPulse)