
The case of a car theft using violence, a business premises burglary in Salobreña and then a crashed car abandoned in an urbanización in Almuñécar is what the Guardia Civil had to deal with in August.
Three hooded men tried to steal a car at pistol point around the end of last month in Peligros – they failed; wrong victim.
On the 19th of February, just outside Cúllar Vega, the driver of a Citröen Saxo was dismayed when another car hit him from behind… but things got worse.
On Thursday night a 30-year-old Salobreña man demanded his stepfather’s car keys. The man refused, upon which, the stepson, who has previous convictions for violence, knocked the man to to the ground and beat him. With his stepfather suitably subdued the man took the car keys from him and drove off, leaving his victim on the pavement.
The Policía Local in Motril arrested a man for alleged car theft, who apparently used it to go shopping with his two kids.
The Mossos d’Esquadra (Catalan regional police) arrested a man and charged him not only with the theft of a car, but also of ejecting the elderly passenger.
The Policía Nacional in Málaga has arrested two women for allegedly stealing their ex-boss’s car as payment for a 160-euro outstanding debt.