The Lecrín Town Hall is warning locals about the gas-inspection con involving false obligatory inspections; something that is prevalent elsewhere in Granada, as well.
Dodgy Gas Fitters
by Martin Myall •
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False Sexual Abuse Claims
by Hugh MacArthur •
The Criminal court Nº1 in Granada has sentenced a woman to five-years’ imprisonment for falsely accusing her ex-husband of sexually abusing their daughter.
Illegal Arms-Trade Busted
by Hugh MacArthur •
We’re used to hearing how the Guardia Civil or Policía Nacional bust drug rings, but ones dealing in arms in the province is another thing completely.
Fake Traffic Control
by Hugh MacArthur •
The Guardia Civil nobbled a man, dressed in a soldier’s uniform, who was stopping traffic in Padul Monday night as if it were an official traffic-control point.
Bogus Covid-19 Doctors
by Hugh MacArthur •
First it was bogus gasmen now it’s bogus medical personnel who call at the doors, claiming they have to carry out an obligatory tests – it’s not true.
Bogus Gasmen Arrested
by Hugh MacArthur •
The police have brought two men from Cájar before a magistrate for allegedly having swindled an elderly lady of several hundred euros.
Doctor Youth
by David Darby •
Many of us can remember all sorts shenanigans from when we were teenagers, but a 17-year-old Australian lad really pushed the boat out when he was bored. He simply got himself a stethoscope, white coat and some dodgy credentials and proceeded to work in a few hospitals as a doctor!
Small Village, Big Lie
by Martin Myall •
When your home village has only 726 inhabitants, you can bet that everybody knows everybody, so when you tell a porker, nobody is going to believe it, because they know you. Well, one 54-year-old man in such a village, deep in the Alpujarra, decided to report that he had been mugged and kidnapped, as an explanation for being unable to pay a bar bill.
Manufactured Education
by Duncan Inglis •
It’s bad enough that in Andalucia the educational system has been shown to be defective and deficient, producing sub-par scholars with sub-par results once the former enter the work force, but to discover, or rather, uncover a ring which offered diplomas for titles that the students never even studied for, well, the cake’s been taken and left out in the rain.
Caught Out by CCTV
by Editor •
Another hold-up took place – or better said, ‘didn’t take place…’