The title sounds bad enough when you’re talking about a cat, but what if it’s an 11-year-old boy? And that, in fact, was the case, as ‘cat’ was the code word for the child victim of a kidnapping in Barcelona.
Tag Archive for kidnapping
Transaction Hiccup & Default Retribution
by Martin Myall •
A tip off to the Policía Local in Salobreña led the to five arrests in Fuengirola by the Policía Nacional. The anonymous caller told the Salobreña police that his friend had been kidnapped by a drugs gang.
Mother Sues Judge
by Martin Myall •
A divorced woman is taking a judge to court after he took the custody of her 5-year-old daughter away from her, giving it instead to the father, who has already been sentenced to a 9-month suspended sentence for domestic violence.
Express Kidnapping in Motril
by Martin Myall •
The Policía Nacional have arrested a 19-year-old lad for his alleged involvement in an “express kidnapping;” which is holding someone for relatively small amounts of money, with the victim being released within hours or a couple of days maximum.
Sadistic Gang Arrested
by Martin Myall •
Members of the Policía Nacional broke up a pretty ruthless kidnapping gang that had been operating in the city of Granada, ending up in the arrests of seven alleged gang members, three of whom were of ages between 19 and 23 and five homes being searched.
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.