Sixty-eight year old Purificación was walking home along a dirt road in El Toril, Alcaucín, when she heard the sound of barking dogs, getting closer and closer.
Skeleton found in riverbed in Alcaucín
On Thursday evening at around 18:30, workmen cleaning the riverbed in Alcaucín discovered a half buried corpse in the middle of the channel, only a hand and leg visible.
Two hikers rescued from La Maroma
Two people who called the Emergency Services on Saturday evening to report that they were lost while hiking on La Maroma near Alcaucín were found safe and sound on Sunday. Infoca, Guardia Civil and Protección Civil officers launched a search after the couple, a man and a woman, both aged 25 years, reported their predicament.
A bit different…
Here’s an interesting idea and a good way to offer something just a little bit ‘different’ from the normal. Remember the film ‘The Game’, with Michael Douglas and Sean Penn? Excellent film.
All very Pythonesque
Alcaucín is a small town, population roughly 2,400, where only seventeen percent of the inhabitants are under the age of twenty. At this moment in time, there are no pregnancies in the town and only three children have been born in the municipality during the past sixteen months. The population of this small town is actually in decline. Of the …
New Mayor of Alcaucín
The full plenary session of Alcaucín Council was due to confirm María Victoria Luque as the new Mayor following the recent incarceration of former Mayor José Manuel Martin Alba on corruption charges. However, an eleventh-hour turnaround resulted in the appointment of Guillermo Pérez (PA) as the new Mayor.
Mayor of Alcaucín resigns
The Mayor of Alcaucín, José Manuel Martín Alba, who was arrested four days ago as part of an investigation into corruption, has resigned from the Council. The Mayor was detained along with thirteen others during Operación Arco and is charged with bribery, corruption, money laundering, influence peddling, breach of trust and fraud. He was expelled from the PSOE on the …
Cash under mattress
As part of ‘Operación Arcos’, the investigation into corruption which has seen the arrest of the Mayor of Alcaucín and twelve other people, Guardia Civil officers have been carrying out various hose searches. At the home of the Mayor they discovered €160,000 in cash hidden under a mattress. The Mayor says that this money is his ‘life savings’. Police also …
Mayor of Alcaucín arrested
The Mayor of Alcaucín, José Manuel Martín Alba, is one of thirteen people arrested this morning in a police operation against corruption. The other detainees include two of the Mayor’s daughters, the head of the Architecture Department at the Provincial Council and sundry persons connected with promotion and construction of houses. Guardia Civil officers from the Unidad Central Operativa (UCO) …