Overview

• Spanish police, working with Europol and Swedish authorities, foiled a Malmö-linked assassination-for-hire plot in Málaga, arresting six suspects including a minor and seizing loaded firearms, phones and concealment gear.
• Two suspects from Gothenburg, aged 16 and 19, were stopped within 48 hours of arrival; the 16-year-old was ordered to a closed juvenile center and the 19-year-old to prison, and four more were later arrested on conspiracy and weapons offenses.
• Mexico’s federal prosecutors in Tamaulipas arrested Juan “R” for allegedly producing and distributing child sexual abuse material through social media groups containing thousands of images and videos.
• Valencia investigators detained a 38-year-old suspected of eight violent snatch thefts targeting elderly women, identifying him and making the arrest as he entered his home in Catarroja.
• Courts and police reported further results, including a 106-year sentence in Jalisco for a former municipal officer who murdered two federal agents in 2021, and the dismantling in Palencia of a Georgian burglary crew that had marked 66 homes for break-ins.