Three people were injured on Saturday afternoon after an accident on the A-68 in Zaragoza. According to the Guardia Civil, they were occupants of a van that overturned after leaving the road at kilometer 244.5 in the direction of increasing traffic, toward Logroño.
The operation, dubbed SISROB-NOTEBOOK, was jointly conducted by the Barbastro Territorial Judicial Police Team of the Guardia Civil and the Heritage Group of the Territorial Investigation Unit of the Mossos d’Esquadra in Lleida.
Several users of a garage at 64 Vía Universitas, in Zaragoza’s Delicias district, found their vehicles with broken windows on Friday. The National Police received up to seven complaints during the morning over similar incidents at the same car park overnight.
A concrete mixer truck loaded with concrete overturned on a road in the municipality of Gurrea de Gállego, in Huesca province, on Friday. The driver suffered minor injuries. According to the Huesca Civil Guard, the truck veered off the road on the right, struck a metal guardrail and subsequently overturned.
A 26-year-old man was arrested after an incident during a police identification on Thursday at Zaragoza Municipal Shelter. He allegedly acted aggressively and resisted Local Police officers, who arrested him on suspicion of resisting authority.
A fire reported Wednesday in the La Puebla de Alfindén industrial estate destroyed two vehicles and two trailers after starting in scrubland and spreading rapidly. The blaze caused particular concern because of its proximity to a gas station, although it was eventually brought under control without reaching the facility.
A storm-related catenary fault in Catalonia halted all rail traffic between Barcelona and Tarragona for around two hours, disrupting thousands of travelers, including those traveling from Zaragoza. Adif said the service has now been restored, with Madrid-Barcelona high-speed trains beginning to run shortly before 1 p.m.
A man's refusal to leave the Jalón River on Monday led to an unusual intervention by Spain's National Police in Calatayud. Officers had to enter the water to remove a 31-year-old man who was bathing semi-naked under the Alcántara Bridge, where swimming is prohibited and the current posed a potential risk.
High-speed trains running between Madrid and Barcelona were delayed Wednesday morning, affecting services passing through Zaragoza. Adif said the problem was caused by an issue with the power supply between Sant Vicenç dels Horts and El Prat de Llobregat, in Barcelona province.
A fugitive wanted by Colombian authorities for an offense related to drug trafficking has been arrested by Spain's National Police in Daroca, Zaragoza. The 36-year-old man was subject to an international wanted, arrest and imprisonment warrant pending his extradition to Colombia.
The investigation into the dismembered man found on August 4 in the Yesa reservoir has taken a decisive turn. The Civil Guard, working with Navarra's Foral Police, arrested a man on Tuesday who is considered the main suspect in the alleged murder.
The Belver de Cinca Civil Guard has arrested a person suspected of drug trafficking and possession of a prohibited weapon in connection with events in Albalate de Cinca.
A family spread across the United States and other parts of the world had gone nearly four years without news of a 75-year-old woman living in Zaragoza. They did not know whether she was still in the city, whether she was well or even whether she had died. After multiple failed attempts to find her, one of her nephews traveled from San Francisco to the capital of Aragon and eventually went to the National Police. The report was filed at night and, by the following morning and against all odds, the woman had been located at a nursing home.
The Guardia Civil in Huesca had an especially busy week of mountain rescues. A total of 16 rescues or evacuations involved hikers, mountaineers and motorcyclists affected by injuries, getting lost, difficulties continuing or route-planning problems. The incidents resulted in ankle sprains, falls and heatstroke, none of them serious.
A traffic accident forced the A-23 motorway to close toward Zaragoza on Sunday afternoon near Almudévar. The incident occurred at around 7 p.m., although no official details have yet emerged about the circumstances or possible injuries. Emergency services are working at the scene.
A van overturned on the A-23 near Villanueva de Gállego at kilometer 301, heading toward Zaragoza. Four people suffered minor injuries. The vehicle veered off the road on the left-hand side.
Mobile phone and personal property thefts will again be among the police’s main concerns at Zaragoza’s Vive Latino. The National Police has deployed a special security operation for the festival, held this Friday and Saturday at the Expo grounds, with uniformed and plainclothes officers, dogs, Subsoil specialists, riot police and aerial resources as thousands of people arrive.
Adrián L. Z. has received a new conviction in Zaragoza for repeatedly breaching the conditions of the electronic device used to monitor a restraining order involving his ex-partner. The judge at Court No. 9 of the Criminal Section of the capital's Court of Instance found it proven that he caused numerous incidents by remaining separated from the tracking unit and failing to charge the battery properly. In one episode, he remained without a signal and could not be located for more than 24 hours.
A major fire broke out this morning in an apartment building on Vicente Berdusán Street, next to Zaragoza's Parque Roma housing complex. The blaze occurred in a nine-story building and produced a dense column of black smoke visible from various parts of the Aragonese capital.
A 51-year-old man wanted in connection with physical abuse within the family was arrested by Zaragoza Local Police during a preventive patrol near Castillo Palomar Park. An active judicial warrant had been issued for him.