All news on the topic: Arrests

Italian police have arrested three alleged members of the Pesce-Pistillo clan in Andria, accusing them of carrying out a string of extortion and violent intimidation against local shopkeepers as part of a mafia-style protection racket.

Police reported that dozens of smoke grenades and pyrotechnic devices were thrown, injuring 13 civilians and three police officers.

A major police operation in North Tyneside has led to 24 arrests and the seizure of Class A and B drugs, cash, and weapons.

Three police officers were killed in a farmhouse explosion in Italy as they arrived to evict the occupants.

London police said they have dismantled a criminal gang suspected of smuggling 40,000 stolen mobile phones to China in their largest operation against phone theft to date, resulting in 46 arrests over the last two weeks.

Police have made several arrests in Trafalgar Square during what organizers hoped would be the largest demonstration yet against a ban on the outlawed organization Palestine Action.

Violent anti-government protests in Morocco entered their fifth day on Thursday, after seeing their first fatalities the night before when police shot two demonstrators.

Among the 10 people arrested in Fiji last week in a major anti-drug operation was the son of a senior pro-China politician from Palau, who presides over his country’s Senate.

Police have begun arresting protesters supporting the banned group Palestine Action outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.

Some 260 suspected cyber scammers have been arrested in a sting operation carried out across 14 African countries.

Five suspects were arrested and assets frozen during coordinated searches in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Romania, and Bulgaria.

Tens of thousands rallied in Manila on Sunday against alleged corruption in billions of taxpayer funds lost to “ghost” flood-control projects now under investigation by the Senate and House of Representatives.

Four people have been arrested - one on suspicion of attempted murder - after four others were injured in a shooting at a nightclub in Birmingham.

Four people have been shot at a Birmingham nightclub, leaving one person in a critical condition.

Two workers from an ambulance service have been arrested as part of a significant two-year investigation into six deaths in Wiltshire.

Europol-supported operations in Spain and Portugal have seized more than 4 tonnes of cocaine and led to over 60 arrests between November 2024 and September 2025.

Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer justified his actions by saying ’some hatred cannot be negotiated with’, the FBI Director has revealed.

The operation spanned 18 countries across Asia and North Africa, with authorities reportedly seizing fentanyl in quantities “enough to kill 151 million people.”

Three people acted "like a pack of wild animals" when they attacked a man in a block of flats, as a court has heard. Joshua Bassett, Deborah Delaney, and Jamie Davies used a claw hammer, a bottle, and boots to beat their victim, leaving him battered, bruised, and bleeding from a head wound.

Police are appealing for information on 11 people after a number of public order and assault offences took place during Tommy Robinson’s ’Unite the Kingdom’ march in London.

The alleged head of a large cocaine-smuggling operation, who was one of Europe’s most wanted men at the time of his arrest, has gone on trial in Brussels.

The Prime Minister has stated he will not allow people to feel intimidated on "our streets because of their background or the colour of their skin" after clashes erupted at a right-wing march in London.

Bribes have been used to bypass the long waiting lists for affordable homes, according to the City of London Police, which has now launched an investigation into corrupt housing officers.