{"id":498141,"date":"2026-03-27T11:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498141\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:03:09","slug":"eight-arrested-in-joint-scotland-and-spain-gang-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498141\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight arrested in joint Scotland and Spain gang raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The detective said the inquiry pre-dated the gangland feud which broke out in central Scotland last year and has no connection with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5yqvg21xpzo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">killing of two senior members of the Lyons crime group<\/a> in Fuengirola last May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two men, Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons Jnr, were shot dead at a bar after watching the Champions League Final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man from Liverpool, Michael Riley, has been accused of committing the double murder and was extradited to Spain last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Calder said: &#8220;What I would stress is that we are continually targeting those involved in serious organised crime both here and abroad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you&#8217;re hiding from us, if you feel that when you depart Scotland you&#8217;re safe, our message is that our reach is far and wide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will be working with our partners in the NCA, the Spanish authorities and other countries to ensure we bring you to justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The detective said the inquiry pre-dated the gangland feud which broke out in central Scotland last year and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-498141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}