Have you ever experienced someone exposing themselves and dismissed it as a joke? Or felt the unsettling gaze of someone watching you getting changed, only to brush it off as harmless? Think again. You may have been a victim of a non-contact sexual offenc...
Release date: 14/03/2025
Devon & Cornwall Police have been successful in obtaining a closure order on a property in Torquay following reports of drug dealing and anti social behaviour. On Tuesday 11 March, the Force obtained a three-month full closure order at a property on W...
Release date: 14/03/2025
A 35-year-old man from Plymouth has today, Thursday 13 March, been handed a suspended sentence for inciting racial hatred online. Dean Podesta, of Teats Hill Flats, pleaded guilty at Plymouth Crown Court in September 2024 to one offence of inciting racial...
Release date: 13/03/2025
Two members of an organised crime gang who helped traffic tens of thousands of pounds-worth of cocaine into the South West have been jailed. Stephen Wills and Leum Barrett were both found guilty of conspiring to supply cocaine and possession w...
Release date: 13/03/2025
Police investigating the theft of valuable jewellery from a Barnstaple store have released an image of a man they would like to identify. Selected Antiques & Jewellery on Boutport Street was broken into around 6.45pm on Wednesday 5 March. A door was f...
Release date: 13/03/2025
A driver has been sentenced for causing the death of a woman after he claimed to have fell asleep at the wheel. Jason Rana, 40, from Gould Road in Barnstaple, appeared at Exeter Crown Court on Tuesday 11 March after previously pleading guilty to causing d...
Release date: 12/03/2025
Since November last year, heightened police activity in the Stonehouse area of Plymouth has led to a number of positive outcomes as part of a wider project to improve safety in the area. The work carried out by the neighbourhood police team has led to ove...
Release date: 12/03/2025
Police investigating three fires in the West Anstey area of Exmoor are appealing for anyone with any information to come forward. The fire service reported that they attended three incidents in the area, one on Sunday 9 March at around 8.10pm and two on M...
Release date: 11/03/2025
An Exeter man has been jailed for 27 months for a variety of driving and drug offences. Cameron Trench-Butler, 20, of Exeter, was sentenced at Exeter Crown Court on Monday 10 March after pleading guilty to being concerned in the supply of Class B drugs, h...
Release date: 11/03/2025
Police officers in Devonport have achieved a number of positive outcomes as part of their recent effort to drive down crime affecting the livelihoods of local people. Recent police activity in Devonport has had a focus on shoplifting, police visibility an...
Release date: 11/03/2025
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