A prolific offender who is currently serving 42 weeks in prison for shoplifting, has been sentenced to serve an additional 14 weeks after being charged and with further offences that occurred in Devon. Craig Sawyer, 51, of no fixed abode, appeared via vid...
Release date: 18/03/2025
Police investigating a serious road traffic collision in Torquay at the weekend have located a person who was being sought in relation to the incident. Officers were called to reports of a collision involving a red Vauxhall Astra and a building on Teignmo...
Release date: 18/03/2025
Police are seeking the public’s help to identify these two individuals following a burglary and vehicle theft in Exeter. Officers were called on Monday 3 March following the incident at Rosebarn Avenue. During the night access was gained to a property and...
Release date: 17/03/2025
Police are appealing for the public’s help identifying this man following an assault and criminal damage in Plymouth. It was reported that between 12.15pm and 12.20pm on 14 January 2025 a man entered Tesco Express in Cobourg Street in Plymouth. He tried t...
Release date: 17/03/2025
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
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
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
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