Among the latest offenders to be sentence was thief Evan Pidgeon who had stolen multiple packs of meat and ice cream. Nottinghamshire Police recovered the stolen items as well as a pair of scissors the 34-year-old had brought to the scene.
Pidgeon, of no fixed address, later pleaded guilty to one count of theft and one count of possessing a bladed article in a public place. He appeared at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, March 30, where he was jailed for 24 weeks. Read the full story here
And offender Lauren Stevens was jailed after tricking her way into the home of a vulnerable man in order to steal from him.
Stevens, 28, of Hucknall Lane, Bulwell, was jailed for four years at Nottingham Crown Court on March 31 after pleading guilty to robbery at an earlier hearing. Read the full story here
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Burglar Allan Sulley, 18, broke into four separate houses and stole multiple vehicles across Nottingham during a week-long spree.
Sulley, of Sandy Lane, Mansfield was charged with four counts of burglary and three counts of theft. He pleaded guilty to the offences and was sentenced to three years and nine months' detention in a young offenders’ institution. Read the full story here
A drug dealing couple were sentenced after they were woken up by police officers raiding their property in Kimberley. Billy Unthank and Leigh Goldsbury , both aged 25, woke to the sight of officers in their home on Gilt Hill in Kimberley.
Phones found contained evidence showing Unthank had been dealing class A drugs for over two months, whilst messages on there also implicated Goldsbury who was found to be selling cannabis. Both pleaded guilty to the charges and appeared at Nottingham Crown Court on Monday (April 3) to be sentenced.
Unthank, of Baker Road, Newthorpe, was jailed for three years. Goldsbury, of Frances Street, Brinsley, received a nine-month sentence suspended for 18 months, and was ordered to complete 20 rehabilitation days. Read the full story here
More cases before the court included two drug gangs and leading suppliers who plagued Nottinghamshire’s streets with heroin and cocaine. They were locked up for more than 150 years combined.
More than a dozen drug dealers were directly involved in an illicit operation that saw the area flooded with more than 10 kilos of Class A drugs from different parts of the UK.
The so-called ‘Kinsella’ and ‘ Eastwood ’ organised crime groups were responsible for copious amounts of cocaine and heroin being supplied across Nottinghamshire over a seven-month period. Between November 2019 and April 2020, the Nottingham-based Kinsella group bought cocaine in bulk from high-level suppliers based in the north and south of England, which they then sold to local drug dealers. Read the full story here
And a thief went to prison after he was caught red-handed by police at a pawn shop after walking in with a stolen sat nav.
Lewis Langley, 32, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to receiving stolen goods and was jailed for 30 weeks. Read the full story here
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