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"This is a grave charge and a custodial sentence of a considerable length is a very real possibility."
The court heard details of a crime spree which involved several premises across the Highlands and revealed some common themes.
An Easter Ross man spat at a police officer and racially abused another shortly after being released from a two-year prison sentence.
A Ross-shire dealer who had been supplying drugs for over six years has been jailed for 18 months at Inverness Sheriff Court.
He saw a vehicle being driven erratically with two burst tyres.
Owura Edwards was shown the red card by a sheriff for taking his mum's car without permission and driving the wrong way on a one-way street.
The appearance was in private at Inverness Sheriff Court.
Police stopped a man in a Dingwall Street for a routine check and got a strong smell of cannabis off him.
A Ross-shire man was hit over the head with a home-made metal weapon after he confronted his attacker outside his home.
A former Celtic youth coach has been convicted of sexually assaulting boys who he had befriended while running a soccer academy in Easter Ross.
The jury hearing the case against the former football coach has been offered alternative interpretations of what happened.
A youth football coach denied he ever sexually assaulted any of the youngsters he had befriended, but accepted he slept in the same bed as them.
His defence agent said first offender Bound had 'suffered a kind of brain fog and was ashamed and embarrassed about what he had done.
A youth football coach turned his attention to another younger boy when the player he befriended stopped going to stay with him, a court heard.
A boy was abused by his football coach for years after joining a local soccer team, a jury has been told.
Sheriff Eilidh Macdonald described him as having "a significant role in the drug trade".
He was stopped TWICE at the same spot – weeks apart – and found with drugs in his system.
The sheriff told him: 'You know you shouldn't behave like this'.
An experienced fish farm worker drowned after he was crushed between a boat and a barge as he tried to disembark a moving transfer vessel.