A 56-year-old Ross-shire woman has admitted her second drink drive conviction in little over a year.
Sheriff Robert Frazer also ordered seizure of her car.
The court heard he was hiding under two mattresses in his mother’s house.
A pensioner guilty of historic sex offences against girls has been jailed for four years.
When a man being questioned in Alness by police smashed his phone when it rang, the bizarre behaviour sparked their suspicion.
An Easter Ross motorist drove off at speed, dragging a passenger who was still holding on to the door handle along the road.
The 40-year-old admitted a charge of malicious damage.
A Ross-shire man was branded a ‘beast’ by observers who heard sordid details of his attempts to get indecent images of a child.
An Easter Ross man with a bad record for domestic offences has been ordered to carry out 180 hours of unpaid community work.
A tree surgeon obsessed with growing the perfect cannabis has been given an alternative to jail.
The man admitted admitted several domestic abuse offences.
A Dingwall man who was twice caught driving with cannabis in his system in an eight-month period has been banned from the road for two years.
A Conon Bridge man has been jailed for a year after tearing a piece of wood from a fence and throwing it at two people.
Police officers located the car on the Cromarty Bridge.
A Swiss Health and Safety Inspector drove his camper van dangerously on the wrong side of a Ross-shire road and caused "life-altering" injuries.
He took six pairs of trousers and two jackets.
Two crooked hotel executives who conspired to defraud the owner of thousands of pounds by paying a fake employee have avoided prison.
Patients and staff were alarmed by his behaviour and police were called back to the scene.
A woman was spat on after trying to intervene.
A Ross-shire crofter was so concerned about his three working dogs which escaped after a car crash that he ignored a police instruction.