Crime

CRIME rates in the Highlands remain among the lowest in the country, Police Scotland has claimed ahead of the publication of a new performance report.

Highland and Islands Police Division issued warning over counterfeit notes in circulation in the Highlands.

A ROSS man who delivered food parcels during last year’s lockdown was jailed for a year at Inverness Sheriff Court after admitting assault to injury.

Drugs and cash have been seized at locations in the Highlands as part of a UK-wide week of activity targeting organised crime gangs.

Speeders on the NC500 have been put on notice that police are responding to local concerns expressed about their dangerous behaviour.

COCAINE and cannabis have been recovered by police in a Ross-shire town as part of a campaign targetting so-called County Lines drugs dealers.

A DRUNK woman who spat a drink in the face of another pub customer and implied she had coronavirus was spared a jail sentence.

A 31-YEAR-OLD man who pretended to be half his age to get naked images of girls sent to him received 300 hours of unpaid work instead of jail.

Three Dingwall schoolchildren were offered drugs by a Tayside man who asked one of the girls to take a tablet he said was valium.

Police in Easter Ross have issued an appeal for public help over a reported weekend assault.

A police consultation has shown that confidence has risen in the past year.

Allan Alexander Ian Muir (54) has been found.

A Dingwall woman was warned she could face being locked up after an attack with a knife left another teenager scarred for life.

A man who posted an intimate video of a woman on a "swingers" website has been fined £470 in a Highland court.

Police in Ross-shire have issued an appeal and a description following reports of a man indecently exposing himself in a Ross-shire visit.

A former soldier who served in Northern Ireland had a "traumatic experience" there and has not recovered since, Inverness Sheriff Court was told.

Police carried out a routine stop of a vehicle on the Kessock Bridge and found the driver was under the influence of cocaine.

The Tain man is expected to appear at court again within the next eight days.

A delivery driver's careless overtaking manoeuvre on the A9 near Rosskeen landed him a ban and fine.

The cause of death of 48-year-old Gary Wallace, who was remanded in prison this year, has not yet been revealed.