Crime

Shocked sheriff tells teen: ‘When you return, I suggest you bring a bag ready for custody.’

A Tain man who forced two girls to watch pornography has been made subject of severe restrictions regarding his contact with females under 18.

After ramming the building in Fairways Business Park, the suspect torched the car and building and fled the scene, say police

Scammers are targeting small businesses and cashiers in the Highlands, police have warned after incidents in post offices costing hundreds of pounds.

Alistair Cameron (18) decided to take a ‘shortcut’ at the roundabout at Achnasheen on the A832 on July 21, 2024.

A Dingwall man ran up a large drugs debt was recruited by an organised crime gang to sell illegal narcotics in the Highlands.

Police were involved in a 95-minute stand-off after a man they were seeking climbed onto the roof of a house and began throwing items at officers.

An Inverness rapist who faked his own death to avoid justice and was later jailed for 15 years has had two months added to his sentence.

The disturbance was reported at around 4.40pm yesterday (March 2) at a premises on Dingwall’s High Street.

A driver has been charged with drink-driving and "several other offences" after a car crashed and was abandoned on a Highland trunk road.

Police have arrested a man after malicious emails - understood to be a firearms threat - were sent to multiple Highland and Moray schools.

Trading standards have seized a significant quantity of illicit tobacco products from a retailer in the Highlands, the local authority has announced.

A 27-year-old Ross-shire mother of two spat on several police officers after she was arrested at her home in Conon Bridge.

Police in Inverness have cordoned off a street in Smithton.

Witnesses are being sought by police investigating vandalism outside a property in Alness’s Corkscrew Road.

Cooking oil was stolen from the restaurant. It comes amid a rise in such thefts in the UK as thieves seek to capitalise on increasing prices.

When he was arrested, he spat and struck the arm of a police officer.

A catalogue of concerns at the Mart Road flats involving violence, people taking drugs and dog fouling indoors.

That’s the fear after Police Scotland’s chief warned the force will need to review officer recruitment to meet rising National Insurance costs.

The Dingwall man, who also cut her hair against her will, has avoided a jail sentence.