Crime

Police in Buckie are appealing for information following an assault on the outskirts of town.

The woman, who is in her 80s, was unable to contact the scammers following the incident.

AN EXTRA community warden is set to join Moray Council’s fight against antisocial behaviour, under plans agreed yesterday.

Concerns over the lack of access to a national fraud reporting agency have been voiced by two Buckie councillors.

Emergency services were called to the property in the early hours of June 21.

Forres police’s crime report for May includes eight assaults, numerous road crimes and the theft of a JCB digger.

Store’s safe left sat on vehicle’s prongs as gang fled.

The 39-year-old has been banned from owning or working with animals for 10 years.

Police are appealing for CCTV or dash-cam footage of the area.

POLICE have arrested and charged a 49-year-old woman in connection with thefts in six towns across Moray and Aberdeenshire.

A high number of crimes was reported around Forres in April including assault on a child, arson, illegal drugs and failing to stop after an accident.

A fraudulent scheme which was operated in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray has seen a man arrested and a report submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.

A MORAY criminal facing up to nine years in jail has been given a final chance, after a four-week stretch behind bars kept him sober.

John Jessiman Barclay (63) was jailed for over seven years at the High Court in Edinburgh last month.

AN ELGIN 22-year-old has admitted calling a police officer a “spastic and a piggy b******” after he “took some exception” to being arrested.

AN ABERDEEN thief has been jailed for more than a year for crimes that included robbing three Moray stores and threatening a shop worker.

A FORRES man who sent explicit messages to a “paedophile hunter” he believed was a 12-year-old girl has avoided being jailed.

AFTER admitting domestic abuse offences over three years, a Moray man has been warned of a “prolonged” jail term if he is not of good behaviour.

THE Buckie man pled guilty to being in possession of illegal drugs, after police entered his home and noticed a strong smell of cannabis.

Police appeal for witnesses