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Connor Jones, 24, of Shelley Avenue, Canterbury, was given a 360-day sentence at Folkestone Magistrates’ Court on 20 January 2022. The court hearing followed an investigation by #Canterbury’s Victim Based Crime Team into a series of thefts...
Steven Noble is 54 years old and was last seen during the early hours of Thursday 20 January 2022. There are growing concerns for Steven’s welfare, who is known to frequent locations in both Ashford and Sandwich, where he sometimes stays in...
A person has been rescued by a lifeboat crew and two coastguard teams from Dover and Deal after they were cut off by the tide on Saturday lunchtime. Walner RNLI was called to the beach at around 12.30 pm to support the two volunteer coastguard...
A people smuggler who boasted he could get 50 people a week into England has been jailed for nine years and nine months in prison. Arthuras Jusas, of Wandsworth Road, Lambeth, was part of a crime group which tried to smuggle 69 Albanian migrants...
Kent Police was called at 1.35pm on Thursday 20 January 2022 after the item was stolen from a shop in the Marlowe Arcade. The artwork is approximately two metres by one metre in size and is pink, yellow, black and white. The suspect is...
A deceptive domestic abuser who stabbed himself in the chest, in a plot to get a former partner arrested, has been jailed for three years. Wayne Slough intentionally sought to create a verbal altercation at the woman’s Longfield address, which he...
Five drug dealers have been jailed for their roles in the wholesale supply of cocaine across Kent. The men were all part of an organised network of criminals who bought and sold Class A drugs in vast volumes and whose crimes were facilitated by the...
Rafal Czajka was stopped at the Eastern Docks, Dover on 16 November 2021. A search of the vehicle by Home Office Border Force revealed that a hide had been built into the bulkhead of the trailer, covered by a wooden board, held together by...
A Source working within the centre has revealed that they are rushing to get the place open they are under pressure. We have been on standby for a number of weeks the source has revealed but the contractors can’t turn the place around fast enough...
Carly Dear, of Braemore Close, Thatcham (Berkshire), met the victim and carried out the abuse during her time working as a PE teacher at Maidstone Grammar School for Girls more than 15 years ago. When the victim was in her teens, Dear started to...
There are major delays following an HGV fire on the M25 near the Darenth Interchange. The blaze ripped through the cab of the HGV that was loaded with rounded timber. Due to swift actions by the Kent fire and rescue service, they stopped the blaze...
A luxury watch and designer goods have been seized from a road rage suspect who was found to be subject to an outstanding confiscation order under the Proceeds of Crime Act. Kent Police was initially called to a collision between a tipper van and...
The drugs were found on Sunday 16 January by Border Force officers, who were working with the NCA. The tape-wrapped packages of cocaine had been concealed in the fan motor space of a container that had arrived from South America. Around 56 kilos...
The driver was one of 44 motorists stopped and fined, given points or educational advice in a special road policing operation on Kent’s strategic road network. From Friday 7 to Thursday 13 January 2022, officers patrolled the M20, M2, A2 and...
The offenders, all men, are wanted for crimes including murder, large scale drugs trafficking and supplying firearms and ammunition. The NCA’s Most Wanted campaign is run in conjunction with independent charity CrimeStoppers, Spanish law...
On Friday 14 January 2022 at around 2am, officers spotted the car travelling in the opposite direction to them on London Road. They turned around and followed the vehicle as it turned into College Road, however the driver did not stop for police...
Two fire engines were sent to the house in Chamberlain Avenue and crews wore breathing apparatus while using hose reel jets to extinguish the fire. Thankfully, the residents were able to evacuate safely after being alerted by their smoke alarms and...
Christopher Marlborough-Jones, of no fixed address, was jailed for two years and three months at Canterbury Crown Court on 14 January 2022. Marlborough-Jones, 33, was placed on the Sex Offenders Register in 2019 following a conviction for...
It was reported that between 1am and 8.15am on Saturday 1 January 2022, a commercial premises in the town’s High Street, near the junction with Queen Street, was broken into. The till was damaged and a large amount of cigarettes were stolen...
A total of 419 drivers were taken into custody after either testing positive for alcohol or drugs or refusing to take a breath test or drug wipe between 1 December 2021 and 1 January 2022. A number of other motorists were also arrested on...
The body was found at a location near the Dowsnwood area of Maidstone, during overnight searches on Monday 17 January. Formal identification has not yet taken place, however, the family of a 57-year-old man who was reported missing on Friday 14...
We sadly report tonight that a person sadly died following a mass rescue operation involving three CRT teams from Deal, Dover and Folkstone. The operational incident was managed by the UK Coastguard at Dover and the Rescue helicopter Rescue 163 from...
The traffic operation, held on Monday 17 January 2022, was part of the work being carried out by Kent Police during Neighbourhood Policing Week, which runs between 17 and 23 January and celebrates the vital work of those who work to keep...
Alex Holland, 27, was last seen in the Delane Road area of the town at around 9pm on Sunday 28 November 2021. Specialist officers have since carried out thorough enquiries; including searches assisted by a police helicopter and partner agencies...
Witnesses are sought after a man died near Dartford. Kent Police officers and South East Coast Ambulance Service personnel from the Joint Response Unit attended a property in Homefield Farm Road, Sutton-at-Hone, shortly after 10pm on Sunday 16...
The driver failed a breath test, was arrested, blew a reading of 92 in custody and pleaded guilty at court. They received a 25-month ban and a fine.
The Education Secretary says the Navy would be able to coordinate operations, allowing Border Force to concentrate on implementing the legislation of the Nationality & Borders Bill The Prime Minister is planning to slow the flow of migrants into...
As part of the ongoing investigation into the attack that took place at a Synagogue in Texas on 15 January 2022, Officers from Counter Terror Policing North West have made two arrests. Two teenagers were detained in South Manchester this evening...
As part of the ongoing investigation into the attack that took place at a Synagogue in Texas on 15 January 2022, Officers from Counter Terror Policing North West have made two arrests. Two teenagers were detained in South Manchester this evening...
Shortly before 10.30pm on Saturday 15 January 2022, a man entered a supermarket in Tonbridge Road. After waiting in a queue of customers, he reportedly pushed a member of staff and stole cash from a till. He then ran off along an alleyway...
Two fire engines were sent to the scene and firefighters wore breathing apparatus while using hose reel jets to extinguish the flames, before ventilating the property with a high pressured fan. Crews led two adults to safety and rescued a hamster...
Have you seen Demi? The nine-year-old was reported missing from #Greenwich at around 4pm today. Police believe she’s carrying a black rucksack covered in colourful dinosaurs and is thought to be wearing leggings and a blue or grey top...
Steve White was reported missing on Friday 14 January 2022 and was last seen in the Northumberland Road area of the town at around 11am on Thursday 13 January. The 57-year-old is described as around five feet, eight inches tall, of slim build with...
Shortly before 10.30pm on Saturday 15 January 2022, a man entered a supermarket in Tonbridge Road. After waiting in a queue of customers, he reportedly pushed a member of staff and stole cash from a till. He then ran off along an alleyway...
Caroline Tarmia, aged 39, was last seen at around 2.30pm on Friday 14 January 2022. She is described as being five feet and five inches tall, of medium to large build and with long black braided hair. It is not known what...
David Saunders told members of the public who went to his aid that he was an ‘undercover officer’, before producing a set of handcuffs and a knife. The 37-year-old was sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court on 13 January 2022 after...
Caroline Tarmia, aged 39, was last seen at around 2.30pm on Friday 14 January 2022. She is described as being five feet and five inches tall, of medium to large build and with long black braided hair. It is not known what...
From its beginnings with coastal lookouts to today’s hi-tech national network of coordination centres, from small localised beginnings to international players – one thing has stayed the same for two centuries – Her Majesty’s Coastguard seeks to...
A suspect has appeared in court charged with an attempted murder in Dymchurch. At 12.55am on Wednesday 12 January 2022, officers were called to a man with stab wounds who was sitting in a car in the High Street. The victim, aged in his...
The incident, involving a silver Vauxhall Insignia Elite and a cyclist, took place at 4.35pm on Friday 14 January 2022 in Dumpton Park Drive at its junction with Montefiore Avenue. The cyclist, a woman in her 50s, sustained fatal injuries and...
Reports of the Body found on Samphire Hoe are incorrect RNLI and Coastguard Search and Rescue teams have all been stood down following reports made by a member of the public. It follows reports by a Member of the Public understood to the dog walk...
On Saturday 8 January 2022, 33-year-old David Jones, of no fixed address, was charged with nine counts of shoplifting. His charges relate to reports of items including Champagne, cosmetics, baby clothes and meat being stolen from supermarkets and...
In response to concerns regarding damage and theft from vehicles in the Broadmead Village and the Lancers areas of Cheriton, two officers from Folkestone Local Policing Team carried out a patrol of the area during the early morning of Thursday 13...
The Metropolitan Police said it will only consider whether to launch its own investigation if Sue Gray, the civil servant running Downing Street’s internal probe, “identifies evidence of behaviour that is potentially a criminal...
Mohammed Shahid Ali, 38 is wanted on a recall to prison having failed to comply with the conditions of his release. Ali should not be approached and may pose a risk to the public and young children. Ali had been living in the Newham area, but his...
At around 6.30am on Tuesday 11 January 2022, the doors of a number of businesses in Mortimer Street were damaged, as well as ATM machines. Officers are investigating and have released a CCTV image of a man who may be able to assist enquiries...
Between Sunday 9 and Tuesday 11 January 2022, Kent Police received three reports of diesel being stolen from lorries parked in laybys on the A2. The first two offences took place near Barham and the third happened near Harbledown. As part of...
The breakdown company’s individual members experienced a total of 10,123 breakdowns for broken suspension springs, distorted wheels and damaged shock absorbers through last year, 10% more than in 2019 (9,198) and 19% more than in 2020 (8,524). Last...
