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Footage of “intimate encounters” that involve island residents is being posted on social media outlets, police warned today.
A police spokesman highlighted that the non-consensual sharing of sexual images was an offence under legislation passed in Ju...
DATE: Sep 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Drugs with a street value of $500,000 have been seized by police following a raid in the east end.
The narcotics, including cannabis, crack cocaine, powder cocaine and heroin were recovered during a “recent exercise”, although police did not give an ...
DATE: Sep 09, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Police and Customs officials were this afternoon caught on camera searching vehicles in a car storage depot.
The footage shot by an onlooker showed more than half-a-dozen uniformed personnel examining several newly-imported cars at a storage area use...
DATE: Sep 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Proposals for speed cameras and other hi-tech surveillance equipment were still up in the air after the Government failed to say if it backed police calls for more technology to fight crime.
Commissioner of Police Stephen Corbishley said two months a...
DATE: Aug 31, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Boat owners should be on the alert after a series of thefts from moored vessels, police warned yesterday.
The alert was sounded after a string of thefts from boats across the island – although Paget has been hardest hit.
A police spokeswoman said: “T...
DATE: Aug 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A long-running investigation into the disappearance of $800,000 of public funds loaned to create a recording studio that never got off the ground is still under way, the police commissioner has said.
The police inquiry was launched last September aft...
DATE: Aug 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Police today released these images of two suspects believed to be involved in a shooting incident on Court Street.
The attack, carried out by two men on a motorcycle on Monday August 2, left a 31-year-old man and a 73-year-old bystander in hospital...
DATE: Aug 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A nurse who breached the Covid-19 curfew escaped prosecution after she was able to prove she was asked to start her shift earlier than scheduled.
It is believed Sandrina Gifford is the first Magistrates’ Court defendant to escape a penalty for the of...
DATE: Aug 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Con artists have targeted the elderly in a string of scams, police warned yesterday.
A spokesman highlighted one senior who was contacted by someone who persuaded them to invest “a significant amount of money” in a US business.
But it was later foun...
DATE: Aug 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Government has renewed its warning of fake Covid-19 vaccination certificate e-mails circulating.
A health ministry spokeswoman said that e-mails claiming to be from the ministry or “the Covid-19 vaccine team” informing recipients of an error in their...
DATE: Jul 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan