Crime

A Warkworth man has been given a restraining order after pleading guilty to harassment.

A Northumberland woman who abandoned her rented home and left a puppy and kitten to die has been prosecuted, five years after she was banned from keeping pets for a previous animal-cruelty offence.

HMP Northumberland is running out of cells, with campaigners warning that the safety of staff and inmates is at risk as the prison population increases.

Improvements have been made at HMP Northumberland, but the use of drugs is still a concern, while more needs to be done to prepare prisoners for release, inspectors have said.

Assaults in HMP Northumberland jail have doubled in five years, with prison reform campaigners declaring the situation around the country a ‘national emergency’.

Northumbria Police stopped and searched 35% fewer suspects last year, marking a significant move away from the policy despite a national focus on knife and drug crimes.

Around 200 officers and volunteers from nine police forces across the north of England joined together overnight on Thursday in a show of strength against rural crime.

Police are appealing for information after sheep were stolen from Matfen.

Police have arrested four people in relation to suspected Class A drug offences in Alnwick.

Ten youths have now been interviewed in connection with assaults in Northumberland where graphic footage was circulated on social media.

Four youths have been arrested after graphic footage of vicious assaults in Northumberland have circulated on social media.

Police are starting their ‘lighter nights’ operation, to target anti-social behaviour in various north Northumberland locations.

Crime chiefs are debating whether to buy their own high-tech drone to support police officers.

Rapidly-depleting police cash reserves have dropped by £60million in seven years – and crime chiefs have warned that further cost-cutting will be needed as a result.

Two women have been jailed for a total of 14 years after they robbed a house and left their victim in need of 57 stitches and scarred for life.

Drugs were discovered at an Alnwick house following a police raid.