Taxi driver Mark Urquhart was surprised when police searched his garage and recovered £500 worth of ecstasy – as he had forgotten all about it.
A sheriff took a Wick man to task for his angry reaction after an application to vary his bail conditions was refused.
A young Thurso man caught by police with a lock knife has narrowly avoided a jail sentence.
A Thurso businessman has been fined £300 for a nightclub assault and banned from the premises for six months.
A wind farm engineer who went for a few drinks after arriving in the Caithness area to start work ended up getting arrested.
An allegation of bullying was the trigger for an incident involving two parents in the car park of a Caithness school, Wick Sheriff Court heard.
A drink-driver whose breath-alcohol level was almost seven times the legal limit was fined £375 at Wick Sheriff Court on Tuesday.
A Wick man who punched a woman outside a local shop has been warned that any future offending would see him jailed.
A Wick man shouted and swore at his partner after she refused to let him into their home, the town's sheriff court was told on Tuesday.
A Thurso man made a second, private appearance at Wick Sheriff Court on Tuesday on charges of threatening or abusive behaviour and police assault.
A five-times disqualified driver has been jailed for six months by a sheriff who said the accused seemed to think he could "please himself".
A Wick woman has denied assaulting her former partner in a local nightclub that recently had its licence suspended.
A Castletown man is alleged to have threatened three people in the village's Olrig Place.
A sheriff gave a young repeat offender due to make a fresh start away from Wick a few home truths.
A Thurso man twice failed to take advantage of fixed penalty opportunities for having no insurance cover for his vehicle.
Police officers who stopped a drink-driving suspect had good cause to doubt his claim that he hadn't had a drink for three days.
A drink-driver's alcohol level was described as 'outrageous' by a sheriff this week.
A young man from Skye has been accused of breaking into an unoccupied house in Wick and stealing swords and candlesticks.
A man is alleged to have been pulled from his car in Thurso, dragged to the ground, repeatedly punched, and kicked on his head.
A Caithness farmer has been accused of having been in charge of his vehicle while more than five times the legal limit.
