Courts

A Castletown man who assaulted his sister outside a Thurso pub was fined £200 at Wick Sheriff Court.

A post office worker put a package aside after she got a strong smell of cannabis from it, Wick Sheriff Court heard last week.

A Glasgow driver stopped police in Wick to ask for directions to the local Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet.

Police officers who spotted a makeshift registration plate on the back of a trailer discovered a dangerous load being towed.

A Caithness man whose dogs worried sheep has been jailed for five months.

A man has been cleared of fraud related to ink cartridges and securing unauthorised access to a programme while working for North Point Distillery.

Two armed response teams were called to a Caithness village amid a stand-off between police and an angry man threatening them with a meat cleaver.

A sheriff has called for a background report on a “potentially dangerous” drink-driver who was almost seven times the limit.

A Halkirk man has been cleared on a careless driving charge. Sheriff Neil Wilson said it was impossible to establish who was to blame for a collision.

Members of the public were concerned when they observed a Wick man holding a knife in a local street and contacted the police.

A Thurso resident contacted the police when he saw two men 'grappling' with each other next door.

A driver has been convicted of having been in charge of his van while six times the legal drink-drive limit.

A Wick woman who failed to engage with social workers has been jailed for six months.

A Wick woman who committed the “despicable” act of spitting in a police officer's face was jailed for six months at the town's sheriff court.

A Thurso man who drove without insurance for the second time was disqualified for eight months at Wick Sheriff Court.

A Wick pensioner who caused a disturbance at a local pub was fined £150 at the town's sheriff court.

A driver escaped serious injury after he failed to take a bend, mounted a verge and careered along, hitting road signs before stopping in a ditch.

A Thurso woman who went on a shoplifting spree in Wick has been ordered to carry out 70 hours of unpaid community work.

A Wick man has admitted having been in possession of an axe in a local house.

A sex offender who was freed by appeal judges a week before he stood trial for rape and extortion was jailed for nine years today (Friday).