12 March 2021
A young man who was resisting arrest spat on a police officer before telling him he hoped he would catch Covid-19.
11 March 2021
Police investigating a report of a late-night incident at a Wick house were confronted by a bare-chested man who was anything but co-operative.
10 March 2021
A WICK man is alleged to have cleaned potential evidence after committing a serious assault.
04 March 2021
A repeat offender whose life was said to have been “on a downward spiral” for the past two years has been urged to man-up.
03 March 2021
A Thurso man has admitted having deliberately sparked a bomb scare he knew to be false, at two commercial premises in Inverness.
26 February 2021
A young man apologised to a sheriff for subjecting him to a tirade of abuse at a previous hearing.
24 February 2021
Wick Sheriff Court heard about a man who broke into his brother's house with intent to steal.
24 February 2021
A Thurso man with a record a sheriff described as 'shocking' has been jailed for eight months.
11 February 2021
Wick Sheriff Court also heard that Brendon Stevens threw a brick at the woman's car during an argument that "got out of hand".
09 February 2021
A MAN who threatened his former partner and tried to frighten a witness has claimed she was partly to blame for his actions.
25 January 2021
A convicted sex offender wanted to buy a train ticket home – but all he got was a ticket back to prison.
15 January 2021
A WICK woman who tried to set herself alight in the backyard of the local police station has been made subject to a drug treatment testing order.
13 January 2021
WICK Sheriff Court heard how a man threatened his former partner having tried to frighten a witness in another related case five months earlier.
13 January 2021
A 28-year-old Thurso man appeared via video link from custody at Inverness Sheriff Court on Monday and admitted assaulting his partner.
12 January 2021
CRIMINAL courts in the Highlands are creaking under the strain of the Covid pandemic – after the number of trials was slashed by up to 75 per cent.
11 January 2021
THE county's sheriff has heard about a Wick prisoner's alarm on being told that two cases of Covid-19 had been confirmed in the jail.
08 January 2021
A WARRANT has been issued for the arrest of a Plymouth man who failed to turn up for his trial on a series of charges.
06 January 2021
A COURT heard how a Wick man scorned a final chance to co-operate with social workers by walking out of a meeting with one of them.
30 December 2020
A MAN who stole a brand new £40,000 Jaguar from an Inverness garage to get home to Birmingham was jailed for eight months.
28 December 2020
Operation Ruling netted large quantities of 'illegal substances' and led to violent criminals being arrested including one caught with a sword.