Actions forced street
POLICE negotiators were called in and Bodmin's main street had to be closed off after a man climbed scaffolding, held a knife to his throat and threatened to jump, a court has been told.Bodmin...
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BODMIN magistrates have fined James Woolf, aged 27 and of Mayfield Road, Newquay, £110 and banned him from driving for 20 months after he admitted driving with 80 micrograms of alcohol in 100...
View ArticleMark Bowler
IN A court report in the Cornish Guardian on February 12 it was stated that Mark Bowler, of Launceston, was ordered to surrender his properties as part of a compensation order to pay back £27,500 from...
View ArticleShop thief was hungry
A 16-YEAR-OLD Bodmin boy has had his referral order extended by a month after stealing from Morrison's supermarket in the town.The boy appeared before Bodmin Youth Court on Monday when he pleaded...
View ArticleDrug user is spared
DRUG rehabilitation and a six-week curfew have been imposed on a Bodmin man who handled two stolen mobile phones and stole packs of meat.Nigel Boland, aged 40, of St Petroc's, Castle Street, appeared...
View ArticleThief gets last chance
MAGISTRATES agreed to give a St Austell shoplifter "one last chance" after hearing that he had been complying well with probation supervision following his release from prison.Jake Rossi, aged 32, of...
View ArticleMan stole steaks
ERIC CULLEN, 47, of Elm Tree Road, Looe, pleaded guilty to the theft of steaks from the Co-op in Looe on January 13 and stealing some slippers from Simon Griffith on December 18 when he appeared before...
View ArticleBanned from driving
KESTUTIS PALAITIS, 30, of Trelake Road, St Austell, was banned from driving for 19 months and fined £200 with £85 costs and a £20 victim surcharge by Bodmin magistrates on Thursday, February 27, after...
View ArticleNot guilty pleas
LEANNE POPE, 24, of Trevanion Road, St Austell, pleaded not guilty at Truro Magistrates' Court to seven offences, comprising four of assault – against two males, a female police officer and female...
View ArticleCannabis charges
LEE CUDMORE, aged 43, of New Park, Wadebridge, is to stand trial at Truro Crown Court on charges of producing 40 cannabis plants and 86.1g of cannabis and possession of 7.81g of the drug on December 4...
View ArticleInappropriate words
A MAN aged 53 has been issued with a police caution after he made an inappropriate comment to a boy in the public toilets on Wadebridge's Egloshayle Road.Police say the man was drunk and was arrested...
View ArticleOver the legal limit
LEE MAUNDER, aged 29, of Lewis Way, St Austell, pleaded guilty to driving on February 6 with 45 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, the limit being 35mcg.He appeared before Bodmin...
View ArticleMan, 36, will face trial by jury over live TV link
KENNETH LEE, 36, of Mount Camel, Camelford, has been sent to Truro Crown Court in custody charged with possessing an offensive weapon – a Swiss Army knife with the blade out – in Camelford on February...
View ArticleCurfew given to female benefit cheat
A WOMAN from Bodmin who conned Cornwall Council into overpaying her £16,000 in benefits has been put under curfew.Sandra Ives, 59, from Rosedale Gardens, Bodmin, attended Truro Magistrates' Court on...
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House fire 'was arson'
A FIRE at a house in Lostwithiel is suspected of being started deliberately.Firefighters from Lostwithiel, Fowey and Bodmin were called to the property in Castle View at around 9.45pm on Sunday...
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Burglar Merlin Quinnan was caught returning to watch the fire he...
A BURGLAR and arsonist was caught after returning to watch the fire he had started. Attempting to destroy the evidence of his earlier break-in, Merlin Quinnan, of The Pathway Fields, Hayle, set fire to...
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Penryn man Paulo Veiga claims stabbing that left victim vomiting...
A FALMOUTH man was left vomiting blood and clutching his stomach after being stabbed during a confrontation over another man's girlfriend. At Truro Crown Court on Monday, Paulo Veiga, 39, of Round Ring...
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Elderly woman shocked by robbery
DETECTIVES are hunting a man who terrified an elderly woman in Bodmin and robbed her of cash.The woman in her eighties was said to be in a state of shock after the robbery at her home in Dennison Road...
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Man accused of biting dog appears in court
A man has appeared before Truro magistrates accused of biting a dog. Giving an address in Gwent, but alleged to have committed the offence in Penzance, Timothy John Noonan was charged with seven...
View ArticleDenies peace breach
DEBBIE LOUISE MINERS, 31, of Piran Place, North Street, Redruth, went before Truro magistrates when she denied an allegation that on March 1 she caused a breach of the peace, as a result of which Devon...
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