A woman jailed for stealing from her Staffordshire healthcare employer and fraudulently claiming benefits, faces paying back £131,444.
Fiona Ann Slym, 49, was given a Confiscation Order at Stafford Crown Court.
A man and a teenager have been arrested on suspicion of drug offences after Staffordshire Police carried out a house raid in Tamworth.
Officers searched an address in Craven, near Wilnecote, at 9am yesterday (October 12) and arrested a 26-year-old man from Tamworth and a 17-year-old male from Birmingham.
Two men posing as water board officials have committed a number of burglaries in Staffordshire, police say.
The two men, believed to be aged between 30-40, pretend to check their victims’ taps while the other steals cash from their homes.
A man, 44, has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a 23-year old from Leek.
A 37-year-old-woman and a second man, aged 35, have also been arrested, both on suspicion of supplying a class A drug.
Two Stoke-on-Trent drug dealers have been convicted after attempting to flee from police when they were pulled over a court heard.
Ahmed Saffee, 28, of Etruria Vale Road, Etruria, pleaded guilty to possession of class A drug cocaine with intent to supply.
Twenty-three members of five organised crime groups have been jailed for a total of 132 years for flooding the streets with cocaine and MCAT, Stafford Crown Court heard.
The gangs, based in Stafford, Cannock, Walsall, Redditch, Swindon and Swadlincote, formed a major drugs operation regularly transporting Class A and B drugs along the M5 and M6.
A charitable family man has been given a 12 month suspended sentence for possession of a stun gun disguised as a mobile phone, and a 3 month suspended sentence at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court for growing cannabis, to be served concurrently.
Three people have been arrested following a drugs raid in South Staffordshire yesterday (3rd October).…