Police are appealing for the public’s help to trace a 32-year-old man from Exeter who is wanted for recall to prison after breaching his prison license conditions.
Shay Scales (pictured) was originally charged with theft and imprisoned earlier this year but has failed to comply with conditions of his prison release license as part of his probation.
Numerous enquiries have been made by police to try and locate him.
Police are asking the public for information about his whereabouts and to report any sightings to them.
Police in Honiton are appealing for information following two burglaries in the Town.
Two burglaries took place at static homes located on Otter Valley Park in Honiton, sometime between 1pm on Friday 6 August and 8am on Saturday 7 August.
Both properties were entered by forcing a door and once inside and following an untidy search items of property, many valued at thousands of pounds and of sentimental value were stolen.
In one of the properties a number of watches including a Zenith watch valued at £2,500 and a gold ring valued at £2,900 were stolen, along with...
Police are appealing for the public’s help to locate Steven Brannick who has been reported missing from his home in Exeter.
The 48-year-old was last seen leaving his home in the Countess Wear area at 3pm on Monday (17 August) and police are concerned for his welfare as the disappearance is totally out-of-character.
Officers are conducting searches in an effort to locate Steven and asking the public to report any sightings to them.
He is described as 5ft 8in tall and of proportionate build. He has mousey brown brushed back hair and tattoos on each shoulder and his...
New Home Office funding proposals would have a ‘catastrophic’ effect on Devon and Cornwall Police According to Andrew White, chief executive in the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, Devon and Cornwall could lose 200 more front line police officers if Government plans to change the way it funds forces go ahead. Tony Hogg’s team has now scrutinised the Government’s proposed revisions to its allocation formula for police funding. Based on the information provided so far, potential cuts to the money Devon and Cornwall receives centrally would be around £11 million a year “If these...
Police have released two new images of 48-year-old Jayne Brocklehurst from Budleigh Salterton who has been missing since Saturday 8th August.
Jayne was last seen on Saturday evening at her family’s flat on Budleigh Salterton and is described as being a medium build and has mousey brown shoulder length hair.
Police Constable Liz Jarvis who is working on the search said: “Jayne had arrived from France around two weeks ago and had been visiting family in the area. Local searches continue in and around the costal paths in the Budleigh area.
Exeter officers are appealing to the public for help after builders’ tools were stolen from a white van which was parked in East John Walk in the Newtown area of Exeter.
The thieves broke into a white Ford Transit van overnight and stole specialist building tools between 6pm on Thursday 6 August and 7am on Friday 7 August.
Power tools worth over £2,000 were stolen, including a red Hilti circular saw, a yellow spectra precision laserplane, two orange Stihl disc cutters and a grey Cat 4 generator.
Police are appealing to anyone who saw any suspicious activity in the...
Police are concerned for the welfare of 48-year-old Jane Brocklehurst from Budleigh Salterton.
Jane was last seen on Saturday evening at her family’s flat in West Hill on 8 August.
Jane is described as being a medium build and has mousey brown shoulder length hair.
She is believed to be wearing brown cropped trousers, dark red or brown patterned top with scooped neck and green/grey pumps, she may also be wearing a grey coloured three-quarter length mac.
Jane may be travelling on foot, and could be between Budleigh Salterton and the Littleham area.
Detectives investigating a serious assault in Exeter at the weekend are appealing for witnesses to come forward.
A 21-year-old local man was found unconscious in the road in Cowick Street, St Thomas, shortly before 4.20am on Saturday 8 August. He had suffered serious head and neck injuries.
Officers believe he had been the victim of an assault at the junction of Cowick Street and Old Vicarage Road before being struck by a car, driven by a 37-year-old man from the Exeter area. The collision is believed to be unrelated to the assault.
A man who was caught driving dangerously near Exeter has been jailed.
Jonathan Bumford, 25, from Paignton, was sentenced to three months in prison at Exeter Crown Court on Friday (7 August), having pleaded guilty to dangerous driving.
Bumford was charged with dangerous driving following an incident Sunday 24 August 2014 when he drove his Mitsubishi car during the early hours of the morning through a police road block on the C19 road at Haldon Hill.
Despite the efforts of officers to stop the vehicle Bumford continued to drive onto the A38 travelling at speed in...
