A drug trafficker caught with cocaine and cannabis worth up to £185,000 during a routine traffic stop in Pembroke has been ordered to hand over more than £33,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act. Dean Evans, 44, of Freystrop, was previously jailed for eight years for the offences.
Mason Tarling, 18, from Newport, received an 18-month community order at Cardiff Crown Court after admitting to distributing and possessing child sexual abuse material. His offending took place between 2023 and 2025.
A 33-year-old man from Newport was charged after officers seized a knuckle duster and pit bike in Ely during operations targeting illegal e-bike use across Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.
A Caerphilly man has been sentenced to six years and 10 months in prison and banned from driving for life after killing 84-year-old Gaynor James at a pedestrian crossing in Pengam. Andrew Perry, 56, had concealed a degenerative eye condition from the DVLA for more than two decades.
Shane Thomas, 41, of Newport, received a suspended sentence at Cardiff Crown Court after sending sexually explicit messages and images to a decoy he believed was a 13-year-old girl.
Craig Rowlands, 38, was sentenced to 45 weeks in prison at Caernarfon Magistrates’ Court after admitting assaulting his partner and twice breaching a domestic abuse protection order.
David Lewis, 42, exposed himself to who he thought was a 12-year-old schoolgirl during a Snapchat video call while already on bail for possessing hundreds of child abuse images. He was sentenced at Swansea Crown Court.
Brooklyn Thomas, 27, of Llanelli, has been sentenced to three years at Swansea Crown Court after admitting cocaine supply offences. He told police an Albanian crime group coerced him into dealing after he ran up a £10,000 debt for sex workers.
Paula Stanton, 62, of Barry, was sentenced to 160 days in prison after masturbating in front of staff at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.
Lloyd Williams, 42, of Bettws, Newport, has been sentenced to 11 years and three months at Cardiff Crown Court after police found cocaine, heroin, and ecstasy worth £220,000.
Jamie Williams, 24, was sentenced to five years and seven months at Mold Crown Court after beating his younger brother unconscious with a converted firearm and threatening others at gunpoint.
Stephan Thomas, 25, from Merthyr Tydfil, has been sentenced to six years in prison after robbing Owen Stores in Trefechan at knifepoint, making off with approximately £40 in coins.