Yasin Hussain and Adam Taylor-Morris have each been jailed for nine years and nine months after admitting three counts of arson with intent to endanger life.
A 47-year-old man from Magor has been reported to court for driving whilst disqualified. An officer in an unmarked vehicle had followed the van he was driving along the M4 into Newport.
Special constables stopped and seized a car under the Police Reform Act after reports it was being driven anti-socially and that eggs were being thrown from it in Cwmbran on Halloween night.
A 21-year-old man from Chepstow has been banned from driving for a year and ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work. Officers had seen him drifting around a roundabout next to a primary school.
A driver has been reported for driving without due care and attention after officers saw them speeding and overtaking on the wrong side of the road in Maindee, Newport. Police seized the vehicle.
Police and Trading Standards seized 12,920 illegal cigarettes and 4.5kg of hand-rolled tobacco during a joint operation in Newport city centre. A shop has been closed for three months.
Four people were arrested and thousands of illegal cigarettes seized after six businesses in Llanelli, Carmarthen and Ammanford were visited. The operation targeted money laundering and criminal use of high street businesses.
Andrew Watkins, 41, spent two nights a week at his partner’s home with her two children there, despite being banned from staying in a house with anyone under 18. He has been jailed for two years at Swansea Crown Court.
Gavin Meek, 37, of Llanhilleth, was stopped in Abertillery while banned from driving, and messages on his phone later showed he was supplying cocaine. He has been jailed for three years and nine months.
Three men have been jailed for more than 13 years in total for trafficking 16 women to work in brothels in Newport, Birmingham and Scotland. A fourth defendant got a suspended sentence.
Jack Conn-Peers, 27, of Connah’s Quay, was jailed for 39 months at Mold Crown Court after admitting strangling his former partner and later headbutting her while she was pregnant.
Christopher Williams, 73, has been jailed for 11 years and nine months after admitting 15 sexual offences committed against more than one victim over three decades.
