Gwent Police community support officers found a vehicle that had been reported stolen while out on a morning patrol. The force is urging residents to report anything suspicious.
Mark Skarratts, 39, sent sexual messages and an explicit image on Snapchat to an undercover officer posing as a 12-year-old girl. He received a 20-month sentence suspended for 18 months at Cardiff Crown Court.
Sean Thomas, 35, and Nicholas Davies, 40, have been jailed after a series of thefts from shops in the Chestnut Way area of Gurnos, Merthyr Tydfil.
Harry Morgan, 23, of Croesyceiliog, was given a suspended sentence at Cardiff Crown Court after police found cocaine, ketamine and £4,700 in cash in his bedroom.
Lewys Nash, already serving a nine-year sentence for drug dealing, has been jailed for 12 weeks and banned from driving after being caught over the cocaine limit on the A449 in Ross-on-Wye.
A very damaged vehicle abandoned in Graig has been recovered after Gwent Police found it was causing an obstruction and had no insurance.
Gwent Police says a vehicle has been recovered and taken off the streets after neighbourhood officers on patrol saw it being driven by an uninsured driver.
A vehicle that had previously failed to stop for police has been found without insurance, MOT or number plates by Caerphilly PCSOs. It is now undergoing forensic examination.
Louis Piacentini, 37, admitted three counts of making indecent images of children and has been given a suspended sentence at Cardiff Crown Court. He was also made subject to a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
Ryan Whitehead, 32, of Newport, punched a 59-year-old disabled woman and took her phone after following her along St David's Road in Cwmbran. He admitted robbery and dangerous driving.
Paul Pedler, who owned L&F Fabrication and Fencing Ltd, received a suspended sentence at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court after five customers were left £6,240 out of pocket over gate and fencing work that was never finished.
Cigarettes and hand-rolled tobacco were seized during a joint visit by Gwent Police PCSOs and Newport City Council Trading Standards to a shop on Commercial Street.
