Crime

A 36-year-old Melton man has been arrested and charged with drugs offences and being in possession of a knife.

Police have released images of people they would like to speak to after two men broke a lorry’s windscreen by throwing bottles at it on the A6006 near Melton.

Melton residents are again being asked if they would be willing to pay a higher rate of Council Tax to increase police resources.

Boots have ramped up security at their Melton store following three separate break-ins last month.

Residents interested in how crime and anti-social behaviour are tackled across the Melton borough are invited to have their say as part of a major new public consultation exercise.

A 34-year-old man has been charged with drink driving following a collision in Melton on Friday which led to a car ending up on its roof.

A 34-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of drink-driving following a road collision in Melton today (Friday) which left a car on its roof.

Young people who have been spotted doing ‘wheelies’ on their bicycles on busy town centre roads in Melton have been urged by police to stop doing it for their own safety and that of other road users.

Police say there were 500 fewer calls made to the force across Leicestershire over the festive season than at the same time last year.

Police are hunting a robber who snatched a woman’s handbag before making off with it in a car.

Burglars who broke into a Melton town centre shop with an axe were confronted by members of the public before making off.

Police have arrested nearly 100 people for drink-driving across Leicestershire this month, including one person who was more than four times over the limit.

Police who raided four properties in Melton in a bid to tackle suspected drugs offences arrested two people, recovered stolen property and impounded an imitation firearm.

A Melton taxi driver has been prosecuted for a second time by the borough council for operating without a driver’s licence and a vehicle licence.

A Thurmaston drug dealer, who was part of a plot to flood the streets with Class A drugs, has been ordered to pay back £50,000 he accrued from his crimes.

Police are stepping up patrols in Melton Country Park after reports of people fishing illegally in the lake.

A 35-year-old Melton man has been ordered to sign on the Sex Offenders Register for five years after admitting making an indecent photograph of a child.

A man who assaulted a police dog has become the first person in Leicestershire to be convicted of a new offence brought in to protect the welfare of animals in the line of duty.