This category relates to all things to do with crime in Preston.
Elderly couple tell of their ordeal as police tackle rogue traders
Rogue traders and doorstep sellers across Lancashire were targeted in a national day of action yesterday. The day, which police forces and trading standards took part in, comes as part […]
Nine people have been arrested after police carried out a series of coordinated dawn raids across Kirkham, Preston, Blackpool and Bolton in a crackdown on serious and organised crime. Officers […]
Cannabis with an estimated street value of £40,000 has been seized as police searched a property in Fulwood. Aixture of 111 young and larger plants were found at the terraced […]
Police are appealing for information after an 18 year old woman was sexually assaulted in a park in Preston. In the early hours of Friday morning, the teenager was making […]
A man has been jailed for eight years for a series of robberies in Chorley and Preston. Stuart Cheetham, 33, of no fixed address, was given the prison sentence when […]
Police are appealing again for information after an assault at a city centre bar A 23-year-old man was hit in the face with a glass bottle last month at Manyana’s […]
A man who threatened supermarket staff with a knife and stole hundreds of pounds worth of cash has been jailed for eight years. 33-year-old Stuart Cheetham (pictured left) was sentenced […]
Lancashire Constabulary have kicked off a new campaign to combat rural crime with a week of high profile policing activity across the county. Operation Firecrest has seen officers conducting extra […]