Crime

A benefit fraudster paid £24,000 she wasn’t entitled to has been spared a custodial sentence.

A conservation consultant and antiques dealer has been fined £1,000 for offering parts of endangered animals for sale over the internet.

A Borders police chief has spoken out to defend policing levels in Hawick amid claims that criminals are “rubbing their hands” over reported staff shortages.

A disgruntled Royal Bank of Scotland customer threatened to shoot members of staff at its Kelso branch after claiming money had been taken out of his account in error.

Police are appealing for witnesses to help them trace a man said to have been seen acting suspiciously in Kelso on Wednesday.

A man has been jailed for a total of 196 days after he admitted assaulting his partner.

A man responsible for indecent assaults on a girl and woman he thought were sleeping has been spared a prison sentence.

A Borders woman is facing jail in the US after being accused of having sex with an underage boy for money.

Police are appealing for witnesses after moto-cross bikes were stolen from the Benchmark Motor Company in Selkirk.

Borderers are being warned to be alert for counterfeit Bank of Ireland £50 notes, after several have been presented in the south of Scotland.

A woman assaulted two police officers after a bust-up following her grandmother’s funeral.

Nearly £900 worth of cannabis has been seized following drugs raids in Hawick yesterday (Thursday).

The A7 was closed for around two hours yesterday (Thursday) evening, south of Hawick, following a collision between a van and a car.

More than £11,000 worth of heroin was seized from a property in Gala Park Gardens, Galashiels, on Wednesday.

A Galashiels man has been remanded in custody at Selkirk Sheriff Court after being accused of theft by housebreaking and stealing two vehicles.

An older teenager accused of sending a sexual image to a 13-year-old girl at Galashiels Academy has been remanded in custody at Selkirk Sheriff Court.

Background reports have been ordered on a shoplifter prior to sentencing.

A Galashiels teenager has been ordered to be of good behaviour for the next 12 months after he admitted supplying drugs to a schoolgirl.