Police are investigating a burglary which took place at a property on Lonsdale Road, Newton Abbot on Sunday 28th August 2016 at around 2am.
The offender or offenders appear to have been disturbed while inside the dwelling. The items stolen were a black handbag with dark blue Aspinal wallet and a purse inside.
Detective Constable Rich Jones said: “We wish to speak to anyone who may have seen or heard anyone acting suspiciously in the area at this time.
“We want to hear from you if you have any information about this incident.”
Three people are in police custody following a firearm incident in Devon.
The Exeter-based police helicopter was involved in a search following the incident.
Police were called at around 3.30pm yesterday (Monday 29th August) with reports of gunfire being heard and a vehicle being rammed in the Fore Street area of Torquay.
Police Armed Response Units were called to the scene and one man was discovered to have sustained a number of pellet wounds believed to have been from an air rifle, and was subsequently take to hospital.
The Exeter-based police helicopter was scrambled after an incident involving a firearm in Devon.
Officers set up a cordon and began a search in the Starpitten Grove of Torquay at 11pm yesterday (Monday).
Insp Mark Waldron, force incident manager and tactical firearms commander, told the Torquay Herald Express: "There is an ongoing incident. There has been an allegation of a serious nature in that location. We would ask that anybody who saw anything in that location at about 9.30pm this evening (Monday August 29) should contact us.
The 30-year-old man arrested on Wednesday 24 August in Somerset on suspicion of terrorism offences remains in custody.
Searches at an address in Exminster and a wooded area in south Devon are ongoing.
The man was arrested at 12:20pm by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service’s Counter Terrorism Command (SO15), supported by colleagues from Avon and Somerset and Devon and Cornwall Police, on suspicion of being involved in the preparation for acts of terrorism under section 5 of the Terrorism Act.
Searches are now being conducted by the Metropolitan Police...
Police searches will continue in Exminster in connection with yesterday’s arrest of a 30-year-old man in Somerset on suspicion of terrorism offences.
A man was arrested at 12.20pm by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service’s Counter Terrorism Command (SO15), supported by colleagues from Avon and Somerset and Devon and Cornwall Police, on suspicion of being involved in the preparation for acts of terrorism under section 5 of the Terrorism Act.
Searches are now being conducted by the Metropolitan Police Service’s Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) and local uniform...
The two year old girl who was in hospital in Bristol having been swept into the sea at Newquay on Friday 19th August sadly died last night. Police have named her as Mckayla Bruynius.
The man who also died as a result of the incident has been named by police as Rudy Bruynius, Mckayla's father. His wife and Mckayla’s mother, Lisinda Bruynius, has made the following statement:
“Rudy was a loving, caring and supportive husband, father and friend. He had a great sense of humour and was an active person. He always put other people first. Mckayla was a busy bee and always happy...
A man has been jailed following a fatal coach crash in Looe in 2014 that left two passengers dead and a number of others injured.
Martin Chun, aged 60 from Whitestone, Devon has today been found guilty of two counts of causing death by dangerous driving, and four counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving at Truro Crown Court (Monday 22nd August).
On Tuesday the 13th May 2014 on the A387 at Morval near Looe, Chun was driving a coach which collided with a hedgerow. As a result of the collision, passengers Margaret Luxton, aged 59 and Carol Muldoon, aged 68, lost...
A team of search officers are continuing their efforts to trace missing woman Gergana Prodanova.
Following her disappearance and the subsequent launch of a murder investigation an extensive operation utilising specialist police teams has been carried out in Exeter.
Around 30 officers are currently conducting house-to-house enquiries and police are particularly keen for landlords and tenants in the Mount Pleasant area of the city to search their gardens, outbuildings and allotments as the hunt for Gergana intensifies.
The force has also used the police helicopter and...
Summer drink and drug driving campaign results suggest that if you offend in Devon and Cornwall you’re twice as likely to get caught compared to the national average.
Figures from the recent summer drink and drug driving campaign show that in Devon and Cornwall the percentage of drivers tested that were positive, failed or refused a reading is just over twice the national average in almost all measures, with an average of around 21% compared to 10% nationally.
Devon and Cornwall Police take an intelligence-led approach to tackling drink and drug driving. The results suggest...
