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TWO Carlisle brothers who stand jointly accused of wilfully killing a badger on land near the city have appeared in court.

A DRUG driver was caught by police officers who were in a rural area of north Cumbria investigating possible badger baiting.

TWO Cumbrian drugs offenders – including one man who ran a huge drugs conspiracy from his prison cell - have been told to hand over their assets…

A YOUNG motorist who sped off from the police in Carlisle city centre was over the drink drive limit.

Habit: A drug user with heroin A JUDGE has jailed a Carlisle heroin addict who was caught by police with six grams of the drug hidden up his bum. At the city’s crown court, Lee Kerr, 34, admitted two counts of possessing the Class A drug and one allegation of money laundering - by storing almost £4,000 in criminal cash in his bedroom. Prosecutor Roger Brown outlined how on January 12 this year police were alerted to reports of drug taking in Warnell Drive, Carlisle, where the defendant...

A CROOK who led a north Cumbrian cocaine supply plot from custody has been jailed along with his business partner, as well as a mother and son who were involved in a daring bid to throw £32,000 worth of prohibited items into a prison. While behind bars at HMP Northumberland, 35-year-old Carlisle man Stephen Dixon used an illegally held phone and had a concealed cell cavity as he headed a hierarchy for the organised distribution of the class A drug in huge volumes and a high purity leve...

BBC News Published image copyrightCumbria Police image captionThe operation was run by prison inmate Dixon, (right) with the help of Schwencke (left) on the "outside" A gang has been jailed in connection with a "daring" plot to smuggle drugs into a prison. The operation was run by an inmate who planned to supply drugs with the help of people on the "outside". The scheme also involved bundles of drugs, phones and syringes being thrown over a prison fence that were intercepted by prison officers....

A CROOK who led a north Cumbrian cocaine supply plot from custody has been jailed along with his business partner.

A CROOK who led a north Cumbrian cocaine supply plot from custody has been jailed along with his business partner.

How Cumbria police put Carlisle drug gang of seven behind bars Result Police in Cumbria say a court case that saw seven people jailed for nearly 40 years and drugs worth more than £300,000 seized should send a stark warning to criminals. Cumbria Police’s Serious and Organised Crime Unit smashed the set-up of a major Carlisle-based crime group after launching Operation Oberlin as part of the work going on every day to tackle drugs trafficking and supply in the county. During three separa...