Police reportedly discovered 297 plants in the Balloch property AN alleged cannabis farm with plants worth £178,000 has been discovered in Balloch. Police searched a property in Shandon Crescent, on Monday, May 3 and found a total of 297 plants. Two men, aged 20 and 46, were arrested and due to appear at Dumbarton Sheriff Court on Tuesday. Detectives said their intelligence-led operation involved officers from the Greater Glasgow Serious and Organised Crime Pro-Active Teams. Detective Inspector Craig McPhail said: “This is a significant seizure and demonstrates our determination to rid our streets of drugs. Through effective intelligence gathering, the help and support from the local community we continue to cause considerable disruption to the supply of drugs in the area and to associated organised crime.
Firefighters at Park Court in Dalmuir on the evening of Friday, April 30 A MAN is due in court today (Monday) following two separate fires at a block of flats in Dalmuir over the weekend. Police say a 41-year-old man was arrested and charged following the incidents at Park Court in Littleholm Place. The first incident happened at around 6.30pm on Friday, April 30 when a fire was discovered in a rubbish chute at the block. Police, who treated Friday s incident as wilful fire-raising, said it could have had horrific consequences if the blaze had spread.
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Dumbarton Sheriff Court, where Jamie O Donnell was sentenced on Friday A WHITECROOK man repeatedly spat on his own mother and shouted threats and vile obscenities at cops. Jamie O’Donnell’s lawyer claimed his client turned from Dr Jekyll into Mr Hyde after taking a drink. But the 27-year-old was spared jail – though a sheriff told him it was his “one last chance” to avoid prison. O’Donnell, of Macdonald Crescent, appeared at Dumbarton Sheriff Court on Friday. He had previously admitted offences on two separate dates – August 20, 2019, and May 30 last year. On the first of those dates O’Donnell shouted, swore and uttered threats at a property in Regent Place in Dalmuir and inside a police van, just weeks after being made the subject of a court bail order.
A Dumbarton man has been spared jail after assaulting his ex A MAN who violently assaulted his partner has been been banned from any contact with her for two years. Barry Young, 43, was sentenced at Dumbarton Sheriff Court on Friday after pleading guilty to attacking the woman at a property in Susannah Street, Alexandria. He repeatedly punched her on the head and body, spat on her face, seized her by the hair and struck her head on the floor of the property, all to her injury, on December 14 last year. Young, of Burnside Terrace, Dumbarton, also shouted, swore and brandished a knife at the same property on December 11.