Two men who were jailed for manufacturing and supplying counterfeit identity documents have been ordered to surrender almost £350,000 of their illicit earnings or face a further four and a half years in prison

An NCA investigation found that Ukrainian national Sergiy Mykhaylov, 41, used his home in Stratford as a forgery factory, set up with computers and printers capable of producing tens of thousands of false documents. He ran an online business through which he received orders and would post the forged documents to customers all over the […]

Police charge man over M27 drama

A man has been charged with causing danger to road users following an incident on the M27 on Friday  (Aug 27). Dean Williams, 28, of no fixed abode has been charged with causing danger to road users and will appear before Portsmouth Magistrates tomorrow morning (Tuesday 31 August).

A burglar who targeted two cafés in the Christchurch area has been jailed

  Marius Gabriel Balan, aged 28 and of Wyllie Mews, Burton-Upon-Trent, was sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court on Tuesday 24 August 2021 to 40 weeks in prison after admitting two burglaries. Between around 11am on Tuesday 24 March 2020 and 9.30am on Thursday 26 March 2020 entry was forced to The Paddle in Waterford Road […]

A man, who thought operating out of the ‘leafy idyll’ of Cranleigh would mean his criminal activity went undetected, has been jailed for a total of nine years and six months after appearing at Guildford Crown Court

  James Ottomar Mosbacher (a duel German / US national), 54, of no fixed address, was found guilty of a number of offences including money laundering, possession of a genuine fully working ‘Smith and Wesson’ revolver handgun, possessing military ammunition and possessing forged identity documents. Mosbacher was arrested in May 2016 after officers executed a […]

Police have launched an appeal to locate a large pair of black electric gates costing thousands of pounds after they were stolen from the property that belonged to murdered Granny Georgina Edmonds

Murdered Georgina Edmonds was the 77-year-old victim at the centre of one of the largest scale murder operations for Hampshire Constabulary in January 2008 located on Kiln Lane in Otterbourne.  Matthew Hamlen was convicted of Georgina Edmonds’ 2008 murder. He was acquitted of the same charge in 2012 due to poor DNA evidence. He was […]

A suspect has appeared in court charged with assault offences in Margate

A suspect has appeared in court charged with assault offences in Margate.   Officers were called at around 6.32pm on Sunday 22 August 2021 to a report that a man had been seriously assaulted in Garlinge High Street.   Officers attended and the victim, a man in his 30s, received treatment from medical personnel at […]