ATM: Library image A fraudster and thief who targeted pensioners using cash machines in Maidstone and Medway is starting a prison sentence. On 17 February 2021, a pensioner used an ATM in Headcorn High Street to check…
A convicted fraudster from Maidstone has been jailed again after he went on to scam new victims following his release from prison. Blake Paterson was released on licence in 2022, having served a…
Residents are reminded to be on guard against phone fraudsters following a failed attempt to scam a Tonbridge pensioner out of £4,000. Officers intercepted a parcel containing the money, after the victim…
A fraudster who conned a woman he met on a dating app out of hundreds of thousands of pounds has been jailed. Kye Hughes, 34, from Rochester met the woman in December 2016…
A court hearing has been held into an alleged conspiracy to launder nearly £180,000 from victims of fraud. Detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate launched an investigation…
A Ramsgate fraudster has been jailed after charging an elderly victim £50,000 for routine building and gardening work. Mark Riley cold-called at a property in Ramsgate on 8 July 2020, offering to do gardening jobs for…
A fraudster who stole vehicles and attempted to sell them on has been jailed. Bradley Dobson posed as a buyer and agreed to purchase a white Ford Transit van from a…
A man has been charged with defrauding and stealing from elderly victims who had employed him to carry out gardening work. On 7 September, it was reported that a quantity…
A car stopped by officers has resulted in the arrests of three people and the recovery of suspected stolen goods. During the afternoon of Tuesday 22 August 2023, Kent Police…
Seized cigarettes and tobacco Kent Trading Standards and Kent Police have seized 40,000 cigarettes and 50 kilos of rolling tobacco from two shops in Maidstone, following a joint operation on…
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