A Perth prisoner has been sentenced to more than six months behind bars after he was twice caught with illicit SIM cards.
Guards found Kevin Ogg with the prohibited device inside his prison-issued mobile phone on November 27 2020.
The 44-year-old was caught again on September 27 last year.
Ogg appeared at Perth Sheriff Court and admitted two charges of possessing a personal communication device while in prison.
Ogg, who was previously jailed or a serious assault in Dundee, was sentenced to a total of 28 weeks.
TikTok beast
A Fife paedophile groomed a nine-year-old girl from North Yorkshire after meeting her on TikTok. Pervert Dale Henderson – already on the Sex Offenders Register following four previous, similar offences – was caught when the girl’s mother inspected her phone.
Taxi thief thug
A Dundee thug who spat at police after being caught stealing from a taxi has been jailed.
Darren Rachwal, 30, raided the Volkswagen Caddy parked at Camperdown Road on April 20.
He was caught with the taxi bag containing cash, documents and ID.
He spat on a sergeant and a custody officer at West Bell Street station.
While being taken to Dundee police HQ, Rachwal told police he was going to “take their face right off” and made offensive comments about their parents.
He behaved in a threatening manner by resisting two police constables, pushing them away and preventing them from applying handcuffs.
The 30-year-old repeatedly shouted, swore and acted aggressively and made threats of violence towards police and custody staff.
Sheriff Jillian Martin-Brown said there was no option than prison because of Rachwal’s long criminal record and jailed him for 140 days.
In 2021 Rachwal was jailed after telling police he was going to rape their children and in 2019, he attacked a petrol station worker who accused him of shoplifting.
Spiky character
A Perth man throttled his mum and bit her on the head, before battering her boyfriend with a metal pole and smashing up his car with a hedgehog ornament. Drunken Kaine Baxter, 25, from Alyth, erupted when he was refused a lift home after his grandfather’s funeral.
Positive cocaine swab
Kerry Smith, 33, crashed her Mazda 5 on Andrew Welsh Way, Arbroath and has admitted driving while unfit through drink or drugs.
Shortly after 10pm on February 3 last year, residents overheard a loud car horn and discovered the vehicle it in the quiet cul-de-sac.
Depute fiscal Kate Scarborough told Dundee Sheriff Court: “The car had crashed through the junction and the accused left the vehicle.
“Her manner lead the witness to believe she was under the influence of either drink or drugs.”
Police were called and Smith returned a negative breath test but a drug swab tested positive for cocaine.
She was eventually taken to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee.
Defence solicitor Billy Rennie, in mitigation for Smith, said: “She has had a matter with drugs for some time.
“She is not on a prescription at the moment but she tells me she does want to engage with services.”
Smith, of Sidney Street, Arbroath, admitted driving while unfit through drink or drugs and will be sentenced on February 2.
Ban dodged
A student who struck a police officer with a lit flare dodged a football banning order. Myles Rae, 18, told Dundee Sheriff Court he caught the smoking flare, thrown by someone else, before re-launching it into a crowd of fans on his way to the Dundee United versus Aberdeen match in October.
‘Extraordinary offending’
A disqualified driver has admitted getting behind the wheel of a car three times in what a sheriff described as “an extraordinary catalogue of offending”.
Cristian Macaneata, from Coupar Angus, appeared at Perth Sheriff Court and admitted driving a Volkswagen CC near his home in Strathmore Avenue on July 27 last year, while banned and without insurance.
The 34-year-old was caught driving the same car again on the A94 Coupar Angus to Balbeggie route on September 4.
And he drove an Audi Allroad vehicle along Perth’s Comleybank four weeks later.
Macaneata also admitted possession of a lock knife.
Sheriff Derek Reekie deferred sentence until February 8 for background reports.
“This seems to have been quite an extraordinary catalogue of offending,” he told Macaneata, who was handed an interim driving ban.
Priest trial not proven
A Catholic priest has been cleared of sexually assaulting a teenage male in Dunfermline. Father Christopher Heenan was accused of running his hand over the then-17-year-old’s body and inner thigh during a James Bond-themed cocktail party at a property in 2020. The trial ended with a not proven verdict.
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