Kidnappers, drug dealers, car thieves and a man who stole 37 joints of meat in a shoplifting spree.
These are some of criminals who operated in and around Northampton who were jailed by our courts during January.
This list is not exhaustive but a compilation of a handful of the most serious examples of criminality in our county where the long arm of the law caught up with offenders — in one case more than 20 years later.
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JAY COLES posted £40,000-worth of drugs disguised as shower gel back to his old mates in prison. Coles, 26, formerly of Pleydell Gardens in Northampton, had previously been sentenced to seven years for a brutal assault in 2016. Now he's back inside for another two years.
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RICHIRO RIVIERE-FREDERICK started running two drugs lines in Northamptonshire aged just 18. Now 20, he started a nine-year stretch last month after Police found 159 wraps of crack cocaine hidden in McDonald's packaging.
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JUOZAS BALTORS and DARIUS LUKAUSKAS (left) nicked a £93,000 BMW from Northampton and sent it to a chop-shop to be broken up into parts. They were jailed for 41⁄2 years each after a court heard they had done the same thing to another BMW from Northampton, this time worth £38,000 — plus another 24 making the total value more than £1million
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RICKY LONG has so many theft convictions the 34-year-old is banned from shops across the north of the county. Homeless A Northampton Crown Court judge put Long back behind bars after he admitted threatening to smash a man's head in at a Kettering service station — just two weeks after he'd been released for previous offences.