Dyfed Powys Police

A man who allowed members of an organised crime gang to establish a commercial scale cannabis factory at his property has been jailed. Martin Evans claimed he was unaware of the size of the operation being run from his home when he appeared at Swansea Crown Court, however in renting out a part of his […]

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Dyfed-Powys Police have joined police forces across the UK in the national Operation Spotlight campaign, coordinated by the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC). This ongoing initiative aims to reduce serious injuries and fatalities on our roads by targeting criminal use of the roads and highlighting the dangers of the “Fatal 5” behaviours – speeding, drink […]

Dyfed-Powys Police is appealing for information about a fatal collision on the A4138 between the Llangennech roundabout and the Crematorium roundabout, Carmarthenshire, which occurred...

More than 120 people living in the Llanelli area have handed over their personal bank details to criminals involved in money laundering in exchange for financial gifts. Economic Crime Team officers from Dyfed-Powys Police identified the individuals as part of an ongoing criminal investigation and issued notices advising them to stop the activity immediately or […]

Each of the men have been jailed for eight years and one month respectively for deliberately enticing the victim to a remote location, and once there subjecting him to significant violence and restraining him by handcuffs. Mohammad Comrie, aged 22, of Leeds; Faiz Shah, aged 22, of Bradford; and 20-year-old Elijah Ogunnubi-Sime of Croydon, deceived […]

Cannabis plants worth more than £860,000 have been seized from properties in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Powys in just one week as police continue their crackdown on industrial scale drug production. Dyfed-Powys Police took part in Operation Mille 3 – a week-long national policing operation aimed at disrupting large scale cannabis factories established by organised crime […]

A grieving mum has described the devastating loss of her ‘loving, caring and funny’ son as his killer is jailed. Liam Morgan Whittle died after suffering catastrophic head injuries from two punches following a night out in Llanelli. He was just 22. Today, Jason Thomas has been jailed for manslaughter after admitting to dealing the […]

The family of Llanelli mum Sophie Evans say they will never forget her ‘beautiful smile and comforting ways’ as a man is jailed for life for her murder. When the 30-year-old let her partner’s father into her home on July 5, 2024, she believed he was there to carry out a repair. But less than […]

Police teams tackling the threat presented by industrial scale cannabis farms have taken more than £12 million worth of cannabis out of the supply chain. Raiding buildings from former schools and empty town centre shops to a disused newspaper office, Dyfed-Powys Police has successfully disrupted 37 commercial sized cannabis farms over the past year alone, […]