Nantwich and Crewe shoppers are being warned by police about fraudsters targeting people at Grand Junction Retail Park.
A woman in her 50s had her card stolen and cash taken from her account in one incident on December 2.
A Nantwich man was one of a gang of four jailed for stealing almost £12,000 of alcohol from two freight trains.
David Keith Evanson, 31, and three other men were sentenced to more than five years following a British Transport Police (BTP) investigation.
Thieves have stolen a quad bike worth thousands of pounds from a property near Nantwich.
They broke into a secure building in the Bridgemere area of Nantwich and made off with the vehicle.
Police have issued a CCTV image of a man wanted in connection with criminal damage at Nantwich Civic Hall.
Officers are probing an incident which led to £1,500 worth of damage caused at the Civic Hall on Market Street.
An insurance comparison website lists Crewe and Nantwich area as having the highest number of drink and drug drive offenders in the UK.
The data refers to the number of people in the CW postcode area who have visited the company’s website for a comparison quote in the past 12 months.
Police are again advising shoppers in Nantwich to be wary of purse thieves.
Officers from Crewe Local Policing Unit issued the warning following a number of incidents in local supermarkets.
A “taxi marshal” could be employed to crackdown on late-night problems around Nantwich’s taxi rank, police have suggested.
Nantwich officers are hoping to copy a scheme used in Chester and Newcastle-under-Lyme.
A pickpocket gang which has snatched four purses in Nantwich in the last few days, is targeting elderly shoppers, police have warned.
All four victims have been elderly people shopping in either charity shops or supermarkets, it has emerged.
Nantwich police have warned car owners to be aware of thieves after a number of incidents in the town.
Several vehicles in Nantwich have been broken into in the last two nights, officers say.
Cheshire Police recorded the fourth largest drop in recorded crime across England and Wales, latest figures suggest.
Crime statistics released by the Office of National Statistics show for 12 months ending June 2015 there was an overall drop in crime of 4% – 2,245 fewer crimes.
Complaints against Cheshire Police have risen for the fourth year in a row.
There was a small rise in the number of complaints against the force in 2014-15 on the previous year, according to the latest report by Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC)
Police in Nantwich are probing a house burglary at a property in the town centre.
The break in happened on Grocotts Row, just off Hospital Street, last night (October 6) between 3pm and 6pm.
Residents in Nantwich are being warned to remain vigilant after a large number of distraction burglaries across South Cheshire.
Police say a number of distraction burglaries involving men attempting to sell artwork have so far been reported in the Middlewich, Holmes Chapel, Knutsford, and Cranage areas of the county.
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