Each week, the Daily Post pulls together its files to name and shame the criminals locked up for offences committed in and around North Wales.
Every one of the people named here has appeared in court.
In some of the cases, trials have been held and jurors have deliberated over the evidence.
A judge has decided their crimes are so serious only a custodial sentence will suffice.
Dean Graham
A drugs courier who ferried heroin and crack cocaine from Merseyside into North Wales has been jailed.
Dean Graham, 22, built up a drugs debt and agreed to ferry the drugs to pay it off, Mold Crown Court heard.
Graham was a passenger in a black BMW 3 series which police were monitoring.
An officer spotted it outside the address of known drug addicts in Old Colwyn in June and back up was called.
The car was seen at a petrol filling station in Abergele Road and police moved in to block off the exits.
When a police car pulled up in front of the car as the driver was paying for fuel, Graham who was in the passenger seat tried to make a run for it, explained prosecuting barrister Karl Scholz.
But he was chased and taken to the ground.
Graham of Foundry Lane in Widnes, was jailed for 27 months.
Reginald Roach
Police were left with a £300 clean-up bill after a prisoner pleasured himself in a cell and defecated in a police station shower.
Reginald Roach had been arrested on November 16 over another offence and was in custody at Caernafon Police Station.
While being held, he defecated in the shower in the custody suite, forcing the police to have to bring in professional cleaners.
He also pleasured himself in a cell, meaning cleaners had to be brought in again, and urinated in one during the time he was being held at Llandudno Magistrates Court.
In total, the bill for cleaning up after him ran to more than £310.
Roach, of Market Street in Holyhead, had denied a charge of spitting at a custody officer, but changed his plea just before he was due up before magistrates in Caernarfon.
The court heard Roach was also in breach of a conditional discharge imposed last March following an incident in Holyhead, when he was seen to approach the Labour party offices in Thomas Street with a tin of white paint which he threw at the building.
He was handed a four week jail term for this incident to be served concurrently with the 20 week sentence he was given for the damage to the cells and spitting at the custody officer.
Liam Thomas Sheridan
A gambling addict burgled his elderly gran’s house and stole cash from his children’s money boxes.
Liam Thomas Sheridan admitted charges of burglary, theft and fraud when he appeared from custody at Caernarfon Crown Court.
The 26-year-old, of Victoria Road, Prestatyn, was in tears as the case was outlined in court.
Jailing him for three years, Judge Huw Rees said: “You fall to be sentenced on charges of burglary and fraud. These were committed to fund your selfish addiction to gambling.
“This shameful behaviour towards your elderly grandmother should remain with you for a long time as a memory of how low you stooped.”
Chelsea Whaley
A woman who hit a stranger on the back of the head with a bottle for no reason has been jailed.
The attack happened as the victim was walking to his Deeside home from the gym, when he felt a sudden blow to the head and suffered a deep wound which needed stitching.
Prosecuting barrister Karl Scholz told Mold Crown Court that there was “no rhyme or reason for the attack”.
The victim had done nothing whatsoever to attacker Chelsea Whaley and they were not known to each other.
It turned out that she was also responsible for an unprovoked attack on a teenage girl on Deeside.
Whaley, 23, of Dean’s Avenue in Connah's Quay, was jailed for two years after she admitted wounding Kieran Cogley in September, assaulting a girl aged 14 on an earlier occasion, and criminal damage.
Otis Thompson
A man who tried to take a knife into a Rhyl nightclub has been jailed for six months.
Otis Thompson was searched by bouncers on his way into Hidden and they found the blade.
The 27-year-old claimed he’d been out with his friends for his brother’s birthday and suspected one of the others had a knife, so he’d disarmed him.
He told Mold crown court he’d put the knife in his pocket, intending to get rid of it.
But it was found as he tried to get back inside the club, which he’d already been in earlier.
He appeared before Mold crown court on Friday and was told by the judge that he had a knife on him at a time when he was “not in control of his senses”.
Thompson, of Porth y Llys in Rhyl, denied taking the knife out with him and had tried to claim he had his wits about him.
But he then tried to claim he hadn’t thought to make efforts to get rid of the weapon or tell the bouncers about the knife - described to the court as a “fearsome blade some six inches long” - because he was drunk.
He had been cautioned for possession of a weapon 10 years ago.
Jamie Mark Scott
A thug who as a teenager killed a football fan with a single punch is back behind bars for a third time.
Jamie Mark Scott was 17 when he attacked warehouseman Lee Jones outside a Rhyl hotel.
He was sentenced to three and a half years in a young offenders' institute.
Earlier this year, he was sentenced to 26 weeks for attacking a woman at a taxi rank in Rhyl.
And now, he has been jailed again for giving a false name to police when he was stopped driving while disqualified.
He gave the name of someone he'd been to school with to the officers and the other, innocent man ended up being convicted of the offence in his absence.
Scott was told by Judge Niclas Parry that it was a clumsy attempt to pervert the course of justice, because while giving a false name he had given his own address.
But the consequences were serious and he was jailed for nine months.
Stuart Carless
A husband who put a tracker under his wife’s car to monitor her movements was caught after she spotted that he’d bought it using their joint bank account, a court heard.
Stuart Carless subjected his wife Victoria to a two-month stalking ordeal after they split up and she moved out of their Prestatyn home last year, Mold Crown Court heard.
The 46-year-old bombarded her with social media messages and phone calls, which were sometimes anonymous.
He would also turn up at her house and follow her when she went out, and she would find herself locked out of her emails.
Carless downloaded an app to keep track of his wife’s car but, when that failed, he placed a tracker underneath to monitor her movements, said prosecutor Simon Rogers.
But she spotted he’d bought it through a joint bank account and found it underneath her vehicle, the court heard.
Mrs Carless eventually called the police and her husband was remanded in custody, but he still sent her a letter after he was released on bail, breaking his conditions.
Carless, of Highbury Crescent, Prestatyn, who works for Clwyd Alyn Housing, pleaded guilty to stalking his wife between October 16 and December 14, 2018. He was jailed for 14 months.
Christopher Rigg, Wayne Sudbury and Artur Jaku-Graham
Three members of a drugs gang who attempted to smuggle £3m of drugs through North Wales to Ireland have been jailed.
The gang were snared after they packed a lorry with drugs at an industrial estate in Queensferry in Flintshire before attempting to smuggle them to Ireland.
The lorry was stopped at Holyhead in Anglesey as its driver attempted to board a ferry to Dublin.
Christopher Rigg, aged 52, of no fixed address, Wayne Sudbury, aged 40, from Crosby in Merseyside, and Artur Jaku-Graham, aged 32, of no fixed address, were jailed for 10 years nine months, 10 years eight months, and six years respectively at Liverpool Crown Court.
All three had pleaded guilty to drugs offences at an earlier hearing.
The gang were found with 30 kilograms of cocaine, 45 kilograms of cannabis, 15 kilograms of MDMA and two kilograms of ketamine following an investigation by the joint National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police’s Organised Crime Partnership (OCP).
Adrian Reginald Crofts
A window cleaner who dealt in cocaine has been jailed for a total of three years and 10 months.
Defendant Adrian Reginald Crofts was found in possession of cocaine when police executed a search warrant at his home in Bryn Mawr Road, Holywell, back in October, 2017.
Judge Rhys Rowlands, who said the delays in the case were unacceptable, was told Crofts was a window cleaner who rarely used banks and he claimed £3,000 in cash found by police in his bedroom was from his income.
But inquiries showed he had declared £43,000 to Revenue and Customs from the window cleaning business.
Crofts admitted possessing cocaine with intent to supply at an earlier occasion and today he changed his pleas and admitted being concerned in the supply of both cocaine and cannabis between July and October 2017, based on text messages found on his mobile phone - for which he was due to go on trial in April.
He also admitted possessing the £3,000 as criminal property.
Shane Roberts
A homeless man activated a 90-day suspended jail term after stealing £17.50 worth of cheese strings.
Shane Roberts, 22, who had been living in a Travelodge at Holyhead, received an extra seven days on top of the sentence for the theft at Llangefni on December 19, after ignoring a ban on him entering Asda stores.
Prosecutor Diane Williams at Llandudno Magistrates Court said he had received the suspended sentence nine days earlier.
Bethan Williams, defending, said Roberts had mental health difficulties and had been homeless, hungry and without money.
