• Was Kingswood robbery a 'rival postcode' crime?

  By king1and

  Becky, sounds like a rival gang. Not saying the victim was in a gang but looks like the, 'BS16...

            

   

  By BeckyFeather at 14:47 on 10/11/11

  

  Police are appealing for information about a robbery in which a 17-year-old was punched in the face as he was walking with his girlfriend in Kingswood. The incident occurred at 9.40pm on Saturday, November 5. The couple were walking in Sherborne Close, heading towards Barrington Close, when two men came up to them. The first man punched the 17-year-old in the face and stole his mobile phone and iPod. He then punched the victim in...

• Police urge people in the Kingswood area to be on the alert for bogus callers

  By bluebuttons

  This almost always happens as Christmas approaches,I'm pretty savvy so they won't be getting passed...

            

   

  By BeckyFeather at 21:15 on 02/11/11

  

  Police are warning people in the Kingswood area to beware of bogus callers.  There have been a number of reported distraction burglaries recently where criminals have got into people's homes by pretending to be from a water company, or using children to distract the homeowner by claiming they've lost a ball in their garden. In the last month in Warmley and also in Easton, people had money stolen from their homes after answering...

• Two men arrested for drug offences by police on patrol in Kingswood

  By BeckyFeather

  The two men arrested for alleged drug offences are due to appear before Bristol magistrates today,...

            

   

  By BeckyFeather at 15:13 on 11/10/11

  

  Police patrols in Kingswood led to the arrest of two men for drug offences in the early hours of today. South Gloucestershire officers were joined by Road Policing Unit officers patrolling the area in both marked and unmarked vehicles. An Avon & Somerset police spokesman said: "Officers saw what they believed to be a drug deal and followed a suspect to an address on the border of Kingswood and Hillfields where they arrested...

• Teenagers robbed by gang after party in Mangotsfield

  By Richard34

  Oops, sorry, this is the one in Fishponds, called the Old Post Office:

            

   

  By BeckyFeather at 15:53 on 17/09/11

  

  A 10-strong gang wearing hoodies and bandanas robbed teenagers of mobile phones, MP3 players, money and clothing in Mangotsfield last night. Around 80 teenagers had been at a party on the Pomphrey Hill playing fields, bordered by the A4174 and Pomphrey Hill and Cossham Street. As the party was breaking up, between 9.30pm and 10pm, a group of 10 males wearing hooded tops and bandanas and riding pushbikes committed several robberies. A...

• Police are appealing for witnesses to a robbery in Bristol

  By Richard34

  True but it will be nice if sites like localpeople and the evening post reported on the nicer things...

            

   

  By Trucks79 at 12:38 on 01/08/11

  

  Can you help Police with information following a robbery in Bristol last Saturday? The robbery occurred at 2pm on Saturday July 30, 2011. The victim, a woman in her 20s, was on Lodge Causeway near to the junction with Mayfield Avenue. A silver Vauxhall Cavalier stopped nearby and five men got out. One man threatened the victim with a knife and stole her handbag before all the men got back in the car. The vehicle drove off towards...

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