A young woman who stole toys from a shop shortly before Christmas crashed into a car as she tried to drive away from the scene.

A Cork man extradited from Australia to face charges relating to an alleged seizure of over €10,000 worth of drugs in Cork in 2009 abandoned his bail application yesterday and pleaded guilty to the crime.

Gary Pearse, 20, of 24 Mount St Joseph’s Heights, Bakers Road, Cork, pleaded guilty to the charge of allowing himself to be carried in a stolen car.

A middle-aged man with Asperger’s Syndrome was conned by four men into paying more than €4,000 for work that was never done on his house.

A GPS tracking device was placed under a young woman’s car outside her house at five in the morning by her ex-partner causing her to be petrified for her life.

A bus passenger who assaulted an inspector on a bus from West Cork was ordered to do 60 hours of community service for another offence today.

A man charged with arriving at a house in Cork while armed first with a hurley and later with a machete was allegedly involved in family feud, it was claimed by gardaí.

A security man at the Voodoo Rooms in Cork had his nose broken by a customer.

A Chinese woman who slammed another Chinese woman’s head on the ground in a daylight assault in Cork City paid €500 compensation to the victim and was given a suspended sentence.

A delivery van driver made an impromptu decision to pick up 18 bottles of spirits for himself from a cage in a loading bay — and yesterday he was sentenced to four months for theft.

Fifty patients were in a hospital emergency department when a woman was so abusive that gardaí were called.

A man with over 100 previous convictions expressed the desire to get over his serious addictions because that was what his late father wanted for his son.

A Chinese woman was seen by a garda chasing a fellow national down Cornmarket St in Cork City and then head on the ground.

Three men were arrested yesterday and charged with multiple counts of breaking into cars parked south of Cork city. Garda Brian Motyer and Garda Jamie Landers arrested the three and brought them before Cork District Court.

A serial shoplifter, who was convicted yesterday of carrying out more than 30 thefts, declared from the dock at his sentencing hearing: “I ain’t very good at shoplifting, am I?”

A man who was told by his grandmother to turn down loud music at home responded by spitting at her and putting her in fear.

Cork City Council and community gardaí from Mayfield applied for excluding orders that would effectively ban named youths — one as young as 12 — from roaming through housing estates in the Mayfield area of the city.

A man was so worried about his mental health that he told a judge he did not want his jail sentence suspended as he felt that he would be safer in prison.

Two mothers dropping children to school ended up scrapping with each other on the ground outside the school, a court has heard.

The garda file in the case against a man charged with impeding the prosecution of his son for dangerous driving causing death is complex and runs to 10 volumes, it emerged yesterday.

The theft of a mobile phone from a man who lay unconscious on the street was compared to grave-robbing by a sentencing judge yesterday.

A woman was terrified by her ex-partner, who warned her to board up her house but said it would do her no good anyway, as he was going to kill her.

A 71-year-old man from Newmarket was arrested yesterday and charged with impeding the prosecution of his son on a charge of dangerous driving causing death.

A man’s matrimonial plans for later this year had to be postponed as he ended up in jail for burglary and other crimes.

A drink driver with heroin and cocaine in his pocket tried to walk away from gardaí but when one officer caught and handcuffed him on the ground the culprit shouted: “I know where you live. I will get you.”

Two men had their teeth knocked out by a young man in the course of unprovoked assaults in Mahon and Passage West.

A district court judge yesterday left it up to a circuit court to decide if upwards of seven senior counsel, along with junior counsel, would be assigned on free legal aid to a number of men and women facing various charges under money laundering legislation.

A mother of four who was in dire financial straits filled a trolley with almost €600 worth of groceries and cosmetics and rolled it out of a supermarket without paying.

A young man who was asked to leave a shopping centre because of previous anti- social behaviour threatened to smash the heads of customers and warned there would be blood everywhere.

A stash of heroin was concealed down the side of a taxi seat by a passenger when he noticed gardaí coming towards him.

A garda inspector said the investigation into three men charged in connection with the seizure of €80m worth of cocaine aboard a yacht in September is at an advance stage.

Gardaí in Cork City became suspicious of a car being driven without lights after midnight and when they approached, they discovered the motorist was just 14 years old.

A Cork woman has confessed to 96 charges relating to a €20,000 social welfare scam where she made simultaneous claims for illness benefit in the names of three other women.

An agitated man had to be pepper-sprayed by gardaí at the scene of a domestic incident after he repeatedly pounded his chest with his fist and then picked up a knife.

A plumber and his firm were yesterday sent for trial on separate charges to a circuit criminal court following the carbon monoxide poisoning, 18 months ago, of a hotel guest in Kinsale, Co Cork.

A 44-year-old plumber has been charged with the manslaughter of a woman who died from acute carbon monoxide poisoning at a Co Cork hotel on Jan 9, 2011.

Five men are each facing five months in jail and six-year driving bans after being convicted of dangerous driving during a sulky race on the main Cork to Limerick road.

Five of the six men charged in connection with a sulky race on the main Cork to Limerick road which became a YouTube sensation have indicated they were pleading not guilty to all charges against them.