A woman of travelling people origin was so upset by rogue parkers in her Black Isle community she scratched 'gypsies' onto the outside of a caravan.
Undercover officers took part in a surveillance operation against targets suspected of involvement in illegal trafficking in controlled drugs.
Sheriff Ian Cruickshank told Cummings: "You chose to inflict pain and suffering on a vulnerable child you were supposed to be looking after."
Test showed motorist was almost three times the safe limit for driving.
She has been fined and handed a driving ban.
A sheriff told a thief who stole his mother’s TV set “it was a pretty rotten thing to do”.
Victim spent 22 days in hospital – most of it in intensive care – as doctors battled to save his life.
Sheriff Eilidh Macdonald told the court: "[This] involved planning and you put the people who work here and members of the public at risk."
Data shows the Highlands came in seventh.
A shopper was knocked unconscious and seriously injured following a violent altercation in an Inverness retail car park.
Man and woman make no plea to claims which include robbery.
An Aviemore man with a bad record for driving offences has received a 32-months driving ban for being behind the wheel with cocaine in his system.
Sheriff Eilidh Macdonald said: "It was motivated by greed."
Defence solicitor told Inverness Sheriff Court: "This involved a confrontation not of his own making."
Accused heard saying: 'You won't want to mess with me.'
He also used another man's debit card to obtain goods from a different shop.
A Highland fisherman was caught by police with a knife in his car and £70 worth of cannabis when stopped in Inverness.
The former chairman and treasurer of a popular small Black Isle museum has admitted embezzling almost £19,000 from it over three years.
HIGHLAND Council has pointed abuse victims to its emergency accommodation service after saying the Refuge provision in the city is no longer provided.
Inverness Sheriff Court hears there was no connection between their drugs enterprise.
