TWO drug dealers have been jailed after police rumbled their ‘significant’ drug operation and found their stash of illicit substances. Steven Shaw and Joseph Anders saw their illegal enterprise come to an end after officers searched a property on Forster Street in Orford, which was being used as a ‘facility for the supply of cannabis’. A huge haul of the class B drug was recovered from the house with a street value of more than £30,000, alongside a wad of cash and a baseball bat. Following their arrest and guilty pleas to a charge of possession of cannabis with intent to supply, the duo appeared before Liverpool Crown Court.
UpdatedThu, May 27, 2021 at 4:52 pm PT
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Daniel Birch Poulsen (Desert Hot Springs Police Department)
INDIO, CA A mental competency trial was rescheduled Thursday to June 23 for a man accused of severely injuring a 7-year-old Desert Hot Springs boy in a random attack last summer.
Daniel Birch Poulsen, 33, was arrested last July after allegedly attacking Gavin Ludwick in the middle of the street in the 9600 block of Vista Del Valle, fracturing the boy s skull and rendering him unconscious.
The prosecution requested a jury trial at the Larson Justice Center in Indio to determine whether Poulsen is mentally fit to be prosecuted on one count each of attempted murder and willful child cruelty, along with two sentence-enhancing allegations of inflicting great bodily injury.
Mental competency trial date set for man accused of severely injuring Desert Hot Springs child
A May 27 trial date was set today to determine whether a man accused of severely injuring a 7-year-old Desert Hot Springs boy in a random attack last summer is mentally competent.
Daniel Birch Poulsen, 33,
was arrested last July after allegedly attacking Gavin Ludwick in the middle of the street in the 9600 block of Vista Del Valle, fracturing the boy s skull and rendering him unconscious.
The prosecution previously requested a jury trial to determine whether Poulsen is mentally fit to be prosecuted on one count each of attempted murder and willful child cruelty, along with two sentence-enhancing allegations
Proceedings against Poulsen were suspended last summer, after his attorney expressed doubts regarding his client s mental fitness. Two behavioral health specialists were appointed by the court to evaluate Poulsen s mental competency. Psychological evaluations pointed to doubt about the defendant s mental competency.
Poulsen is no stranger to competency proceedings. Court records show he has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial at least 11 times over the years.
On the night of July 18, police officers were alerted to a child lying unconscious on Vista Del Valle. Investigators determined the boy was deliberately attacked, and arrested Poulsen the next day, although police did not reveal how they identified him as the alleged perpetrator.
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Police raided a house on Forster Street in Orford yesterday afternoon. Picture by Google Maps. FOUR men were arrested after police seized a large quantity of drugs and cash during a raid on a house in Cheshire. Officers executed a search warrant at an address on Forster Street in Orford yesterday afternoon, Tuesday (April 27). This came after plain clothes officers performed a stop and search on a man on the same road at around 2.30pm due to ‘suspicious behaviour’. And a quartet of suspects from were detained on suspicion of possession of cannabis with intent to supply. Two of them, 32-year-old Joseph Anders and 34-year-old Steven Shaw - of Forster Street and Poole Avenue in Longford respectively - have since been charged with this offence.