Three charged with conspiring to cause damage to property
Three men charged with conspiracy to cause criminal damage to a property appeared at a court preliminary hearing.
William Michael Smith, 44, Patryk Dziewiatkowski, 21, and Daniel Goodwin, 23, of Ash Grove in Chirk, face charges of jointly conspiring to cause damage to a property.
Smith, of Langdale Avenue, Wrexham, and Dziewiatkowski, of Smithfield Road, Wrexham, are also accused of conspiring to commit arson between September 28 and October 1 in Ponciau and conspiring to commit GBH to an unknown person at Castle Road in Chirk on October 20.
Smith faces additional charges of possessing offensive weapons – a knuckle duster, sawn-off shotgun and a samurai sword – in a public place.
Dziewiatkowski is accused of possessing an extendible baton in a public place.
They were arrested by North Wales Police's Operation Scorpion team, which aims to crack down on serious and organised crime. All three appeared at Mold Crown Court yesterday via a live television link from Altcourse Prison in Liverpool.
Judge Rhys Rowlands remanded all three in custody and adjourned the preliminary hearing for one week.
The judge said that it was important that a provisional trial date should be fixed on that occasion because defendants were in custody
