Their sentences range from four months to 26 years, six months.
Some of these criminals owned up to their crimes through guilty pleas, while others were convicted following a Sheffield Cown Court trial.
All of them have been taken off South Yorkshire’s streets, after Sheffield judges deemed it necessary to pass down an immediate custodial sentence.
9. Ryan Nisbet and Stan Bentley: Doncaster drug dealer jailed after pursuit by officers
While on mobile patrol in Wath-upon-Dearne in Rotherham, an officer's attention was drawn to a Ford Fiesta suspected of displaying false number plates. After following the car to a garage, Ryan Nisbet (pictured) who was driving the vehicle at the time, made off at speed. He ignored calls to pull over and instead led officers on a 70mph pursuit down a 30mph road. Nisbet also drove 50mph down a narrow street with parked cars before crashing the vehicle and trying to escape on foot. Officers were able to track Nisbet and apprehend him as he tried to climb over a fence near Moor Road. During his arrest, Nisbet, 23, of Armthorpe Road, Intake, admitted to having drugs in his possession and said that he'd been paid to drive the stolen vehicle. Stan Bentley, 25, of Stuart Street, Thurnscoe, who was a passenger in the vehicle, was arrested by another officer after fleeing in another direction, with both brought into custody. Nisbet's phone was seized, with analysis showing damning evidence that he had been involved in the supply of illegal drugs. Nisbet was jailed for a total of three-and-a-half years on Frida, June 7, 2024 at Sheffield Crown Court after pleading guilty to aggravated vehicle taking and dangerous driving, being concerned in the supply of cocaine, possession with intent to supply cocaine and possession of cannabis. He has been disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence for three years and three months, with a judge also ordering that the drugs seized be forfeited and destroyed. Bentley was jailed for a total of five-and-a-half years at the same court after being sentenced in relation to this case and other drug offences on a separate indictment. | SYP