This week burglar George Buck was jailed over a shocking case where a gang exploded an ATM.
The 28-year-old, of Tolney Lane, Newark, was locked up for seven years and four months for causing an explosion "of a nature likely to endanger life or cause serious injury to property". Others involved were not caught.
Judge Gregory Dickinson QC gave him five years concurrently for burglary, telling the father-of-three in the dock he was "playing for high stakes".
Nottingham Crown Court heard the blast happened when a father and his 13-year-old son were in one of four upstairs flats above Balderton Post Office in January.
A massive explosion rocked the room as raiders downstairs created a gas explosion to blast open the front door and blow off the back off an ATM machine, containing about £20,000.
In a separate case a burglar in a gang of masked intruders - who raided a car business and stole more than £100,000 worth of vehicles - was jailed.
Alan Jackson pleaded guilty to his role in the burglary at Sellcar UK, Daleside Road, Sneinton.
Two days later, on February 2, 2017, two more cars were stolen using keys from the first burglary, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
That evening Jackson drove away from police on patrol on Clifton Boulevard. He mounted a pavement, hit a kerb and railings outside a house.
He was arrested and on bail when he joined convicted burglar Darren Mee in stealing cars from outside a home, which had been burgled by Mee, in Leake Road, Gotham.
Jackson, 41, of Broomhill Avenue, Ilkeston, was sentenced for burglary at Sellcar on January 31, 2017; theft and dangerous driving, receiving a total sentence of three years and a driving ban for three-and-half years.
Mee, 41 and of no fixed address, was not involved in the earlier burglary and theft from Sellcar.
He was sentenced for unrelated offences of handling stolen goods, fraud with stolen bank cards, theft of a licence plate and motor vehicles, two burglaries and assaulting a police officer.
He received a total of four years in prison and a four-year driving disqualification.
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A judge jailed one man who had be tasered three times for having a hunting knife outside Bunkers Hill in Hockley.
Police received a 999 call about a man outside the pub carrying a knife, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
Officers attempted to detain 28-year-old Perry Mason, of no fixed address, but he walked away and was tasered on June 16 last year.
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Mason, of no fixed address, was supplying cannabis "as a gentle sideline", said Judge Stuart Rafferty QC, who gave him 18 months in prison for possessing the hunting knife.
A six-month prison sentence was added consecutively for possessing a knife in a car, on August 22, 2017, and nine months consecutively for having cannabis with intent to supply on June 6 last year.
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