Criminals have been convicted of drink-driving, failing to provide a specimen and abusive and threatening behaviour in your area this month.

Here's a roundup of some of the cases...

A 29-year-old has been banned from driving for three years after failing to provide a breath specimen.

Frankie Jo Schock, of St Peter’s Street, Maidstone, pleaded not guilty to the offence but was convicted by magistrates.

On top of the driving ban she must carry out 79 hours of unpaid work in the next 12 months and pay £145 in costs and charges.

Another Maidstone resident who has lost his licence is Jason Lloyd Boreham of Bramble Close, Barming.

The 32-year-old pleaded guilty to drink driving, driving without insurance and using a vehicle without a test certificate after officers stopped him in a Kia Sportage in his own road in January.

He gave a breath test of 45 micrograms of alcohol in 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35 microrgams.

Boreham was also banned for three years and must pay a £1,050 fine plus £170 costs and a £50 victim surcharge.

Fifty-two-year-old John Shakes, of no fixed address, has been ordered to pay a total of £690 and also banned from getting behind the wheel for three years after pleading guilty to drink driving in Maidstone.

He drove an Audi in Church Road and gave a breath test of 68 micrograms of alcohol in 100ml of breath.

Walter Smith was another person pleading guilty to drink-driving this month but he was banned for longer and can't drive for 40 months.

The 60-year-old, who drove a Peugeot 307 in Willowside, where he lives, gave a blood test of 137 milligrams of alcohol in 100ml of blood.

He must pay a £120 fine, £85 costs and a £30 victim surcharge.

And finally teenager Keiron Robert Carr was given a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to using threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour.

The 19-year-old, of Wrotham Road, Meopham, committed the offence against a man at a service station in Maidstone Road, Borough Green.

Magistrates sentenced Carr to 28 days in prison, suspended for six months. He must also pay £85 costs and a £115 victim surcharge.