POLICE officers with Ammanford CID have arrested and charged a 25-year-old local man in connection with a series of burglaries across the Amman Towy area this summer.

The offences mainly concerned isolated barns and sheds as well as farm properties from which a range of items including chainsaws and tools have been stolen.

He has now been charged with seven burglary offences and is due before Llanelli magistrates on Thursday, October 17.