Armed police have arrested a 16-year-old and seized a knife and mask after an incident in Nantwich.
The armed policing unit was called after reports of youths intimidating others in the Salt Meadows area of town.
Police in Crewe have been given more powers to stop and search anyone they suspect of carrying a weapon.
It follows concerns raised by the community in the wake of knife-related incidents in the town.
Cheshire Police are working with partners as part of the national Operation Sceptre campaign to tackle knife crime.
It is a week of action that runs from March 11 to 17 and aims to reduce the impact of knife crime in communities.
A knife-wielding robber threatened staff in a raid on a South Cheshire off licence, police said.
The armed robbery happened at the Bargain Booze outlet on Hungerford Road in Crewe.
A man who stabbed his victim at a house in Crewe causing him to nearly bleed to death, has been jailed for 10 and a half years.
Jay Maughan (pictured), 37, pleaded guilty to wounding with intent and was sentenced at Chester Crown Court.
A man was arrested by armed police in Nantwich today after reports an elderly woman was threatened with a knife.
The incident happened in the Queens Drive area of the town at around 2am today (November 9).
Police are hunting teenagers after a knife attack on a South Cheshire bowling alley employee.
Detectives want witnesses to the serious assault at Phoenix Leisure Park in Crewe to come forward.
Detectives are an hunting armed robber who struck twice in one night in South Cheshire. The first happened at a takeaway on Earle Street in Crewe when a man armed with a knife demanding cash, but he left empty-handed.
A man has been charged in connection with an alleged robbery at a South Cheshire off licence. The 28-year-old man has been charged following an investigation into the incident at Bargain Busters on Edleston Road, Crewe.
A man who tried to rob a South Cheshire shop and was overpowered by the shopkeeper, has been jailed. Craig Hughes, 27, entered News Food and Booze in Crewe with a scarf covering his face and demanded money from the shopkeeper.
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