Officers have been searching areas in and around Nantwich as part of a week-long initiative to tackle knife crime and robbery.
Police conducted “knife sweeps” in the town’s parks, recreational areas and other sites in the Nantwich Beat area.
Dear Editor,
In Cheshire East overall, 80% of robbery, 94% of burglary and 98% of bike and personal theft went unsolved over the last three years.
These are the worst performance figures in Cheshire EVER.
A man was held at knifepoint and attacked in Nantwich in an attempted robbery, police say.
The attack happened as the 21-year-old victim was walking along Middlewich Road towards Alvaston Hall Hotel.
An armed robber wielding a pistol targeted an off licence in Crewe, stealing cash before escaping.
The terrified shop worker who was forced to open the till of the Bargain Booze store on the corner of Tollemarche Drive and Parkers Road, was unharmed, police say.
Police are appealing for witnesses following an attempted robbery in Church Minshull when a man was attacked with a metal bar.
The victim was working in his tool sales van in a layby when he was approached by a man carrying a metal bar at about 4.40pm on Monday (January 18).
Detectives are investigating an attempted robbery of a car on the A49 at Spurstow, near Nantwich.
The incident involved a Silver BMW which overtook and stopped in front of a Mercedes near to Badcock’s Lane.
Three masked men raided a Wistaston store worker during an armed raid.
The incident happened at the Bargain Booze store on King’s Drive at around 7.30pm last night (February 4).
A teenage boy was robbed at knifepoint in broad daylight in Crewe, Cheshire Police said.
Detectives are investigating the incident which happened on Harrison Drive near Dunwoody Way on Thursday (December 19) at around 2.40pm.
An armed robber who terrified staff at the Game store in Crewe has been jailed.
Matthew Hurst, of no fixed address but from Crewe, was sentenced to four years in prison at Chester Crown Court.
A masked armed robber raided the GAME store in Crewe today, threatening staff with a firearm.
Detectives are looking at possible links to a similar raid on the Subway store nearby just days ago.
A masked robber is being hunted by police after reports of a Nantwich shop assistant being threatened with a gun.
The incident happened at the Premier Convenience Store on Arnold Street.
Police have charged four men with robbery following an investigation into a raid at a Nantwich jewellery shop.
Offenders wearing balaclavas forced a hole in the window of Moody’s shop on Pillory Street on Wednesday (July 27).
A man from Nantwich who police were keen to trace in connection with allegations of robbery and serious assault has been arrested.
Patrick O’Connor, of King Place, Nantwich, was found and arrested in Torquay following a police appeal.
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