Two teenagers have been arrested by police investigating a series of robberies.
The incidents took place in the Forest Fields and Lenton Abbey areas of Nottingham over the last three months.
Two boys, one aged 15 and the other aged 14, have been arrested on suspicion of robbery in connection with an incident in Waterloo Promenade on the evening of Friday 22 October where a man was threatened and had his phone stolen.
The older boy has also been detained on suspicion of a series of other robbery offences, the most recent of which took place on the Forest Recreation Ground shortly before 5.45pm on Wednesday 24 November where the victim had his electric scooter stolen.
Other incidents under investigation all involved victims having their mobile phones stolen. These took place shortly before 11.30pm on 1 October in Derby Road, Lenton; in Midland Way in the early hours of 27 September, and on Allington Avenue at around 10.45pm on 27 September.
Detective Sergeant Franco Guddemi, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: “We’ve been looking into a series of offences where victims were threatened with violence before having their valuables stolen. We take these kind of offences extremely seriously and have been working hard to investigate every one of them. I am pleased we have now been able to make arrests and our investigation continues.”
