{"id":339811,"date":"2025-12-28T20:19:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T20:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339811\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T20:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T20:19:28","slug":"man-armed-with-knife-wanted-for-robberies-in-north-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339811\/","title":{"rendered":"Man armed with knife wanted for robberies in north Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police have appealed for information. Picture by Peter Morrison<\/p>\n

A knife-wielding robber is wanted by police after he stole cash from two commercial premises in north Belfast.<\/p>\n

Detectives at Musgrave Station are appealing for information and witnesses in relation to reports of two robberies which occurred earlier on Sunday 28 December. <\/p>\n

Detective Sergeant Long said: \u201cShortly before 11.25am, it was reported that a man armed with a knife entered commercial premises on the Westland Road and demanded money and cigarettes, before fleeing the scene with a quantity of cash.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe suspect was described as being aged around 40 years old, of stocky build, and wearing a navy coloured tracksuit.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometime later, at around 1.50pm, it was reported that a man, dressed in a grey \/ light blue tracksuit, entered commercial premises at Oldpark Road armed with a knife, and made off with a sum of cash.<\/p>\n

\u201cEnquiries are ongoing, and detectives are investigating the possibility that the two reports may be linked.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would appeal to anyone who might have any information which could assist us to get in touch via 101, and quote reference number 499 of 28\/12\/25.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have appealed for information. Picture by Peter Morrison A knife-wielding robber is wanted by police after he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26371,59,57,58,50,28863,2497,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-339811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-garrett-hargan","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greatbritain","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-north-belfast-news","14":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}