{"id":374267,"date":"2026-01-17T00:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/374267\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T00:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:41:11","slug":"arrests-after-youth-pictured-with-machete-in-central-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/374267\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrests after youth pictured with machete in central Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768396634_100_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1d648cb0-f31f-11f0-8588-395333043f56.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Alan Simpson Photography Person holding a large bladed weapon walking across a city centre street, with pedestrians nearby and buildings lining the pavement.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>Alan Simpson Photography<\/p>\n<p>A young man was photographed in Rose Street carrying what appeared to be a machete<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Two teenage boys have been arrested after police received reports of people carrying bladed weapons in Edinburgh city centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A photo taken in Rose Street showed a young man walking with what appeared to be  large machete in his hand, just a short distance from other pedestrians. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Police &#8211; including specialist firearms officers &#8211; were called to the street at about 14:55 on Friday and two male youths, aged 17 and 15, were arrested. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">No one was reported to have been injured and Police Scotland said enquiries were ongoing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alan Simpson Photography A young man was photographed in Rose Street carrying what appeared to be a machete&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-374267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374267","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=374267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}