{"id":375367,"date":"2026-01-17T14:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T14:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/375367\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T14:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T14:59:09","slug":"teenage-boys-charged-after-youth-seen-with-machete-in-city-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/375367\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage boys charged after youth seen with machete in city centre"},"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\/56433290-f390-11f0-b3f0-c33da5d73c6f.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Alan Simpson A teenager wearing all black clothing carrying a large bladed weapon with an orange handle.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>Alan Simpson<\/p>\n<p>Armed police responded to the incident in Edinburgh on Friday<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Two teenage boys have been charged after reports of people carrying bladed weapons in Edinburgh city centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Specialist firearms officers were called to Rose Street, at the junction of Hanover Street, on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Images from the scene show a young man carrying what appears to be a large machete, a short distance from other pedestrians. No-one was injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A 17-year-old, who was later arrested, is due to appear before Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Police Scotland also said a 15-year-old had been reported to youth justice authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A force spokesperson added inquiries into the incident were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Det Insp Alan Sharp said: &#8220;I would urge anyone who may have been in the area at the time and has not yet spoken to police <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scotland.police.uk\/contact-us\/\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">to get in touch<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alan Simpson Armed police responded to the incident in Edinburgh on Friday Two teenage boys have been charged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-375367","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\/375367","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=375367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}