{"id":700910,"date":"2026-01-16T23:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/700910\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T23:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:45:14","slug":"arrests-after-youth-pictured-with-machete-in-central-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/700910\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrests after youth pictured with machete in central Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.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":700911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-700910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115907443115623595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}