Police have made the arrest of a 25-year-old man following a series of incidents that saw 2 large-scale searches take place near Whitcombe.
Hampshire Constabulary has been conducting enquiries after a spate of incidents, with the National Police Air Service helicopter being drafted in to provide support to officers on the ground during searches for a suspect.
Overnight on the 28th May, a warehouse unit belonging to Mountbatten was broken into on Newport Industrial Estate, and a till unit was stolen. This was followed just 2 days later by a further break-in on Riverway, Newport, at 11pm on the 30th May, which saw threats made to the occupants of a residential property with cash and mobile phones stolen.
Yesterday (Thursday), Island Echo first reported that an air and ground search was taking place in Whitcombe and Carisbrooke following the discovery of an unknown male in the shed of a residential property on Whitcombe Road. Hampshire Constabulary revealed yesterday afternoon that the search had been stood down with the suspect remaining at large.
In the early hours of this morning, police were called to a residential property on Nunnery Lane in Carisbrooke after a male made threats to the occupants, who were then forced to drive to a cashpoint and withdraw money.
A man is also said to have attended an address asking for clothes and water.
Following a further search of Marvel Lane and the Whitcombe Road areas involving multiple police units and the NPAS helicopter this morning, a 25-year-old man of no fixed abode has since been arrested by officers and remains in custody at Newport police station.
If you have any information about the burglary incidents, or the suspicious incidents, you’re asked to contact police on 101 quoting 44210217123.
This is a bit of a first for me, but well done and good job local police force.
Well done to our police can you imagine what this island would be like if there was a fixed link? It’s bad now but it would be much worse….
No it wouldn’t. A lot of the ‘unfavourables would pop ‘over the road’ for richer pickings and I wouldn’t feel like a hostage of Wightlink and Red Funnel Ferries! I haven’t left the Island since the start of the pandemic but today I needed to go over the other side for business and found I can’t leave the Island until Monday. If I’m not held hostage by fares, I’m held hostage because of bookings. I’ve never been in the ‘for’ camp for a fixed link but I’m close to being persuaded.
Absolute rubbish….. The sentences handed down need to be harsher, simple as that. A fixed link is not going to stop this sort of behaviour nor make it worse. Proper punishment might deter these animals…. NOT restricting peoples freedom of movement.
Your absolutely right. Everything, including field gates & private property would have to be locked or nailed down.
Good job catching him, but you could have warned the public they was in danger’ poor people must have been terrified.