Police are investigating a street robbery that took place on Inchkeith Road in the Southway area of Plymouth this week.
The incident took place around 2.15pm on Tuesday 19 November. A woman was allegedly approached from behind and a man grabbed £500 in cash from her coat pocket which had just been withdrawn from a nearby bank.
Police in Plymouth are seeking a man who entered flats in Hanover Court, on the Barbican in Plymouth and appeared to target an elderly lady during a distraction type burglary.
The man entered the flats between 8.30pm and 9.30pm on Friday 15th November 2013 through a communal door. He then knocked on the victim’s door and invited himself in for a drink, persistently telling the occupant...
Police are investigating after a 15-year-old boy was robbed of a sports top in a Tavistock street.
The boy, from Tavistock, was walking along Plymouth Road close to the primary school on Tuesday afternoon (30 July) when he was approached from behind by a man who tried to grab his sports holdall.
The victim was knocked to the ground with force and the offender ran off towards...
Detectives are investigating after a Plymouth man was robbed at knifepoint in the Stonehouse area of the city.
The victim was approached by two men in Victoria Park who asked him for a cigarette. The man agreed but one offender then drew a knife while a second searched the victim’s pockets.
The pair then ran off towards Stonehouse with the victim’s wallet containing various...
A woman in her 60s was robbed of her purse outside Plympton Library yesterday.
Detectives are keen to hear from any witnesses to the street robbery that took place on the Ridgeway in Plympton yesterday – Wednesday 24 April – at around 5.10pm.
The woman was near to the entrance of Plympton library when a young man approached her, pushed her, then grabbed the purse that she was...
Three criminals have been sentenced today (Monday 22 April 2013) to a total of 25 years following a series of audacious robberies across the south of England (including one in Plymouth), stealing in excess of £68,000.
Each was charged and pleaded guilty to conspiring together with other persons to commit robbery between 8 January and 2 March 2012.
Police are appealing for witnesses to a robbery that occurred outside the Travelodge, in Derrys Cross, Plymouth at approximately 11.30pm on Thursday 28th March.
The victim, who was visiting Plymouth, left the train station and walked to North Cross roundabout where he asked a man and woman for directions to the Travelodge.
