Boy, 14, arrested as discarded machete seized
The bladed weapon was hidden underneath a car in St Ann's, police say
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A 14-year-old boy has been arrested after a machete was found by police in Nottingham.
Police said the teenager ran from officers in Huntingdon Street at about 12:00 GMT on Tuesday, but he was chased and detained in Bangor Walk, St Ann's.
Officers recovered a machete from the roadside nearby, discarded underneath a parked car.
The suspect was arrested on suspicion of possession of a knife in a public place.
PC Daniel Cresswell, of Nottinghamshire Police's knife crime team, said the incident came as the unit was carrying out increased plain-clothes officer patrols in the city centre and nearby areas "due to recent knife crime-related incidents" in March.
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