Overview
- A group used a red telehandler to pull an ATM from the front of Watton Off‑Licence on Wednesday, July 15, leaving the shopfront destroyed and prompting a High Street closure.
- Norfolk officers recovered the ripped ATM, the vehicles believed used in the raid and a discarded axe that witnesses say was carried by one attacker.
- A police pursuit tracked a suspect about 15 miles southwest to the village of Weeting, where officers found and arrested a teenager after searches that used dogs and a drone.
- The teenager was arrested on suspicion of aggravated vehicle taking, aggravated burglary and possession of a bladed article, later released on bail with a return date of October 7.
- Three suspects remain at large and police are asking the public to provide witness accounts or dashcam footage under crime reference 36/51838/26 as investigations continue.