Chapeltown Road incident: 22-year-old man arrested after wielding knife on busy Leeds road

A man has been arrested after being seen carrying a knife in north-east Leeds.

Just after noon today (Thursday, 15 December), police received a report of a man seen with a knife in Chapeltown Road, near to the junction with Harehills Avenue.

Officers were deployed to search the area, and a 22-year-old man was safely detained nearby and a knife was recovered. The man has been arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon in a public place.

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