Two arrested as plain-clothes police counter 'distraction theft' scam

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Two arrested as plain-clothes police counter 'distraction theft' scam
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Police noticed people they suspected 'were not innocently doing their weekly shop' in the High Street

"Suspecting they were not innocently doing their weekly shop", he and a colleague followed them into a coffee shop and detained two people. The officers then searched a vehicle parked nearby, leading to the discovery of suspected stolen items.

A man in his 50s and a woman in her 30s were then arrested in Northway, behind the High Street, and taken into custody. Neither have been chargedThieves apparently find people who have left their mobile phone on a table in public and start to chat with them. They use a piece of paper, often a map or something similar, and distract the victim by asking questions while secretly stealing the phone then walking away.

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