A teenager found to have a two-foot long machete down his trousers in Peterborough has been jailed.
Neighbourhood policing officers were on patrol in the Lincoln Road area of Millfield yesterday morning (Thursday 17th June) when they smelt cannabis coming from a vehicle.
The two occupants were detained for a search and when routinely asked if they had anything on them that was sharp, 19-year-old Johnathan Yeye lifted up his coat to reveal the handle of a machete concealed within his trousers.
Removing the weapon from the teen’s waistband, officers found it to be a two-foot long machete wrapped in a plastic bag.
Yeye, of Hither Green Lane, Lewisham, Greater London, was arrested and later charged with being in possession of a machete in a public place as well as being in breach of a suspended sentence.
In January he received a 12-week suspended sentence at Central London Magistrates’ Court for drugs and weapon offences, as well as assaulting a police officer.
Yeye appeared at Huntingdon Magistrates’ Court this morning (Friday 17th June) where he was sentenced to a total of 33 weeks in a Young Offender Institution.
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