Youths charged as part of investigation into series of incidents in Ryde

Two youths were charged over the weekend in connection with a series of incidents in the Ryde area between September and November.

Ryde Neighbourhoods Policing Team (NPT) have been investigating these incidents and secured the following charges on Sunday (13 November):

• A 14-year-old boy from Sandown was charged with 6 counts of theft from a shop, relating to £303.50 worth of alcohol and a hotdog stolen between 31 October and 10 November from Co-op on Anglesea Street.
• A 13-year-old boy from Ryde was charged with 8 counts of theft from a shop, relating to £408 worth of alcohol and some food stolen from Co-op on Anglesea Street between 31 October and 10 November. He was also charged with possessing cannabis on 15 September, and using threatening or abusive words/behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress, at the Anglesea Street Co-op on 29 September.

The 13-year-old had also previously been charged with offences, on 2 November, along with a third teenager.

The 13-year-old boy was charged with:

• Burglary at WHSmith on Ryde High Street, on 25 September. £147 worth of E-cigarettes were reported stolen from behind the till area.
• Using threatening or abusive words/behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress, at WHSmith on Ryde High Street on 26 September.
• Causing a nuisance/disturbance on school premises on 3 October.
• Theft of £32 worth of alcohol from Anglesea Street Co-op on 5 October.
• Assault by beating – relating to the alleged assault of a woman in her 50s at WHSmith on Ryde High Street, on 5 October.
• Burglary at WHSmith on Ryde High Street, on 5 October. An unknown value of vape products were stolen from behind the till area.
• Criminal damage to books and a carpet at WHSmith on Ryde High Street on 5 October.
• Harassment – relating to a course of conduct against WHSmith staff on Ryde High Street between 26 September and 5 October.

A 16-year-old boy from Ryde was charged with:

• Burglary at WHSmith on Ryde High Street, on 25 September. £147 worth of E-cigarettes were reported stolen from behind the till area.
• Theft of £32 worth of alcohol from Anglesea Street Co-op on 5 October.

All three teenagers have been bailed with conditions to appear at the Youth Court on 21 December.