Middleton men charged after police crackdown

Date published: 08 July 2008


Three men from Middleton were arrested on Thursday (3 July) have been charged following a police crackdown on robbery and burglary.

All three have been charged with conspiracy to rob and will appear before Manchester City Magistrates' Court next Tuesday (15 July).

22 year-old Paul Shaw of Tintern Road, 18-year old Simon Carr of York Road East and Christopher Carroll, also 18, of Yewdale Drive, were all charged.

The charges relate to Operation Recessed, a crackdown on a number of robbery incidents from March 2008. Five other men from Greater Manchester were also arrested on Thursday.

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