A JD Sports store was put on lockdown when a pair of wanted men were spotted yesterday.
Thanks to an off-duty police officer, two men suspected of committing burglaries were seen walking into JD Sports at the Racecourse Retail Park in Aintree on Wednesday, June 8. The officer called for support from on-duty officers from Operation Pelican to attend in an ongoing crackdown on illegal drugs in Sefton.
The officers closed off the entrances to the store with one of the suspects attempting to run off before being arrested after a struggle at one of the exits. A 23-year-old man from Bootle was arrested on suspicion of five burglaries - two in Merseyside and others in Lancashire, Cheshire and Aberdeen. He was taken to custody and transferred to Cheshire Police, who are in charge of the investigation into the string of burglaries.
