An unemployed man will appear in court charged with possessing a locking knife following a police chase in Chelmsford high street.
Officers could be seen giving chase on foot outside McDonald's following reports of drug taking outside the Morrisons shortly after 5pm on Friday, June 27.
Eyewitness Adam Rhodes, who was busy promoting new Chelmsford gym Anytime Fitness with colleagues by the city sign at the time, described police chasing after two males.
"The police turned up and jumped out of their car and grabbed two boys," said the 26-year-old.
"One of them ran off and the second police officer chased after him and came back with him shortly after."
A police spokesman confirmed that one man, Danny Thompson, an unemployed 28-year-old of Chelmer Road, Chelmsford, was arrested and later charged with one count of possessing an offensive weapon, a locking knife, and one count of being in possession of a class B drug.
The spokesman said: "Police were contacted shortly after 5pm on Friday after reports of drug-taking outside Morrisons on Chelmsford high street.
"With the help of CCTV operators officers arrested Danny Thompson before charging him with one count of being in possession of a class B drug and one count of being in possession of a locking knife in a public place."
Thompson will appear at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, July 30.
