Island's rising crime spree.

In the first Police arrested two teens, aged 13 and 16, following a robbery at a Court Street record store on Thursday.

Police spokesman P.c. Gary Venning said four youths entered Kriss Kross Records around 6.30 p.m. and one of the youths apparently took a record and left without paying.

When the proprietor asked one of the youths to pay, he became verbally abusive and pulled records off the racks and threw them around the store.

P.c. Venning said while this was occurring, another youth attempted to steal money from the cash register.

The proprietor was punched in the face during the incident but did not suffer any significant injuries.

Police arrested two of the offenders shortly afterward. But the other two managed to escape.

In the second a 12-year-old boy landed in the Hamilton Police Station for questioning after he was detained by a Reid Street store employee around 5.15 p.m. on Thursday for stealing 17 cans of Festival Serpentine spray and hiding them in his school bag.

The cans spray a jet of rubberised foam in a variety of colours for a considerable distance.

In the third a 12-year-old St. George's boy was arrested on Thursday afternoon for possessing cannabis.

Police spokesman P.c. Gary Venning said the youth was arrested after he was discovered at school to be in possession of "a small amount'' of cannabis.

The student was taken to St. George's Police Station, interviewed and released into his mother's custody, pending further inquiries.

This follows reports this week of a knife-wielding schoolboy stabbing a fellow student after a row exploded into violence on Thursday.

Education chiefs are probing the Warwick Secondary School stabbing which left the 14-year-old victim in hospital.

Police said the victim was taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital by ambulance after being stabbed in the arm.

"It is believed the two boys were engaged in an argument,'' said P.c.

Venning.

He said a 14-year-old Pembroke boy was in custody in connection with the incident It was the second incident this week involving youngsters and a knife.

In the first one, an 11-year-old boy allegedly held a nine-year-old at knifepoint during an attempted robbery at Dockyard on Tuesday.