Operation Elveden: two journalists arrested on suspicion of conspiracy Scotland Yard officers have arrested two journalists on suspicion to corrupt and of conspiracy to cause misconduct in a public office. Two journalists, including one from the Sunday Mirror, were arrested this morning by Scotland Yard officers investigating allegations of inappropriate payments to police and public officials. A 37-year-old man was arrested at his home in Kent and a 34-year-old was arrested at his home in south-east London in dawn raids conducted by the Met police. Trinity Mirror has confirmed that one of the two journalists arrested is Sunday Mirror crime correspondent Justin Penrose. It is believed that the second journalist arrested is Tom Savage, deputy news editor of the Daily Star Sunday. The newspaper's publisher, Northern & Shell, said it had no comment to make. Scotland Yard officers have at the same time launched a raid of at least one office in central London in connection with the arrests. A source at Northern & Shell said that the police had visited the publisher on Wednesday morning. "A number of searches are under way in connection with this morning's arrests at a business premise in central London," a spokesman said. Trinity Mirror said in a statement: "We have been informed by the police that Justin Penrose was arrested this morning on suspicion of alleged payments to public officials. We are co-operating fully with the police. Penrose has been with the Sunday Mirror since 2004, when he joined as a general news reporter. He was promoted to the position of full-time crime correspondent in January 2006. The arrests represent a widening of the Operation Elveden investigation beyond News International which has confirmed neither of the two works for any of its title. Both were arrested on suspicion to corrupt and of conspiracy to cause misconduct in a public office. Scotland Yard confirmed both were journalists and they were being questioned at police stations in Kent and south-east London. "Today's arrests relate to suspected payments to a public official and are not about seeking journalists to reveal confidential sources in relation to information that has been obtained legitimately," it said. Last week Trinity Mirror, Britain's second-biggest newspaper group, was drawn into the newspaper corruption scandal with the arrest of a former Daily Mirror reporter Greig Box Turnbull Scotland Yard's Operation Elveden investigation into corrupt payments has so far seen 41 arrests of journalists and public officials.