O’Garro, aged 19, was given a nine month’s prison sentence following the incident which was captured on bodycam footage
17:50, 28 Jun 2025Updated 17:53, 28 Jun 2025
Police bodycam footage has revealed the dramatic moment a knifeman fled officers as he was about to be searched.
Marcus O’Garro, aged 19, was approached by officers on Sutton New Road in Erdington.
West Midlands Police (WMP) officers told him they wanted to search him because they had information he was known to carry weapons.
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But as officers told O’Garro he was being detained, he fled the scene on foot sparking a police chase.
However it came to an end shortly after on the same road, where O’Garro admitted he had a knife.
Marcus O’Garro tries to flee officers(Image: WMP)
Officers subsequently pulled an object from his coat pocket.
He was charged with possession of the blade shortly after his arrest on June 19.
O’Garro appeared before city magistrates the following day.
The defendant, of Endwood Court Road, Birmingham, was given a nine-month prison sentence after admitting possession of the knife.
Marcus O’Garro(Image: WMP)
Three months of it was because a suspended sentence he was given in May for carrying a knife was activated.
The officers who arrested him were part of WMP‘s Guardian Taskforce, set up to tackle serious youth violence including knife crime.
Guardian officers carry out a range of operations, from his visibility to plan clothes patrols as they take weapons off the streets.
Ch Insp Dave Amos, head of the Guardian Taskforce, said: “This was excellent work by Guardian officers and shows just how effective stop and search can be.
“The footage shows just how relentless the team were in pursuing O’Gavro when he fled, and how they were able to relay information about him and his description to colleagues so that the net closed in on him.”