{"id":101794,"date":"2025-05-14T21:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T21:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/101794\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T21:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T21:20:09","slug":"two-men-40-arrested-after-class-a-drugs-found-in-car-in-smethwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/101794\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men, 40, arrested after Class A drugs found in car in Smethwick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers were patrolling <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/sandwell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Smethwick Park<\/a> on Tuesday (13 May) when they spotted the vehicle in the car park.<\/p>\n<p>The two occupants were detained for a stop and search and police recovered a quantity of class A drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Two 40-year-old men were arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply. They both remain in custody for questioning.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> said: &#8220;Stop and search powers help us to tackle crime. It\u2019s targeted and intelligence-led and practised on people who are suspected of being involved in crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers were patrolling West Smethwick Park on Tuesday (13 May) when they spotted the vehicle in the car&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,12608,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-101794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-sandwell","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114508282736679817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}