{"id":1058292,"date":"2026-06-29T21:41:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1058292\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T21:41:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:41:22","slug":"man-arrested-in-glasgow-southside-following-reports-of-people-chased-with-an-axe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1058292\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in Glasgow southside following reports of people ‘chased with an axe’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police arrested a 46-year-old man in connection with a disturbance in Pollokshields.<\/p>\n

17:34, 29 Jun 2026Updated 20:36, 29 Jun 2026<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police were called to a ‘disturbance’ on Maxwell Road.(Image: Observer Glasgow)<\/p>\n

A man has been arrested following reports of a disturbance involving an ‘pickaxe\u2019 in a street in Glasgow\u2019s southside<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Police<\/a> say they were called to Maxwell Road, in Pollokshields<\/a> around 10.05pm on Sunday (June 28).<\/p>\n

Locals had reported a person allegedly \u2018chasing\u2019 others with the weapon and footage shared with Glasgow Live shows police recovering a large pickaxe from the scene after putting a man in the back of their van as shouts are heard in the street.<\/p>\n

Cops have now confirmed that a 46-year-old man was arrested in connection.<\/p>\n

A Police Scotland spokesperson said: \u201cAround 10.05pm on Sunday, 28 June, 2026, officers were called to a report of a disturbance in the Maxwell Road area of Glasgow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cA 46-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is due to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court<\/a> on Monday, 29 June, 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police arrested a 46-year-old man in connection with a disturbance in Pollokshields. 17:34, 29 Jun 2026Updated 20:36, 29…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1058293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,188,918,21727,4884,530,71564,712,193648,16,15],"class_list":["post-1058292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-glasgow","tag-britain","tag-crime","tag-glasgow","tag-glasgow-sheriff-court","tag-great-britain","tag-police-scotland","tag-pollokshields","tag-scotland","tag-southside","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116835576016706358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058292","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=1058292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1058293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}