{"id":107864,"date":"2025-05-17T02:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T02:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/107864\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T02:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T02:19:09","slug":"three-arrests-following-sandwell-drug-seizure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/107864\/","title":{"rendered":"Three arrests following Sandwell drug seizure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> have seized an amount of drugs and made three arrests after officers noticed suspicious activities around High Street, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/sandwell\/smethwick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smethwick<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The arrests come after Smethwick&#8217;s neighbourhood policing teams were patrolling in and around the high street area when they noticed a suspicious parked vehicle just after 8pm yesterday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following searches, officers recovered more than 60 wraps of cannabis and detained two teenagers, aged 16 and 18, along with a 21-year-old man on suspicion of possession with intent to supply drugs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A West Midlands Police spokesperson said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve seized drugs and made three arrests after swift work from officers on patrol in Smethwick.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our neighbourhood team were patrolling in and around the High Street when they spotted a suspicious parked vehicle at just after 8pm yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following searches, we recovered more than 60 wraps of cannabis and detained two teenagers, aged 16 and 18, along with a 21-year-old man on suspicion of possession with intent to supply drugs.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The three people remain in police custody for questioning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson added: &#8220;Drugs not only ruin lives, but can fuel further crime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re continuing to act on intelligence \u2013 and carry out targeted patrols &#8211; to combat crime and keep you safe.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Police have seized an amount of drugs and made three arrests after officers noticed suspicious activities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,12608,17756,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-107864","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-smethwick","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114520782888612641","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107864","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=107864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}