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READ MORE: <\/strong>Aston armed police scene live as officers seal off area<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The incident has now been brought to a conclusion after more than 13 hours.<\/a><\/p>\n A 20-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of making threats with a bladed article in a private place and possession of Class A drugs.<\/p>\n Ambulance at the scene of the incident in Aston -Credit:BirminghamLive<\/p>\n A police <\/a>spokesperson said: “We were called to Westwood Road, Perry Barr<\/a> last night (8 July) after reports a man had barricaded himself in an address.<\/p>\n “The matter was bought to a safe conclusion.<\/p>\n “A 20-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of making threats with a bladed article in a private place and possession of Class A drugs.<\/p>\n “He remains in police custody.<\/p>\n “We want to thank the local community for their patience.”<\/p>\n Get breaking news on <\/strong>BirminghamLive WhatsApp<\/strong><\/a>, click the link to join<\/strong><\/p>\n To get the latest news emailed to you, sign up <\/strong>here<\/strong><\/a>, it’s free. And there’s also the <\/strong>secret to getting the best of BirminghamLive’s stories<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Police has issued a major update after after a long stand off with a man hauled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1078789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,15267,295410,295413,295412,16,15,7830,295411],"class_list":["post-1078788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-perry-barr","tag-police-negotiators","tag-possession-of-class-a-drugs","tag-private-place","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-west-midlands-police","tag-westwood-road"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116891010238883324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078788","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=1078788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1078789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Ambulance](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/birmingham_live_117\/0de321a0be77d3c8ea5719602c2b8149.jpeg\"\/)
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