{"id":137016,"date":"2025-05-27T22:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/137016\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T22:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:18:12","slug":"man-jailed-after-three-guns-seized-from-birmingham-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/137016\/","title":{"rendered":"Man jailed after three guns seized from Birmingham flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Evetts was sentenced to eight years in prison at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.find-court-tribunal.service.gov.uk\/courts\/birmingham-crown-court\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Birmingham Crown Court<\/a> on Thursday after being found guilty of possession of the three firearms and ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old, of Rodney Close in Ladywood, was arrested when officers from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">West Midlands Police<\/a> raided his home in November last year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/224ccf2b-10b5-4c4b-a311-19eb4f277a73.png\"   alt=\"Three different guns were found inside the flat. Photo: West Midlands Police\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Three different guns were found inside the flat. Photo: West Midlands Police<\/p>\n<p>In a wooden toy chest on the flat\u2019s balcony, officers recovered two pistols, one of which was loaded, and both of which had been converted from blank firers to lethal weapons.<\/p>\n<p>A silver revolver and four rounds of ammunition were recovered from a bag elsewhere on the balcony.<\/p>\n<p>The force said that Evetts answered no comment to questions put to him in interview, but has now been convicted of possession of the three firearms and ammunition following a trial.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3821e1c6-85e6-4f24-a80d-94af86dee2ab.png\"   alt=\"Stephen Evetts was sentenced to eight years in prison. Photo: West Midlands Police\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Stephen Evetts was sentenced to eight years in prison. Photo: West Midlands Police<\/p>\n<p>Detective Chief Inspector Peter Cooke, from the Regional Organised Crime Unit for the West Midlands Region (ROCUWM), said: \u201cIt\u2019s clear that Evetts was housing these firearms and ammunition for other criminals, criminals who rely on easy and quick access to guns which are stored in safehouses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese three weapons were capable of killing and no doubt would have been used to threaten and potentially harm others.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1704084f-7040-4410-885c-73720832a570.png\"   alt=\"The silver revolver was among the firearms found in the flat. Photo: West Midlands Police\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>The silver revolver was among the firearms found in the flat. Photo: West Midlands Police<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will relentlessly pursue those who use, carry or store firearms for others, and take those weapons off the streets whenever we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Police said the arrest and conviction of Evetts was another example of the success of Operation Target.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: &#8220;The success is part of Operation Target, which sees us work 24\/7 to disrupt and arrest serious and organised crime.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/adfe2a11-4bee-4508-89ed-181457866382.png\"   alt=\"Ammunition was also uncovered in the raid. Photo: West Midlands Police\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Ammunition was also uncovered in the raid. Photo: West Midlands Police<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those involved in guns, drugs, money laundering and exploitation are being brought to justice as part of the operation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Find out more here \ud83d\udc49 <a data-gtm-link=\"offsite\" href=\"https:\/\/gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.westmidlands.police.uk%2Fpolice-forces%2Fwest-midlands-police%2Fareas%2Fcampaigns%2Fcampaigns%2Foperation-target%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Csarah.moran%40westmidlands.police.uk%7C4b2030863d394a83c39808dd9cf33f40%7C2b0f1af29e024cfb982fc61fd716ee98%7C0%7C0%7C638839290821414056%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ORA1mSd5BRJyiRUIlvGx4BTWxEQx3MTwcxTBd9DI1PU%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Operation Target | West Midlands Police<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Evetts was sentenced to eight years in prison at Birmingham Crown Court on Thursday after being found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-137016","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-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114582120631091798","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137016","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=137016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}