{"id":142542,"date":"2025-05-29T22:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T22:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/142542\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T22:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T22:38:13","slug":"man-charged-after-combat-style-knife-seized-in-smethwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/142542\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after combat-style knife seized in Smethwick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jayden Thompson, aged 18, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/sandwell\/smethwick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smethwick,<\/a> has been charged with possession of a knife. He is due to appear at Dudley Magistrates Court next month.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest and charge comes after a combat-style knife was seized during a stop and search on Cuin Road, Smethwick yesterday (Wednesday) evening.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/a2a5e980-4cdb-4573-80c5-1e4c6f2d28af.avif\"   alt=\"Supporting image.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A police spokesman said: &#8220;We take <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">knife crime<\/a> and carrying a weapon seriously.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you know someone who is carrying a weapon please call us on 101 to report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can also talk to us online or report anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information and advice to ditch the knife, visit West Midlands Police&#8217;s \u00a0#<a href=\"https:\/\/lifeorknife.west-midlands.police.uk\/.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LifeOrKnife website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jayden Thompson, aged 18, from Smethwick, has been charged with possession of a knife. He is due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142543,"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-142542","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142542","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=142542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}