{"id":153132,"date":"2025-06-02T21:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/153132\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T21:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:48:10","slug":"police-probe-as-car-cannibals-strip-vans-at-erdington-day-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/153132\/","title":{"rendered":"Police probe as car cannibals strip vans at Erdington day centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vulnerable people have been left unable to travel after the shocking crime<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2_Gsco1WaWgAAuLbH.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Erdington Police shared a photo of the vehicle cannibalism (Image: Erdington WMP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police are investigating after callous car cannibals stripped vans at a day centre in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> &#8211; leaving vulnerable people without transport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The front bumpers of four white vans were destroyed as criminals stole the parts for cash in Erdington. The vans were targeted at a day centre in Elwood Close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Vulnerable people with disabilities who use the centre can no longer travel, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/boy-16-arrested-armed-police-31773466\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Boy, 16, arrested as armed police swoop on Small Heath street where &#8216;gun seen in car&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The service users are &#8220;now affected&#8221; as they rely on the transport at the centre, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/west-midlands-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> today shared an appeal, urging anyone who has information to get in touch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Officers shared news of the vehicle cannibalism to X, formerly Twitter, as they posted a photo of the unusable vehicles lined up after the offence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Erdington Police wrote: &#8220;West Midlands Police are looking for any information that relates to an offence that has occurred at a day centre in Elwood Close, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/erdington\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Erdington<\/a>, B23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Vulnerable people with disabilities are now affected as they rely on this transport facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Please contact 101\/Crimestoppers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Have you been affected by this? We would like to hear from you. You can contact us by emailing stephanie.balloo@reachplc.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vulnerable people have been left unable to travel after the shocking crimeErdington Police shared a photo of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,22048,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-153132","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-england","11":"tag-erdington","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114615976333467745","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153132","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=153132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}