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The taxi was taken from Bromford Lane(Image: Google )<\/p>\nThe taxi driver was threatened by a passenger at 2am on Bromford Lane before the vehicle was takenThe taxi was taken from Bromford Lane(Image: Google )<\/p>\n
A man was arrested after a taxi was stolen by a passenger in Birmingham.<\/p>\n
The driver was threatened before the vehicle was taken in Bromford Lane in Hodge Hill.<\/p>\n
It happened just after 2am today, Sunday, June 8.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: <\/strong>Gangsters who used drill rap videos to lure children into drug dealing network jailed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Get breaking news on BirminghamLive WhatsApp<\/a>, click the link to join<\/strong><\/p>\n West Midlands Police<\/a> said officers ‘rapidly responded’ to the incident.<\/p>\n The car was tracked to near Hodge Hill Road less than ten minutes later.<\/p>\n A brief foot chase followed before a 19-year-old man was detained thanks to help from a police dog.<\/p>\n He remained in custody today having been arrested on suspicion of theft of a motor vehicle, drink driving and failing to stop.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for West Midlands<\/a> Police said: “We’ve arrested a man after rapidly responding to a taxi being stolen in Birmingham<\/a> this morning.<\/p>\n “We were alerted to a taxi driver being threatened by a passenger along Bromford Lane, Hodge Hill, just after 2am.<\/p>\n “The vehicle was then taken but officers – alongside the dog unit – were quickly on the trail and tracked the car near Hodge Hill Road less than ten minutes later.<\/p>\n “Following a brief foot chase one of our crime-fighting canines helped to detain a 19-year-old man.<\/p>\n “He was arrested on suspicion of theft of a motor vehicle, drink driving and failing to stop.<\/p>\n “He currently remains in custody for questioning.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The taxi driver was threatened by a passenger at 2am on Bromford Lane before the vehicle was takenThe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-167405","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-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114647402106561705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167405","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=167405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}