{"id":167742,"date":"2025-06-08T14:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167742\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T14:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:02:09","slug":"man-arrested-after-taxi-stolen-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167742\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after taxi stolen in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> have arrested a man after rapidly responding to reports of a taxi being stolen in Bromford Lane, in the Hodge Hill area of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get the latest headlines delivered straight to your inbox with the Express &amp; Star\u2019s free newsletter<br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The incident was reported at around 2am on Sunday, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">officers<\/a> being told that a taxi driver had been threatened by a passenger.<\/p>\n<p>The taxi was taken following the incident, however, officers &#8211; along with the force&#8217;s dog unit &#8211; were quickly able to trail and track the car near Hodge Hill Road less than 10 minutes later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A West Midlands Police spokesperson said: &#8220;We were alerted to a taxi driver being threatened by a passenger along Bromford Lane, Hodge Hill, at just after 2am.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The vehicle was then taken but officers &#8211; alongside the dog unit &#8211; were quickly on the trail and tracked the car near Hodge Hill Road less than 10 minutes later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Following a brief foot chase, one of the West Midlands Police canines detained a 19-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson added: &#8221; He has been arrested on suspicion of theft of a motor vehicle, drink driving and failing to stop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He currently remains in custody for questioning.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Police have arrested a man after rapidly responding to reports of a taxi being stolen in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164416,"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-167742","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167742","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=167742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}