{"id":174338,"date":"2025-06-11T00:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T00:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/174338\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T00:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T00:55:13","slug":"three-charged-with-drugs-and-knife-offences-after-police-patrols-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/174338\/","title":{"rendered":"Three charged with drugs and knife offences after police patrols in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.west-midlands.police.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> officers were in the Soho Road area of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Handsworth<\/a> on Sunday (June 8) where they spotted a vehicle they became suspicious of in Grove Lane.<\/p>\n<p>Two men aged 18 as well as a 17-year-old boy were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Daquan Sterling, aged 18, was charged with possession of class B drugs with intent to supply.<\/p>\n<p>Elijah Marshall, aged 18, was charged with possession of an offensive weapon.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old boy was charged with possession of class B drugs with intent to supply.<\/p>\n<p>All three will appear before magistrates at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Operation Guardian is a specialist taskforce which places a particular emphasis on reducing knife crime in under-25-year-olds, through a range of tactics from plain-clothed operations to high visibility patrols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Police officers were in the Soho Road area of Handsworth on Sunday (June 8) where they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173315,"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-174338","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\/114662009952817387","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174338","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=174338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}