{"id":207515,"date":"2025-06-23T11:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T11:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/207515\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T11:26:14","slug":"police-hunt-thief-who-stole-bank-cards-and-went-to-bookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/207515\/","title":{"rendered":"Police hunt thief who stole bank cards and went to bookies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picture issued of a man who may have information about Birmingham city centre crimePolice want to trace this man(Image: WMP)<\/p>\n

A thief who stole bank cards from a woman’s bag and went to the bookies is being hunted by police.<\/p>\n

The raid happened at a store in Corporation Street in Birmingham<\/a> city centre in March.<\/p>\n

The cards were used at a bookmakers in West Bromwich, West Midlands Police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

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The force issued a picture of a man officers want to speak with.<\/p>\n

Issuing a statement, police said today, Monday, June 23: “Appeal: Do you know who this is?<\/p>\n

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“We want to speak with him after a bag was stolen from a member of the public in a store in Corporation Street, Birmingham<\/a>, and then bank cards were used at a bookmakers in West Bromwich.<\/p>\n

“The bag was stolen at around 3pm on March 7.<\/p>\n

“We have carried out CCTV enquiries but have been unable to identify this man.<\/p>\n

“If you can help with our investigation you can contact us via 101 quoting crime reference number 20\/169073\/25.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture issued of a man who may have information about Birmingham city centre crimePolice want to trace this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,983,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-207515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city-centre","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114732439001820623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207515","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=207515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}