{"id":208214,"date":"2025-06-23T17:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/208214\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T17:29:10","slug":"man-charged-after-gun-and-ammunition-recovered-from-house-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/208214\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after gun and ammunition recovered from house in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keani Richardson was arrested on Saturday after being found in Digbeth, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a>, in possession of a knife and cannabis, with a further search of a house on Chesterton Road in Sparkbrook uncovering the firearm and ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old was charged with possession of a firearm, having ammunition without a certificate, possession of Class B drugs with intent to supply and possession of a bladed article in a public place.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.find-court-tribunal.service.gov.uk\/courts\/birmingham-magistrates-court\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Birmingham Magistrates Court<\/a> on Monday where he was remanded ahead of a future hearing.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">West Midlands Police<\/a> said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve charged a man after seizing a viable firearm and ammunition from an address in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Officers from our Major Crime Unit made the recoveries after a search in Chesterton Road, Sparkbrook, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The searches were carried out following the arrest of a 26-year-old man in Digbeth earlier in the day as we recovered a knife and cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Keani Richardson, from Sparkbrook, has now been charged with possession of a firearm, having ammunition without a certificate, possession of Class B drugs with intent to supply and possession of a bladed article in a public place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He appeared before Birmingham Magistrates Court earlier today where he was remanded ahead of a future hearing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keani Richardson was arrested on Saturday after being found in Digbeth, Birmingham, in possession of a knife and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111898,"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-208214","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\/114733866883659700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208214","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=208214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}