{"id":217156,"date":"2025-06-26T23:52:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T23:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/217156\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T23:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T23:52:17","slug":"gun-recovered-after-birmingham-road-rage-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/217156\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun recovered after Birmingham &#8216;road rage&#8217; incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armed police swooped to stop a car in the Sheldon area of the city following reports of an earlier road rage incident involving a weapon<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/11_Operation-Intrusive.jpg\" alt=\"A stock picture of West Midlands Police officers in yellow high vis jackets with Police on the back on a pavement patrolling a road \" loading=\"eager\"  \/>A stock picture of West Midlands Police officers(Image: -)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A gun has been recovered by police and a driver arrested in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> after a suspected road rage incident led to an armed police response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Officers were called to the road rage incident, said to involve a man with a weapon, and tracked a car in the Sheldon area of the city on Wednesday (June 25).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police brought the car to a stop shortly after 7.30pm, detained the driver and searched the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Read more: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/birmingham-new-street-station-attacker-31930085\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">City station attacker who &#8216;bit and clawed&#8217; police dies at bail hostel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A pistol was found inside along with an extendable baton. The gun was seized and has been sent for forensic testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The 37-year-old driver was arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm and an offensive weapon, and also on suspicion of drink driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He is being questioned in police custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=67ec6fc9-65d2-4b0c-b55e-ee73660ce693&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Get the latest BirminghamLive news direct to your inbox<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson for <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/west-midlands-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> said: \u201cWe\u2019ve arrested a man and recovered a gun after armed officers stopped a car in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cOfficers investigating reports of a road rage incident, involving a weapon, had tracked the car and brought it to a stop in the Sheldon area just after 7.30pm last night (June 25).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThe driver was detained and a pistol was seized from inside the car alongside an extendable baton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThe gun has been seized and will now undergo forensic testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cA man, aged 37, was subsequently arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm and an offensive weapon, and suspicion of drink driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cHe remains in custody for questioning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cOur investigation is continuing and anyone with information should call us on 101 quoting Log 5253 of 25 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cWe\u2019re continuing to take guns off the streets of the West Midlands as part of Operation Target.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armed police swooped to stop a car in the Sheldon area of the city following reports of an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,44371,16,15,7830],"class_list":{"0":"post-217156","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-sheldon","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-west-midlands-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114752359287875330","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217156","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=217156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}