{"id":224119,"date":"2025-06-29T13:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T13:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/224119\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T13:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T13:49:14","slug":"man-charged-after-large-combat-knife-and-cannabis-found-on-birmingham-high-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/224119\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after large combat knife and cannabis found on Birmingham high street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The suspect was arrested after attempting to avoid police on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Northfield High Street, Birmingham. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A quantity of cannabis and a large combat knife was found by police following the incident. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3ac6c7c3-fbb1-457d-8f92-f64465fedd79.jpg\"   alt=\"Man charged after combat knife and cannabis found in Northfield, Birmingham\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Man charged after combat knife and cannabis found in Northfield, Birmingham<\/p>\n<p>The male has since been charged and is awaiting court, according to<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GuardianWMP\/status\/1939281497292157274\">\u00a0West Midlands Police&#8217;s Project Guardian Team.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Project\u202fGuardian is a specialist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">knife-crime <\/a>and youth-violence taskforce launched by West Midlands Police in 2019 to target and reduce serious violence\u2014especially among under-25s\u2014through a dynamic blend of enforcement, engagement, and data-driven policing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The suspect was arrested after attempting to avoid police on Northfield High Street, Birmingham. A quantity of cannabis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224120,"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-224119","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\/224119","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=224119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}