{"id":225604,"date":"2025-06-30T03:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T03:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/225604\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T03:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T03:25:12","slug":"three-stolen-vehicles-recovered-by-across-birmingham-and-sandwell-including-a-range-rover-and-vw-polo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/225604\/","title":{"rendered":"Three stolen vehicles recovered by across Birmingham and Sandwell &#8211; including a Range Rover and VW Polo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the vehicles were found by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/sandwell\/wednesbury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wednesbury<\/a>&#8216;s policing team on Saturday (June 28) &#8211; including a Puma stolen from Oldbury and a Range Rover, which was taken from Cheshire last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One featured cloned plates, which officers say were used to disguise the fact it was stolen.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/570f33fa-bf7f-4ec5-b4e9-7029e63540de.jpg\"   alt=\"The Puma was stolen from Oldbury last week\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>The Puma was stolen from Oldbury last week<\/p>\n<p>A post on X said: &#8220;2 Stolen vehicles found by Wednesbury NHT. One of the vehicles was cloned to disguise the fact it was STOLEN.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Puma was stolen from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/sandwell\/oldbury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oldbury<\/a> area last week and the Range Rover was stolen from Cheshire area last year! Proactive patrols paying off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ba015a74-f766-4047-b2d8-810cabfd23a9.jpg\"   alt=\"The Range Rover was stolen from Cheshire last year\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>The Range Rover was stolen from Cheshire last year<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, officers found a VW Polo with cloned plates near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Selly Oak, Birmingham<\/a> that was recently stolen in a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> burglary. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A man was arrested after being chased through gardens in Billesley and check revealed the vehicle was stolen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/8f749307-dbc8-4f48-9b2d-e2af83cb89bb.jpg\"   alt=\"The VW Polo was recovered after erratic driving in Billesley\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>The VW Polo was recovered after erratic driving in Billesley<\/p>\n<p>A post on X by WMP Traffic said: &#8220;<a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/RoadCrimeTeam?src=hashtag_click\">#RoadCrimeTeam<\/a> officers saw this cloned VW Polo driving erratically in Billesley before the occupants decamped.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A male was arrested following a chase over gardens and checks found the car was recently stolen in a burglary.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of the vehicles were found by Wednesbury&#8216;s policing team on Saturday (June 28) &#8211; including a Puma&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,379,12,705,12608,16,15,46830],"class_list":{"0":"post-225604","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-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-local-hubs","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-oldbury","15":"tag-sandwell","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wednesbury"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114770183879116546","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225604","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=225604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}