{"id":256916,"date":"2025-07-11T19:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/256916\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:05:11","slug":"m6-car-stop-near-birmingham-leads-to-huge-drugs-and-cash-haul-and-three-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/256916\/","title":{"rendered":"M6 car stop near Birmingham leads to huge drugs and cash haul and three arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three arrests made after big drugs and cash haul seized from a car on the M6\"StockStock image of a police car (Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Road crime police spotted a suspect vehicle on a motorway near Birmingham<\/a> leading to a big drugs and cash haul find and three arrests.<\/p>\n

The vehicle was spotted on the M6 just outside of the city late on Thursday (July 10) night.<\/p>\n

Road Crime Team officers stopped the car and searched it discovering a large amount of suspected Class A drugs and cash.<\/p>\n

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Three men, all aged between 25 and 31 were arrested on suspicion of being drug dealers.<\/p>\n

They are currently in police custody and being quizzed by police.<\/p>\n

And the car was seized with the West Midlands Regional Organised Crime Unit (ROCU) investigating.<\/p>\n

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Under Operation Target<\/a>, teams from West Midlands Police<\/a> and ROCU are working around the clock to take action against all forms of organised crime including the supply of drugs.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for West Midlands Police said: \u201cWe\u2019ve arrested three people and recovered a large quantity of drugs after stopping a car in Birmingham.<\/p>\n

\u201cOfficers from our Road Crime Team spotted the car on the M6 just outside of the city late last night (July 10).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe car was stopped, and during a search, officers found a large amount of cash, and suspected Class A drugs.<\/p>\n

Three men were arrested at the scene. The men, aged between 25 and 31, are all currently in custody being questioned on suspicion of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe car was seized and the West Midlands Regional Organised Crime Unit (ROCU) is continuing to investigate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three arrests made after big drugs and cash haul seized from a car on the M6Stock image of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,8943,16,15,7830],"class_list":{"0":"post-256916","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-m6","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-west-midlands-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114836165678055574","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256916","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=256916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}