{"id":257273,"date":"2025-07-11T22:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T22:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257273\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T22:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T22:05:11","slug":"three-arrested-and-drugs-seized-after-car-stopped-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257273\/","title":{"rendered":"Three arrested and drugs seized after car stopped in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands&#8217; Police&#8217;s<\/a> Road Crime Team spotted the car on the M6 just outside of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the city<\/a> late last night (Thursday).<\/p>\n<p>The car was stopped, and during a search, officers found a large amount of cash and suspected Class A drugs. Three men were arrested at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/26056231-f1c6-4366-ab6f-ff211dbe9d2c.avif\"   alt=\"Supporting image.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/><\/p>\n<p>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<p>The car was seized and the West Midlands Regional Organised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime<\/a> Unit (ROCU) is continuing to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesman said: &#8220;Under Operation Target, teams from West Midlands Police and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocu.police.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ROCU\u00a0<\/a>are working around the clock to take action against all forms of organised crime including the supply of drugs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers from West Midlands&#8217; Police&#8217;s Road Crime Team spotted the car on the M6 just outside of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257274,"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-257273","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\/114836873534305906","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257273","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=257273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}