{"id":261987,"date":"2025-07-13T16:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T16:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/261987\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T16:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T16:18:11","slug":"guns-and-ammunition-seized-at-separate-birmingham-addresses-in-police-raids-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/261987\/","title":{"rendered":"Guns and ammunition seized at separate Birmingham addresses in police raids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guns and ammunition were recovered following unconnected raids at two Birmingham<\/a> addresses.<\/p>\n

The first raid took place in Woodman Walk, near Witton Lakes, in Erdington<\/a> on Friday, July 11.<\/p>\n

Officers searched a home and found a live firearm and several rounds of ammunition.<\/p>\n

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Police also found suspected Class A drugs, a large amount of cannabis and \u2018other drug-related material\u2019.<\/p>\n

The next day a second unconnected raid was carried out in St Benedict\u2019s Road in Small Heath<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There officers from West Midlands Police<\/a> \u2019s Major Crime Team searched a home and found another live firearm, ammunition, a lock knife and suspected Class B drugs.<\/p>\n

The gun was said to have been a converted blank firearm with three rounds of live ammunition \u2018ready to be fired\u2019.<\/p>\n

Across the two addresses three men were arrested.<\/p>\n

\"Ammunition<\/p>\n

Ammunition recovered from a home in Woodman Walk in the Erdington area near Witton Lakes<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for West Midlands Police said: \u201cWe have taken several firearms off the streets and made significant arrests as we keep up our work against serious and organised crime in the West Midlands.<\/p>\n

\u201cOfficers from our Major Crime Team carried out searches at an address in St Benedict’s Road on July 12, where they found a live firearm and suspected class B drugs, as well as a locking knife.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe gun was a converted blank-firer with three rounds of live ammunition ready to be fired.<\/p>\n

\u201cA man in his 20s was arrested on suspicion of possession of a prohibited firearm.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe remains in custody today while our enquiries continue.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The statement continued: \u201cElsewhere, a warrant was carried out July 11 in Woodman Walk and two men were arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs.<\/p>\n

\u201cOfficers searched the property and found suspected Class A drugs as well as a live firearm and several rounds of ammunition.<\/p>\n

\u201cA large amount of cannabis and other drug-related material was also found and is being examined.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe two men arrested have been bailed while our enquiries continue.<\/p>\n

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In addition the police spokesperson added: \u201cAcross the West Midlands, our teams are carrying out regular operations to disrupt serious and organised crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder Operation Target, we have seized hundreds of firearms as well as significant quantities of drugs and money from organised crime gangs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe work of our teams often relies on information from the public to tell us where and when this criminal activity is taking place.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis helps us plan our operations and helps our investigations.<\/p>\n

\u201cContact us via 101 or contact Crimestoppers anonymously via 0800 555 111 if you see anything suspicious happening where you live. Always call 999 in an emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guns and ammunition were recovered following unconnected raids at two Birmingham addresses. The first raid took place in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[23404,855,748,100234,393,4884,18681,16,15,7830,100235,100236],"class_list":{"0":"post-261987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-ammunition","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-class-a-drugs","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-organised-crime","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-west-midlands-police","18":"tag-witton-lakes","19":"tag-woodman-walk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261987","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=261987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}