{"id":290645,"date":"2025-07-25T13:06:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/290645\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T13:06:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:06:17","slug":"birmingham-man-who-had-submachine-gun-and-176-rounds-of-ammunition-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/290645\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham man who had submachine gun and 176 rounds of ammunition jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Patterson, 44, from Handsworth, was sentenced after officers from the Major Crime Unit seized the weapon earlier this year.Anthony Patterson and the seized submachine gun(Image: WMP)<\/p>\n

A Birmingham man was jailed for possession of a dangerous live submachine gun and ammunition.<\/p>\n

Anthony Patterson<\/a>, 44, from Handsworth<\/a>, was sentenced to five years after officers from the Major Crime Unit seized the weapon from an address in Birmingham<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Officers found a Thompson submachine gun and 176 rounds of ammunition in a toolbox, with the ammunition stored in a binbag.<\/p>\n

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The suspect stole a duffle bag within it containing the jewellery.<\/p>\n

The weapon and bullets were examined by experts who confirmed they were live and viable.<\/p>\n

Submachine gun police by police(Image: WMP)<\/p>\n

Shortly after the warrant took place, Patterson handed himself in and was charged with possession of an automatic firearm and possession of ammunition.<\/p>\n

He was sentenced for firearms possession for five years following a hearing at Birmingham Crown Court on July 24.<\/p>\n

He was also jailed for two years for the ammunition possession. That sentence is to be served concurrently.<\/p>\n

The police teams have been keeping up the pressure on serious and organised crime as part of Operation Target.<\/p>\n

Anthony Patterson(Image: WMP)<\/p>\n

Op Target is its forcewide campaign of intensive police work targeting groups involved in drugs, firearms and serious\/organised crime.<\/p>\n

The operation spans the wider West Midlands region, with WMP working alongside other forces and the Regional Organised Crime Unit (ROCU) to prevent organised crime and bring offenders to justice.<\/p>\n

To find out more about Op Target, go to: Operation Target | West Midlands Police<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Patterson, 44, from Handsworth, was sentenced after officers from the Major Crime Unit seized the weapon earlier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,13844,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-290645","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-handsworth-and-soho","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114914026022441131","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290645","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=290645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}