{"id":292865,"date":"2025-07-26T08:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T08:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/292865\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T08:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T08:49:12","slug":"teenager-arrested-and-nine-stolen-bikes-and-scooters-recovered-from-house-in-sutton-coldfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/292865\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager arrested and nine stolen bikes and scooters recovered from house in Sutton Coldfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/area\/your-area\/west-midlands\/birmingham\/erdington\/on-the-team\/our-priorities\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sutton and Erdington neighbourhood team<\/a> carried out searches at an address on Wyatt Road in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/sutton-coldfield\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sutton Coldfield<\/a> on Friday (July 25), where they recovered nine off-road bikes, motorcycles and scooters.<\/p>\n<p>A teenager was arrested on suspicion of theft of motor vehicles and handling stolen goods.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">West Midlands Police<\/a> said he has since been bailed with strict conditions while enquiries continue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/544a5bd1-f088-4cac-98e6-c292fa6e560b.jpg\"   alt=\"The bikes will be checked and returned to their owners. Photo: West Midlands Police\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>The bikes will be checked and returned to their owners. Photo: West Midlands Police<\/p>\n<p>The bikes are being examined and should be reunited with their owners in due course.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: &#8220;In 2024, more than 5,000 stolen vehicles of all types were recovered by our teams across the West Midlands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our teams are working daily to track down those responsible and break up the criminal networks who profit from vehicle theft.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/d3819d9d-d4ec-4db6-921e-717572cd9b18.png\"   alt=\"The bikes were discovered during a search by officers. Photo: West Midlands Police\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>The bikes were discovered during a search by officers. Photo: West Midlands Police<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a number of things you can do to keep your bikes safe from theft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/cp\/crime-prevention\/keeping-vehicles-safe\/theft-motorcycles-scooters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">westmidlands.police.uk\/cp\/crime-prevention\/keeping-vehicles-safe\/theft-motorcycles-scooters\/<\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers from the Sutton and Erdington neighbourhood team carried out searches at an address on Wyatt Road in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,7829,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-292865","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-sutton-coldfield","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292865","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=292865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}