{"id":307302,"date":"2025-07-31T19:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/307302\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:05:11","slug":"two-charged-and-firearm-seized-from-birmingham-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/307302\/","title":{"rendered":"Two charged and firearm seized from Birmingham flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man and a woman have been charged after the National Crime Agency (NCA) seized a firearm and ammunition from a property in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Handgun on floor.jpg\" alt=\"handgun being measured on the floor by forensics\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\"\/>Armed NCA officers deployed to an address in the Perry Barr area of the city on 29 July 2025 and arrested a 30-year-old man just before 6am.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the property a search team recovered a viable handgun and ammunition stashed in a plastic bag.<\/p>\n<p>A 25-year-old woman was also arrested by NCA officers in connection to the firearms find.<\/p>\n<p>Sufyan Lone, 30, and Alisha Buchanan, 25, both from the West Midlands, appeared at Birmingham Magistrates&#8217; Court on 31 July charged with possession of a prohibited firearm and ammunition without the relevant certificates.<\/p>\n<p>They were bailed by the magistrates to appear before Birmingham Crown Court on 28 August.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Mackenzie, NCA senior investigating officer, said: &#8220;Our operation has resulted in a viable firearm and ammunition being removed from criminal circulation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This weapon could have caused untold damage to our communities with potentially fatal consequences.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Working closely with our partners in the UK and overseas, we are relentless in our efforts to suppress the availability of firearms to criminals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>31 July 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man and a woman have been charged after the National Crime Agency (NCA) seized a firearm and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-307302","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-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114949411770958891","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307302","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=307302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}