{"id":312193,"date":"2025-08-02T15:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T15:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/312193\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T15:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T15:02:13","slug":"suspect-in-custody-after-man-seen-with-a-firearm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/312193\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in custody after man seen &#8216;with a firearm&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was arrested following the incident in Salford earlier today<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_CaptureJPG.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Wellbeck Grove, Higher Broughton(Image: Google)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A suspect is being questioned by police after reports a man was seen &#8216;with a firearm&#8217; in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/salford\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Salford<\/a> earlier today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He has been arrested on suspicion of being in possession of an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear. Police said a gas-powered BB gun had also been seized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It come after reports that a man was seen with a firearm on Welbeck Grove, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/higher-broughton\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Higher Broughton<\/a>, just after noon today (Saturday).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In a statement on Facebook GMP Salford said: &#8220;Our officers have responded swiftly to reports of a man with a firearm at Welbeck Grove, Higher Broughton, just after midday today \u2013 he remains in custody having been arrested on suspicion of being in possession of an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We will not tolerate this type of behaviour and will take robust action. A gas-powered BB gun has also been recovered.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested following the incident in Salford earlier todayWellbeck Grove, Higher Broughton(Image: Google) A suspect is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,188,393,4884,56328,2465,1290,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-312193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-higher-broughton","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-salford","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114959780900424940","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312193","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=312193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}