{"id":335834,"date":"2025-08-11T13:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/335834\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:37:11","slug":"two-boys-13-charged-after-police-chase-stolen-dpd-van-in-cambuslang-joyride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/335834\/","title":{"rendered":"Two boys, 13, charged after police chase stolen DPD van in Cambuslang &#8216;joyride&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Two 13-year-old boys have been charged after police chased a stolen DPD van through a town in South Lanarkshire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Officers received a report of a van theft being driven through Cambuslang around 9.30am on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Footage shared with STV News appears to show the van being driven with police cars in pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle, the driver and a passenger were traced in the Elder Drive area a short time after, police said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/b87d722e830860c0fdb75fd8654f81f3-1754917995.jpeg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"   alt=\"Stolen DPD van taken for a joyride in Cambuslang.\"\/>George AllisonStolen DPD van taken for a joyride in Cambuslang. George Allison<\/p>\n<p>Two boys, both aged 13, were arrested and charged in connection and will be reported to the relevant authorities.<\/p>\n<p>A Police Scotland spokesperson said: \u201cAround 9.30am on Monday, August 11, 2025 we received a report of a stolen van being driven in the Cambuslang area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vehicle, the driver and a passenger were traced in Elder Drive, Cambuslang, a short time later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo boys, both aged 13, were arrested and charged in connection and will be reported to the relevant authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two 13-year-old boys have been charged after police chased a stolen DPD van through a town in South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-335834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115010407508085315","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335834","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=335834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}