{"id":36624,"date":"2025-04-20T21:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T21:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/36624\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T21:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T21:36:15","slug":"man-arrested-after-armed-police-surround-rubery-house-in-12-hour-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/36624\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after armed police surround Rubery house in 12 hour siege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was eventually arrested around 12 hours after he &#8216;barricaded himself inside a property in Rubery&#8217;<a class=\"Badge_badge-link__41H_0 \" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/\" data-testid=\"badge-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35 false\"> birminghammail.co.uk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>16:08, 20 Apr 2025Updated 17:55, 20 Apr 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1_IMG_2578-1.jpg\" alt=\"Armed police at an incident on Pearman Road, Rednal, which was brought to a safe conclusion\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Armed police at an incident on Pearman Road, Rednal, which was brought to a safe conclusion(Image: Reporter)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A man has been arrested following a 12 hour incident with armed police in a quiet cul-de-sac.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The male &#8216;barricaded himself inside a property&#8217; off Pearman Road, Rubery, in the early hours of Easter Sunday (April 20).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Several neighbouring properties in the tucked away street were evacuated and a cordon set up as specialist officers and negotiators tried to bring the incident to a safe conclusion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/pearman-road-rubery-police-breaking-31475949\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More: Armed police close Rubery street and &#8216;homes evacuated&#8217; after &#8216;man barricades himself in property&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A 34-year-old man was arrested around 12.45pm on suspicion of threats to kill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The major police scene was then scaled down.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0_REDNALjfif.jpg\" alt=\"Police at the scene\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Police at the scene(Image: BirminghamLive reporter)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesman from <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/west-midlands-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> said: &#8220;A man aged 34 was arrested at around 12.45pm on suspicion of threats to kill after voluntarily leaving the property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We would like to thank the residents for their understanding as we brought the incident to a safe conclusion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A resident of Gannow Manor Crescent nearby said: &#8220;This has been going since 12.30am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;All the police had turned up and there were drones in the sky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThere were police cars parked up Pearman Road but it\u2019s been quiet, I think some houses have been told to evacuate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;It\u2019s quiet round here because we are out of the way, you\u2019ve got Waseley Hills Country Park just up the road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A mother-of-six said : \u201cI woke up at 7am and I saw armed officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We could see police on the grove, It\u2019s really frightening, there was lots of police cars, riot vans and around 20 armed officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Houses have been evacuated but they said we could stay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was eventually arrested around 12 hours after he &#8216;barricaded himself inside a property in Rubery&#8217;News birminghammail.co.uk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15,7830],"class_list":{"0":"post-36624","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","14":"tag-west-midlands-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114372449828951836","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36624","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=36624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}