{"id":406051,"date":"2025-09-07T20:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/406051\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T20:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:02:13","slug":"bentham-drive-viable-devices-found-during-security-alert-in-belfast-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/406051\/","title":{"rendered":"Bentham Drive: Viable devices found during security alert in Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0\"The<\/p>\n

The incident is in the Bentham Drive area (Photo: Google)<\/p>\n

A 46-year old man has been charged following the discovery of a number of viable devices during a security alert in south Belfast.<\/p>\n

Several properties in the Bentham Drive area were evacuated on Saturday as police carried out searches.<\/p>\n

A property was cordoned off and Ammunition Technical Officers attended the scene and examined several objects, which were deemed viable and removed for further examination.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, police said the security alert had ended and a man has been arrested. <\/p>\n

He has since been charged with with making explosives under suspicious circumstances among other offences. <\/p>\n

A PSNI spokesperson said: \u201cThe 46-year-old is charged with making explosives under suspicious circumstances, possessing explosives under suspicious circumstances, possessing a firearm in suspicious circumstances, possessing ammunition in suspicious circumstance and possessing Class A, B and C controlled drugs.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is expected to appear before Belfast Magistrates Court on Monday, September 8.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs is usual procedure, all charges will be reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The incident is in the Bentham Drive area (Photo: Google)<\/p>\n

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Earlier on Sunday, Detective Inspector Alexander said: “Residents who were evacuated from their homes have been allowed to return, and we are grateful for their cooperation and patience while we made the area safe.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0 The incident is in the Bentham Drive area (Photo: Google) A 46-year old man has been charged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1249,12,17793,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-406051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-kurtis-reid","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-south-belfast-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115164803614412044","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406051","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=406051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}