{"id":424584,"date":"2025-09-14T20:58:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/424584\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T20:58:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:58:19","slug":"rowley-regis-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-shop-thefts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/424584\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowley Regis man arrested on suspicion of shop thefts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The 44-year-old man from Rowley Regis has been arrested after more than 25 shop thefts in Rowley Regis and Halesowen.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He remains in custody for questioning.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  More than \u00a31,300 worth of items have been stolen in the series of thefts.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson for West Midlands Police said: &#8220;We\u2019re catching hundreds more suspected shop thieves in the West Midlands as we continue to act against retail crime across the region.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Arrests for shop theft offences have risen over 60% in the last two years as we\u2019ve improved the way we respond to crime reports.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Sandwell South has its own dedicated retail crime team that identify prolific offenders and bring them to justice.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  For crime prevention advice on shop theft visit www.westmidlands.police.uk\/cp\/crime-prevention\/keeping-business-safe-from-crime\/how-secure-is-your-shop\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 44-year-old man from Rowley Regis has been arrested after more than 25 shop thefts in Rowley Regis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-424584","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\/115204659965325508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424584","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=424584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}