{"id":593917,"date":"2025-11-26T00:50:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/593917\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T00:50:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:50:28","slug":"man-charged-after-parcels-stolen-from-smethwick-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/593917\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after parcels stolen from Smethwick homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Elton Edwards, 48, from Tipton has been charged with four counts of theft.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He has been remanded in custody to appear at Wolverhampton Magistrates Court today (November 25).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This comes after parcels were stolen from four addresses between October 25 and November 7.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  More than \u00a3700 of items were stolen.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  West Midlands Police said: &#8220;We\u2019ve seen a rise in parcel thefts in Smethwick recently and with Christmas just around the corner, we don\u2019t want the festivities ruined by a missing delivery.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;To report parcel theft, you should call\u00a0101\u00a0for non-emergencies or report it online. In an emergency, such as a crime in progress, dial\u00a0999\u00a0immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elton Edwards, 48, from Tipton has been charged with four counts of theft. He has been remanded in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-593917","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\/115613258672468808","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593917","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=593917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}