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Trading Standards and West Midlands Police executed a warrant at a Small Heath business park<\/p>\n

An investigation is under way after hundreds of boxes of nitrous oxide cannisters were discovered during a raid in Birmingham<\/a><\/p>\n

Officers from West Midlands Police’s Organised Crime and Gangs team and Trading Standards swooped on a premises situated in the Sapcote Trading Estate, off Small Heath<\/a> Highway, just after 7am on Monday (December 15).<\/p>\n

Around 200 boxes of nitrous oxide cannisters worth around \u00a330,000 were discovered during the operation.<\/p>\n

Read More: Birmingham city centre drivers ‘confused’ by new one-way system<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

No one has been arrested, but enquiries continue.<\/p>\n

Since 2023, it\u2019s been a criminal offence to be found in possession of the drug where its intended use is to be wrongfully inhaled, \u2018to get high\u2019.<\/p>\n

Get breaking news on <\/strong>BirminghamLive WhatsApp<\/a>, click the link to join<\/strong><\/p>\n

PC Allison Brown, from the Organised Crime and Gangs Team, said: “This has been a significant seizure of a large quantity of nitrous oxide cannisters.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour intelligence can prove to be vital in helping us target those causing harm to communities and bringing to justice those involved in supplying drugs such as nitrous oxide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nitrous oxide is a colourless gas that is most commonly found in pressurised metal canisters and often spotted discarded in streets.<\/p>\n

It is usually through a balloon and high doses can lead to suffocation.<\/p>\n

If you have concerns about drug crime in your area, call us on 101. You can also speak to Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n

A council spokesperson said they would not be commenting as “investigations are ongoing.”<\/p>\n

They added: “Today’s warrant was part of Operation Target, which targeted a range of serious and organised crime offences.<\/p>\n

“Officers use local intelligence, seize goods, carry out warrants and target offenders.<\/p>\n

“Anyone with information about serious and organised crime in their neighbourhood should report it to WMP via 101 or Live Chat.<\/p>\n

“In case of an emergency, dial 999. Alternatively, reports can be made anonymously via the independent charity, Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trading Standards and West Midlands Police executed a warrant at a Small Heath business park An investigation is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,10586,748,393,4884,67653,16,15,7843],"class_list":{"0":"post-634508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-bordesley-green-and-small-heath","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-stechford","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-yardley-and-stechford"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115725175816531803","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634508","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=634508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}