{"id":678763,"date":"2026-01-07T00:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/678763\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T00:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:14:16","slug":"robbers-target-cash-converters-on-avenue-retail-park-in-bradford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/678763\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbers target Cash Converters on Avenue Retail Park in Bradford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Staff at a pawnbrokers were left badly shaken after being threatened by men armed with a machete and sledgehammer during a robbery, police have said.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The incident happened at Cash Converters at Avenue Retail Park, on Weaverthorpe Road in Bradford, shortly before 17:00 GMT. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Yorkshire Police said two men wearing balaclavas threatened workers at the shop and smashed display cabinets, before stealing jewellery and a till containing cash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The men ran off in the direction of Tong Street and armed officers were sent to the scene, but the suspects were not found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staff at a pawnbrokers were left badly shaken after being threatened by men armed with a machete and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-678763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115850934069831486","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678763","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=678763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}