{"id":685364,"date":"2026-01-09T21:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/685364\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T21:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:52:10","slug":"renewed-appeal-over-2023-hopwood-rolex-cash-and-gun-safe-burglary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/685364\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewed appeal over 2023 Hopwood Rolex, cash and gun safe burglary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  West Mercia Police today (January 9) have issued a fresh appeal for information about a burglary of a property in Hopwood, near Alvechurch, in 2023.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Officers have again published an image of the man they wish to speak to after a property was broken into on Redditch Road and \u00a34000 cash, a gun safe worth \u00a31700 and a Rolex watch were stolen.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The force is still trying to locate 31-year-old Ionut Ignat.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Detective Constable Michael Vince from West Mercia Police said: \u201cWe continue to investigate the burglary of a property in Hopwood in June 2023.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHaving conducted multiple enquiries, it is important we now find and speak with 31-year-old Ionut Ignat as we believe he was in the area at the time and could help with the investigation\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  If you have any information that would help find Ionut, please contact DC Vince by emailing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bromsgroveadvertiser.co.uk\/news\/25754846.renewed-appeal-2023-hopwood-rolex-cash-gun-safe-burglary\/mailto:Michael.vince@westmercia.police.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael.vince@westmercia.police.uk<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Alternatively, information can be passed to Crimestoppers anonymously by ringing 0800 555 111 or visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimestoppers-uk.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.crimestoppers-uk.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Mercia Police today (January 9) have issued a fresh appeal for information about a burglary of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-685364","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\/115867363360693779","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685364","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=685364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}