{"id":718838,"date":"2026-01-25T02:33:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T02:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/718838\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T02:33:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T02:33:43","slug":"armed-police-rush-to-knifeman-report-at-bearwood-shop-but-cctv-shows-something-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/718838\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed police rush to \u2018knifeman\u2019 report at Bearwood shop – but CCTV shows something else"},"content":{"rendered":"

Firearms officers were called to a busy high street in Saturday morning following reports of a man with a knife in a shop\"Google<\/p>\n

Armed police were called to Bearwood Road in Bearwood following reports of a man with a knife in a shop (Image: Google )<\/p>\n

Armed police were called to a Black Country shop following reports of a man having a knife.<\/p>\n

The call out happened in Bearwood Road in Bearwood, Smethwick<\/a>, shortly before 11am on Saturday (January 24).<\/p>\n

Witnesses reported \u2018armed response units\u2019 in the busy street \u2018near to Greggs\u2019.<\/p>\n

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BirminghamLive understands a dispute took place in a shop near to Greggs.<\/p>\n

A man was alleged to have ‘had a knife’ in a shop and ‘made threats’.<\/p>\n

But when CCTV was reviewed and further enquiries made, it is believed that was not the case.<\/p>\n

The accuser has now been arrested on suspicion of ‘wasting police time’ and on suspicion of shoplifting.<\/p>\n

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A spokeswoman for West Midlands Police<\/a> said: \u201cWe were called to Bearwood high street at around 10.50am today (Saturday, January 24).<\/p>\n

“It followed a report that a man had been threatened with a knife.<\/p>\n

\u201cOfficers attended and after checking CCTV and speaking with witnesses, no weapon was recovered.<\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing CCTV enquiries, a man in his 30s was arrested on suspicion of theft and wasting police time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firearms officers were called to a busy high street in Saturday morning following reports of a man with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[16824,855,9163,748,188,393,4884,17756,16,15,7830],"class_list":["post-718838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-bearwood","tag-birmingham","tag-black-country","tag-britain","tag-crime","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-smethwick","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-west-midlands-police"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115953402230163832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718838","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=718838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}