{"id":850335,"date":"2026-03-25T23:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/850335\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T23:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:25:19","slug":"man-arrested-as-he-tried-to-flush-drugs-down-the-toilet-at-birmingham-house-during-police-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/850335\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested as he tried to &#8216;flush drugs down the toilet&#8217; at Birmingham house during police raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Midlands Police officers carried out a pre-planned warrant at an address in Hamstead Hall Avenue, Birmingham, today (March 25) and found a &#8220;significant&#8221; amount of suspected class A drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the property they found more than 60 wraps of suspected cocaine, crack and heroin, as well as around \u00a32,000 in cash.<\/p>\n<p>Police also discovered a machete.<\/p>\n<p>A man in his 30s was found in the bathroom of the house trying to flush packages down the toilet, West Midlands Police said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6d36a020-10c6-48ce-8199-eef9d0345501.png\"   alt=\"West Midlands Police have arrested a man in his 30s at an address in Birmingham after a significant amount of suspected Class A drugs were seized.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Police arrested a man in his 30s at an address in Birmingham after a significant amount of suspected class A drugs were seized<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply class A drugs and remains in custody.<\/p>\n<p>The enquiry is ongoing as police continue to examine the drugs and carry out further searches.<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Police raided the house as part of the force&#8217;s County Lines crackdown.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/04a272ab-f320-4150-8fa6-2eece97a3277.jpg\"   alt=\"Inside the property police found more than 60 wraps of suspected crack, cocaine, and heroin, as well as around \u00a32,000 in cash and a machete. (Photo: West Midlands Police)\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Inside the property police found more than 60 wraps of suspected crack, cocaine, and heroin, as well as around \u00a32,000 in cash and a machete<\/p>\n<p>The force said: &#8220;Every day officers from our County Lines Taskforce work with force colleagues to tackle the scourge of drug dealing in our communities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gangs often use vulnerable people including children to transport and sell drugs for them, causing them to become trapped in a cycle of crime and misery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;d urge anyone who has suspicions about this kind of activity to get in touch via 101 and tell us what you know.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Police officers carried out a pre-planned warrant at an address in Hamstead Hall Avenue, Birmingham, today&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-850335","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-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116292401860175462","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850335","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=850335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}