{"id":992669,"date":"2026-05-29T17:36:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/992669\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:36:38","slug":"three-men-arrested-after-swinton-antiques-event-held-up-with-bb-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/992669\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men arrested after Swinton antiques event held up ‘with BB gun’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Witnesses were reportedly ‘in tears’\"Officers<\/p>\n

Officers in attendance at the scene(Image: Submitted)<\/p>\n

Three men have been arrested after armed police were called out to an antiques event in Swinton<\/a>. The Masonic Hall, on Hospital Road, was ‘locked down’ as three men held up a vintage jewellery and antiques event ‘with a BB gun’<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Witnesses reported seeing three men barge into the venue, with one shouting ‘don’t move’ while holding what appeared to be a BB gun. In an update issued this afternoon (Friday), GMP confirmed that two 52-year-old men and a 60-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of attempted robbery in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n

The trio remain in custody for questioning at this time. The carnage unfolded at around 11.30am on Wednesday morning (May 27).<\/p>\n

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“There were children crying, and old ladies,” a witness told the Manchester Evening News. He added: “Three lads ran in… one with a gun, one with a baseball bat, and then one who waited in the hallway. The guy with the gun shouted ‘don’t anyone move’.<\/p>\n

“There was a guy buying gold and silver who jumped up, grabbed the guy with the gun and then shouted out to his mate, who hit his head with the bat. Then I ran at them, picked up a chair and threw it at the lad. Then they ran out.”<\/p>\n

\"Officers<\/p>\n

Officers in attendance at the Masonic Hall(Image: Submitted)<\/p>\n

One member of the public sustained a minor injury. In a previous statement, Detective Inspector Paul Davies, from GMP’s Salford<\/a> district, said: “This was a terrifying incident for those in attendance at the hall, and I want to commend the members of the public who acted incredibly bravely during this incident. We could easily have had more serious consequences, and I am glad that no-one was seriously injured.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Witnesses were reportedly ‘in tears’ Officers in attendance at the scene(Image: Submitted) Three men have been arrested after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":992670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,188,393,4884,2465,1290,6805,16,15],"class_list":["post-992669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manchester","tag-britain","tag-crime","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-manchester","tag-salford","tag-swinton","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116659080711849416","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992669","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=992669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/992670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}