{"id":27125,"date":"2018-08-13T11:47:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T10:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=27125"},"modified":"2018-08-13T11:47:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T10:47:35","slug":"handsworth-attack-knife-point-robbery-three-suspects-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/13\/handsworth-attack-knife-point-robbery-three-suspects-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Handsworth attack &#8211; knife-point robbery three suspects arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Three suspects have been arrested after a petrifying knife-point robbery in Handsworth, Birmingham.\u00a0The victims were attacked early on Sunday morning. Officers had then rushed to the scene on Sunday morning &#8211; August 12th and quickly arrested three people.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The victims were threatened by the attackers with a knife in the street at around 7.20am.<\/p>\n<p>Within minutes, police were at the scene and now have the suspects in the &#8216;cells&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Inspector Jack Hadley wrote on Twitter at 8am on Sunday morning: &#8220;Well we&#8217;ve had a busy start.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Responded to a report of a knife robbery in Handsworth at 0720hrs, got there within minutes and arrested three suspects.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The victims are now safe and the suspects are off to the cells! Great start to the day!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in Wolverhampton city centre officers on patrol had a shock detection when a wanted offender was caught carrying a huge machete down his trousers.<\/p>\n<p>Wolverhampton City Police shared the dramatic images of the terrifying 12inch weapon after they had detained it on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet posted around 9pm, the officers urged other offenders to &#8216;bin the knife&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>They wrote: &#8220;Whilst officers were on patrol in the city centre this evening they spotted a wanted man. &#8220;Look at what was down his trousers. #stopknifecrime #bintheknife.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three suspects have been arrested after a petrifying knife-point robbery in Handsworth, Birmingham.\u00a0The victims were attacked early on Sunday morning. Officers had then rushed to the scene on Sunday morning &#8211; August 12th and quickly arrested three people.\u00a0 The victims were threatened by the attackers with a knife in the street at around 7.20am. Within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1225,"featured_media":27126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,37,3,112],"tags":[264,1408,1407,1409,1410],"class_list":["post-27125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-birmingham","tag-chief-inspector-jack-hadley","tag-handsworth","tag-knife-attack","tag-wolverhampton-city-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}