{"id":341499,"date":"2025-12-29T19:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/341499\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T19:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:40:08","slug":"arrests-after-armed-police-attend-metrocentre-parking-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/341499\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrests after armed police attend Metrocentre parking dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Armed police were deployed to a shopping centre car park after someone was reported to be carrying a firearm in a dispute over a parking space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers were called to the yellow multi-storey at the Metrocentre in Gateshead on Saturday afternoon following reports one person had a suspected firearm, but no weapons were found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, five males aged 17, 18, 20, 21 and 23 were arrested on suspicion of possessing a firearm and released on bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;While no weapons were located by police at the scene, enquiries remain ongoing,&#8221; Northumbria Police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armed police were deployed to a shopping centre car park after someone was reported to be carrying a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-341499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}