{"id":430853,"date":"2026-02-17T18:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/430853\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:49:07","slug":"plymouth-live-mutley-swarmed-by-bomb-squad-as-college-avenue-closed-off-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/430853\/","title":{"rendered":"Plymouth LIVE: Mutley swarmed by bomb squad as College Avenue closed off | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A spokesperson for Devon and Cornwall police said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A 100m police cordon is currently in place in the Mutley area of Plymouth with a number of properties requiring evacuation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Emergency services are working at a property in College Avenue after officers located items which require expert analysis from an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cordon is in place for public safety and to allow suitable access for emergency services at the scene while this work is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Officers carried out a warrant at a property in College Avenue this morning [17 February] where a white British man, aged 26, was arrested on suspicion of possessing a firearm without a certificate.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;He remains in police custody.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While carrying out searches and enquiries at the house, officers have located further items which require specialist review. EOD are in attendance carrying out this work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this time there is not believed to be any wider risk and it is not believed to be terrorism related at this time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are unable to say how long the cordon will remain in place for but we will update the public when we have further information.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson for Devon and Cornwall police said: &#8220;A 100m police cordon is currently in place in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,14177,54,55],"class_list":["post-430853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-section","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430853","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=430853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}