{"id":430905,"date":"2026-02-17T19:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/430905\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T19:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:34:09","slug":"plymouth-homes-evacuated-after-bomb-disposal-unit-called-to-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/430905\/","title":{"rendered":"Plymouth homes evacuated after bomb disposal unit called to road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A number of homes have been evacuated in a Devon street after a 100m (328ft) cordon was put in place by police while bomb disposal experts investigate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Devon and Cornwall Police said officers searched a property in the College Avenue area of Mutley, Plymouth, which led to a man in his 20s being arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm without a certificate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police said inquiries were continuing and the cordon was in place with a Royal Navy bomb disposal team assisting the investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said the bomb disposal team from Devonport had been requested to &#8220;assess some items located in the property&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of homes have been evacuated in a Devon street after a 100m (328ft) cordon was put&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-430905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430905","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=430905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}