{"id":622025,"date":"2026-06-05T05:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622025\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T05:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:01:18","slug":"more-than-40-knives-recovered-as-car-stopped-on-m6-near-sandbach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622025\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 40 knives recovered as car stopped on M6 near Sandbach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police said a search of the vehicle revealed several boxes which contained zombie style knives, knuckledusters and other bladed weapons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In total, more than 40 dangerous blades were found in the vehicle, they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ch Insp Joe McNally described it as an &#8220;alarming discovery&#8221; and said the officers who pulled over the vehicle had acted on instinct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The constabulary has recently just completed Operation Sceptre, a week-long national campaign that tackles knife crime in our areas through proactive policing operations and deployments and community engagement &#8211; during this week, our officers recovered over 250 weapons from across Cheshire,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As a result of this stop, a further 40 blades, a combination of zombie knives, machetes and a knuckleduster, are now safely in our possession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These blades will soon be destroyed, permanently preventing possibility of them being used on our streets and falling into the wrong hands.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said a search of the vehicle revealed several boxes which contained zombie style knives, knuckledusters and other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-622025","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-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622025","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=622025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}