{"id":630811,"date":"2026-06-10T08:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/630811\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T08:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:42:08","slug":"chelmsford-homes-evacuated-after-explosive-substances-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/630811\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelmsford homes evacuated after explosive substances arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Homes were evacuated and two people arrested after police searched a property under the Explosive Substances Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essex Police put a 100m (328ft) cordon in place after searching the home in Meadgate Avenue, in the Great Baddow area of Chelmsford, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ahead of the warrant at the address, a 34-year-old man, from Chelmsford, was arrested on suspicion of an offence under Section 4 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One &#8220;suspicious&#8221; item was removed from the property, the force said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Homes were evacuated and two people arrested after police searched a property under the Explosive Substances Act. Essex&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-630811","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\/630811","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=630811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}