{"id":682216,"date":"2026-07-09T11:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682216\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T11:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:50:10","slug":"aston-armed-police-scene-live-as-officers-seal-off-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682216\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston armed police scene live as officers seal off area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">One resident told BirminghamLive: \u201cI\u2019m a local and I got back at around 6am. I saw police had locked off the whole road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cI spoke to one of the officers and they said it had been here since around 12.30am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Obviously, it is a pretty intense situation if it has been that long.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1_aston2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Resident said the incident involved a 'stand-off'\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Resident said the incident involved a &#8216;stand-off'(Image: BirminghamLive)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve seen armed police, all types of detectives, unmarked cars, vans. Everything, so the public is wondering what\u2019s going on but we haven\u2019t really got a clue. Just gotta wait and see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">He added: &#8220;From what I\u2019ve been hearing, I believe it is some sort of stand-off. I did also heard something about firearms, so maybe, but I\u2019m not 100 per cent sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One resident told BirminghamLive: \u201cI\u2019m a local and I got back at around 6am. I saw police had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13686,59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-682216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-aston-and-nechells","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\/682216","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=682216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}