{"id":71638,"date":"2025-02-06T09:06:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T09:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=71638"},"modified":"2025-02-06T09:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T09:06:26","slug":"rise-of-the-phone-snatchers-fightback-against-londons-50million-theft-crimewave-as-police-seize-more-than-1000-stolen-mobiles-and-arrest-230-people-in-week-as-hotspots-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/06\/rise-of-the-phone-snatchers-fightback-against-londons-50million-theft-crimewave-as-police-seize-more-than-1000-stolen-mobiles-and-arrest-230-people-in-week-as-hotspots-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise of the phone snatchers: Fightback against London&#8217;s \u00a350million theft crimewave as police seize more than 1,000 stolen mobiles and arrest 230 people in week &#8211; as hotspots revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/02\/05\/16\/94895325-14364243-image-a-44_1738773604429.jpg\" alt=\"The \u00a350million-a-year phone theft crimewave has threatened to spiral out of control in recent years with crooks raking in the cash by selling the stolen devices on British soil or abroard\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than 1,000 stolen phones were seized and 230 people arrested in a week-long blitz as Scotland Yard fights back against\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-855be5b0-e3db-11ef-9e92-bb4c52b8c1dd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/london\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">London<\/a><\/span>&#8216;s phone theft epidemic.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14364243\/mobile-phone-theft-london-arrests-hotspots-revealed.html\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>More than 1,000 stolen phones were seized and 230 people arrested in a week-long blitz as Scotland Yard fights back against\u00a0London&#8216;s phone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/snatching-phone.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71639,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71638\/revisions\/71639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}