Watch: Three guns seized from Audi as more armed criminals jailed

This is the moment we recovered three guns from a car which had been stopped as its driver tried to flee from armed police.

The shotgun, as well as a loaded revolver and loaded pistol were hidden in a bag in the front passenger footwell of the Audi.

Just after 10pm on 24 January last year, Adam Sajjad was spotted by officers handing a bag from a Ford Fiesta to his cousin Sikander Farooq, who was sat in a dark blue Audi S3 which was also parked on Wychbold Crescent in Shard End.

Farooq drove away from the scene and was intercepted by firearms officers on Flaxley Road, Stechford.

Farooq was detained after being tasered.

The car was examined and in a Mickey Mouse bag, officers found more bags containing a Smith & Wesson revolver, loaded with three rounds, a Beretta sawn-off shotgun and a Walther pistol with 9 rounds of ammunition.

Four shotgun shells and two other bullets were also found.

Farooq, aged 29, of Fellbrook Close, Stechford, and Sajjad, 19, of Wychbold Crescent, Shard End, admitted possession of firearms and ammunition and yesterday were each jailed for five years.

The success is part of Operation Target, which is our ongoing fight against serious and organised crime in the West Midlands.

We’re relentlessly targeting those involved in guns, drugs, money laundering and exploitation.

Supt Ryan Chambers, of our Major Crime Proactive Team, said: “To take three live guns off the streets of the West Midlands in one go is rare, but a great result.

“These guns could have caused death, injury and untold damage to communities in the West Midlands, and their removal, and the jailing of the two men who were handling them, has made the region safer.”

Our local policing model means specialist major crime detectives work more closely with neighbourhood officers to build intelligence and bring criminals to justice.

We’ve invested more in the examination of CCTV and of analysis of digital media such as mobile phones, to help us bring more offenders before the courts.

If you’ve got information on those involved in gun crime in your area, get in touch on 101 or via Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

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