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Armed police chase ends with alley arrests
Accrington Observer
|April 24, 2026
ARMED police and a dog unit were called into action in the early hours after a suspicious vehicle was spotted in East Lancashire.
Armed police spotted a suspicious brown BMW 530D on Lonsdale Street in Accrington
At around 12.10am on Thursday, April 16, officers from Lancashire Police Specialist Operations noticed a brown BMW 530D on Lonsdale Street in Accrington which failed to stop when signalled. The vehicle was later found abandoned on Dunster Avenue in Oswaldtwistle.
A police dog unit was deployed and tracked the suspects to Blackburn Road, where officers discovered two men in an alleyway.
This story is from the April 24, 2026 edition of Accrington Observer.
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