{"id":58679,"date":"2026-08-14T17:41:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/arrests-and-road-closed-over-suspected-abduction-in-east-lothian\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T17:41:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:41:02","slug":"arrests-and-road-closed-over-suspected-abduction-in-east-lothian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/arrests-and-road-closed-over-suspected-abduction-in-east-lothian\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrests and road closed over suspected abduction in East Lothian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A number of people have been arrested and a road has been closed in East Lothian following reports of a suspected abduction. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A section of the A198, which runs through the village of Longniddry, has been shut and a diversion is in place. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police Scotland said the operation was in connection with reports of an abduction received on Thursday but gave no further details. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One report on social media said armed officers had been seen removing someone from a car. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lothian Buses posted that some services were unable to serve the village and its routes had been diverted due to the road closure. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2dkpwgygno?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of people have been arrested and a road has been closed in East Lothian following reports of a suspected abduction. A section of the A198, which runs through the village of Longniddry, has been shut and a diversion is in place. Police Scotland said the operation was in connection with reports of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[13601,2865,639,140,7363,326,984],"class_list":["post-58679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-abduction","tag-arrests","tag-closed","tag-east","tag-lothian","tag-road","tag-suspected"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58681,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58679\/revisions\/58681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}