article_snippet.sent: Officers from West Midlands Police's Serious and Organised Crime Unit had lain in wait for the pair at the Jewellery Quarter after Officers from West Midlands Police's Serious and Organised Crime Unit plan to turn up wearing balaclavas and gloves.
article_snippet.sent: the pair at the Jewellery Quarter, along with accomplice Darren Bowman, 47, were stopped moments before the pair at the Jewellery Quarter intended raid by officers who had followed the pair at the Jewellery Quarter for a month and punctured the tyres of the pair at the Jewellery Quarter getaway car on the day of the planned robbery.
article_snippet.sent: Bowman, of Moseley, Birmingham was jailed for six years and two montha after being convicted of the conspiracy to commit robbery charge.
article_snippet.sent: The two men parked in the Jewellery Quarter just before 11am to wait for the jeweller but armed officers quickly surrounded the car and arrested armed officers.
article_snippet.sent: Bowman was then arrested a few weeks later.
article_snippet.sent: Colleagues and police dogs quickly had a solid containment of the houses to make sure no-one could leave and it was only a matter of time before we arrested the offenders.'