Armed police swoop on Walsall's Bloxwich Road in suspect hunt
Armed police descended on a road in Walsall in the hunt for a suspect feared to have links to guns.
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Officers arrived at Bloxwich Road just before 7pm acting on information that a man wanted for theft was in an address.
But they had stood down by 11pm after it emerged that the man was not there.
West Midlands Police spokeswoman Deborah Edmonds said: "The man being sought is wanted in connection with theft. But there was intelligence that he may have links to firearms, hence the need for an armed response."
