Lorry driver and six suspected illegal immigrants arrested in Walsall
Six people thought to be illegal immigrants have been arrested in Walsall and a lorry driver detained on suspicion of smuggling them into the country in a refrigerated lorry.
West Midlands Police were alerted at around 3.15pm by an emergency call from a member of the public reporting people jumping from the back of a truck in Brockhurst Crescent near the M6 at junction 8.
Officers from the Central Motorway Police Group arrested three people, believed to be Vietnamese, at the scene along with the 36-year-old Romanian driver.
And a subsequent search revealed another three people, believed to be Iranian nationals, hiding nearby.
The six have been arrested on suspicion of entering the country illegally while the driver will be questioned on suspicion of facilitating illegal entry to the UK.
