Armed officers swoop
Armed police pointed guns at a man's head before dragging him out of his car during a dramatic ambush in a Stourbridge street.
A swarm of officers lay in wait for up to two hours before swooping on the man as he turned into Crabbe Street, coming from a home just yards away in King Street, Lye.
Police today said he was arrested followed an alleged road rage incident in Kidderminster, where the victims reported they had seen a weapon.
Sniffer dogs were used to thoroughly search the man and his car as stunned bystanders looked on, before he was handcuffed and hauled off in a police car just before 7pm yesterday.
Officers had traced the man back to a Lye address following the alleged confrontation with two Dudley women in Stourbridge Road, Kidderminster, at around 2.30pm
Aaron Guest, aged 17, who lives in Crabbe Street, said he was shocked to witness the co-ordinated swoop just a few steps from his home. "I couldn't believe it," he said. "Police had been waiting all over the place for about two hours and everyone was wondering what was going on."
West Mercia Police spokeswoman Lynne Masters said the man had been released on police bail pending further inquiries.
