19 arrests made across West Midlands as police crack down on rape and sexual assault offences
19 suspects have been arrested by West Midlands Police as work to tackle rape and sexual assault crimes continues.
Officers were out knocking on doors and making arrests across the West Midlands since before dawn on Tuesday (March 31).
Officers from the force’s rape and serious sexual assault offences team visited a number of addresses in the Black Country, Coventry and Birmingham, with four men, aged between 26 and 47, being detained.
Three of those arrested are suspected of rape and one was arrested for failing to appear at court on suspicion of a serious sexual assault.
Other arrests made today were for possessing class A drugs with intent to supply, fraud, assisting an offender and burglary.