HUNDREDS of people wanted on warrant across the Midlands have been arrested and more than £100,000 seized in a ten-day crackdown.

West Midlands Police joined colleagues from Her Majesty’s Court Service to carry out a series of stings in Wolverhampton, Walsall and Sandwell.

Operation Crackdown saw officers visit scores of addresses as they traced criminals with outstanding community breach warrants, committal to prison warrants and outstanding fines.

A total of 241 people were arrested and brought to justice for a variety of offences, ranging from non-payment of fines to failing to attend court for sentencing.

Officers also recovered more than £100,000 in outstanding fines. All of those targeted were arrested, taken to mobile police sites at West Bromwich Albion Foundation, in West Bromwich; Showell Road park and ride, in Wolverhampton; and, the Keyway Retail Park, in Willenhall, where they were offered the support of addiction services staff from Addaction, Cocas and Horizon.

Their arrests were then processed before they were taken directly to court in a celled vehicle.

Sergeant Helen Carver co-ordinated the operation for West Midlands Police. She said: “To have brought so many outstanding prisoners into custody and produced them before the courts has been a real achievement for the teams working so tirelessly on this operation.”