Newmarket car park at centre of armed police response as three men are arrested

Three men have been arrested on suspicion of theft after armed police were called to a car park in Newmarket.

The men were all in a white van parked in Rous Road car park at 11.50am when police, who were seeking the vehicle in relation to a metal theft from a property in Crowfield yesterday, located it.

Police believed there may have been a firearm in the vehicle and armed police arrived on the scene minutes later.

A search of the van led to a large amount of cabling being recovered, but no weapons were found.

The three men were subsequently arrested on suspicion of theft.