Police raided a hotel and arrested a man at the weekend.

At around 2.30pm Esssex Police officers entered the Marriott Hotel in Old Shire Lane, Waltham Abbey.

There they arrested a man on suspicion of criminal damage and malicious communications.

The 26-year-old man from Poplar was arrested after police received reports that a man damaged a car in Woodford Green on Friday, June 8.

He was also arrested in connection with threatening messages.

He has since been released on police bail until Friday, July 13.