Police were called to a fight in Maldon High Street on Saturday.
Police received several calls from members of the public shortly before 6pm with reports of an altercation involving a group of men.
Officers attended and arrested three men from Maldon and one man from Chelmsford on suspicion of affray.
They are aged 28, 35, 21 and 25.
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