arrest
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The Review Journal, citing arrest records, reported that Chen told police she “could make as much as $20,000 from one marriage.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Kim made her first public appearance since suffering from the cardiac arrest in July 2024, when she attended the Bills’ training camp practice alongside her husband.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Police Scotland said the Possilpark demonstration on Saturday "dispersed without further issue" following the single arrest.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
NBC News reported that emergency services responded to a call for "cardiac arrest" at Graham's Capitol Hill home on Saturday night, according to police scanner audio obtained by NBC and other outlets.
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026
It’s not like we can send the police down to Asamando to arrest a certain trickster god.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Commander Helen Flanagan, head of Counter Terrorism Policing London, said officers moved quickly to make the arrests across various locations in the country.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Even after 1964, when Leonid Brezhnev halted reforms, persecuted dissidents and presided over what came to be regarded as “the era of stagnation,” the arbitrary arrests of millions did not resume.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
It’s not uncommon for ICE agents to use unmarked cars and wear masks as they attempt arrests, and advocacy groups say the tactic means people often aren’t aware that it’s federal agents detaining them.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
The 28 tonnes seized by the NCA included 19 tonnes at Heathrow, where officers made 530 arrests, and about five tonnes at Manchester, where 145 suspected "mules" were detained.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
It was always at night—the arrests invariably happened at night.
From "1984" by George Orwell
Two men, aged 19 and 56, and a 51-year-old woman, have been released on police bail after being arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Epstein listed her as a backup executor of his will at one point, and called her the night he was arrested in July 2019.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
He was arrested hours after police released a previous man they had detained on Friday with no further action.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Ross McGill was one of four Scottish men arrested by police in Dubai last September, but his current whereabouts are unclear.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
I glanced around my room nervously, although if this room was monitored, the security officers would have arrested me the minute I opened that stupid life-ruining Cocoon last night.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
The same two men figure in one of the book’s most arresting episodes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
He is protected by thousands of Indigenous supporters who have so far prevented police from arresting him.
From Barron's ● Jun. 20, 2026
“Beauties” is more arresting on a number of levels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
Police bosses admitted not arresting Calocane had been a "serious and systemic and operational failure".
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
Thus putting a city directly on top of it was an arresting statement: Here we are.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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