arrest
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A spokesperson for Peters told CBS News, the BBC's US partner, that the charges are "bogus" and that Peters has yet to be served with an arrest warrant.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
I think when people talk about not wanting to criminalize homelessness, the policies there are really around not punishing people for not having a home, not wanting to arrest people for being on the streets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
This led to his arrest for sedition and, ultimately, his ongoing exile in America.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
Many have linked her arrest to the protests that have been organised across the country on 27 September, when demonstrators plan to march to the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Are they gonna arrest us for trying to bring JP in?
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
In some cases the agency has detained U.S. citizens as part of its program of arrests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Police say its database, searchable with a few keystrokes, has sped up arrests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Officers monitor suspects from above, then their colleagues are directed to move in on foot to make seizures and arrests.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong said in an order granting a preliminary injunction that the government “is regularly abstaining from conducting a likelihood of escape analysis at all” when making arrests without a warrant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
We did not think that the arrests were unrelated.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Lumbard said the plaques had already been recycled by the time authorities arrested Green.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Sallay, who was arrested in February, denies the allegations.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
He was arrested in Exposition Park about 12 hours after his sister, Romy, discovered the bodies, police have said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
And he defended Mr. Trump up to the moment when Jimmy was arrested.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
When he was arrested, the police found less than a couple of francs in his wallet—the equivalent of ten dollars today.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
The lawyers asked that Frimpong bar immigration agents from arresting people in the district unless they’ve conducted an escape risk analysis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
“If government is out there arresting people, taking pictures of them,” McMichael said, “we should be able to access that.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
For much of its history, the ICC didn’t bother those countries as it concentrated on arresting suspects and obtaining convictions in its African cases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
In a podcast, Mansour spoke about how in the 1970s and 1980s soldiers would confiscate posters and postcards, arresting the sellers.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
He was one of the tallest men Cora had ever seen, solidly built with an arresting gaze.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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