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arrest

[uh-rest] / əˈrɛst /






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He remains on house arrest in Las Vegas, with a sentencing hearing due to take place in December.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Orantes also expressed frustration with the handling of her father’s arrest — to which federal authorities had clearly alerted some media, who were brought along for the raid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Zadie died within 10 hours of being taken to Broomfield on 10 November 2022, having suffered a cardiac arrest.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Before his arrest, Alfozan bought a one-way ticket to Riyadh for October 12, with prosecutors arguing that such a move demonstrated he was a flight risk.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

The government’s engine of bureaucracy accelerated slowly, however, and although the Justice Department decided to make its move against him, it took time and approvals to decide when and where an arrest could be made.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

He called Monday's arrests a "very positive development".

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Granted, the U.S. didn’t just have riots leading to 2,400 arrests.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Laura Watson, a caseworker for the ECP, said a "very intense and aggressive police crackdown" in north London had led to "quite aggressive arrests of women" in Enfield and Haringey.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Last year, immigration arrests had only limited impact on the home-building industry, other than in select pockets of the country, such as South Texas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Today the FBI’s juvenile violent-crime index, which measures arrests for murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault, is lower than it was in 1980, and that’s true across racial lines.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

He’d been on his way to work when he was arrested.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

After being subdued and detained by the passersby, the suspect was arrested by police.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Interior Minister Laurent Nunez offered to resign on Monday after more than 2,500 people were arrested and nearly 1,000 members of the security forces injured.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Three days before he was scheduled to leave in October, he was arrested and charged with trying to record conversations within OpenAI’s offices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

I’d never seen a newspaper back home say such things about people possibly involved in crimes who hadn’t been arrested, but Mexican papers were quick to report speculations.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

Tusk thanked the police for "swift and decisive action" in arresting the suspect.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Police said a security patrol had spotted an abandoned vehicle near the Molesworth base and police found a "small breach" before arresting the men in the early hours of Thursday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Horner was finally dismissed following a slump in form which Red Bull bosses concluded the team did not appear to be capable of arresting under his leadership.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

The religious-focused work of Ian Kurtis Crist is especially arresting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

That would be like arresting 90 percent of Los Angeles.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed


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