arrest
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Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak can serve the remaining two years of his abuse of power sentence under house arrest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
It is understood she is the favourite to replace Thomas, who quit following an arrest on suspicion of assault, and that "very senior" Reform figures had backed her.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Last month, Daniel Mummolo, an attorney with the Department of Justice, pushed back during a hearing on the motion, telling Frimpong that a warrantless arrest policy “does not exist either in written or unwritten form.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The only time Duterte had been seen since his arrest in March 2025 was an initial appearance via video, where he seemed confused and tired, his speech barely audible.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
After his arrest all trace of him simply vanished, and Lilya and her mother and eight-year-old brother, Yuri, could only guess what had happened to him.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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Dalhatu told the BBC that security officers had been pursuing suspected illegal miners in the community for several days before making arrests.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The officer is seen jumping out of the car after spotting the suspect and takes out his taser and arrests him.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Police say its database, searchable with a few keystrokes, has sped up arrests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Frimpong’s ruling stems from a lawsuit filed last year by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, Public Counsel and other groups and private attorneys calling to end unlawful stops and arrests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Among these were the rights to purchase a gun and carry it concealed and the power of arrest: on duty or off, we could make arrests for any felony or misdemeanor we witnessed.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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The identities of the man arrested and the hit-and-run victim haven’t been released by authorities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Deichler, Kamra and Singh visited her property again a week later, on 5 September, before they were later arrested.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
She was arrested several times but was never sentenced to jail time, Ventura County Superior Court records show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
He was arrested and held in a police station for five hours, but no further action was taken because of a lack of evidence.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The German young man arrested early in the investigation—the Louvre visitor who’d been a little too interested in the Mona Lisa—was a classic Secret Admirer type.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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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
Berlin expelled a Russian diplomat in January after arresting a woman suspected of spying for Moscow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 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
The arresting analogy that is always made is that the number of people in the world who are actively searching for asteroids is fewer than the staff of a typical McDonald’s restaurant.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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