arrest
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It wasn’t until May that he made an arrest in the other case.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Jester is now a father himself; his son, now 5, was born shortly after his arrest, Salazar wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Following his arrest, officers strip-searched him and went through property that included a handgun, a silencer and a jar of Skippy peanut butter.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
The scammer warned that officers would be waiting to arrest him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
“Tell the team in Bakersfield to arrest Mr. Shaffer. Have the field team in Ohio pay a visit to the brother. And let all the lawyers know about our new evidence. Mr. McQuade?”
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
On the eve of the election, Zambia's Human Rights Commission said it was "actively monitoring arrests and detentions involving political candidates, supporters, journalists and other actors".
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Last year, he embedded with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials during raids, including in Chicago, where he and his crew taped arrests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Police have made 19 arrests in connection with the disorder.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Atlanta-based Flock said the tool has already been associated with the arrests of several officers accused of abusing the system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The police and security forces were making very few arrests.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
A 44-year-old male suspect was arrested at the scene.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The ministry did not say how many people were arrested but said they included three former senior government officials accused of "providing technical services aimed at disrupting the electoral system".
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
After a frantic dayslong manhunt, he was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Penn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
He also offered to hand the firearms over for safekeeping but instead was detained and arrested, according to his lawsuit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
An American called Tyler Kent, a twenty.nine-year-old clerk at the US embassy in London, has been arrested.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
But these arresting scenes are all visual interest without any greater end.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The isolated image of Judas bestowing a traitor’s kiss on Jesus is especially arresting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
She told her arresting officers she did not know Levy's name but she had seen him in the area.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
That changed last year, attorneys said in the motion, citing an email from ICE headquarters in late May 2025 instructing field offices to begin arresting “collaterals,” or nontargets, en masse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
While physicists in the middle decades of the twentieth-century were looking perplexedly into the world of the very small, astronomers were finding no less arresting an incompleteness of understanding in the universe at large.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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