arrested
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Los Angeles City Councilmember Traci Park, who represents Venice, wrote in a social media post Saturday that the man who threw the punch had been arrested.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
Outside the hospital where the injured were taken, two representatives of the leftist Aegean Workers' Collective were arrested while trying to make a statement about workplace safety issues, a group spokesman said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
A woman was arrested early Saturday for allegedly starting a brush fire in the Angeles National Forest during a red-flag alert that had forecasters warning of critical fire weather.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026
Gloucestershire Police also said that a woman who had previously been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender had been released on police bail.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
She’d thought that keeping secrets would just feel like obeying her father—protecting him, maybe, because what if the police arrested fathers who told their daughters to act like robots pretending to be kids?
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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